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Crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda)
The crest-tailed mulgara is a small, robust marsupial mouse, with fine soft fur that is light sandy-brown with a dark grey base on the…
Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)
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Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis)
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Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus)
The thylacine was the largest marsupial carnivore but it is now widely believed to be extinct. Despite similarities with canids such as the…
Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei)
The kowari is a robust, rat-like carnivorous marsupial, with a pointed snout and a distinctive black brush on the terminal half of the tail…
Wallace's three-striped dasyure (Myoictis wallacei)
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Rory's pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus roryi)
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New Guinea quoll (Dasyurus albopunctatus)
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Spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus)
The spotted-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) is a well-adapted carnivore and one of the most ferocious animals in the Australian bush. It…
Carpentarian pseudantechinus (Pseudantechinus mimulus)
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Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus)
The eastern quoll is a medium-sized carnivorous marsupial with thick, soft fur that is fawn, brown or black and covered in small white spots…
Brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
The brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) is an attractive Australian marsupial, with deep grizzled grey fur on its head and body…
Sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila)
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Chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii)
A small cat-sized marsupial, the chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii) has soft, brown fur with white spotting along its lean body and…
Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
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UConn students introduce Watson to real business challenges
A group of University of Connecticut students have made it clear that there is more to IBM's Watson supercomputer than out-thinking a couple of human opponents on "Jeopardy!"
The seven students, mostly candidates for master's degrees in business administration, worked with IBM researchers over the last semester to give them a sense of potential business applications and capabilities of Watson.
UConn and IBM have been working together through the Learning Accelerator program on the Stamford campus for several years, giving students the opportunity tackle real workplace challenges to better prepare them for employment. UConn worked closely with IBM when it started a financial risk management program three years ago.
"IBM has been a fabulous corporate partner," John Elliott, dean of the University School of Business, said Wednesday at an event to discuss the findings of the study. "Having our business faculty and students engaged with the corporate world in live settings are critically important."
With two teams involved, one addressed how Watson can help drug companies get the most out of patents by repositioning some medicines for other uses before their patents expire. Repositioning is less costly and time-consuming than developing a new drug from scratch, according to Robert Johnson, a junior majoring in business administration/financial management.
"The pharmaceutical industry faces a patent cliff," said Johnson, the only underclassman in the program. "Many will expire in 2013, and they will become generics."
Johnson, a Stamford resident, and teammates Siddhartha Sharan and Donald Butts, both MBA students, said branded drugs could lose $106 billion in sales by 2016, but using Watson's technology could stem those losses.
Johnson's interest in the new class was piqued last year when he attended an open house focusing on the curriculum. He saw it as an opportunity to learn about new technology and make valuable connections with an international company.
After the semester ends, Johnson will spend six months at IBM in its finance and accounting co-op.
"I attribute it to this experience," Johnson said.
IBM chose UConn Stamford for the program because of its affiliation through the Learning Accelerator facility and the business school's emphasis on analytics in the classroom, said Stephen Gold, marketing director of IBM's Watson Solutions.
"UConn has been very progressive in the use of analytics in the classroom," Gold said. This is the first course of its kind. It's very different, addressing real world problems that can transform an industry."
Johnson and his teammates impressed Gold by defining ways Watson can be used to get drugs to the market quicker than today and at less cost.
"That's where Watson plays a critical role," Gold said. "The best part with Watson: It gets smarter with time."
The students, who also include MBA students Tiffany Betz, Anna Jakubek, Anu Jose and Thomas Jose, now have a new skill that they can put on their resume when they enter the workforce, Gold said.
"When they go to an employer, they will be thinking differently, and now they will think as leaders," he said.

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Pakistan Bravely Fights Back Against Fictitious Plot In Video Game
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Which is why I feel comfortable laughing hysterically as some Pakistani shopkeepers are boycotting two video games because they don't like how the fictional plot line portrays Pakistan.
Both Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Call of Duty: Black Ops II are first-person shooter games, where players take on the persona of an American special forces agent and feature ultra realistic graphics. Terrorism and the role of local security forces are hugely sensitive subjects in Pakistan, which has barely recovered from the shock of discovering that Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight, barely 30 miles from the capital Islamabad.I'll leave the politics aside here, but it takes a special kind of awesome to be in nearly un-recoverable shock that bin Laden was hiding in your country when most of the world's media was suggesting as much for something like a decade. That he hid so easily near the nation's capital in a complex that was just begging to be investigated at the very least opens up the door for creative interpretations for how that might have happened. And that's exactly what the two games in question offer up as a fictional plotline. For example:
The latest installment of the Medal of Honor series opens with American Navy Seals coming ashore in Karachi docks on a mission to destroy a black market arms shipment. But when their detonation sets off a second, bigger explosion they realise they have stumbled on a much bigger terrorist plot, sparking a global manhunt. A chaotic car chase through the city follows amid warnings that the ISI - Pakistan's intelligence agency - is on the way.In other words, the game has a plot that involves Pakistani intelligence cooperating with terrorists. That's a possibility about as shocking as, oh, say bin Laden hiding a paper airplane's throw away from Pakistan's capital. But the point is that it's a fictional plot. Fighting against it is silly. You might as well outlaw the Narnia books, because wardrobe-makers are insulted that any of their products could transport folks to witch-infested worlds ruled by multi-syllabic lions. What possible explanation could Mr. Memon have for this call to boycott?
Mr Memon added there was a danger children would be brainwashed into thinking foreign agents were at war inside Karachi, possibly leading them into the arms of militants.
"These games show a misleading idea of what is happening in the city. You don't get the CIA all the way through Grand Theft Auto," he said.Quite true. On the other hand, no American stores in New York, Vegas, or L.A. are calling for a boycott of the GTA games because their cities are shown to be infested with shotgun wielding caricatures of Western culture. Because it's fiction.


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And I was just seconds away from starting the new thread....
Prediction: Somehow, Obito will have some sort of amnesia that allows him to remember everything he did, but not retain any of the emotional connections resulted from the memories. Essentially, he will have forgotten his "personality". Consequently, Kakashi will be able to use Talk no Jutsu on him to get Tobi to remember how to be Obito, and they will live happily ever after...at least until Sasuke or Madara steps in and kills him.
Better yet, lets just skip the middleman and have Sasuke or Madara come and kill Obito midway through his epic revealing "woe is me" soliloquy (this is only if Kishimoto decides to truly make Tobi=Obito). Let's face it, no matter his powers the most interesting thing about Tobi was always what was under the mask; and now that we know, and we also know he will undoubtedly not be the final boss (what with Madara, the Masked Zetsu and Sasuke hanging around...and of course Orochimaru, how could I forget about the Roch?), he is essentially fodder in the making.
Whatever the case, I just hope Kishimoto sticks with Tobi for at least one more chapter so we can get something besides an ill designed pseudo-flashback.
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Prediction: Tobi = Obito's body + Izuna's soul
Obito's body is mix with Zetsu's body and now has both the cells of Senju and Uchiha to be called as Sage of the Six Path class of ninja too, chapter 510 implies this heavily if you read it carefully and dozens of times..... Tobi being possessed by Izuna Uchiha (Madara Uchiha's brother) will explain why Tobi mastered the Kamui (SpaceTime ninjutsu) so quickly and more better than Kakashi as well as why Tobi knows a lot about the history of the shinobi world as well as knowing every details about Madara Uchiha that made people believe in the past that his actually Uchiha Madara
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|2012-09-05, 02:31
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chapter is out and f*ck Madara joins the battle and he called Tobi as Obito too looks like the theory that Madara taught Obito is slowly getting confirmed
and also the speculation that Obito has a delusion to change reality /world since Rin died because of Kakashi is true, so Obito now hates the whole shinobi world and ninja war since Rin died because of that reality too, this is still a better love story than Twilight... lol so much Love Triangle on this manga
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|2012-09-05, 02:44
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Are you freaking kidding me kishimoto? So obito did all this shit because of kakashi let rin died? Or Am i missing something because of how this chapter pretty much infuriate me?
Although, i'll give how madara and obito teaming up is pretty epic.
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"Yeah, I found him buried alive, replaced most of his body with Shodai DNA/Zetsu stuff which made him look like an adult, brain washed him, taught him how to be boss, and when I died he inherited Akatsuki and my will to turn the world into a dream." -Madara
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That's pretty sad.... I mean Naruto never went crazy or cried like a baby when Sakura was fawning over Sasuke all the time. In fact he only tried harder.
So they're using the woman in the freezer thing to justify Obito being evil. They didn't even show how she died, she was alive and than she wasn't.
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awesome, even though most of it was flash back.
I take ot obito was close to death, zetsu found him with the help of madara. then he watched in the shadows and when rin died he felt the need to make the moon eye plan to keep everyone from feeling sad about death?
now I fully expect sasuke and oro to show up soon and answers will be given....I hope.
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So, anyways. I can only suspend my disbelief so far before it's too far. Obito's reasoning, yeah, not believing that.
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why... I thought we're only joking when predicting Obito's true intention is because of Rin... but Kishi actually choose it and making it come true...
I suddenly lost interest in this battle... but everything change when Madara enter the scene
now, I think we should be patient and watch what will happen in this 'final climax'
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I hope someone Edo Tensei's Rin and have her ridicule/give a smackdown on Obito for how whiny he's being. If only.
Madara's entrance was cool though. Poor guy, so depressed that his BRF is long dead and can't even be brought back.
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Delhi gang-rape: sentencing of guilty reserved for September 13
Amidst arguments for capital punishment and defense counsel's pleas for leniency, the fast-track court reserved the decision on quantum of punishment to the convicts in the Delhi gang-rape convicts to Friday.india Updated: Sep 11, 2013 23:35 IST
Amidst arguments for capital punishment and defence counsel's pleas for leniency, the fast track court reserved the decision on sentence for the four Delhi gangrape convicts to Friday.
The arguments on the sentence have ended. Now the sentence will be announced on Friday at 2.30pm.
The four-- Mukesh Singh, Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma—were declared guilty by the court on Tuesday of raping and murdering the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern on the basis of her dying declaration, forensic evidence, DNA samples, electronic evidence and the testimony of her friend and prime eye witness to the gory incident.
On Wednesday, public prosecutor Dayan Krishnan strongly presented the demand for death penalty before the court. He prayed before the court 'show no mercy for merciless convicts'. It was a premeditated crime, which fell in "the rarest of the rare category", warranting "the death sentence, he argued.
The men had used a metal rod and their hands to pull the woman's organs from her body after raping her, the prosecution said. Her injuries were so severe that she died in hospital two weeks after the attack.
Judge Yogesh Khanna, who found the four guilty of "cold-blooded" murder, was hearing arguments from the prosecution and defence on sentencing. The minimum sentence the men could receive is life in prison.
Defence counsel appearing for Pawan Gupta, one of the convicted in the Dec 16 gang rape and murder case, pleaded for mercy citing his young age. Gupta, a fruit vendor, is 19 years old. Defence counsel also said the crime was committed on the spur of the moment and was not premeditated.
Counsel opposed the prosecution's demand for death penalty for the convicted, and said life imprisonment may be given to Pawan instead of death. Pawan is "just 19 years old and there are chances of his reform", the advocate said. Arguing on the quantum of sentence in the case, the prosecution sought death penalty for the four men accused who were convicted for the gang rape and murder of the physiotherapist intern.
Meanwhile, the court also rejected the defence lawyers' plea to issue contempt notice to home minister Sushilkumar Shinde for predicting death for convicts.
The police had charged six persons in the incident. The case against one of the main accused, Ram Singh, was dropped following his death in Tihar Jail during the trial earlier this year.
The sixth juvenile accused was held guilty by the Juvenile Justice Board on August 31, and was sent to a remand home for three years.
The charges in the instant case were framed on February 2 during which the court also invoked section 366 IPC against them for abducting the girl with the intention of committing "illicit intercourse".
It had in its order described the juvenile as an associate of the adult accused, who committed gang rape in furtherance of the conspiracy and "common intention."
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EMC, VMware, Cisco Earn Top Scores for Data Center Management
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EMC's Unified Infrastructure Manager earned the highest score for overall performance in InformationWeek's IT Pro Ranking: Data Center Management report. The report targeted data center management software that automates, orchestrates and monitors data center resources.
Three hundred fifty-seven IT pros who use or have used and evaluated data center management products evaluated 10 products on a variety of criteria, including general performance and data center-specific criteria. In addition to EMC, survey respondents weighed in on products from Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec and VMware. Note that other vendors, including CA, BMC and ServiceNow, were included in the initial survey but did not receive a sufficient number of respondents for their results to be reported.
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EMC earned a score of 78% for overall performance, the highest among vendors evaluated. Just behind EMC was a three-way tie among VMware's vCloud Director and vCenter Operations Management Suite and Cisco's Intelligent Automation for Cloud, all of which earned scores of 75%. The overall performance category includes criteria such as product reliability, product performance, and operation and acquisition costs.
Data center management tools are a core requirement for organizations looking to adopt a service-centric deployment model to deliver new applications on demand in their data centers, says the report's author, Joe Onisick, founder of Define the Cloud, a research and reporting firm focused on cloud computing and data center technologies. Onisick says he was surprised that EMC's UIM earned the highest ranking.
"If you look [at the tools] feature for feature, UIM is definitely not close to what [Cisco's Intelligent Automation for Cloud] CIAC or BMC's life cycle management products do," says Onisick. "UIM is basically an automation engine for Vblocks." Vblocks are preconfigured data center equipment that combine storage from EMC, networking and servers from Cisco, and virtualization from VMware. Because UIM is tailored to a specific hardware suite, notes Onisick, it's very good for that, which may have been the reason it won. UIM "may also have greater penetration than we expected," he says.
EMC's top spot in the overall performance category "has much to do with UIM scoring highest on reliability and performance," according to the report. "Both VMware vCloud Director and vCenter Operations Management Suite also had solid ratings in these key categories."
Respondents also evaluated vendors on category-specific features, including system health monitoring, service monitoring and service provisioning. Here again, UIM had the highest score, at 79%. Close behind was Cisco IAC, vCenter Operations Management Suite and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, all of which earned scores of 77%.
While Onisick believes the most important features of management tools depend on what IT is looking to do with them, he says the basics--infrastructure automation, data collection and monitoring--are what most people are looking for. "But if you're looking to advance your IT environment, and do it in a more intuitive way to map to your business needs, a self-service portal and orchestration will become the most important features," he says.
CIAC's strong showing in the survey was interesting, Onisick notes, "because CIAC has a great feature list, but I haven't seen it win out when put into production." VMware's performance in the survey "speaks to fact that the customer base that answered the survey are very VMware-centric users … that do not today touch the outside world." However, VMware acquired DynamicOps, a provider of hybrid cloud products, over the summer. "That's a management suite, which, once further incorporated, will help VMware orchestrate and monitor other hypervisor environments," says Onisick.
The report also noted that just as virtualization is changing the way IT deploys applications and runs the data center, the rise of the public cloud gives IT and business leaders more viable options for application deployment--even if they aren't embracing those options in large numbers. For instance, the survey shows that only 12% of respondents use a public cloud service, though another 47% are thinking about it.
Among the respondents using cloud services, the report notes that 38% manage cloud services with the same tools they use in the data center. This may bode well for future adoption of hybrid clouds, which link private and public clouds to let companies shift workloads from a premises data center to a provider, or get access to additional resources, such as computing, as demand requires. The full report includes 23 survey result charts, including individual vendor ratings for each criterion. The report is available for free download, with registration, here.
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Is your soup menu a snooze? Consider this distinctive seafood chowder in which California avocados act as a rich and colorful wake-up call.
1 lb. mussels
1⁄2 cup dry white wine
8 oz. chopped onion
2 tbsp. unsalted butter
1 tbsp. ground cumin
4 large cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 lb. purple or red-skinned potatoes, peeled, cut in 1⁄2-in. dice
3 cups water
1 qt. milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 qt. corn kernels, fresh or frozen
1 lb. tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and diced
4 California avocados cut in 1⁄2-in. dice
2 lb. sea scallops, sliced in 1⁄4-in. medallions
6 tbsp. chopped cilantro
Cilantro sprigs, as needed
1. Steam mussels covered in wine until just open, about 4 min.
2. Remove mussels with a slotted spoon; reserve in shells. Strain remaining liquid through an extra-fine sieve; reserve.
3. Sauté onion in butter until soft, about 5 min. Stir in cumin and garlic. Cook, stirring, until aromatic, about 2 min.
4. Stir in reserved mussel liquid and potatoes. Add water. Bring to a boil; reduce to a
simmer. Cook, covered, until potatoes are barely tender, about 5 min.
5. Stir in milk, cream, corn, and tomatoes; bring to a simmer (do not boil). Cook, covered, 5 min.
6. Stir in avocado and scallops; cover. Remove from heat; let stand, covered, 4 min. Pour into airtight storage container and chill.
7. Per order, heat 11⁄2 cups chowder; stir in 1⁄2 tbsp. cilantro. Pour into shallow soup plate. Top with three mussels and garnish with cilantro sprig.


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Symposium - Beyond Play - Game Change: Society and Culture
Second of two panel discussions, Game Change: Society and Culture. A discussion of how video games impact our society and culture, including the fields of academic research, science, art, and education. Panelists include Eric Zimmerman, Richard Lemarchand, Robin Hunicke, and moderator Colleen Macklin.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - With the clock ticking closer toward a government shutdown, congressional lawmakers are engaged in partisan ping pong over a budget to keep the federal government operating past midnight, the start of the new fiscal year.
The Senate has voted once again to reject a resolution by House Republicans that would fund the government but delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The Senate acted within moments to kill the latest House offering.
As lawmakers squabbled, President Barack Obama urged House Republicans to abandon demands he said were designed to "save face after making some impossible promises to the extreme right of their party."
He also warned that shutting the government down puts the recovering economy at risk.
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WASHINGTON With an actress, an opera singer and a former NFL-linebacker jockeying for Congress, it's again apparent that there's no professional barrier to mounting a congressional, or even a Senate, campaign.
But the best candidates are really the ones with the best personalities.
Indeed, the desire to seek federal office often attracts a certain kind of person. As Democratic former Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh recently told CQ Roll Call, "Not too many people get elected to the U.S. Senate if you suffer from low esteem."
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- Rancona Pinnacle outyielded Dividend®XLin 12 winter wheat plots organized by Kansas State University.
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FMOD has become a staple in several of the major engines available on the market including CryENGINE, Unity, Unreal Engine 3, BigWorld and Trinigy' Vision Engine. Congrats! That's quite an accomplishment! If you can, what are some of the next big milestones Firelight hopes to tackle in the coming months and years?
Martin: Yes, the whole team here at FMOD are really pleased with the engine partnerships. We have worked with many such as the Crytek team for quite a while now, and to add companies such as Unity and their fantastic engine, as well as the Trinigy Vision Engine and Bigworld is something that we hope helps the developers that use the different engines. So looking into the future, FMOD Studio is our biggie. But that will be next year.
For that we are looking forward to some announcements with the team at Pyramind in San Francisco. Can't say too much, but keep your eyes out for the new FMOD training videos.
One area where FMOD has focused is that of the Simulator markets for both civil and defence. It has been a long path towards getting these markets to look at the tech from the video game markets and recognize, both its suitability and its cost. We are using some of the most advanced tech in the world market to build games. So FMOD has worked hard to expose the advantages of the game development technology with some awesome results.
We have a heap now using FMOD for their audio playback, and these include some of the biggest brands in the world such as Lockheed Martin and Kraus Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, (who make Panzer tanks). Another big one would be the partnership with Total Immersion for their DARPA funded military engine.
Being a sound designer myself, I'm very excited to hear FMOD is supporting iPhone and iPad game development! What more can you tell our readers about this, as the native audio engine for those Apple products is fairly limited in what it can do.
We are big fans of the iPhone and iPad, not just because they are cool, but for what they have done to the market place and the opportunities that they have provided to many indie developers. FMOD has been designed from the ground up to be scalable and runs on many low-spec platforms, so we are used to maximising functionality on limited hardware. There are some really clever games around. The Tapulos guys have done some really clever work with the audio on their rhythm games. With some prebaking of audio effects, it leaves a little space to add effects during game play.
So in terms of the FMOD iPhone product, it provides support for FMODs full suite of cross platform features. It offers hand optimized resampling and mixing routines for best performance on all iOS devices. This is cool. And the big one, it utilizes built in hardware decoding capabilities of iOS devices, abstracted behind FMODs interface. That is a big win for developers.
Since FMOD is beginning to support mobile entertainment on Apple products, can we expect something for other mobile platforms such as the Droid or Windows mobile devices?
Unfortunately we are unable to support the Windows 7 Mobile platform due to technical reasons. As for Android, we have versions under testing at the moment. Interestingly, we still see more enquiries for the Apple products. Not sure if it is across all territories, for we are still waiting for both to gain some more momentum. Not in terms of apps, which seem to be strong on Droid, but more in terms of games, where with some of the big publishers such as EA pushing into the space, the Apple products seem to have a stronger hold.
But the one we are really excited about would be Nintendo 3DS. That looks cool!!
I worked extensively with FMOD while creating sounds and music for LEGO Universe and one of the things that really made a strong impact on me was how fluid and deep FMOD was. I could create a sound then quickly and easily implement a situation where that sound's playback was always different and unique. I've read that FMOD Designer 2010 has an improved layout and will further enhance workflow. Care to expound on that?
One of the big requests that we have seen is for support on managing large projects. Games are getting so full of content and some will have 1,000's of sound files to manage. To help with this we played with the setup of the interface, made the windows as floating panes and reorganised most of the commonly used features. Then we also added what we call the "bird's eye view". This gives a graphic view of every sound in the project and can read different parameters from volume to roll off. This then allows the sound designer to quickly scan across their entire project and leap directly into individual event and alter them quickly. It's a great graphical representation of all the sounds and allows the designer to alter quickly and also identify any incorrect levels.
We've also added a simplified editor for creating all the basic sound effects in a game. With this new editor the sound designer can setup a playlist, apply randomization, and assign bank and resampling settings all in the one screen. This will really speed up the creation of assets in projects large and small.
So, a partnership with Izotope is in the works? That should really add to the already impressive DSP power of FMOD! Tell us more about that!
Yes, and totally excited by this. One area that game developers have suffered in, is that of DSP plug ins that are such a part of premium audio, both music and film. So to partner with a company like Izotope is fantastic. They have some of the best DSP effects available, and we have finally met a company that is willing to put in the time to understand our game development market. It is different to what Izotope are used to and big Kudos to them for putting in the effort to work with a company like FMOD to get an understanding of what we are looking for and some of the barriers such as memory and CPU that DSP effects must deal with . Alex and his team sound like they are going to be a great addition to the global game development market and by working with Izotope, we have found a system in FMOD that can support the effects., And these are Pro-Audio effects that are what we at FMOD and almost all our developers have been chasing for a long time now. We are meeting with Izotope next week and we are both working with one of the premium publishers on a title that is going to push the boundaries in this field. This gives both Izotope and FMOD a great opp to get this right for the market. We expect to be offering this not long after the next GameSound Con in San Francisco in November.
One of the biggest attributes to FMOD and Firelight is the fantastic customer support! Any time I (or someone on my team) sent off an email to Firelight, we'd usually hear back between 6-12 hours later. Considering that we were in the US and Firelight is in Australia, that's very impressive! Tell me about the company's culture and philosophy regarding customer support and relations.
There is nothing more important.
When a developer needs an issue resolved, any major delay in solving that issue puts pressure on everyone, and when the projects are in their final stages and deadlines are looming, this is vital.
So yes, this is a priority at FMOD and we are lucky as we are based in Sunny Australia. Which is nice for lifestyle (best food, coffee, sport, beaches and clubs) but more importantly it puts between the two large development regions, being the USA and Europe. So that means we have contact during work hours into both territories, which allows us to chat as well as have quick email responses. It does help that the FMOD community has been around for a long time now, so heaps of smaller questions are answered by the community on the forum. This allows us to focus and respond to larger questions.
What other ways is FMOD striving to reach out to new users as well as support current users?
We are working hard to put together a heap of supporting videos and tutorials to assist the FMOD users. We have already set up a new FMOD TV page on You Tube and will begin to post a heap of videos there. We are also looking forward to the announcement with Pyramind, which will be a ripper. Yes, more videos, and with some of the best audio production houses.
We also have something in the wings that will be another video offering. We hope that this really suits the sound designers, something along the lines of a post production review of some of the big titles that are using FMOD.
I'd like to add that for a non-commercial, hobby project, FMOD is free! This certainly allows young sound designers and hobbyist teams to have access to this great toolset and get their feet wet with it. I find it very encouraging that Firelight adopts this attitude towards new, young developers.
Absolutely. We are big fans of the indie's so free to use for all hobbyist and non commercial projects. Also free to all schools and universities that want to use FMOD in class to teach game audio. There are heaps of these.
Certainly sounds like 2010 has been a stellar year for FMOD with major updates to the product, new partnerships, many shipped games using FMOD and now several awards! Small Business Exporter of the Year and FMOD was the Arts category with commendations! Awesome. I bet the mood around the office is one of excitement, pride and energy towards the next year to come!
We love it!! We love games, we love audio and people give us awards for doing it. How good is that?!
But seriously, a big thanks to our local government in Victoria, Australia for the support they are giving our industry. Our first visits to China were with the government, and that is a fantastic markets. Still plenty to learn, but so keen to do it. Yes, it has been a good year, but it all moves quickly. Let's see if our hard work on projects such as the new FMOD Studio comes off. But again, we will have to wait until GDC.
Gamedev: Thanks so much for your time and the great info Martin! Continued success to you and the folks at Firelight!
Firelight Technologies was started in May 2002 and is located in Melbourne, Australia. More information can be found at: http://www.fmod.org/.


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Alternate Names
Hyperalimentation; TPN
What to Expect at Home
Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) will help you or your child get nutrition from a special formula through a vein in the body. Your doctor will select the right amount of calories and TPN solution. Sometimes, you can also eat and drink while getting nutrition from TPN.
Your nurse will teach you how to take care of the catheter and skin, operate the pump, flush the catheter, and deliver food and medicine through the catheter.
It is very important to wash your hands well and handle supplies as your nurse told you, to prevent infection.
You will also have regular blood tests to make sure the TPN is giving you the right nutrition.
Preventing Infection
Keeping hands and surfaces free from germs and bacteria will prevent infection. Before your start TPN, make sure the tables and surfaces nearby have been washed and dried, or place a clean towel over the surface. You will need this clean surface for all of the supplies.
Keep pets and people who are sick away. Try not to cough or sneeze on your work surfaces.
Wash your hands thoroughly with an antibacterial soap before TPN infusion. Turn on the water, wet hands and wrists and lather up a good amount of soap all over for at least 15 seconds. Then rinse your hands with fingertips pointing down before drying with a clean towel.
Getting the TPN Bag Ready
Keep your TPN solution in the refrigerator, and check the expiration date before use. Throw it away if it is past the date.
Do not use the bag if it has leaks, change in color, or floating pieces. Call the supply company to let them know.
To warm the solution, take it out of the refrigerator 2 to 4 hours before use. You can also run warm sink water over the bag. Never heat it up in the microwave.
Before you use the bag, you will add special medications or vitamins. After washing your hands and cleaning your surfaces:
- Wipe the top of the cap or bottle with an antibacterial pad.
- Remove the cover from the needle. Pull back the plunger to draw air into the syringe in the amount your nurse or doctor told you to use.
- Insert the needle into the bottle, and inject the air into the bottle by pushing on the plunger.
- Pull back the plunger until you have the right amount in the syringe.
- Wipe the TPN bag port with another antibacterial pad. Insert the needle and slowly push the plunger. Remove.
- Gently move the bag to mix the medication or vitamin into the solution.
- Throw away the needle in the special sharps container.
Using the Pump for TPN
Your nurse will show you how to use the pump. You should also follow the instructions that come with your pump. After you infuse your medication or vitamins:
- You will need to wash your hands as described above and clean your work surfaces.
- Gather all of your supplies and check the labels to make sure they are correct.
- Remove the CADD supplies and prepare the spike while keeping the ends clean.
- Open the clamp and flush the tube with fluid. Make sure no air is present.
- Attach the TPN bag to the pump according to the supplier?s instructions.
- Before the infusion, unclamp the line and flush with saline.
- Twist the tubing into the injection cap and open all clamps.
- The pump will show you the settings to continue.
- You may be directed to flush the catheter with saline or heparin when you are finished.
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When to Call the Doctor
Call your the doctor or nurse if you:
- Have trouble with the infusion
- Have trouble with the pump
- Notice a fever or a change in your child?s health
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George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.


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Does being a good corporate citizen help with a company's bottom line?
That's the question three top retail executives tried to answer on Monday at the National Retail Federation's annual convention at Javits Center in NewYork.
"You can put purpose next to profit," said Container Store Chief Executive Kip Tindell. "When we put employees first, she really will treat our customers better. The shareholder will be ecstatic, too."
"In the world of conscious capitalism, we get to balance the needs of all stakeholders. It's not what you sell, but what you stand for. When your customers become evangelical supporters, it makes it easier to succeed. We can't beat the mass merchants on volume, but we can beat them on relationships. "
Whole Foods Market Co-CEO Walter Robb said he agreed.
With businesses taking more responsibility in the world, "this is a competitive strategy," he said. "The lines are blurred between for-profit and non-profit. This is a world that needs a lot of care and compassion. Business is singularly positioned to deliver that."
For instance, he said Whole Foods has, acting without government requirements, stopped selling seafood that's suffering from overfishing. The company also provides loans to suppliers both in the U.S. and overseas to help them grow things such as grass-fed beef. Whole Foods is opening stores in cities such as Detroit to help eliminate the problem of thousands of U.S. communities not having supermarkets and access to fresh foods.
"Our voluntary turnover rate is less than 10% last year because (employees) like what the company is standing for," Robb said.
Retail is one of the industries that have one of the highest employee turnover rates. A Hay Group study last year found retailers report a median turnover rate of 67% for part-time store workers.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told the audience the political bickering in Washington could make it a tough year for retailers,
"It's never more difficult and challenging for a traditional retailer to succeed in an enduring way," said Schultz. "We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. Anyone who embraces status quo of traditional marketing and PR is facing collision course with time. The change demands we would be as relevant as we are inside the four walls as we are outside."
Schultz said the "dysfunction" witnessed in Washington D.C. and the inability to resolve the fiscal cliff issue until the last minute is "a greater threat."
"We must send a message to Washington that there's something seriously wrong. The rules of engagement for business and business leaders have changed. We can't sit idly by."
Schultz, for instance, has called on other business leaders to stop campaign contributions to incumbent politicians until they reach a long-term debt deal. He said the company also has raised $100 million to help create jobs. In late December, Starbucks asked its D.C. employees to write the words "Come Together" on coffee cups to help encourage resolution of fiscal cliff dilemma.
The political impasse "is going to have a dramatic effect on consumer behavior," he said. "Calendar 2013 is going to be a tough year for us to navigate."
He said the holiday season turned out to be "choppy," partly thanks to leftover unease from the fiscal cliff debate.
"Because there's such a high degree of distrust for government, consumers are so hungry to attach themselves to something they believe in. When a brand stands for something they believe in, you have a fly-wheel effect that's very powerful," he said.
But is he considering a run for the public office? Schultz said no in response to a question from an audience of thousands.
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Gun rapid-fire devices in the crosshairs
WASHINGTON — For gun enthusiasts, the Slide Stock is an exciting add-on that enables shooters to unleash bursts of machine-gun-like fire from semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15.
Online videos show gun owners spraying targets, including ones depicting zombies, with what appears to be fully automatic fire at rates of 400 rounds per minute or better.
On its website, the Slide Stock's manufacturer, Slide Fire Solutions of the Texas community of Moran, tells its prospective customers: "Prepare to change the way you play."
For Slide Fire Solutions, the sweetest part may be that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 2010 said the Slide Stock is perfectly legal under current law.
But for gun control advocates, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., bumpfire devices (as they're known generically) are a nightmare waiting to happen.
"With practice, a shooter can control his rate of fire from 400 to 800 rounds per minute," Feinstein said on Wednesday, speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on guns.
With such devices, she said, mass shooters gain "tremendous killing power" that can "tear young bodies apart."
Along with other Democratic lawmakers, Feinstein introduced an assault weapons ban last week in response to the Newtown, Conn., shootings.
In addition to 157 named assault weapons, Feinstein's measure specifically outlaws bumpfire stocks.
"Fully automatic weapons are illegal, and I strongly believe that devices allowing shooters to fire at similar rates should also be outlawed," Feinstein said in a statement.
For Steve Sposato of Lafayette, Calif., such devices are a nightmare that did, in fact, happen.
Gian Luigi Ferri used an earlier incarnation of bumpfire, the Hellfire trigger, on the Tec-9 semiautomatic pistols he fired during a July 1, 1993, shooting rampage in San Francisco. Among the eight people murdered that day was Sposato's wife, Jody Jones-Sposato.
"These devices have no purpose at all in our society, period, end of story," Sposato said. "People think it's fun, but people think it's fun to throw grenades, and they're illegal."
Sposato called manufacturers of these products "dirtbags out to make a buck, and they don't care who gets hurt."
Gun enthusiasts offer rave reviews but warn bumpfire can be an expensive habit.
"Fun? Yes indeed, the Slide Fire Stock is überfun," David Fortier wrote in Shotgun News last September. "It will put a smile on your face just as quick as it empties your wallet as you burn through copious amounts of ammunition."
David Koresh, the Branch Davidian cult leader in Waco, told law enforcement authorities he used Hellfire triggers on semi-automatic weapons, according to "No More Wacos," a 1995 book by gun-rights advocate David Kopel.
Koresh and his followers killed four ATF agents during a 1993 raid before setting their compound ablaze during a subsequent FBI assault. At least 74 people, including 25 children, died.
Gun manufacturers and users alike long have been fascinated with machine guns, which turned warfare on its head when used to devastating effect in World War I.
Prohibition-era gangsters' use of the "Tommy gun," which shot 875 rounds a minute or more, prompted Congress in 1934 to pass the National Firearms Act placing stiff federal registration and taxation requirements on machine gun possession.
Although the technology has been around 40 years or more, bumpfire devices gained popularity in the wake of the Firearms Owners Protection Act, which among other things outlawed civilian possession or transfer of machine guns not legally in circulation prior to the law's signing date, May 19, 1986.
Since then, firearms entrepreneurs have played a cat-and-mouse game with ATF regulators, attempting to engineer devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to replicate fully automatic ones while staying inside the legal distinction that divides them: A single trigger pull for each shot (semiautomatic) vs. a continuous burst of shots "without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger" (machine gun).
Although not required to do so under law, the ATF's Firearms Technology Branch reviews any submitted device and determines what side of the line it's on.
"We don't take a position on whether we like an item or don't like an item," ATF senior firearms enforcement officer Max Kingery said. "We simply classify it according to the law."
A Marine Corps veteran, Kingery test-fires guns with each device installed. For the device makers, his decision can make the difference between commercial success and failure.
ATF officials weren't able to provide exact numbers on how many devices have been submitted for classification. Kingery said that in seven years, he's reviewed 10 to 12 such items.
Traditional bumpfire devices required a rifle be held at waist level, making the weapon difficult to shoot accurately, if the shooter could get it to work at all, Internet reviewers say.
By contrast, Slidefire Solutions' Slide Stock is held at shoulder level.
Its flexible bridge between stock and mainframe essentially harnesses the weapon's recoil power to keep it firing round after round.
Instead of pulling the trigger for each shot, shooters pull back with their trigger finger and forward with their free hand. If done with the proper push-and-pull, the weapon convulses into a paroxysm of fire.
Kingery compared it to stretching a rubber band.
To some, distinctions between fully automatic machine guns and bumpfire-equipped semiautomatics may seem metaphysical at best.
In online videos, including a promotional one on Slidefire Solutions' own website, gun frames gyrate back and forth against the Slide Stock as users fire continuous bursts with little or no effort beyond a single trigger pull.
But Kingery insisted the appearances are deceiving.
"It's not just one motion," he said. "It might appear to be shooting automatically, but it's actually not."
Slidefire Solutions put ATF's 2010 approval letter on its website.
Online reviewers routinely urge buyers to print out this and other such letters and show them to police who question their weapons' legality.
Slidefire Solutions didn't respond to requests for comment.
All such devices, whatever their properties, are illegal in California. They also are illegal in New York, but comment threads on several New York state gun-enthusiast websites refer to seeing the devices for sale in New York gun shops, and at gun shows in the state. Other posters referred to ordering them successfully from companies selling online.
Questions of public safety are "always a concern of any law enforcement agency," Kingery said, but ultimately his classification of devices is guided by "policy decisions that are well beyond ... this office."
When Kingery was asked by a reporter whether the next mass shooter might have a bumpfire device on a semiautomatic rifle in addition to a high-capacity magazine, ATF public affairs officer Marc Willis interrupted.
"You know we can't go down that road," he said. Public safety is a primary focus of ATF "but we still have to operate within the laws that Congress gives us."
Kingery pointed out that he has classified several submissions as turning weapons into machine guns, including one that used electronics to take over the firing mechanism.
A Youtube users demonstrates the use of a Slidefire stock, a so-called "bump stock."


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SIOD is a multisystem disorder that is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. It usually manifests first with growth failure. Other features of the disease are generally noted in the ensuing evaluation of the growth failure or develop in the following years. According to the severity of the clinical features and the age of onset, SIOD has been divided into an infantile or severe early-onset form and a juvenile or milder late-onset form. Affected individuals with early-onset manifest severe symptoms and have a mean age of death at 9.2 years. These individuals have died from strokes, severe opportunistic infections, bone marrow failure, complications of kidney failure, congestive heart failure, and unspecified lung disease. On the other hand, those with milder disease have survived into the fifth decade if symptomatically treated. However, severity and age of onset of symptoms do not invariably predict survival as a few of those with early-onset disease have survived into the third and forth decade.
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What is Stem Cell Research?
Stem cells are the key ingredient needed to form every tissue in the human body. These cells represent the first stage of this process: they can copy themselves over and over and they are able to mature into different types of cells.
There are two basic types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Imagine embryonic stem cells as seeds that can give rise to an entire tree. Imagine adult stem cells as specialized cells that could only produce a certain part of the tree such as the leaves or the bark.
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Joslin Researchers Are Searching for AnswersIs there a way to program embryonic, induced pluripotent or adult stem cells to create insulin-producing cells? What genes must be turned on or off to make this happen?
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- Can stem cells be used to repair blood vessels and other tissues damaged by diabetes? How do blood-forming stem cells regenerate tissue?
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Most Commonly Used TermsAdult stem cell: a cell found in the different tissues of the body – such as blood, skin or muscle – that can renew itself and produce the specialized cells needed by that tissue (known as multipotency).
Cloning: a process for creating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism.
Differentiation: the process by which an unspecialized cell changes into a more organized or complex cell that performs a certain function, such as an insulin-producing beta cell.
Embryonic stem cell: an unspecialized cell in an embryo that can divide indefinitely (self renew) and produce any cell in the body needed after birth (known as pluripotency).
Induced pluripotent stem cell: an embryonic-stem-cell-like cell derived from an adult cell.
Regenerative medicine: therapies using stem cells to replace or repair damaged or defective tissue.
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Isn't that a guy's thing?" Tawny Johnson had just told someone she was going to seminary, and that was his response.
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Johnson and Multnomah go way back.
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Freshman orientation in the undergrad program found her surrounded by 18-year-olds. Johnson was 45. "It was a bit intimidating to come back to school as an older adult," she says. "But I knew that it wasn't about me — it was about what God wanted to do in me."
For six years, Johnson attended MU while working part time as a receptionist at a hair salon. In 2010, she graduated with a minor in English. After she accepted her diploma and took her seat, she watched as MU's master's students were fitted with hoods — a sign of their academic achievements.
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Last month, Johnson finally earned her "hoodie", as she affectionately calls it. "I threatened my husband that I was going to wear it to the grocery store, just to get some mileage out of it!" she jokes.
But Johnson began reaping the benefits of her degree before she was even finished with seminary. Just a few months before graduation, she was invited to join D.C. Jacobson & Associates as a literary agent.
"It's my dream job," she says. "My education in recognizing exceptional writing, depth of content and theological integrity has led me to this career. Multnomah was instrumental in cultivating that passion and knowledge which will assist me as I assess Christian books for publication. I will always feel connected to MU, and I'm sincerely grateful for the role it has played in my life."


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