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Character Animation with Direct3D- P19
Character Animation with Direct3D- P19:This book is primarily aimed at teaching indie and hobby game developers how to create character animation with Direct3D. Also, the seasoned professional game developer may find some interesting things in this book. You will need a solid understanding of the C++ programming language as well as general object-oriented programming skills.
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- 346 Character Animation with Direct3D FIGURE 14.15 Decal UV coordinates over a curved surface. Because I'm using a plane (calculated from the hit position and the triangle normal) to calculate the UV coordinates of the decal, there will be some stretching when the decal is applied to curved surfaces. You can see this in Figure 14.15 where the positions of the vertices in the texture surface aren't spread out uniformly (even though the distance on the mesh surface between the vertices is). This is a problem related to that of using the straight line distance from the hit to the vertex described earlier. If you can calculate the actual distance over the mesh surface from the hit position to the vertex, then you can also improve on the UV coordinate calculation. C ONCLUSIONS This chapter introduced the concept of adding real-time scratches, bullet holes, etc., to your character using decals. Decals are a great way of adding extra detail or ran- domness to your characters without having a major impact on texture memory. One thing I haven't covered in this chapter is how to handle a large number of decals. In a first-person shooter game, for example, the number of bullet-hole- induced decals can quickly rise to several thousands. At some point you need to start removing the decals from the scene or your frame rate will start to drop. Usually, you'll need to implement some form of decal manager that keeps track of all the decals in the world and which can remove them according to: Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 14 Character Decals 347 Decal position (relative to the player) Decal age First-in, first-out Once a decal has been flagged for removal, you can either just pop it out of existence, fade it out, or wait until the player is looking the other way and then remove it (you can easily check the decal position against the player view frustum). One big improvement to this decal system would also be to have normal-mapped decals, making it possible to add dents, etc., to the character. Hopefully you've gotten enough out of this chapter to be able to create your own decal system (with all the possible improvements mentioned in this chapter and more). C HAPTER 14 E XERCISES Also create decals for static meshes (pulse rifle, helmet). Note that you need to disregard the skinning information when creating the decal mesh; otherwise, it is pretty much the same process. Use the D3DXIntersect method to find all intersections of a mesh. Use this also to create exit wounds of the ray. Create a normal-mapped wound decal. Create a particle system and tie it to the decal (e.g., blood pouring from a wound). Make a more accurate implementation of the "triangle-bounding sphere" test used to determine whether or not a triangle belongs to the decal mesh. Find the point on the triangle closest to the bounding sphere. Use different decals for the character's armor and the face. ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
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- 15 Hair Animation In this chapter I'll briefly cover the topic of dynamic hair animation. When I say "hair animation" I don't mean a simple pony tail animated with a few bones, but the generic "any-hair-style" case. This topic is closely linked to the topic of cloth animation (they share many similarities). Hair animation is a component that most games leave out completely. The primary reason is because it is quite costly (thousands of small triangles are required, which can, in most cases, give you more bang-for-your-buck somewhere else). The second reason is that it is very hard to get hair animation to look good. So, because of these issues, most developers just opt for leaving out animated hair 349 ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- 350 Character Animation with Direct3D completely from their game characters. Usually, they stick with either a static mesh for the characters' hair or cover the heads with some form of helmets or other headwear. The following topics will be covered in this chapter: Single hairs versus strips of hair Generating hair strips from control splines Animating control splines H AIR R EPRESENTATION OK, so you want to have a dynamically animated haircut for your game character. Well, the first issue to solve is how to represent, or render, the hair. The two most common ways to represent hair are either as a bunch of splines or as a set of meshes (strips) with an alpha-blended hair texture (see Figure 15.1). FIGURE 15.1 Individual hair strands versus hair strips. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 351 NVIDIA has made a very nice demo of a mermaid, which renders individual hair strands as splines. Although this option may be viable in future games, it is, at the time this book was written, a far too costly option (nevertheless, I strongly recommend you check out NVIDIA's Nalu demo). You can find a really good article about the hair animation in this demo at the following URL: http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter23.html It seems rendering/simulating individual hair strands is a bit too expensive for today's hardware. This leaves us with the option of simulating multiple hair strands using a mesh strip and a texture. H AIR M ODELING The problem of creating the hair mesh for the character can be approached in many ways. The most straightforward approach to grasp is, of course, to do it by hand. Simply model and texture all the hair strips of the character in modeling software like 3D Studio Max, Maya, or Lightwave, etc. Then, import this hair mesh into your game somehow and animate and render it. This is, of course, a rather expensive process and one that requires considerable artistic talent (something that, not surprisingly, most programmers lack). It also means that for each new haircut you will have to do all the work over again from scratch. So, instead, let's try to make a system for this and "grow" hair for our characters in code. This will be done by importing just a few splines (aka control splines) from some modeling software and then generating the hairs (either strands or strips) between the control splines in code. Figure 15.2 shows an example of this. FIGURE 15.2 Example of control hairs and interpolated hairs. ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- 352 Character Animation with Direct3D Even though Figure 15.2 only shows how this could be used to generate hair strands, you can easily use this technique to generate strips as well. In either case, this technique lets you (or your artist) quickly create or shape new haircuts without all the manual polygonal modeling and texturing. T HE C ONTROL H AIR C LASS Let's start by looking at a single control hair. The control hair consists of a list of points that define the location of the control hair. Since the control hairs will be used only for the growing of the more detailed hair strips and to update the hair simulation, it is good to keep the number of points used in the control hair to a minimum. Just because the control hair has a low level of detail (i.e., few points) doesn't mean the final hair strips will, since these are cubically interpolated from the points in the control hair, as shown in Figure 15.3. This is a great thing, because it gives you complete control over the amount of polygons and detail you have for your haircuts (as opposed to pre-created hair meshes). To represent a control hair, I've created the following class: FIGURE 15.3 Control hair and generated strip. class ControlHair { public: ControlHair(); float GetSegmentPercent(float prc); pair GetBlendIndices(float prc); D3DXVECTOR3 GetBlendedPoint(float prc); Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 353 void Render(); public: vector m_points; }; As said before, the control hair just consists of a list of control points. The GetSegmentPercent(), GetBlendIndices(), and GetBlendedPoint() helper functions are used when calculating the cubically blended spline. These three functions take a percentage float value in the range 0 to 1, where 0 is the start of the hair and 1 is the end point of the hair. Figure 15.4 shows how these three functions are used. FIGURE 15.4 The control hair helper functions. ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- 354 Character Animation with Direct3D Figure 15.4 shows the result if you pass 55% (or 0.55f) to these three helper func- tions. The first helper function, GetSegmentPercent(), converts a percentage value from the whole hair to a percentage value between two points of the hair. So first you need to calculate between which two points the value lies and then calculate the new percentage value as shown in code here: float ControlHair::GetSegmentPercent(float prc) { //Calculate percentage step between two points in the control hair float step = 1.0f / (float)(m_points.size() - 1); int numSteps = (int)(prc / step); //Convert prc to the [0-1] range of the segment return (prc - numSteps * step) / step; } Next is the GetBlendIndices() function. This function retrieves the two indices of the segment described by a certain hair percentage value as shown here: pair ControlHair::GetBlendIndices(float prc) { //Less than zero if(prc = 1.0f) return pair( (int)m_points.size() - 1, (int)m_points.size() - 1); //Get first segment index int index1 = (int)(prc * (m_points.size() - 1)); //Get second segment index (no greater than num points - 1) int index2 = min(index1 + 1, (int)m_points.size() - 1); return pair(index1, index2); } Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 355 This function simply figures out which two points define the segment on which a certain percentage value lies. This information must be known when you attempt to blend between two points, which coincidentally is something that the next helper function does. To get smooth blending between the control points (as opposed to basic linear interpolation, which would produce very blocky hairs), I use cubic interpolation for the hair strips. Consider the points shown in Figure 15.5. FIGURE 15.5 Cubic interpolation. A cubically interpolated point (pn) needs to take the four neighboring points (p1, p2, p3 and p4) into consideration. The point pn can be calculated according to the following formula, where t is the percentage between the points p1 and p2: P = (p3 – p2)–(p0 – p1) Q = (p0 – p1) – P R = (p2 – p0) S = p1 pn = P t3 + Q t2 + R t+S This formula is used in the GetBlendedPoint() function, which makes use of the two previous helper functions to return a cubically blended point along the control hair: D3DXVECTOR3 ControlHair::GetBlendedPoint(float prc) { //Get two affected indices pair indices = GetBlendIndices(prc); //Get the four point indices int index0 = max(indices.first - 1, 0); ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- 356 Character Animation with Direct3D int index1 = indices.first; int index2 = indices.second; int index3 = min(indices.second + 1, (int)m_points.size() - 1); //Get segment percentage float t = GetSegmentPercent(prc); //Perform the cubic interpolation D3DXVECTOR3 P = (m_points[index3] - m_points[index2]) – (m_points[index0] - m_points[index1]); D3DXVECTOR3 Q = (m_points[index0] - m_points[index1]) - P; D3DXVECTOR3 R = m_points[index2] - m_points[index0]; D3DXVECTOR3 S = m_points[index1]; return (P * t * t * t) + (Q * t * t) + (R * t) + S; } That about covers the control hair. Later on, when you simulate the hair, all you need to do is update the points in your control hairs and the rest of the haircut will follow suit. The next step is to actually create the strips from these control hairs. After that you'll have something "hair-ish" that can be rendered onto the screen. T HE H AIR P ATCH C LASS The naïve way of implementing the hair strips would be to have a single mesh for each of the hair strips and perhaps use some form of skinning to implement an animated hair strip. However, this is very inefficient! You're bound to have hundreds of hair strips per haircut, so to improve performance you need to bundle strips together in one mesh to reduce the number of draw calls necessary to render the hair. So for this purpose I've created the HairPatch class, which implements a patch of hair defined as the area between four control hairs. Each of the four control hairs marks one corner of the "squarish" area of the hair patch. Figure 15.6 shows how the hair patch will be built. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 357 FIGURE 15.6 The hair patch. Note that all the strips in Figure 15.6 belong to the same mesh. The idea is that as one of the control hairs bends or animates, the hair strips close to this control hair will be influenced and bend in a similar manner. A strip placed exactly in the middle of the hair patch will be influenced equally by the four control hairs. On the other hand, a strip placed in the exact same spot as a control hair will only be influenced by this control hair and no others. class HairPatch { public: HairPatch(ControlHair* pCH1, ControlHair* pCH2, ControlHair* pCH3, ControlHair* pCH4); ~HairPatch(); D3DXVECTOR3 GetBlendedPoint(D3DXVECTOR2 pos, float prc); HairVertex GetBlendedVertex(D3DXVECTOR2 pos, float prc, bool oddVertex); ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- 358 Character Animation with Direct3D vector GetStripPlacements(float sizePerHairStrip); void CreateHairStrips(int numSegments, float sizePerHairStrip, float stripSize); void Render(); public: ID3DXMesh* m_pHairMesh; ControlHair* m_controlHairs[4]; }; The HairPatch class keeps four pointers to control hairs (which are set in the constructor) as well as an ID3DXMesh object that the class is responsible for creating and rendering. The GetBlendedPoint() function returns a point anywhere on the patch along a certain percentage (again, zero being the base of the skull and one being the tip of the hairs): D3DXVECTOR3 HairPatch::GetBlendedPoint(D3DXVECTOR2 pos, float prc) { //Get blended points along the control hairs (for this prc) D3DXVECTOR3 p1 = m_controlHairs[0]->GetBlendedPoint(prc); D3DXVECTOR3 p2 = m_controlHairs[1]->GetBlendedPoint(prc); D3DXVECTOR3 p3 = m_controlHairs[2]->GetBlendedPoint(prc); D3DXVECTOR3 p4 = m_controlHairs[3]->GetBlendedPoint(prc); //Perform a linear 2D blend D3DXVECTOR3 blendedX1 = p2 * pos.x + p1 * (1.0f - pos.x); D3DXVECTOR3 blendedX2 = p3 * pos.x + p4 * (1.0f - pos.x); return blendedX2 * pos.y + blendedX1 * (1.0f - pos.y); } First you retrieve the blended position from each of the four control hairs (for the desired percentage). Then you need to perform a 2D blend depending on the hairs' position on the patch (i.e., the closer a hair is to one of the control hairs, the more this control hair will influence it). Now that you can calculate a point anywhere on the hair patch it is quite simple to start generating the hair strips. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 359 GROWING THE HAIR Before you actually create the hair strips, there are some questions that need answering. First is how detailed you want to make the strips (i.e., how many faces/vertices per strip), and second is how tightly you want to pack the strips. Here again is where you enter the gray zone of performance versus what looks good. Most likely this will differ from one situation to the next, depending on what performance requirements the game you're working on has. However, with this way of growing the hair dynamically you can even plug in these two values in an LOD system. Simply increase the number of strips and the detail of these the closer to the camera a character is. Let's start with the simpler of the two problems—namely, where to place the strips. One way is, of course, to place them uniformly by creating a uniform grid between the four control hairs and placing a hair strip at each point of this grid. This tends to create a bit too-regular-looking hair patch. You can easily get a better looking hair patch using fewer strips by simply placing them at random. One important restriction is to make sure that no two strips are placed too close to each other. The GetStripPlacements() function in the HairPatch class implements this: vector HairPatch::GetStripPlacements( float sizePerHairStrip) { //Place hair strips at random vector strips; for(int i=0; i
- 360 Character Animation with Direct3D //Add hair if valid if(valid) strips.push_back(hairPos); } //Order strips for correct alpha blending for(int i=0; i
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 361 //Create a mesh containing all strips int numFacesPerStrip = numSegments * 2; int numVertsPerStrip = (numSegments + 1) * 2; D3DXCreateMesh(numFacesPerStrip * (int)strips.size(), numVertsPerStrip * (int)strips.size(), D3DXMESH_MANAGED, hairVertexDecl, g_pDevice, &m_pHairMesh); HairVertex *vb = NULL; WORD *ib = NULL; m_pHairMesh->LockVertexBuffer(0, (void**)&vb); m_pHairMesh->LockIndexBuffer(0, (void**)&ib); int vIndex = 0; int iIndex = 0; //Create hair strips for(int i=0; i
- 362 Character Animation with Direct3D //Create indices for(int s=0; sUnlockVertexBuffer(); m_pHairMesh->UnlockIndexBuffer(); } This function takes the amount of segments in the hair, along with the size of the strips and their spread, as parameters. It creates the single mesh of the hair patch, locks the vertex and index buffer, and starts filling it with data. Note that I give the different hair strips a random angle (something which makes the hair look better when viewed from different angles). The GetBlendedVertex() function simply creates and returns a vertex for the specified 2D position of the strip and the percentage value (skull to hair tip). That is all you need to know about how the mesh of the hair patch is grown. RENDERING THE HAIR PATCH Rendering the hair mesh should be straightforward, shouldn't it? Well, not quite. So far I haven't talked about how I'm going to animate the hair. You could, of course, animate the control hairs, then lock the vertex buffer of the hair patch and loop over all its vertices and update their positions. Although this would certainly work, it's not quite optimal. Let's instead update all the vertex positions on the fly as we're rendering them on the GPU. For this to happen, you need to work some serious magic. Instead of having the position of a hair vertex in object space, I'll fill the vertex data with some custom information that will let the GPU calculate the animated position of the vertex on the fly. This means you have to perform the cubic interpolation for each of the four control hairs, and then blend the result linearly in 2D, all in shader code. To do this the shader needs the following information: Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 363 The positions for all control hair points The 2D blend position of the vertex (range 0 to 1) The percentage value of the vertex (range 0 to 1) The UV coordinates of the vertex In theory, this is all that is needed. However, since some things don't change as you render the hair, you can easily pre-compute the following information in the vertex data and supply the shader with it to save some instructions: Start and end blend index of the active segment Segment percentage So to contain all this rather cryptic data, I've created the following vertex structure and declaration: struct HairVertex{ D3DXVECTOR3 position; Byte blendindices[4]; D3DXVECTOR3 normal; D3DXVECTOR2 uv; }; ... //Hair Vertex Declaration D3DVERTEXELEMENT9 hairVertexDecl[] = { {0, 0, D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT3, D3DDECLMETHOD_DEFAULT, D3DDECLUSAGE_POSITION, 0}, {0, 12, D3DDECLTYPE_UBYTE4, D3DDECLMETHOD_DEFAULT, D3DDECLUSAGE_BLENDINDICES, 0}, {0, 16, D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT3, D3DDECLMETHOD_DEFAULT, D3DDECLUSAGE_NORMAL, 0}, {0, 28, D3DDECLTYPE_FLOAT2, D3DDECLMETHOD_DEFAULT, D3DDECLUSAGE_TEXCOORD, 0}, D3DDECL_END() }; ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- 364 Character Animation with Direct3D You may remember from the previous section how the vertex buffer of the hair patch mesh was filled using the GetBlendedVertex() function. This function just creates a HairVertex object and returns it: HairVertex HairPatch::GetBlendedVertex(D3DXVECTOR2 pos, float prc, bool oddVertex) { //Create a new hair vertex HairVertex hv; memset(&hv, 0, sizeof(HairVertex)); //Set vertex data hv.position = D3DXVECTOR3( pos.x, pos.y, m_controlHairs[0]->GetSegmentPercent(prc)); hv.normal = D3DXVECTOR3(0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); hv.uv = D3DXVECTOR2(oddVertex ? 0.0f : 1.0f, min(prc, 0.99f)); //Get segment indices pair indices = m_controlHairs[0]->GetBlendIndices(prc); hv.blendindices[0] = indices.first; hv.blendindices[1] = indices.second; return hv; } Next, you need to process this rather special vertex data in the shader. Since the control hairs are updated for each frame when they are animated, you need to also upload the positions of all the points in the control hairs. This can be done in much the same way you uploaded the bone matrices in the skinned mesh examples. I've added a simple control hair table to the shader: extern float3 ControlHairTable[20]; The points are stored in the following order: Control hair 1 – Point 1, Point 2 … Control hair 2 – Point 1, Point 2 … etc. So to get the second point of the third hair, you'd simply look it up from the ControlHairTable like this: point_3_2 = ControlHairTable[3 * numPointsPerHair + 2]; Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
- Chapter 15 Hair Animation 365 Some of the blending functionality stored in the ControlHair class also needs to be implemented in shader code. For instance, to do the cubic interpolation with the help of the ControlHairTable in the vertex shader, I've created the following HLSL helper function: float3 GetHairPos(int hair, int index1, int index2, float prc) { //Calculate index 0 & 3 int index0 = max(index1 - 1, 0); int index3 = min(index2 + 1, numPointsPerHair - 1); //Offset index to correct hair in ControlHairTable index0 += hair * numPointsPerHair; index1 += hair * numPointsPerHair; index2 += hair * numPointsPerHair; index3 += hair * numPointsPerHair; //Perform cubic interpolation float3 P =(ControlHairTable[index3]-ControlHairTable[index2]) – (ControlHairTable[index0]-ControlHairTable[index1]); float3 Q =(ControlHairTable[index0]-ControlHairTable[index1]) - P; float3 R = ControlHairTable[index2]-ControlHairTable[index0]; float3 S = ControlHairTable[index1]; return (P * prc * prc * prc) + (Q * prc * prc) + (R * prc) + S; } The hair parameter is an index to which of the four control hairs of the patch to use; index1and index2 are the indices to the points in the hair to blend between (from which index0 and index3 are calculated). The prc parameter is then the segment percentage, or, in other words, how far between the two points the target point lies. This function is then used by the vertex shader to interpret the special vertex data we're passing in: //Hair Vertex Shader VS_OUTPUT vs_hair(VS_INPUT_HAIR IN) { VS_OUTPUT OUT = (VS_OUTPUT)0; ease purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark.
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Transguard, the Emirates Group's security services provider, now operates the first fully automated cash management center for national and international commercial banks in the Middle East.
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The Duchess of Cambridge made another public appearance on Wednesday afternoon and this time, she was talking sport.
Kate Middleton, who is around 16 weeks pregnant and has only recently returned to the spotlight after suffering from acute morning sickness, visited a SportsAid event in Brentford, West London alongside Olympic swimmer Keri-Anne Payne and Paralympic star David Weir CBE.
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She toured the GSK Human Performance Lab in a belted plum coat by Goat and chatted to the sports stars as they demonstrated their training techniques.
Clearly, she thought this young girl deserved a pat on the back...
The duchess has been a patron of SportsAid, a charity which supports young men and women succeed in their careers in sport, since 2013.
After chatting to the athletes, Kate took part in a cognitive test captured in an Instagram video by Clarence House - and she passed!
"Finally, something I can do while I am pregnant!" she reportedly said.


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WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched "SepticSmart," a new program encouraging homeowners to take steps to maintain their home septic systems, preventing costly repairs, inconvenience and pollution to local waterways, which poses risks to public health and the environment. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 25 percent of U.S. households—more than 26 million homes—and almost one-third of new developments are serviced by septic systems.
EPA launched SepticSmart to promote proper septic system care and maintenance. This national program aims to educate homeowners about proper daily system use and the need for periodic septic system maintenance. SepticSmart also provides industry practitioners, local governments and community organizations with tools and materials to educate their clients and residents.
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Dr Eleanor Bryant
|BSc Psychology and Counselling Programme Leader, Lecturer
|Richmond Building, E7
|RKT Centre
|Applied Social Research
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|Tuesday 15:00-16:00, Thursday 11:00-12:00
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Research Interests (key words only)
Obesity, eating behaviour, disinhibition, body image
PhD Supervision
- Umar Toseeb: The Effect of the Muslim Headscarf on Face Perception. Additional supervisors: Dr David Keeble, Prof. Christine Horrocks.
- Lisa Pepper: Body Image Perception in Children. Additional supervisors: Dr Gillian Waters.
- Mariette Abrahams: Developing Personalized Nutrition and Dietetics. Additional supervisors: Prof. Barbara Stewart-Knox
Teaching and Supervisory Responsibilities
- MSc Research Methods – lecture contribution
- Supervise up to two MSc projects per year
- Have taught on a PhD Energy Balance course, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Undergraduate Teaching
- Level 3 The Psychology of Health and Eating – Joint Module Leader
- Level 3 Research Project
- Supervise up to 11 third year projects per year
- Level 2 Quantitative Research Methods and Data Analysis – Module Leader
- Level 1 Professional Applications in Psychology – lecture contribution
- Level 1 Introduction to Counselling - assessment
Personal Tutoring
- Tutor 10 level 1 and 10 level 2 students each year
- Personal tutor to two MSc students each year
Administrative Responsibilities
- BSc (Hons) Psychology and Counselling course leader
- Admissions Tutor
- Member of the Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee
- Member of the Programme Leaders Forum
I completed my PhD, titled 'Understanding Disinhibition and its influences on eating behaviour and appetite', at the Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds in 2007. Following this I worked as a researcher on a phase one, clinical trial designed to examine the effects of a new anti-obesity drug on energy intake and body weight, in Leeds. I obtained a lectureship at University of Bradford in July 2007. Within this role, alongside my teaching, I have continued to maintain active, international research collaborations and set up an Eating Behaviour Laboratory at the University.
Study History
- 2009 PGCHEP (Distinction); University of Bradford
- 2007 PhD (Funded); Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds
- 2002 BSc (Hons) 2:1; Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds
Professional History
- 2017: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Health and Biomedical Intervention, QUT, Australia
- 2010: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Health and Biomedical Intervention, QUT, Australia
- 2009 - present: Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds
- 2007 - present: Lecturer, Division of Psychology, University of Bradford
- 2006 - 2007 - Research Assistant, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds
- 2003 - 2006 - Teaching Demonstrator, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds
- 2002 - 2003 - Assistant Clinical Psychologist, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust
- 2002 - 2002 - Project researcher, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust
- 2001 - 2001 - Project researcher, Hull and East Yorkshire MIND
Professional Activities
I peer review journal articles for many journals including; Appetite, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Physiology and Behavior, International Journal of Obesity, Journal of Obesity, British Journal of Nutrition.
I peer review grant applications for the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), Diabetes UK, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Research Grants Council, Hong Kong
Research Areas
My main research interests centre around appetite regulation and weight management. In particular, I am interested in the eating behaviour trait Disinhibition (Three Factor Eating Questionnaire; Stunkard and Messick, 1985) and its influences upon appetite regulation and weight control. This includes investigating the relationship between physical activity, appetite control and weight regulation and investigating the factors which can influence the efficacy of bariatric surgery on weight loss and eating behaviour. This work involves identifying traits; both biological and psychological, which can influence the effectiveness of weight management interventions. I investigate eating behaviour traits in both children and adults and participate in international collaborations investigating the links between psychological traits, body weight and weight loss success.
Current Projects
Development and Validation of the Child Three Factor Eating Questionnaire. In collaboration with Prof. Neil King (QUT), Dr Vicky Drapeau (Laval University), Dr JP Chaput (University of Ottowa) and Dr David Thivel (Université Blaise Pascal).
Research Collaborations
Unit of Biocultural Variation and Obesity, University of Oxford
I am working with Prof. Stanley Ulijaszek examining the link between food insecurity and Disinhibition.
Human Appetite Research Unit, University of Leeds
I have received an Honorary Research Fellowship post at Leeds University. I offer advice on the measurement and analysis of eating behaviour traits on current projects regarding physical activity and weight loss. I specifically look at data surrounding the eating behaviour trait Disinhibition and work with Prof. John Blundell, and Dr Finlayson.
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
With Prof. Erik Naslund and colleagues at Karolinska Institute, I have examined the relationship between eating behaviour traits and appetite peptides in obese patients pre, post 1 and 2 years following gastric surgery. I am currently looking at psychometric factors which relate to weight loss success following surgery up to 3 years post surgery.
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
I am a co-applicant on a grant awarded to investigate eating behaviour and appetite in pre-pubescent children undertaking vigorous physical activity (PI Dr Ara).
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
I publish papers with Prof. Neil King and colleagues in QUT regarding physical activity, appetite and eating behaviour. I am currently working with Prof King on validation of the CTFEQ which I developed.
Laval University, Department of Physical Education, Quebec, Canada
I am currently working with Dr Vicky Drapeau on the validation of a French version of the CTFEQ, which I developed. Also we are looking at the association of CTFEQ eating behaviour traits with obesity, and how TFEQ traits are transmitted through the family.
University of Ottowa, Department of Medicine, Canada
I am currently working with Dr Jean-Phillipe Chaput on the validation of the French and English versions of the CTFEQ.
Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II, Clermont-Ferrand, France
I am currently working with Dr David Thivel on the validation of the French version of the CTFEQ and it's association with obesity in adolescents, and the familial aspects of TFEQ trait transmission.
Universidad De Cantabria, Spain
I am currently working with Dr Carmen Sarabia Cobo, with Prof Barbara Stewart-Knox on a study exploring the impact of stress upon eating behaviours and food intake.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network
- BPS (British Psychological Society)
- British Feeding and Drinking Group
- Association for the Study of Obesity
See Eleanor Bryant's publications on Bradford Scholars.
Abraham M, Frewer L, Bryant E, Stewart-Knox B (In Press) Factors determining the integration of nutritional genomics into clinical practice by registered dietitians. Trends in Food Science.
Martín-García, M; Bryant, EJ; Alegre, L. M.; Plaza-Carmona, M.; García-Cuartero B., Gutin, B. (Under Review) Effects of a 3-month moderate-vigorous physical activity intervention on eating behaviors and body composition in overweight and obese boys and girls. Appetite
Ulijaszek S, and Bryant EJ (2016). Binge Eating, Disinhibition and Obesity. In Evolutionary thinking in medicine: from research to policy and practice. Alvagne A. (Ed) Springer: Oxford, UK.
Toseeb U, Bryant EJ, Keeble D (2013). The Muslim headscarf and face perception. "They all look the same don't they?" PLoS ONE
King, NA, Horner K, Hills AP, Byrne NM, Wood RE, Bryant, EJ, Caudwell P, Finlayson G, Hopkins M, Martins C, Blundell JE (2013). The interaction between exercise, appetite and food intake: implications for weight control. The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.
Bryant EJ, King NA, Falkén Y, Hellström PM, Holst JJ, Blundell JE and Naslund E (2013). The relationships among tonic and episodic aspects of motivation to eat, gut peptides and body weight before and after bariatric surgery. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
Gibbons C, Caudwell P, Finlayson G, Hopkins M, Horner K, Bryant E, Blundell J and King N (2013). Impact of exercise training on habitual activity and food intake in the obese. In Hansen D (Ed) Exercise Therapy in Adult Individuals with Obesity. Nova Science Publishers.
Bryant, EJ, Caudwell P, Hopkins M, King N, Blundell J. (2012). Psycho-markers of weight loss; the roles of TFEQ Disinhibition and Restraint in exercise-induced weight management. Appetite. 58: 234 – 241.
Toseeb U, Keeble D, Bryant EJ (2012). The (lack of) significance of hair for face recognition. PLoS ONE. 7 (3): e34144 IF 4.40
King, NA, Horner K, Hills AP, Byrne NM, Wood RE, Bryant, EJ, Caudwell P, Finlayson G, Hopkins M, Martins C, Blundell JE (2011). Exercise, appetite and weight management: understanding the compensatory responses in eating behaviour which could account for the variability in exercise-induced weight loss. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Bryant, EJ (2011). Disinhibition, appetite and weight in adults. In (Eds) Preedy, VR, Martin, C & Ross-Watson, R. Handbook of Behavior, Diet and Nutrition. Springer: New York. Chapter 70: pp1069 – 1085.
Bryant, EJ. Kiezebrink, K. King, NA & Blundell, JE (2010). Interaction between Disinhibition and Restraint: implications for body weight and eating disturbance. Eating and Weight Disorders. 15 (1); 43 – 52.
Blundell, JE. Bryant, EJ. Lawton, C. Halford, J. Naslund, E. Finlayson G & King, NA (2010). Characterising the Homeostatic and Hedonic Markers of the Susceptible Phenotype. In (Eds) Dube, L. et al Obesity Prevention: The Role of Society and Brain on Individual Behavior: A Handbook for Integrative Science, Policy and Action to Stop the Progression of the Obesity Pandemic. Elsevier: USA. Pp 231 – 240.
Finlayson, G, Bryant, EJ, Blundell JE, & King, NA (2009). Acute compensatory eating following exercise is associated with implicit hedonic wanting for food. Physiology and Behavior. 97: 62 - 67.
Bryant, EJ, King, NA, Blundell, JE (2008). Disinhibition: its effect on appetite and weight regulation. Obesity Reviews. 9 (5); 409 – 419.IF 7.04
Blundell, JE, King N, Bryant, EJ (2006). Interactions among physical activity, food choice, and appetite control: health messages in physical activity and diet. In (Eds) Cameron, N, Morgon, NG, Ellison TH. Childhood Obesity: Contemporary Issues. Pp 135 – 147.
Public/Academic/Stakeholder Engagement
- Seminar series at Oxford University, March 2014 'Disinhibition and its impact on eating behaviour'
- Seminar series at University of Bradford, April 2014 'Adult and child obesity - what causes it and what can we do about it?' with Professor Ulijaszek, University of Oxford
- Otley Science Festival June 2013, 'Disinhibition and Happiness'
- European Congress of Obesity, Liverpool, UK May 2013 'Psychometric characterization of obese patients and their response to gastric surgery'
- European Congress of Sport Science, Bruges, Belgium July 2012 'Relationships between eating behaviours and body composition in lean and obese children' Poster
- Otley Science Festival June 2013, 'Disinhibition and Happiness'
- 'In Pursuit of Happiness' Event, Sofia, Bulgaria June 2012 'Can You Eat Yourself Happy?'
- Diabesity Conference, Leeds, September 2011 'The psychology of hunger' Workshop
- National Diabesity Conference, London, June 2011 'Hunger: a psychological perspective'
- International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity, Portugal, May 2009 'How does high trait Disinhibition influence success in exercise-induced weight loss?'
- Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour, 2009 'Does Disinhibition mediates or moderates exercise-induced weight loss?'
- British Feeding and Drinking Group, Liverpool, UK 2008 'Interaction between Disinhibition and Restraint: implications for body weight and eating disturbance'
- European Congress on Obesity 2008, Stockholm, Sweden 'Psycho-markers of weight loss; the influence of TFEQ Disinhibition and Restraint on the role of exercise in effective weight management'


text: Hamilton, Ohio -- Summer classes and camps are officially scheduled and registration is open at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts, according to Jenn Acus-Smith, Education Coordinator. The Fitton Center's Community Arts Education Program is geared towards all ages and ability levels and scholarship opportunities are available. "Our youth Theater classes will be returning under a new name, 'The Thrilling Theater Hour,' noted Acus-Smith. "We will also be offering Tie Dye classes, Pottery and Drawing for kids. New for teens/adults are Portrait Sculpture, creating 3D portrait studies in clay, and also Beginning Drawing from Observation which meets in the afternoon." There are two six-week sessions offered this summer, the first of which will begin on May 20. If your interests are musical in nature, beginners and experienced musicians can enjoy one-on-one study of the guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, sitar, violin, viola, cello, flute, piano, drums and voice with one of our many talented private instructors. The Fitton Center for Creative Arts also presents Summer Camp Creativity, a perfect destination for creative and artistic children! These week-long camps focus on visual art, music, photography or drama for ages 4 to 18. "Camp Creativity is a place where children and teens can spend their summer with the arts! Week-long camps allow children to get really involved with their chosen focus in the arts. They can meet new friends and explore new ways to create with professional artists and teachers. At the end of each camp, family and friends are invited to view an art show or view a performance. It's a wonderful way to celebrate the creations that happen at camp!"Early registration discounts are available for classes and camps. Browse our web site for many more classes available for kids, teens and adults of all ages and ability levels. To register, or to receive more information on classes and workshops, visit www.fittoncenter.org or call the main office at 513-863-8873.


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Looking for cruiseMATE! My treat!
I realize this is the TEEN cruising section, and I am addressing this to the 18+ TEENS! I am looking for someone cool and new to go on a cruise with me! I went on my first cruise a couple months ago, and the only thing I regret is not bringing a girl with me.
Whats up I am a 22 year old male from the SF Bay area, CA! . I am 5'7 165 lbs, and I have plenty of pictures AND myspace for anyone whos interested in seeing some pictures of me. I am not bad looking at all, but I will not post my pictures on cruisemates. This is what I have to offer, and the reason for my positng; I am going to be scheduling a cruise for the Caribbean here in a couple of weeks, the cruise will be a couple months off, and I am looking for a girl who would like to go with me. This cruise willl be paid for by me (Unless of course your totally interested in paying for yourself) and EVERYTHING needed for the cruise will be paid for.
A little about myself; as I said I am 22 years old and a recent college graduate. I work in Real Estate and make pretty good money. I am not a weirdo or anything else like that, like most people on craigslist are. I like to party, drink, and smoke 420. However I am respectable.
A little about the person I am looking for; someone around my age, female, and looking to have a good time and see where things lead. Someone open minded, likes to party, drink however 420 isnt a must, but MUST be able to tolerate it, as I will probably buy some in Ports we visit.
I am looking for someone to go with me so early because we need time to get to know each other to see if were compatable and will get along for 7 days sharing a room and a bed. I am looking for a strickly platonic friend that might be interested in seeing what happens over the course of our friendship and cruise. A cabin mate :) if you will. It should be fun, you can check out Princess.com or Carnival.com to see the possibilities of ships and such.....I am leaning towards the Caribbean Princess, as I have been on that ship before. Well, You can contact me via email on here, or check me out my myspace at www.myspace.com/MrMikemimiaga and lets see what happens, I have myspace, so send me your link. Or reply in the board here!
This board is strictly for teens UNDER 18. I dont think you are going to find your "cabinmate" on here. Sorry.
omg this is the funniest post i've ever seen. is this a joke are you a drug dealer. this made my life
Re: Looking for cruiseMATE! My treat!
wow kris...i was laughing while reading that.
but seriously who ever you are, its kinda creepy your looking for someone to go on a cruise with on a message board..and none of us are above 18 anyway.
just listen to kris..she summed it up pretty well..hahaa
Mike...i suggest you look on the "Seeking a cabinmate" board. they might be able to help you. or a plastic surgeon.
I was thinking of deleting this. but its wicked amusing.
This must be a joke :shock: at least I hope it is.
My favourite line:
am looking for someone to go with me so early because we need time to get to know each other to see if were compatable and will get along for 7 days sharing a room and a bed.
this is quite amusing.
and just plain creepyyy!!
Honestly it is way too creepy, and just messed up. I at first thought it was a joke, but maybe this guy is just on drugs right now or something :-?
save it i wanna see what mr mike has to say to all our comments.
not to be mean or anything but he looks kinda creepy to which just makes it even creepier!
hahaha AND A BED!!!
this is making my day. omg this is sooo amusing!!!!
yeah i want to see what he has to say too. but i bet hes too much of a pussssy to respond.
and probably is on drugs!!!!!!!
eww and a bed?
like madddd creepy. madddd sketchy. like a child molestor.
Joe...we need to watch out!! no more dark alleys man!! hahaha
i never thought someone could be so incredibly ugly.
I wouldn't be surprised if he is joking cause look at th myspace pic. Seems like an idoit wasting his time cause he has nothing better to do than be a creep.
ha i dont think hes joking. he is an idiot and a creep. but its ok! i have a rusty nail somewhere around him to use.....
he is a desperate horndog. jeezzz.
where are those wolves when you need them??
in what boards? what did other peopel respond saying.
...does he have no friends? if he's asking for people on a message board.
this is pretty funny actually.
if you click on his name and then on find all posts by "mike" it will lead you to thhe other posts hes made in the other boards.
hes too ugly to have friends. he burns their eyes. im suprised he hasnt killed himself already.
Okay I guess I was just hoping for his and everyones elses sake that he was joking. I can't believe someone is so creepy. If he wants to meet someone, why not go on a cruise and see if he meets someone there. why give out a free cruise to get a girl in bed, so creepy and just wrong.
exactly..im sure there are many girls he could meet on cruises. well possibly if he isn't a creep.
well if he finds a girl who is equally as repulsive..good for him.
well he prolly cant meet anyone on a cruise!!
k i really wish he would respond!! hahahaha
me too!!!
he better respond.
he will be too embrassed to post... well I'm off to finish my homework :x
Wow... I definitely missed this post! I need to go online more! haha
Definitely creepy... there's something that is just wrong about the whole scenario. Now I wonder if there's any girl dumb enough to actually agree to this? Hmmm... Post and let us know OP (original poster).
ew this is really creepy!!!!!
lol. this is amazingggg.... i think we should make a fake CM account.. have some fun with this guy. then send him some pics of a hot girl... then tell him right before that she's not really a she.... :D HAHAHAHAH That would be awesome!!!! CREEEEEPY!
lol... Nice plan Greg.
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text: This weekend sees the Central Coast Mariners in their second 'derby' in a row and midfielder Matthew Osman predicts another hard-fought contest. Last week, the Mariners got an important win over the reigning Premiers, Newcastle Jets; in the second 2007/08 Grand Final replay and this week have the daunting task of travelling to the Sydney Football Stadium to take on a rampant Sydney FC. "It was a good result, the boys battled hard, we got a goal. It's always a tough game against them and to get a win at home against the Jets was a big buzz so hopefully we can take that form into this weekend's game," Osman said of the Newcastle result. Osman was wary of ex-Mariners teammate John Aloisi who scored his first goal with Sydney last week. "He's a quality player and now that he's got a goal, he'll be playing with confidence and probably looking for more against us so let's hope he doesn't get one," Osman added. Knowing it's another cross-town derby, Osman was hoping his teammates could hit back after the Round 2 loss to the Sky Blues but is aware it will not be easy, saying, "They do (the boys), they lift for every game but these games are classified as derbies. The boys want to get out there and give a good performance. We got done (by Sydney) last time around, so hopefully we can get one on them this time. "They've (Sydney) come off a good win down in Melbourne so it's going to be a tough contest and one we're looking forward to."


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Summary by James R. Martin, Ph.D., CMA
Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida
I believe this was the first article on the "balanced scorecard". The purpose of the article is to describe the balanced scorecard concept that the authors developed based on a research project involving 12 companies. Kaplan and Norton begin by saying that "what you measure is what you get." The organization's measurement system affects the behavior of managers and employees. Traditional financial measurements (e.g., return on investment and earnings per share) can provide misleading signals. Some alternative measurements have been recommended based on non-financial performance indicators such as cycle time and defect rates. But many senior managers recognize that no single measurement can provide enough information about the critical areas of the business. Therefore, a balanced set of measurements is needed.
The balanced scorecard is defined as a set of measurements that give top managers a fast, but comprehensive view of the business including operational measures on customer satisfaction and the organization's innovation and improvement activities, as well as financial measurements. Kaplan and Norton point out that the operational measures drive financial performance.
The authors use navigating and flying an airplane to illustrate the concept. Pilots need information related to factors such as fuel levels, airspeed, altitude, bearing and destination. Concentrating on a single measurement could be fatal. Today's managers are in a similar situation. They need to view performance in several areas simultaneously. The balanced scorecard does this by providing information from four perspectives: customer, internal business, innovation and learning, and financial. The concept is illustrated in the table below.
|How do customers see us?
|Internal business
|What must we excel at?
|Innovation & learning
|Can we continue to improve and create value?
|How do we look to shareholders?
The number of measurements should be limited to a short list of critical indicators of current and future performance.
The advantages of the balanced scorecard approach include:
1. Integrating seemingly disparate elements such as becoming customer oriented, achieving short response times, improving quality, emphasizing teamwork, reducing product launch times, and managing for the long term.
2. Guarding against sub-optimization by showing whether improvements in one area, or perspective, are achieved at the expense of another area.
The customer perspective includes 4 categories: lead time (i.e., time from order receipt to delivery), quality (e.g., defect levels and on time delivery), performance, and service.
The internal business perspective includes the business processes that have the greatest impact on customer satisfaction, such as those that affect cycle time, quality, employee skills and productivity. These measurements should be decomposed to the local levels to provide linkages to upper level measurements on the scorecard to insure that lower level employees have clear targets for actions and decisions that contribute to the company's overall mission.
The innovation and learning perspective involves goals and measurements related to continuous improvement in the company's ability to innovate, improve and learn. These areas determine the company's ability to launch new products, improve operating efficiency and create more value for customers. Examples of measurements suggested for this perspective include percent of sales from new products and measures of improvement in on-time delivery, cycle time, defect rates and yield.
The financial perspective relates to how the company's implementation and execution of the organization's strategy affects the bottom line. Some measurements include those related to cash flow, sales growth and market share, as well as measures of operating income and return on equity.
The financial perspective is still important, regardless of what some critics have said, because there is no other way to determine if improved performance in the other perspectives leads to improved financial results. If improvements in the other perspectives do not lead to improvements in financial measurements, then company executives need to reexamine the basic assumptions underlying the organization's strategy and mission. "Not all long term strategies are profitable strategies." They provide some examples of companies that improved non-financial measurements that did not translate into improvements in financial performance. They argue that to improve the financial results, the newly created capacity resulting from improvements in the other perspectives must be translated into improved sales and market share, reduced operating expenses, or higher asset turnover.
The balanced scorecard does not have the control bias that traditional measurement systems have. It emphasizes strategy and vision, not control. The balanced scorecard approach is consistent with the concepts of cross-functional integration, customer supplier partnerships, global scale, continuous improvement and team accountability.
An example scorecard is provided for a company they refer to as Electronic Circuits Incorporated (ECI). The illustration below is based on the ECI scorecard that appears on page 76. Their illustration did not include the questions that are from a previous illustration on page 72.
|ECI 's Balanced Scorecard
|How do customers see us?
|New products.
|Percent of sales from new products.
|Responsive supply.
|On-time delivery as defined by the customer.
|Preferred supplier.
|Share of key account's purchases.
|Customer partnership.
|Number of cooperative engineering efforts.
|Internal business
|What must we excel at?
|Technology capability.
|Manufacturing geometry versus the competition.
|Manufacturing excellence.
|Cycle time, Unit cost and Yield.
|Design productivity.
|Silicon efficiency and Engineering efficiency.
|New product introduction.
|Actual introduction schedule versus planned introduction.
|Innovation and learning
|Can we continue to improve and create value?
|Technology leadership.
|Time to develop the next generation.
|Manufacturing learning.
|Process time to maturity.
|Product focus.
|Percent of products that equal 80% of sales.
|Time to market.
|New product introduction versus the competition.
|How do we look to shareholders?
|Cash flow.
|Quarterly sales growth and operating income by division.
|Increased market share and Return on Equity.
Kaplan and Norton sum up by saying that "The balanced scorecard keeps companies looking - and moving - forward instead of backward" (p. 79).
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Johnson, M. W., C. M. Christensen and H. Kagermann. 2008. Reinventing your business model. Harvard Business Review (December): 50-59. (Summary).
Kaplan, R. S. and D. P. Norton. 1993. Putting the balanced scorecard to work. Harvard Business Review (September-October): 134-147. (Summary).
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HOWLY CRAP!!!!! This game is LEGEND!!!!!!
A good system, but a few flaws
As a few people said it can get a small bit laggy at times if your computer is slow. But it really is a great game, and in the late game, it throws the concept of "THE MOST EXPENSIVE GUN IS THE BEST" out the window with every weapon having it's own pro's and con's such as firing faster, but missing more, but more damage. The only thing is it feels it needs multi-player, but since that is extinct in con-artists games, it's never gonna happen.
You people may hate me after my review,but the game is kinda bad because I think both guns should be controlled with the mouse and its just boring.....otherwise its awesome!!!!!!!
"Prison wars are...
the way to go all out; Killer idea for a action/shooter. The graphics and audio are superb and the controls are spot-on. This is one awesome concept. I hope you are working on a sequal? Way to go.".........vp
Dude thats awesome :p at last i killed the boss when the time was standing at 4:20 xD
lol i dook about 40 seconds to kill him xD
but it would be cool to add some more machines which have more armor or more places for weapons so u can choose between that machines ...


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Torquay Midfielder Signs Up
Northampton might have lost two players but they've at least brought in one following Ian Morris' arrival.
The midfielder was snapped up from Torquay, where he was out of contract.
Aidy Boothroyd has followed Morris' career and is happy to bring him in, he said: 'He has always impressed me when I have seen him and I am pleased we have been able to bring him to the club.
'Ian is a very good player and I have followed his career closely.
'He is a winner, he has already won three promotions in his career and he has experience of playing in the Championship, League One and League Two.'
Hopefully with the help of Morris, who can occupy a number of different positions so his versatility could be very useful, Northampton can go one step further next season and gain promotion again, which would be his fourth promotion!


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For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students and bad publicity for the college.
So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe.
The police assume that a student prank got out of hand, but the resourceful Persephone girls suspect foul play,and take the investigation into their own hands. Soon they uncover the tangled secrets that led to the bursar's death and the clues that point to a fellow student.
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"Golden Age Detective Story"
This book is one of the series of classic crime novels being issued by the British Library. It is set in Oxford and is very much of its period. Accept the world was different 80 odd years ago and you can enjoy it. It is well written and I definitely wanted to know what happened. It was not difficult to guess who had done it but that did not spoil the story.
"Death on the Cherwell"
I really like these 'between the wars' mysteries reissued by the British Library and Mavis Doriel Hay is a good example. She only wrote 3 books of which this, in my view, was her best.
The spoken word version is well produced and the reading is excellent. It captures the period very well and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Perhaps not to everyone's taste and to modern ears and may seem a bit anachronistic. But so it goes......
"Oxford in the 1930's"
This mystery is set in an Oxford women's college. Interestingly enough, it was published the same year as Dorothy Sayers' well known Lord Peter/Harriet Vane novel, also set in a fictional Oxford women's college. This is a shorter and much less complex novel, and I would never say that Hay was as good an author as Sayers, but I found it an interesting read/listen, for those interested in Golden Age mysteries and who would like to compare this version of Oxford with that in Gaudy Night. I have enjoyed the British Library Crime Classics series, and hope that more will be made available as audiobooks, hopefully Wispersinc for Voice compatible with the Kindle version.
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Current affairsBritain's first motorway is built. The Preston bypass (M6) was the first road to be built to official motorway standards, although the M1 (opened in 1959) was the first road to be given official status. The road was opened by the Prime minister, Harold Macmillan, and heralded a new age of mass, high-speed motoring.
Art and scienceMichael Bond publishes A Bear Called Paddington, the first Paddington Bear book. This popular character is remembered for being found at Paddington Station by the Brown family, for wearing a floppy hat, duffle coat and Wellington boots, and for his penchant for marmalade sandwiches.
The children's television programme, Blue Peter, is broadcast for the first time.
InternationalFollowing the USSR's successful launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957, America launches its own space agency, NASA. Under pressure from the Soviets' early lead, NASA began research into human spaceflight. The competition between the two superpowers to explore outer space, send humans beyond the Earth's orbit and land on the moon was known as the 'space race'.
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Glasgow (Jun. 12)
Tribute to Scotland's Jewish citizens was paid today by the Earl of Airlie at a function at which Glasgow Jewish ex-service men entertained 1,000 members of the British Legion after their parade.
"I have the greatest admiration," he said, "for the great Jewish people.
"In the war their record was magnificent, and in peace they are an example to all."


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An Architect's Geometric Getaway
A U-shaped home in upstate New York gets an L-shaped dining room and a T-shaped art gallery
Architect Steven Holl, 65, won the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal award last year. His firm was recently chosen to design the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts expansion in Washington. Mr. Holl was interviewed by reporter Marc Myers.
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
Over the past 19 years, I've managed to re-create the feeling at a weekend property in a small rural town two hours north of New York City in Dutchess County.
We have offices in New York and Beijing, so work keeps me pretty busy. In New York, I spend most of my time shuttling between my apartment in the West Village, our office and Columbia University, where I teach a studio course. When I'm in Beijing for a few weeks each year, I commute between the Opposite House Hotel—a tranquil, minimalist space designed by Kengo Kuma—and our office there.
So my home in the country is my sanctuary—but it's not a retreat. I work when I'm there, which is roughly once every five weeks in winter and most weekends in summer. I usually take the train up so I can work. I was just at the house and completed about 20 drawings for an urban-housing project I'm designing in Dongguan, China, that will provide residents with everything they need on-site—creating a sense of community and limiting their need for car travel.
I first discovered the small New York town in 1993 while driving along the Hudson River. I fell in love with the slow pace and arts scene, and began looking for a weekend property. In 1994, I bought a 900-square-foot house 12 minutes from the train station. The two-bedroom fieldstone house sits on 4 acres and dates back to 1952. The house is shaped like a rectangular "U" and faces a large lake, which is why I bought it. The 29-acre spring-fed lake is largely untouched and algae-free—no motorboats are allowed, and I swim there every morning in the summer.
By 2000, I wanted to introduce geometry to the property and began designing two additions. The first was a 200-square-foot steel "L" for my dining room. It has windows you can pivot up in the summer so the entire dining space is outside. The L links to the second addition—a 1,000-square foot, two-story stucco structure that looks like a warped cube. It houses my studio.
The cube's design was based on my plans for the Cornell School of Architecture. I worked on both designs at the same time in 2001. My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
Even with these two geometric additions, I still felt something was missing. I love the Hudson Valley landscape that surrounds the area and the Hudson River School art movement of the mid-1800s. I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere. To satisfy that side of me, I designed a 750-square-foot T-shaped art gallery on the property in 2010 called T Space.
The semipublic community gallery is set up as a not-for-profit and curated by my brother's wife, fine-art photographer Susan Wides. It sits about 60 feet from my studio, which means I can take a break from work whenever I wish and visit the art that's on exhibit.
Inside the gallery, the T shape prevents you from seeing the entire space at once. There's always a corner to turn, which builds suspense for the pieces. There's no heating or plumbing in there, and in the winter there's no art exhibited. The gallery was built with plywood, so it's like a barn and can stand all through the winter without any maintenance. Then we just open it up in the spring. No fuss. The gallery offers space where artists can exhibit and local friends can come out to see their works. But the pieces exhibited aren't for sale. They're just for viewing and conversation.
In March, I'm heading back to Manchester to visit my father. We celebrate the spring equinox by getting up at dawn and watching the sunrise. My dad still lives in the first house I designed, in 1974. It sits right next to the cabin where I grew up. I designed the house so when the sun comes up on March 20, it cuts directly through a slot in the fireplace that my father built. The house even sits crooked on the property just to line up with the equinox. I love New York City, but I need these kinds of poetic Zen moments.


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Less then a week removed from his arrival in New England, Kellen Winslow Jr. is once again unemployed, as the Patriots have decided to grant his wish to be released and cut ties with the former Pro Bowl tight end.
Winslow Jr. reportedly pushed for his departure after he was only on the field for four plays in last Sunday night's game against the Ravens, according to ESPN Boston beat writer Mike Reiss.
Now in his eight NFL season, Winslow Jr. is almost assuredly going to be out of football the remainder of the season while he continues to deal with an injured knee that clearly isn't healthy. Provided he can show teams that he's healthy, Winslow Jr. could be an option for a club in need of veteran depth at the position in the off-season.
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This weekend, we celebrated Jason's 7th birthday with his friends at Legoland Discovery Center, probably one of his favorite places in the whole world. I love throwing birthday parties for Jason and Jenna, but this one was almost entirely handled by the nice people of Lego. In fact, both my husband and I had trouble leaving the house because we felt like we were forgetting something. This was by far the easiest of all of our kids' birthday parties so far, and while I miss the fun of planning and creating, I also know that Jason could not have been happier with his party.
My only two additions to an otherwise 'store-bought' party were the very cute Lego-themed invitations from Tiny Prints and the party favors.
For the favors, I ordered a Lego stamp and created Lego-themed notebooks and carrying cases to hold the notebooks and a few other goodies. I'm not a big fan of giving (or receiving) favors that will just be thrown away, so I usually try to create something with a longer shelf life. Jason and Jenna are always packing up cases, bags and other containers with toys to take on the go, so when I saw these little suitcases at Target, I knew they'd be a perfect favor box.
The cake was provided by Legoland and Jason wasn't too pleased when I wiped all of the dye-filled frosting off his piece. Sorry, Jason.
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Mid-table six-pointer at the Stadium of Light
Plenty of games get dubbed as relegation or title chasing six-pointers but for once, we can sit back and enjoy a game between two teams that both sit comfortably mid-table. Although Sunderland and Stoke both sit within reach of the relegation zone, I think it's fair to say they both have more quality than the teams below them and will both finish in mid-table obscurity come the end of the season.
I can see Sunderland edging this match, although they sit one place below their opponents, they have a decent home record and Stoke have just one away win all season.
The 11/10 on Sunderland would have been unheard of a few months ago as Steve Bruce got off to an impressive start to his tenure. However, things have gone downhill since then and they have won only one of their last 13 Premier League games. They are due a win though and a change in form.
Stoke are 13/5 and I wouldn't really touch them at that price considering they have only won once away all season, although it was at White Hart Lane. They appear more likely to head to Sunderland with a smash and grab strategy aimed at getting the draw, a fair priced 9/4. They aren't on amazing form overall with just one win in their last eight games home and away.
Sunderland are a bit short at the back with Phil Bardsley, Anton Ferdinand, Nyron Nosworthy and Michael turner sidelined. Lee Cattermole and Kieran Richardson still aren't fit so they are looking thin on numbers. Darren Bent has 14 league goals to his name this season and is 9/2 to get the first goal in this match.
Stoke, in contrast, have a clean bill of health and Tony Pulis will hope they can at least get a goal after failing in their last four away games. Ricardo Fuller bagged a brace in the cup victory over Arsenal and you can get 12/1 on him to recreate that, although 2/1 on anytime might be a bit more likely.
Sunderland concede a fair few at home with 18 in their last six games - so the 4/5 on both teams to score looks good as I think they will win - it will be tight and I think 2-1 is the best shout and at 13/2 it's got to be worth a punt.
Stoke bag 63% of their goals in the first half, more than any other team in the Premier League. For this to continue and Stoke's first goal to come in the first half you can get 8/5. If Stoke do score first then it's not beyond the realms of possibility for the double result to be Stoke/Sunderland and at 28/1, your risk /reward ratio is very good.
Both teams aren't in great form and I do see the game being tight, with Sunderland's home fans the key to victory. This said, my money will be going on a Sunderland win and under 2.5 goals at 16/5


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Manchester United at West Bromwich Albion
7:45 a.m. Saturday (NBCSN, mun2)
NBCSN kicks off a quadrupleheader of soccer with a Manchester United team that remains mired in crisis. Stuck in the middle of the Premier League table, Red Devils fans are already calling for manager David Moyes to be fired. The bigger problem, though, might be that United's players just aren't that good - especially on defense. Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidić are getting old, and Father Time remains undefeated.
After this game, NBCSN will air Cardiff City vs. Fulham at 10 a.m. and Chelsea-Tottenham at 12:30 p.m. And after that comes the biggest matchup of the day… at least for some of us.
Sporting Kansas City at Seattle Sounders
3:00 p.m. Saturday (NBCSN)
Three months and one day after the 2013 Major League Soccer season ended in Kansas City, reigning champion Sporting kicks off the 2014 campaign. It's win or bust once again for Clint Dempsey and star-studded Seattle, and MLS' biggest fan base is getting impatient with head coach Sigi Schmid. Kansas City, meanwhile, has to show it remains among the Eastern Conference's elite.
In addition to Dempsey, this game will showcase three other Americans who are likely to be on this summer's World Cup squad: Seattle's Brad Evans and Sporting Kansas City's Graham Zusi and Matt Besler.
And yes, it's quite possible that Dempsey won't play after going 90 minutes for the U.S. against Ukraine on Wednesday. How the Sounders play without him - especially forwards Kenny Cooper and Obafemi Martins - is a question that Schmid must answer if Seattle is to finally live up to its endless hype.
Wigan Athletic at Manchester City
12:05 p.m. Sunday (Fox Sports 2)
The two teams that contested last year's FA Cup final meet again in this year's quarterfinals. Wigan pulled off one of the all-time upsets last year, winning its first ever trophy at City's expense. But the Latics were relegated from the Premier League just days later. If Shaun Maloney and company can beat City on its own turf, it might be even more of an upset than last year was.
Chicago Fire at Chivas USA
3:00 p.m. Sunday (UniMás)
MLS is finally ending the Chivas USA experiment after this year, having recently bought the team out from Mexican parent Chivas de Guadalajara. There's no doubt it will go down as a failure. But the Goats might just go out with a bang.
Fomer U.S. national team captain Carlos Bocanegra anchors the defense, and newly-signed Mexican striker Adolfo "Bofo" Bautista will liven up the attack. The talent is there to make the playoffs, believe it or not.
Chicago, meanwhile, faces a lot of questions. The Fire have reigning MLS MVP Mike Magee, but his supporting cast isn't that great. New manager Frank Yallop has a lot to prove if he's to break through what might be the toughest Eastern Conference race in MLS history.
Arsenal at Bayern Munich
3:00 p.m. Tuesday (Fox Sports 1)
The reigning Champions League winners come home for the second leg of this quarterfinal with a 2-0 aggregate lead. So why are so many Bavarians just a bit nervous? Perhaps because they lost at home to the Gunners in last season's Champions League, and only advanced on away goals. Could history repeat itself this year?
Club Tijuana at Los Angeles Galaxy
10:00 p.m. Wednesday (Fox Soccer Plus and Galavisíon)
The marquee matchup of the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals is the biggest test for MLS since Real Salt Lake made the final in 2011. The Galaxy, led by Landon Donovan and Robbie Keane, are the league's standard-bearer. Tijuana's roster is stacked with American stars, including Hérculez Gómez and Edgar Castillo, and their fan base is as big in nearby San Diego as it is south of the border. The Xolos even poached young American midfielder Paul Arriola from the Galaxy's academy.
So yes, this series matters will resonate beyond just the two teams' stadiums. As I've written before, southern California is one of the top battlegrounds in the fight between MLS and Liga MX teams for Hispanic-American youth soccer talent.
It's no overstatement to say that if the Galaxy win, it would send a message - both in English and Spanish - that it can be worth staying home to turn pro. If Tijuana wins, their appeal will only grow stronger.
You can argue that Donovan, Keane and the rest of the Galaxy players didn't ask to be involved in this fight. But they don't have a choice. MLS desperately needs this win. Tijuana's the better team, though, and it would be an upset if the Galaxy knocks them out. That the most decorated club in MLS history will play the role of underdog tells you just how far MLS has to go to knock Mexico off the CONCACAF throne.
Fiorentina at Juventus
4:05 p.m. Thursday (Fox Soccer Plus and ESPN3.com)
You don't often get a matchup this big in the UEFA Europa League, so this will be game worth cherishing. It's one of Italy's most historic rivalries, and it will play out over two legs in the Round of 16. Juve's strike force of Carlos Tévez and Fernando Llorente will be challenged by the Viola duo of forward Mario Gómez and midfield dynamo Matías Fernández.
Real Betis at Sevilla
4:05 p.m. Thursday (ESPN Deportes and Fox Soccer 2 Go)
I know that a lot of people don't have ESPN Deportes or Fox's paid streaming service. But if you do, this game will be a lot of fun. The two teams are crosstown rivals, and produce some of the most entertaining clásicos in Spanish soccer. The stakes are raised this time as they meet in the UEFA Europa League Round of 16.


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Dallas Safari Club Rhino Auction
Tonight the Dallas Safari Club will be auctioning the right for someone to kill an endangered Southern Black Rhino.
An estimated 4 000 black rhinos remain in the wild, down from 70 000 in the 1960s. Nearly 1 800 are in Namibia.
2 years ago the Western Black Rhino went extinct!
The Safari Club claims that the rhino is old...but even so – doesn't this send the wrong message?? I can just imagine African poachers saying "we can't kill rhinos but this rich American can?"
Dallas Safari Club is quoted as saying 'People are talking about 'Why don't you do a photo safari?' or whatever," Carter told the Dallas Observer, "Well, that's great, but people don't pay for that." Well...as someone who works for a very large photographic safari company that operates within 9 countries, I would like to disagree with this comment.
If you look at the photo that I've posted you'll notice that the picture is of a white rhino, not a black rhino...this is because even though I have worked for a safari company for 4 years, I've never even seen a wild black rhino...
This isn't conservation, this is murder!