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text: In the "Introduction to UNITY by Creating Simple Ambient Life" you will learn how, without prior knowledge of UNITY or programming, you can create a simple ambient life simulation - deer will go to sleep when tired, and eat when hungry. The teacher, Tilman Geishauser, is Founder at Fantasieleben UG (haftungsbeschränkt), and the AI Programmer behind their first product, the NEEDSIM Life Simulation. The second video of the "Introduction to UNITY by Creating Simple Ambient Life" tutorial will show you how to add sound and controllable player, and mostly dig a little bit deeper into how to write code in UNITY. Finally a build is made that can be distributed to players that do not have the UNITY engine installed.

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Fruity and Fabulous: 5 Must-Sip Summer Spirits
Summer is officially here and that means barbecues, picnics, rooftop parties, and backyard romps. If your cocktail repertoire is stuck in snoozy margaritas and other old-school libations, consider shaking things up with a fruit-infused spirit that does most of the work for you. It's been 30 years since Absolut Citron first hit the market and introduced consumers to flavored vodka. A decade later, the vodka reached further amplification as the Cosmpolitan's core ingredient made famous on "Sex and the City."
Today, nearly every distiller wants to make an impact with flavored spirits. Recent research indicates that flavored vodkas comprise 15 percent of the total annual segment. (That's more than nine million cases!) But beware. Marketing and packaging are often driving forces and often have very little to do with what's in the bottle.
EDGE went on the hunt to test and taste recent releases. Here are our favorite discoveries, along with easy-to-follow recipes to sip the season away. Always remember to drink responsibly.
Bluewater Organic Raspberry-Infused Vodka
Owner/distiller John Lundin founded Bluewater Distilling in the Pacific Northwest in 2007, utilizing traditional copper kettles and 100 percent organic ingredients.
The portfolio includes both vodka and gin, as well as a berry-licious, limited edition raspberry-infused vodka that uses fruit sourced from Viva Farms, an agricultural incubator in northwestern Washington's Skagit Valley.
The pink-hued vodka offers a kiss of berry that shakes up any cocktail. The gorgeous, American-made bottle isn't too shabby either.
Raspberry Sparkler
1oz. Bluewater Organic Raspberry-Infused Vodka
.5 oz. raspberry puree
2 dashes peach bitters
1 oz. Triple Sec
squeeze of fresh lemon juice
champagne or sparkling wine
edible flowers
Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake and strain into a champagne flute. Top with champagne and garnish with edible flowers.
Sugar Island Coconut Rum
There's nothing more beachy than a coconut rum-flavored cocktail, but choose poorly and you'll think you're drinking a bottle of Coppertone tanning lotion. Sugar Island Coconut Rum offers a delectable smooth finish and received 91 points from the Los Angeles International Spirits Competition.
Crafted in the Virgin Islands using sugar cane and natural coconut flavors, Sugar Island tops out as our number one pick for rum-based cocktails.
Who wants to drink alone? This recipe created by Jakob Hostetter from New York City's Cantina on Lenox features two types of rum and is served in a pineapple.
Pineapple Punch Para Dos
3 parts Sugar Island Spiced Rum
3 parts Sugar Island Coconut Rum
1 ½ parts Tres Agaves Strawberry Mix
¾ parts Coco Lopez
1 whole pineapple, hollowed out
1 lime, freshly squeezed
Blend all ingredients together and pour into hollow pineapple. Garnish with pineapple slices.
SakéOne Moonstone Plum Sake
Boasting more awards than any other saké company in America, SakéOne's Moonstone collection begins with junmai ginjo sake, a fragrant and distinct saké. Varieties include Asian Pear, Coconut Lemongrass, and our favorite, Plum.
It may remind you of plum wine that can often be found in Japanese restaurants, but offers a much cleaner, lighter finish with a touch of almond. Made with crystal clear waters from Oregon's Willamette Valley, it drinks beautifully on its own or can be used in refreshing cocktails.
Thai Plum Fizz
4 oz. Moonstone Plum Saké
4 large Thai basil leaves
1 oz. soda water
Add the Basil leaves to a shaker with about a cup of ice and muddle. Add Moonstone Plum saké and shake. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Top with soda water and Kanpai!
Dulce Vida Pineapple Jalapeño Tequila
Celebrating its one-year anniversary this July, Dulce Vida Pineapple Jalapeño Tequila is made with 100 percent Blue Weber Agave Blanco tequila then infused with real pineapple, jalapeño, and other natural flavors.
Handcrafted in small batches and distilled in San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Mexico, Dulce Vida is setting an industry standard for sustainability and has earned top honors at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, New York International Spirits Competition, and others.
Sweet with a bit of heat, Dulce Vida's pineapple jalapeño tequila uses a real fruit infusion to create a product that doesn't need a lot of fuss to taste delicious, such as their riff on a margarita:
Spicy Pineapple Margarita
2 oz. Dulce Vida Pineapple Jalapeño Tequila
Squeeze of agave nectar
1-2 fresh jalapeño rings
2 cubes of fresh pineapple
Squeeze of fresh lime juice
additional jalapeño ring for garnish
Pour tequila, agave nectar, and jalapeno rings into a shaker with ice. Squeeze cubes of pineapple and lime to add juice into the shaker. Shake for 40 seconds, then strain over ice and garnish with a fresh jalapeño ring.
Take a look at Dulce Vida's production process:
Boardroom FRESH Citrus Vodka
What's old is new again. Brothers Vlad and Marat Mamedov, along with Marat's wife Zsuzsa, left corporate jobs to open their own distillery in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Everything from research and development to manufacturing, bottling, and a cozy tasting room is under one massive roof at a converted warehouse.
Boardroom Vodka's FRESH collection includes, ginger, cranberry, and a modern interpretation of a vodka classic: citrus. Using nothing but real citrus peel, vodka, and water, this super-clean corn vodka forgoes sugar and preservatives and still delivers a refreshingly complex splash of flavor. Best part? No carbs and only 70 calories per serving!
Basil Drop
2 oz. FRESH Citrus Vodka
1 oz. simple syrup
.5 oz fresh lemon juice
5 fresh basil leaves
Combine all ingredients in the cocktail shaker and shake vigorously until well chilled. Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a basil leaf.
In the Spirit
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Paul Janssen had een nieuw webpagina ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit41 ontwerpen ingezonden door5 freelance designers.
SuperScouts is a brandnew football management game (FMG), we start in the Netherlands, but soon will brand this all over the world.
SuperScouts is made by 3-frogs, a new business developing company, and Niels vd Horst, the "game brains". Together we want to make a crossmedial FMG, starting with Internet, but soon to be followed by mobile and interactive TV front-ends.
SuperScouts will be played by football interested people, not fanatics only.
It is not a new market, there are FMG's all over the world. However, SuperScouts is different:
1) SuperScout is played in pool of maximum 18 attenders (we call them SuperScouts). After registration the SuperScout automatically joins a pool. Besides that he also can start a sub league of his own or join an existig sub league.
2) in each pool the SuperScouts bid on players from the real life competition (about 400 players) in an trilling auction period (all start with the same budget). The auction period starts before the beginning of the competition. Who is going to get that one star player and how much money has he left for the rest of is team? The SuperScouts can chat with eachother or send private emails through the forum.
3) Every playround the SuperScouts line up there team. During the playround the players score points in the actual game by scoring goals, assits, yellow cards, etc. The system retrieves these scores live from a hosting party. That give sthe SuperScout the possibility to follow his results live and take last minute decisions on his line up or setting his joker player (double points).
4) every playround the pool winners are congratulated. The overall numbers 1, 2 and 3 receive a prize. At the end of the competition the winners also receive (bigger) prizes.
we have a mockup working at http://cedriclv.negative0.eu/
You'll notice that it only holds some very rough pages with the needed data divided in sections.
Be aware that you have all freedom in your design. Also the menu part is free. .
We also have a PDF at : http://www.filedropper.com/supersco…gnbriefing . It decribes the data section on each page and the actions.
Have a look at http://www.superscouts.com. The logo is recently designed, also in a 99desigsn competition. (the rest of this page you should forget immediately again :-)
The Ai of the logo you'll find at Layered file: http://www.filedropper.com/sslayered
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Big12Sports.com Correspondent
Celebrations and countdowns usually occur during the transition on the calendar from one year to the next. Both are appropriate, however, in the middle of the summer instead of the last day in December.
At 12:01 a.m. July 1, TCU and West Virginia officially become members of the Big 12 Conference. The addition of both schools was announced months ago but the reality of the start date means a new era for both schools.
It's also historic for the Big 12, which for the first time in its 16-year history is adding new members.
"We are extremely proud to call TCU and West Virginia members of the Big 12 and welcome Horned Frog and Mountaineer students, faculty, staff and fans to the Conference," Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowslby said. "Both institutions bring with them academic and athletic credentials that advance the Conference's standing within intercollegiate athletics. I couldn't be more excited for the future of the Big 12 Conference."
Adding TCU and West Virginia allows the Big 12 to continue at 10 members. That allows the Conference to maintain round-robin scheduling in football and basketball. It also expands the Big 12's footprint into the Eastern Time zone.
The Horned Frogs and the Mountaineers should make football even stronger. Both TCU and West Virginia won their conference championships last year. Plus, the Big 12 will have six schools going into the 2012 season coming off campaigns with 10 wins or more.
Men's basketball coaches are convinced that adding TCU and West Virginia will make the Big 12 even tougher.
"I think statistically the last few years the Big 12 is the only conference that's been ranked in the top three [each year]. We've been very successful in getting teams into the [NCAA] tournament and winning games in the tournament,'' Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "And when you bring West Virginia and TCU in, it just helps with the numbers. In some areas, it comes out better.
"The big thing is the core of the Big 12 is together. There's been so much tradition and success since the Big 12 was founded and I think people realize this is an elite conference and that year in and year out you can argue it's the best conference in the country.''
West Virginia has sold nearly 37,000 season tickets. Only twice in the past 16 years has the school sold 38,000. The folks in Morgantown are giddy about lining up against Big 12 competition
"There are other metrics like ticket sales and in football's case, season ticket renewals, which are off the charts now," West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck said. "There is a lot of excitement right now. It is going to be a lot of fun and challenging, no question about it.
"There are all sorts of different indicators, but our coaches are very excited. They all seem to have an extra spring in their step, no matter what sport it is because it is a new challenge."
TCU's transition is a well-timed end to a long migration. When the Southwest Conference disintegrated in the mid-1990s, the Fort Worth-based school was left out when the Big 12 was formed. TCU competed in the Western Athletic Conference, Conference USA and the Mountain West, plus had agreed to join the Big East before the Big 12 came calling.
Particularly in football, the Horned Frogs have earned the right to step up in class. TCU went 13-0 and defeated Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl in 2010. Nine of the last 12 seasons, the Frogs have won at least 10 games and seven times have won 11 or more.
The success has translated into record ticket sales. For the first time, the school has sold 30,000 season ticket sales. The fans this season will be treated to a renovated Amon G. Carter Stadium. In the offseason, new stands were built on both sides of the stadium. Construction included new suites and a press box. The stadium capacity will be 43,000 with the possibility to expand to 50,000.
In addition to the $164 million stadium renovation, TCU has added a new locker room and training room. Those improvements follow a new state-of-the-art weight room that opened last fall.
"We'll have one of the finest stadiums in the country starting this year and we have all the facilities, all the bells and whistles a coach needs to be successful," TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte said. "This school has invested in itself and now is the time for that investment to pay off."
With a new commissioner along with unprecedented solidarity and stability throughout the Conference, the official induction of TCU and West Virginia are part of a bright future for a "new" Big 12.


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Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) is urging shareholders of McKesson Corp to vote against the re-election of four directors, citing the firm's persistent problems in addressing shareholders' concerns about executive compensation.
Chief among the concerns was "the sizable and growing" lump-sum pension payment due to Chairman and CEO John Hammergren had he retired, which was worth some $159 million, ISS said.
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The ISS recommendation follows criticism of the San Francisco-based healthcare technologies and drug distribution firm by CtW Investment Group. CtW Investment is part of the Change to Win labor federation, whose members include pensions funds that are McKesson shareholders.
McKesson said its governance and executive compensation structure helped drive its strong performance.
"Our board continues to listen and be responsive to shareholder input, and we have made a number of significant governance and compensation changes in direct response to input from our shareholders," McKesson said in a statement.
In a July 1 letter to McKesson shareholders, CtW said McKesson's board is "entrenched and insular" and noted a "string of multi-billion dollar compliance and internal control failures under the watch of the audit committee".
CtW Investment Group also urged McKesson shareholders to vote against the re-election of directors Jane Shaw, a 21-year veteran of the board; Alton Irby, a 14-year veteran of the compensation committee as well as Hammergren.
In its recommendation, ISS said shareholders should vote against Irby and three other members of the compensation committee - Edward Mueller, Christine Jacobs and David Lawrence - for failing to address the compensation issues.
"The fact is the CEO's lump sum pension balance represents substantial lifetime costs to shareholders and does not incentivize the CEO's retention," ISS said.
ISS did not recommend the removal of Shaw. It also did not recommend voting against Hammergren because the company has agreed to name a lead independent director.
ISS representatives did not return requests for comment Sunday evening.
The ISS recommendations were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
McKesson's shareholders are scheduled to vote at the company's July 31 annual shareholder meeting.
(Reporting by Jessica Toonkel; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)


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Back: The Demonstration Garden
The Smith Interpretive Center was built in 1925 of locally quarried stone, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. The building served as the original visitor's center until the present one was built, and has two greenhouses attached to either side. One greenhouse highlights cacti from around the world, and the other showcases succulent plants in other plant families.


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I ripped through the first three chapters on the plane from Melbourne to Launceston last night, and was excited to think that my nerdy interest in these things is shared by enough people to have made this book a best-seller. There's a summary of the book at this wikipedia site.
The thing that's new to me - even though I've read lots of articles on decision-making in neuropsychology and psychology by Paul Meehl, David Faust, and Howard Garb - is the division of thinking styles into System 1 and System 2. System 1 is the more automatic, intuitive, rapid, frequent, and stereotypic style of thinking that relies on our memories, knowledge, and, I imagine, procedural knowledge to form decisions about the world. System 2 is more slow and effortful, requires more mental effort, and is used for tasks that require logic and calculations. Not surprisingly, people tend to naturally use System 1 more easily than System 2, as System 2 is a whole lot more work. In my reading before this, System 1 was the area of clinical judgements and intuition, and System 2 was characterised by the much-maligned actuarial mode of analysing data.
The idea of these systems explains to me why there has been so much resistance by clinicians to research that says we will be more accurate diagnosticians if we rely on Bayesian analyses and prior probabilities than if we rely on our clinical intuitions, which are based on error-prone stereotypes, heuristics, and pattern recognition. That is, the work of Meehl, Faust, and Garb was strongly resisted by clinicians in the early days because it says we need to activate the energy-draining System 2 more often.
While the resistance has weakened, I still hear people argue that their clinical judgement is pretty darned good, and that the client is lost in focussing on the test data in a sophisticated psychometric way. I've always thought we need to use both clinical (intuitive) judgement and actuarial knowledge in making decisions - to say we should only be clinicians or psychometricians is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Kahneman agrees that System 1 is excellent at some things, but his book demonstrates that learning about decision errors can help us to engage System 2 to overcome these errors that System 1 evokes - illustrated with examples from optical illusions, making financial choices, and probabilistic thinking.


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The original Gray's Anatomy...celebrating 150 years as the ultimate word in anatomical certainty
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"In short, the 40th edition of Gray's Anatomy is not only the most complete textbook of anatomy on the market but is possibly the most complete anatomical atlas available." -JAMA, May 6, 2009--Vol 301, No. 17, pp. 1829-1830.
"I am not aware of any book currently in print in any language that contains as much anatomical information as the 40th edition. it should be in the library of anyone who has the need for a comprehensive anatomical reference book. It may seem costly, but, per pound, it really is a bargain. Many books on the market offer much, much less but cost much more." -JAMA, May 6, 2009--Vol 301, No. 17, pp. 1829-1830.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
I gather that they're re-releasing Quentin Tarantino's half of Grindhouse, after changing their minds about releasing it at all over here after it bombed in the States. When I was a teenager Tarantino was the hottest thing anyone had ever seen. Who'd have thought?
Why do people think it sank so badly? I've got a few speculations, but I'd like to hear other views. I can, at any rate, speak from my own experience, which is to say that I didn't plan on going to see Grindhouse when it came out. I had a couple of basic reasons for this, both of which were to do with possible strategy mistakes on Tarantino's part.
The first was that it sounded, rightly or wrongly, like it was part of the torture porn fashion that's been splashing across our screens lately. That, as I've said elsewhere, is not a trend in movies that I particularly want to watch - dismemberment is fine as long as it serves a plot function, the way I see it - The Last King of Scotland was one of my favourite movies this year - but the current horror fashion seems to be for giggling-little-boy glee at dismemberment for its own sake, which doesn't appeal. In little boys, fine, but to my mind, there's an element of I-can't-believe-I'm-an-adult-and-getting-away-with-this to such films, and I'd rather watch something where the director can believe he's an adult and directs accordingly. As I haven't seen Grindhouse, I may be doing Tarantino and Rodriguez an injustice, but that was pretty much the impression I was getting from the hype.
Now, I'm probably not the audience for those movies anyway (though I would have been part of the audience for a film that was like Reservoir Dogs) - but for the people who like torture porn, who would have gone to see another such film, I wonder if Tarantino may not have accidentally sawn the feet off his own movie by mentoring Eli Roth. Roth, after all, is the current enfant terrible of the torture porn trend, and a big part of his success is down to the fact that he was able to put 'in association with Quentin Tarantino' on his PR. But the thing is, that means Roth wound up the figurehead of the fashion. Roth is making movies that, from what I can gather, are more or less the descendants of the kind of films that grindhouses showed anyway. With new grindhouse movies available, why go to see a revival of the old kind? By supporting his mate, Tarantino seems to have inadvertently put himself out of fashion.
That's just a theory. The second part of the theory, I think I have more grounds for: it sounded too long. Two-for-the-price-of-one works on occasion - but the trouble is, being a Tarantino fan doesn't make you a Rodriguez fan, nor vice versa. They like each other's stuff, but audiences can be perverse; I'd be prepared to bet that a fair proportion of potential viewers ended up saying, in effect, 'Meh. I'd kind of like to see the latest Tarantino/Rodriguez, but I don't think I want to have to sit through a Rodriguez/Tarantino film to get it.' It was a bold artistic experiment, but faced with the prospect of a two-parter, where possibly you'd only enjoy half while suffering the seat cramps and bladder strain of a full-length long movie (as well as paying the full price), I wonder if many people saw it as half-a-movie-for-the-trouble-of-one instead - especially as the fact that they were a double feature meant that each part was unusually short, meaning less of your favourite to make room for the other guy. It's kind of a shame, as experimental collaborations sound like a nice idea in theory, but I think practicality may have defeated it.
I have another reason which is personal, but which again I suspect others may have shared: I saw Kill Bill, and I didn't enjoy it. Now, I'm not going to knock it; it was a slick piece of film-making, and probably very funny - but here's the thing: I wasn't in on the joke. It was a prolonged in-joke about kinds of movies I've never, ever seen. And nor have a huge proportion of the movie-going population. As a result, I just don't think I can judge it on its own terms. I can judge it on my terms, and say that it seemed to me plotless, bitty and rather meaningless - but that may well be because the meaning of it was a comment on certain kinds of schlock films that I'm in no position to pick up on. And Grindhouse sounded like more of the same. Making the kind of movie that the original grindhouse posters always promised but couldn't deliver; that was the rationale. But I don't think I've ever seen a grindhouse poster, or a grindhouse movie (except Night of the Living Dead, which got attention by being lifted out of the grindhouse circuit), so I had no way of knowing whether they'd succeeded in achieving their aim. I think most people will share this difficulty with me; most people never grew up near a grindhouse. Tarantino's early work was brilliant, hilarious, marvellous entertainment - but the fact that I loved watching his films doesn't necessarily mean I'd love every film he ever loved, and that's what Grindhouse seemed to be about. I think he and Rodriguez may have picked too obscure a standard to be judged by, and audiences have ended up begging to abstain.
There was a lot of press about Grindhouse before it actually-didn't-come-out in the UK, and I suspect there was plenty in the States as well, so the movie was failing despite a considerable build-up. But a lot of the stuff in the press wasn't really about the movie; it was about something that I, at any rate, thought sounded more interesting: the grindhouse as a social phenomenon. The original grindhouses, as described in the press, were less a cinematic experience than an anthropological one: a shelter from the rain for transients, alcoholics, prostitutes, the mentally ill, deviants, people hiding, people bored and lonely, and generally speaking, an audience divided between people for whom the main lure was a fairly warm place to sit undisturbed, and people who had serious problems. And the odd horror-movie buff, no doubt. It's not often you get to see a cross-section of society that stark, and I have a shrewd suspicion that the life story of the average audience member was probably more interesting and dramatic than the plot of the average movie onscreen.
The upshot is that the films grindhouses showed weren't really the point. The point was the grindhouses themselves. To my mind, the fact that the posters promised horrors the movies couldn't deliver wasn't a moviemaking failure that deserved correction, it was an essential part of the ethos. The interesting part of the carnival show isn't the six foot man eating chicken, it's the cleverness of the manager who came up with the scheme and the skill of the barker who makes you believe in it. Many of the original grindhouse movie makers were originally carnies, and used to bait-and-switch spectacle: they were deliberately putting their intelligence into the build-up rather than the payoff. That may have made for disappointing movies - but the movies weren't where the thought was going. If they'd been thinking more about the movies, they probably would have been making and promoting different movies in the first place.
I'd have liked to see a movie about a grindhouse, rather than a 'grindhouse' movie. You could put whatever grindhouse in-joke movies you liked playing on their screen if you wanted to have fun with it, but it sounds to me as if grindhouses themselves were the really interesting thing. With the two-hander Rodriguez and Tarantino came up with, for a start, I think they missed one of the most important things about a grindhouse, which is that you could buy your ticket at any point, wander in halfway through, watch till you got bored, then wander out again whenever the fancy took you. If cinemas had tried running the films on a loop and selling the tickets any time, (financially tricky, but if any director had the kudos to swing it, then surely Tarantino's your man), they might have got a better response. The seat-cramps-and-bladder anxieties, and the do-I-like-both-directors-or-just-one issues would have been alleviated, if nothing else. But as it is, I don't think I'm alone in feeling that, as a non-grindhouse-goer, once I'd heard about what a grindhouse was, I felt like I'd heard the best part of the story. After all, the movies they showed were supposed to be bad.
Would you have gone to see it? Reasons? Let's hear from you interesting folk.
I think you hit the nail on the head -- it was an in-joke, and the vast majority of filmgoers obviously didn't feel let in on the fun.
I did like the Kill Bill movies (although I preferred the talkier part 2, the twisted logic and skewed morality -- part one wasn't as original as it thought it was, unless a viewer had never seen anime incorporated into a film before). But over the top East Asian cinema is my thing. Also, I think it just had more mass appeal -- bigger stars, maybe? And the action-swordfighting-gunfighting-revenge genre has a bigger audience in general, I'm guessing, than the zombie genre or the slasher genre (and those last two genres don't necessarily overlap in terms of fans, either).
I'll go out on a limb as well and say that Kill Bill likely appealed more to both genders. (Just for starters, even though The Bride was not originally a comic-book character, the film was the only one in recent years to do justice to that type of female action protagonist -- "Electra" was reported to be terrible-to-mediocre, "Aeon Flux" was un-wonderful, and from what I've heard, "Ultraviolet" made the baby Jesus cry). Comic book characters are touch and go on the big screen to begin with, and the female ones, in my opinion, don't even get adequate effort put into them -- dialogue, characterization, motivation, or even basic, nicely choreographed fight scenes (all of Electra's took place in the bloody DARK) -- let alone the labor of love that Kill Bill obviously was for Tarantino.
But Grindhouse set out to recreate an experience that only a small part of the American population ever experienced (let alone the world) for a very short time, just part of the (early?) 70s. The very low-budget, poor quality working class theaters with bad flicks foisted off on a public that didn't have access to or money for better -- you got dropped off in a crappy theater for a set price and stayed there as long as you could get away with. That's the aspect that was really hyped, really marketed "We're recreating this thing from our childhoods and we're going to make it so authentic!" But... there's no guarantee that even the people who were "in on the joke" would look back on that with the remotest fondness.
Not to mention, the demographic who are most into the horror genre right now weren't born early enough to remember.
Personally, I think Tarantino has learned to love listening to himself a little overmuch.
Yes, the 'strong female character' can be a tricky one for male artists to pull off, especially in areas that traditionally cater to boys. I'm always suspicious of the phrase; why do you need to say 'strong female', as if the one modifies the other? Does anyone say 'strong male character'? Bah.
(Total tangent -- that is pretty much how I feel about the phrase 'strong black woman.' I want to be un-strong, cute, adorable and dainty, dangit. At least for a day or so... ^_____^)
I am... really, really troubled by this "conservative fantasy" argument over on the other blog you cited, by the way. I need to think about this more (and post in the appropriate place!).
By all means. What in particular is troubling you? Maybe we can all have a discussion about it - internet politics can be interesting.
Anyway, your very typing tells me that you're a cute, dainty little blossom of a thing. No doubt about it. :-)
Hah! :-D Well maybe "cute" can be negotiated, there...
I'm less troubled now, but I'll post in entirety over in the other thread (September 3).
Actually, even though I've never been in a grindhouse theater, I'm still strangely familiar with the genre, thanks to the wonders of the video rental store. You won't find those films at Blockbuster, mind you, but some non-chain stores can sustain themselves by specializing in The Weird Stuff. There was a place called Blastoff Video that rented nothing but what they termed "psychotronic video", which contained everything from exploitation films to collections of vintage educational shorts. They ultimately went under, alas, but a place down the street called Videodrome picked up a lot of what they sold off.
The whole B-movie machine didn't actually die, it just shifted into the distribution scheme known as direct-to-video. I dated a guy who turned me on to the joys of watching bad movies for fun. (We must have been quite the sight at the video store--"Man, this looks AWFUL! Let's get it!") We rented a lot of films that never saw the inside of our local multiplex.
I didn't actually watch Grindhouse, because I'm not sure I'd really want to see films like that on a Hollywood budget. Watching a cheesy film from that era is a little easier for me to take because the blood and the zombie makeup are so obviously fake that it doesn't get to me. More sophisticated special effects, however, do get to me, so I tend to avoid them. (I'm the kind of person who can see footage of somebody being stabbed in the eye, and wind up rubbing my eye for the next several days. Which is probably why I haven't seen Un Chien Andalou to this day.)
That's a good point. I think that was another reason why I didn't feel like seeing it - not that it would be upsettingly gory, but that it was a big-budget film imitating a tiny-budget one. I tend to feel that with your typical cheezsploitation film, the fact that it has a tiny budget means that it's sort of got an excuse to be that way. It's doing its best considering its limitations and intended milieu. Given a bigger budget, you could do anything you wanted - so why not make something really good?
Well, not only that, but from what I could tell about the film (from the ads that took up every single commerical break for the premiere episode of "The Riches") that it wasn't exactly the kind of film shown in a grindhouse as much as it was the kind of film that the movie poster promised but never delivered. If that makes any sense. A chick with a machine-gun leg would have worked in, say, a pulp novel or a comic book, but no way could you actually do that in a film back in 1970-something without the result looking laughable. Adding scratches and blurriness and 'missing reels' to the film doesn't change that.
Mm, I heard that. But I tend to think that providing the kind of film that delivers on previous false promises is an odd idea in itself. I mean, the posters weren't supposed to be accurate representations of the films, or even, I suspect, representations of the kind of films the directors would have liked to make had it not been for censorship laws. They were all about getting the audiences to fork over money for tickets. Once the poster had done its job, the main aim had already been accomplised. Really, the posters were the great accomplishment of the whole venture.
Like I said in the article, they were sound as if they were the cinematic equivalent of the carny barker promising you a six-foot man-eating chicken, and going into the tent only to discover a six-foot man, eating chicken. But under those circumstances, I don't think the right artistic response is to make a movie in which there's a big chicken that eats people - or at least, it's not the response that feels right to me. It seems literal-minded about something that was casual, and it kinda smacks of missing the joke.
"...the carny barker promising you a six-foot man-eating chicken, and going into the tent only to discover a six-foot man, eating chicken."
I love this.
Thanks to that particular image, I wound up with a craving for fried chicken that took my entire lunch hour to satisfy. Dammit.
I'd actually heard of studios back in the day that would come up with the movie poster first and THEN write a movie to match it. I'll have to do a little Googling to confirm that one, stay tuned.
Do confirm if you can, it sounds interesting. If so, it would back up my theory that the primary work of art was the poster rather than the movie, and that the grindhouse's artistic tradition really belongs with graphic design and copywriting more than with moviemaking...
I can't confirm it precisely, but I found the movie review that claimed this was the case here:Post a Comment
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Our current subject was clearly cooked up using what was Nicholson and Arkoff's standard recipe in the early days: First, come up with a cool sounding title. Second, make a poster that matches. Third, use both of these to secure enough financial backing to actually make the movie.
Only after all of this is done do you hire a cheap screenwriter (like Robert J. Gurney, Jr., fresh off Invasion of the Saucer Men, which would ultimately be his career masterpiece) to pound out a script that roughly corresponds to whatever you put on the poster. Get somebody just as cheap to direct it (Gurney again), blend thoroughly, bake half way, and you'll probably end up with something that's a lot like Terror from the Year 5000.
If this is indeed true for AIP, that covers a huge chunk of the B-movie canon right out of the gate. Check the Wikipedia entry:
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Grain farmers invest too much time, energy and money into producing their crops to allow insect pests to reduce volume and quality in on-farm storage facilities.
Farmers have good reasons to pay close attention to protecting stored grain, says Texas AgriLife Extension entomologist Roy Parker.
Managing grain in storage facilities allows a producer to "develop a reputation as the individual from which to purchase grain," Parker said during the recent Texas Plant Protection Association annual conference in College Station.
"Insect management is one way to achieve that reputation, but it requires attention to all aspects of the stored grain operation," he said.
Insect damage causes multiple problems including loss of yield through destroyed kernels, reduced quality from insect parts, increased heat (10 to 15 degrees higher), more moisture and mold, odor, additional dust and as much as 5 percent weight loss per year. All those issues may mean a 16 percent loss in market value in just one year.
IPM tactics
Parker recommends an integrated pest management approach to controlling insects in stored grain. IPM tactics include:
- Set harvest equipment to reduce trash, fines and broken kernels.
- Harvest at a safe, low moisture level but not so low that grain cracks.
- A storage moisture level of 13 percent to 14 percent is the highest level to allow (lower for certain grain types).
- Practice sanitation and treatment of harvest equipment, grain carts, augers, transport trucks, rail cars, barges and ships. Sanitation should include: clean harvest equipment; clean hauling equipment; and clean pits, augers and conveyors
- Immediate sanitation inside and outside storage.
- Design construction for ease of cleaning and tight seal for effective fumigation. Note: construct storage bins so that a pressure can be held for an extended period when sealed for fumigation or have at least one bin for such use.
- Treat empty bins with insecticide about two weeks before loading (Tempo, Storcide II, Silicon dioxide, malathion).
- Apply insecticide to grain as it is loaded into storage after drying. Note: consider protectant use where grain will be stored under warm conditions for more than five months (Actellic + Diacon, Storcide II, and others).
- Remove grain peak and "core" round bins.
- Apply top-dress insecticide if not used on the rest of the grain.
- Aerate to remove harvest heat followed by cooling to 60°F or less (40°F is best).
- Monitor grain temperature to find "hot spots" (thermocouples).
- Inspect grain for insects once a month when it is cool (less than 60°F) or twice a month (at more than 60°F).
- Keep records of insect numbers by species (per unit volume), location in bin, grain moisture, grain temperature, and bushel weight.
- As a general rule apply fumigant when one primary pest or five secondary pests per quart sample of grain are detected. Note: Higher numbers of some insects such as psocids and rusty grain beetle can be tolerated. Note: Wheat may need to be fumigated at one insect per quart sample.
- Do not store "new" grain on top of "old" grain. If it must be done apply fumigant to "old" grain first.
He said producers should know the flow rate of the grain to assure proper insecticide application in-stream.
Parker said producers may choose from several products for grain stream treatment. Options include: Actellic for corn and grain sorghum; Storcide II for barley, oats, rice, sorghum and wheat; Diacon II, which is generally not used alone; and Contain. He said a label for spinosad may be on the horizon.
Fumigants include Phosphene gas and Profume.
Protectant tests
Parker said tests on protectant insecticides show:
- Actellic was effective on all insects except lesser gain borer.
- Diacon II was effective on larval stage of all insects except for weevils.
- Combination of Actellic + Diacon II was very effective.
- Silicon dioxide was effective but reduced bushel weight and made grain handling more difficult.
- Liquid spinosad provided effective control (still waiting on approval by Japan).
- Rates based on a chemical cost of 4 cents per bushel were effective for 10 to 12 months in storage.
Parker said when producers clean out bins they should move any old grain or other debris away from the facilities. "Get it all offsite," he said.
Parker also commented on storage bags and potential for insect damage. "Moisture is used up in the bags by respiration, and carbon dioxide levels increase so we've had no insect problems," he said.
Maximum storage time in these bags has been about six months. "We've had no insect problems so far. In fact, weevil numbers dropped slightly each month corn was stored in the bags."
He said it's critical that producers do not place the bags where water will stand.
"We also expected some problems with animals, especially feral hogs. We've seen some problems with rats and raccoons, but no hogs. Also, we can seal up damaged areas."
Parker advised farmers storing grain in bags to check frequently for animal damage, moisture and temperature.


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The Spice Girls' sexy charisma, modest musical talent, and "girl power" philosophy made them pop music's Next Big Thing in the mid-1990s. The British band was created in 1994 by two would-be managers who advertised for women to form an all-girl group. The five winning applicants (who soon ditched their managers) each took nicknames: Sporty Spice (Melanie Chisholm, also known as Mel C, b. 12 January 1974), Posh Spice (Victoria Adams, b. 17 April 1975), Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell, also known as Sexy Spice, b. 6 August 1972), Baby Spice (Emma Bunton, b. 21 January 1976), and Scary Spice (Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B, b. 29 May 1975). Their 1996 album Spice included the hit singles "WannaBe" and "Say You'll Be There" and launched them to international fame; eventually the group sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. The Spice Girls hit the peak of their fame in 1997 with the release of a second album, Spiceworld, plus a jovial feature film of the same name. Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls in 1998 to go solo. The group continued on as a quartet, with the individual members also pursuing solo careers; Adams gained extra fame in 1999 when she married soccer star David Beckham. After releasing the album Forever in 2000, the Spice Girls disbanded in 2001. But all five original Spice Girls reunited late in 2007 for an eight-country world concert tour.
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text: 2% comeon, How do you plan to lose 'just 2%' if you make a lot of use from MPI? let's be realistic; with respect to matrix calculations HPC can be relative efficient. As soon as we discuss algorithms that have the habit to be sequential, then they are rather hard to parallellize at a HPC box. Even very good scientists usually lose a factor 50 then or so algorithmic. It is questionable whether software that is embarassingly parallel should be run at megamillion dollar machines that are easily factor 5 less efficient in power, provided it can work somehow well at normal PC/CUDA/Brooke type hardware (meaning that some scientists love RAM just a tad too much; i'd argue there is always algorithms possible, though very complex sometimes, that can get a lot of performance with a tad less RAM, after which you can move again to cheaper hardware). I'd argue there is a very BIG market for a shared memory numa approach, one that has however a better solution for i/o and timing (so not using some sort of central clock and central i/o processors like SGI used to at the Origin boxes). The few shared memory approaches that were historically faster than a PC, were that much more expensive than a PC to just increase speed by a factor 2, that it is interesting to see what will happen here. the step from writing multithreaded/multiprocessing software that works at NUMA hardware to a MPI type model is really big. What happens as a result of that is that those MPI type approaches usually are not very well optimized software programs. The "one eyed software in the land of the blind", so to speak. Sometimes that has very egoistic reasons. I've seen cases that doing more calculations gives bigger round off errors which after a few months backtrack into the root bigtime, causing the scientist to be able to draw sometimes the result he liked to draw, instead of objectively also being able to explain why the 'commercial' model that gets calculated quickly, which sometimes exist which is why we know this, doesn't have those weird 'random' results, so no new theory can get concluded. I would be really amazed if more than 50% in this HPC list in their typical workloads gets an efficiency of over 2%. We shouldn't praise ourselves to be better than we are simply. Having lots of processors also makes most scientists very lazy. That isn't bad at all, the idea majority of scientists use HPC is that you can take a look into the future what happens, giving an advantage over a PC. That said there is a few fields where the efficiency IS real real high. But other than some guys who are busy with encryption i wouldn't be able to mention a single one to you. Yet you could also argue that those guys in fact waste most resources of everyone, as there is special co-processors (for embedded for example) and special dedicated processors (using a LOT of watts) made that are thousands of times faster than what you can do in a generic cpu, in which case the 2% rule still is valid. In HPC there is however 1 thing i really miss. I'm convinced it exists, a kind of GPU type cpu, with a lot of memory controllers attached, that's doing calculations in double precision. A smal team of 5 persons can build it and clock is oh 300-350Mhz or so? So the investment in itself isn't big. Getting to 1 Teraflop double precision a cpu shouldn't be a big problem. Where is that cpu? Did no one care to design it as they can't make billions of dollars with it? Vincent On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> that, perhaps serendipitously, these service level delays due to >> nodes >> not being completely optimized for cluster use don't result in a >> significant reduction of computation speed until the size of the >> cluster is about at the point where one would want a full-time admin >> just to run the cluster. > > no, not really. the issue is more like "how close to the edge are > you?" > it's the edge-closeness (relative to cluster capabilities) that > matters. > > that is, if your program has very frequent global synchronization, > you're going to want low jitter. yes, exponentially more so as the > size of the job grows, but the importance of the issue also grows > as your CPU increases in speed, as your interconnect improves, etc. > > similarly, if you have an app which is finely cache-tuned, > it'll hurt, possibly a lot, when monitoring/etc takes a bite out. > >> don't worry about these service details too much, just do your work >> knowing that you're maybe losing 2% speed (this number is a total >> guesstimate). > > 2% might be reasonable if you're doing very non-edge stuff - for > instance, a lot embarassingly parallel or serial-farm workloads > that don't use a lot of memory. it's not that those workloads are > less worthy, just that they tolerate a lot more sloppiness. > > again, it's the nature of the workload, not just size of the cluster. > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >


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What a long, strange trip this could be for the Lakers.
On the eve of their seven-game sojourn away from Staples Center, the Lakers had a night they would like to remember but have to forget after dropping a 120-118 loss to Cleveland on Tuesday.
Now comes the road, with three point guards, one forward and one legend hoping time speeds up to heal all of their wounds.
"The injuries came at a bad time, but we'll fight through it and hopefully get turned around and get some wins," Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said. "It would be nice to find ourselves on the road maybe.
"They fought tonight, the energy was good. I wish they got rewarded, because we played well enough to win and it didn't happen."
It was a subdued return of former Lakers coach Mike Brown to Staples Center. He escaped with a win as Cleveland's coach despite trailing at halftime and despite the Lakers shooting 56.7 percent from the floor in the final three quarters.
With their fifth consecutive loss and the 11th in their past 12 games, the Lakers fell to 14-24, a record that's better than only two teams in the Western Conference. If not for the fact that Kobe Bryant, Steve Blake, Xavier Henry, Jordan Farmar and Steve Nash are expected to rejoin them at some point, the leftover Lakers could find discouragement rules the day.
"There's always a danger but if the character's good, which it is, they will fight through this," D'Antoni said. "It's important for everybody, it's important for the franchise, each player is playing for his future so they'll keep fighting.
"I don't see any quit in them at all and if you've been around them all year, they have that quality. Hopefully we'll get some of these guys back pretty soon and at least finish up the year on a good note."
After a 40-point second quarter, in which Jodie Meeks (13), Nick Young (11) and Wesley Johnson (10) combined for 34 points, the Lakers stared down their nemesis: the third quarter.
The Lakers were coming off a third quarter against the Clippers in which they were outscored 31-8, following a series of trouncings in that period to five other teams. The Lakers entered the game with the worst third-quarter performance in the NBA, being outscored by an average margin of 3.4 points.
Sure enough, the Cavaliers (14-24) opened with a 22-6 run in the first six minutes, highlighted by newcomer Luol Deng's three consecutive 3-pointers. Though they were staggered as the Cavs built a 10-point lead, they fought back to trail by only three points entering the final period.
But in the second half, the Cavaliers' 48-35 rebounding advantage took its toll. Plus the Cavs made 13 of 17 3-point tries, with Deng going 5 for 5 to hit 27 points.
"The defense needs to improve drastically," said Gasol, who had 20 points and 12 rebounds while playing on a sore toe that nearly sidelined him for the game. "It's all about hustle and activity, scrambling and then putting bodies on people.
"Everybody here wants to do well, contribute and play as hard as they can. It's tough right now. We don't have a lot of bullets here in our arsenal. … Hopefully we'll catch a break one of these days."
Meeks, who hit six 3-pointers, had a season-high 26 points. Young, who had a 3-point shot to tie the score from the right wing go off the rim with 9.9 seconds left, had 28 points and six assists, matching his career best.
"We have to somehow get a win," Young said, referring to the trip that begins tonight in Phoenix. "That's all there is about it. We have to stay with it, don't give up.
"It's too early in the season to give up and just go into the gym and lay an egg every night. We still have to play with pride, go out there and compete. We have to do it for the fans."
Kendall Marshall, going 37 minutes at point guard, had 10 points and 16 assists.
Anderson Varejao had 18 points and 18 rebounds. Tristan Thompson had 15 points and 13 rebounds and guard Dion Waiters added 17 points off the bench.
Brown, fired five games into last season after taking the Lakers to the second round of the playoffs, was gracious in his return.
"I have no ill will at all toward this place," he said. "I enjoyed my time here."
Gasol had 16 points and six rebounds early in the fourth quarter. He didn't practice on Sunday or Monday, letting his foot rest.
"This season is nothing major, but it's been nagging and bothersome," Gasol said. "That has happened to a lot of players at a high percentage. That's par for the NBA. It happens to most guys in the NBA."


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Jeron Johnson's safety one of several head-scratching calls for Seahawks
Johnson and coach Pete Carroll said after the game they thought Johnson scored a touchdow off the blocked punt, but it wasn't the only play that the Seahawks felt didn't go their way.
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INDIANAPOLIS — In the heat of the moment, Jeron Johnson thought he had scored his first career touchdown.
And a few hours later, in the quiet of Seattle's locker room, he felt the same way.
"I thought I scored, personally — even looking at the replay," said Johnson of a play that was instead ruled a safety and proved something of a turning point in Seattle's first loss this season, a 34-28 defeat to the Indianapolis Colts.
Johnson, a third-year strong safety from Boise State, raced into the end zone to try to catch up to the ball after Jermaine Kearse blocked an Indianapolis punt with 4:53 left in the first quarter.
Seattle led 10-0 at the time, and a touchdown and a 17-0 lead might have proved too much for the Colts to overcome.
But while Johnson, his teammates and coach Pete Carroll all thought Johnson had control of the ball, the officials ruled otherwise.
"The ref gave the explanation that when I went to stand up, the ball moved," Johnson said. "So I don't know. But I felt like I had possession of it inbounds. My whole body was inbounds. It looked like a touchdown to me. But what can you do?"
Carroll asked for a review of the play, and said later he was certain the on-field call of a safety would be reversed.
"I was sure they were going to overturn it," Carroll said. "I thought you could see that clearly. There was time to see it, you could stop it. He is laying down and the ball was secure. But they could not determine that the ball was secure, so that is the way that they saw it."
Carroll said he and his staff "had great looks at that play and (the officials) just had to go ahead and overturn their call, and they didn't."
Carroll said he was told that "the ball wasn't secure." But Carroll disagreed.
"He put the ball right into his chest," he said, :and held it there the whole time and did a great job. It was unfortunate."
The call was one of several that the Seahawks seemed to raise an eyebrow at later, including a pass-interference penalty on Richard Sherman that kept alive a fourth-quarter Indianapolis drive. A decision to overturn an initial ruling of the spot on a Reggie Wayne reception gave the Colts a first down later in the same drive.
Carroll, though, said he didn't blame those calls for the defeat.
"There's a bunch of calls that you're going to want to look at and wonder what happened here and what happened there," Carroll said. "And that usually happens, but when you lose they're magnified, unfortunately. There were a number of them that were questioned, unfortunately."
What Johnson didn't question, though, was his decision to go after the ball himself instead of trying to bat it back in play, where trailing teammates Chris Maragos or Derrick Coleman might have had a chance to control it.
Johnson said he didn't know if it was his teammates or Colts players behind him, so he let his instincts take over.
"My first thing was really 'just get the ball,' " he said. "I felt like I had enough room to cradle it inbounds. But looking back at it now, (you could say) I should have did that. But you can't live in that world. ... If I could go back and do it again, I wouldn't change anything. I tried to make a play, tried to get the ball and I couldn't get it, and I've got to live with that."
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MSci Zoology 2018/19 entry
|UCAS code
|4 Years
|Typical offer
|Cornwall (Penryn Campus)
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The four-year MSci Zoology programme mirrors the BSc Zoology programme during the first three years, and includes an additional fourth year. During the fourth year you will undertake two projects, each focused on a specialised area aligned with one of our leading research groups. It is expected that one of these projects will be carried out in partnership with an external organisation. The remainder of your time will be spent on a two-week intensive field course in which your scientific field-research, debating and presentation skills will be further developed.
The programme focuses on an understanding of the biology of animals, with an emphasis on whole animal biology, biodiversity, ecology and behaviour, along with the evolution of the whole spectrum of animal life histories.
It is delivered by internationally-recognised, research active staff in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation on our Penryn Campus in Cornwall. The Centre hosts a large and thriving group of scientists who work at the cutting edge of research on whole-organism biology and run research projects around the world, in exciting places such as Uganda to Australia. The programme utilises expertise in the Centre to provide you with the skills, concepts and experience to understand all aspects of modern zoology. The programme encourages an interdisciplinary approach and you will be exposed to a wide range of theoretical and practical techniques used to study the biology of animals of all types.
Why study Zoology at the University of Exeter?
- led by some of the UK's foremost biologists working in evolution, conservation and ecology
- variety of field work opportunities in the UK and overseas
- close links with a wide range of conservation organisations
- state-of-the-art facilities
- low student-staff ratio, so you won't get lost in the crowd
- graduate with outstanding employment prospects
Programme structure
The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted, or replaced as a consequence of the annual review of this programme.
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in stages 2 and 3 of the programme as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
If you have mobility or health disabilities that prevent you from undertaking intensive fieldwork, reasonable adjustments and/or alternative assessment can be considered. This could include replacing a fieldwork module with an alternative in agreement with the Director of Education.
You are also permitted to take the five-credit module LES3910 Professional Development Experience in any year. Registration on this module is subject to a competitive application process. If taken, this module will not count towards progression or award calculation.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Entry requirements 2018
Typical offer
Required subjects
GCE AL grade B or IB HL5 in one of the following subjects: Biology/Human Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology or Maths/Pure Maths/Further Maths. GCSE Maths at grade B.
Applicants studying one of the following BTEC Extended Diplomas will be considered without GCE AL science: Applied Science, Animal Management, Agriculture, Countryside Management, Fish management, Forestry and Arboriculture, Marine Biology
International students
International students should check details of our English language requirements and may be interested in our Foundation programmes.
Further information
Please read the important information about our Typical offer.
For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see the Applying section.
Learning and teaching
We believe every student benefits from being part of a research-led culture and being taught by experts. Learning and teaching is through lectures, seminars, tutorials, field work, laboratory sessions and independent study with internationally recognised, research-active staff. You will have the opportunity to undertake challenging independent research projects dealing with questions and issues at the cutting edge of life science research. Regular research seminars, by our staff and visiting lecturers, bring you the latest issues on a wide range of research topics.
In your final year you will become an active member of our research team. We have very close links with a wide range of conservation organisations in the UK and overseas, such as the British Trust for Ornithology, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Marine Conservation Society. These links mean you will benefit from frequent guest lectures, placement opportunities and project work.
We're actively engaged in introducing new methods of learning and teaching, including increasing use of interactive computer-based approaches to learning through our virtual learning environment, where the details of all modules are stored in an easily navigable website. You can access detailed information about modules and learning outcomes and interact through activities such as the discussion forums.
Assessment methods vary depending on your choice of modules, but are likely to include examinations and coursework-based assessment.
You must pass your first year assessment in order to progress to the second year, but the results do not count towards your degree classification.The assessments in the second, third and final years contribute to your final degree classification.
I chose to study BSc Zoology at the Penryn Campus because it had the highest amount of practical study – both in the lab and in the field – of any other university that I looked at. I am a practical learner so that suited me perfectly.
I have found the Penryn Campus great because the class sizes are small so your lecturers know you by name. They are very approachable and willing to help. For me the most valuable aspects of the programme were the time spent on species identification and giving academic presentations, which allowed me to work on my public speaking. We had some really good guest lecturers who I enjoyed listening to and learning from.
Rachel Kehoe, BSc Zoology graduate.
Academic support
We pride ourselves on providing a very high standard of care and support to our students. You will have a Personal Tutor who is available for advice and support throughout your studies. There are also a number of services on campus where you can get advice and information.
Peer mentoring
At the University of Exeter we are committed to creating a supportive learning environment in which you will be able to reach your full potential – whatever your ambitions may be. One of the best examples of this has been the introduction of a successful peer tutoring scheme, run by Biosciences students in Cornwall, for students.
As a first year student, you will have the opportunity to join dynamic weekly groups, hosted by both second year and PhD students, which span a range of key areas, such as social and pastoral care, key skills, employability and discipline specific support. One of the main aims of these groups is to give you the opportunity to gain advice from your peers who have been in your position before, and can help ease your transition into university life.
The subject of the inaugural meeting is decided by the group leader, but you then have the opportunity to suggest subsequent session topics. This allows the sessions to be tailored to the direct needs of you and your fellow students. Social media outlets, such as Facebook and Google groups, are also utilised to host dedicated pages that promote continued group discussions and communication outside of the weekly meetings.
In its first year, more than 70 Biosciences students took part in the peer mentoring scheme, being coached by students who are further along in their course and who act as guides to study and university life and offer an additional layer of support. Despite its success, the scheme is continually evolving. In order to ensure you make the most of the groups, there are now more direct links between session content and modules, they will immediately follow lectures where possible, and a large scale awareness campaign will take place at the beginning of the academic year to encourage as many students as possible to participate.
The peer mentoring scheme gives you a wonderful opportunity to help shape your time at University and truly make your mark – your future really is in your own hands.
From the beginning we asked the students to help shape the peer mentoring project. This is a scheme that is run by students, for students, so it is important that we know it is reaching its full potential. I think a lot of students feel that getting advice from their fellow students is both worthwhile and beneficial, and we are keen to actively promote this as much as possible.
But more than that, we want to make sure students are full engaged and thinking not only about their time here, but also their career options once they leave. It is more important than ever to be switched on about making the most of opportunities such as work experience and volunteering, as well as meeting the challenges their studies present.
Already, this scheme has proved popular and successful, and we will ensure that it is always designed with students as the primary focus – we rely on the students not only telling us what is useful but also how to drive it forward.
Dr Andy Pye Senior Academic, Pastoral Tutor and Educational Enhancement Link Advisor Biosciences, Penryn Campus.
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285 students. 35 academics. 8 field courses. 6 countries. 4 continents. 1 challenging fortnight. January 2017. Join us!
Field work is an essential aspect of all undergraduate programmes offered by our Centre for Ecology and Conservation in Cornwall and for the majority of our programmes you will have opportunities to undertake field courses in both the second and final years.
Second year students can choose from the following destinations*:
Third year students can choose from the following destinations*:
* Field course destinations may be subject to change.
Example of field work - South Africa
The South Africa field course, frequently described as the 'trip of a lifetime', includes visits to a range of important habitats and reserves. You will gain first-hand experience of many of the organisms, concepts and principles that you have spent the previous few years learning about. We spend a week in the Western Cape which is one of the world's biodiversity hotspots followed by a week in the game reserves of the Kwazulu-Natal. We aim to cover a range of subjects from the problems of conservation in a developing country, through population ecology to animal behaviour and you will have the chance to see a huge variety of species from Great White Sharks to the Big Five.
Elements covered on the Africa field course include:
- Safari
- Contrasting African ecosystems
- Philosophy, sociology, ecology and practice of large-scale conservation
- Population/community and behavioural ecology
- Project design, supervision and management
A degree in Zoology will help you to develop a wide range of essential skills such as analytical problem solving, team work and organising and communicating information. A number of our students continue their studies in the subject by following a further degree and research in their chosen area, or by training as a teacher. Many of our graduates are employed in discipline relevant roles in the UK and overseas including laboratory-based positions, conservation management, ecology, teaching and nursing. Others use the skills gained on their course to enter widely different career paths in law, business or management. Whatever you choose to do after graduation, your Zoology degree will stand you in good stead, with excellent employment prospects and transferable skills.
Developing your skills and career prospects
Biosciences provide a range of support and opportunities to help you develop skills that are attractive to employers. Visit our Careers and Employability web page for more information.
Graduate destinations
Below are a few examples of initial jobs undertaken by graduates of University of Exeter Biosciences undergraduate programmes in Cornwall. This information has been taken from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) Survey 2012/13. Please note that, due to data protection, the job titles and organisations are listed independently and do not necessarily correspond.
|Job title
|Assistant Scientist
Campaign Organiser
Project Assistant
Conservation Volunteer
Environmental Instructor
Taxonomist Assistant
Assistant Field Director
Copy Editor
Park Assistant
Media and Communications Manager
Practical Countryside Ranger
Assistant Ecologist
|Wild Publishing
Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre
African Horseback Safaris
Wessex Water
Orang-utan Health Project
Inga Foundation
University of Exeter
The Royal Parks
RPS Group
Oxford Real Farming Conference
National Trust
Further study
Further study is a popular choice for a number of students following graduation from a Biosciences undergraduate degree in Cornwall. Below are a few examples of further study undertaken by recent graduates of undergraduate programmes. This information has been taken from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) Survey 2012/13. Please note that, due to data protection, the subjects of study and institutions are listed independently and do not necessarily correspond.
|Subject area
|Conservation and biodiversity
Aquatic biology/ecology
Survey and land management
Environmental sociology
Animal behaviour
Conservation science and policy
Evolution of pathogens
Evolutionary biology
Food security and sustainable agriculture
Sustainable tropical agroforestry
|University of Exeter
Queen Mary, University of London
Massey University
University of Rennes
University of Reading
University College London
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Further information about the opportunities the University of Exeter offers to maximise the employment prospects of our graduates employment prospects can be found on the CareerZone website.
I am passionate about conservation so was delighted to be able to go straight into a paid job in the industry once I had graduated, thanks to contacts made through the university. My degree taught me so much about natural history in the UK and the South West in particular so it allowed me to carry on living and working in Cornwall, which I love. In the future I hope to continue a career in marine conservation and I'm sure the skills I learned through this job and my degree will help me to do so.
Laura Bailey, Marine wildlife guide, Orca Sea Safaris, Falmouth
The Biosciences staff at the Penryn Campus are extremely helpful and always willing to go above and beyond to make sure we have the correct support. The career focused activities done recently are an example of this where lecturers are willing to put in a lot of effort to help us. Generally any issues we have can be sorted and the lecturers care about (and can recognise) every individual student. I feel honoured to have studied under such leading scientists.
Biosciences undergraduate student, Penryn Campus
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Penryn Campus, Cornwall
Web: Enquire online
Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801
Website: Visit the Biosciences website
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Coat foil with cooking spray to keep veggies from sticking. Then spread them out! Vegetables roast best in a single layer, not crowded.
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To promote uniform browning, I usually stir the veggies once, about halfway through cooking.
Vegetables are done with they're tender and easily pierced with a fork or knife.


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The Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) legislative caucus intends to propose a referendum on whether to continue construction of Taiwan's Fourth Nuclear Power Plant — the Longmen (龍門) plant in New Taipei City's (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮).
On Tuesday, the Central Election Commission announced that, once the referendum proposal has been approved by the legislature, the commission could announce a date for the poll.
The legal basis for the commission's position appears to be Article 16 of the Referendum Act (公民投票法), which states that when the Legislative Yuan proposes and adopts a referendum initiative, it can hand it directly to the commission for implementation. Unlike other referendum proposals, it would not have to be examined by the Referendum Review Commission.
However, if the KMT legislative caucus proposes a referendum about stopping construction of the Longmen plant, it could unleash endless controversy over political ethics.
Why so? The Referendum Act and the Enforcement Rules of the Referendum Act (公民投票法施行細則) assume that any referendum proposed by the Legislative Yuan would be due to conflict between the legislature and executive departments.
Article 3 of the regulations for implementing presentations or debates on national referendums (全國性公民投票意見發表會或辯論會實施辦法) stipulates that when a debate is held on a referendum proposed by the legislature, the legislature will represent the side in support of the referendum and related government departments will represent the opposition. It assumes that the side opposed to a referendum initiative would be "government departments."
Based on this, is the KMT caucus qualified to propose a referendum about stopping construction of the Longmen plant? The answer is surely no.
First, the KMT is basically in favor of continued construction of the plant, so how could it argue in favor of stopping it?
Second, if the side proposing to stop construction is composed of KMT lawmakers, and the opposing side represented by the KMT-controlled Executive Yuan, then any debate would become a farce directed and acted out by one and the same party.
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Based on the existing Referendum Act and its enforcement rules, problems may arise if opponents of the Longmen plant propose a referendum on construction, posing the question: "Are you in favor of building the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant?" This referendum would not be approved by the Referendum Review Commission, and would also be politically absurd. After all, how could the side opposed to building the plant argue in support of its continued construction in a referendum debate?
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Storm brings delays to northeast
A storm packing rain and snow moved up the East Coast Wednesday, hitting many of the areas still recovering from Hurricane Sandy.
Snow had arrived in Connecticut by the afternoon, and airlines were canceling flights into New York City in anticipation of increasingly bad weather. More than 1,000 flights had been canceled by the late afternoon, disrupting air travel around the country.
Still, the nor'easter was not expected to match last week's superstorm.
"This is a moderate nor'easter," said Gary Szatkowski, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "We see these several times each winter."
Szatkowski said the storm did, however, have the potential to cause flooding in areas where dunes and man-made structures were destroyed by Sandy.
The storm was expected to bring wind gusts up to 60 mph in most areas, as well as snow and rain. In Connecticut, temperatures were expected to dip into the low 30s.
On Thursday, the northeast could see snow mixed with rain as the storm leaves the area in the afternoon.
In New York City, a mandatory evacuation late Tuesday of three nursing homes and one adult care center had displaced 625 residents in the Rockaways. Those four locations had been relying on generator power after losing electricity during Sandy, but the mayor's office warned that "a nor'easter storm surge could compromise their generators, putting the elderly residents at risk in the cold and dark, necessitating an evacuation."
Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Red Cross cautioned most New Jersey and New York residents to stay in place during the storm.
"The evacuations we had were not as great as we had for Hurricane Sandy," FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. "We do know there were some evacuations ordered."
The Red Cross is orchestrating "the biggest Red Cross response" in five years following Hurricane Sandy, Senior Vice President of Disaster Services Charley Shimanski said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.
Shimanski and Fugate said volunteers have to limit hurricane relief operations once the storm makes landfall. They said the anticipated snowfall would add "insult to injury" and bring "new power outages and coastal surges into the exact areas that were already impacted."
As of Tuesday, crews had already distributed thousands of ready-to-eat meals for people in the storm's path, along with "tens of thousands" of hats, mittens and other cold-weather supplies, they said.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates all the airports in the New York region, was putting contingency plans in place. At LaGuardia Airport, which experienced extensive flooding during Sandy, the Port Authority placed sandbags "at critical areas."
American Airlines canceled 365 flights on Wednesday and Thursday, suspending operations in Philadelphia at noon and flights to the New York airports at 3 p.m. American said it expected to resume flights some time Thursday. In addition to the three New York City airports, American said that flights to and from Bradley International Airport in Hartford and White Plains Airport also had been affected.
United Airlines suspended all flights to New York's airports from noon Wednesday to noon Thursday. The estimated 500 flights represented about 5 percent of the carrier's flights for that period, a spokesman said.
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Most of those passengers were rebooked for other flights. The airport told passengers to check with their airline, and expected more cancellations Thursday.
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