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It's no secret that, thus far, software for the Nintendo DS has been generally underwhelming. Most of the games are little more than glorified tech demos, showcasing the touch-pad and stylus or doing interesting things with the dual screen while failing to provide much in terms of compelling gameplay. There are some cool titles on the horizon, but by and large, the present isn't the best place to be for a DS owner.
We keep hoping the next game we play will change all that, but it turns out that Yoshi Touch & Go isn't the one to lead the revolution. This cute diversion does exactly what we expect from DS titles these days by tossing some fun ideas into a pretty weak game.
It hasn't always been that way for the green dino, though; Nintendo fans will fondly recall Yoshi's Island on the SNES (later ported to the GBA), a game that managed to make great use of what looked like just another badly-voiced mascot. Yoshi hasn't really gone on to do much, although he somehow managed to sneak into the early starring role in the DS launch title remake of Super Mario 64.
But unlike Hollywood celebrities, Yoshi doesn't have the luxury of reading his scripts and picking his spots. After Baby Mario is accidentally dropped by the world's worst stork, it's up to Yoshi to see him through all kinds of danger and return him to the stork safely. Not really a triple-A story, but at least he gets top-billing, right?
Actually, Yoshi turns out to be almost as useless as Baby Mario because you don't control him directly. Instead, Yoshi Touch & Go takes a cue from games like Lemmings, requiring you to play god and guide Yoshi and Mario to safety.
The game is broken up into two segments. The first part shows Baby Mario tied to three balloons falling vertically through the air. Using only the DS stylus and touch screen, it's your job to draw little lines of clouds to keep him from floating into dangerous brier traps and to direct him towards lines of coins. You can also draw circles around bad guys, turning them into coin-filled bubbles that mini-Mario will burst on contact. Should you screw up and draw clouds where you didn't mean to, you can simply blow on the DS mic to whisk away all the clouds in a jiffy. The limited strategy here boils down to how quickly you can gauge Mario's descent and how quickly you can lead him to large coin trails while avoiding traps and foiling enemies.
If you manage to keep him alive, Mario will eventually land on Yoshi's back, who then sets off on a side-scrolling mission to bring him back to the stork. Again, you use the stylus and touch screen to draw clouds in an effort to keep the incessantly meandering dino from tumbling off cliffs. You can also tap Yoshi to make him jump or tap quickly to get him to throw an egg at enemies. After a while, he meets up with the stork, Mario is returned, and you get a score.
Astoundingly, that's about all there is to Yoshi Touch & Go. A Marathon mode increases the length by letting you go for distance rather than points (Yoshi hands Mario off to another Yoshi instead of the stork, indefinitely), but the experience remains the same. You can also unlock a Time Attack mode and a harder Challenge mode, neither of which offer dramatically deeper or more interesting gameplay.
That being said, playing Yoshi Touch & Go can be pretty fun. The stylus sensitivity and precision has never been better, really making you feel like you're interacting with these little digital morons as you try to save their lives. Things get pretty frantic, especially during the later Yoshi Marathon levels, requiring some pretty swift stylus multitasking. You don't have unlimited eggs, so trying to nab as many coins as possible in one toss (a sort of combo) comes into play. It's not a bad gaming concept and is relatively engaging.
Too bad it gets old so quickly. Yoshi Touch & Go is so simple and lacks so much depth it's almost startling. High scores? People still care about high scores? What could have been built as an actual adventure game (you know, with various levels, tons of different enemy types, maybe even some bosses) is instead a repetitive ordeal of saving Yoshi and Mario over and over again just to increase your score. You'll eventually want to draw a bubble around your DS and pop it altogether.
There's not much to say about the delivery " the game looks like a smoother version of a SNES game and sounds the same. Classic Nintendo voice squeaks and lilting melodies comprise the bulk of the audio.
In a nice twist, multiplayer doesn't require two copies of the game. Instead, you and a buddy race, setting spike traps for one another by shooting a few green briers in a row. It's decent fun, but not very enthralling in the long run.
Nor is Yoshi Touch & Go. You have to commend Nintendo for producing a pretty cool tech demo, but they failed to encapsulate it in a worthwhile game. It's a shame, too, because they've definitely touched on some interesting concepts. Unfortunately, touching ain't always good enough.


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Every day, for the past seven years, had begun more or less the same:
It wasn't clear if Daniel really needed these cues from Mom and Dad to get his day started or if he was just waiting for them out of habit. But for nearly every single weekday morning since he first entered his high school's "Life Skills" class as a 14-year-old freshman with autism, it had been a matter of routine. Like clockwork, in fact. And as usual, today Daniel was ready on time, standing by the door with his jacket and backpack slung over his shoulder at precisely 7:36 a.m., waiting for the school bus.
But this day, as Daniel's parents said their usual goodbyes and watched him walk out to the curb, was different—today was Daniel's 21st birthday, and he would age out of school at the end of the year. Come the end of June, that old reliable school bus would no longer arrive. The team of teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and yes, bus drivers, would no longer be there for him. That morning routine that had become so ingrained in Daniel and his parents and that had seemed to set a steady, familiar tone for the rest of his day, would have to change. And while Daniel was blissfully unaware of this impending change, his parents worried constantly about his all-important transition from adolescence to adulthood.
At the moment of Daniel's diagnosis at age three, his parents felt afraid, lost and confused, and at times angry and hopeless. But before long, they had effectively become experts in the fields of autism and advocacy. They'd worked tirelessly to learn everything they could about early interventions, PECS, ABA therapy, RDI, and other possible interventions. Then they had to become master advocates for their child—and eventually for others as well—working hard and negotiating with their school district to obtain the services and supports Daniel needed in school in order to maximize his potential. In the end, they had essentially earned Ph.D.s in the subject of Daniel—experts in his strengths and weaknesses, his needs and his interests, and particularly in his rights as a child with autism in the public school system.
But now, suddenly, they were being forced back to square one. Once again, they would be alone and without the requisite knowledge it would take to navigate a completely new set of challenges in a system that was completely foreign to them. The prospects were indeed daunting, and Daniel's parents felt that same terrible feeling as when their son was first diagnosed: A fear of the unknown.
But Daniel's parents are not alone! It is important to remember that others have been down this road before them, and before you. They have blazed a trail. Just as there were experts for toddlers and school-aged children, there are experts as well in this Transition phase for young adults with autism. And there is a growing body of research and resources available to help parents of adolescents and adults with autism. As we know, this road from childhood to adulthood can be difficult and overwhelming for all families, but especially for those of individuals on the autism spectrum. So in February of last year, Autism Speaks launched the inaugural edition of the Autism Speaks Transition Tool Kit, a 100-page resource guide designed to help families navigate this often complicated journey.
About the Transition Tool Kit
At Autism Speaks, we regularly hear from families of Transition-aged adolescents and young adults about the worry and uncertainty they feel about the road ahead. These parents and family members find the idea of their children venturing out in the world to be daunting. They can't imagine what will happen when school ends and the real world begins. In response to the concerns of our community, we created the Transition Tool Kit to provide suggestions and options to think about and explore as families set out on this journey.
We know that every individual with autism is different. Each person has different likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses. We strongly emphasize that though the path will be different for each family, the goal remains the same: For adolescents with autism to lead fulfilling, healthy, and happy adult lives. The guiding principle that we used in developing this kit is that all individuals with autism, regardless of the level of support needed, should be able to live lives filled with purpose, dignity, choices, and happiness. This kit encourages individuals with autism and their families to be proactive in their approach to the transition process.
A central theme throughout the Transition Tool Kit is the importance of self-advocacy. The most important place to start the transition process is with the adolescent. His or her hopes, dreams, and desires should drive the transition process. The transition process will take time. It is important that families work with their loved one to provide the communication, self-help, and self-advocacy skills that he or she needs in order to be an active participant in the process to the best of their ability. Helping adolescents with autism develop a "sense of self" will aid in the transition process and develop a skill that will benefit them throughout their lives. Each of the sections of the kit incorporates the principles of self-advocacy. In order to one day live as independently as possible, an individual with autism must have as much of a say as possible from the start in decisions guiding his or her future.
How Families Have Responded
Autism Speaks sends hard copies of the Transition Tool Kit to families of individuals with autism ages 14 to 22 free of charge. Since the launch of the kit, we have sent out over 2,500 copies, and over 11,000 people have downloaded the kit from our website. At Autism Speaks, we are constantly working to build upon and improve our resources to better meet the needs of families in our community. So in May 2011, we surveyed the families who received hard copies of the kit to find out what was helpful and what we could improve. We are happy to say that over 97 percent of these families were extremely satisfied or very satisfied.
For the next version of the Transition Tool Kit, we are looking to incorporate the feedback we received.
Interestingly, when we asked how we could improve the kit, half of the respondents wanted more in-depth information on each
Families found the information in the kit to be extremely helpful in their transition planning. However, one recurring comment indicated the need for more information about how to actually implement the steps and recommendations we provided in their own lives and communities. Families wanted to learn more about how they can specifically advocate for services for their children and young adults. In response, we are currently working on an Advocacy Tool Kit that will go into greater detail about the importance of advocating on behalf of loved ones with autism, and provide families with tips and tools to successfully do so. In addition, along with the state-specific Transition timeline we send out to each family, we plan to include information from the Autism Speaks Resource Guide about the resources for young adults of transition age in their local communities. We are constantly looking to expand our Resource Guide to provide families with more information about local resources. The guide currently contains close to 45,0000 resources from across the country.
Many families also mentioned how they wished they had had this Transition information sooner. Through the Autism Speaks field staff, Walk Now for Autism Speaks, other fundraising events, and our social networking sites, we are working to spread awareness about the Transition Tool Kit so that families of younger individuals gain access to this information sooner and can begin their Transition plans as early as possible. It is never too early to start planning!
We are about to send out a second survey to families who received the kit since the last survey was released. We look forward to the feedback that we receive. Based upon the survey responses, we will continue to refine the kit and our resources to best meet the needs of our diverse community. It is our hope that with the Autism Speaks Transition Tool Kit, families will be able to successfully lay the foundation for the future of their young adults with autism.

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Hampton, GA (March 1, 2015) – Just a week removed from a Daytona Speedweeks that saw Casey Mears and the Germain Racing team go eye-to-eye with NASCAR's top stars and depart with two top-six finishes, they unloaded their No. 13 GEICO Chevrolet SS at a racetrack that has often proven challenging for the single-car operation.
Due to the new 2015 rules package, NASCAR allowed Sprint Cup Series teams a one-day test at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Thursday. Mears made the most of his time and finished up 16th fastest before beginning the race weekend on Friday where he was 20th in practice. In qualifying, Mears and his GEICO Chevy advanced to the second round and notched a 21st place starting position in Sunday's Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500. The team had made marked improvement from previous visits, leaving them anxious for the arrival of race day.
Before doing battle on the racetrack, Mears and his counterparts would first need Mother Nature to retreat. The rain ultimately cleared and the race got underway with little delay. Mears rolled off of the starting grid from the 21st position beneath gray skies on a cold Sunday afternoon. When the green flag turned the field loose, he immediately broke into the top-20 and remained there for nearly the entire race, rarely surrendering positions over the course of the 325-lap event. Complementing Mears' on-track exploits, the Germain Racing pit crew regularly made quick work of the GEICO Chevy on pit road and helped him advance his position on a majority of the stops.
Aside from minor contact with the outside wall, Mears managed to keep his No. 13 GEICO Chevy clean all day, but as the laps ticked off business picked up on the racing surface. With the checkered flag growing nearer, drivers became impatient as they found themselves at odds over real estate. With just 20 to go, Greg Biffle and Joe Nemechek made contact in turn four, resulting in a crash that collected six cars, five of which were scored behind Mears in the running order, and brought out the red flag. The spinning racecar of Nemechek so narrowly missed the GEICO Chevy that Mears radioed to crew chief Bootie Barker: "I just figured he was going to hit me. I couldn't believe it when I didn't feel it."
When the race returned to green with just 14 laps remaining in the advertised distance, Mears restarted from the 16th position. He quickly pedaled his No. 13 GEICO Chevrolet SS around the 1.54-mile paved oval and hustled to a 15th place finish when the race came to a close. His effort accounted for a top-15 finish that leaves him and his team owner, Bob Germain, atop the leaders in the point standings, in the sixth position. The team is off to a successful start in the 2015 season and their performance has created buzz among the media, as well as the Twitterverse.
"It felt really good to come here in a car that was close and that allowed us to go out and compete," Mears said. "The GEICO Chevy was solid today and it was fun to race those guys and get another good finish. The pit crew was also strong and did a nice job of getting me on and off of pit road. We've obviously improved a lot from last year and I'm happy for all of the guys because they've put a lot of work into building this program. We had a great run at Daytona, but we've always been good there. To come here and get a top-15 and leave sixth in points is exciting for everyone on this GEICO team."
The Germain Racing team will now pack up the GEICO Chevy and head west for a three-week stretch that will find them in Las Vegas, Phoenix and Fontana.
Casey Mears and the No. 13 GEICO Chevrolet SS will hit the track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the weekend's opening practice session on Friday, March 6th, at 3:00 PM (ET). Qualifying will follow at 7:45 PM (ET).
The Kobalt 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race is on Sunday, March 8th, and it will be televised live on FOX beginning at 3:30 PM (ET). The Performance Racing Network (PRN) will carry the live radio broadcast, along with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.
Please visit www.GEICO.com to learn how you could save money on more than just auto insurance.
To learn more about the GEICO Racing program, please visit: www.caseymearsracing.com
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Over the next 64 days, Gator Country will preview the players that make up the 2013 Florida Gators football team as we inch closer and closer to the season.
Each day we will count down using the player whose jersey number corresponds with how many days there are left until Florida kicks off against Toledo in the Swamp on August 31.
Today we take a look at redshirt senior offensive lineman Kyle Koehne.
Koehne was named the Indiana Player of the Year as a senior in high school and helped lead his team to a state championship. Despite those accolades, Koehne's arrival on campus barely created a stir among even the most hardcore Gator fans.
Despite dressing for six games as a freshman – including the SEC Championship game – Koehne earned a redshirt his first year on campus. As a redshirt freshman, Koehne played in all 13 games, mainly on special teams, and saw limited time at guard and tackle.
His sophomore season saw Koehne earn his first start (against Furman) while playing in every game and earning the scrap iron award for his performance against Kentucky.
Last season saw more of the same for Koehne. He continued to play in the rotation on the offensive line and filled in at both tackle and guard when players went down with injury.
He's a reliable backup who can play multiple positions well and he has earned the trust of the coaching staff.
Player Evaluation
Koehne's biggest strength is his versatility. Being able to play on the left and right side of the line, as well as both tackle and guard is no easy feat. The techniques are different and for Koehne to be able to seamlessly transition from one to another is impressive.
He's a nasty blocker who excels in the running game. He plays with good leverage and also has great footwork. He is able to get a good punch off of the snap and can sustain blocks well.
He is a high motor player who is unselfish and will do anything that is asked of him by the coaching staff.
Koehne struggles in the passing game, especially when at tackle. He's better suited at guard and struggles to shuffle his feet and keep fast pass-rushers in front of him when at tackle. He had some trouble last season identifying blitzers on the defense and that led to some easy sacks for Florida's opponents.
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Koehne will continue to backup just about every position along the offensive line. If Max Garcia gets hurt, Koehne will probably be the first man off the bench. Jon Halapio, Jon Harrison? Yep, Koehne can step in there as well.
He's a jack-of-all-trades guy on the offensive line and the way that Florida's linemen have struggled to stay healthy throughout the course of the season, expect to see Koehne filling in and playing a key role for the Gators in 2013.


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Hi Lovelies! I hope that you had a wonderful weekend! I feel like weekends are becoming even more precious as our summer days are dwindling! There's just something about summer that just puts everyone in a good mood, so hopefully we can all bring that feeling into Fall!
Yesterday, we had a going away party for my brother! He joined the Marines a few months ago and leaves for boot camp very shortly. We are all excited and proud of him, so we planned an Americana themed party! My mom and I have been shopping for weeks and today it all came together! Rather then tell you all about it, I thought it'd be better to show you some pictures instead!
All in all, it was a wonderful party and I think that everyone had a great time! My mom and I love planning parties and this theme was really fun. We found so much great stuff, but could not seem to find the correct colored m&ms, so being a trooper as always, my Grandma separated all the red and blue ones so they would match the theme. They were popular but we still had a lot left over, so Sunday night my dinner ended up being red, white and blue tortilla chips and peanut m&ms… oops!
As for the giant cupcake- well lovelies, this is harder than it looks! It took me HOURS on Saturday night to make it and was very confusing. The two page directions for a kit that is supposedly "great for kids!" through me off a little bit, but in the end it came together and was delicious! I think next time, I would start making it earlier and fill the molds slightly more than they recommend for a fuller cupcake.
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Call it a "supermoon summer."
For the first of three times this summer, the full moon on Saturday is a so-called "supermoon." Technically, the moon was at its fullest — or super-est — early morning Saturday before dawn, but look again to the east around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when, according the the Farmer's Almanac, the supermoon will rise above the horizon.
Known scientifically as a "perigee moon," a supermoon occurs when the moon passes Earth on the "perigee" side of its oval orbit around Earth — some 31,000 miles closer than usual. Two more supermoons will light up the night skies on Aug. 10 and Sept. 9.
NASA recommends paying extra attention to the supermoon on Aug. 10, as it could have some extra-super potential. On that day, the moon will become full during the same hour that it is closest to Earth. That supermoon will happen just after midnight.
But NASA says it's actually super hard to tell the difference between a regular full moon and a supermoon. Though the moon is technically closer, the illusion of a supermoon comes when the moon is near the horizon when trees, buildings and other objects can make the moon look unnaturally large.
Added Geoff Chester of the U.S Naval Observatory: "There's a part of me that wishes that this 'supermoon' moniker would just dry up and blow away … because it tends to promulgate a lot of misinformation."
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NASHVILLE (AP) — Young male country music stars are as rare as pink pickups these days.
While young female stars have been rising with some regularity in country music, young men find the going tough and the fans locked up by established stars who've been popular for a decade or longer. There are so few they're often nominated twice for new artist awards out of necessity. This year's Academy of Country Music Awards, however, offers a glimpse into the future of country's newest male stars.
The fan-voted top new artist category features three acts this year — platinum-selling teen "Idol" Scotty McCreery, former child prodigy Hunter Hayes and the rockin' hitmaker Brantley Gilbert.
They share youth in common, but little else. Each occupies a different niche in the scene, making music that satisfies different parts of the country audience.
"It's really cool because there is a nice little diversity," Hayes said. "There's a totally different thing between what Scotty and I do and a totally different thing between what Brantley and I do, which is fun. We do cover totally different ends of the genre but that shows you how far it spreads, and I love that. I love to see that."
At 27, Gilbert is the steely veteran of the group, but still young in a genre where the male stars are almost all in their mid-30s or older. He's been at it for years, building his name in the bar scene around the Southeast.
"I was lucky enough to get started way, way early, you know, playing small bars and trying to start a fire goin' that way," Gilbert said. "So it's been a long time coming, I feel like."
Gilbert was writing future hits in his early 20s and cashed in when Jason Aldean took his "My Kinda Party" and "Dirt Road Anthem" to the top of the country charts last year. He also delivered his own No. 1 to radio with "Country Must Be Country Wide," a theme song for modern country fans, from his second album, "Halfway to Heaven."
Gilbert embodies the sound championed by Aldean, Eric Church and others who honed a rock-inflected brand of hard country that's as indebted to Guns 'N Roses and Metallica as it is to Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. From Jefferson, Ga., he speaks laconically in a deeply accented rumble and looks the part of 21st century country star, and fans have enthusiastically latched on.
"It's done just blew up and got a whole lot faster," Gilbert said.
McCreery had a foundation built with quick-mix concrete when he won "American Idol" last year, and those fans stayed with him when he released "Clear As Day," which went platinum in three months. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts, making him the youngest man to open at the top of the all-genre chart with a debut. It stayed at No. 1 on the country chart for six weeks.
He hopes that's just the start, though. As he makes the transition from high school senior to budding country star, he's trying to sort out how to shape his future.
Beyond the example set by former "Idol" winner Carrie Underwood, he has no signposts along the way. Country music has rarely had a male teen country star sell as many albums so quickly, let alone one who's stood the test of time.
"The cool thing for me about that is there's no formula," McCreery said. "The record label can tell me this and of course I'm listening to them, they have the experience. But there's no calculus formula to say, 'Scotty if you do this, this and this, you'll be around in 20 years headlining your own show.' It's fun to be working through that."
The 20-year-old Hayes also is charting his own course, one steeped in modern pop sounds. Already a performer at an early age — he took the stage with Hank Williams Jr. at age 4 and others while growing up in Breaux Bridge, La. — he was inspired by acts like Rascal Flatts, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. He soaked in not only the sounds those acts were producing, but the fact that each played their own instruments.
By the time he was ready for Nashville, he could play every instrument you'd need on a record, and did on his self-titled debut, with the help of producer Dann Huff. While it was something of a stunt in Nashville, where some of the best session musicians are always on call, Hayes thinks it was a pivotal decision for a shy artist who might not have been so open and honest in a studio full of crusty veterans.
"You could hear it," Hayes said. "You could feel it was me being myself, me being comfortable with myself lyrically and musically, and not holding back."
Like Gilbert and McCreery, Hayes has his own ideas about country music. He's as interested in Bruno Mars and Andy Grammer as today's country hitmakers and sees no boundaries. He feels the same thing when he listens to his fellow nominees.
"I love that," Hayes said. "That to me says that country is now translating to a generation. It's being reintroduced with songs and with music that matters, some new subject matter that's generally relatable. My favorite artists are my favorite artists because they've written something that means something to me."
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In Praise of Impractical Programming.
Although it's become a cultural mainstay now, I still remember when I first saw that thick book — the one with the wizard on the cover — about a school for magic where wonders are easily conjured by those who know the proper spells. Of course, I'm talking about the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. There was that other book with the spells, but the "Wizard Book" sincerely claimed to teach magic.
For the past few years, I've been working as a software developer in the newsroom, where perceptions of my kind have changed from novelty to a necessity. Recognizing this, some journalism schools now even require programming courses to teach students practical skills with databases or web frameworks. It's thrilling to contemplate a generation of web-hacking journalists — but I wish we could somehow squeeze a little magic into their course load.Spotted by Conal Elliott (@conal), via twitter.
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- "I also had a few special editions printed for my dear sisters, which unfortunately contained a few misprints that led to quite a few comical mishaps! But Romilda's tail has vanished now, and we're all friends again."
- —Miranda Goshawk in the Foreword of Book of Spells[src]
The Tail-growing hex (incantation unknown) causes the victim to grow a tail, similar to the Horn-growing hex which causes the victim to grow horns.
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When Miranda Goshawk had her Book of Spells printed, she gave copies to her sisters that had various misprints in them; one such misprint somehow gave her sister Romilda a tail.[1]
Timothy Blenkinsop was hit with this hex when he was caught in the crossfire of a Puddlemere United vs. Holyhead Harpies riot.
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- This may be the spell Rubeus Hagrid used on Dudley Dursley on the Hut-on-the-Rock in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone despite the Trading Card Game identifying that spell as Pigley Dudley.
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Something related to my post about the construction tooltips, but more general - so I figured it deserved it's own post.
I think tooltips need a background boxing them in. A semi transparent box that makes them easier to read when overlaid onto other objects/text.
Or maybe the font just needs some extra glow/aura/shadow effect around each letter to set it apart from the background.
Whatever the solution, there are lots of occasions when things just become really difficult to read.
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I think tooltips need to be bound to the screen too. The number of times I've moused over something on the right side of the screen or near the bottom, only to find the text disappears off one or both edges of the screen is so huge I've lost count. Breaking the player's immersion by having to move the camera just to be able to read the tooltip seems like madness.
The large font size and large amount of information mean it happens a lot.
I almost want to suggest it needs a smaller font - but I realise that has it's own problems. Plus the text styling is one of the more recognisable unique features of the game.
Then there are the occasions where there wouldn't be enough room on the screen, not matter how big the screen was... I'm looking at you "Base Manifest". It always seems to extend beyond the bottom of the screen, despite being fixed in the top left corner.
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This is a screen shot I took tonight. I went slightly out of my way to create this example - but it's the sort of thing that happens all the time and it does not make easy reading.
It's not even the worst example I've come across, though it is pretty bad. I'd give it a 6/10 on my awful scale. I've encountered lots of 10's.
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Trilithium was a synthetic compound that was an explosive of tremendous power. More importantly, however, it acted as an inhibitor of nuclear reactions, such as the fusion processes within the interior of stars. Even a small amount of trilithium was sufficient to halt all nuclear fusion in a star, resulting in a quantum implosion: the star would collapse under its own mass, generating a shock wave powerful enough to destroy everything in its system. If the star was of sufficient size, the core collapse could lead to a supernova. (Star Trek Generations; DS9: "By Inferno's Light")
Trilithium resin was formed as a byproduct of a starship's warp drive. (TNG: "Starship Mine")
In 2371, the Romulans were experimenting with trilithium but were unable to stabilize it. Their trilithium was stolen in a raid by the Duras sisters, who were contracted to deliver it to Dr. Tolian Soran, in exchange for a functional trilithium-based weapon. Soran used the trilithium to collapse the star Amargosa, in an effort to change the course of the Nexus ribbon. He planned to do the same to the star Veridian, which would have destroyed the pre-industrial civilization on Veridian IV. Soran's plans were thwarted by the USS Enterprise-D, although the Enterprise was lost during the mission. (Star Trek Generations)
Trilithium isotopes are found in Romulan plasma torpedoes. (DS9: "Image in the Sand")
A conventional trilithium-based explosive was used by the Akritirian terrorist group Open Sky to bomb the Laktivia recreational facility in 2373. The trilithium used was synthesized from paralithium from an Akritirian freighter. The USS Voyager was originally implicated in the attack, since trilithium could also be synthesized from dilithium. (VOY: "The Chute")
Later that year, in the Alpha Quadrant, the Dominion attempted to detonate a device containing trilithium, tekasite, and protomatter into the Bajoran sun, by way of a Changeling infiltrator hijacking the runabout USS Yukon. At that time, a combined Federation, Klingon, and Romulan fleet was gathered at Deep Space 9 in anticipation of a supposed Dominion attack. The attack was a ruse to wipe out all three fleets and Bajor in a single stroke with the supernova of B'hava'el. The USS Defiant was able to tractor the Yukon away from the sun, and the bomb exploded harmlessly in open space. (DS9: "By Inferno's Light")
In 2375, the Silver Blood USS Voyager collected samples of trilithium ore. (VOY: "Course: Oblivion")
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After the ESRI User's Conference Plenary, I began to think about the many fictional organizations that would benefit from using ArcGIS online and other GIS technologies. So I began compiling a top 10 list by asking other attendees, ESRI employees, and organizations at booths on the conference center floor. Which fictional organization do you think is in the most dire need of using ArcGIS online or GIS in general.
Top Ten Organizations that need to use ArcGIS online
1. Eureka!/Warehouse 13
The overwhelmingly number 1 suggestion, which is also the first one I thought of, is the parent organization that runs the town of Eureka and Warehouse 13. They are both awesome tv shows which showcase the power of science and technology, but they are desperately missing any form of GIS. Most of the problems they face fall into two categories: 1) Scientists didn't realize that projects they were working on individually, usually within proximity of each other, would interact in a way that would spell DOOM., 2) Scientists didn't realize that projects they have been working on individually could have been integrated and collaborated together to prevent The End of the World, until the very last minutes of the show. They could be a case study in why a large organization spread out over the world needs ArcGIS online.
2 – 4. The number 2 suggestions all fell into the realm of, all ethics aside…, because these organizations are not working towards the good of mankind, like all the organizations showcased in the ESRI plenary. Instead, they are organizations that could use ArcGIS online to make their nefarious organizations more effective.
2. District 9
3. The Hunger Games/ Panem Districts
4. Lost/ Dharma Initiative
5-6. These organizations and some not listed (Like the IMF from Mission Impossible) are intelligence related agencies that have a habit of losing people or things that lead to big problems. Cloud mapping or on-line mapping would be very useful to them to keep track of all of their differenct cells, groups, and projects.
5. The Bourne Legacy/ Operation Outcome
7. & 8. Daily Planet (Superman) /Daily Bugle (Spiderman). For internationally recognized newspapers of record, the Daily Planet and the Daily Bugle operate like old gumshoe type newspapers instead of the technology driven newsrooms of today's modern media – news is location driven. They need to use ArcGIS online just to collaborate on stories about Superman and Spiderman alone. Speaking of which, wouldn't the Justice League operate more effectively using it as well?
9. The Day After Tomorrow. There is a special place in the heart of scientists for the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow because on one hand it is an enjoyable movie, but on the other hand, they got so much of the science wrong. They could have used ArcGIS online and ArcPad several times throughout the movie, especially when they would hold up a handheld device, look at a sky map, and declare – "I know where I'm going. The library is that way!"
10. Caddy Shack/ Bushwood Country Club . The top 10 fictional organization that needs ArcGIS Online is the Bushwood Country Club from Caddy Shack. There wouldn't have been so many extra holes on the golf course, if they had used cloud computing to report any unusual gopher activity.
Honorable mentions: I would like to mention another two organizations that people mentioned could benefit from ArcGIS online or other product.
11. The Big Bang Theory/Harold Walowitz. It has been pointed out that Harold Walowitz spends a lot of time developing technology for space. It makes sense that he would be working with remote sensing.
12. Diablo III. Would there be a Diablo III video game if Cain was able to hold onto his knapsack that contained important information or if people could report finding Cain's knapsack and uploading the location and his research. They could have analyzed it all via ArcGIS online and solved the game in half the time. Or maybe that is just my own frustration at being stuck on Level 11.
Do you have any suggestions for companies that could have benefited from using ArcGIS online or other GIS products?


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Yahoo angels buy into Etsy.com
Online boutique Etsy — think of it as a hipper eBay for handmades — would be just another dot-com, except for the familiarity of its funders. VC Fred Wilson names the Etsy angel investors:
This round was put together by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, founders of Flickr, and includes Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious, and Albert Wenger, the former President of Delicious. These four people have been advising Rob and his colleagues for the past year...
Caterina and Stewart sold Flickr to Yahoo for a rumored $15 to $35 million, and Joshua sold Del.icio.us for somewhere in that range. So what are these mini-millionaires thinking? All but Albert are still in charge of their companies, so it's doubtful they want seats on Etsy's board — too messy, they'd rather just "advise." Maybe these Yahoos hope to adopt another dot-com into the Yahoo Web 2.0 family.


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"Knowledge is power, and every girl who wants to be in the entertainment business should educate themselves on the industry a little more. Do what makes you happy,� Candace says.
Where She's From: Gorgeous musician and model, Candace Hall, a Pisces, was born and raised in Jacksonville, Fl.
"I went to Andrew Jackson, and I started working on my music a year after I graduated,� she tells The Black Star News. "I consider my modeling career at a beginning point because I've only been doing it for almost a year. I'm trying to balance my music and modeling at the same time. As for modeling, I started the middle of last year and I'm already getting gigs.�
Where She's At: Candace says she now has a better understanding of the music industry thanks to her entertainment lawyer. "He's getting ready to shop my music to the different record companies,� she adds.
Candace has landed a part on a local variety TV show, MTV Rock music video, and some fashion shows. "Knowledge is power, and every girl who wants to be in the entertainment business should educate themselves on the industry a little more. Do what makes you happy,� she says.
How does Candace prepare to step out? "I like to use M.A.C, and I'm also a fan of Victoria's secret. I love their pure seduction and love spell cream. I like Victoria's Secret Cream lotion, because it smells good and it lasts throughout the day. I really don't wear make-up—only for shoots, or special occasions, other than that some mascara, eye-liner, and some lip-gloss will do me fine. As far as clothes, sometimes I like to get things made for me, or most of the time I'm putting pieces together that I like from different stores.�
Candace's Words Of Wisdom: "Put God first; be yourself. Nobody is going to believe in you like you will, and don't let people's negative thoughts stop you from achieving whatever it is that you want to do in life.�
Candace's Secrets To Success: "Good, better, best; never let it rest, until your good is your better, and your better is your best.�
Favorite Movies: "Color Purple, Jackson 5, Wizard of Oz.�
Favorite Books: "Sheisty by TN Baker, Crackhead by Lisa Lennox, Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah.�
The First Three Things Candace Would Do As President: "Start free tutoring programs for low-income families to help decrease the percentage of drop-outs; increase the minimum pay rate for teachers; and, start a program for teen girls who are consensually sexually active with over-age guys to teach them to become respectful women, and the consequences behind their actions.�
Candace's Favorite Cars: "I like the Chrysler 300's because I like the big grill in the front and the luxury look, and the Mercedes/Ocean Drive Concept, an ultra-luxury 4 door convertible.
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|System: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360
|Dev: Yuke's Media Creations
|Pub: THQ
|Release: November 22, 2011
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Amanda L. Kondolojy
When it was announced that the SmackDown! vs. Raw series was going to continue on as simply "WWE," it seemed like a natural evolution for the game series. While SvR had become quite the fall staple, the series was fast outgrowing the name, as it matured and developed into more of a proper sports game and less of a button-mash fest. However, it's important to note that even though the name may have changed, you can still expect the same sort of gameplay: sharp simulation-style fighting, deep customization modes, and plenty of community features. So what's new?
First up, the combat system has yet again been tweaked to better reflect the unique fighting experience that the WWE brings. Aside from small precision tweaks, the most notable change seems to be the addition of a comeback meter that you can use to pull off an 11th hour comeback move. And because the game features stackable finishers, you can pair one of these moves with a signature finisher and conquer the most overbearing of opponents. However, you'll still have to look for openings and come at your opponent in the right way to make a comeback. Though the game provides plenty of opportunities for reversals, they aren't just handed out; you'll have to practice to nail the timing just right to execute a winning comeback.
In order to back up the improved battle system, WWE '12 will have an improved animation system and better looking wrestlers. Though the character models all look basically the same, the game sports crisper visuals and better detail overall. The game will also feature improved crowd visuals, something fans have been asking about for several years. The camera system has also been reworked, and will dynamically follow the action in the same way the cameras follow the action on the WWE television programs. The new visuals should bring players even closer to the world of the WWE.
Another feature that is coming to WWE '12 is customizable venues. In a way, this is an obvious progression for the series, as users have been able to make their own wrestlers, finishers, and even storylines over the years. The ring customization mode will work much like the wrestler creation mode, and players will be able to use official WWE logos and designs as well as their own creations in creating a unique ring. I can only imagine how many Fruity Pebbles-styled rings there will be come this fall!
One feature that will still be incorporated in WWE '12 from the SvR series is the WWE Universe mode. This mode features a dynamic storyline that changes based on player choice. While this mode has appeared in previous versions of SvR, Universe mode in WWE '12 will feature even more decision points and choices for players, which should increase the replayability of this title exponentially.
And of course, Universe isn't the only thing returning in WWE '12. Fans can look forward to plenty of online content again this year, including support for even more types of online matches and content sharing. Exact details about new content in the online modes has yet to be released, but it is safe to assume that there will be support for many of the game's new modes, as well as robust DLC offerings later on down the line.
The game will also feature one of the biggest rosters in franchise history, with over 70 wrestlers being available initially. The roster includes a mix of both WWE Superstars and Divas. Names like Kelly Kelly and Alberto Del Rio will be gracing this year's lineup, with plenty more coming as DLC. Interestingly, next year's Wrestlemania headliner The Rock is being offered only as a pre-order bonus for now, which seems a bit strange, but hopefully late adopters will get a chance to purchase him as DLC as the big event gets closer.
WWE '12 definitely represents a turning point for the WWE game franchise. The SvR series was great for what it was, but as the years wore on, the series evolved from its simplistic roots into a serious simulation-style fighter. Though WWE '12 will undoubtedly feel familiar to those with experience playing the SvR series, it should represent a turning point for the franchise and help make it even more prominent in the world of sports-inspired games, even if it's all just "entertainment."
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GIMPS has discovered a new largest known prime number: 282589933-1 (24,862,048 digits)
Suppose p is an odd prime and a is any integer. The Legendre symbol (a|p) is defined to be
Note: the Legendre symbol is better written vertically: , but this is difficult and slow on web pages.
Euler showed that (a|p) = a (p-1)/2 (mod p). Using this we can show the following: Let p and q be odd primes, then
(-1|p) = 1 if p = 1 (mod 4), and (-1|p) = -1 if p = 3 (mod 4);For the prime 2 we have
(2|p) = 1 if p = 1 or 7 (mod 8), andFar more difficult to prove is the quadratic reciprocity law:
If p and q are distinct primes, then .In other words, (p|q) = (q|p), unless p = q = 3 (mod 4), in which case (p|q) = -(q|p).
The Legendre symbol is often evaluated by using the Jacobi symbol.
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Urban landscapes are rapidly expanding globally and over 50% of humanity now lives in cities. Because the majority of human settlements are in areas of high biodiversity, the rapid urbanization of the world has profound effects on global biodiversity. Few generalizations, however, have been derived to account for the patterns and drivers of urban biota and there are even fewer global comparative studies. Yet a comparative approach to studying urban biota is needed to understand, preserve, and monitor biodiversity in cities. In this working group, we ask the overarching question: "What makes an urban biota 'urban'?" and with that, "Are the patterns of urban biota and the processes that shape them the same across the world's cities?" This project will analyze data on birds and plants from cities in the northern and southern hemispheres, cities new and old, cities from developed and developing countries, and cities that have developed under different planning practices. Outcomes from these analyses will not only help to push forward our understanding of the ecology of cities, but will also provide useful information to planners and managers for the monitoring and preservation of biodiversity in urban regions.
This research aims to: 1. Compile and synthesize large, diverse datasets of the flora and avifauna of cities around the world; 2. Compare the patterns and ecological responses of birds and plants in urban habitats; 3. Understand the social constraints on biodiversity in cities; and 4. Develop recommendations for monitoring biodiversity in urban areas.
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An Arkansas lawmaker says there isn't enough support in the state Senate yet to pass a proposal to extend cheaper in-state tuition rates to some immigrants who came to the United States illegally.
Democratic Sen. Joyce Elliott of Little Rock said Friday that she will bring the proposal before the Senate Education Committee if she finds enough support in the whole Senate.
But she's doesn't have much time left as an April 19 deadline to end the legislative session approaches.
Elliott's proposal would grant in-state tuition rates to anyone who has attended an Arkansas high school for at least three years and has an Arkansas high school diploma or general education diploma in the state.
Out-of-state tuition rates in Arkansas are about twice as much as in-state rates.


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Yesterday, via a reader who follows Nevada politics closely who used early vote data as his starting point, we served up some number crunching on the status of the presidential election in Nevada. Today, Jim Geraghty performs the same kind of number crunching in Iowa.
Geraghty's bottom line is that the situation in Iowa looks good for Romney, assuming that polls showing the Governor with a 9 point lead among independents who intend to vote on Election Day are accurate.
In Ohio, meanwhile, Geraghty finds evidence that the early vote is down from 2008 levels in the Cleveland area, a major Obama stronghold, and in Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, where Obama prevailed by 5 points in 2008.


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They're making antimatter at the Large Hadron Collider?! That little jolt of reality is what sets the plot in motion for "Angels & Demons," Hollywood's follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code."
The good news is that you don't have to worry about an antimatter bomb blowing up the world. Physicist Michio Kaku says so. The better news is that the antimatter being made at Europe's CERN physics lab is used for good, not for evil.
The physicists who do real-life research with antimatter and other exotic substances see "Angels & Demons" not as a threat but as an opportunity. CERN is just one of the scientific institutions to capitalize on the "science behind the story."
The US/LHC research group has organized an entire lecture series around the movie, including virtual lectures you can watch on the Web. And at 1 p.m. ET next Tuesday, the National Science Foundation will present a Webcast featuring CERN's director-general, Fermilab's Boris Kayser and Nobel-winning physicist Leon Lederman - who literally wrote the book on "The God Particle."
CERN has been through this before, back in 2000 when "Da Vinci" author Dan Brown's book version of "Angels & Demons" came out. "The hits on our public Web site went up by more than a factor of 10, and I guess this will happen again now that the movie is coming out," said Rolf Landua, who led the research team for the ATHENA antimatter-making experiment at CERN.
That experiment didn't take place at the Large Hadron Collider, but at CERN's antimatter factory, more formally known as the Antiproton Decelerator. "We can make antimatter, we can slow it down to almost zero speed, we can trap it, we can manipulate it. But that's it," Landua told me.
Antimatter has been called the "evil twin" of ordinary matter. In ordinary atoms, negatively charged electrons swirl around positively charged protons. In antiatoms like the ones that Landua and his colleagues made, positively charged antielectrons, or positrons, orbit nuclei that contain negatively charged antiprotons. If atoms of matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihiliate each other, just like they do in "Angels & Demons" - or, for that matter (heh, heh), "Star Trek."
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So if scientists can really make antimatter, why couldn't they create an antimatter bomb, or at least a new source of energy? Landua explains that it takes about a billion times more energy to make antiatoms than the energy you get by destroying them. This is why antimatter is considered the most expensive material on Earth. A commonly quoted figure is that it costs $1.75 quadrillion per ounce - and although that figure may be subject to debate, the bottom line isn't: No one could afford to make enough antimatter to cause trouble.
Then there's the problem of keeping the antimatter around once it's made. The antiatoms that Landua and his successors at CERN have made tend to drift out of the "traps" where they're created and quickly blip out of existence. "It's still not completely clear what atomic state they're in when they're made, and what their kinetic energy is," Landua told me.
OK ... so if you can't keep those antiatoms together, and if they cost so much to make, why make them at all? The main reason is to study why it is that matter won out over antimatter in the universe's earliest moments. The traditional view holds that matter and antimatter should be perfectly matched, and that they should annihilate each other so totally that nothing would be left but a cosmic sea of light.
"That would have happened to the whole universe," Landua said. "It happened almost, but a little bit of matter was left - only a tiny, tiny bit - which now makes up all the stars, planets and us."
Previous experiments have suggested that there is a slight asymmetry in the way that matter and antimatter decay. One of the LHC's experiments, known as LHCb, will look specifically at that issue once the big collider is started up this fall. "It has nothing to do with an energy source, or 'Star Trek,'" Landua said. "It's a basic, fundamental science question, which is coupled to the question of why we are here."
There are practical applications for antimatter, but they have more to do with medicine than propulsion physics. For example, positrons are used routinely in PET scans to trace the inner workings of your body.
In the future, antimatter might be enlisted in the fight against cancer. One experiment indicated that beams of antiprotons were three times as efficient as protons for destroying tumor cells in hamsters. If that technology could be harnessed for radiation therapy, "it looks like you could reduce the radiation to healthy cells by a factor of three," Landua said.
Today, the cost factor is working against antiproton therapy, but Landua said new technologies could bring the cost down - not low enough for bombmaking, but low enough for cancer-killers. "Maybe one day there will be different types of accelerators based on laser wakefields," Landua said. "I'm waiting for the development of powerful Lyman-alpha lasers. That should be the way to go."
For now, Landua and his colleagues can sit back and enjoy the Hollywood wizardry in "Angels & Demons." He and about 50 other scientists from CERN saw the film during an advance screening in Geneva. "They were all really enthusiastic about it," Landau said.
Some of the details weren't quite right: For example, the film shows scientists sitting just on the other side of a window from the LHC's ATLAS detector. In real life, anyone sitting that close to the beam would get a withering dose of radiation. And there's no way the beam would come to full power as quickly and easily as it does in the movie. But Landua, like most scientists, understands that this is Hollywood rather than real life.
"It was so for real, you know?" Landua said. "You see these ATLAS caverns and it integrates so perfectly well that you think, 'My God, is that reality? Did I miss it?' ... We wish we could work at a place which looks like that CERN."
Here are a few extra tidbits to enhance your "Angels & Demons" experience:
The movie throws in more references to the Higgs boson, a.k.a. the "God Particle," than I remember reading in the book. "It fits very well into the whole science vs. religion plot," Landua said. However, he said the real-life search for the Higgs boson doesn't have any religious implications, one way or the other. "It does create order in the universe in a certain way," Landua said. "I always call it 'cosmic DNA,' but of course that doesn't make it godlike." If you're looking for a fantastic discussion of the Higgs boson, you must check out this video from Arizona State University's Origins Conference (starting at about the 32:30 mark).
Last year, a federal lawsuit was brought against CERN, Fermilab and U.S. federal agencies, claiming that the LHC could set off a global catastrophe by creating black holes or other exotic phenomena. The suit was thrown out last September, but an appeal is still percolating through the court system. Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down a motion to freeze funding for activities at CERN while the appeal was being considered.
For more "Angels & Demons" reality checks, check out our rogue's gallery of secret societies, this rundown on antimatter, Illuminati and the Swiss Guard from the Asylum Web site, in-depth antimatter analyses from the Symmetry Breaking blog and LiveScience, and this report on the Illuminati from NPR.
Update for 2:15 p.m. May 19: Particle physicists provided an additional reality check during the National Science Foundation's Webcast - including confirmation that a few things in "Angels & Demons" are actually true. For example, could a quarter-gram of antimatter set off an explosion with the energy equivalent of 5 kilotons of TNT? After running the numbers, Fermilab's Boris Kayser says yes, indeed. "I get 5.7," he said.
CERN's director-general, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, said the physics lab does have an eye-scanning identification system for controlling access to the Large Hadron Collider, as graphically shown in the movie. It's that important to know exactly who is in the vicinity of the collider when it's running, he said.
I asked the physicists about the friendly competition between CERN and Fermilab to find the first evidence of the Higgs boson's existence. Heuer emphasized that the rivalry was not of the tooth-and-claw variety: "I don't mind ... who makes a discovery first. It is the science that counts."
But there is a rivalry, nonetheless. Heuer said the probability for Fermilab finding the Higgs first was "not very good, so I'm still sleeping pretty well."
Nobel laureate Leon Lederman is based at Fermilab but has done a lot of work at CERN as well. Like many physicists, he has divided loyalties - and he guessed that he would experience mixed feelings if Fermilab's Tevatron beat the shiny new, $10 billion Large Hadron Collider in the Higgs race. He joked that it would be "a little like your mother-in-law driving off a cliff in your BMW."


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She parlayed her well honed retail skills into a career in banking that eventually led to her present role as vice president of retail banking for Comerica Bank branches in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Branch County.
After graduating from Aquinas with a B.S. degree in business administration and communications, Griswold went to work for Dayton-Hudson in Fort Wayne, Ind., and managed various departments within the department store chain from 1989 to 1993. A promotion brought her to the Hudson's in Woodland Mall in 1993.
In the early 1990s, banking was in its toddler stage of the sales culture, Griswold recalled, and she was ready for a career change. She joined First of America Bank in 1993 as a sales trainer for its West Michigan affiliates and two years later began managing individual banking centers for the company. When First of America was acquired by National City Bank, Griswold landed her first regional-level role.
She made the move to Comerica in the spring of 2003.
Griswold had continued her professional and managerial training at the Consumer Banker Association's Graduate School of Retail Management at the University of Virginia. The training involved a three-year commitment.
Tom Chirgwin, former vice president of retail banking for Comerica and now retired, was a mentor to Griswold.
"I tried to role model his passion for his job and his concern for employees, and how he balanced those needs with the needs of business," she said. Another mentor was Jim Dean of First of America, who gave her encouragement every step of the way, she said.
Today Griswold manages 19 Comerica banking centers in Grand Rapids, Lansing and Branch County. She oversees 130 employees, 15 of whom report directly to her. She describes her job as "fun chaos" and herself as competitive person who's self-motivated, able to implement a strategy and deliver on a goal.
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"That's one of the things I love about this job," she added.
She said the present day banking culture puts the customer at the center of everything: "It's all about making sure that customers' financial needs are being met."
Building banking relationships these days requires people who have the ability to communicate well with clients and ask the questions necessary to come to a clear understanding of their financial goals. It also means having the confidence to ask a client where else he's banking and what other financial products and services he might have, in order to assess whether there's any advantage in consolidating his banking services with Comerica, she added.
The last couple of years have been tough going for banks, which hasn't dampened Griswold's enthusiasm for banking, but she said she tries to remain cognizant of how economic weakness impacts employees.
Griswold is known in women's business circles as one of the original 19 founding members of the West Michigan Inforum affiliate, an organization that is near and dear to her heart. The group asked Inforum, which is based in Detroit, for permission to form a West Michigan branch.
Inforum is one of the largest and most prestigious business forums for women in the Midwest, with more that 2,200 members from a broad cross-section of Michigan's business community. The idea was simply to give women a way to come together and network across industries, Griswold said. Inforum was created 50 years ago for the purpose of creating opportunities for women to lead and succeed, to forge alliances and make connections. Griswold is a 2006 graduate of the Inforum Executive Leadership Program.
In a similar vein, Griswold has been a volunteer for Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women since 1997 and serves as a facilitator of its Minding Your Own Business program, a 15-week entrepreneurial training course. GROW provides training and counseling to women starting their own businesses and also offers them several support services needed to sustain or expand their businesses.