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Posted on May 6, 2009, Ron Whitaker GT Q&A: Tripwire's Killing Floor
I don't know about you guys, but here at Gaming Today, we're always up for a game that includes zombies. Of late, we've been playing Left 4 Dead, and keeping our eyes on Killing Floor, the upcoming release from Tripwire Interactive. Killing Floor isn't exactly a zombie game, but genetically engineered zombies are close enough for us.
If you're a Unreal Tournament player, you may remember Killing Floor as a mod for UT2K4. Since then, the mod team behind Killing Floor has teamed up Tripwire Interactive to bring their mod to retail release as a standalone title, and it looks to have some serious potential.
We recently had the opportunity to chat with a few of the people responsible for Killing Floor. Read on to find out a little bit more about the upcoming survival horror title.
Gaming Today: Let's get the boilerplate stuff out of the way up front. Can you tell us who you are, what your role in the production of Killing Floor is?
Alan Wilson, VP of Tripwire Interactive. I get all the non-tech stuff to do. Some writing and design, bit of voice acting this time, project management, PR and trying to manage the testing.
I'm Alex Quick. I've worn a few hats over the course of KFs production, but primarily I'm working as a level designer, and texture artist. Oh, and the mod this game is based on was largely my undertaking, so I've been pretty active in gameplay design discussions for the sake of consistency.
Dayle Flowers, Senior Programmer at Tripwire Interactive. Aside from the typical working on game play, I get much of the highly technical stuff that many people overlook and simply expect to work. I was responsible for connecting Killing Floor to the Steam system to support Authentication, the Master Server, and Perks/Achievements. [Edit: and designing a lot of that stuff, too! AW]
Dan Nassick, audio designer and musician. I've worked on the Killing Floor mod since 2005 and my responsibility on the audio team has been to organize a complete audio overhaul in the transition from modification to commercial game.
Myles Lambert, part of the original mod team. I get to do a great mixture of work, environmental art and level design and when I'm not working on that I'm working on some future DLC map content.
GT: So, judging from everything I've seen, Killing Floor is a survival horror game featuring some very interesting adversaries. Can you tell us a little bit about these zombies?
AQ: Think of it like going to a carnival and wandering into the wrong tent, and there's just a group of weirdos who look like they've been playing dress-up in an industrial scrap yard. That's Killing Floor. They aren't undead, they don't have past lives, and they largely aren't wearing clothing because they were bred and raised in a dank hole in the ground among scientists who got a kick out of poking them with sharp things and replacing their limbs with dangerous doohickeys. The inspiration for these guys came from everywhere; games, films, books, rage against ex girlfriends. What was important is that there is a very basic slow moving character who would serve as a foot-soldier for the lab freaks. After that, all the enemies fulfill some sort of tactical role. Some of them will soak up bullets and push you back, others will nullify your explosives in mid-air so you're forced to use alternative tactics around them, and some of them are sneaky and will use devious paths which let them circumvent your defenses. It winds up being like abit of real time strategy. But in a gorey, immediate sense; and with fewer cries of "Zug Zug".
DF: My two favorite zeds in Killing Floor would have to be the Crawler and the Stalker as they take a more indirect approach to scare the crap out of you. They will both appear as if out of nowhere if you are not intensely looking for them when you hear them. The Crawler has black skin, which helps him blend into certain environments. He moves across the ground pretty fast and leaps at you from long distances to attack. If you don't kill him before he leaps, you often have a hell of a time looking down to find him when the rest of the horde is closing in on you. The Stalker also moves quickly and her cloaking means you hardly ever see her before she's right on top of you. When they attack from outside your view, they often cause players to panic and fire off full clips but hit nothing.
ML: Adding onto what has already been said, these are experiments and if you are unlucky enough to get close to one you will notice the horrific tests and mutilations made to the specimens to make them more combat effective and unstable, for example the Flesh Pounds with steel shrapnel thrust into their skin or the Gorefast with a large blade cut and wrapped deeply into his hand.
One thing that beginners will very much appreciate is that all specimens have a graphical style consistent with their combat style, meaning when you see a Crawler with half a dozen spider legs you know for sure that he's gonna be fast.
GT: Almost every survival horror game has a corporation or government behind the 'creation' of the zombie outbreak. Is that the case in Killing Floor?
AW: Amazing how many of these Evil Corporations and Mad Scientists there are these days. Worrying times. Yes, in KF's case, Horzine Biotech were engaged by the British government to conduct super-secret work into man-made soldiers, on a nice cheap basis. Mix some nice genetic engineering with handing out some large weapons and you can save a fortune on defense costs! By the time the government realizes it is NOT a good idea, the Mad Scientist has already gone off (WAY off) in some odd directions, and lies about shutting the program down. And, of course, then It All Went Horribly Wrong ©
GT: I'm sure that Killing Floor will contain many weapons to beat back the zombie hordes with. However, I've heard that it also has some in-game items that players might not expect. Can you tell us about some of those, such as the welder?
AW: The welder is very straight-forward. A hand-held, rechargeable electronic welding tool. Works on most doors, as just about every door uses SOME metal. So you can simply close a door – and weld it tight. Stops the zeds making it through, for a while at least. They WILL break through, but it will take time. Of course, they aren't completely stupid and some will try to find other ways to get at you – other doors, windows, A/C vents – all sorts! You can cut the welds open again. It can be quite funny when the players realize there is an unstoppable horde coming through the other door – and you've welded up your only escape route!
GT: I know that Killing Floor can be played as a co-op or solo game. Are there major differences in the modes, or is it simply a matter of the numbers of players involved?
AW: It is the same game, automatically scaled to make sure it is a similar level of challenge for any number of players. How hard you find the Solo mode will depend on your play style. The "extra" challenge in Solo is that there is simply no-one to watch your back and that can make a huge difference, as you just can't be shooting in every direction at once. You need to shoot fast and think fast to avoid being surrounded, cornered. And eaten.
ML: The Solo should really be used for getting used to the game and for times when you simply want to get killing without having to scream down the mic every time a Flesh Pound comes around the corner.
GT: What sort of game modes can players expect to see in Killing Floor?
AW: The game will ship with the core game mode – you and your friends taking on the specimen hordes. Try and get through all the waves and finish off the Patriarch at the end! Inevitably, there are a whole bunch of ideas on the drawing board that we can add in after launch, including the "Story" mode from the mod, for instance.
GT: With the timing of the release of Killing Floor, it's almost inevitable that it will be compared to Valve's Left 4 Dead. Have you tried Left 4 Dead, and if so, how would you compare the style of that game to Killing Floor?
AW: I love L4D! There, I admitted it. But the games are really two different beasts. L4D shows all Valve's attention to detail and polish, as you'd expect. As you'll see, we like attention to detail and polish too. L4D gives you these insane rushes of hordes, mad killing sprees, mixed with some creeping around to the next location. Versus is great fun with the right bunch of guys. The most obvious comparison though is with the new Survival mode. And the difference is very simple between the games there. L4D is about mad rushes, hordes charging at you, live as long as you can. KF is more variable in pace, much darker, creepier. So long as you think about it, you can buy yourself moments to breath, recover – but there is a sense of dread always there. Lots of yelling of "Fleshpound! Fleshpound!" going on in the office ?
DF: Having only played L4D a little, the biggest difference I've seen is that it only takes a few zeds to scare the crap out of you in Killing Floor. Often you hear things creeping about around you, but you can't see them. This is particularly true for the Crawler, which only stands a couple of feet off the ground. Although they are not very deadly, they are a terrible bother if they get too close. Since they blend into the hordes and some environments very well, you often frantically look around for them when you hear them. This is more directly true for the Stalker due to her cloaking ability. This diversity in the zeds that are after you makes the game play out entirely differently.
DN: I tried L4D when it first came out and I'll actually be getting it soon. I didn't want to get it while working on KF else I'd never get anything done. Comparing the two games is about as productive as a Romero vs Russo debate. There's absolutely no reason why you can't enjoy them both. While there are similarities, the two games each have their own unique aspects to set them apart. The biggest difference I've noticed in KF is that things can go south very quickly. Once that happens you don't quickly forget and that is what instills that sense of dread knowing that one second you could be turning Clots into pulp and the next you might be taking a tour of their digestive system; all depending on your strategy as a player and a team.
ML: I would say simply that they should not be compared. Comparing Killing Floor with Left 4 Dead would be like comparing James Bond's Lotus Esprit to the latest racing car, it shouldn't be done. They are two separate products and great at what they are intended to be. Killing Floor is all about atmosphere, tension and great cooperative fights against hordes of Specimens that would like nothing better than to rip you to shreds.
GT: Killing Floor started out as a mod for Unreal Tournament. What's it like going from a mod to a retail release? What are some of the challenges your team has had to overcome along the way?
AW: Didn't you ask us this question 3 years ago ? (Note: It's quite likely! – Editor) The single biggest challenge (for me) isn't technical. It is the one about how do you maintain all that is really good about the mod, not lose any of that – and yet still enhance it dramatically. And that was helped by the fact that the core gameplay in the mod was truly great. Mind you, that is what caught our eye in the first place.
DN: The transition was a good challenge. Given the differences and difficulty between working on a mod and a retail game can be great, years of working on, releasing and maintaining that mod can introduce you to the type of work environment required to participate in a retail production. The biggest challenge is shifting gears. You may have several tasks to complete in a few months with a mod. With a commercial title those tasks may double, you have significantly less time to accomplish them, and the production quality has to be superb. For the players that have asked why they should get the retail game when the mod is free, this effort will be clear once they get their hands on it.
ML: Personally for me, its a great experience. The step up from mod development to working on a commercial game is quite huge, but very rewarding. Working alongside the Tripwire team was great and it is quite unbelievable how much your work will improve just by working commercially. The largest challenge for me personally was simply management and organization, never before was it so important to get work done right and in time.
GT: As a mod team, how did you reach the decision to go to a retail release, and how did you team up with Tripwire Interactive? Was there ever a time when you thought that you might not find a publisher?
AQ: I think it might be better to say "was there ever a time when you thought that you *might* find a publisher?" And the answer would be: no. Killing Floor started as an art project for me, and evolved from that into a fun little game after almost four years of sweat and blood and trial and error. Ironically, there was a point a few years back when Tripwire approached us about porting to RO, and I remember my response being "sure!" followed by doing nothing. Roll on 2008 though, and things were looking a lot different for KF. UT2k4 was pretty much dead, and the community was dwindling. So there was probably a bit of "crawling back" that happened when I approached them a second time, and discussed porting (and later, the game deal). I guess if you look at it another way, the time between KF's first talk with Tripwire, and the game deal were necessary to get the mod to a point where its qualities stood out enough to warrant being picked up for retail.
DN: I've contributed to every version of KF since it's been a UT2004 mod. I've stuck with it for that long, I didn't see any reason why I should stop now. The decision to turn KF into a retail game was a great one. As a mod, KF's exposure was really limited by the number of players that owned UT2004, a competitive arena FPS, that got involved in the online community, were proactive in their search for mods, and enjoyed cooperative and/or horror survival games. There's a lot of forks in that road on the way to discovering a mod like KF. Becoming a standalone game was an excellent decision as it greatly expands the potential audience that KF can be exposed to by eliminating several prerequisites.
I never considered the possibility of not finding a venue to publish the game on. While there's still a good demand for physical media, digital distribution has proven to be very attractive for both players and developers and that industry has developed quite well over the past several years.
GT: What's one thing our readers might not know about Killing Floor that you think they should?
AW: The Killing Floor mod was first released back in 2005.
AQ: The lead developer of the original mod is super sexy and still single. He bathes regularly.
DN: You'll be missing out on a lot of cool stuff if you stick with the mod. Get the game. Take it from someone that's played it for four years, it's worth it.
GT: When can we expect to see Killing Floor on Steam? Do you plan a release to retail stores as well?
AW: On pre-sale right now. Scheduled to be available to play May 14th. And yes, in various discussions on a retail release for North America and Europe. And Japan, too.
GT: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us! Is there any parting thought you'd like to share with our readers?
AW: Killing Floor isn't Left 4 Dead. You can buy BOTH of them and enjoy them both. They are different games. And we said "recession-friendly pricing" – and now you know we meant it!
AQ: Environments in a horror game should ooze with atmosphere.
DN: Looking forward to wiping out some specimens with everyone on the 14th. Get Killing Floor and join the fight, I could always use the help.
ML: Killing Floor is simply a fantastic game, with good, rounded core game play built and tested for over four years as a mod and later tweaked and perfected by a commercial studio. I don't think it can get much better!
We'd like to thank the Killing Floor team for taking the time to talk with us. If you're interested in checking out Killing Floor, it's slated for release on May 14th via Steam. With a retail price of just $19.99 (and a pre-order price of $14.99), it's definitely priced right. You can get more info by visiting the Killing Floor Steam site, or by visiting their official site.

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Chantae Cann is a singer, songwriter
Chantae Cann is a phenomenal vocalist that is beautiful on and off the stage. She has performed as a background vocalist for many artists including Leon Timbo, Darlene McCoy, PJ Morton, Morgan Heritage & India.Arie.
Her debut album "Journey to Golden" created a buzz when released in 2016 and received plays on Jazz FM, BBC 6 Music (Gilles Peterson & Craig Charles ) Mi-Soul and Solar Radio.
The lead track from the album "Da Da'n Da" was recorded with Snarky Puppy. Watch them perform the track live in concert together below.
Snarky Puppy feat. Chantae Cann – Da Da N'Da
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How to reverse engineer a shortened URL
URL shortening services have become very popular as Twitter hits the "top web sites" charts day by day. Since Twitter has a 140 characters limitation for its messaging system, this limitation creates the need to find a way to save more space for texting. Speaking of more space, URL shortening services help a lot.
A URL shortening service, such as tiny.cc or bit.ly, shrinks the long URLs into the short forms and saves the shortened copy and the original URL in their databases. When a request arrives to the shortened URL, the URL shortening service gets the original URL from the database and redirects users to the original web site.
For example, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amb/archive/2011/02/02/tmg-may-not-log-to-sql-server-if-tmg-service-pack-1-is-installed.aspx link is 116 characters long and if I would like to use this link in Twitter then I would have only 24 characters left to write some more text in a tweet. However, if I would use a URL shortening service, such as http://bit.ly, then the link would turn into http://bit.ly/hlqwPI which is 20 characters long. This change would help me to write 120 characters more in my tweet.
Needless to say, there is more benefit using a URL shortening service but that is out of scope for this post. For more information about URL shortening services you can visit one of them or make a search on the Internet.
So, why would we need to know the original URL?
There would be several answers for this question but one of them is pretty obvious: security. An attacker would point to a "harmful" web site or content and you would only see a short URL which would not tell anything about the FQDN (e.g.: http://blogs.msdn.com/) or page/path information (e.g.: /b/amb/archive/…) of the original URL.
Of course there are several web sites which helps you to find the original URL from a shortened one, such as http://longurl.org/, but as a developer it would be nice to understand how to achieve this task by your own self.
So I decided to develop a simple web application to find the original URL for a given shortened one.
The application takes a shortened URL from a text box and the form button's click event does the magic. I found that this was a really simple task. Here is the code snippet which does the main job:
string url = TextBox1.Text;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)(WebRequest.Create(url));
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
string uriString = response.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri;
Label1.Text = uriString;
Logic is very simple: we need to make an HTTP request to the shortened URL and get the original URL from HTTP response headers.
As the URL shortening services redirect the user to the original link, the response to the client should be a "redirect information" (such as HTTP 302) with the original URL in "Location" header information. This is mapped to HttpWebResponse object's ResponseUri.AbsouluteUri property.
As the code above shows clearly, shortened URL is entered in a text box (TextBox1) by a user and the original URL is written in a label control (Label1). I am sure that you can easily modify the code above for your needs.
Oops...I cannot get the correct "original URL" for some URLs shortened by some services...
While I was testing my simple project, my application did not work as expected for some shortened URLs. To give an example, the links shortened by URL shortening services focus on Facebook links, such as the ones start with http://fb.me/. Every time I tested an fb.me link with my application, I was always given the same URL: http://www.facebook.com/common/browser.php
When I browsed the URL above, I understood that the fb.me was not happy with my user-agent. A user-agent is simply a mark of your browser and as the code snippet above does not tell anything about my user-agent, my application failed with the URL shortened services which check the client's user-agent. This is probably done to avoid some crawlers or automated tools/sites which are not clever enough to provide the user-agent information.
The solution – let's make the application more clever
Simply I took the user-agent information from the request to my web application (by Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] line) and just added it to my request object which makes an HTTP call to the shortened URL:
string url = TextBox1.Text;
string userAgent = Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)(WebRequest.Create(url));
request.UserAgent = userAgent;
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
string uriString = response.ResponseUri.AbsoluteUri;
Label1.Text = uriString;
I have then tested fb.me URLs and the result was as expected, working fine. I guess there is no need to say that I haven't tested my application with all URL shortening services, so you may find bugs with some other shortening services. If so, please let me know by using the comments section below.
Thanks to Richard Deeming (see the comments section please), there is a better approach to avoid unnecessary round-trip between the client (in this case IIS server) and the target server:
You can set request object's AllowAutoRedirect property to false and read the response's Location header directly. Here is what you need:
request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
uriString = response.Headers["Location"];
As I said, this will avoid unnecessary round-trip between IIS and the target web server.
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I have refrained from using my perspective from the 28th century to report events to this period, but this was so monumental that I felt compelled to share the information. Don't worry too much, because Trump was just a minor blip in history who was mostly forgotten within a decade.
It was early September, and the country was getting used to the idea that Trump probably would be president for another term. We were even getting used to having a president who knew as much about the
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In an ideal state of nature, people would not, and did not, hide their bodies under clothing of any sort, but for various reasons, the wearing of clothing became common almost everywhere. Garments not only protect the body from inclement weather and other unpleasantnesses, but it hides the bodies from the sexually interested of persons of the complementary sex, and that can be inconvenient, and that inconvenience has increased over time. For the first few million years, the bodies were generally
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As one person put it: "If you cant tell what it is then you probably shouldnt eat it." We were discussing Chinese food at the time, but I think that rule fits any cuisine; although there have been enough examples of Chinese restaurants being shutdown for serving things that are not generally considered edible that they are good examples
Seriously, if you are going to pour on so much in other flavors that one cant taste the main ingredient, then have something else.
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Some people were commenting on the size of the military budget of the United States of America. I simply agreed that it is rather large, but I thought a little more about it and realized that the more than six hundred billion was less than $2000 per capita, and thats not all that much, but its still more than I can afford. And it is also more than most Americans can afford, so, the country is adding more and more debt every year. If we were only wasting
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Today's bin day (well it should be anyway. It hasn't happened yet. I plan to be in bed when it happens so as not to get sad. It's also normal to be sad when you're Christmas tree gets taken away right?)
One of the most recent blog entries I did was on this subject a couple of years ago.
Why do I always seem to blog around Christmas/New Year?
Because I used to write up the daily contents of my advent calendars in my teens.....early 20's too? Definately in my teens.


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Cymfony's Influence 2.0: The REALLY BIG story of the Wal-Mart/Edelman fake blog situation
What are you doing to change the course of your organization? With this question, Cymfony nails it. The blogging world is like the Marines and leaves no-one behind. Honesty and openness is the only way. Its impossible to hide, so don't try. This is the essence of the new marketing.
For a generation or more, PR has been about spin. Finding a clever story angle is what PR people are trained to do. Marketing is the same, except they call it "positioning". Each new strategy starts from the basic premise of how to magnify the positives and deny any potential negatives.
Exaggeration, careful selection of facts, and creating enticing ways to present the messages are not only accepted, but the fabric of every day work. In advertising, they are limited only by truth in advertising laws.
Source: Cymfony's Influence 2.0: The REALLY BIG story of the Wal-Mart/Edelman fake blog situation
Read this article in full. Even if you are not familiar with the Edelman situation. Essentially it was a blog written by an Agency, pretending to be written by regular people. They have, according to Strumpette:
Within the past year alone, Edelman has:
- Engaged in secretive dialogues with carefully selected bloggers with the intention of slipping uncredited, Wal-Mart-approved spin into their seemingly spontaneous utterings;
- Offered unspecified emoluments to a consumers' right website in return for their agreement to "stop writing about our companies," including Wal-Mart;
- Surreptitiously sponsored a blog by two seemingly ordinary Americans of their vacation tour of Wal-Mart's parking lots, neither of whom disclosed their ties to Edelman.
And Hugh sums it up perfectly.
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[…] Further to my earlier post on the Edelman thing, here are the details finally. If you're into the whole PR thing, then you'll likely have noticed recently that Edelman have got themselves into a bit of a pinch by helping create a fake blog for Wal-Mart. Called 'Wal-Marting Across America', it purported to be a blog by a couple who decided to go on a cheap holiday in an RV (that's camper van to us Brits), staying in Wal-Mart car parks overnight. What the blog failed to mention was that the project was a publicity stunt and that Wal-Mart were paying for their petrol, food, and the RV. This trick is known in the trade as 'astroturfing' (i.e. faking grassroots). Another way of describing it is 'lying by omission', and we all know lying is bad. […]


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Friday, May 13, 2011
Perfectly Pleasant Presentations
By Tamara Jones
ESL Instructor, SHAPE Language Center, Belgium
I Have to do What?!?
From all the groaning and writhing that was taking place in my class, you would think I just told them they would have to spend several hours at the dentist getting all sorts of uncomfortable procedures done. In fact, I had just informed my students that the following week they would be delivering a short presentation in front of the class.
This is consistently one of the least popular lessons in my classes; students really seem to hate public speaking. This reaction, though, isn't really a surprise. In fact, in some surveys, the fear of public speaking (glossophobia) ranks higher than the fear of death (necrophobia). Add to the mix the fact that students need to do this in a language that is not their first, and you can see why this is a terrifying prospect to many language learners. In fact, one of my students used to get so scared before her presentations, she actually became pale and sickly looking and shook like a leaf.
It's like Medicine or Eating your Vegetables
So, why would I put my students through this horror? Simple. It's good for them. Many of my students need to (or will need to) use their English in their work or education context. Often, this involves public speaking, whether it is a briefing for their army unit or simply presenting their ideas at an informal gathering. Having practice giving a presentation in English in a safe, non-judgmental situation (like our classroom) will help them to become more comfortable when they have to do it for real in conditions that are not as friendly. In addition, presentation norms differ from country to country. For instance, in North America, we expect speakers to make eye contact; a good presentation is not read from a paper, but told to an audience. The connection between speaker and listener is important to us. However, in some cultures, eye contact is not an essential part of public speaking. In fact, according to Sellnow (2004), in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America, direct eye contact can be a sign of disrespect.
Clearly, students need to master the cultural skills associated with public speaking in a North American business or academic environment if they will be giving speeches in that very context. Besides, students seem to really want this practice. As a matter of fact, my students used to complain so loudly whenever I assigned a presentation, I cut them from my syllabus. A few months into the new term, the student who was most scared (the pale shaker described above) asked me why I had discontinued this part of the lesson. A short discussion ensued in which the very students who had whined and grumbled before were extolling the virtues of public speaking practice. So, back into my lesson plan it went.
Step by Step
In my experience, teaching public speaking skills is best when it is broken down into a few manageable pieces. Over the course of a semester, I might have the students give 3 or 4 short (2 minute) presentations. The focus of each presentation is different.
In the first, the students are graded on their eye contact and body language. About a week before the presentation, I give a short lesson that lays out native English speaker expectations in terms of eye contact (more is better) facial expressions (smile!) and body language (limit pacing, make purposeful, controlled gestures, hands out of pockets, etc.)
For the second presentation, the focus might be on organization. North American norms call for a paragraph style organization with an introduction, a body and a conclusion. I also give students information about and practice with dealing with questions at the end.
A third presentation might deal with creating good PowerPoint slides (limit text, spell check) and using them well (maintaining eye contact!). You get the idea. There are tons of great "how to give a speech " videos in youtube, as well as a lot of great information on the internet for teachers and students.
For each presentation, I give the students an easy topic, for example a food from their country or a favorite song. I also stress the time limit. I restrict them to 1-2 minute presentations for the pragmatic reason that I don't want to spend hours and hours on this in class. I prefer to give each student a little practice often rather than have them do one long presentation in the semester. I think it is also important to give the audience something to do while they listen. Sometimes I ask them to write a follow up questions for each speaker and then I give them time to circulate and ask some of their questions. Or, when we are focusing on eye contact, I have each student write their name on 2 slips of paper. I randomly distribute the papers, giving 2 to each student. The students then pay special attention to "their" speakers and count how many times the speakers make eye contact with them. They write the total on the paper and I give them back to the speakers.
I also grade the presentations. My rubrics are pretty simple. I write the skills I want the students to focus on and the numbers from 1 to 5. As the students are speaking, I circle the appropriate number and write some compliments and suggestions for them. When I can, I really like to video tape at least one presentation. I can tell students to take their hands out of their pockets until I am blue in the face, but once they see themselves doing it on video, they are really motivated to do something about it.
So, in my opinion, including presentations in our lessons plans is a "must". Students often need this practice and, even though they complain, they secretly agree that it is important.
Sellnow, D. (2004) Confident Public Speaking, Oxford: Wadsworth Publishing.
Tags: oral presentations, speaking, Tamara Jones
Comment from Claire
May 16, 2011 at 8:34 am
Tamara, I strongly agree with your last sentence. All students must practice giving presentations whether in English or their native language. I tell my ESL students that it is very much like a job interview except they are not answering questions. Seeing their confidence grow over the semester is better than a paycheck, well, almost 🙂
Comment from Tamara Jones
May 18, 2011 at 6:43 am
Ha ha! Yes, almost! I like the comparison to the job interview.
Comment from Jamal
May 20, 2011 at 3:18 am
Dear Ms.Jones
The best way to deal with scary students is to let them read and recite an easy proverb.Then to use a video camera in order to show and explain their faults.
Comment from Tamara Jones
May 23, 2011 at 7:05 am
I agree that a video camera is a very useful tool. Many students even have small video recorders on their digital cameras and cell phones. Teachers can have them ask another student to record them giving the presentation and then have them watch themselves for homework and come up with 2 positives and 2 "areas for improvement" regarding their performance.


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Rajasthan – The land that reflects the drier beauty of nature.
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A summer time sneak peak
The weather here is Georgia can't make up its mind. A couple of weeks ago it was warm and sunny and we spent the whole weekend outside barefoot and coated in sunscreen. Now it's chilly and rainy and really windy and has been for too long. I moved to Georgia from New York for the weather. No really I did, that and to be closer to my family. When I first moved to Georgia it NEVER rained, really, never. People joked about it but it was actually quite scary. It was the middle of a three year drought. The past three years have been a very different story, Atlanta is now ranked as one of the rainiest cities in the US. Even still the weather is better than in the North. For the most part our winters are mild, spring is beautiful and warm, fall is the same and the summers are sweltering, which I love. We spend our days outside every chance we get.
When it did finally warm up enough to play outside I found a great new toddler activity, ICE!
I emptied the ice from the catcher into a large bowl and set it out on the deck. The girls played for ever, until the ice was melted at least. When in does warm up again we will be playing the bowl of ice game again and again.


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So, the other night was book club posting night. I was a few minutes late getting my post in because of homework and blah blah blah busy blah blah. Yesterday, I spent way too long out of the house with my babywearing group and had to do some serious homework crunching. All of this has made me stressed. Seriously seriously stressed. But really?
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I am stressed because I am so busy with my perfectly healthy child and expensive private college education and mommy groups that I was late posting to my book club.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017, 7 p.m.
CLEVELAND — Search and Recovery efforts are continuing this evening for the Cessna 525 Citation that went missing Thursday evening after taking off from Burke Lakefront Airport.
Vessels from the Cleveland Division Fire, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and New York State Police are still in the water utilizing sonar and a dive teams. If sonar picks up on something in the water, divers are deployed to take a closer look.
The Cleveland Division of Police chopper and the Metroparks Zodiac were both deployed today, but had to return due to weather and visibility. Mounted units from the Cleveland Division of Police and the Metroparks Rangers joined personnel on foot for the shoreline searches today.
Unified Command confirmed that the search area is now four miles east to west (along the shoreline) and two and a half miles north to south (from the shore into the water). At this time, a determination has not been made yet about search and recovery operations for tomorrow.
Additional debris was collected this afternoon, but that debris has not yet been confirmed as belonging to this investigation. The debris collected today came from the shoreline east of Burke Lakefront airport. We are not sharing specific information about the debris as it is part of an active investigation.
The Cleveland Division of Police is working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board on this active investigation.
The City of Cleveland remains in contact with the families of those aboard the aircraft. We ask that you continue to respect their privacy as they deal with this difficult situation. The search and recovery process can take a long time. Please continue to respect the families by sharing only confirmed information.
The Cleveland Division of Police is leading the investigation, following up on all reports of debris and processing them to determine if they are relative to this investigation. Anyone who sees debris should call the non-emergency number of the Cleveland Division of Police at 216-621-1234 or Burke Lakefront Airport at 216-781-6411.
"We want to remind everyone that this is an active investigation," said Calvin Williams, Chief of Police. "If you see something that could be debris from the plane, we are asking people to avoid touching it, and to call the Division of Police immediately."
We will provide updates as they are available on the City's blog www.clecityhall.com, as well as Twitter @CityofCleveland and www.facebook.com/CityofCleveland.


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The recent elections in Israel and the ensuing coalition negotiations have instated a government that, for the first time since 1994, does not include a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) party. This much-trumpeted development has led pundits to predict dramatic changes to the so-called "status quo" — the historic agreement between the Orthodox and secular sectors on matters of religion and state.
Many Israelis and Diaspora Jews understand the status quo to refer to an implicit balance established in the early days of the state to manage the jurisdiction of religion over daily life. In Israel's perceived "binary" system, where political parties are either "secular" or "Orthodox," whenever one side considers its rights to have been violated, it invokes the status quo in appealing for redress.
In fact, the historic status quo agreement was a document crafted in 1947, prior to the arrival of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP), whose mandate was to find a solution to the Jewish–Arab conflict in Palestine. Signed by David Ben-Gurion and representatives of the Jewish Agency executive, and presented to the worldwide Haredi organization Agudath Israel, it was quite limited in scope. Haredi demands were accepted in order to present a united Jewish front demanding the establishment of a Jewish state. For the Zionist leaders, the status quo agreement was crucial, since without it, UNSCOP might have deemed statehood untenable.
That historic status quo agreement covers four issues: Sabbath observance, kashrut observance, prevention of intermarriage, and education. It states that the Sabbath will be Israel's "legal day of rest"; that "all necessary means will be employed to ensure that every state kitchen intended for Jews will be kosher"; that the Jewish Agency "will do all that can be done to satisfy the needs of the observant … to prevent a rift within the Jewish people"; and that every educational stream will have "full autonomy … to impart education according to its conscience."
Note that the document does not address various contentious issues commonly associated with the status quo today: exemptions from military service for yeshiva students and religiously observant girls, the interdiction of pig farming, El Al flights on the Sabbath, archeological excavations, autopsies, and abortion. The religious parties raised these issues only after the original status quo agreement, and they reflect the Orthodox parties' success at extending their influence beyond the initial parameters of the status quo agreement.
Despite the optimism of many non-Orthodox groups in Israel and beyond, the recent coalition agreement does not tackle the issues covered in the historic status quo agreement, or, for that matter, most of the issues often associated with it. Rather, it focuses on "redistributing the national burden," a code for criticizing the limited participation of Haredim in the military and the workforce. It mandates increased Haredi conscription, and stipulates that renewed efforts will be made to introduce a core curriculum in state-funded Haredi schools. Such legislation, and the concomitant budgetary allocations, will, of course, be challenged; bitter, even violent opposition to the proposals is likely. But it is highly unlikely that there will be changes to the original status quo agreement, or even movement on any of the aforementioned ancillary issues. With respect to these issues, the status quo will probably prevail. The presence in the coalition of the National Religious Party, now called "The Jewish Home," (in Hebrew, Habayit Hayehudi), and the Likud's hopes of future political alliances with the Haredim, make further and more radical change improbable.
The struggle over the place of religion in the public domain will thus continue. Demands for civil marriage, dissatisfaction with rabbinical-court control over divorce, attempts by Haredi extremists to encourage gender separation on public buses, and the ongoing issue of women's prayer at the Western Wall, will continue to dominate public debate over matters of religion and state. It is unclear what role the new government will play. Conceivably, once legislation concerning the increased conscription of Haredim has been enacted, and the funding issues resolved, the Haredi parties, "unsullied" by responsibility for these decisions, may seek to return to the government benches. Should this happen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be delighted, as it would offer a greater chance to sustain the coalition by playing its factions against each other; it would be a challenge, though, for Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party. Whether the party would remain in the coalition and work with its Haredi colleagues to forge a new social contract on religious–secular equilibrium, or bolt the government in protest, leaving the field open for the Haredi parties to push further legislation to erode the status quo and tilt the precarious balance in their favor, is an open question.email print


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I'm not usually a fan of blush. It seems a little strange, considering I love pink, but blush feels like something else entirely. I love the idea of blush and it looks great on other people, but it's hard for me to find blush clothes that I really like. Typically, they lean too brown or mauve-y and those colors just do not look good on me. I was really surprised when I found this blush mini dress though. It's super pale and a true blush pink- no brown or mauve shades to be found. It feels perfect for spring and it's definitely changed how I feel about the color.
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Proverbs 3:5-6 New Living Translation (NLT) Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
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yathāgninā koṭara-sthena vṛkṣāḥ
tvām adya yātāḥ śaraṇaṁ śaraṇyaṁ
yaḥ sādhito vṛtti-karaḥ patir naḥ
kṣudhārditānāṁ naradeva-deva
yāvan na naṅkṣyāmaha ujjhitorjā
vārtā-patis tvaṁ kila loka-pālaḥ
vayam — we; rājan — O King; jāṭhareṇa — by the fire of hunger; abhitaptāḥ — very much aggrieved; yathā — just as; agninā — by the fire; koṭara-sthena — in the hollow of a tree; vṛkṣāḥ — trees; tvām — unto you; adya — today; yātāḥ — we have come; śaraṇam — shelter; śaraṇyam — worth taking shelter of; yaḥ — who; sādhitaḥ — appointed; vṛtti-karaḥ — one who gives employment; patiḥ — master; naḥ — our; tat — therefore; naḥ — to us; bhavān — Your Majesty; īhatu — please try; rātave — to give; annam — food grains; kṣudhā — with hunger; arditānām — suffering; nara-deva-deva — O supreme master of all kings; yāvat na — lest; naṅkṣyāmahe — we will perish; ujjhita — being bereft of; ūrjāḥ — food grains; vārtā — of occupational engagements; patiḥ — bestower; tvam — you; kila — indeed; loka-pālaḥ — the protector of the citizens.
Dear King, just as a tree with a fire burning in the hollow of the trunk gradually dries up, we are drying up due to the fire of hunger in our stomachs. You are the protector of surrendered souls, and you have been appointed to give employment to us. Therefore we have all come to you for protection. You are not only a king, but the incarnation of God as well. Indeed, you are the king of all kings. You can give us all kinds of occupational engagements, for you are the master of our livelihood. Therefore, O king of all kings, please arrange to satisfy our hunger by the proper distribution of food grains. Please take care of us, lest we soon die for want of food.
It is the duty of the king to see that everyone in the social orders — brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra — is fully employed in the state. Just as it is the duty of the brāhmaṇas to elect a proper king, it is the duty of the king to see that all the varṇas — brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra — are fully engaged in their respective occupational duties. It is here indicated that although the people were allowed to perform their duties, they were still unemployed. Although they were not lazy, they still could not produce sufficient food to satisfy their hunger. When the people are perplexed in this way, they should approach the head of government, and the president or king should take immediate action to mitigate the distress of the people.


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Vim 7.3 released
After a 2 year wait Vim 7.3 has finally arrived, It includes an awful lot of bug fixes and a few new features, and it's better than ever before.
This is a minor release of Vim. It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all patches, updated runtime files and some additions. It has been two years since the 7.2 release, thus it's not that "minor". But not "major" either. Something in between.
The most notable additions since 7.2
- Persistent undo and undo for reload
- Blowfish encryption, encryption of the swap file
- Conceal text
- Lua interface
- Python 3 interface
Vim 7.3 can be obtained from the Vim download page.
Vim is a highly configurable text editor released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 and distributed with most *nix systems. The name "Vim" is an acronym for "Vi IMproved", Vim was created as an extended version of the Vi editor, with many additional features designed to be helpful in editing program source code.
Although Vim was originally released for the Amiga, Vim has since been developed to be truly cross platform, supporting many other platforms. It is currently one of the most popular Linux text editors.
Released under a software licence compatible with the GNU General Public Licence, Vim is free and open source software, The program's license includes some charityware clauses, encouraging users who enjoy the software to consider donating to children in Uganda.
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Happy New Year! Last year was another great year and I'm looking forward to the 2014 season. I didn't quite hit all of my goals from last year so I'll hopefully be taking care of some unfinished business. But I did taste victory a few times last year, and while I have to say I really like breaking the tape. I'll be trying to do that a little more often this year too.
Have you planned your race schedule for next year? Looking no further than Niagara for great races at every distance in one of the most beautiful parts of the province. Check out the Races in Niagara directory for upcoming races in my neck of woods.
I haven't done every race in Niagara yet, but the ones I've done have been awesome and I certainly have my favourites. There's definitely something for everyone: great races for competitive types. Great experiences for those looking to cross something off their bucket list. And everything in between.
For me, I'm gearing all training and racing early in the season towards the Boston Marathon. Boston will be special this year and I am proud to be a part of it. I'm looking forward to getting the most out of myself during the experience. I expect it to be my best marathon performance to date.
Having said that, I haven't completely decided on what other races I'm doing next year. I want to do more of the St. Catharines Road Runners Race Series runs, especially the Twelve Mile Creek Half Marathon in early June.
I also loved the Moon in June 10k in Burlington (just down the QEW from Niagara) and am looking forward to that again. Other than that, I pick a few races early in the season that will help me towards my goals for Boston, maybe get into a few of my favourites later in the year, maybe try something new.
Wishing everyone all the best in 2014.


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Sanaa Lathan brushes off accusations that she bit Beyoncé but doesn't deny it
Sanaa Lathan addressed the #whobitbeyoncé rumor once again, but this time she didn't confirm or deny her involvement.
While visiting CBS's The Talk this week, the actress revealed how she felt when the rumor mill started churning out charges that she was the culprit. Many speculated that Lathan bit Beyoncé after comedian Tiffany Haddish told GQ that an actress was at a party "doing the mostest" and nibbled on the singer's face.
"Me and my friends, we laughed our asses off," Lathan said on The Talk. "We thought it was funny. I mean, it was so absurd."
In March, Lathan took to Twitter to deny the rumors but just last month, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Haddish confirmed that Lathan was the actress she was referring to in her account of someone biting Beyoncé.
Y'all are funny. Under no circumstances did I bite Beyonce and if I did it would've been a love bite 💋
— Sanaa Lathan (@justsanaa) March 26, 2018
Lathan didn't address Haddish's latest accusation and neither confirmed nor denied that she bit Queen Bee. Instead, she simply brushed off the speculation, saying she's no stranger to rumors.
"I've had lots of rumors over the years. After so many of them, you get a thick skin," she said.
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"They are making the victim the problem by capping this," said Louise Craig, physiotherapist and spokesperson for ROAD BC.
"The problem is not that person who is injured, the problem is the person who caused the car accident. I was surprised the focus was on taking the rights away on the person injured, without a lot of information on how they will address distracted driving, crashes and the causes."
B.C. government to cap ICBC minor pain and suffering claims at $5,500
Published on: February 7, 2018 by Rob Shaw
VICTORIA — The B.C. government will cap pain and suffering claims for minor injuries in automobile accidents at $5,500, a contentious change to the province's monopoly auto insurance structure that some lawyers, health care advocates and rehabilitation businesses say could penalize victims who need help after a crash.
Attorney General David Eby said Tuesday the reforms are designed to salvage the worsening financial crisis at the Insurance Corp. of B.C. by placing a limit on what a person in a minor auto accident can receive in compensation for pain and suffering, while at the same time raising the medical benefits they separately receive to improve overall care.
But the decision brought criticism from the Trial Lawyers Association of B.C. and a coalition of 50 health care providers that includes physiotherapists and pain management clinics called ROAD B.C.
"They are making the victim the problem by capping this," said Louise Craig, a Vancouver physiotherapist and spokesperson for group Rights Over Arbitrary Decisions (ROAD) for British Columbians.
"It doesn't make sense. The problem is not that person who is injured, the problem is the person who caused the car accident. I was surprised the focus was on taking the rights away on the person injured, without a lot of information on how they will address distracted driving, crashes and the causes."
Craig said the government should first be moving to address the rising number of crashes and injury claims through road safety initiatives and crackdowns on high-risk behaviour like distracted driving. Eby said those broader changes are coming, with a consultation starting this spring to create a new structure of insurance premiums for those with bad driving histories, as well as a move to activate existing red-light intersection cameras to detect speeders.
"It will take years to get ICBC back under control," said Eby. "Where we're headed is to (make) rates affordable for British Columbians. Where we're headed is to make sure the corporation is finally sustainable. That is the aim of reforms today."
The $5,500 cap on pain and suffering for minor injuries will be indexed to inflation. But ICBC said a person can still sue an at-fault driver for additional compensation or financial losses, for example to get extra money for lost wages.
British Columbia is the last province in Canada with a purely litigation-based insurance model, where drivers not at fault in a crash sue the at-fault driver for economic loss and suffering.
The $5,500 minor injury cap is slightly higher than Alberta's $5,020 threshold, but lower than New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland. Quebec and Manitoba have full no-fault insurance, which prevents lawsuits. Saskatchewan has a dual system, with a $5,000 cap on the tort option.
The changes come into effect April 1, 2019, and are expected to save ICBC $1 billion a year. Accidents and claims that occur before then will remain under the current system, without a cap.
Trial Lawyers Association of B.C. CEO Shawn Mitchell said: "Today's ill-advised policy announcement by government throws the rights of British Columbians on the ICBC dumpster fire."
Canadian Bar Association B.C. branch president Bill Veenstra added, "The answer to ICBC's current financial woes is not to place the burden on the shoulders of innocent victims."
Minor injuries include mild whiplash, aches and sprains, cuts and bruises and anxiety. But if those injuries persist beyond 12 months and have a significant impact on work or school, they are no longer considered minor or under the cap. Broken bones or concussions are automatically considered major injuries.
Doctors will be allowed to determine if injuries are considered minor, not ICBC. However, if there is a dispute, ICBC will use a new independent dispute resolution process that mirrors a new civil resolution tribunal used to settle strata disputes.
This will reduce "out of control legal costs," said Eby, that have risen 265 per cent since 2000.
The independent dispute resolution process is modeled after a Civil Dispute Resolution tribunal currently in place in B.C., that mainly handles small-scale issues like strata disputes.
"I have very little confidence that a tribunal that administers condo decisions about whether people have to pay condo fees are going to be equipped to make decisions that a Supreme Court judge struggles with," said Craig. "It's going to make it more of a mess than it already is."
The Crown auto insurer is on track to lose $1.3 billion in the fiscal year ending March 31, as it faces a spike in claims, settlements and legal costs. Eby sidestepped repeated questions about whether ICBC would continue to hemorrhage money before the new cap comes into place in 2019, and whether additional auto insurance rate hikes are looming for motorists.
Under the current system, an average minor injury claim costs $30,038, of which $16,500 is paid for pain and suffering, $7,500 for wage loss and medical care and $6,038 for legal costs and expert reports.
To compensate for the cap, ICBC will increase the benefits that people injured in a crash can access for lost wages, health care and rehabilitation. Those benefits have not been increased since 1991, and the boost would also apply to those at-fault in a crash.
Read the full story in The Vancouver Sun: http://vancouversun.com/news/politics/b-c-government-to-cap-icbc-minor-injury-claims-at-5500


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
"It's not you, it's me...no, wait, it's you...but I can see how you thought it was me."
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i LOVE this little guy!! i landed on your blog by chance - love your stuff. I'm still laughing... :o) Thanks for sharing!
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Hey Pauline, thanks for checking out my stuff. I'm glad you like it! :)
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Drydeck is born on 2005, this electro and instrumental band is one of the most famous on Odgprod. After various physical and digital albums offering a musical style definitely dark and massive, the crew is back with a 6 tracks Ep on Original Dub Gathering. Always as powerful and dark, however DDK unfolds in an entirely different face.
We knew the EPs as Dub Chamber (2006) or DDK meets GDO (2009) drawing their inspiration directly from the French dub, we could be faced with the meeting between Dub and Dubstep on Opus as DDK vs. GDO (2010) or Heavy dub and massive s # t (2010), but we could not predict that new turn. Grime, wobbles and basslines are the watchwords; Haters gonna hate is shouted as a warning, you have been warned.


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