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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
North Shore 104.9 ? Blog Archive ? Legal Sense 02-18-12
[unable to retrieve full-text content]"Legal Sense" with Attorney Margot Birke of Elder Law Solutions, is a continuing conversation on top of the mind issues related to estate and disability planning for yourself and those you love. She is looking forward to the ...
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Interactive maps help pygmy tribes fight back
Kat Austen, CultureLab editor
Online games and interactive maps could help pygmy tribes in Africa fight logging and poaching in their area.
Part of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) programme, launched on Friday at University College London, UK, the work builds on research from anthropologist Jerome Lewis into data collection in extreme environments. Lewis has been working with indigenous people in the Republic of Congo and Cameroon since 2005 to develop tools for use by non-literate people.
In 2009, Lewis developed an icon-based interface, in collaboration with hardware provider Helveta, that could intuitively be used by the tribes affected by logging and poaching in their forest home. Once familiar with the hand-held device, the hunter-gatherers could use it to geotag trees crucial to their way of life - for example, those trees from which they harvest a particularly delicious, and commodifiable, type of caterpillar. The information was then fed back to logging companies and policy holders to try and save crucial areas of forest.
Now Lewis is moving one step further, making use of developments in tablets and smartphones to enable forest communities to gather multimedia data and feed it into intelligent maps. The data can be displayed on the maps so that users can see how the forest has changed over time.
"As climate change starts to affect the rising and falling of water in the forest, animals become difficult to find and as is the predictability of the arrival of fruits and insects. This has been dramatically affected by climate change," says Lewis.?
"Mapping changes over time will allow the forest people to start to notice the regularities that might emerge as things change. In theory you can start to adapt your behaviour to take account of that".
But one obstacle lies in the way - map illiteracy in the indigenous communities. To address this, Lewis is now collaborating with researchers from the ISI foundation in Italy, who have developed a platform for social games and experiments, Experimental Tribes, to teach the indigenous tribes how to read and interact with the maps they have been creating over the last few years.
Playing Blindate, a collaborative game that requires map-reading in order for two players to meet up, will encourage the tribe members to become familiar with locating themselves and places of interest on forest maps, says the project's Vittorio Loreto of Rome's Sapienza University in Italy.?
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Gathering with Extended Family for the Holidays Doesn't Have to be ...
Aunt Edna is upset because Cousin Billy is bringing his new girlfriend, and she doesn?t think she should have to buy her a gift. Sue and Harry?s family can only come on the Saturday before the holiday, and Aunt Judy insists that everything be home cooked. Considering the obstacles and opinions, why will Americans mob the airports and highways this holiday season, as they do every year, to attend gatherings with their extended families?
?People need to feel that connectedness,? surmises Charlotte Shoup Olsen, an associate professor of family studies and extension specialist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan. ?When everyone is together you get that sense of being part of a bigger community ? not in the sense that you live close by, but just in a sense of belonging. Holidays, especially, offer a good opportunity to build that family history together.?
According to a recent poll conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Modern Woodmen of America, Rock Island, Ill., 90 percent of Americans attend a holiday event such as Thanksgiving or Christmas with extended family.
?Nearly all Americans in our survey (99 percent) feel it?s good for children to know their relatives and family history,? comments Sharon Snawerdt of Modern Woodmen. Modern Woodmen, a fraternal benefit society offering financial services, promotes strong family relationships through its many member programs as well as its Web site, www.gatherings.info.
Snawerdt adds, ?Ninety percent of survey respondents indicated that spending time with extended family is one of the most important parts of their lives.?
Family Feuds
The holidays are a time for ?peace on earth,? but that doesn?t stop Uncle Joe from fighting with Aunt Helen.
?Holidays are a time when people come home, and grown, mature adults will fall back into those old childhood roles in the family and past hard feelings resurface,? explains Olsen. ?Big sis just can?t get over feeling that baby brother was spoiled rotten, even if they are both in their 40s.?
Olsen says that all family members should be included in the invitation, even the black sheep or the two family members having a feud.
?If someone refuses to come because so and so will be there, there is nothing you can do about it,? she says. ?That is his or her baggage.?
Olsen offers some tips for how to handle family members who may not like to be in the same room with one another.
* Appoint a neutral member of the family to take on the role of mediator. (This person should use humor and tact to encourage guests to avoid touchy subjects. In other words, if Uncle Joe starts discussing Grandpa?s will, the mediator should gracefully make it known that this isn?t the appropriate time to bring up that topic.)
* Assign seats using place cards.
* Set up smaller table arrangements throughout the house.
* Limit alcoholic beverages. Alcohol makes some people braver and more confrontational.
Giving and Receiving
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It wouldn?t be the holidays without gift giving, but as families grow larger many struggle with how to handle it. Olsen offers these tips:
* A grab bag. In this system, set a price limit and have each guy bring a guy gift and each gal bring a gal gift.
* A drawing. Each participant planning to attend the event draws a name from a hat (or via phone or email) and brings a gift for only that person.
* A homemade gift exchange. Crafts, food items and artwork are good suggestions. This is for the family willing to invest some time, but not as much money.
* A ?time? gift certificate exchange. These can feature anything from snow shoveling to babysitting services.
* A kids-only exchange.
* A collection of donations for the local food pantry or group sponsorship of a needy family.
Finally, Olsen suggests forgoing the gift giving altogether and replacing it with activities even more meaningful. Modern Woodmen?s www.gatherings.info Web site offers a host of tips for making your family gathering fun. Aside from the standard board games and card games, your family may want to try these ideas:
* Games and Activities
? ?Picture Lotto? ? Make your own game using copies of your family pictures.
? ?Frosty? ? Use some toilet paper, construction paper and family teams to have some family fun in this interactive game.
? ?Unwrap the Gift? ? This game uses a bag of candy or small gift items, a multi-layer-wrapped gift box and some music to create fun for the very young, as well as the adults.
* Scrapbook, photography and video ideas
? A Family Time Capsule ? It can?t get much easier than videotaping the festivities to save for posterity. You can incorporate interviews with family members asking them to share their favorite memories or a song.
? Gathering Scrapbook ? More than compiling a multifaceted record of a gathering, creating scrapbooks can be a rewarding. At your next family event have each family create a page. Take pictures that day thinking about each family, so you can get a representative sample. When the film is developed, place the appropriate pictures with that family?s page. Compile together and share at your next gathering.
?The important part of gift giving isn?t so much what you get, but prolonging the family time together,? says Olsen. ?Instead of a gift exchange, you can think of activities or games to do together. You can sing carols or look over photo albums. You can view family videos or make a video heirloom. Any holiday tradition is an opportunity beyond eating to spend time together. You have a short amount of time together, but you want to make it a good memory for the whole year.?
?That?s one gift everyone will appreciate.?
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Two-Day Educator-Only APPy TechInEd Event and Huge App Sale ...
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San Francisco California ? Technology (Spl) Education is proud to present APPy TechInEd, an online educational app sale event where educators and app developers from around the world will share ideas and help shape the future of education app development. This is part of a series of APPy Events that Technology (Spl) Education organizes on Facebook where visitors learn more about apps, interact with developers, and provide promo codes and iTunes Gift Card Giveaways.
WHAT: This event was organized to provide educators an opportunity to interact with developers and influence the development of educational apps. Penelope the Purple Pirate, Pirate Scribblebeard?s Treasure with Oscar & Josephine, Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island, and other apps will go on sale or offered free in support of Educator APPy TechInEd Facebook Event.
Over 76 app developers and 175 apps will be participating in Technology (Spl) Education APPy TechInEd Educator Event February 17th and 18th. This is an educator-only event to exchange ideas & influence future education app development.
WHO: Technology in (Spl) Education Educator APPy Event is sponsored by Mobile Education Store and Operatio Apps who both provide top educational apps.
WHEN: February 17- 18, 2012. The event will be hosted by two Special Education Teachers from Ohio, Morgan Kolis and Melanie Broxterman.
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Siva Kumar started the Technology in SPL Education site in the early 2011 to collect and share tools, hardware and applications available for the enhancement of technology in education with emphasis in Special education. He categorizes information about apps for children with special needs so that parents, educators and other professionals who work with kids with special needs can benefit his research and review of relevant apps. Copyright (C) 2012 Siva Kumar. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.
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Computer Games photos | Going Pro Gaming
How could anyone say consoles are better than computer games?
Dave Warfield, Head of VFS Game Design and Game Design Expo 2010 emcee
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?It looks to be a great day,? says Head of VFS Game Design ? and Game Design Expo 2010 emcee ? Dave Warfield of the slate of presenters and panelists.
Learn about Game Design Expo at gamedesignexpo.com.
Find out more about VFS?s one-year Game Design program at vfs.com/gamedesign
Computer Games Course 2008 @ Klagenfurt University: Torture Ball
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Gory game, but huge efforts in gfx and gameplay.
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
Obama campaign shifts to also targeting Santorum (AP)
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