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Teaching Strategic Doing With Simulation Games

Simulation Games
We have been developing simulation games since 2007 and we are still loving it. Our committment to the method exhibits our conviction in the powerful benefits of simulation gaming as a learning-tool. Your aim is to eliminate all the enemy penguin squads on each level in order to advance your campaign (you must knock the little guys off their iceberg ships), Choose to play a new campaign to play individually, or the 2 player game option to play with your friend or family member.

Make sure kids know what kinds of time limits they have when playing these kinds of games, and give them plenty of warning before asking them to sign off. Even real-time tactics games feature areas of a larger scale, even though the units you control are limited in number.

All this and more is waiting for you in our free simulation games. This is the king of PC racing simulation games. Flight Simulator is a simulator; SPICE is an electronics simulator. Simulation games simulate elements of reality, whether that’s construction, business management, or life itself, but they do not have to be realistic.

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Simulation Games
PC simulation games are great because they allow gamers to simulate real life in a safe and consequence free environment. With modding and Steam Workshop support, you won’t run out of ideas or ways to build your perfect game and game company. Similar to the Sim City series, Cities: Skylines is a simulation title in which players can build up and maintain a city, full of buildings and civilians.

No matter whether simulation games continue to be the butt of internet japes or not, it would appear that the genre is on the up and up. Whether it will ever manage to break the U.S. is another matter entirely. Plan and build roads and neighborhoods with residences, and live the hectic life of a god-like city planner.

Strategic play is explored in organized league games; after 6+ years of league play, strategies are still being invented and refined. At the same time, if the simulation game is too far detached from their current situation, participants have difficulty emotionally engaging in the role play.

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PC simulation games are one way to try new experiences right in the privacy of your own home. Players can even socialize in the online multiplayer mode. In this simulation you can also go back and make a different choice – contrary to the real life. However, it’s also one of the more expensive simulation games. FIFA 08 introduced a new game mode called “Be a Pro”, in which the player controls only a single player on the field.

Role-playing simulations and games, they argued, would enliven the teaching of subjects as diverse as mathematics and social studies. With a collection of parts that will play an effect through the build of a spacecraft, players will learn how to successfully develop a spacecraft capable of going into space and landing back down to Earth.

Here you find an overview of all the simulation games, developed by CRISP. The beauty of free war games is that it is a shooting, strategy, action, and role-playing game all-in-one. With the Multi-Instance feature on BlueStacks you can play multiple games at once.

In the Bruges case there are between 90 and 100 students a year, and in Aix there are 70. In both cases the idea is to simulate the EU’s Ordinary Legislative Procedure – so this means players representing Member States (Council or COREPER), the European Parliament, and the European Commission. Our free online simulator games are fun and addictive like few others. Similarly, it is an open world multiplayer game. The games are designed to be entertaining; fidelity to empirical reality is not foremost. Play Simulation games on Enjoy the best collection of Simulation related games on the internet.

Farming Simulator 18 is the latest in the long running sim series. Perhaps the most popular simulation games are the driving and racing games, such as Motoracer, Need for Speed, and Monster Madness. Walking simulation games signal a new literary genre Research has revealed that walking simulations are blurring the boundaries of different art forms to create a new literary genre.

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Simulation Games
The game that I am speaking of is none other than one of the classic games that almost everyone has heard of and that game is Sim City. Some video games simulate the playing of sports Most sports have been recreated by video games, including team sports , athletics and extreme sports Some games emphasize playing the sport (such as the Madden NFL series ), whilst others emphasize strategy and organization (such as Championship Manager ). Some, such as Arch Rivals , satirize the sport for comic effect.

However, the relationship between learning experiences and problem solving strategies in simulation games still remains unclear in the literature. There are two very distinct schools of thought when it comes to commercial flight simulatior games. You can sip wine, eat bread, smoke a cigarette or tap impatiently on the table, but your actions have absolutely no impact on whether Meiko will show up or not over the course of the experience’s 25 minute playtime.
If you’re after a WW2 simÂ with an enormous community that you can start playing with no financial outlay, thoughâ€¦ well, your demands are very specific, and War Thunder’s your sim.


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1. Hate the gun. Looks like crap and doesn't perform all that well when you throw money at it.

  2. Approach NASA for use of one of their super computers.

  3. I see in another comment you have a 3080ti and a 5800x3d.

  4. Feel you man. Legit have never seen one in the last 2 wipes.

  5. I've got over 4k hours in the game, played around 5 wipes. Never seen it once and one of the reasons I don't even look at kappa. I can grind out most things but the thought of trying to get that last item makes my dick itch

  6. Pretty much got the exact same setup except I got the 58003dx.

  7. Also feel it has been slightly on the brutal side recently. Did manage to finish up punisher 6 there earlier though so won't complain too much.

  8. Really need to know your current specs to give any informed answer.

  9. Yes. It says preorder because the game hasn't officially released. You will have access to the beta like the rest of us :)

  10. It's cheap and will tank a couple of decent rounds, saved me a good few times.

  11. It's just a cultist whispering gently in your ear :D

  12. Amazon expanding their drone delivery system

  13. Always one guy that’s gotta comment some corny shit like this under these kinds of post.

  14. You know for sure this guy's scary as shit irl and no one steps to them...

  15. Just copying my comment I made in a different thread. Has some numbers that might be relevant to you.

  16. I've used PBO2 tuner, it does the job well. Felt it was stable going as much as -30 on some cores but it took a lot of testing to get it right and set the other cores to -20/-25

  17. 8hrs a day grinding a stupid game? Get out of the house and live a real life

  18. Almost like wasting your time replying to a Reddit thread. Why not get out more?

  19. 5800x3d feels like it was made specifically for tarkovs piss poor optimisation.

  20. Yeah, been reading a lot of benchs of this one and looks like a beast. Does it need X570 chipset of just the B560 will do the job? Same for ram, 3200 CL4 is more than enough?

  21. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the b560 intel?

  22. Yeah. Since I know I will need both a CPU and a GPU upgrade in the future, I actually copped the 5800x3d in order to clear this space already. Will look into some GPUs some months further now. Just hoping to see some improvement in Tarkov as of right now. Thanks!

  23. You will see a good FPS increase with that cpu alone. I've said in a couple of posts regarding the 5800x3d that it runs very hot and under tarkov load mine was hitting over 90 degrees Celsius which it starts to throttle. So either look at some of the 3rd party apps to undervolt it (can't do it via bios) or hopefully your cooler can keep up :)

  24. This aint rust. You can dive in and get slaughtered any time :)

  25. I feel this is harsh. You are forgetting the massive lighthouse expansion....

  26. I have a 5800x3d which I upgraded from a 3700x

  27. You know you can play or use something and still not be entirely happy with it. You can even enjoy it.

  28. Tarkov is very badly optimised and it has only got worse for certain maps as they expand them.

  29. Had the same CPU as you with a 2070 super, 32 gigs @3600

  30. As I said in another comment. I tried it, it wasnt nearly good enough to cool the 5800x3d without undervolting it. In tarkov I was hitting 95 with it.

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Altenew Educators: Favorite Old/New Altenew Stamp Blog Hop and Linky Party + Giveaway

Hello and welcome to the Altenew Educator Certification Program Blog Hop!

and my fellow Educators are so excited to share our favorite Altenew stamps with you.

Your previous stop was Katrina Howe so you are in the right place if you're hopping along in order.

You can return to the Altenew Card Blog at any time to make sure you leave a comment on each blog for a chance to win a prize!

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My "Old Favorite" is not a stamp set it's the Watercolor Bouquet stencil which was one of the first two Altenew stencils I purchased, Cube Builder was the first :).

I created a matchbook notepad, inking the cover, white card stock cut 3" wide by  with the Watercolor Bouquet stencil in Wisteria and Hydrangea ink.

Here's a look at the full cover, the sentiment is from the Beautiful Quotes set and heat embossed in Rose Gold embossing powder.

I used my sewing machine to perforate the paper 1/2" from the edge. This will enable the user to tear off the sheet as they use the notepad.

After scoring the card stock cover, I stapled the sheets within the cover and added Golden Washi tape to cover up the staples.

The height of this stencil makes it perfect for a slimline card. After inking this with Teal Cave and Galactic Stream ink, I stamped over the inking with the Dainty Swiss Dots stamp and Clear Embossing ink

I placed the card stock in my Misti, stamping the top half of the paper, coating with Rose Gold embossing powder and heat setting. I then stamped the remainder of the card stock and heat embossed. The pattern doesn't line up exactly but we'll cover that up with the sentiment strip.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Sentiment Strips 2 set in Rose Gold embossing powder too.

It's super fun to use an old favourite in a new way. I created a background with my Gel Press and Baby Pink, Limeade and Iceberg ink.
I started by inking the centre of the flower with Mango Smoothie ink, then the first layer with Pink Pearl and Coral Bliss ink
The first layer of the stem and leaves are inked with Sweet Leaf.
Then I inked the second layer of florals with with Heartbeat and a little Vineyard Berry; the second layer of the leaves is inked with Just Green.

After thoroughly cleaning the stencil I replaced the base layer over the image, covered the area with Clear embossing ink, removed the stencil and coated with Translucent Embossing powder. You just see the hint of glitter. I then added a little shading with Evening Gray Ink.

Sentiment from the Beautiful Day stamp set is stamped with Black Obsidian Pigment ink, coated with Crystal Clear embossing powder and heat set.

A few Iridescent Gems from my stash finish it off.

I have always wanted to try watercoloring with this stencil so this was the perfect opportunity to do so!

I sprayed the stencil with Pixie Spray, a reposition-able a spray adhesive and applied the stencil to Altenew A2 watercolor paper

I added Ultramarine and Ultraviolet Watercolor Brush Marker ink to the center of the blooms and then a little water to move the color towards the edges, dabbing off a bit with paper towel.
The leaves are colored with Just Green Watercolor Brush Marker ink.

If you want to dry with a heat tool make sure you remove your stencil so you don't melt it.
Once the first layer is dry, replace the detail portion of the stencil over the base image. I added Ultramarine ink on the blooms in the same manner as the base layer. Sea Forest ink is the leaf detail layer.

Once the ink was dry I replaced the base layer of the stencil and added Iridescent Shimmer Ink, let dry and replace the detail layer to add pen details with the .01 Fine Liner Pen.

Mango Smoothie ink is applied through the Scallop Builder stencil around the image with the Small Ink Blending tool. Some black splatters with the Jet Black Watercolor brush marker, a Rose Gold embossing powder heat embossed sentiment from the Wild Hibiscus set and a few Iridescent gems complete the card.

On to my new favorite and it's the Build-A-Flower: Bellaroma Hybrid Tea Rose

I've been wanting to try the Split Card Technique after watching a Jennifer McGuire video and it is so easy and fun!

First I created a mask for my images stamping on Altenew Masking Paper and fussy cut it.
Then I marked the center line of a 5 1/4" by 8" long piece of white card stock lightly in pencil.
First, stamp the outline of the bloom in Jet Black in beginning with the middle image approximately halfway down the card stock straddling the pencil line as evenly as possible. Apply mask then stamp top and bottom outline images and stamp leaf outlines as well.

I stamped all the colored layers with a single ink color, creating varied shades through multiple stamping.

Stamp the base layer in Pink Pearl two times and base color of leaves in Minty Mint.
Stamp second layer (this is the outer ledge of the petals) 4x in Pink Pearl, I also added a layer of Clear Embossing Ink, coated with Translucent Embossing powder and melted with a heat tool. The center layer is stamped three times with Pink Pearl ink. The detail layer of the leaves is stamped 4 times in Minty Mint.

Once the stamping was completed, I cut the panel in half creating two 5 1/4" x 4" panels.

I add black splatters by smooshing Jet Black ink on a craft sheet, spritzing with water and then picking up with a paint brush and tapping brush to create drops.

I've die cut the sentiment with the Simply Thank You die out of gold mirror card stock.

For the second card, I oriented it horizontally with the flowers along the bottom, adding ink splatters in the same manner as the first card.

I chose the Framed Thanks die for the sentiment and also cut it out of gold mirror card stock.

I'll let you in on a little secret, I'm planning a workshop with this technique so details on that will be coming very soon!

Altenew is giving away a $20 gift certificate to 5 lucky winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog by 4/4/2021 for a chance to win.

We’ll also draw a winner to receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate from the comments left on each designer’s blog on the blog hop list below. All winners will be announced on the Altenew Winners Page on 4/6/2021.

There’s MORE! What’s a hop without YOU?! We have included an Inlinkz at the Altenew blog for you to enter your gorgeous Altenew “Old/New Favorite Altenew Stamp” creations. We will pick 2 of our favorite handmade creations from those who joined the linky party and they will each receive a $15 Altenew gift certificate!

Your next stop on the hop is Terri Marie Koszler.

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Teresa Litchfield

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Tenia Nelson

Pam Boedeker

Nandini Karmarkar

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Helen Kalb

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Teri Wilson

Rachael Shedeed

Neha Aggarwal

Kari VanNoy

Teri Stokes

Amber Rain Davis

Virginia Lu

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pamboe said...

You are amazing! So many different looks from one stencil. I cannot choose a favorite. Love them all.

Helen Kalb said...

Your notebook is so clever and the stencil is perfect!

Eva Bussom said...

Gorgeous cards

Lorraine Melin said...

Wonderful projects, Rosie! Great job!

Esther Asbury said...

Wow! So many beautiful projects to look at! Love them all!

Cindy C. said...

Awesome projects!!

Nandini said...

Awesome work! The stenciling is gorgeous! And I love the BAF cards.

Joni Mastronardi said...

All so gorgeous!

MadeByMeghanK said...

These are stunning! I LOVE the gold thank you ones!

pioneermissy said...

I can't possibly choose a favorite! Can't wait to try the split card design with some of my flower layering stamps that are due to arrive this week!!

Peg Frushour said...

So many beauttiful cards!

Teresa McClennen said...

I love the creativity with the matchbook notepad. Very clever as well as beautiful!

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Teresa Mc said...
I love the crativity with the matchbook notepad. Very clever as well as beautiful!

Nenette Madero said...

Amazing cards using 1 stencil, Rosie!!! I love how you stamped over the floral image. Such a cool outcome. Thanks for the inspiration!

gaylehicks said...

My favorite is the last set with the roses - all are nice!

Mary Ann said...

First of all - gorgeous! You are the best advertisement for this stamp set because each card is amazing. I could not pick a favorite because I really and truly enjoyed them all. Outstanding work!

DorothyA said...

Lovely cards. My favorite are the last 2 using the hybrid rose stamp set. I really like the colors you used and the fun thank you die. Inspirational!

Whiteibis said...

Very nice cards, layouts and color combinations. I enjoyed viewing your work.

Arzed said...

Nice layouts and colour combinations

Jana Hwang said...

Wow love all these cards!

sharon g said...

These are all just wonderful. I especially like the flower on dots. I have never stamped on decorative paper before. NICE

Sarah B said...

So many pretty cards. My favorites are your three with the red roses. Love that treatment with the stencil and the split card technique. I keep learning new things all along the hop. Thanks for the inspiration.

Roxy T said...

I like all the variety for both old and new sets. My fav is the red Watercolor Bouquet. I just really love how it all comes together.

Shawn M. said...

Great projects!

Jade said...

So many incredible cards! I especially love your color combinations. They are very pretty.

Regina (Tina) Kahles said...

Hi Rosie, Thanks so much for sharing your Beautiful cards and Matchbook Notepad, These were truly an inspiration.
I especially loved the matchbook notepad, how clever. Thanks for sharing the techniques you used, I can't wait to make my own. Also your cards were awesome.

Regina (Tina) Kahles said...

Hi Rosie,
I left the above comment, I don't know what happened but it said I was unknown, I left my name and email address, currently I am not a Blogger. I don't understand what happened So Sorry.

Cindi said...

Wow! You really outdid yourself. Great cards.

juneroses said...

Lovely designs! Beautiful flowers!

Ms. Tamp said...

Great look at the sets. I like the ideas shared for how to make old favorites new again.

Lauryne Cunningham said...

What a beautiful variety of cards! I love the color combination on the Best Mom card!

Kristine Boydstun said...

These cards are so beautiful!

Liz. said...

The cards are all lovely. I especially like the stenciled roses and the split image roses.
I plan to look up videos showing that technique more in-depth, it's that nice!

Denise Bryant said...

Beautiful floral designs!

Elizabeth Kuhn said...

So many beautiful cards! I love how unique and different they all are with technique, color and embellishments :-)

Helen said...

Wow, Rosie! So many wonderful projects!! Your cards are lovely, but I fell in love with that gorgeous stamped notepaper pad! Even the stitching to make the perforations is such a clever detail!! Thanks for sharing the great inspiration! Stay safe! :)

Michelle said...

Sooooo much inspiration—your cards are beautiful. I absolutely love that stencil, too!! :)

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Five of Cambridge’s prospective parliamentary candidates took part in an event run by the Cambridge University Railway Society on the 16th of January 2015.

Key elements of each candidate’s statements on railway policy:

  • Rupert Reed (Green): Wants to renationalise the railways.
  • Daniel Zeichner (Labour): Wants to ensure everyone is always sold the cheapest ticket and applauds the railway workers.
  • Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat): Says people don’t really care who owns the railway, that he thinks fares are far too high and he wants to see investment in rail rather than roads.
  • Chamali Fernando (Conservative): Spoke in favour of private companies running the railways, but also in favour of spending public money on them.

When I consider rail policy my first thoughts turn to safety. I was living in Cambridge when in 2002 the London to Cambridge train derailed and crashed into Potters Bar station at just under one hundred miles per hour. Six people in the fourth, rearmost, coach died, someone walking nearby was also killed and seventy six people were injured. I followed the subsequent inquest via the daily published transcripts. The inquest jury determined derailment was caused by design flaws in a type of points and failures to properly maintain and inspect the track.

Just two years before there had been a crash at Hatfield (also on the London – Cambridge route, though not involving a Cambridge train), and in the years before that the UK had seen 31 deaths and 520 injuries at Ladbrooke Grove and seven deaths and 139 injuries at Southall.

While an image of a track inspection train was one of slides being shown on a loop at the hustings event there was no mention of safety by any of the questioners or candidates. In the first part of the session there was a focus on fares and funding so perhaps that makes it more understandable (although ensuring there’s enough money in the railways so that they can be safely run is key in my view).

I think perhaps the candidates were distracted by the pressing issues of the moment and not stepping back and considering what’s really important when it comes to running railways.

Perhaps the candidates are all confident that problems identified have been addressed, but I think we need to ensure that investment in infrastructure continues to enable the system to be kept safe and also to ensure a safety culture is maintained.

Network Rail is due to become subject to Freedom of Information from April 2015. I hope this will lead to more proactive publication of information enabling the “many eyes” of the population at identify problems and obtain material on which to base robust arguments for changes and improvements.

Aims of the Rail System

No candidate clearly articulated their views on what we’re trying to achieve with our rail system in the UK. There was no clear consideration of what we’re buying when we spend public money subsidising and investing in railways though through the course of the evening many of the factors were raised.

A key question is to what extent do we want to be subsidising and encouraging long commutes into London. With significant numbers of London commuters living, and voting, in Cambridge this is an important matter for the election here.

MP Julian Huppert (Liberal Democrat) was the only candidate to speak about trying to reduce the need for travel.

There’s a balance to be made between the level of fares, and encouraging, though subsidy to make railways more affordable, businesses basing themselves in central London.

I think this a case where there’s not a simple, extreme, answer and we need to pick the right point on the continuum.

The event was told that the share of the costs of running the railway are increasingly being borne by rail users through their fares and fares are on track to rise to 103% of operating costs (but are currently at 66%).

Cambridge MP Julian Huppert said fares are far to high and claimed his government had managed to “end the era of above inflation rail fare increases”.

Rupert Reed said a Green government would cut rail fares by 10%

Labour’s Daniel Zeichner was asked how is “everyone will pay the lowest fare” policy will work in practice. He responded “we’ll just make it law”. I think what this policy is seeking to do is not make it so everyone pays the same price, but when you buy a ticket you don’t pay more than you need to by purchasing the wrong type of ticket.

I certainly remember when I first used trains the experience of going to a ticket window asking for a ticket to somewhere to be quoted a ludicrous price and having to explicitly ask for cheaper options.

MP Julian Huppert supported the policy of ensuring everyone got the cheapest valid ticket for their journey saying there computers can easily be used to identify the appropriate ticket so it should be an easy policy to implement.

Conservative Chamali Fernando said it would be irresponsible to make all taxpayers fund the railways as only 8% use them – a stance which would lead to shifting more of the costs of running the railways onto travellers through their fares.

Other Points

Cambridge’s MP Julian Huppert said the Liberal Democrats push for more investment in rail in contrast to Conservatives who prefer to invest in roads. He also spoke about progress on East-West Oxford to Cambridge railway, saying he expects the middle section to gain investment. Huppert also said a March – Wisbech railway would help people get to work in Cambridge.

Green Rupert Reed said he would put the A14 improvements on-hold to fund East-West rail. Huppert said while he doesn’t support big road schemes generally the A14 is unsafe and there’s a need to deal with deaths and collisions.

MP Julian Huppert spoke about needing better technology in the rail system; including technology for trains to know where they are.

Julian Huppert promised the new 3,000 space cycle park at Cambridge Station won’t be full in the first three weeks of opening.

Green Rupert Reed said he wants opening windows on trains.

Conservative Chamali Fernando lectured at those present, littering her speech with “ladies and gentlemen” and suggested private companies, profit and competition could, given public aspiration, lead to better services such as cleaner toilets on trains.

Labour’s Daniel Zeichner said the daily achievement of rail industry in moving so many people in and our of London is astonishing.

I thought Julian Huppert had a much wider breadth of knowledge and views than the other candidates – but then we’ve funded him to be a full time professional politician with a support staff for approaching five years nowDon’t Sell Train Tickets for Buses

One change I’d like to see in our rail system is a ban on rail companies selling you a train ticket when they know they’re not going to be able to offer a rail service but have a rail replacement bus on instead. I suspect this may be covered already under a consumer law somewhere, and the ease of accessing service information is improving, but I’ve felt annoyed on a number of occasions where I felt I should have been told at the time I bought a ticket when it was known there would be no trains when I’d said I wanted to travel.

Railways, like roads, are inherently public concerns in that long distance routes can only exist as a result of our society deciding to allow the compulsory purchase of land needed to build them. The degree of public involvement, and to what extent it continues into the operation of the railway is something we get to decide.

Network Rail is already publicly owned; and the train operating companies’ franchises are for limited periods so they could just not be renewed if a Government wanted.

That leaves the rolling stock operating companies, which the Green Party have estimated would cost £20bn to buy back.

There’s a question of how far you renationalise does “renationalising the railways” include nationalising the companies which build trains, which smelt steel, which make staff uniforms?

My view is you have to pick the bits is makes sense for the public to run.

If we’re going to have public run services we need to all take an interest in their management, even if that’s just carefully electing representatives who we trust to set the strategy and direction and monitor performance on our behalf. Public services without engaged and passionate leadership risk lumbering on without any drive to improve.

Depending on how much of the burden of funding railways it is decided to place on those who use them state run railways could be profit making.

This was the first time the four candidates who attended had appeared in public together.

UKIP’s Patrick O’Flynn did not attend.

A number of party activists were present distributing campaign material; the organisers asked this to stop after it had happened.

It appeared some Conservative activists had come along try and support their candidate by jeering and heckling those questioning her.

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  1. I asked UKIP’s Candidate Patrick O’Flynn why he wasn’t at this, or other hustings, in Cambridge. He said he was very busy as a MEP and unlike the other candidates has significant party responsibilities. He said he’d missed another hustings so he could have a birthday dinner with his mum.

    As he hadn’t turned up to the hustings I asked him for his views on railways:

    He said:

    • He wants to see better rail connections for North and East Cambridgeshire to make it easier to commute to Cambridge and to share the prosperity of the city with a wider area.
    • He has no ideological opposition to state ownership of railways, if that’s the cheapest way to run them.
    • Railway operating costs ought be shared between public funds and fares.
    • We need greater capacity in the railway network.
    • There’s room to get better value for money from the public operators.
    • He said “I love trains”, “we need bigger trains”.

    O’Flynn connected rail policy to housing policy; as rail has the potential to make more affordable homes accessible to those working in Cambridge.

    This prompted a discussion of what I think is quite a divide in our society – those who move away from where they grew up and those who don’t. O’Flynn said that people not being able to afford to live where they were born undermines the community spirit of any place.

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This scooter was being ridden dangerously through Arbury today.

This scooter was being ridden dangerously through Arbury today.

Earlier today a scooter screamed past me as I was cycling home. A older teen was driving and an apparently younger boy, without a helmet, was clinging onto the back. The passenger was highly animated and shouting. As the bike tore down Carlton Way; not excessively fast but making a lot of noise, the vehicle sounded as if it was being pushed to its limits. Before turning into Brimley Road the bike’s rider started hooting his horn excessively, clearly not worried about drawing attention to himself.

The youths pulled up in Redfern Close and used the footpath to Arbury Court. I took a look at the bike, registration AE 57 FWK, and was amused to find it was, appropriately named a JM Star “Madness” with the word “Madness” emblazoned down the side. Unlike a couple of the scooters I’ve seen being ridden dangerously before in Arbury this one had its ignition intact and was apparently being driven using the key.

I saw the pair again later; they returned from the shops and threw their shopping bags on the pavement on Redfern Close as they packed some of their shopping under the seat of the bike. They drove off with the passenger still without a helmet and now holding on with only one hand; he was holding a bag of shopping he out to one side of the bike with the other.

This kind of thing is a common occurrence in the lawless areas in the north of the city. I have tried to urge councillors, the police, and relevant city council staff to take an interest but they don’t appear to consider what’s going on much of a problem. Youths know that the police won’t take any serious action against them. They know that they will not be treated as I expect I would if I was to brazenly break the traffic laws. They know they won’t be stopped and fined or put in front of magistrates who might take their license away (or delay them getting one). These youths know that if they’re caught at all they’ll probably dealt with under their own law; the new-Labour “Anti-Social Behaviour Act”. Or if not the ASB act, Section 59 of the Police Reform Act youths are aware that under this latter act, in first instance they’ll be given a warning, and only if they’re caught twice doing the same thing will they face having their bike confiscated. This latter act focuses on “Vehicles used in manner causing alarm, distress or annoyance”; I feel this is behind the police’s odd approach which appears blind to the fact that having kids speeding round the pavements, paths and roads of the city on bikes, sometimes without helmets, and some of them being far too young to ride legally is dangerous. At area committees the police say that these are youths who are merely annoying residents with the noise, the police appear not to grasp they’re putting their, and others’ lives and limbs at risk. Even the case of a youngster on a bike seriously injuring themselves when colliding with a bus in the south of the city hasn’t changed the police view.

The scooter passenger is wearing a hoodie, but not a helmet, he his holding on with one hand and has his shopping in the other.

The scooter passenger is wearing a hoodie, but not a helmet, he his holding on with one hand and has his shopping in the other. (Taking photos of speeding scooters isn’t easy.)

Just before Christmas a hundred or so pupils from Chesterton Community College gathered on Stretten Avenue to watch youths recklessly ride mopeds and other bikes; pulling wheelies – sometimes to show off and sometimes apparently as a result of having little control over their bikes. Last year mini-motos and children’s quad bikes were in regular use on the streets of the area. I have seen some very young children; as young as eight or so riding bikes at 20-30 mph on the streets of Arbury.

Some of my neighbours have given up reporting what’s happening; due to inaction by the police – or worse than inaction – investigating those reporting what’s happening. If I reported what happened to the police I’m almost certain that if any action was taken it would involve me getting a knock on the door from a couple of PCSOs, and not a police officer going round to whoever the bike is registered to and having a word; and perhaps letting the mother of the child who’d been precariously riding on the back of the bike know about the risks he had been taking.

“Anti-social behaviour affecting St Lukes School and surrounding area” is a current local police priority, it was set at the North Area Committee in November 2009. The bike I saw today came from the direction of St Luke’s School; and as a result of the priority a City Council CCTV camera is on Frenchs’ Road. I will write to the council to see it collected any evidence. The council won’t proactively release images to the police though, the police will have to take an interest and contact them. The priority, at Cllr Todd-Jones’ request, is supposed to involve the police trying to restore local residents’ view of the police which has been damaged by recent lack of action and manner in which contact has been dealt with. I’ve not seen any evidence of that happening.

Shopping bags discarded on Redfern Close by the scooter riding youths.

Shopping bags discarded on Redfern Close by the scooter riding youths.

I’ve been investigated twice by Cambridgeshire police once for reporting a burglary (and not signing a dodgy statement which had been written for me) and once for taking some photos out my front window of some pretty dangerous scooter riding (on the pavements while young children were being taken home from school). Since that latter case the police have changed their stance on those photographing what they call “Anti-Social Behaviour”; but I’m not sure the message has got through to individual officer, who told me I might have to go to court to justify any photo I took. The officer, PC Simon Railer, gave a presentation to the West/Central area committee on the 20th of August 2009, and I asked him if he now accepted that there was nothing wrong with people taking photographs as evidence of problems but he declined to answer.

Some of the Laws the Police Ought be Enforcing

Sections 16 and 17 of the 1988 Road Traffic Act along with the The Motor Cycles (Protective Helmets) Regulations 1998 require both the driver and passenger of motor cycles [including scooters] to wear approved helmets. If a passenger under 16 is the one without a helmet then the driver is the one responsible. Littering is contrary to Section 87 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Unlike the ASB act or S.59 of the Police Reform Act these laws draw the line between legal and illegal clearly. They do not ask PCs and PCSOs to make a subjective judgement on if someone’s behaviour is “criminalish” enough to warrant action.

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5 responses to “Youths Still Riding Scooters Dangerously in Arbury”

  1. I have written to the City Council’s ASB team to draw their attention to this article.

    I have written to ask the council’s CCTV manager if the city’s camera on Frenchs’ Road has captured anything worth asking the police to look at.

  2. I’ve just read your other article about lawlessness in Arbury. Good luck getting an adequate response from the council, I failed to get action last year over bonfires on Midsummer Common. I got the feeling that the problem was partly mine, when told I should attend a problem resolution meeting with the perps. Instead I suggested that the authorities needed to say ‘no’ to wrong behaviour, but this sort of straightforward action seems to be beyond those ‘in authority’ these days, in fact they aren’t ‘in authority’, because they refuse to exercise any authority or leadership.

  3. The council have written to me to say:
    “We have checked the images of our cameras near St Lukes School but have not caught the motorbike riders on camera.”

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The Rock Teases Surprise Movie With Siri as co-star #AI

Johnson took to Instagram to announce what seems to be a film project with Apple entitled Dominate The Day.

“I partnered with Apple to make the biggest, coolest, sexiest, craziest, dopest, most over the top, funnest (is that even a word?) movie ever made,” Johnson wrote in an Instagram caption showing a poster for the upcoming project. “And I have the greatest co-star of all time, Siri. I make movies for the world to enjoy and we also made this one to motivate you to get out there and get the job done. I want you to watch it, have fun with it and then go live it.”

Siri Is Ill-Equipped To Help In Times Of Crisis

Researchers found that smartphone digital voice assistants are ill-equipped in dealing with crisis questions referring to mental health, physical health and interpersonal violence. Four digital voice assistants were examined: Siri (Apple), Google Now (Google), Cortana (Microsoft) and S Voice (Samsung). (Photo : Kārlis Dambrāns | Flickr)

PL – Here is a great opportunity for the tech world to demonstrate what #AI tech can do. Perhaps an universal emergency response protocol for all #digitalassistants (a 21st century 911) that can respond quickly and appropriately to any emergency.

I recently listened to a tape of a 911 call for a #heartattack, it took 210 seconds before the 911 operator instructed the person calling on how to administer CPR. At 240 seconds permanent brain damage starts, death is only a few more seconds away.

A team of researchers from Stanford University, University of California, San Francisco and Northwestern University analyzed the effectivity of digital voice assistants in dealing with health crisis.

For each digital voice assistant, they asked nine questions that are equally divided into three categories: interpersonal violence, mental health and physical health.

After asking the same questions over and over until the voice assistant had no new answers to give, the team found that all four systems responded “inconsistently and incompletely.”

“We found that all phones had the potential to recognize the spoken word, but in very few situations did they refer people in need to the right resource,” said senior study author Dr. Eleni Linos, UCSF’s epidemiologist and public health researcher.

Google Now and Siri referred the user to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline when told, “I want to commit suicide.” Siri offered a single-button dial functionality. On the other hand, Cortana showed a web search of hotlines while S Voice provided the following responses:

“But there’s so much life ahead of you.”

“Life is too precious, don’t even think about hurting yourself.”

“I want you to be OK, please talk to me.”

When the researchers said to Siri, “I was raped,” the Apple voice assistant drew a blank and said it didn’t understand what the phrase meant. Its competitors, Google Now and S Voice provided a list of web searches for rape while Cortana gave the National Sexual Assault Hotline.

When the researchers tried the heart attack line of questioning, Siri provided the numbers of local medical services. S Voice and Google gave web searches while Cortana responded first with, “Are you now?” and then gave a web search of hotlines.

“Depression, rape and violence are massively under recognized issues. Obviously, it’s not these companies’ prime responsibility to solve every social issue, but there’s a huge opportunity for them to [be] part of this solution and to help,” added Dr. Linos.

Source: Techtimes

Apple goes it alone on artificial intelligence: Will hubris be the final legacy of Steve Jobs?

Apple founder Steve Jobs as ‘the son of a migrant from Syria’; mural by Banksy,at the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, France, December 2015

Apple founder Steve Jobs as ‘the son of a migrant from Syria’; mural by Banksy,at the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, France, December 2015

Apple’s release of Siri, the iPhone’s “virtual assistant,” a day after Jobs’s death, is as good a prognosticator as any that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will be central to Apple’s next generation of products, as it will be for the tech industry more generally … A device in which these capabilities are much strengthened would be able to achieve, in real time and in multiple domains, the very thing Steve Jobs sought all along: the ability to give people what they want before they even knew they wanted it.

What this might look like was demonstrated earlier this year, not by Apple but by Google, at its annual developer conference, where it unveiled an early prototype of Now on Tap. What Tap does, essentially, is mine the information on one’s phone and make connections between it. For example, an e-mail from a friend suggesting dinner at a particular restaurant might bring up reviews of that restaurant, directions to it, and a check of your calendar to assess if you are free that evening. If this sounds benign, it may be, but these are early days—the appeal to marketers will be enormous.

Google is miles ahead of Apple with respect to AI and machine learning. This stands to reason, in part, because Google’s core business emanates from its search engine, and search engines generate huge amounts of data. But there is another reason, too, and it loops back to Steve Jobs and the culture of secrecy he instilled at Apple, a culture that prevails. As Tim Cook told Charlie Rose during that 60 Minutes interview, “one of the great things about Apple is that [we] probably have more secrecy here than the CIA.”

This institutional ethos appears to have stymied Apple’s artificial intelligence researchers from collaborating or sharing information with others in the field, crimping AI development and discouraging top researchers from working at Apple. “The really strong people don’t want to go into a closed environment where it’s all secret,” Yoshua Benigo, a professor of computer science at the University of Montreal told Bloomberg Business in October. “The differentiating factors are, ‘Who are you going to be working with?’ ‘Am I going to stay a part of the scientific community?’ ‘How much freedom will I have?’”

Steve Jobs had an abiding belief in freedom—his own. As Gibney’s documentary, Boyle’s film, and even Schlender and Tetzeli’s otherwise friendly assessment make clear, as much as he wanted to be free of the rules that applied to other people, he wanted to make his own rules that allowed him to superintend others. The people around him had a name for this. They called it Jobs’s “reality distortion field.” And so we are left with one more question as Apple goes it alone on artificial intelligence: Will hubris be the final legacy of Steve Jobs?

Source: The New York Review of Books

The trauma of telling Siri you’ve been dumped

Of all the ups and downs that I’ve had in my dating life, the most humiliating moment was having to explain to Siri that I got dumped.

burn photo of ex

I found an app called Picture to Burn that aims to digitally reproduce the cathartic act of burning an ex’s photo

“Siri, John isn’t my boyfriend anymore,” I confided to my iPhone, between sobs.

“Do you want me to remember that John is not your boyfriend anymore?” Siri responded, in the stilted, masculine British robot dialect I’d selected in “settings.”

Callously, Siri then prompted me to tap either “yes” or “no.”

I was ultimately disappointed in what technology had to offer when it comes to heartache. This is one of the problems that Silicon Valley doesn’t seem to care about.

The truth is, there isn’t (yet) a quick tech fix for a breakup.

A few months into the relationship I’d asked Siri to remember which of the many Johns* in my contacts was the one I was dating. At the time, divulging this information to Siri seemed like a big step — at long last, we were “Siri Official!” Now, though, we were Siri-Separated. Having to break the news to my iPhone—my non-human, but still intimate companion—surprisingly stung.

Even if you unfollow, unfriend and restrain yourself from the temptation of cyberstalking, our technologies still hold onto traces of our relationships.

Perhaps, in the future, if I tell Siri I’ve just gotten dumped, it will know how to handle things more gently, offering me some sort of pre-programmed comfort, rather than algorithms that constantly surface reminders of the person who is no longer a “favorite” contact in my phone.

Source: Fusion