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ASL Night at Har Mar Barnes and Noble

June 30, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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This is a longstanding/long-running sign language group that meets every Friday at the Har Mar Barnes and Noble. The group has lots of Deaf and moderate to advanced level signers but all levels welcome (we love newbies). We meet ALL year long and only occasionally cancel. We meet in the Event Corner just on the other side of movies/music. If there is an event, please look for us in the Cafe. Summers, we sometimes arrive late, at 6:30 or 7:00 - don't see people, they may still be arriving. We usually go out to a restaurant after group and you are welcome to join us. Please join the facebook group to get announcements - ASL Night at Har Mar Barnes and Noble. Search us and I will add you.

ASL INSTRUCTORS: PLEASE DO NOT SEND STUDENTS AS A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT – the members end up signing verification papers and the group gets too big. Encourage them to come if they themselves want practice. Thanks for understanding.

June 30, 2023
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Har Mar Barnes and Noble
2100 Snelling Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55113 United States

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Home decorating is hard when you don’t know your design style. Luckily, there are several great online home style finders that will help you limit trial-and-error purchases of pieces that do not fit your aesthetic and narrow down where to shop. HGTV and Live Your Style have fun style finders that will help you when selecting you home decor pieces.

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Results Day 2020

Results Day with a difference, Thursday 20 August 2020

After a period of five months’ absence, it was a delight to welcome so many of our pupils in our Class of 2020 back to the school to collect their centre assessed grades on Thursday 20 August 2020.

Members of the school’s leadership team were present to hand over our pupils’ results and provide reassurance, support and guidance. They were especially grateful to our pupils who, given their eagerness and excitement, did their best to observe social distancing.

This has been a challenging year for everyone and, after a particularly turbulent fortnight following the uncertainty initially created by the release of the ‘exam’ results in Scotland and then the A level results in England, it was a relief to be able to share our centre assessed grades, which we believe to be fair and accurate, and commend our pupils’ on their resilience and resourcefulness. We trust they will take these essential qualities and the independent study skills they have acquired forward into the next phase of their education.

I congratulate our pupils on their achievements and wish them every success in their future learning. I am also extremely grateful to our team of teachers for their tenacity and integrity. They worked tirelessly to ensure our grading reflected individual pupil performance.

Chiquita Henson, Headteacher

Because many of our centre assessed grades were close to those in our pupils’ final Records of Achievement, there were relatively few surprises. While we had to think seriously about how each pupil would have performed in their examinations, we also took account of the evidence we had of their progress and attainment. We carefully scrutinised our pupils’ mock exam results, class work, interim test scores, assessed pieces of work and controlled assessments, where applicable, to assess the depth of their knowledge, skills and understanding.

Pupils who consistently applied themselves in school and in extended tasks throughout Years 10 and 11 have been rewarded for their efforts and many others have shown great improvements over time.  They have responded positively to the inspiration, support and guidance they have received. We hope they will all continue to develop their resilience and resourcefulness and challenge themselves to achieve more than they first think is possible!

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‘It was lovely to see the year group again and say our final goodbyes. The pupils’ hard work and dedication has been rewarded.’ Miss Brace

‘Another fantastic day at Deer Park School for GCSE results. Pupils waited in anticipation prior to receiving their results.’  Mr Bellamy

‘Once again the pupils have made us proud with their resilience and levels of positivity; they now have the prospect of moving forward.’ Miss Lillington

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‘I was very happy to receive the grades and am looking forward to college life.’ Peter

'Delighted! So much better than I thought they might have been.’ Teagan

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‘However much doubt I had in the government’s system, I’m glad they finally let the teachers decide – overall it’s gone really well today.’ Michael

‘I’ve got all the grades I need to be able to progress in my studies. I’m really looking forward to starting my courses.’ Tamsin

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When the school closed on Friday 20 March 2020 for lockdown in response to the pandemic, and we learnt the GCSE exams were cancelled, we urged our pupils to stay connected with us and we were pleased with the numbers in our Year 11 who chose to do so. By being early participants in live lessons and revision sessions in MS Teams, they continued to engage in learning and strengthen their independent study skills. This undoubtedly helped our staff adapt to a new virtual learning environment and we thank them for this legacy!

We recognise our Class of 2020 have missed out on some key milestones, but hope to be able to celebrate their achievements and time with us at our annual Celebration of Achievement event in November, either virtually or in person. We are very proud of them and how they have coped in truly unprecedented circumstances.


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How Star Wars: The Bad Batch Could Continue Echo’s Story from The Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Bad Batch presents a unique opportunity to show the Empire era from the perspective of clones trying to figure out how to survive in a changed galaxy.

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This Star Wars article contains spoilers.

The Clone Wars has had a long life. From its debut in 2008 to its conclusion in 2020, the animated series expanded the Star Wars Prequel era with fewer jokes and more of the titular war. And while the final season just bowed on Disney+ earlier this year, it won’t be the last time we see of some of the show’s characters. Disney has greenlit a spin-off series starring Clone Force 99, the squad of genetically enhanced clone troopers that was first introduced in season seven.

The Bad Batch follows five clones in the aftermath of The Clone Wars, Revenge of the Sith, and Order 66, and will air on Disney+ in 2021. While many fans will undoubtedly jump at the chance to watch more stories tied to the Clone Wars, the chance to see the further adventures of one clone in particular is especially exciting. We’re of course talking about Echo, a clone trooper turned part-cyborg who joined the Bad Batch (as Clone Force 99 is often referred to) at the end of the first arc of season seven.

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Echo’s new status as one of the Bad Batch provides some clues about what the new spin-off show might be like. In The Clone Wars, the Bad Batch clones’ experimental abilities (extraordinary strength, keen eyesight, unusually high intelligence, etc.) make them outcasts among the Republic’s mass-produced soldiers. Echo, formerly a “regular” clone, joined in part because he felt he would fit in better with the outliers after being forcefully enhanced with cybernetic parts by the Separatists. As the new man in the group, he’s likely a good choice for a point of view character in the new series — a clone who no longer fits in at a time when his fellow soldiers have been brainwashed by inhibitor chips into joining the Empire.

The post-Order 66 era has already been heavily explored, but The Bad Batch offers an interesting new angle. Books about Obi-Wan Kenobi and Kanan Jarrus show this era from the Jedi point of view. Star Wars Rebels, set 14 years after Revenge of the Sith, a team of freedom fighters in the years before the rise of the Rebel Alliance. The clone perspective is less well-known. Rebels and The Clone Wars showed how some clones removed the inhibitor chips that turned them into Jedi-killers, but the story of rogue clones in the immediate aftermath of Order 66 is new territory for Star Wars.

This post-Revenge of the Sith era begs some big questions. What is the Empire’s policy toward clones? We know the generation of clones active during Order 66 became Imperial stormtroopers, but were eventually phased out and replaced by human recruits. What about the clones’ opinions? In the penultimate episode of The Clone Wars, Captain Rex, a close ally of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, was one of the first clones to scrap his inhibitor chip (with Ahsoka’s help). He resented the Empire but also never directly fought it until Rebels.

But Echo and the Bad Batch in particular might have an even more unique perspective on the Empire because of their inherent outsider status. It’s possible their genetic mutations allowed them to disobey their own inhibitor chips in the first place, making them painfully aware of the horrors of Order 66 from the start.

As fans learned in The Clone Wars, the clones have their own society and tragedies. Commissioned for war from birth, they are motivated by their brotherhood as clones and their belief in the competence and moral righteousness of their Jedi leaders. But the Bad Batch are disconnected from the politics of the Republic. While they very efficiently wage war in the name of the Grand Army of the Republic, they are pariahs within it. It might be easier for them to accept that the Republic was vulnerable to the forces that turned it into the Empire, both in terms of Emperor Palpatine’s use of the dark side of the Force and in terms of the political cracks in the system. The Bad Batch have no inherent love for the brotherhood of clones since it was never really a brotherhood for them.

While major clone characters like Rex and Cody are already accounted for in canon, the fates of the members of the Bad Batch are relatively unknown, which means the team behind the new series has some freedom. Anything could happen to these clones who aren’t tied in a major way to the rest of the saga. Instead of big-name heroes, Echo, an established clone character whose story we’ve followed for years, could be the show’s emotional center.

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Functionally, Echo has a few interesting characteristics that make him a good POV character for The Bad Batch. His cybernetic modifications allow him to overhear enemy transmissions and have also enhanced his strategic expertise on the battlefield, making him unique among even the Bad Batch as a soldier capable of using brains over brawn during the fight. Echo’s ability to listen could prove especially useful in the immediate chaos and misinformation left in the wake of Order 66.

Echo’s history also sets him apart from the rest of the Bad Batch. Because Echo did grow up with the brotherhood of the other clones, he could clash with the rest of the squad on basic ideas about who to trust. On the other hand, he was imprisoned by the Separatists for a long time, and while he remained fond of other soldiers like Rex, he has plenty of reasons to resent the army that initially left him for dead until they happened to find the facility where he was held. Sure, these characters are clones, but they’re all very different from one another. They might not all be interested in restoring the Republic.

In fact, the series synopsis hints that The Bad Batch won’t be about these clones trying to bring back the Republic at all but simply trying to survive. The show will see the squad “taking on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose.” It doesn’t sound like the Bad Batch will be raiding Imperial fortresses, guns blazing, to save the galaxy. At least not for free.

What kind of jobs are they willing to take? And for who? The questions will likely result in some exciting (and perhaps even surprising) answers.

Once obsessed with regulations (he earned his nickname due to the way he parroted clone regulation), Echo finds himself in a galaxy where the rules have failed and the established order has collapsed. Traumatized and fond of order, he’ll probably go through a major learning curve when it comes to working with the freewheeling Bad Batch. His experience dovetails nicely with Tech, the geek of the team whose extraordinary intelligence enabled the Bad Batch to unhook Echo from the Separatist computers in season seven.

If Echo is used as the point of view character, his impression of the other characters will shape the audience’s perception of the whole crew. He could be a traumatized soldier who needs help, the moral heart of the group, or a dissenter who eventually learns to love the outcasts. If this show has as long a life as the rest of The Clone Wars suggests, he might get the chance to be all three.

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An interactive campaign to discover your fashion DNA

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Lyst is one of the most celebrated breakthrough stories in fashion retail. Established in 2010 from a small shed in London, Lyst emerged to become the largest global fashion search platform, bringing together 5 million products from 12,000 of the world’s leading brands and retailers, all in one place. Lyst continues to innovate e-commerce with curated customer experience, and partnered with a Dept to conceptualise their latest campaign. Fulled by data and brought forward with award-winning creativity, an interactive quiz encouraging users to ‘Discover your Fashion DNA’ was launched.

Using data to fuel creativity

Dept took a strategic, data-led approach towards developing the campaign concept. The structure and narrative of the quiz were cleverly designed to compel users, prevent drop-offs, and encourage social sharing.

Using relatable, scenario-led questions in a quiz format, Lyst was able to effectively gather lifestyle-oriented data to generate a better understanding of its users, based on their preferences. As this information was gathered, it was directly linked into Lyst’s existing database of website analytics, paths to purchase, onsite user journeys, and favorited products or categories.. Adding this new data and filtering results into categories enables Lyst to formulate well-rounded user personas to frame future marketing campaigns with highly personalized touchpoints.

Enhancing UX with micro-interactions

Designed to trigger engagement

Creativity was pushed beyond the limits, using a combination of digital art forms, to entertain users and align with the trendy, fashion-forward brand Lyst has established for itself.

Cross-platform micro-interactions

Small interface changes were designed to amuse the user throughout the quiz. Animations were introduced to help users see the results of their actions and give gratitude for their continued engagement. Micro-interactions were used to gamify the quiz with parallax features, drag-to-reveal prompts, and boxes to type out answers. The quiz features 8 different micro-interactions and 22 different split-screen animations.

These elements of flare were integrated into the interface to upgrade the user experience without impeding on its usability, ensuring a consistent and sleek experience for quiz-takers across all mobile and web browsers.

Scrolling in a different way

The Lyst campaign website was designed and developed as a hybrid platform, instead of being built natively for mobile and/ or web, which is not typically the case for interactive platforms like this.

The project team saw this as a welcomed challenge and focused on the concept of ‘endless discovery’. Graphic blocks of questions were designed for users to scroll through in a similar format to the popular ‘tinder-swipe’, encouraging impulse decisions. This tactic was used to make the quiz as intuitive as possible; simple for anyone, anywhere in the world to enjoy with little instruction.

Simplicity at the forefront

The aesthetic of the quiz was designed to grab the attention of users, yet also be understated to act as a stage for the content to shine. A simple interface teamed with 3D graphics was the solution. Questions were separated with different colors and animations divided sections; an approach to keep messaging clear and concise whilst maintaining an order list. The attention to detail with displaying fonts, topical references, and products made the campaign so visually strong.

Innovative technical workarounds

Dept worked in collaboration with the client throughout the project in an agile way; being reactive to budget and timing changes, as well as iteratively releasing demos and digital modules as they were being developed. With this partnership, creative assets were produced in-line with Lyst’s tone of voice, and points of sign-off were streamlined, allowing the team to continuously progress.

It was important for a  timely launch of the campaign, which required a technical workaround to maintain the original creative concept. It would have been best practice to build each animation in code however, time constraints meant that we used an alternative method involving video that worked just as well.

Upon completing a question, a video is triggered to play for the duration of the timing gap leading to the next page. On mobile, videos were swapped for GIFs. The end result was a seamless transition, demonstrating how Dept’s dynamic teams of design, motion, and code experts can release digital products, to brief, when the pressure is high and time is of the essence.

The results

Dept created a highly engaging campaign for Lyst that recognizes the differences between countries and people, celebrating the individuality of nations and people alike.

 The quiz indulges users in an interactive experience that eventually gives them insight into how their lifestyle preferences position them on a global scale; a fair value exchange for Lyst to gather user data.

Launched in March 2020, The ‘Discover Your Fashion DNA’ campaign was translated in eight languages. There are over 200 possible clothing items that are displayed on the results page and many, many more found within the quiz.

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Foyle Harps won this year’s McAlinden Cup final by beating Maiden City 4-0 at the Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium.

Dean Brown opened the scoring early on but the game turned in the five minutes before half time when Maiden City defender Jamie Robinson was dismissed for a second bookable offence. Harps immediately took advantage with Man of the Match Calvin McCallion scoring twice to make it 3-0 at the break.

Maiden City, to their credit, never gave up despite the circumstances, but they couldn’t make inroads into the scoreline and Odhran Scarlett made it 4-0 as Foyle Harps won the first silverware of the season in the 100th season of D&D football.

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Nissan-Renault pulls ahead in global vehicle sales, taking top spot

The Nissan-Renault alliance sold 5,268,079 vehicles around the world in January-June, highlighting the power of manufacturers outside Detroit.

July 31, 2017   by Yuri Kageyama, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — The alliance of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA of France led in global vehicle sales for the first half of this year, the first time it has claimed top rank, beating perennial top-sellers Volkswagen, Toyota and General Motors.

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The Nissan-Renault alliance, which has included Mitsubishi Motors Corp. it acquired the Japanese automaker last year, sold 5,268,079 vehicles around the world in January-June.

That was more than Volkswagen AG at 5,155,600, and Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp., which said Friday it sold 5,129,000 vehicles in the first half.

Volkswagen, which includes Audi and Lamborghini nameplates in its group, became the world’s top selling automaker last year for the first time.

All the top auto manufacturers have various nameplates under their folds and cater to various world markets, standing ready to make up with sales elsewhere when they falter in one region.

U.S. rival General Motors Co., which had led global industry sales for more than seven decades, trails in fourth place, selling about 4.7 million vehicles in the first half.

Although Volkswagen’s reputation has suffered recently from a huge scandal over cheating on emissions tests, booming sales in China and other markets have helped offset the damage, showing that some consumers were just shrugged off the scandal.

It’s unclear whether Nissan will manage to hold on to its lead for the full calendar year since the top automakers are running neck-and-neck in sales.

Auto executives tend to play down the importance of the sales numbers, saying they are just trying to satisfy customers with good products. Volkswagen was an exception, often voicing its desire to become No. 1 until the scandal silenced its expressions of that ambition.

But the rise of Nissan-Renault highlights the power of manufacturers outside Detroit.

Nissan Corporate Vice-President Joji Tagawa said sales volume by itself was meaningless unless growth leads to higher profits.

“Personally, whether we are No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 doesn’t interest me,” he told reporters earlier this week. “And it is not a goal for our company.”

Toyota, which makes the Camry sedan, Prius hybrid and Lexus luxury models, surpassed General Motors in 2008 but fell behind GM in 2011, when production was hit by a quake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Toyota became No. 1 again, only to be dethroned by Volkswagen.

Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of the Renault-Nissan alliance, said earlier this week the automaker will continue to build on its record sales. Among the models the alliance offers are the X-Trail, Altima and Qashqai, as well as the Leaf electric car.

“We will continue to leverage our significant economies of scale and global market presence to deliver valuable synergies for our member companies this year,” he said.

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A Quick DIY Guide To Renovating A Room From Scratch

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Getting the design right in any room of the house takes a lot of thought. You need to make sure everything is in the right place and finished to a high standard. When you’re starting from scratch you have one chance to get it right. This quick guide will give you some handy pointers to help you.

Before you can even think about decorating walls, they need to be smooth, and free from cracks and defects. If the plaster is sound, then you can prepare walls by filling and sanding where necessary.

If the plaster has blown (flaking away from the walls), the room will need replastering. This is a reasonably skilled job, but some people feel happy to give it a go themselves. Either way, you’ll need to work out the cost to plaster a room to keep your budget in check. This is an ideal time to hide any exposed pipework, so you get a clean, modern finish.

Floors are another big-budget cost, so you need to work out exactly what look you’re going for and budget properly, so you don’t end up cutting corners. If you’re tiling a floor, it will need some preparation first. You’ll need to make sure it is level and free of defects and dirt. If you’ve just laid a new concrete floor, this will need to be fully dried out first.

Before laying any flooring, make sure you consider whether there is adequate ventilation to avoid damp issues and if the flooring is suitable for the room. Check floor joists first, especially in older houses. And consider installing extras, such as underfloor heating, at the same time.

Windows and lighting

Natural light and well-placed electric lights are integral to your room design. If a room seems quite dark, try bringing in more natural light by adding roof lanterns, French or bi-fold doors, or widening windows. Good cost-effective DIY options to improve natural light include removing any vegetation blocking the light into your home, changing internal doors for glazed doors, and hanging large mirrors to reflect light around the room.

Artificial lighting is also important. Think about using ceiling, track, or recessed lighting in combination with wall lights, pendant lights, downlights, uplights, or lamps. Most rooms benefit from flexible lighting options that don’t come from a single source.

Creating a mood board before you start any decoration is a good way to achieve a cohesive design that works. It can help you avoid impulse buying and costly mistakes with color schemes and furniture. Always get samples of paint, wallpaper, and textiles before buying, as shades often look different to how they appear on a computer screen. Large items of furniture are a big investment, so make sure you visit showrooms where possible to check the quality of construction and materials.


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Tuition likely to go up faster at UI, ISU than at UNI

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At Iowa's three public universities, tuition is going to increase next year, but in addition, tuition rates are likely to get a lot more complicated over the next five years.

With the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University or Northern Iowa receiving millions of dollars less in state funding next year, the regents have asked each institution to come up with a five-year strategy for addressing long-term revenue needs. The schools will report their strategies this summer to a new Tuition Task Force.

A Herky sculpture stands near the Old Capitol on the University of Iowa Campus.

The first step in the overall strategy came Thursday, when the regent approved tuition increases for the upcoming 2017-18 academic year. Tuition will go up $216 across-the-board at ISU and UNI. Iowa-resident undergraduates at UI will see a $216 increase, but all other categories of students will see an increase between $1,078 and $2,578.

Regent and university leaders have described the tuition hike as the inevitable consequence of the Iowa Legislature imposing midyear cuts during the 2016-17 academic year and then cutting the universities’ budgets even further going forward.

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Even with the increases, the universities remain at or near the bottom of their official peer groups in terms of resident tuition and fees. Each school would have to increase tuition by thousands of dollars more to reach the average of its peers.

That’s why the regents have begun a three-month study of where to set each institution’s price point over the next five years. Set it too high, and prospective students from low-income families may feel priced out of public education. Set it too low, and the universities won’t have enough to make up for the drops in state funding.

The Tuition Task Force is scheduled to report back to the regents in September.

Different institutions, different tuition

Using phrases like “everything is on the table,” “we’re going to throw things against the wall and see what sticks” and “we’re going to think outside the box,” regent leaders have said they are open to abandoning status quo when it comes to tuition models.

One key policy up for review is the longstanding practice of keeping keep base resident undergraduate tuition as close as possible at all three institutions.

Right now, ISU and UNI have the same base undergraduate tuition rate for Iowa students, and UI’s base tuition is only $30 more. The schools go on to add different mandatory fees and supplemental tuition for different programs, but the base level is fairly constant across the three, very different institutions.

A consultant hired by the board, however, told the regents Thursday that such constancy is at odds with national trends.

“This is not the case in a lot of other states,” said Robert Toutkoushian, a professor of higher education at the University of Georgia. “It’s fairly common in other states for the research-oriented institutions (such as UI and ISU) to have higher tuition in part as recognition of the fact that the normal cost of providing those educational services is higher.”

The Iowa Board of Regents meeting gets started at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Thursday, June 8, 2017.

In the past, there has been concerns that charging lower tuition at UNI — which focuses more on teaching than on research — would imply that the education offered in Cedar Falls was of lesser quality than in Ames or Iowa City.

Mark Nook, who started as UNI president in February, doesn’t share those concerns.

“Our competitors are different than Iowa’s and Iowa State’s, and our (comparison schools) are also different,” Nook said. “So I think it is important for us to look at whether or not all of our tuitions should be at the same level. We know our costs are different.”

Holding the institutions to offer similar base tuition levels may be having negative consequences to the regent enterprise overall.

“There are concerns that holding all three schools to the same tuition level is actually jeopardizing the ability of Iowa and Iowa State to fund their research efforts,” Nook said. “It also might be pricing some students out of the public education market in terms of tuition here.”

Nook said it was unlikely UNI would seek to lower its base tuition “unless state appropriations can be kicked up going to cover the costs.” But he “could see a scenario in the next two years in which Iowa’s and Iowa State’s tuition goes up faster than our does.”

Higher tuition, higher aid

University leaders report that, as they plan for higher tuition moving forward, they also will plan to use an increasing amount of the money collected to help students afford a college education.

“As we take our tuition up, clearly we are placing a financial burden on an awful lot of people,” UI President Bruce Harreld told the regents Thursday. “Consistent with that increase, we also need to be increasing our student financial aid — both merit as well as needs-based. In our budget models, we’ve already included that.”

Beyond increases in base tuition, such increases in aid also would to be tied to the supplemental tuition the universities charge some students in advanced classes or in engineering, nursing and business programs.

Jacob Simpson, president of UI Student Government, has called on the regents and the universities to base any new tuition revenue on “demonstrated institutional needs in alignment with our goal of student success.”

Simpson and his counterparts at ISU and UNI have raised concerns over the consequences of university officials looking to students — especially students paying higher out-of-state tuition — to make up for losses in state revenue.

“The University of Iowa is already more accessible and affordable than its peers, and we know that we must be cautious with increases in tuition as they will decrease access and affordability,” Simpson said Thursday. “We must ask the questions: Who will have access to a University of Iowa education? Who will be able to afford a University of Iowa education?”

Jacob Simpson, president of the University of Iowa Student Government, speaks to the Iowa Board of Regents during a June 8, 2017, meeting in Cedar Falls.

Neglecting such questions, Simpson said, will result in barriers between “the University of Iowa and hopeful first-time, low-income, and underserved students who wish to take advantage of and contribute to public higher education.”

In his presentation Thursday, Toutkoushian, the University of Georgia professor, discussed the different reasons why some university systems adopt a “low price/low aid model” and others adopt a “high price/high aid.”

For the former, institutions use their available subsidies and resources to ensure that the gross tuition level is kept as low as possible. For the latter, institutions allow their gross tuition to reflect their full cost of instruction and then use any available subsidies and resources to help individual students better afford their education.

One school, for example, may charge $24,000 in gross tuition, but offer only $4,000 in aid. A second school, in contrast, may charge $40,000 in gross tuition, for example, and then offer $20,000 in aid.

The net tuition cost to the student, in both cases, is $20,000.

The difference is that, although the first school manages to keep the initial sticker price down, it doesn’t have as much aid available to help students who can’t afford even that lower level.

The second school, in contrast, has more aid available to help individual students, but the higher sticker price may keep some low-income or first-generation students from even applying.

“Each one of these models has their advantages and disadvantages," Toutkoushian said. "If one were clearly superior to the other, you wouldn’t see the other one existing. So the fact that you see a balance of these models used across the country says something about the fact that it’s still an issue of discussion in our field.”

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In Retrospect: System Shock 2

I typically tend to write about big issues in gaming, long-running trends or themes about gaming as a whole but from time to time it's interesting to take a step back from modern gaming and examine some forgotten gems of classic videogaming.

System Shock 2 is one such game.

As a retrospective piece I won't go into too much detail about the history surrounding the game or it's creation (most of which can be found online anyway), but rather I'll talk about what made System Shock 2 an enjoyable game � and indeed still makes it enjoyable to play today, aswell as what it didn't do so well.

The annelids also seem pretty unimaginative, they're little more than worms (as the name might suggest). I imagine if System Shock 2 was made today really interesting things could be done with the Annelid design to make them look like more than just worms, but that's pretty much what they look like, space worms. Or space spiders, in the case of some of them. I guess in the case of all of these it's more about how much developers were held back by the technical limitations of the day than anything else, but still if I had to point to anything that strikes me as off about the game it's the way you can go from fighting genuinely creepy hybrids or crazy robots to fighting blurry flesh monstrosities or space worms and space spiders.

Perhaps that's just me though.

All things said System Shock 2 still strikes me as a really powerful piece of science-fiction gaming, and indeed a powerful piece science-fiction storytelling, and did some pretty revolutionary things for a 1998 game, at a time when games themselves weren't that well developed as a medium.

I doubt System Shock 2 is everybody's cup of tea, but those of us interested in getting their horror fix whilst getting a sci-fi one at the same time whilst also being treated to solid gameplay mechanics, atmosphere and a powerful story, System Shock 2 is still something to be experienced, just, you know, try not to think about the space spiders too much.
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Oh hey!

I'm former male model and celebrity nutritionist Panzadolphin56. This is my blog. I write things here.

...in case the blog bit didn't give that away.

Anyway! To the left you'll find my latest blogs, and beneath this you'll find a fairly comprehensive list of most of what I've written over the years (unfortunately some stuff does eventually get bumped off the list.)

I like to write from a fairly critical standpoint about games, usually analysis or talking about issues that interest me, I also do retrospectives from time to time, talk about games I've been playing, write the funny things that come into my head, and very occasionally do some crappy art.

I hope you enjoy what you read!

I also do Lets Plays (mostly old horror games) so if that's your thing then click here:

Everyone who clicks will not win a million dollars!

A little about me:

I am mostly a story person, good mechanics are good mechanics but button pressing never does anything for me. I like Horror, I like Cyberpunk, I like Neo-Noir (especially crossed with Cyberpunk), I like good art and good writing, I like games that cut against the grain or choose to challenge social or industry norms in some way.

I don't have a single favourite game but I am a big fan of the MGS games, Snatcher, the Forbidden Siren series, Silent Hill 2, the old-school Resident Evils, Advance Wars and Power Dolls, among many, many others.

Critical Pieces:

How ugly should Horror really be?
Of Inventories and Horror Games
Crafting A Good Game of 'The Thing'
Alien(s), Creative license and Borrowed Ideas
Crossing from TV/Movie to Games
Scope and Depth in the world of gaming
Boss Battles - When do they ever make sense?
Survival Horror Essentials
Colonial Marines: Well, that kind of sucked...
Disability, Disease in Games
Blood 2 and Post-Modernism
Topics, Tropes and Atmosphere in Horror games
Realism Vs. Fantasy - Who Wins?
The gradual drift away from the mainstream
Is There Horror in The Ugly...?
The Fourth Wall and taking games seriously
Are You Always Online?
Hype: Aliens Vs. Predator
To shoot stuff or not to shoot stuff?
Character Design and Choice in Games
Culture Vs. Creativity: Where do Stories come from?
Where you go Isometric-Strategy Games?
What's the Point of Games?
Do Horror games even still exist...?
Why are Characters Always so White...?
Choice in Games: Heavy Rain

A Magical Dolphin Plays:

The King of the Wood

Resident Evil Remake
Aliens Vs Predator 2
Sweet Home
Forbidden Siren
System Shock 2

Pick up and Plays:

Call of Cthulhu and the Spectre of Good Horror
Story Books and Nightmares in Rule of Rose
B-Movie Bliss: Extermination
Along for the ride with Michigan: Report From Hell
Some thoughts on Wargame: European Escalation
Skyrim: Impressions

Funny/Less Critical Stuff:

Get Yo Summer Game On
Lazyblog: Box Art
Escaping into the Darkness of Hellnight
Diversity what what?!?: Black Mamba Edition
Why Do We Still Have Exploding Barrels...?

Dead Space 3, in a nut shell.
CROSSOVER: Mario X Siren
Boss: Learning the Tools of the Trade

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Pistons' Maker rattled by Game 1 play and Bucks fans' reception

Rod Beard
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Thon Maker finished with just four points and four rebounds in game 1 and his defense on Giannis Antetokounmpo was less-than-stellar.

Milwaukee — In his first two-plus seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, Thon Maker had developed into something of a fan favorite. He hustled almost unceasingly and with his lanky, 7-foot-1 frame, he could appear out of nowhere and swat a shot out of the sky. He could play weak-side defense with the best of them and looked to be a good building block for the Bucks’ future.

When his playing time dwindled midway through the season, Maker wanted a change of scenery and was subsequently dealt to the Pistons at the trade deadline. A new team brought a new opportunity to prove himself and a chance to create a whole new base of fans in Detroit.

In Sunday’s playoff series opener, Maker’s first game back in Milwaukee, he seemed to be expecting at least a lukewarm reception from his once-adoring fans.

Not so much.

Maker received some boos when he was introduced in the starting lineup — and that got louder as the game progressed. When he picked up two fouls in the first two minutes, the Bucks fans’ ire was palpable.

And it caught Maker a little off-guard.

“I understand; it’s all good,” Maker said after Wednesday morning’s shoot-around at Fiserv Forum. “It’s the playoffs.”

You can always go home. Sometimes.

The playoffs are not that time, apparently. When Maker had a hard foul on Giannis Antetokounmpo, the crowd erupted in derisive boos, which caught Maker off guard, to the point that it stuck with him even beyond the final buzzer.

It was more than the hostile reception; it was the way that he played against Antetokounmpo and how the playoff experience that he got with the Bucks didn’t translate in his postseason debut with the Pistons.

He expected more of himself and when he didn't deliver, it was a disappointment.

“It did take a while to sleep but that’s normal with the playoffs and the intensity of the game,” Maker said. “You process the game over and over again. I have to come out better and ready to go on the defensive end, move your feet, stop reaching, be disciplined on the offensive end and make (Antetokounmpo) play defense. Giannis uses a lot of energy on the offensive end compared to defensive.

“I have to come out better, for sure.”

It's not just Maker; the Pistons only managed 18 points in the first quarter and trailed by 20, en route to the rout.

Maker finished with just four points and four rebounds and his defense on Antetokounmpo was less-than-stellar. With Blake Griffin still on the mend, the Pistons had to resort to their Plan B, which gave the bulkier Antetokounmpo an advantage.

Coach Dwane Casey accentuated the need to keep Antetokounmpo out of the driving lanes and to have a more team-oriented defensive approach in keeping him in check. It didn’t work well in the first few minutes.

Maker has seen Antetokounmpo at his best and knows where not to let him get.

“In transition — that’s where he’s best at and that’s where they’re best at as a team. We just have to do a better job of sprinting back and helping one another in transition,” he said. “That’s where they try to get the most. That starts from taking good shots and executing so we’re not outnumbered in transition every single time.”

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DevOpsGroup Blog Why change deployment frequency results in big gains

Why change deployment frequency results in big gains

One of the 5 key DevOps metrics championed in the annual Google “State of DevOps Report” is “deployment frequency” (for reference the other 4 area change lead time, change failure rate, mean time to restore (MTTR), and availability).

Changing deployment frequency

I was curious about the impact of changing deployment frequency so I ran a little thought experiment – what would the benefits be in terms of delivered value an organisation changed deployment frequency from quarterly to monthly to daily?

This partly draws on the ideas of “marginal gains” championed by cycling coach Dave Brailsford – it’s better to focus on making a 1% gain frequently, than trying to make large gains on a larger time scale. Small gains add up, just like compound interest.

So my experiment was this – one team deploys daily, delivering a 1% increment of value every deployment, the second team batches up their deployments into a 30 day release cycle (of 30% gain, the sum of the daily increments), and the thirds team on a 90 day (quarterly) release cycle (with a 90% improvement). Who is ahead at the end of the year, and by how much?

DevOpsGroup - Deployment Frequency Graph

It’s fairly easy to plug these numbers into Excel starting from a base value of 100 and calculate the result.

  • Team 1 – Daily – has improved their value to 3740
  • Team 2 – Monthly (30 day) – has improved their value to 2329
  • Team 3 – Quarterly (90 day) – has improved their value to only 1303

So in total team 1, by only changing 1 thing – deployment frequency – has outperformed team 2 by 61% and team 3 by 187%.

Whilst this is only hypothetical it does show the mathematical power of small, frequent, incremental delivery of value to customers (one of the core values of Agile software development).

In reality, in order to release daily Team 1 would have had to make other changes which would have had other knock on effects:

  • Their “batch size” has shrunk to a batch size of 1 (compared to the batch size of 30 or 90 for the other teams). The smaller the batch size, the easier it is to test, the easier it is to deploy and the easier it is to roll if back if it fails – so we’d expect change failure rate to go down, lead time to go down, MTTR to go down, and availability to up as a result of more frequent deployments and smaller batch sizes.
  • Given each deployment is an opportunity to learn what our customers actually want and need we’d also expect wasted effort to go down. Many teams spend time building features that the customer doesn’t really want and never use (some estimates are as high as 50% or more of delivered features add no value to the customer and hence are waste). By deploying more frequently, in smaller increments, we avoid batching up large chunks of work that ultimately deliver no value. Remember that unused features are a form of technical debt – they slow you down by forcing you to test pathways that no-one every uses, and forces Ops to support ever more bloated systems which costs time, effort and compute resources.
  • Team morale is likely to go up. People like to feel their work has value and purpose. By putting working software in the hands of their customers on a daily basis the team gets to feel that satisfaction of a job well done EVERY DAY not once a month, once a quarter or in some organisations sadly only once a year.

So, in summary, aiming for a daily release cadence will have all sorts of benefits for your team and organisation… and even if you decide you don’t want to release daily or even multiple times a day, knowing that you CAN, that you have the capability to do so if you wish, is a powerful agent for change and improvement.

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Drug Prosecutions in Lewisville in Texas in Jeopardy

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Drug and other prosecutions arising in Lewisville, Texas in jeopardy due to improper handling/tampering of evidence involving drugs and biological evidence LEWISVILLE, TEXAS- As required by the Rules of Professional Responsibility, the Denton County Criminal District Attorney’s Office has notified attorneys with pending criminal cases involving the Lewisville Police Department of major problems concerning their […]


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The Peanut Butter & Jelly of Modern Marketing Ever been the new kid in a new place? If so you no doubt remember that semi-nauseating mix of un-dashed optimism, the adrenalin blasts that come with blazing new trails and the gnaw of the unknown on the psyche – all roiling around in brain, heart and gut in search of an action plan.

If you’re like me in these situations … you clamor for something familiar.

I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

It soothed the soul and set the following in motion.

You and I both suffer through marketing in the modern world filled with tools, tips & twists of phrase about “delighting customers” and other such platitudinal garbage that sounds so wonderful.  We also know that cute language, a rat’s nest of software and a “5 things you can do …” blog post all do very little separately or even McGyver’d together to help us “delight” who we should be: our sales team and the CFO.

What proof do you have that what you do each day actually results in a bottom-line contribution to the companies where you work?

This is the roiling nausea I mentioned. Hang in there.

Our Nausea has a name: ROMI

It should come as no surprise that we came up with an acronym for our nausea … ROMI or Return on Marketing Investment. The nausea persists given the fact that the only way you can get a true handle on what you’ve spent and if it actually yielded any return is if all technology, tactics and talent are used to a accomplish a common goal.

If you’re in marketing that goal better be investing in finding prospects, giving both prospects and customers information in the time of need on how to prove their value at work and then keeping them out of your sales team’s hair until that person wants to buy something you sell.

True to form, we as marketers have overthought this endeavor and given names to each stage or even the tactic du jour with qualifiers like Inbound Marketing (Search, PPC, Social outreach, blogging, etc.) Content Marketing (the information we share with prospects) Event Marketing (where we try to meet prospects and Vanna White our wares) Email Marketing (but a single tool available to share information using list we have or purchase that hopefully contain people who want to hear from us) Direct mail marketing (the non-digital dinosaur that we seem to fear but secretly know its massive clutter-busting power).

Still nauseated? Me too.

The Cure for Marketing-induced Nausea: Quit Slicing & Dicing

Here’s your Modern Marketing PB&J … Stop dissecting everything you do and stitch it all back together.

This togetherness is vital not only in how we execute as marketers but how we speak about marketing to others – particularly our colleagues in sales and finance. Subtitles for players on a marketing team led many of the sales guys and gals I worked with to ask me: “How many of them are you and what do all of you do other than cost money?”

That need to always justify your existence is all the more reason to stop carving out our little specialties.  Let’s not divide and fail. Let’s unite and conquer instead. We are all marketers with one goal. To grow the lead funnel and qualify potential buyers that sales can then close.

With that being the case, I joined forces with Digital C4 last month as the head of the demand generation practice to unite these marketing functions under the same roof:

  • Content creation
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Social distribution of information and other the top-of-the-funnel exercises
  • Demand Generation strategy, execution and optimization to turn prospects into purchasers.

I’m more excited than I have ever been professionally at this moment because I am now part of an agency that is built in the way a marketing organization should function within the companies we serve. Together.

Digital C4 is poised like few agencies are today to help clients create a perpetual demand generation engine of inbound tactics interwoven with outbound marketing tools like a marketing automation platform.

With the engine built, we are poised to help you pack the top of the funnel via your existing lists, SEO of your existing web properties or downloadable assets, online campaigns and buyer-centric content development. Then we’ll help you flow it through your marketing automation platform so it serves as the ultimate qualifying or nurturing machine that has proven to yield a higher quality lead at a lower cost.

This is my promise to you solely and our promise to you as an agency.

Let’s get to work.

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Week in Review: Advice from an executive on the frontlines
Advice from an executive who has faced the disruption caused by digital resonates with Karamjit Singh and is worth listening to.
TM net profit falls 28% due to lower forex gains
Remained optimistic that it will achieve its 2017 financial targets despite fall in profit.
Shazalli starts TM reign with a bang, announces slew of leadership appointments
Shazalli Ramly, Group CEO, Telekom Malaysia Bhd has started his reign as CEO with a bang, announcing a slew of senior management appointments.
Shazalli to take on TM group CEO role, challenges ahead
Former Celcom CEO Shazalli Ramly has been appointed as Telekom Malaysia's new group CEO, as current TM CEO Zamzamzairani Isa will retire end of April this year. DNA looks at Zamzamzairani and Shazalli's achievements, and Shazalli's challenges ahead.
Looking back at Shazalli’s successes at Celcom, challenges for the new CEO
Shazalli Ramly is a tough act to follow, but DNA editor Goh Thean Eu has some pointers for incoming CEO Michael Kuehner.
Celcom Axiata to help ‘digitise’ Malaysian schools, 1BestariNet déjà vu
Celcom Axiata will work with UUM and Orangetree Production to support the Ministry of Education’s move to digitise education in Malaysian schools, but that leaves us wondering about the similar 1BestariNet project.
Celcom and Risda to bring the Internet to more rural areas
Celcom and the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority will work together to bring greater Internet connectivity to those living in rural areas as well as those working in rubber plantations.
Shazalli steps down as Celcom CEO to take on bigger role in Axiata
Celcom has announced that Shazalli Ramly will step down as CEO to take on a bigger role within the Axiata Group, as part of a major senior management reshuffle.
Celcom begins 4G-modernising all its networks across the Klang Valley
Celcom Axiata Bhd said it will kick off a network modernisation exercise at all its Klang Valley sites, for a four-month period beginning June 17.
Which Malaysian telco is going to rule Q1?
All eyes will be on Axiata Group Bhd’s first quarter financial results announcement on May 25, which will answer the question of which Malaysian telco led the industry in the first quarter of 2016.
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Last month Wired, announced that Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

The article's a good read, and the basic story is true, at least in the case of psychiatric drugs. In clinical trials, people taking placebos do seem to get better more often now than in the past (paper). This is a big problem for Big Pharma, because it means that experimental new drugs often fail to perform better than placebo, i.e. they don't work. Wired have just noticed this, but it's been being discussed in the academic literature for several years.

Why is this? No-one knows. There have been many suggestions - maybe people "believe in" the benefits of drugs more nowadays, so the placebo effect is greater; maybe clinical trials are recruiting people with milder illnesses that respond better to placebo, or just get better on their own. But we really don't have any clear idea.

What if the confusion is because of the very concept of the "placebo"? Earlier this year, the BMJ ran a short opinion piece called It’s time to put the placebo out of our misery. Robin Nunn wants us to "stop thinking in terms of placebo...The placebo construct conceals more than it clarifies."

His central argument is an analogy. If we knew nothing about humour and observed a comedian telling jokes to an audience, we might decide there was a mysterious "audience effect" at work, and busy ourselves studying it...

Imagine that you are a visitor from another world. You observe a human audience for the first time. You notice a man making vocal sounds. He is watched by an audience. Suddenly they burst into smiles and laughter. Then they’re quiet. This cycle of quietness then laughter then quietness happens several times.

What is this strange audience effect? Not all of the man’s sounds generate an audience effect, and not every audience member reacts. You deem some members of the audience to be “audience responders,” those who are particularly influenced by the audience effect. What makes them react? A theory of the audience effect could be spun into an entire literature analogous to the literature on the placebo effect.

But what we should be doing is examining the details of jokes and of laughter -

And this is what we should be doing with the "placebo effect" as well -

We could learn more about what makes audiences laugh by returning to fundamentals. What is laughter? Why is “fart” funnier than “flatulence”? Why are some people just not funny no matter how many jokes they try?

Nunn's piece is a polemic and he seems to be conclude by calling for a "post-placebo era" in which there will be no more placebo-controlled trials (although it's not clear what he means by this). This is going too far. But his analogy with humour is an important one because it forces us to analyse the placebo in detail.

Suppose there is no such unicorn as a placebo. Then what? Just replace the thought of placebo with something more fundamental. For those who use placebo as treatment, ask what is going on. Are you using the trappings of expertise, the white coat and diploma? Are you making your patients believe because they believe in you?

"The placebo effect" has become a vague catch-all term for anything that seems to happen to people when you give them a sugar pill. Of course, lots of things could happen. They could feel better just because of the passage of time. Or they could realize that they're supposed to feel better and say they feel better, even if they don't.

The "true" placebo effect refers to improvement (or worsening) of symptoms driven purely by the psychological expectation of such. But even this is something of a catch-all term. Many things could drive this improvement. Suppose you give someone a placebo pill that you claim will make them more intelligent, and they believe it.

Believing themselves to be smarter, they start doing smart things like crosswords, math puzzles, reading hard books (or even reading Neuroskeptic), etc. But the placebo itself was just a nudge in the right direction. Anything which provided that nudge would also have worked - and the nudge itself can't take all the credit.

The strongest meaning of the "placebo effect" is a direct effect of belief upon symptoms. You give someone a sugar pill or injection, and they immediately feel less pain, or whatever. But even this effect encompasses two kinds of things. It's one thing if the original symptoms have a "real" medical cause, like a broken leg. But it's another thing if the original symptoms are themselves partially or wholly driven by psychological factors, i.e. if they are "psychosomatic".

If a placebo treats a "psychosomatic" disease, then that's not because the placebo has some mysterious, mind-over-matter "placebo effect". All the mystery, rather, lies with the psychosomatic disease. But this is a crucial distinction.

People seem more willing to accept the mind-over-matter powers of "the placebo" than they are to accept the existence of psychosomatic illness. As if only doctors with sugar pills possess the power of suggestion. If a simple pill can convince someone that they are cured, surely the modern world in all its complexity could convince people that they're ill.

Nunn, R. (2009). It's time to put the placebo out of our misery BMJ, 338 (apr20 2) DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b1568

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• Jaguar Land Rover reveals its ‘Jaguar Virtual Windscreen’ concept that will aid road and track driving
• Hazard, speed, navigation data and the racing line could all be projected onto the entire windscreen.
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• ‘Jaguar Virtual Windscreen’, 3D cluster and gesture control are part of a suite of new concept technologies that will reduce driver distraction

Whitley, UK: Jaguar Land Rover is creating cutting-edge technologies to develop new ways to give drivers higher quality, life-like graphics and information that will offer an enhanced ‘virtual’ view of the road or race track.

The ‘Jaguar Virtual Windscreen’ concept uses the entire windscreen as a display so the driver’s eyes need never leave the road. High quality hazard, speed and navigation icons could all be projected onto the screen together. For performance drivers, imagery that could aid track driving includes:

• Racing line and braking guidance. Virtual racing lines on the windscreen appear to be marked on the track ahead for optimum racing line, with changes in colour to indicate braking guidance.
• Ghost car racing. Improve your lap times by racing a ‘ghost car’ visualisation of your car on a previous lap, or compete against a lap uploaded from another driver.
• Virtual cones can be laid out on the track ahead for driver training. These could be moved as the driver’s ability improves.

Dr Wolfgang Epple, Director of Research and Technology for Jaguar Land Rover, said: “We are working on research projects that will give the driver better information to enhance the driving experience. By presenting the highest quality imagery possible, a driver need only look at a display once. Showing virtual images that allow the driver to accurately judge speed and distance will enable better decision-making and offer real benefits for every-day driving on the road, or the track.”

Jaguar Land Rover is developing a gesture control system to keep the driver’s eyes on the road and reduce distraction by limiting the need to look at or feel for buttons and switches to press.

Jaguar Land Rover’s gesture control research uses E-Field Sensing, which is based on the latest capacitive discharge touch screens and gives much greater accuracy than ever before. A smartphone today detects the proximity of a user’s finger from 5mm. The Jaguar Land Rover system increases the range of the sensing field to around 15cm which means the system can be used to accurately track a user’s hand and any gestures it makes inside the car.

“Gesture control has already become an accepted form of controlling anything from TV sets to games consoles. The next logical step is to control selected in-car features. We have identified which functions still need to be controlled by physical buttons and which could be controlled by gesture and carefully calibrated motion sensors,” said Dr Epple. “The system is currently being tested on a number of features including sunblinds, rear wipers and satellite navigation maps. It has the potential to be on sale within the next few years.”

Jaguar Land Rover’s research team is also looking at technology that could replace rear view and external mirrors with cameras and virtual displays. Using two-dimensional imaging to replace mirrors is limited by the fact that single plane images on a screen do not allow the driver to accurately judge the distance or speed of other road users.

Jaguar Land Rover has therefore developed an innovative 3D instrument cluster, which uses the latest head- and eye-tracking technology to create a natural-looking, specs-free 3D image on the instrument panel. Cameras positioned in the instrument binnacle or steering column area track the position of the user’s head and eyes. Software then adjusts the image projection in order to create a 3D effect by feeding each eye two slightly differing angles of a particular image. This creates the perception of depth which allows the driver to judge distance.

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    spykittenTuesday, March 24, 2020 at 1:10 pm
    That better be some fresh water.
    • bobTuesday, March 5, 2019 at 8:34 am
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        • MR MANFriday, May 11, 2018 at 11:04 am
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              soph3898Friday, March 20, 2015 at 3:20 pm
              i agree, i like fresh water though...
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                bookwormbuddyMonday, March 16, 2015 at 12:28 pm
                I think our environment is already clean enough
                • spykitten
                  spykittenTuesday, March 24, 2020 at 1:10 pm
                  Our environment is NOT clean enough.
                • #awesomeWednesday, January 28, 2015 at 1:31 pm
                  one cup of tap water is the same as the other right
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                    Mmm...Fresh, pure, water DOES sound good. :)
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                      shivi483Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 5:11 pm
                      Tap water is actually not good we should have fresh water
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                        I don't drink tap water!