text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Families in different countries Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Families in different countries Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Family View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message 4B TeacherJoined: 26 Nov 2009Posts: 12Location: Australia Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:03 pm Post subject: Families in different countries We read about two families last week, one from Kenya and one from China. Tell us about a typical family in your country. Back to top kei_inJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject: My family is a typical family in my country. Almost families have just three or four people. Also, i heard some people dont like children, therefore no child in there life. and how about other country? Back to top leesomyungJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject: family in your country The par past, typical family was very big in your country. grand mother, grand father, mother, father, uncle, aunt, sister, brother... But today, typical family is very simple in Korea. Just mom, dad, one child. Anyway I have one sister and one young brother. My family live in apartment in city. Father work hard in his company becaus make money. Mother is housewife. she usually stay in home but somtimes go shopping and meet hers friends. My sister is 26 years old and she work in company. many people say, we look like just friend. She is very king and friendly. My young brother is 11 years old and elementary school student. He is very cute. Back to top minhee7Joined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject: In the past, typical family in Korea is a big family. Grand Parents, Mother and father, and child. They worked on the farm. They have rice farming, raise vegetables and so on. So Parents take care of their grand parents and kids. but now our typical family is small family. Only live parents and their Kids. Parents are working in the buildings. Everythings are very convenience, comportable. My family is 5 members. my father working in the office and mother is homemaker. my sister is 19 years old. She is swimmer. My brother is 12 years old. he is very young and very cuty than other kids for me. he also swimmer.Last edited by minhee7 on Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:30 pm; edited 3 times in total Back to top EunnaJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:23 pm Post subject: My family in Korea My familly is composed with 4 people. Father, mother, younger sister, and me. Father is attend to accounting company, mother is a nurse. Younger sister is a high school 2th student. My father's character is strict, mother is benevolent, and sister is winsome. Our home's mood is so peace and happy with a harmony. We live in Pusan, in Korea. Pusan is the second biggest city in Korea. Our home is an apartment, so convenient and safe. In there, 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, and kitchen, and living room. We eat breakfast and dinner together everyday, and after dinner we eat some fruits with talk about today. We usually go to bed on 11:00 p.m. and get up on 6:30 a.m. We usally go travel on holidays. Thesedays, I'm in Australia, so I miss them so much.Last edited by Eunna on Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:27 pm; edited 2 times in total Back to top songyi parkJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: about a typical family in your country. In Korea, most of family have a small family system. My family is same as usual. I have parents and elder sister. That's all. But in my opinion, having a big family is better than a small family. Because it seems that many people don't know about helping each other. Some people are very selfish and rude. it makes a wry face. That's the reason why we have to have a big family. Back to top stone-4bestJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: there was strength in numbers china has about 20%population of the world's population. for many years the communist goverment,under the leadership of MAO,encourage the grow of the population,believing that there was strength in numbers and a great nation needs a great population! so between postwar poriod(1945-1970),the average number of kids per couple was about six. but nowaday,the goverment began promoying a kid family,which have been criticzed by many family! Back to top hyeriJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:27 pm Post subject: In Korea My family live in Busan, Korea. We are made up 4 person .( father, mother, old-brother, and me). Our house is apartment. This house have a 3-bedroom and 2-bathroom, kitchen, living room. My father works as a self-management. so he go to office late. My mother helps my father. They are leaves home together. My brother is 25 years. he is absenting temporarily. But he go to university for studying his major everyday. His major is engineering. He had gone to the Phlippine 2 years ago. So He can speak to English very well. Back to top kimbodylineJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 4 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject: My family is a typical small family. Just mom, dad and I. I'm the only child in my family. But my grandparents live close by my house. So we have a friendly relation with them. Back to top c-akiraJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:30 pm Post subject: Tell us about a typical family in your country. A typical family in my country is below following. It consists of parents and two children. They live in an apartment and apart away parents' father and mother. Their average income is A$45,000 per year. When the new year comes nearly, ther go back to their home town during their holidays. Father usually works and Mother is a houseworker. However, nowadays, Mother also begins to work. Back to top NicoleLinJoined: 07 Jan 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject: The traditional family in Taiwan is wife lives with the husband's family. Usually the couple live with the husband's parents and have 2~3 children. My family is a traditional family, I live with my grandparents(my father's side), my parents and my brother and sister. Actually my uncle's family just live in next to mine. We have a lot of fun when the special festival like Chinese New Year because we have over 15 people in my house. However, the family composition is changing. People get married late and more of them don't want to have baby. Even though they have baby,they just want one. Like my aunt, she got married late and just have one child. Nowadays the birth rate in Taiwan is the lowest country in the world. In the past, we are three generation in family but now we called little family. And couple don't want to live with their parents. 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When Dennis House, the moderator of "Face the State" on WFSB Channel 3, asked Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman how he would like to be remembered by history upon his retirement, Mr. Lieberman said the question put him in mind of Winston Churchill who, when asked a similar question, said he thought he would be well remembered because he himself intended to write the history of his time and place. Immediately, Mr. Lieberman, perhaps familiar with Mr. Churchill's voluminous writings, said he didn't know about writing history himself, but...
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Political parties are, in fact, a bar to tyranny as understood by the vanishing breed of Republicans in the age of the Caesars, many of whom longed for a restoration of the old Roman Republic.
While the most representative form of government, democracy is also the weakest, subject always to popular demagogues and populists soon lifted aloft to tend the Republic and make the trains run on time. Like constitutions, vibrant political parties are a bar to overweening ambition.
For those who do not believe in a politics of limits, the weakening of political parties opens the door to what one might call magical political thinking, rooted in the immodest notion that for congresspersons and presidents, as for God, all things are possible.
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"In the wake of the Boston bombings, even, there were several fraudulent emails and social media postings that were supposedly earmarked for victims of that tragic event," said Gierke.
It's hard to know how many people have been victimized by these scams, since people never know whether their money is going to victims or not.
The best advice is to stick with a familiar charity and make sure it's legitimate. When deciding what to give, the Salvation Army has some simple advice: cash is best. It doesn't cost anything to ship and can be used in a variety of ways. It can also buy items close to the storm zone, providing economic benefits to the region.
While many wanted to hop in a car with supplies and head down to the storm zone, experts said that may be the worst way to assist.
"It's like the second disaster because it really overwhelms the community there," said Dee Smith of the Salvation Army. "There are structured volunteers groups that are out there."
Instincts may drive people to want to do as much as they can, but experts said the best option may be to simply pull out a checkbook.


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Counting Cover Crops
National Wildlife Federation report provides overview, success stories of cover crop use in the United States today.
Clean Water Grows
Across the United States, 41,509 water bodies are considered too polluted to meet water quality standards. Read about six successful cover crop outreach efforts.
Toxic Algae: Coming Soon to a Lake Near You?
An online map is the first attempt to show the scale and scope of reported freshwater hazardous algal blooms (HABs). It is a resource for communities to both report and track freshwater toxic algae outbreaks.
Taken by Storm: How Heavy Rain is Worsening Algal Blooms in Lake Erie
Combine excessive nutrients with heavy rains, and the result is record-breaking harmful algal blooms.
Sunken Hazard: Aging oil pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac an ever-present threat to the Great Lakes
Submerged in the waters where Lakes Michigan and Lake Huron meet, more than 20 million gallons of crude oil and natural gas fluids are pumped every day by Enbridge Energy—the Canadian company responsible for the Kalamazoo Oil Spill.
After the Marshal Spill: Pipelines in the Great Lakes Region
Do laws governing pipelines adequately protect the Great Lakes from oil pollution?
Feast and Famine in the Great Lakes
How Nutrients and Invasive Species Interact to Overwhelm the Coasts and Starve Offshore Waters.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Report on the implementation of the Great Lakes Compact.
Unfinished Business
Breaking down what the Midwest needs to do to lead in the clean energy economy.
Improving the Odds
Using climate-readiness to reduce the impacts of climate change on the Great Lakes ecosystem
What Scientists are Saying about Asian Carp Surviving in the Great Lakes
Research indicates that Asian carp could establish self sustaining populations in the Great Lakes.
The Eagle Mine Project - Sulfide Ore Mining in Marquette Co.
The Yellow Dog Plains wilderness, one of Michigan's largest wild areas, could be turned into an industrial zone by Kennecott Minerals.
Great Lakes Restoration & the Threat of Global Warming
How to protect the Great Lakes from global warming and what it means for the Great Lakes.
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Bar Harbor Laboratory Faces Fine for Hazardous Waste Violations
Release Date: 10/02/2008
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(Boston, Mass. – Oct. 2, 2008) - The Jackson Laboratory, Inc., of Bar Harbor, Maine faces a possible EPA fine for violations of state and federal hazardous waste regulations, and for violations of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
An EPA inspection in November 2006 revealed that Jackson Laboratory had improperly stored potentially explosive peroxide-forming chemicals and wastes in three of its labs. Furthermore, the laboratory violated regulations that require annual hazardous waste training to be conducted for employees with hazardous waste management responsibilities.
In EPA's administrative order that proposes a penalty of $213,670, EPA also alleges that the laboratory used members of its own Environmental Health & Safety staff to provide "in-house" hazardous waste training to its other employees, but that the staff members providing the training were never properly trained themselves.
Finally, the EPA complaint alleges that Jackson Laboratory also failed to notify the local fire department, emergency planning committee and state emergency response commission that reportable quantities of hazardous chemicals were stored at its facility. This information is used by local, state, and federal officials when responding to specific emergencies and when drafting comprehensive emergency response plans.
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection issued Notices of Violation to the Laboratory for hazardous waste violations in 2003 and 2005. A number of the violations cited in the EPA action are cited as repeated instances of the violations cited by the State.
EPA helps companies meet reporting obligations by offering compliance assistance in every state and has done so since 1991.
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The rise of the 'gigayacht': Why size matters to the super rich
By Susannah Palk, CNN • Updated 15th September 2011
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For the billionaire who has everything, sometimes a superyacht just isn't enough -- that's why the world's wealthiest are buying "gigayachts."
These boats are the ultimate status symbol -- a sign of eminence, power and a seemingly limitless supply of cash. And when it comes to showing off wealth and status it seems the rule is "the bigger the better."
"There's definitely a 'mine is bigger than yours' syndrome in this industry and there is a desire to have the best. That's the great thing about these yachts," said Jonathan Beckett, CEO of
Burgess Yachts
, one of the world's leading yacht brokers.
"When you get up to 'gigayacht' status, it is all about the best and these people are used to having exceptional possessions around them all the time," Beckett continued.
Although the term "gigayacht" is not new, it is becoming increasingly prevalent as owners seek bigger and better yachts.
"There is no standard definition of what a gigayacht is," says Paul Ashton, editor of
SuperYacht World
"A gigayacht I would say is anything that is over 220 feet (67 meters) where the majority of the yacht is customized and bespoke."
Their owners are part of a small but illustrious set that includes Russian oligarchs, Saudi royalty and international business tycoons.
China's super rich eye superyachts
The yacht to beat is currently Roman Abramovich's "Eclipse." The largest private yacht in the world at 163 meters long, "Eclipse" is believed to feature around 24 guest cabins, two swimming pools and a mini-submarine, and was rumored to have cost between $540 million and $1.1 billion.
Although not all gigayachts come with that pricetag, Ashton says the standard measure is around €1 million ($1.36 million) per meter of length.
"That works to a certain extent, but you also have to take into consideration which yard it is made in and the bespoke details involved," he said.
While that pricing means gigayachts are strictly for the super rich, you get a lot of bang for your bucks, Beckett explained: "There is nothing standard when it comes to this area of our market. But if you are purchasing a superyacht you would want a vessel that was transglobal and you'd want a reasonable speed.
"You'd probably want at least two helicopter platforms, so you can land your own helicopter and visitors can also land theirs, cinemas, hospitals, spas, large entertainments areas and hairdressing salons.
"These vessels have anything from 80 to 120 people onboard including the crew, so it's a little town."
P. Diddy sails on $850,000-a-week superyacht controlled by iPad
But it's not all about status. The trend towards bigger yachts is due in part to new technological advances in the yachting industry as well as the changing lifestyles of gigayacht owners, says Becket.
"Going back to when I first started in the business, yachting used to be a form of camping almost," he said. "Nowadays, people are moving aboard their yachts and using them as a second home.
"Instead of going for one or two weeks, people will move onboard for the whole summer," he said.
The world's second-largest gigayacht, the "Dubai," is a perfect example of this, says Ashton. Owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai and Prime Minister of the U.A.E, the "Dubai" is a working boat as well as a holiday yacht.
"There is room onboard for all of the crew, but there are also 20-30 cabins for clerical and support staff that you need when you're running your business from onboard," said Ashton.
But the financial crisis means even gigayacht owners are having to spend smarter, says Beckett.
"We've got a whole new market landscape. No one's looking to pay a strong price for a yacht, as they were pre-2008," he said. "Then it didn't matter how much you paid, it was cool to pay top price, now it matters a lot. In today's market it is cool to be paying a low price."
But, says Beckett, this doesn't mean superyacht owners are going to scrimp on luxury. "Oh no, they want it all," he said. "There is no compromise, except on the price."
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In the immigration reform debate, evangelicals have become a political prize claimed by restrictionists and reformers alike. Both sides have a case to make.
Of the major American religious groups, white evangelicals are the most skeptical about immigration. According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project, more than 60 percent believe that the growing number of immigrants "threatens traditional American customs and values" and more than half view immigrants as economic burdens rather than contributors.
At the same time, many evangelical leaders and institutions -- including the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention -- are high-profile advocates for comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for undocumented workers.
It is often said that evangelicals are not monolithic on immigration. The reality is more troubling to the faithful, or should be. Their views on immigration are less a function of their religious beliefs than of their group identity. White evangelicals and Hispanic Christians, for example, differ greatly from one another on immigration policy, not because of different theologies but because of different social positions. On this issue, believers generally take their cues not from their catechism but from their cohort. Only about a quarter of all churchgoers report even hearing the issue of immigration mentioned in their place of worship (the figure is much higher for abortion or gay marriage).
Yet, as professor John Green of the University of Akron pointed out at a recent Faith Angle Forum conference, the polling offers two sources of encouragement for advocates of comprehensive immigration reform.
First, even in the religious group most skeptical of reform -- white evangelicals -- more than 60 percent believe undocumented workers should be allowed to stay in the country "with conditions." Green cites this as evidence the country has learned something from the ongoing immigration debate, in which mass deportation is widely dismissed as impractical. The content of these "conditions," however, is up for debate. The requirement to learn English is popular with all religious groups.
Evangelicals generally endorse a "secure-the-border-first" approach, while Catholic and mainline Christians are divided about the phasing of reform. Strong evangelical support for a 10-year waiting period before citizenship is decidedly not shared by Hispanic Christians.
In general, evangelicals seem open to a legal status for undocumented workers, when accompanied by strong affirmations of order, assimilation and legality. Probably not that different from many other Americans.
Second, Green points out an interesting distinction between cultural issues among white evangelicals. Those who attend worship services more frequently are more likely to oppose same-sex marriage -- tending toward the traditionally conservative position. But immigration provides a contrast. Those who attend worship services more frequently are less likely to see newcomers as a threat to American values. They tend toward the less typically conservative view.
Why, on this particular cultural issue, does religious intensity pull some people away from their predominant group identity? It could be that religious congregations are growing more diverse. Perhaps 15 percent of American Latinos consider themselves to be evangelicals. Many evangelical denominations and mega-churches are engaged in serious Hispanic outreach. And many smaller churches are being reinvigorated by immigrant participation. The Pew study found (naturally) that members of congregations that include many immigrants are more favorable toward immigrants. Familiarity breeds sympathy.
The greater openness of regular attenders toward immigrants could also be the result of teaching from the pulpit or in the Sunday school class. While, as I noted, such messages are relatively rare, they are not unknown. And they are not new. Leaders such as Richard Land and Ralph Reed have encouraged immigration reform since the 1990s. Elite evangelical opinion, which has always been more favorable to immigration, may be gradually sinking in.
And Christian theology does have a current in favor of compassion and hospitality. A regular exposure to the teachings of Jesus -- assuming that is what actually happens in churches -- would tend to diminish a focus on national or group identity and encourage a broader notion of neighborliness. This does not dictate the details of immigration policy, but it necessarily entails a conception of illegal immigrants as persons, and a resistance to the division of their families.
On the polling evidence, politicians might lead evangelicals in either direction on immigration reform. But for evangelicals themselves, it would be a discrediting shame if their group identity counted more than their deepest beliefs.
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PROGRAM GUIDELINESSolicitation 19-542
Important Information for Proposers
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after June 1, 2020. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 20-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a set of "Big Ideas," 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering (see https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/index.jsp). The Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering leadership by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. As such, when responding to this solicitation, even though proposals must be submitted to the Office of Integrative Activities, once received, the proposals will be managed by a cross-disciplinary team of NSF Program Directors.
The need for a well-defined NSF mid-scale funding program has been recognized by stakeholders in the scientific community and by Congress in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (AICA) of 2017. As one of four "process ideas" in the NSF suite of 10 Big Ideas, the Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Program is aimed at transforming scientific and engineering research fields as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education research fields by making available new capabilities, while simultaneously training early-career researchers in the development, design, and construction of cutting-edge infrastructure.
The NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 Program (Mid-scale RI-2) supports implementation of projects that comprise any combination of equipment, instrumentation, computational hardware and software, and the necessary commissioning and human capital in support of implementation of the same. The total cost for Mid-scale RI-2 projects ranges from $20 million to below the minimum award funded by the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) Program, currently $70 million. Mid-scale RI-2 projects will directly enable advances in any of the research domains supported by NSF, including STEM education. Projects may also include upgrades to existing research infrastructure.
The Mid-scale RI-2 Program emphasizes strong scientific merit and response to an identified need of the research community, technical and managerial readiness for implementation, and a well-developed plan for student training and involvement of a diverse workforce in mid-scale facility development, and/or associated data management.
Mid-scale RI-2 will consider only the implementation (typically construction or acquisition) stage of a project, including a limited degree of advanced development immediately preparatory to implementation. It is thus intended that Mid-scale RI-2 will support projects in high states of readiness for implementation, i.e., those that have already matured through previous developmental investments. Accordingly, Mid-scale RI-2 does not support pre-implementation (early-stage design or development). Mid-scale RI-2 also does not support post-implementation research, operations or maintenance, the anticipated source(s) of which are expected to be discussed in the proposal.
It is anticipated that solicitations will be issued approximately biennially after the first issuance.
Research infrastructure and instrumentation in the range just above the current Major Research Instrumentation Program threshold and below the Mid-scale RI-2 threshold is the subject of the Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 solicitation.
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- Check out federal programs first. The Business Relations Group can help you identify programs that fit your needs.
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Government funding is often available to help small companies train employees and develop work skills. While some funds come as grants, much of it gets allocated to states or local work-force boards which decide what industries and areas to support.
The trick is to identify programs aimed at your region or industry.
Start at the federal level. Representatives at the U.S. Department of Labor's Business Relations Group will work with you to identify programs you could use. Tell them what industry you're in and what you're hoping to accomplish with worker training. They know about programs in the works and can put you on lists to be notified about future opportunities.
State economic-development agencies also offer training assistance, grants and tax credits. Such agencies don't always have similar names, so when searching online for those in your state, try a variety of key phrases.
Contact your local community college and public university. Government agencies often dole out money to colleges and universities, which, in turn, run training programs. They help you with your grant application, if one is needed, so don't let a lack of experience in grant-writing stop you.
Across the U.S., work-force boards, run by local appointees and volunteers, help coordinate federal, state and local employment programs.
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The Last Airbender will carve a new path in visual effects, showing you things no movie ever has: water tentacles and gusts of fire. We visited Industrial Light and Magic, and saw what every other movie will be copying soon.
Whether Airbender satisfies fans of the classic Nickelodeon cartoon, and whether it succeeds in being a Star Wars for a new generation, one thing's clear after spending the day at ILM: It's going to be an innovative film from a VFX perspective, maybe as groundbreaking as The Matrix was in its day. Here are seven things the ILM team showed a group of visiting reporters a couple of months ago:
1) Fire that actually looks like fire. This is a lot harder than it sounds. Visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman recounts that he went outside and lit some stuff on fire, so he would have a bunch of studies of real fire to show to director M. Night Shyamalan. But when Helman showed the footage of actual fire to Shyamalan, his response was, "You know what? That fire looks CG." Even real fire looked fake.
"[Shyamalan] didn't think he was ever really convinced by CG fire in a movie," says digital compositor Barry Williams.
What was the solution to creating fire that looked believable, and was able to "bend" in a way that still looked realistic? Burning Man! The designers got hold of some footage from the annual neo-hippie festival in Nevada, in which someone is controlling a pillar of fire, and barely keeping it in check. That footage gave the designers a clue to how to show the same sense of power and control, not to mention the structure of fire, in a simulation.
2) Showing water floating in a believable way. Another really challenging element to show being bent was water — the designers searched for ages to find some reference films for this element. They wound up with some YouTube videos, including one showing a guy punching through a water balloon, and one showing a guy being hit in the head with a water balloon in slow-motion.
Finally, they hit the motherlode: A NASA video of water in zero gravity.
The ILM crew showed us a video of Katara learning to bend water, filmed in Greenland. A ball of water flies out of the ocean and Katara tries to keep control over it. It starts to drip and finally loses its shape altogether. The messy water bubble flies through the air, and it does look impressive. It falls on her friend, and he's pissed.
A later scene shows a master of waterbending fighting, with snakes of water everywhere, and tentacles coming out of a steam pot. Katara manipulates the water to come out of some urns and cover the evil Prince Zuko, then freeze him. He looks around anxiously, and then he's encased in ice.
3) Figuring out what "air" looks like. The whole point of Aang is that he's an airbender, so what does it look like when you bend air? Is it like a gust of wind? Is it like clouds? In the end, the ILM team decided that what you want to see is what the air is pulling up — whether it's dust or snow, depending on what environment Aang is in. They used the same algorithm for air that they'd used for fire, except that they didn't render it as fire.
We saw some test footage showing Aang, with his hands tied, running around a room and climbing a wall while Prince Zuko shot fireballs at him. In another scene, Zuko shoots fireballs at Aang, who's spinning and waving his hands, using air to deflect them. In another scene, Aang is surrounded by spinning doors, and the Fire Nation is attacking him. He uses blasts of air to close the doors, and we saw how they rendered the lines of air.
"With the bending of the elements, you wanted to match the movements and the performance of the actor," says VFX supervisor Christian Alzmann. "You couldn't really start designing until you had that performance in the can."
The film-makers also decided that every type of "bending" should have its own martial arts style, just like a good Kung-fu film has the Crane style or the Dragon style.
Also, whenever someone manifests one of the elements, he or she has to do it in a way that's personal. We have to see it as an extension of their personality.
4) Momo, a CG creature with a real presence. In The Last Airbender, Aang has a pet flying lemur named Momo. The guy who brought Momo to life in this movie, Tim Harrington, also animated the famous sequence of Yoda attacking Count Dooku in Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones.
Noah Ringer, who plays Aang, carried around a blue-screen bag that stood in for Momo. But when it came to putting Momo into the scenes, says Harrington, they had to make sure that Momo could really interact with Aang. The VFX crew spent a lot of time at the zoo observing real lemurs. Then they shot footage of Noah pantomiming with an imaginary lemur — sometimes he had to pull his arm in a little so that the lemur's limbs would have a place to go. "We really needed to know where his head is, where his shoulders are, where his arms were going to be," says Harrington.
The hard part was Momo's wings, which are based on a bat's. Harrington spent a lot of time figuring out how to get the light to scatter through Momo's wing membrane. The mechanics of how Momo flies were based on the giant fruit bat, which Harrington figured was roughly the same weight. But the wings had to be able to fold up and disappear when Momo wasn't using them. In an early prototype, they stuck out over Momo's forearms, but then the designers folded the wings one more time, "so they folded nicely over the forearm," says Harrington.
Here's a new TV spot that gives your best glimpse of Momo so far:
5) A six-legged creature that walks naturally. There's no such thing as a six-legged mammal in nature, although obviously insects are six-legged. So realizing Appa, the six-legged flying bison, was a major challenge, says Harrington. Early versions of Appa were "a bit too far off-model from the show," he adds, but the show's creators and Shyamalan guided the VFX crew back to the show's model.
According to Harrington:
We looked at polar bears, and we thought of the front two legs as arms that are offset slightly, and the back legs are legs... We looked at polar bears, bison [and] elephants to get kind of the physics and the weight right. We also looked at beavers. There are scenes where he actually swims and kind of uses his beaver tail in the water.
He showed us an early visualization in which Appa hovers in mid-air and a group of kids are hanging from his paws. Appa is looking over his shoulder, as if to say, "Let's get going." It starts as just a group of kids dangling in mid-air on a greenscreen, holding onto hangers that will be Appa's wrist pivots. Appa is added piece by piece, including his fur which responds to the wind, and his face, which has to be expressive and obviously intelligent — but not too human, or Appa becomes "creepy."
"[Shyamalan] thought of him as the big quiet kid in the class, who's really quiet and calm and keeps it together, but if a couple other kids get in a fight, he might be the one who steps in and keeps the peace," says Harrington. "Kind of a gentle giant."
Harrington and other designers faced similar challenges creating the Komodo rhino, which the Fire Nation people ride into battle — real Komodo dragons "have kind of a dorky walk," so the designers went for something closer to a bulldog's movements. He showed us an incredibly intricate composite CG shot of a Firebender riding a Komodo rhino off a ship, up a wall and over the top, where it shoots fire down at the people inside a walled city.
6) Facial motion capture. James Cameron's Avatar already pushed the envelope as far as capturing an actor's performance and translating it to CG goes, but Airbender may go even further. If you don't notice when Aang isn't being played by Noah Ringer, then Harrington and his crew will have succeeded.
There are actually three Aangs in the movie. There's Ringer, who's an accomplished martial artist and actually plays the character most of the time. There's his stunt double Jade, a girl who's roughly the same size and shape as Ringer, but you can kind of tell in some of the raw footage that it's not really Ringer. And then there's a CG rendering of Aang, who's doing some of the crazy acrobatics and ultra-dangerous stunts that no actor or stunt-person can do. We saw one scene where Aang flees the Fire Nation and runs and skips across a whole bunch of piers, which wobble realistically, and you can see that it's a long, long way down — this sequence is all CG, and there's a moment where the flesh-and-blood Aang drops out of frame for a second, and then reappears as CG Aang.
To put Ringer's face onto the other Aangs, Harrington captured a closeup of Ringer scowling and grimacing, with a billion dots to capture every aspect of the performance. This isn't just like Benjamin Button, Harrington points out — they didn't just have to put Brad Pitt's performance onto the old Benjamin Button without worrying if it was a perfect fit. "This has to be a one-to-one match," says Harrington. "This takes the geometry and shrink-wraps it, like dead on, to these dots, and animates it to the dots." So Noah's head is added to animated Aang, and in one or two cases, to the stunt-Aang, Jade.
7) Creating digital environments that feel like an extension of the real footage. The locations the film visits are based around the styles of the different tribes — so for example, when you visit the Northern Air Temple, you see a lot of precipices and mesas that only an airbender can reach. "They have the kites and they can control the air currents," says Alzmann. The production team studied a lot of temples in Burma and Cambodia and had someone actually do some filming in Vietnam, to make each shot look as real as possible.
Alzmann showed us one shot that started with a real valley, and then a computer generated temple and bridge were layered in — the temple is being sacked by the Fire Nation. In general, the team took a "less is more" approach to layering in computer-generated details to all the scenes, aiming for the most photorealistic images they could create. It was all part of the drive to make rural Pennsylvania and Greenland look like Asia.
Likewise, we see the huge armada of the Fire Nation, but the only physical prop was a short section of deck, and then the VFX team added the rest digitally.
The filmmakers put a lot of work into creating the contrast between the Southern Water Tribe and the Northern Water Tribe — you see that the Southern Water Tribe has lost everything and can't bend water very well any more, so they're stuck making igloos. Meanwhile, the Northern Water Tribe is the last bastion of free benders who haven't been captured by the Fire Nation, and their buildings have more ornamentation. Their architecture is loosely based on Tibet, and Alzmann and Barry Williams put a lot of thought into creating a layout of their city that felt like people could actually live there.


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Refactoring Simplified
What is Refactoring?
- Refactoring is a disciplined technique for improving the structure of existing code without changing the observable behavior.
As Danny Dig states on his website. In short: change the structure of your code, without changing behavior. Using Refactoring, you can easily move fields, methods or classes around without breaking things. Refactorings come as simple as Rename or more complex like Tease Apart Inheritance.
Why should I Refactor?
- Refactoring improves the design of software
- Refactoring makes software easier to understand
- Refactoring makes software easier to maintain
- Refactoring helps you find bugs
- Refactoring helps you program faster
What are the various techniques in refactoring?
Following are of some of the transformations that can be done in order to refactor your code:-
You can change the name of a package, class, method or field to something more meaningful. Netbeans will update all source code in your project to reference the element by its new name.
How to do it?
Step1 : Right-Click on the variable/method/class name, in the Refactor menu select Rename (Ctrl+R)
Step2 : In "New Name" enter the new name that you desire for the token. Then click on Refactor button complete the operation. Optionally you preview the effect of the refactoring.
Replace block of code with a method
You can generate a statement based on the selected code and replace that block of code with a call to the statement, in just a few clicks.
How to do it?
Step1 : Select the code you want to replace with a method. Choose the "Introduce Method..." in the Refactor menu.
File:Introducing a method
Step2 : Give the name of the method you want and specify its access. Click on 'Ok' and Netbeans will take care of the rest.
Encapsulate Fields
Netbeans can automatically generates a getter method and and a setter method for a field and optionally update all referencing code to access the field using the getter and setter methods.
How to do it?
Step1 : Right click anywhere in your code and choose the 'Encapsulate Fields' option in the Refactor menu.
Step2 : You'll be presented with a list of the fields that can be encapsulated. All you have to do is to mention which fields you want to encapsulate. Click on the 'Refactor' button to complete the operation or you can optionally preview the effect the refactoring will have on your code.
Other frequently used refactoring techniques
- Move Class: Moves a class to another package or into another class. In addition, all source code in your project is updated to reference the class in its new location.
- Safely Delete: Checks for references to a code element and then automatically deletes that element if no other code references it.
- Change Method Parameters: Enables you to add parameters to a method and change the access modifier.
- Extract Interface: Creates a new interface from the selected public non-static methods in a class or interface.
- Extract Superclass: Creates a new abstract class, changes the current class to extend the new class, and moves the selected methods and fields to the new class.
- Move Inner to Outer Level: Moves an inner class one level up in hierarchy.
The IDE's refactoring features simplify code restructuring by evaluating the changes that you want to make, showing you the parts of your application that are affected, and making all necessary changes to your code. Using these features will certainly help you save a lot of time and avoid errors in your code while improving the quality of your code.
Where to go from here?
- http://refactoring.com - Martin Fowler's refactoring page.
- http://refactoring.info - Danny Dig's refactoring pase.
- http://www.sourcemaking.com - Easy to understand explanations


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Johnson to be integral part of White Sox rotation
Right-hander is ranked by MLB.com as No. 2 prospect in system
I was both intrigued and impressed when I saw Erik Johnson pitch this past Spring Training at the Chicago White Sox camp in Glendale, Ariz.
Johnson is a strong, wide-bodied right-handed starting pitcher the White Sox selected out of the University of California-Berkeley in the second round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft.
Johnson, who is ranked No. 2 by MLB.com among the White Sox Top 20 Prospects, earned his starting role at Berkeley following a highly successful high school career at Los Altos High School (Calif.). He was a three-time All-State selection, compiling 113 strikeouts as a senior.
At 6-foot-3, 235 pounds, Johnson can be very intimidating on the mound. His solid build provides the first impression for the hitter. Then the reality of a very deep and effective repertoire of swing-and-miss pitches takes over.
Johnson has a wealth of pitches he throws for strikes. He uses his four-seam and sinking fastballs to set up very effective secondary pitches that include a curveball, slider, changeup and a wicked cut fastball. The cutter might be the most explosive pitch of his arsenal.
Throughout his Minor League career, Johnson has thrown strikes. He has shown consistently good command and control, with an average of 2.7 walks and 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings in his three seasons, the first of which included only two innings in the Pioneer Rookie League.
Johnson's 2012 season was delayed a bit by shoulder issues that were resolved by June. He made 17 starts that included nine at Class A Kannapolis in the South Atlantic League and eight more after being promoted to Class A Advanced Winston-Salem in the Carolina League. Combined, he threw 92 1/3 innings, pitching to a sparkling 2.53 ERA and 1.20 WHIP. He gave up fewer hits (82) than innings pitched.
I recall buzz this past Spring Training of Johnson possibly making the White Sox starting rotation. It didn't happen.
Instead, Johnson threw 84 2/3 innings at Double-A Birmingham, recording an 8-2 record with a 2.23 ERA and 0.92 WHIP. He struck out 74 and walked 21. His performance took him to Triple-A Charlotte.
Combined this season at the White Sox two highest classifications, Johnson had a 12-3 record with a 1.96 ERA and a 0.98 WHIP. Those numbers earned him a recent September callup to the big league club.
Johnson made his Major League debut on Sept. 4. He faced the Yankees and lost the game, pitching six innings and allowing five runs, though only three were earned.
Many more starting opportunities appear to be in Johnson's future.
When I saw Johnson last spring, he wasn't as smooth in his delivery as he is becoming with maturity and excellent coaching. Basically, he got out of sync, losing a consistent release point. That caused some wild spurts that he corrected. Because he has natural life on his pitches, repeating his delivery will be key to using that movement to his advantage.
During Spring Training and throughout this past season, White Sox personnel worked closely with Johnson to build a solid mechanical pitching foundation from which he can progress.
Johnson projects to become an integral part of the White Sox future starting rotation. He can become a middle-of-the-rotation starter by continuing to refine his repertoire, learning to sequence pitches according to the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, and consistently working to repeat a good delivery.
He should get additional starts this season to carry him to Spring Training, serving as a springboard for success in 2014.


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The Different Ways to Reface Your Cabinets
There are a variety of ways you can reface your cabinets. You can change the doors of your cabinets. Or, you can add new hardware to your cabinets. Cabinet refacing also can involve changing the color of your cabinets.
One way to change the look of your cabinet doors is by adding wood veneer to your cabinets. This can be done if your cabinets are smooth. By placing wood veneer on top of your existing cabinet doors, you can achieve a whole new look without having to replace the cabinet doors. And, veneer is easy to install, with the simplicity of a peel-and-stick backing. Wood veneer also comes in a variety of colors.
Another way to reface your cabinets is by actually removing all of your doors and drawers. This is a bit more expensive, and a bit more labor intensive. But, by replacing your doors and drawers, you can choose other styles of wood that may be more updated. You can then update your hardware to add a completely new look.
There are a variety of ways to change your cabinets. Cabinet refacing just takes a little bit of creativity and bit of construction knowledge. But, in little time, you can get a kitchen that looks brand new!


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FBI investigating 'sextortion' case targeting Miss Teen USA
The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Wednesday they were investigating an alleged "sextortion" case involving newly crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf from Orange County and other women.
Laura Eimiller, spokeswoman for the FBI's Los Angeles office, said the investigation was several months old but would not discuss any details of the case, including whether a suspect had been identified.
Wolf, who was Miss California Teen USA before winning the Miss Teen USA pageant over the weekend at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas, said in media interviews that she received an anonymous email from someone claiming to be in possession of nude photos of her taken via the webcam on her computer.
Wolf also said the author tried to extort her to ensure that the photos were not made public.
The incident, in which someone was able hack into Wolf's computer and turn on its webcam, is the latest in a string of so-called "sextortion" cases involving individuals who have used email accounts, social media or a computer's own hardware to glean compromising information or images of its user.
A Glendale man, Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, pleaded guilty last month in a "sextortion" case in which he targeted 350 women and coerced them into showing him pictures of them nude.
Prosecutors alleged Kazaryan hacked into the Facebook, Skype and email accounts of victims and changed their passwords, locking them out of their own online accounts. He then searched emails and other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the women, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends.
Kazaryan then posed online as those women and sent instant messages to their friends, convincing them to remove their clothing so he could view and take pictures of them, authorities alleged.
Once the victims learned that someone had impersonated their friend, Kazaryan then used the photos to coerce them to remove their clothing on camera, according to authorities.
In December, a Florida man who hacked into email accounts and procured naked images of celebrities, including Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera and Scarlett Johansson, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Christopher Chaney, 35, pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles to nine counts of computer hacking and wiretapping for the unauthorized access of email accounts belonging to 50 people in the entertainment industry.
Once Chaney got photos of the celebrities and other information, he forwarded the material to another hacker and two celebrity websites that made them public, according to a plea agreement made public last year.
Chaney has admitted that from at least November 2010 to October 2011, he hacked into the email accounts of Johansson, Kunis and others by taking their email addresses, clicking on the "Forgot your password?" feature and then resetting the passwords by correctly answering their security questions using publicly available information he found by searching the Internet.
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I have a fucking massive boil behind my right ear, in exactly the same place on the other ear another is developing. I've no idea what the source of these 2 cunts is/are but I'm not happy. Swinging back to the first ear briefly, I'm fucking deaf in it, 100% silence. Bollocks.
The office is like a morgue, I'm finishing off a fucking project and my 'team' for want of a better word are rummaging around in their unwashed beds, flailing in the bathroom or pushing cardboard cereals down their guts. The fuckers should be here; one of them may get a smack. The bloke behind me has this habit at talking me when I'm working (writing this) usually to bitch about someone in the office. If he's not bitching he'll prequel an attack of conversation by laughing falsely in the futile hope that I'll turn round all bright eyed and say, 'hey, what's so funny?! Instead I mash my fists into the desk and grinding my teeth into themselves, for his sake.
I had a lovely evening last night; I got home following an exhausting but rewarding cycle and had a shower. I'm then sorry to say I immediately played Tomb Raider as I was stuck, and I wanted to unstick myself before Myfwt arrived. She bounced in at 7 on the dot and I poured us a pair of G & T's, darling. We sort of resumed the conversation that I'd ballsed up last time, either way it was a perfect combination of hilariousness twinged with life affirming seriousness and lasted for a good while before Big Brother took over, sort of, once she gets going that one there's no stopping her. I rather like that though.
The side effect of all this yakking was that dinner consisted of smoked salmon on toast and a side of cucumber in mayo, Dijion and dill, delicious but not substantial really, plus I'd opened a bottle of wine (as per self-imposed rules) and it was slipping down a treat. Myfwt was also drinking well, in addition to 3 G & T's she was also indulging in the wine, in fact, I worked out that over the course of the evening I'd had one G & T and ¾ of a bottle of wine (enough but by my standards fuck all, though these days I feel it more) and she'd stuck half a bottle on her aperitifs… Before she had a bath she was giggly and delightfully flirtatious… I began to count my chickens…
…after the bath all of her drinks and smoked salmon and toast and cucumber in mayo, Dijion and dill, were flying out of her face into the chod bin. The thing about Myfwt's is that, being an ex-model, beautiful tall and lithe, is that she commands a perpetual state of grace that even when undertaking the passing of vast geysers of puke, she retains this perfect dignity which is at once both charming and amusing. I watched my chickens roll over and die. She came to bed feeling a little lighter, smiled at me and passed out. I fell asleep shortly after with a heavy dick.
My 'team' are slowly arriving at their desks muttering excuses, I'm not being particularly co-operative. Five minutes ago I picked up the phone and accidentally smashed it into my deaf ear, before realising that it doesn't fucking work but in doing so burst the bubo. A river of pus and blood are trickling down my neck as I type this, a rough paper hand towel has stemmed the flow. I don't think anyone has noticed…
This time next week I'll be off to Glastonbury, I need to get this bloody project off before then. I'm under pressure; I don't like pressure, especially when I'm deaf with blood/pus all over the bloody shop.
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|The Scoop on the World Open
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Watch our video report from the World Open, which features tournament champion Ilya Smirin as well as GMs Mark Paragua & Oliver Barbosa. You can also check out GM Timur Gareev's new hairstyle.
Find games and norm-earners in our previous report and find full standings on worldopen.com and rated results on MSA.