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gvSIG Desktop is designed to be an easily extensible solution, allowing thus continually improving the software application and developing tailor made solutions.
gvSIG Desktop is open source software, GNU / GPL license, this makes its free use, distribution, study and improvement.
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gvSIG Online is the integral platform for the implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and corporate GIS in free software.
It is a fast and powerful solution to implement the necessary infrastructure to manage the spatial data of an organization efficiently.
gvSIG Online has been successfully deployed in private companies, and local, regional, national and supranational organizations.
It allows to share geographic information in the cloud, generate maps and 2D and 3D applications easily, thanks to simple and powerful management tools. Without any limitation to generate geoportals!
It's integrated with all other components of the gvSIG Suite.
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Designed to be easy to use, gvSIG Mobile offers a comprehensive set of tools for applications and tasks that require a geographic component.
gvSIG Mobile is open source software, with GNU / GPL license, allowing its free use, distribution, study and improvement.
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gvSIG Roads is an integral solution that allows the management of the road infrastructures both from its alphanumeric and geographical component, based on standards and open source software.
Implementing gvSIG Roads allows a complete management system for the conservation and inventory of roads integrated with the power of the Spatial Data Infrastructures.
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It allows maintaining a homogeneity of working procedures, documentation, coordination with contractors and access to information.
gvSIG Educa is the project that adapts the gvSIG Suite to the field of education. The objective is to be a tool for educators to make analysis and understanding of the territory easier for students, having the possibility to be adapted to different levels or educational systems.
gvSIG Batoví appears under this idea. It's a distribution of gvSIG Desktop for educational field.
It facilitates learning by interactivity of students with information, adding the spatial component to the study of subjects, and making the assimilation of concepts easyier using tools as visual as thematic maps.
It is designed to be easily extensible, allowing a continuous improvement of the application, as well as to share exercises and information between teachers and students.
gvSIG Batoví is open source software, with GNU / GPL license, allowing its free use, distribution, study and improvement.


SMEs with exceptional IT skills have been called on to enter this year's IT Industry awards run by the British Computer Society (BCS).
The awards are open to businesses of all sizes, and recognise firms that have demonstrated examples of IT excellence, including project-based and individual achievements.
There are 23 award categories this year, including IT consultancy of the year, green organisation of the year and small supplier of the year.
"Our awards highlight the importance of technology within today's business environment, where IT plays an integral role from the board room to customer communications," said BCS chief executive David Clarke.
"The awards generate a high level of media exposure in national, regional and trade publications, in print, broadcast and electronic media," he added.
Businesses must complete an application form to enter the awards and pay a registration fee of £55. The deadline for entries is 1 August.
A panel of judges will select the finalists and winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in London in December.
Last year's small-business winners included electronic records management firm CSW group, which won the SME organisation of the year award for demonstrating strong company growth in a difficult market.


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Q: Is it possible to un-link object files from an executable Background: I am looking at developing a package manager similar to portage in Gentoo Linux ( I may end up forking portage). For those that know little about Gentoo it is a source based distro, which means that all packages are compiled from source code. Currently it is possible to compile a program into object files and then into executable's.
$ gcc -c  a.c -o a.o
$ gcc -c  b.c -o b.o
$ gcc a.o b.o -o executable

The improvements I would like to make to portage are the following.

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*Ability to only re-compile object files that have been updated (track changes using GIT or otherwise).

*Decompile/Unlink executable to object files.

*Re-compile/re-link object files replacing only the old  object files with the updated object files (Changes tracked using GIT or otherwise).

*Then the newly compiled package replaces the old package. (trivial task)

Reasoning: I am an Arch linux user who loves the idea of a source based distribution but cannot be bothered with the enormous task of keeping my system up to date. I also do most of my work on a laptop computer with a small hard drive, hence the reason behind de-compiling/un-linking the executable to object files rather that just keeping the object files which take up a large amount of space. It would also likely decrease the overall compile time of the system as the need to re-compile most of the source code would be greatly reduced. It would also allow for an easy way to change the USE flags on a package without the need to completely re-compile.
Question: Is it possible to compile object files into an executable and then to de-compile back into object files. An example of this is below.
$ gcc -c  a.c -o a.o
$ gcc -c  b.c -o b.o
$ gcc a.o b.o -o executable

and then
$ SomeCommand executable
output << a.o b.o

If this is not currently possible. Would it be doable to modify a version of GNU's linker "$ld" to log the changes it makes when linking object files, so as to make intentionally make the program "reverse Engineerable" ???
Edit: Another use for this would be too separate a singular object file from an executable of a large project to swap the separated object file with a new one and to re-link again. This would reduce the overhead of re-linking large projects from many different files when only one is updated. This would allow for incremental compilation on the binary level.

A: No, this is not possible. A large amount of the linker's work is replacing symbolic references (valid for any combination of object files being linked together) with numeric offsets (valid only for the particular way the linker decided to lay out that particular combination of object files, that particular time). Once the references are "baked" in this way, they cannot be recovered.

A: It might be doable if you alter/configure ld to keep sections for each object file apart and also keeps the relocation table for each object file in the executable. Also you have to make sure ld stores the object file names in the executable if you want to get the original file names.
Basically a linker could just join the object files together and then do the relocations, if the relocations are inversible you should be able to reverse the process.

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Treasure in Heaven. 19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
Some time ago I wrote an article about how God was talking to me through moving words from our web page.
As it is explained in the article, my understanding is that God was telling me to fast for twenty days, which I did. I was then instructed to rest for the following twenty (20) days and fast again for another 20 days. At the beginning, I did not understand why, but later I realized that it was through that fasting which prevented a major disaster in my family.
It happened just a few days after I had finished my last 20 days fast when one Friday afternoon, my wife felt the need to pray for a very sick person. After she had finished praying for her, she came home and while sitting on the bed, she started screaming out of pain in her leg.
But the situation did not end there. She later started feeling really bad and displayed odd behavior, and that afternoon I decided to take her to a local psychologist for medical attention. Things went from bad to worse with her mentally, so I decided to take her to the hospital. There, they found out that she was having problems with insomnia, as she was not getting enough sleep for a while.
The doctors decided to put her to sleep for about 2 to 3 days so that she could recover, and while she was at the hospital, I started having bad feelings as if something really bad was going to happen to her. As a result, my level of stress increased dramatically.
Thankfully, a few days later, I was called from the hospital with the news that she was okay to go home, which I did the very same day. The following day, which was a Saturday, I decided to do what I usually do on Saturdays when all of sudden, I started feeling kidney stones pain.
It was so bad that I had to go to a local walk-in-clinic. After going through a series of exams and ultrasounds, the doctors decided that the best option was to go to the main hospital for an emergency observation since the local clinic did not have all the machines in operation. According to their studies, one of my kidneys was very swollen. They tried giving me pain killers, but it did not seem to help.
That same night at the hospital, I went through many tests and to make a long story short, I ended up in male surgical room.
In three days period, thanks be to God I was discharged.
And now while home, one morning my children asked me why so many bad things happen in our family if we spent most of the time praying to God?
Out of fear, they even suggested that maybe we are a target of the devil because of our constant prayer to God and that we should consider reducing the time of prayers we dedicate to Him.
And honestly speaking, I sympathized with them and I understood how many people get to lose their faith in God when bad things start happening in their lives.
The reasoning behind it is that, what will people think about God if the same people who are constantly praying to Him are the same ones going through so many problems?! Isn't God supposed to protect them from these attacks?
So I said; children, I understand your frustration, but being a prayerful person doesn't make you exempt from evil attacks; being a prayerful person doesn't free you from problems, but we must trust God in all situations.
Just as the Scriptures tell us in Psalm 34:19 NRSV saying; "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all", so will God rescue us as well and in fact, He has been doing so since I can remember.
I then remembered how the Bible tells us a story about a certain man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil (Job 1), was victim of evil attacks, where even his own friends accused him of sinning before God.
2 This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father's flocks. He worked for his half-brothers, the sons of his father's wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.
9 Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. "Listen, I have had another dream," he said. "The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!" 10 This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. "What kind of dream is that?" he asked. "Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?" 11 But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.
As you may see it in the above verses (Gen 37: 1-11), Joseph probably thought he would actually become his brother's leader; but what he did not know is how he would get there.
How can you say God was with him after all the tragedies he went through?
You see, many of us in Joseph's place may say, why do I care anyway?
But Joseph, despite all the sufferings he went through, he remained faithful to God all the time, even when that beautiful woman tempted him.
The point I am trying to make here is that, we need to learn how to see the positive in all things. Yes many may ask, if the people who constantly pray to God are suffering, why should I dedicate my time to Him?
When new people in faith see such situations, it may cause them to think that God Himself is causing the believer to depart from Him.
Well, they may say that; but what about seeing it in this way; despite the attacks that prayerful people are going through, they still remain faithful to God. Isn't that amazing? And the reason is that, deep inside their hearts, they know for certain that this suffering is only temporary.
And we also know that bad things may happen to good people over and over, and that does not necessarily mean that they have sinned before God. What we need to understand is that God is ultimately the one in charge. We may not understand why the bad things are happening, but we must keep our faith in Him all the time.
And if we are not careful enough, we may witness how those same evil rulers are able to infiltrate and manipulate our lives to the point of creating division among us with our loved ones.
Merciful and Compassionate God, in Ephesians 6:12 you said that we were not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.
With your mercy, bless us with a discerning and prayerful heart so that we may be able to see with precision how the enemy, with his evil ways, is always trying to entice hate among our brethren, in Jesus Name, Amen.


What is the Food Enzyme Institute (formerly Loomis Institute) where Sherry received her Loomis Digestive Health Specialist certification?
The Food Enzyme Institute is a postgraduate educational program that is approved by the State of Wisconsin Educational Approval Board. The seminar material is the work of Howard F. Loomis, Jr., DC, FIACA. Dr. Loomis has combined the work of food enzyme pioneer, Edward Howell, MD, with his many years of clinical experience to develop this Diploma and certification program. The philosophy behind the Food Enzyme Institute is based on the vitalistic premise that the body possesses an innate intelligence to heal and maintain itself when it is given the proper amounts of air, water, nutrients, and exercise. It is our goal as digestive health professionals to identify those organs that are struggling to do their part for the maintenance of homeostasis. The Loomis System®, developed by Howard Loomis, Jr., is a system of diagnostic techniques that can be used to determine the hidden causes of chronic symptoms. All stress, whether it is from a mechanical, chemical, or emotional source, increases the body's need for nutrition.


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US Blue-Chip Stocks Post 1st Decline Of '11 As Telecom Slumps
By Kristina Peterson
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its first down session of the year on Thursday, as retail and telecommunications shares lagged and euro-zone debt worries resurfaced.
The Dow closed down 25.58 points, or 0.22%, to 11697.31, its first drop in five sessions.
The Nasdaq Composite edged up 7.69, or 0.28% to 2709.89. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index shed 2.71, or 0.21%, to 1273.85.
The S&P 500's telecommunications sector tumbled nearly 2.8%. Leading the declines, MetroPCS Communications tumbled 96 cents, or 6.7%, to $13.30, after the prepaid wireless provider disclosed its fourth-quarter subscriber growth slowed from the prior period. AT&T shed 40 cents, or 1.4%, to 29.15, after cutting its price for Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3GS to $49 from $99 as the carrier prepares for heightened competition from a Verizon Wireless iPhone launch expected early this year. Verizon Communications, which operates Verizon Wireless as a joint venture with Vodafone Group, slid 95 cents, or 2.6%, to 36.23.
Retailers also lagged in the wake of a soft round of December same-store sales figures, which largely fell short of analysts' expectations.
"I don't know if that says more about the retailers or about the expectations," said Max Bublitz, chief markets strategist at SCM Advisors. The recent crop of better-than-expected economic data may have spurred too much optimism for consumer spending, he said.
"Expectations are probably beginning to exceed reality a little bit," he said.
Gap fell 1.53, or 6.9%, to 20.70, after reporting a surprise drop in December sales, with particular weakness at its namesake stores in North America. Target dropped 4.01, or 6.8%, to 54.93, after its same-store sales increased only 0.9% last month, falling far short of analysts' estimates.
Department-store operators were largely lower after same-store figures missed analysts' expectations. Macy's fell 1.00, or 4%, to 23.97, while Kohl's shed 1.67, or 3.1%, to 52.23, after missing Street expectations, though the retailer raised the low end of its earnings forecast for the fourth quarter.
A handful of teen retailers also came in below Street forecasts, including Zumiez, which plunged 2.23, or 8.4%, to 24.44, and Wet Seal, down 45 cents, or 12%, to 3.46.
However, investors noted that ferocious snowstorms in late December may have pushed some post-holiday shopping into January.
Worries in the euro-zone debt markets flared up after the European Union proposed a framework for dealing with bank and investment-firm failures that asked whether bondholders should share the burden in paying for future bailouts.
"People are realizing there's still risk," said Pete Sorrentino, senior portfolio manager at Huntington Funds. "There's still some concerns that are not over with, and that's sobered some people up."
The worries weighed on the euro and boosted the dollar as investors pulled away from riskier assets.
The U.S. Dollar Index, which tracks the currency against a basket of others, rose 0.7%. The euro was recently trading at $1.3012, down from $1.3155 late Wednesday in New York.
In U.S. economic data, Thursday's weekly jobless-claims report fueled mounting hopes that the labor market is strengthening. The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits rose slightly less than economists' expected, though the previous week's figures were revised modestly upward. The weekly jobs data came on the heels of an unexpected surge Wednesday in private-sector jobs last month, which prompted optimistic investors to revise upward their estimates for Friday's key government nonfarm-payrolls report.
Among stocks in focus, graphic-chip maker Nvidia rallied 2.35, or 14%, to 19.33, after saying late Wednesday that it is developing its first computer processor aimed at mainstream computing, a move that makes the company a direct challenger to Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Shares of Intel eased 17 cents, or 0.8%, to 20.77, while AMD slid 22 cents, or 2.5%, to 8.69.
TJX, parent of off-price chains T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, gained 2.52, or 5.9%, to 45.52, after raising its earnings outlook for the fourth quarter, pointing to growth in the number of customer transactions.
Shares of seed giant Monsanto rose 1.66, or 2.4%, to 70.79, after the company swung to a first-quarter profit, boosted by growth in its seeds and genomics business.
Crude-oil prices fell to settle below $89 a barrel, while gold futures advanced.
Demand for Treasurys rose, pushing yield on the 10-year note down to 3.40%.

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This micro-computerized Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 model remains one of the best 10 cup rice cooker models when comparing great rice quality & performance all at a competitive price.
The unit can prepare up to 30 cups cooked white rice and features a fool-proof water level measuring gauge inside the inner bowl. In combination, the rice cooker also allows users to select from a variety of specific rice types which are white, sushi, brown, mixed, rinse free, and even porridge.
This process is simple and requires following the correct measuring guide along with the press of a few buttons.
The quality, flavor, and texture of the rice will be consistently moist and fluffy after each use. In addition, for cooking white rice, folks can choose from 3 different textures; regular, hard, or soft.
Zojirushi Fuzzy Logic is on Board!
What helps make the Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 better than the average rice cooker is its micro-computerized internal monitoring, also known as Fuzzy Logic.
This means that instead of just simply boiling the rice, the unit will sort of "pay attention" on how the selected rice is cooking making fine temperature and cooking time adjustments when needed. This also makes up for slight errors in measurements.
Adding that along with a spherical inner bowl designed to distribute even heat assures that folks get an above standard batch of rice without the guess work…especially with brown rice which can be a challenge to get just right.
Another plus folks should find helpful is the programmable timer feature allowing folks to start the unit in the morning and having a bowl of moist ready-to-serve rice when returning from work.
This Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 Fuzzy Logic rice cooker model comes with two measuring cups, (one for rinsing rice) a spatula, spatula holder which attaches to the back side of unit, and manual.
As mentioned in the Cons, given that this Zojirushi 10 cup rice cooker requires a battery change after 4 years may lead some to choose another unit…however.
Based on all of our rice cooker research, most, if not all micro-computerized units require this change. A simple tip to keep in mind is that keeping the unit plugged in will increase the lifespan of the battery. Also note that this battery is what keeps the clock running when the unit is unplugged and can operate fine without it.
It also holds the units memory in case of a short power outage when it is cooking.
Overall, for the benefits and features, along with the quality rice it will produce makes the Zojirushi NS-ZCC18 a great buy!
Also compare with the Sanyo ECJ-HC100S and the Panasonic SR-NA18 before buying.


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Kansas Supreme Court Discusses A Lawyer's Failure to Argue For A Change in the Law
State v. Roat, 466 P.3d 439 (Kansas 2020) is an unlikely case to provide an interesting discussion of a legal malpractice issue. Roat, having served his sentence, argued that his sentence for a crime had been computed incorrectly. The court held the appeal was moot. Roat tried to argue that his lawyers committed malpractice but the court rejected that argument as well. The discussion is thoughtful and the court concludes that a lawyer does not have a duty to argue for a change in the law.
Roat provides little in the way of the details of what he might assert as a factual basis for a legal malpractice claim. He leaves it to the appellate courts to flesh out the nature of his claims against his trial counsel. Failure to brief an analytic framework sufficiently for effective appellate review is tantamount to not raising the issue at all. See State v. Boleyn, 297 Kan. 610, 633, 303 P.3d 680 (2013); State v. Easterling, 289 Kan. 470, 487, 213 P.3d 418 (2009). A party should not leave the court "to guess about the specifics of how [a party] would frame his arguments…." State v. Berriozabal, 291 Kan. 568, 594, 243 P.3d 352 (2010).
We are reluctant to try to put flesh onto the skeleton of a hypothetical legal malpractice claim that Roat suggests creates an interest sufficient to defeat mootness. It may be that he would argue that his attorney should have made the arguments that appellate counsel successfully made in State v. Dickey, 301 Kan. 1018, 350 P.3d 1054 (2015). If Roat's trial attorney had successfully made those arguments, then, the reasoning might be, he would have spent less time incarcerated.
Although Roat did not object to the scoring of his criminal history prior to sentencing, the failure to object to a criminal history score does not preclude a defendant from appealing the legal effect of prior convictions upon the calculation of his or her criminal history score. See State v. Keel, 302 Kan. 560, 571, 357 P.3d 251 (2015); Dickey, 301 Kan. 1018, Syl. ¶¶ 3-4, 350 P.3d 1054.
But there is a difference between correcting an illegal sentence based on newly articulated law and pursuing a legal malpractice action based on newly articulated law. Roat was sentenced in April 2012. The Court of Appeals issued its opinion in State v. Dickey, 50 Kan. App. 2d 468, 329 P.3d 1230, on June 27, 2014. Roat would have to allege malfeasance by his trial counsel for not urging the adoption of a new law.
Research does not reveal any Kansas cases allowing legal malpractice claims based on failure to make arguments that represent a change in law. Other states and legal treatises have taken the position that failing to make an argument that later proved to be good law is not grounds for malpractice.
In Minkina v. Frankl, 86 Mass. App. Ct. 282, 289, 16 N.E.3d 492 (2014), the court held that it is not legal malpractice to fail to advocate for or anticipate a substantial change in law requiring the overruling of a controlling precedent. The court cited Davis v. Damrell, 119 Cal. App. 3d 883, 888, 174 Cal. Rptr. 257 (1981) (failure to anticipate "`180 degrees shift in law' cannot serve as the basis for professional negligence" [citation omitted]); Kaufman v. Stephen Cahen, P.A., 507 So. 2d 1152, 1153 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1987) ("[A]n attorney's failure to accurately predict changes on an unsettled point of law is not actionable"); Howard v. Sweeney, 27 Ohio App. 3d 41, 43-44, 499 N.E.2d 383 (1985) ("Counsel's failure to predict a subsequent change in a settled point of law cannot serve as a foundation for professional 451*451 negligence."); 4 Mallen, Legal Malpractice § 33.5 (2020) ("The rule is that an attorney is not liable for an error in judgment concerning a proposition of law that is debatable, uncertain, unsettled, or tactical.").
We determine that this is the proper rule. Otherwise, lawyers and their insurance carriers will find themselves in a perpetual guessing game, wondering what new statement of law they must argue in order to avoid liability. The issue would become even more confused with issues in which the courts do not take a direct line to a conclusion, as has been the case with Murdock and Keel.
We, therefore, conclude that Roat has failed to present the appellate courts with an adequate theory of his malpractice action to justify an appellate determination of the correctness of the sentence that he has fully served. His hypothetical malpractice is more "hope" than substance. See Christopher, 536 U.S. at 416, 122 S.Ct. 2179. His claim does not preclude application of the mootness doctrine.
Comment: While this is not a traditional malpractice case, this is an excellent discussion of the judgment call defense.
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Open Source ArangoDB Launches Managed Service for Enterprises
By Becky Nagel
On Thursday the San Francisco, Calif. (by way of Cologne, Germany)-based ArangoDB team announced the release of ArangoDB Oasis, a new enterprise managed service for its open source, multi-model database.
ArangoDB is known for its "native multi-model format" -- meaning it can serve as a graph database, a key/value store and a document database, all of which can be queried at once using full-text search and geo queries, graph traversal or other patterns. All identifying data is stored in a common JSON-based format, allowing it to be pulled into other collections and used in a variety of ways.
The new ArangoDB Oasis managed service is a paid add-on that gives enterprises tools to easily deploy and manage their ArangoDB cluster deployments. It works on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, offers "enterprise-grade" security and gives users custom multi-deployment capabilities along with various new collaboration features.
"ArangoDB Oasis furthers the benefits already gained with ArangoDB by providing a managed service that will remove the burden of deployment, uptime, maintenance and other tasks involved in database administration," the company remarked on the new release. "By providing developers an easy way to spin up clusters of any size, at any time, for as long as needed, ArangoDB Oasis makes it easy to focus on application development that can elastically scale up and out as needed."
"Our core belief is developers must be able to easily leverage the right data model for the right job without the complexity of navigating between different databases," said Claudius Weinberger, CEO and co-founder of ArangoDB, in a prepared statement. "ArangoDB Oasis makes this vision more of a reality by lifting the burden of database administration and maintenance from organizations, allowing them to focus on their core competency: brilliant application development and delivery."
ArangoDB Oasis is available now. A 14-day free trial can be signed up for here.
Becky Nagel is the vice president of Web & Digital Strategy for 1105's Converge360 Group, where she oversees the front-end Web team and deals with all aspects of digital projects at the company, including launching and running the group's popular virtual summit and Coffee talk series . She an experienced tech journalist (20 years), and before her current position, was the editorial director of the group's sites. A few years ago she gave a talk at a leading technical publishers conference about how changes in Web browser technology would impact online advertising for publishers. Follow her on twitter @beckynagel.


Instead of trying to convince people with the same arguments over and over again, I'm going to settle this issue here once and for all – Gamification not only has real-life value and impact, it even saves lives and could ensure our future as a race!
Earlier I wrote about Old Spice's Genius Gamification Marketing Campaign DIKEMBE MUTOMBO'S 4 1/2 WEEKS TO SAVE THE WORLD. While I think it is brilliant and does a lot of things well, I can assure you that it does NOT really save the world, outside of making more men smell like an adventure and bake gourmet cakes with the kitchens they made with their own hands.
But the 10 Examples below will blow your mind away and show you why Good Gamification, or "Human-Focused Design" (as opposed to Function-Focused Design"), undeniably has a role in "adding more lives" to our future.
Many thanks for the help of 周唯中 for making the work below possible.
By 2009, AIDS has already killed 30 Million people, or close to the equivalent of the State of California. As of 2010, there are still 34 Million people that have contracted HIV. For 15 years, many of the top PhD Scientists in the world were trying to decipher a crystal structure for one of the AIDS-causing viruses called the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV), but could not solve it.
Luckily, the University of Washington's Center for Game Science (yes, such center exists) collaborated with the Biochemistry department and created FoldIt, an online puzzle video game about protein folding. Foldit utilizes a game-like puzzle interface that allows people from all over the world to "play" and compete in figuring out various protein structures that fit a researcher's criteria.
To everyone's surprised, with over 240,000 "players" registering for the game and competing viciously against each other, a solution to the structure of the M-PMV was found in 10 days, creating a major breakthrough in the AIDS research field. 15 Years vs 10 Days? I would say for this alone Gamification added extremely concrete value to the world and could one day save a loved one.
Along the lines of FoldIt, Pain Squad is a "mobile game" designed to help kids fight cancer better by providing the patients with purpose and the researchers with data. In 2007, cancer was the cause of 13% of all human deaths (or 7.9M people). Fighting cancer is not only painful, it could be lonely and full of despair. To better treat children patients, doctors need patients to keep a "pain journal" everyday to see what is working and what is not.
However, kids are generally too tired to keep a journal and only record data occasionally, which makes the data completely useless. Toronto-based company Cundari created a role-playing cop game with missions and rewards, as well as police encouragement videos to motivate these children to log their pains twice a day for 2 weeks.
Turns out, this game not only provided doctors with all the data they need for better research and care, it made children excited and fought their pains with a purpose. They now are not simply victims of cancer but detectives that is baring some pain to help humanity defeat cancer once and for all!
Pain Squad was a massive success in a few hospitals in Canada and is going through more test cases in a lot more hospitals in 2013.
Studies show that the activity rate for children between 9-15 have decreased by 60%, leading to obesity, diabetes or even worse diseases. I introduced Zamzee in an earlier blogpost, along with an Octalysis analysis, but basically Zamzee is a device that clips onto kids and tracks their activities when they run around – somewhat like the Nike+ FuelBand but cheaper for kids and has missions that are designed to get kids excited.
Kids can upload their activity data onto a website and see how many points they received and whether they have accomplished interesting challenges as well as earned badges. Amazingly, Zamzee has concrete data to show that the activity rate of children increased by 59%, a very sizeable increase that will help encourage kids to go to the gym more when they grow up.
When you ask kids these days, "What is work?" They will say, "School." If you asked them "What is play?" they will often say, "Video games!" I believe human's have an innate DESIRE to learn, but for some reason current school systems does not motivate children to learn the way they're supposed to. What makes matter worse is that many schools are getting their budgets cut, with teachers being laid off and children not getting properly educated.
In comes Khan Academy. What used to just be a guy teaching math on YouTube became a huge collection of over 3000 educational videos on math, physics, chemistry, finance, and a lot more, with millions of people learning from it. Khan Academy utilizes lots of game mechanics such as "skill-growth trees" to unlock new classes and learn new skills. Many have said that they couldn't imagine themselves ever enjoying or being good at math, but now their world has changed, thanks to some great teaching skills by Khan, and a little bit of Gamification.
The Founder of Kiva.org once said, "the biggest competitor to Kiva is Zynga." When people are occupying their minds with games, they are less concerned about helping the world through philanthropy. This is why an aspiring entrepreneur named Edward Norton, along with some other friends started CrowdRise together.
CrowdRise is a platform that Gamifies charity. People create their pages and profiles, and they can accumulate points and match up against others on a leaderboard based on how much they can fundraise.
Of courses, they don't use very advanced Gamification techniques and simply stick to basic PBL (points, badges + leaderboards), but with some Epic Meaning & Calling on top of some celebrity power, CrowdRise managed to attract over 33M players and have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for non-profits worldwide.
Gamification Example 6: SuperBetter makes you Recover from Setbacks and Supercharges your Life.
This is a website created by game designer and known speaker Jane McGonigal. This site is unique because Jane herself once got into a brain concussion (hate those concussive shells!) and doctors were not very optimistic about her conditions. To her credit, Jane used her game design skills to create the first version of SuperBetter, a site to help people accomplish their goals by building physical, intellectual, emotional, and social resilience.
Through the process of forming alliances, using power packs, and defeating bad guys, she recovered from her illness and is now spreading the healing power of games to everyone who needs it.
The site is generally well designed, but it has some Ocean Paralysis towards the end of Onboarding. Of course, when you are curing people from a life-changing illness or setback, that hardly is an obstacle.
Energy is a serious issue in the world. It powers a nation's efficiency to produce and transport, but also leads to war in some cases. OPower works to solve these problems by utilizing gamification to encourage people to use less energy. OPower works with utility companies to provide households with data on how much energy they are consuming, how they match up with neighbors, and if they are close to any new milestones.
Compellingly, people are consuming on average 2% less energy, which in 2012 led to over 1 Terawatt of energy savings in the world. This equates to $120,000,000 in utility bill savings, and decreased polluions equivalent of keeping 100,000 cars off the road.
Perhaps not obvious to many, but there's also a serious trash problem in the world. 195 Million Tons of Trash are tossed out by American's alone each year. The trash needs to go somewhere, and they generally go into landfills. The problem is, many products can take 100-400 years to decompose, and we are slowly running out of landfill space. In 1988, there were about 4,000 landfills in the United States. Just 10 years after, in 1998, we only had 2,514 landfills left. In 2010, we dropped to 1,908. Starting to sense a problem here?
RecycleBank was created to encourage people to recycle more and reduce landfill trash by awarding points for recycling, saving energy, and answering sustainability quizzes and pledges. Points are redeemable for actual goods at WalMart, BestBuy and more places, as city government pays RecycleBank for reducing landfill waste. The project is backed by Al Gore and how won numerous awards in innovation, sustainability, and business. It now has 3 Million members and over 180 employees pushing the recycling envelope further.
In many third world countries, many people lack clean drinkable water, while others walk over 4 hours everyday to get clean water for the villages. A billion people in this world (that's 1/7th of the world) do not have access to clean water, with 2.2M of them dying every year due to water-related diseases.
The crazy thing is, people in these third world countries own mobile phones. In fact, more people own mobile phones than toilets. m.Paani implements a very innovative loyalty program, where by purchasing mobile credits from sponsoring companies, individuals earn points towards sanitization products or water-related infrastructure for the entire village.
Alone the lines of solving the water problem is solving world hunger. Every year, 15 Million children die from starvation, while another billion people having less than $1 a day to buy food. Almost 50% of the human population live on less than $2 a day.
Similar to what was said about Kiva, people are spending their time playing games instead of helping the poor, so FreeRice created a quiz game where each time you answered a question correctly, FreeRice will buy 10 grains of rice, which are paid for by the sponsors of the site. Now here's a win-win, the user improves his/her education from answering these questions, hungry people get fed, and sponsors get their promotional bang for the buck.
The site was later donated to the United Nations World Food Programme. To date, FreeRice has donated 6100 metric TONS of rice, consisting of 93 billion grains of rice and enough to feed 10 million people.
It's hard to argue against these examples being extremely positive for our society and well-being. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Dozens of new examples are being created every month. Gamified products that help with fitness, getting out of debt, doing chores, cleaning up the environment, you name it.
What we're seeing here is a complete shift from things we "should do" to things we "want to do." But instead of shifting the tasks, we simply make what we should do fun.
Imagine a world where kids can save lives, get healthier, bond with family and even make a living by playing World of Warcraft. My vision for Gamification is a future where no one really works, but everyone plays and contributes to a happier and more productive society.
Let's hope this is not just a fad.
Is there any research on which cultural groups are most amenable to gamification and which aren't?
I've been really fortunate to travel a good deal on business (not as much a Yu-Kai though) and for some "tasks" there seems to be a cultural willingness to accept new rules while others have to be coaxed/coached into them.
Recycling for example is hugely different in Germany than it is here in California. In Germany one simply must place the correct recyclables in the correct container or face a fine (CD6?), but the Germans don't seem interested in arguing about it, they get on with it.
In California I seem to hear a lot of grumbling about recycling. Part of it may be the "you can't tell me what to do" syndrome and another part of it may be that because resources have generally been highly available, there was no "imperative" to recycle.
Are there any documented cultural differences that need to be accounted for in designing gamification?
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I believe that gamification will continue to help transform social good. As I apply into my Community Health and Fitness Initiative, the examples you gave will certainly help.
Really interesting social gamification projects. I will encourage people from ONGs I know so they can hook their audiences into their projects.And, of course I will recommend them this posts!!
I was looking for inspiration on designing a gamified approach for a Green Building project. RecycleBank and OPower helped me a lot!
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When helping a friend is the hardest
Tori Lutz
When it comes to talking to a loved one about serious problems like eating disorders and addictions, it can be hard coming up with something to say without being afraid of offending them or damaging your relationship. That's why many people decide to avoid the conversation altogether and simply hope for the best. If you truly care about your loved one and their well being, however, that is not the best course of action and you need to find a way to have that tough conversation with them.
The first thing you should do is make note of the problem at hand. Sometimes, people have rough patches and develop habits to help them get through those rough patches but go back to their normal routines shortly after. For example, if someone is dealing with a loss and is coping through excessive drinking, take note of the behavior and pay attention to their patterns, but don't jump down their throat right away. Chances are, they are aware of their situation and feel vulnerable and embarrassed already, and it's only fair to give them a chance to come back around on their own or through your support.
If the problem persists, however, support may not be enough. The important thing to note is to not blame yourself for this. Many people truly love and appreciate the support they receive from their loved ones, but they still have a problem with giving up their addiction or habit. Don't let this hurt your feelings, because this behavior is entirely to do with them and how they view themselves, not you. At this point, you need start finding the right words to say so you can sit down with them and have a serious conversation.
"It's not your responsibility," said Rebecca Corbishley, a psychology student at Goucher College. "If you are ready to support them through the process then you are already doing your job as a friend. It is not a comment on yourself if your friend won't hear you. It's important to respect their autonomy. If you do talk to them about a perceived problem, make sure to approach the situation with caution. If they really do have a problem, chances are they won't be willing to admit it."
When finding the right words to say and building up the confidence to start the conversation, it's important to put aside your fear of them getting angry with you. Chances are, they will probably be more ashamed and embarrassed that the conversation is happening than they will be angry. If you've noticed the problem, there is a good chance that they have as well. Make sure you are gentle and understanding with this conversation as well. Avoid any language that may come across as accusatory, judgmental or centered around you. Try targeting the habit rather than the person by saying things like "the excessive alcohol makes me feel like…" rather than "you drinking all the time makes me feel like…" so they will feel less likely to be defensive and will be more receptive to your advice and concern.
"Use 'I feel' statements instead of an accusatory tone and make sure to fully listen to their response to you," said Corbishley. "If multiple people are involved in the intervention, it's important that the person doesn't feel ganged up on because that will totally shut them down to hearing what you have to say. Let them know that it's something multiple people have noticed, but don't have make it seem as though you know better than them."
Most importantly, don't be afraid to look for help from other loved ones or professionals. If the person isn't getting better, it may be a good idea to stage an intervention so they know exactly how they are affecting everyone in their life and what the consequences of persisting may be. If they shouldn't be around children anymore, don't be afraid to say so. By caving into the emotions of the addicted individual, you are in a way becoming an enabler of the problem because they will receive the impression that they can continue without real consequence. Professional aid may be crucial to the situation because they are trained in how to deal with these problems and are an unbiased opinion that may be taken less personally. The FSU Counseling Center, located in the Askew Student Life Center, is also a fantastic resource.
Ultimately, every case and addiction is different, and you have to trust your relationship with your loved one and know that if they truly are still the person you care about, they will appreciate your help and will do their best to fix the problem. As tragic as it is, if they have an addiction that is harmful to you and they refuse to change, you may need to take a step back from their life until they realize on their own what they are doing. The most important thing is to be brave enough to say something, because sometimes, that's all it takes.
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Report reflects on successful year
20th March 2009 3:55pm - Return to press releases
East Riding College has now published its latest annual report, which looks back on achievements during the 2007/2008 academic year.
The report covers all aspects of the College's work, from full-time further education for school leavers to workforce training for employers.
It also contains details of the College's development plans and a section on finance.
Principal Derek Branton said: "Our annual report is an opportunity for us to reflect on what was a very successful year for East Riding College.
"It is also a chance to look at how far we have come in the past five years, especially in terms of learner numbers, our accommodation and the growing importance of our work with employers."
Mr Branton added: "The report is written in plain language, without large amounts of education jargon, and gives a clear commentary on the College's growth and success.
"For anyone who is considering coming to the College, or who has children who are, it gives a clear picture of where we are and where we are going."
David Thacker, Chairman of the College's Governors, said: "East Riding College has an impressive track record and this year's annual report gives plenty of evidence and information to support that statement.
"I am delighted to congratulate the students and the staff for their outstanding commitment and their excellent achievements over the past five years.
"A significant factor in this success has been the leadership of Derek Branton, our Principal, and his team who have set fine examples and given impressive support where it has been needed.
"The local community are right to feel very proud of the continuing success of the College."
Key points mentioned in the report include:
The increase to 83 per cent in success rates on all programmes. The national rate for 2007/2008 was 74 per cent
The growth from 1,951 to 3,654 in the number of learners sponsored through courses by their employer
The start of construction of the new £17 campus in St Mary's Walk, Bridlington due to be completed this July.
Investment in improved learning environments, including a significant enhancement of the College's IT facilities, a Beauty Therapy salon and better resources for the growing number of higher education students.
Anyone who would like to read the annual report can request a copy by calling 0845 120 0037 or download it by visiting www.eastridingcollege.ac.uk
For more information on this press release, call Matthew Croshaw, marketing and communications manager, on 01482 306612 or email matthew.croshaw@eastridingcollege.ac.uk


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By Jayne / News / 1 Comment / 25th April 2018
More than 50 dogs have been stolen in Norfolk and Suffolk over the past two years, with labradors proving to be the most sought after breeds by thieves.
Figures from Norfolk Police reveal that 29 dogs were reported as stolen in the county in 2017 – more than double the number taken in 2016.
Across the border in Suffolk, the figure tripled to 12 last year.
Some of the breeds taken during that period include labradors, springer spaniels and Staffordshire bull terriers.
Helen Jermy, regional co-ordinator for Dog Lost, the UK's largest online service for stolen and missing pets, said dogs are "easy money" for thieves.
She said: "They can either sell the dogs on, breed them if they have not been spayed, or hang on to the dog for the reward to come up.
"But it is so distressing for the owners because as time goes on it is the not knowing which gets to you more than anything."
Mrs Jermy said she was aware of four dogs which had been taken from Old Buckenham in the past 12 months alone.
Included in that figure is Daisy the yellow Labrador, who was snatched from the garden of a property on New Buckenham Road on November 21, 2017.
Five months on and the animal is yet to be returned.
Figures from Norfolk and Suffolk Police show that Daisy was one of eight labradors taken in 2017, of which seven were puppies.
The list shows that three springer spaniels, two border collies and a chihuahua were also stolen in Norfolk last year.
Of the 29 dogs stolen in 2017, 22 were either returned or their whereabouts is known. In 2016, just two dogs were returned out of the 11 stolen.
In Suffolk, eight out of the 12 dogs stolen were returned last year, compared to two out of the four taken in 2016.
A Norfolk Police spokesman said: "Any crime where pets are stolen can be particularly upsetting for the victim and Norfolk Police will investigate these offences thoroughly.
"From April 2016 it became a legal requirement for all dogs to be micro-chipped and contact details kept up-to-date.
"This will make it harder for criminals who may look to steal a dog with the intention of selling it on."
The RSPCA advised owners not to leave dogs outside shops or in cars alone.
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Hope the unfortunate owners of all these Stolen dogs are working together to try to find their beloved pets.
Joining resources can help cover a wider area and piece together intel.
Good luck to all of the owners hope good news comes soon x


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The unusually early start to spring following a weirdly mild winter is good news for fans of the Great Outdoors across Minnesota.
The early disappearance of ice from lakes and rivers means spawning should finish early, and that could kick start the walleye season, which opens May 12. Winter was kind to wildlife, which bodes well for hunting. State parks are already drawing campers.
Mille Lacs Lake, the first big walleye lake north of the Twin Cities, saw its earliest ice-out in recorded history on Monday, breaking the record of April 2, 2000.
Rick Bruesewitz, area fisheries supervisor for the Department of Natural Resources in Aitkin, said Mille Lacs' fish population is looking good.
On Lake of the Woods, the state's northernmost lake, Paul Arnesen at Arnesen's Rocky Point Resort said he's never seen the ice go out so quickly so he's anticipating a strong opener. "It's going to push everything up," Arnesen said.


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Farmer termites bury invaders alive to protect fungus farms
by Sahana Ghosh on 1 October 2018
Fungus-farming termites (Odontotermes obesus) are able to sniff out weedy, parasitic fungi (Pseudoxylaria) and selectively bury them alive because they smell different than the crops.
Fungus-farming termites grow a fungus, Termitomyces, in carbon-dioxide rich environments of their nest mounds. In order to maintain a sustainable supply of cultivated fungi, termites must control weedy parasitic fungi and make sure that such fungi do not grow inside their nests.
The live burial creates an oxygen deficient environment locally (hypoxia), in the vicinity of the parasitic fungus, that affects survival of the parasitic fungus.
Termites are often perceived as nightmares in human habitats, devouring wooden structures and ravaging crops and trees. But within their own homes, some of these farmer termites have sneaky tricks up their sleeves for pest control. The pests in question here are an unwelcome variety of fungi that infiltrate the termite nest mounds.
Seemingly innocuous and tiny, termites that farm beneficial fungus (Odontotermes obesus) in their nest mounds, have a pretty disquieting practice to defending their fungal farms from invasion of weedy, parasitic fungi (Pseudoxylaria). Researchers at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, have documented that these blind insects sniff out the infiltrant in their mounds and selectively bury them alive.
This behaviour reported by Renee Borges's lab at the institute also has implications for agricultural practices.
"Fungus-farming termites grow a fungus, Termitomyces, in carbon dioxide-rich environments of their nest mounds. In order to maintain a sustainable supply of cultivated fungi, termites must control weedy parasitic fungi and make sure that such fungi do not grow inside their nests," Borges told Mongabay-India.
The live burial creates an oxygen deficient environment locally (hypoxia) in the vicinity of the parasitic fungus which affects survival of the parasitic fungus. "The burying behaviour, directed primarily at the parasitic weed, is coupled with antifungal activity which, in part, appears to be due to the effect of local hypoxic conditions," the study said.
Several fungus-growing termite species build mounds, or termitaria, that are conspicuous features of African and Asian landscapes. Odontotermes obesus, belonging to the Macrotermitinae subfamily, is a major mound building termite found across the India subcontinent.
Odontotermes obesus build castle-shaped, buttressed mounds that are up to several metres in height.
A termite mound. Photo by Lakshya Katariya.
Mound-building Macrotermitinae termites are major ecosystem engineers in the tropics and subtropics and maintain fungal gardens of Termitomyces, in controlled temperature and humidity conditions in their massive nest mounds, which are like organised greenhouses.
These farming systems (also seen in farming ants) have evolved over millions of years and they are sustainable monocultures. The fungus is farmed on termite faecal matter, deposited in the form of a fungus comb inside their nest mounds.
The termites offer a protected environment for the Termitomyces fungus to thrive while in turn, the fungus is an important food resource for the insects. Essentially, the wood-eating termites "outsource" lignin (component of wood) breakdown to the farmed fungus.
Interestingly, healthy fungal gardens of farmer termites are devoid of the weedy fungus Pseudoxylaria.
"It is amazing how natural colonies of fungus-growing termites seem to be able to control Pseudoxylaria: we have done many experiments with fungus gardens. In the absence of termites, very quickly those are completely overgrown with Pseudoxylaria, just in a few days," observed Duur Aanen, evolutionary geneticist at the Netherlands' Wageningen University
Aanen, who was not associated with the study said: "From the number of combs that get infected, we infer that there is a very high frequency of those fungi present, probably as spores of tiny mycelia. Nevertheless, in the presence of the termites, those fungi are never seen, so apparently the termites suppress them."
When the weedy fungus invades termite mounds, they take advantage of the same carbon sources and grow faster than the crop fungi, thereby competing with Termitomyces (crop fungi) for nutrition, said Borges. Therefore, as soon as the termites sniff out the presence of the weedy fungus, they act to nip the problem in the bud.
"In our previous study we had shown that worker termites can smell fungi and solely based on fungal scents, they can differentiate between the crop and weedy fungi. They are very sensitive to the fungus so even a few strands of Pseudoxylaria is enough to spur them to act and bury the fungus alive," Borges explained.
In a matter of minutes, it is game over for the weedy parasitic fungus.
"The termites make a ball of soil, carry it in their mandible and round it up with saliva and dump the ball on the parasitic mass. This behaviour of termites to bury live fungi is in contrast to humans who bury dead bodies," Borges said.
This also explains why Pseudoxylaria grows within the termite mound environment only in the absence of contact with termites. For example, in mounds abandoned by termites or when incubated within termite-proof enclosures within active mounds that allow circulation of mound air, said Borges.
"These studies very clearly show that like human farmers, fungus-farming termites have developed methods to control crop weeds and to protect their crops from parasitic attack. They do so both by targeted application of weed control treatments such as weed burial and fungicide application," she said.
Aanen observed that the present study explores if selective burial can be a factor contributing to this suppression and demonstrates that it can.
"Of course, those are in vitro experiments, so it remains to be seen how significant this is. Anyone who has worked with fungi and who had a contamination in a strain will be able to testify how difficult it is to control, let alone to get rid of a contamination. So it is not easy to see how termites would do this by selective burial. However, of course, they are many and they are small, so it could work," Aanen said.
A fungus farm inside the mound. Photo by Lakshya Katariya.
Dumping soil to deal with invaders
While chemical antifungal compounds have been reported in termite farms, live burial per se as an antifungal activity has never been investigated. To probe this dimension, the researchers carried out laboratory experiments using a locally prevalent fungus-farming termite, Odontotermes obesus, as their model system.
They offered farmer termites miniscule amounts of fungi in small petri-dishes filled with garden soil. When the researchers arrived in their laboratory next morning, they found that worker termites had buried the weedy fungus with soil completely. "We also noticed that the weedy fungus had been buried to a greater extent than the crop fungus," Borges said.
However, what surprised the researchers the most, were the results of their next investigation. "We found that this live burial of fungi by worker termites led to greater decrease in the survival of the weedy fungus compared to the crop fungus, even after controlling for the varying amount of soil deposition," Borges observed.
But was this decline in weed survival due to localised lack of oxygen (hypoxia) generated by the burial process?
To answer this, the researchers designed an artificial burial experiment. They mimicked the termite behaviour of burying the fungi by covering the fungi in small enclosures. This enabled the researchers to look at the effect of hypoxia alone on the fungal survival.
Their experiments with artificial burial revealed that, in the absence of chemical factors such as fungicides, weed survival is indeed negatively affected by the resulting hypoxia alone.
"Our results show that fungus-growing termites bury the weedy Pseudoxylaria to a significantly greater extent than the Termitomyces crop which results in relatively lowered survival of the former compared to the latter," the study said.
In fact, any Pseudoxylaria sprouting inside a termite mound will experience hypoxia not only due to burying but also because of the hypoxic surroundings, since mounds are known to have high (but variable) ambient carbon dioxide levels.
Aanen said it remains to be demonstrated if selective burial is sufficient. It seems likely that, in addition, there are additional mechanisms, such as chemical control.
"We cannot rule out the additional presence of antifungal chemicals in the burial materials. It is also possible that antibiotic-producing bacteria and their products are deposited along with soil on the weedy fungi. Thus, further studies using soil deposited by termite workers to isolate antifungal compounds are warranted and are underway," Borges said.
Katariya, L., Ramesh, P. B., & Borges, R. M. (2018). Dynamic environments of fungus‐farming termite mounds exert growth‐modulating effects on fungal crop parasites. Environmental microbiology, 20(3), 971-979.
Katariya, L., Ramesh, P. B., Gopalappa, T., Desireddy, S., Bessière, J. M., & Borges, R. M. (2017). Fungus-farming termites selectively bury weedy fungi that smell different from crop fungi. Journal of chemical ecology, 43(10), 986-995.
Banner image: Agar bolus (rounded mass) deposition by worker termites in lab assays. Photo by Renee M. Borges et al.
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Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost two years ago in Kenya and then held in Somalia have been freed, their employer Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said late on Thursday.
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, 40 and 30 respectively at the time of their kidnapping from the Dadaab refugee complex near the border with Somalia in October 2011, are both "safe and healthy", MSF said.
"Both are safe and healthy and keen to join their loved ones as soon as possible," the medical charity said, without disclosing when they were released or how.
On Friday, Spain's El País newspaper said negotiations for the release had been carried out by the MSF and not by the Spanish state.
MSF said it would give no further details before a press conference scheduled in Madrid on Friday.
The two women are expected to land in Spain on Friday after the country's military sent a plane to Djibouti to collect them, Spanish media have reported.
"Once again, MSF strongly condemns this attack on humanitarian workers who were in Dadaab offering lifesaving medical assistance to thousands of refugees," the charity said.
Serra and Thiebaut, both logisticians, were seized by armed men in the Ifo camp in Dadaab, where they were working on the construction of a hospital, and immediately driven across the border.
Kenyan police said they had been taken by members of Somalia's Islamist Shebab group, but no group has actually claimed the kidnapping.
El País newspaper on Friday reported that the women had not been taken by terrorists but by a criminals with links to Somali pirates.
MSF, which at the time of the kidnapping had 49 foreign and 343 local staff in Dadaab, reduced its activity there to a minimum.
The world's largest refugee complex, Dadaab is home to some 450,000 refugees, the vast majority of whom have fled drought and war in Somalia.
The abduction of the Spaniards followed the kidnapping of a French woman and a British woman from the Kenyan coast near the Somali border.
Briton Judith Tebbutt, in her late fifties, was seized from a remote Kenyan resort on September 11, 2011 by armed men who killed her husband David. She was released in March 2012 after being held for more than six months, reportedly after her son paid a ransom.
Marie Dedieu, 66 and partially paralysed, was seized from her beachfront home in the Lamu archipelago on October 1, 2011.
She was reported dead later the same month, with French officials saying the death was probably due to her having been deprived of essential medication by her kidnappers.
Just days after the two Spaniards were seized Kenya rolled tanks and troops across the border to fight the Shebab.
MSF immediately distanced itself from that operation.
On October 25, 2011 two aid workers with Danish Refugee Council were seized by armed men in Galkayo in north-central Somalia. They were freed in a raid by US commandos in January 2012.
The Kenyan troops were officially integrated into the African Union force in Somalia Amisom in early June 2012.
In January Shebab fighters killed a French hostage, an intelligence agent known under the pseudonym Denis Allex, held since 2009, during a botched rescue attempt by French forces.
A colleague of Allex, kidnapped at the same time, managed to escape in August 2009.
A Briton and a Kenyan employed by an Indian subcontractor of a UN agency and who were seized in southern Somalia in 2008 are feared dead.
An American national kidnapped in January 2012 is still being held.
Thirty-nine seamen of various nationalities from the Naham 3, a fishing vessel captured in March 2012 and from two other boats, are still being held in Somalia.
The fate of a further 15 seamen whose vessel the Albedo sank, is unknown.


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A way to prevent blood stains?
Topic: A way to prevent blood stains?
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written Monday, April 26 2004 16:09 Profile #0
I need a way to make it so a monster does not leave behind a blood stain when it dies (or any other type of stain). The only way around this that I can think of is to have the creature's death state use the erase_creature call, but then the death animation wouldn't play. I've tried using "put_stain_on_space(my_loc_x, my_loc_y, -1);" in its death state to erase the stain, but that doesn't work because the engine calls it immediately before killing the creature rather than after.
Any suggestions on how to get around this?
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While we're waiting for a better answer...
You could have the monster set an SDF, and then put in the town's START_STATE that if the monster is dead, use the call to erase the blood. You can save its death coordinates in SDFs too, if necessary.
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spyderbytes
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If there's a better answer than that one, I don't know what it would be. Either that or have the DEAD_STATE send a message to a terrain script that breaks out a mop and cleans up any nearby stains.
I don't think you'll find a way to prevent the stain. The best I think you can hope for is to remove it as quickly as possible once it's there.
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wz. As
Infiltrator
Hmm... maybe you could try playing around with the species? (listed on page 58 of the appendices) Maybe some will give you different remains. "Other," perhaps?
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Originally written by wz. arsics:
I've tried testing it with all the different species types, and they all leave behind some kind of "stain", usually blood.
You could have the monster set an SDF, and then put in the town's START_STATE that if the monster is dead, use the call to erase the blood.
I'll probably use this if I can't figure out a better way. The problem with this is that the blood would stay around until the end of the turn. If possible, I would like to have it removed as soon as it is placed, or stop it from appearing at all, so that the player never sees it.
What I'm trying to do is create a sea monster type enemy that travels through water terrain. I've got it working rather well, except that when it dies the blood spots appearing on top of the water look really out of place.
maybe the blood is "dissolving" into the water at the end of the turn...
Pathological Jerk
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The method of sending a message to a terrain script should erase the stains at the end of the current turn, rather than at the beginning of the next turn (I'm fairly certain I remember reading that messages are handled at the very end of the current turn). I think that'll get you closer to what you're wanting.
The terrain script can just sit somewhere out of the way... doesn't need to be "on" the terrain where it's needed. When it gets the message to go into action, it can either just cycle through the water squares removing stains, or use the trick of the dying monster recording it's x and y in SDFs so the terrain script knows just where to act.
A bit of a hack, but I think it'd be pretty close to what you're after. The blood will at least dissipate into the water more quickly than waiting for the player's next action.
Originally written by spyderbytes:
Ah ha, it worked! The player now only sees the stain for a brief moment after it dies. It's not perfect, but it's close enough. Thanks for the tip.


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China General Nuclear (CGN) has begun loading fuel into the core of unit 1 of the Taishan nuclear power plant in China's Guangdong province following the issuance of a permit from the regulator. The unit is later this year scheduled to become the first EPR reactor to enter operation.
Fuel loading operations begin at Taishan 1 (Image: CGN)
CGN said the Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company - a joint venture between CGN (70%) and EDF (30%) that owns the plant - was issued with the permit yesterday afternoon in Beijing by Liu Hua, vice minister of ecology and environmental affairs and director of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA).
In a statement the NNSA said that, before the first loading of materials, it had conducted a five-year safety review of the Taishan nuclear power project and dispatched on-site supervisors for the entire construction process. The project meets the design safety goals and the construction quality is good, it added.
Operations to load the first fuel assembly into the core of Taishan 1 began at 8.18pm, CGN said.
Taishan 1 and 2 are the first two reactors based on the EPR design to be built in China. They form part of an EUR8.0 billion (USD9.9 billion) contract signed by Areva and CGN in November 2007. Construction of unit 1 and 2 began in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Taishan 1 is expected to start up later this year, while Taishan 2 - which is in the equipment installation phase - is scheduled to begin operating next year.
The first-of-a-kind EPR at Finland's Olkiluoto plant has been under construction since 2005 and has seen several revisions to its start-up date, with grid connection now scheduled to take place in December and the start of regular electricity production in May next year. Fuel loading at the Flamanville EPR in France, construction of which began in 2007, is expected to begin the fourth quarter of this year. Two further EPRs are planned at Hinkley Point in the UK.
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BRANDON, MB – A Brandon University professor, internationally acclaimed for research into racism and immigration, has published a new book about the Chinese families who settled the Canadian Prairies in the late 1800s, and their stories of resilience and resourcefulness.
Cultivating Connections: The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada, is the result of nearly a decade of research and more than three hundred interviews by Dr. Alison Marshall, Department of Religion at Brandon University (BU).
"These stories reveal the critical importance of networks," says Dr. Marshall, "of belonging within these communities, in coping with experiences of racism, and ultimately establishing a successful life on the Prairies."
In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east, bound for what they saw as a land of opportunity. In communities across the Canadian Prairies, they would open shops and potentially earn enough money to marry.
"In Cultivating Connections, Dr. Marshall has created a remarkably intimate and moving portrayal of the lives of these settlers," says Paul Crowe, Director of the David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University. "Through that intimacy, she draws out the nuances of relationships that helped them negotiate often hostile circumstances."
BU's Vice-President (Academic and Provost), Dr. Heather Duncan, says " By gathering these personal stories, Dr. Marshall has added a new dimension to prairie history, and provided insight into the strength and resilience of the Chinese families who survived through hard times and prospered."
Dr. Marshall will launch Cultivating Connections, her second book, in Vancouver on September 17, Toronto on November 7, and in Winnipeg and Brandon at later dates.
Brandon University, founded in 1899, promotes excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship; educating students so that they can make a meaningful difference as engaged citizens and leaders.
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Q: How to define an appropriate upper bound integral function Recently, I am doing a course project, and the professor forces us to use Mathematica; however, I am new to Mathematica, and here are my problems.
Setup
I am required to, eventually, numerically solve a group of differential equations which look like the form:
$$\frac{dX(t)}{dt}=P(X(t))+F(t)
$$
Here, $X(t)$ is the coloumn vector $(x_1(t),x_2(t),x_3(t))^T$, $P(X(t))$ is a polynomial of $X(t)$ which contains terms like $x_i(t)x_j(t)$.
$F(t)$ is the key term for this project. $F(t)$ is a column vector takes form $(F_1[x_1(t)]\cdot x_1^2(t),\,F_2[x_2(t)]\cdot x_2^2(t),\,F_3[x_3(t)]\cdot x_3^2(t))$, where $F_i[x_i(t)]$ is a upper bound function of a complicated function.
Here, I will just present $F_1[x_1(t)]$, since $F_2$ and $F_3$ are similar to $F_1$. I think I can deal with $F_2$ and $F_3$ once I know the way to deal with $F_1$.
$$F_1[x_1(t)]:=\int_0^{\frac{x_1(t)}{3}}\frac{(1+y)(2y-1)^2(2y-3)^2\sin^3(\pi y)[\Gamma(y-1)]^2\Gamma(-2y)}{(y-2)\pi^3}dy
$$
Here $\Gamma$ is the usual gamma function. So far, we are given that $F_1(x)$ has poles at $x=\frac{15}{2}+3n$. Similarly to $F_2$ and $F_3$. Here, we only care about the value before the first pole.
Main Problem
Now, here is my question. In order to plug $F_1[x_1(t)]$ in to the differential equation, I tried to numerically compute $F_1(x)$ and define $F_1(x)$ as the following code:
I1[x_] := (1 + x)*(2*x - 1)^2*(2*x - 3)^2*Sin[(\[Pi]*x)]^3*
   Gamma[(x - 1)]^2 Gamma[(-2)*x]/((x - 2)*\[Pi]^3)

F1[x_] := NIntegrate[I1[t]*Boole[t < 2.5 - Exp[-NF2]], {t, 0, x/3}]

Since we only care $0$ to $15/2$, I set a Boole Function take the value from $0$ to $2.5-\text{Exp(-NF2)}$ $[\text{Note: }15/2\div 3]$, where NF2 is some large number which is given by professor.
After I define the $F_1(x)$, I plug the whole $F_1[x_1(t)]$ into the differential equation, then I get a lot of warning. Can someone help me to fix the issue? Thanks.
Attached is the graph of $F_1(x)$ and the error for directly plug-in procedure. $\alpha(t)$ is $x(t)$ here.
Code
Here is the code I am working on.
NF3 = 40; NF2 = 24; Y2 =
 1/2; Y3 = 0; DR22 = 2; DR32 = 1; DR23 = 1; DR33 = 3; \[Alpha]y = 0;
b1 = 41/3 + 8/3*Y2^2*NF2*DR22*DR32;
b2 = 19/3 - 4*NF2*DR32/3;
b3 = 14 - 4*NF3*DR23/3;
c1 = 199/9 + 8/3*Y2^4*NF2*DR22*DR32;
c2 = 35/3 + 49*NF2*DR32/3;
c3 = -52 + 76*NF3*DR23/3;
d1 = 88/3 + 32/3*Y2^2*NF2*DR22*DR32;
d2 = 24 + 16/3*NF2*DR32;
d3 = 9 + 3*NF3*DR23;
e1 = 9 + 6*Y2^2*NF2*DR22*DR32;
e2 = 3 + 4*Y2^2*NF2*DR32;
e3 = 11/3 + 4*NF3*Y3^2*DR23;

NC2 = 2;
NC3 = 3;
I1[x_] := (1 + x)*(2*x - 1)^2*(2*x - 3)^2*Sin[(\[Pi]*x)]^3*
   Gamma[(x - 1)]^2 Gamma[(-2)*x]/((x - 2)*\[Pi]^3);
F1[x_] := NIntegrate[I1[t]*Boole[t < 2.5 - Exp[-NF2]], {t, 0, x/3}];
I22[x_] := (NC2^2 - 1)/NC2 + (20 - 43 x + 32 x^2 - 14 x^3 + 4 x^4)*
    NC2/(2*(2 x - 1)*(2 x - 3)*(1 - x^2));
I23[x_] := (NC3^2 - 1)/NC3 + (20 - 43 x + 32 x^2 - 14 x^3 + 4 x^4)*
    NC3/(2*(2 x - 1)*(2 x - 3)*(1 - x^2));
H12[x_] := -11/2*NC2 +
   NIntegrate[I1[t]*I22[t]*Boole[t < 1 - Exp[-NF3]], {t, 0, x/3}];
H13[x_] := -11/2*NC3 +
   NIntegrate[I1[t]*I22[t]*Boole[t < 1 - Exp[-NF3]], {t, 0, x/3}];
Plot[F1[t], {t, 0, 8}]

A1 = 4*\[Alpha]1[t]*NF2*Y2^2*DR22*DR32;
A2 = 2*\[Alpha]2[t]*NF2*DR32;
A3 = 2*\[Alpha]3[t]*NF3*DR23;

odeg1 = 2*A1*\[Alpha]1[t]*F1[A1]/(3*NF2) +
    D[\[Alpha]1[t],
     t] == (b1 + c1*\[Alpha]1[t] + d1*\[Alpha]3[t] +
      e1*\[Alpha]2[t] - 17*\[Alpha]y/3)*\[Alpha]1[t]^2;
odeg2 = 2*A2*\[Alpha]2[t]*H12[A2]/(3*NF2) +
    D[\[Alpha]2[t],
     t] == (-b2 + c2*\[Alpha]2[t] + d2*\[Alpha]3[t] +
      e2*\[Alpha]1[t] - 3*\[Alpha]y)*\[Alpha]2[t]^2;
odeg3 = 2*A3*\[Alpha]3[t]*H13[A3]/(3*NF3) +
    D[\[Alpha]3[t],
     t] == (-b3 + c3*\[Alpha]3[t] + d3*\[Alpha]2[t] +
      e3*\[Alpha]1[t] - 4*\[Alpha]y)*\[Alpha]3[t]^2;
Ncorrect =
  NDSolve[{odeg1, odeg2,
    odeg3, \[Alpha]1[3] == 0.00084, \[Alpha]2[3] ==
     0.00256, \[Alpha]3[3] ==
     0.0061}, {\[Alpha]1, \[Alpha]2, \[Alpha]3}, {t, 0, 20}];
Plot[Evaluate[{\[Alpha]1[t], \[Alpha]2[t], \[Alpha]3[t]} /.
   Ncorrect], {t, 0, 20}, PlotRange -> 1, AxesLabel -> {t, Strength},
 ImageSize -> Large]

A: The use of x_?NumericQ which means the function evaluates only for numerical values should fix your problem. However, to compute F1, instead of computing the (indefinite) numerical integral one can turn it into a first-order DE:
$f(x)=\int_0^x g(t) \, dt \implies f'(x)=g(x)$ with $f(0)=0$
and solve this using NDSolve instead, which is much faster as it computes the values of F1 over the entire range in one go. Also, the solution is returned as an InterpolatingFunction so the issue that you faced disappears. But, because of the singularities of $g(x)$ at $x=0$ and $x=5/2$, one has to deal with these separately. To do this, perform series expansion about $x=5/2$ and subtract of the resulting pole there, (which leads to a logarithmic singularity).


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Q: Populating foreign key fields in Django In my first app (course) I'm creating courses. Each course has number of chapters and each chapter has quiz. I'm trying to create quiz using second app (quiz). models.py (quiz) :
class Quiz(models.Model):
    coursechapter = models.ForeignKey(CourseChapter)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255, verbose_name=u'Quiz name',)
    creator = models.ForeignKey(User)
    creation = models.DateField(auto_now_add=True)
    def __unicode__ (self):
        return self.name

class Question(models.Model):
    quiz = models.ForeignKey(Quiz)
    text = models.CharField(max_length=255, verbose_name=u'Question\'s text')

class QuestionAnswer(models.Model):
    question = models.ForeignKey(Question)
    text = models.CharField(max_length=255, verbose_name=u'Answer\'s text')
    is_valid = models.BooleanField(default=False)

class UserAnswer(models.Model):
    answer = models.ForeignKey(QuestionAnswer)

I have template for creating courses, inside that template i have link (Add chapters) which takes me to another template(view) for creating chapters. Inside i have link to create quiz for that specific chapter. That link leads to url: /quiz/new (using url.py from quiz app) which is represented by view.py (from quiz app) .
Problem is i dont know how to get id of chapter for which I'm creating quiz. Example of chapter url (one before user click Create Quiz) /course/new/chapter/197/ , is it possible to somehow send chapter_id (197) through link or is there any other way?
views.py(Quiz):
class CreateQuizView(CreateChapterView):
    model = Quiz
    template_name = 'quiz/create_quiz.html'
    fields = '__all__'

    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.pk = kwargs.get('pk')
        return super(CreateQuizView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
    def get_success_url(self):
        return reverse('quiz-list',
                                    kwargs={'pk': Quiz.objects.latest('id').id})

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

        context = super(CreateQuizView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        return context

views.py(Course):
class CreateChapterView(CreateView, GroupRequiredMixin):
    model = CourseChapter
    template_name = 'course/add_chapter.html'
    fields = '__all__'
    def dispatch(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        self.pk = kwargs.get('pk')
        return super(CreateChapterView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
    def get_success_url(self):
        return reverse('courses-chapters',
                                    kwargs={'pk': Course.objects.latest('id').id})

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):

        context = super(CreateChapterView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['chapter'] = CourseChapterForm
        context['chapters'] = CourseChapter.objects.all()
        context['last'] = Course.objects.latest('id')
        context['courses'] = Course.objects.all()
        context['action'] = reverse('courses-chapters',
                                    kwargs={'pk': Course.objects.latest('id').id})
        context['kw'] = self.kwargs
        context['quiz'] = QuizForm()
        context['question'] = QuestionForm()
        context['answer'] = QuestionAnswerForm

        return context

    def form_valid(self, form):
        self.object = form.save()
        # chapters = CourseChapter.objects.filter(course_id=Course.id)
        return  HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())

urls.py (main)
url(r'^course/', include('course.urls')),
url(r'^quiz/', include('quiz.urls', namespace="quiz")),

urls (course)
url(r'^new/$', course.views.CreateCourseView.as_view(),
    name='courses-new',),
url(r'^new/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', course.views.CreateChapterView.as_view(),
    name='courses-chapters'),
url(r'^edit/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', course.views.UpdateCourseView.as_view(),
        name='courses-edit',),
url(r'^new/chapter/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', course.views.CreateChapterView.as_view(),
        name='chapter-content',),
url(r'^edit/chapters/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', course.views.UpdateChapterView.as_view(),
        name='chapters-edit',),

urls (quiz):
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', quiz.views.ListQuizView.as_view(),
        name='quiz-list',),
url(r'^new/$', quiz.views.CreateQuizView.as_view(),
    name='quiz-new',),
    ]

A: Change your url format from /quiz/new to something like /quiz/new/<chapter id>.
You can fetch these chapter id from your create quiz view.

A: You mentioned that you have a link for creating quiz in your page where you create chapters. I suggest you create link right there itself.
For eg,
lets say you have course 'Learn Python' which has chapter called Introduction and it has id 7, you can format your url as such /add-quiz/chapter/chapter_id. You will have chapter in the page if you pass it from the view.


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Spanish wind power group Gamesa (BME:GAM) said Tuesday it has received a repeat turnkey contract to build a 40-MW wind park in India for local independent power producer (IPP) ReNew Power.
The deal calls for Gamesa to deliver and install 20 pieces of its G97-2.0 MW class S turbines at the site of the wind project in Ron district, Karnataka state. The machine model is custom-designed for low wind speed sites. The height of its tower amounts to 104 metres (341.2 ft).
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Some of the most innovative music out there happens after a band splits up and a musician is subtly forced to become a solo artist. When left alone to play all the parts in their head they are required to expand their talent to other instruments as well as learning new recording techniques. This may be the best thing to happen to the artist we discovered today. Come join us in a listen to Brando Albers.
At a young age Brando fell in love with music especially computer driven music and the ability to cut up songs and create loops to express his feelings. As he got older he moved on to guitar and his love for music grew as he practiced faithfully, surpassing the talents of his friends. As his friends moved on to other things Brando's passion only grew. This is where he was forced to learn different aspects of making music and his true introvert self truly found its calling. Working from a small makeshift apartment studio he discovered that working alone is where he truly thrived.
His latest album is called Fading Away. The 14 tracks came together over a four year period but Brando believes this to be his most honest album yet. It is a dark electronic record that heavily relies on his computer music making skills. Left alone with his synthesizer he explores elements of lo-fi psychedelia with a shoegaze specialty. The album opens with the bouncy yet spooky 'Future World', a song that melds into your mind before Brando decides to warp it at the 3 minute mark with a crisscrossing stereo effect that really grabs your attention. 'Procrastinate' is another song that grabs the listener with its haunting vocal chorus echoing "Ive got it all". The hairs on the back of your neck may straighten as you feel that you are not alone anymore. The dark club song 'Fall In Love' features more vocal effects that creep me out in a good way. This is a great album to listen to by yourself when you are comfortable enough to be alone without a care in the world.
Go take a listen to Brando Albers for yourself at:
http://brandoalbers.wix.com/brandoalbers#!
http://brandoalbers.bandcamp.com/
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