But for Anne, Green gables is a dream come true. Anne Shirley, an orphan, arrives at Green Gables by mistake the Cuthberts wanted a boy. “The sweetest creation of childlike yet written” – Mark TwainSince it was first published on 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been treasured by millions of readers around the world. “Anne of Green Gables” was published in 1908, and is in the public domain.ITEM: NB0391 Categories: Children 8-12, Children and Teen, Top Picks Tags: Children 8-12, Children and Teen, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Nimbus Publishing, Paperback Anne of Green Gables Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian novelist. Procure (verb): to acquire with much effort Servitor (noun): one who attends the needs of another Prescribe (verb): to order someone to use or do something Then something happened not at all romantic. Diana and Jane and Ruby only waited long enough to see it caught in the current and headed for the bridge before scampering up through the woods, across the road, and down to the lower headland where, as Lancelot and Guinevere and the King, they were to be in readiness to receive the lily maid.įor a few minutes Anne, drifting slowly down, enjoyed the romance of her situation to the full. The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process. You know Elaine `lay as though she smiled.’ That’s better. “We must kiss her quiet brows and, Diana, you say, `Sister, farewell forever,’ and Ruby, you say, `Farewell, sweet sister,’ both of you as sorrowfully as you possibly can. A white lily was not obtainable just then, but the effect of a tall blue iris placed in one of Anne’s folded hands was all that could be desired. Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute. It’s silly for Elaine to be talking when she’s dead.” “It spoils the effect because this is hundreds of years before Mrs. Lynde says that all play-acting is abominably wicked.” Do you suppose it’s really right to act like this? Mrs. “Oh, she does look really dead,” whispered Ruby Gillis nervously, watching the still, white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches. The black shawl having been procured, Anne spread it over the flat and then lay down on the bottom, with closed eyes and hands folded over her breast. That old black shawl of your mother’s will be just the thing, Diana.” We must pall the barge all its length in blackest samite. We can’t have the old dumb servitor because there isn’t room for two in the flat when one is lying down. But first you must be the brothers and the father. “Ruby, you must be King Arthur and Jane will be Guinevere and Diana must be Lancelot. “Well, I’ll be Elaine,” said Anne, yielding reluctantly, for, although she would have been delighted to play the principal character, yet her artistic sense demanded fitness for it and this, she felt, her limitations made impossible. They had often gone down like this and nothing could be more convenient for playing Elaine. The girls had discovered that if the flat were pushed off from the landing place it would drift down with the current under the bridge and finally strand itself on another headland lower down which ran out at a curve in the pond. Those days, she said, were so much more romantic than the present.Īnne’s plan was hailed with enthusiasm. They had analyzed and parsed it and torn it to pieces in general until it was a wonder there was any meaning at all left in it for them, but at least the fair lily maid and Lancelot and Guinevere and King Arthur had become very real people to them, and Anne was devoured by secret regret that she had not been born in Camelot. They had studied Tennyson’s poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools. It was Anne’s idea that they dramatize Elaine. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS | MoreĬhapter XXVIII – An Unfortunate Lily Maid (an excerpt) Podcast: Play in new window | Download ()
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This version of Oberthur middleware is installed via an ‘install package’, which is listed in the output under the section ‘SR8 NHS Digital Installer Details’ All other versions of Oberthur Middleware are blocked from performing certificate-based operations. Please install SR8, and retry'Īll users performing CMS operations on Oberthur smartcards should have the latest Oberthur middleware installed, currently SR8.
Music changes to fit the game's mood as well. there aren't a lot of different poses, but they add something to the game. If the player is thinking, the portrait strikes a "thinking" pose and so on. Portraits of each player surround the board though they are still for the most part, they do change to reflect the mood of the player. The game pieces are brightly-colored blocks that look like mutations of the shapes you would find in Tetris. Most of the screen is taken up by the game board, which is a silver grid. After spending time with the game, I can see why.īlokus World Tour doesn't do much with its presentation, but it does well with what it has. Actually, not only did I learn that Blokus was a board game, but that there are several awards that board games can win, and it turns out that Blokus has won several. I can firmly say it was worth the wait.Ever hear of the board game Blokus? Neither had I until the videogame version found its way onto my PC - so at least we're starting on the same level. Gameloft has patched the game up nice, solving any crash-related problems one may have encountered. It was a shame because I was looking forward to taking Blokus on the road. The game was released a little while back and had an issue of constantly crashing for some players, myself included. Luckily there’s a confirmation button so you’ll never pick or place a piece by accident, you can always just not confirm it and put it back. Numerous times the tile that was selected wasn’t the one I wanted and it wasn’t sure if I wanted to move, flip or rotate the piece before placing it. The interface to select the pieces and then rotate and flip them is a little dodgy. Playing Blokus on the iPhone will leave you with a feeling of satisfaction when you win and an “I can take ’em next time!” attitude when you lose. AI balance is extremely hard to nail down so I think it’s worth drawing attention to it when it’s done well. The computer players are hard enough to be challenging, but never once did a move feel cheap or overbearing. I don’t say this often, but the AI in Blokus is very well balanced. Normally these games run the risk of getting boring when you play the same game over and over, but having different objectives alleviates all that. This tournament mode is the cream of the crop for Blokus. It’s a great way to keep the game fresh and forces you to play it differently than just trying to win outright. Later on you need to keep your opponent from placing a certain number of pieces. For example, in the first game you need to not come in last place. You’ll go through different groups of games in increasing difficulty and will be tasked with particular objectives that don’t always mean winning. You’d think the tournament would just be your basic bracket style game where your goal is to win it all, but what you have here is really more of a campaign experience. The main game mode is tournament mode, which is really a misleading way of describing it. There are a few ways to play Blokus on the iPhone with expected modes like quick play and multiplayer (both local and internet) options available. The goal is to get as many of your pieces down as possible before running out of options. Some pieces have many corners which give you more options to place subsequent pieces, where the straight line pieces (while good in Tetris) don’t really give you many options. It’s a game of cat and mouse with your opponents, trying to block them while getting as many of your pieces onto the board as possible. All of your pieces can only ever touch the corners of your other pieces. It sounds easy, but there’s one major caveat that keeps this game interesting – none of your pieces can ever be adjacent to any of your other ones, they must be placed touching at least one corner of pieces already on the board. In it you have various Tetris-inspired pieces that you’ll be placing on the board in order to claim territory faster than your opponents. So, does digital Blokus stand up to it’s analog brother?īlokus is an abstract strategy game, which really just means there’s no story involved, similar to Bejeweled or Chess. It’s a game I’ve always enjoyed and was excited to find out I could both have it portable and always have a willing (albeit digital) opponent. The board game has been popular for quite a while now and has a number of accolades under it’s belt, including an endorsement from MENSA. Blokus from Gameloft is a digital version of the award winning board game of the same name. Or just try to collect every chemical element! The key machines in the mod are: This is a fascinating mod where you deconstruct items into their constituent chemical elements, and recombine those into new materials. The overall process is: put items under the Microscope to see what they're made out of, or how they can be composed from chemical components (there's a button to toggle between Decomposer and Synthesis recipes). You can then place Empty Vials along with your material into the Chemical Decomposer to break down that material into vials filled with molecules or elements. Some of the options are very amusing, like a 10% chance that grass will breakdown into THC. The authors filled these recipes with clever and fun discoveries. Concave Lens and Convex Lens, used to make a Microscope Lens.Atomic Manipulator, 8 pistons around an iron block, used as the core of the Chemical Decomposer and Chemical Synthesis Machine.Chemical Storage which will prevent any materials stored inside from decaying.Once you have a good supply of chemicals, you can use the Microscope to see what the crafting recipes are, then arrange the matching chemicals in the Chemical Synthesis Machine to get the item you want. * Empty Vial, crafted with 3 glass in middle column, for holding chemicals. If ComputerCraft is installed, MineChem2 introduces a Chemistry Turtle which you can use to program your chemical plans.Molecules: MineChem adds about 100 special vials filled with molecules and ions you can experiment with.Elements: MineChem adds items representing all the chemical elements (in vials) from element #1 (Hydrogen) to #113.Note: you end up using hundreds of these! Currently no longer needed. If you try to start the game with MineChem and Better Builder's Wands mods, the game cannot create or load world. Overall goals for quality are provided in 21 CFR part 820 and in ISO 13485 – from providing adequate resources and proper work environment, to controlling and documenting design, to managing measurement processes, to following procedures to correct or prevent product flaws. Written in plain language, it describes key Agile practices and how they each compare with traditional practices to cover safety and quality concerns.Īfter stating their development process and how they’ll show their adherence to it, medical product companies must then demonstrate that their development work occurs within the framework of a Quality Management System (QMS), and that they have adequately addressed potential hazards to the patient/user, caregiver, or bystander.Ī QMS needs to support product development and maintenance – to outline the activities and outputs which ensure quality of the company’s products and services. In 2012 a group from industry, standards organizations, and regulatory bodies collaborated to provide just such an explanation bridge: AAMI TIR45 (an advisory document available for purchase from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation: Guidance on the use of AGILE practices in the development of medical device software). Businesses did not want to explain a very different approach like Agile, especially if they had had a rocky relationship with regulators. When Agile was a new concept, the traditional approach had the advantage of familiarity auditors and QA / RA were accustomed to the stage-gate idea, and development processes typically involved only minor variations on that theme. Hazard analysis and risk management must be incorporated, not added afterwardĪlthough the regulatory rules allow companies to choose their own development process, the companies must provide evidence that they are in fact following their stated process.Documentation shall provide evidence of following a quality process.Every company must have a Quality Management System.Each company is to choose its own development process.Regulatory bodies have four key concerns for medical product companies: How Agile Fits into the Medical Regulatory World While no company or group should merely copy another’s approach, these case studies offer insights into how readers might implement Agile principles in their own company. By valid, we mean a sincere effort by both management and technical contributors to move the company through genuine change. We chose our cases based on several factors, chief of them being that we knew enough about the situation to say that it’s a valid use of Agile. Attend in-person or online at QCon New York (June 13-15, 2023). Uncover emerging trends and practices from domain experts. Specific companies and products are examined, and the actions their Agile change leaders took. This article is based on case studies from our new book Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems: Case Studies of Medical Product Companies. The FDA’s own Design Control Guidance, immediately after depicting development in a waterfall-like diagram, notes that “In practice, feedback paths would be required between each phase of the process and previous phases, representing the iterative nature of product development.” This has been refuted by regulators and by industry people multiple times. One belief is that regulators (both FDA and in the EU) prefer stage-gate, waterfall-like product development. The question is no longer whether, but how Agile can work in medical product development - for our mix of technical, market, and regulatory constraints?ĭoubts persist, based on misinformation about Agile practices, regulations, or merely on a deep suspicion that work completed quickly must be taking unsafe shortcuts. The rise of home-use medical products has spurred use of Agile continuous delivery for mobile hardware platforms. Practices vary with the types of development work, from cloud-based continuous flow for data-intensive services (clinical trial data management) to a sprint-based flow for physical devices with embedded software. We’ve noticed adoption of Agile methods steadily growing in medical product companies over the past ten years. The northernmost location is Marina del Rey. The known population remains small: Last year, scientists counted 39 there.īetween 18, scientists captured 134 Pacific pocket mice in the lower Tijuana River Valley, the southernmost of eight locations along California’s coast where scientists have documented the mouse since 1865, according to a study by biological consultant Richard Erickson. Not seen by scientists since 1971, the Pacific pocket mouse was believed extinct until 1 1/2 years ago, when a few were found scurrying around the headlands of Dana Point in Orange County. The survey will continue through next week. The commission “would have to identify all their activities and we would respond by providing a biological opinion regarding the impact to the Pacific pocket mouse,” Hanlon said.īut as of yesterday, biologists had found no Pacific pocket mice - just common rats, Pacific kangaroo rats, house mice, deer mice and other rodents that found their way into the Wildlife Service’s nocturnal traps. It is found in Baja California and Sonora in Mexico. Located in South Bay, at Dairy Mart Road about 3 1/2 miles inland and 300 feet north of the border, the plant would treat sewage flowing across the border from antiquated and unconnected sewer lines in Tijuana.ĭepending on where the mouse were found, its presence might require design changes or relocation of the plant. The little pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. “But right now, as we stand, their study has not delayed anything.” If found near the proposed site of the Tijuana River Valley plant, the mouse “could certainly delay the project,” said Charles Fischer, environmental protection specialist for the International Boundary and Water Commission, the binational agency responsible for building the facility. A typical rock pocket mouse is about 170 millimeters long from its nose to the end of its tail, shorter than an average pencil. Tippex 7500, pocket mouse correction roller, 1 Brand: 2 x Tipp-Ex Correction Tape Pocket Mouse 10m 46 ratings Lowest price in 30 days -29 £899 Was: £12. The Pacific pocket mouse was thought to be extinct until 1 1/2 years ago, when a few of the tiny rodents were discovered in south Orange County. The small body and long tail of this species makes it almost impossible to spot. This pocket-sized mouse of the family Heteromyidae is found in the southern deserts of USA and in places such as California and Mexico. The best way to defend Moldova from attack by Russia is to protect Ukraine, Britains foreign minister said on Thursday, though he declined to commit to sending arms directly. The heteromyids are a group of rodents consisting of kangaroo rats and pocket mice. “Even if we found only one, it would be a whole new ballgame.” The little pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris) completely justifies its name. “It’s just a little brown ball of fur,” said John Hanlon, a biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Carlsbad field office. Range: In the past, was known at eight sites in Southern California, including the lower Tijuana River Valley and mouth of Santa Margarita River in San Diego County.
Soon, we will be joined by another new team member to help us out on the 3D art side of things too. So at the end of last year we were joined by Isaac, who now does the porting of Automation to Unreal Engine 4. With the additional funding from that we were put in the comfortable position of being able to expand a bit without taking on big risks. The launch of Automation on Steam Early Access has been a success and we got plenty of new people to join the ever growing community. Also we were joined by Rob, who moved from Germany to join the team last year after working on Automation from around the world for three years as a hobby before then. It has changed a lot since Camshaft relocated to Wellington in 2014 and when we moved into our own proper office space. How has the daily life around the studio changed? Influence on Automation: Made the original game engine they still use.ĬT: Automation has evolved and accomplished so much since its unveiling. Games Programmer, worked on various mobile and console titles in Australia. Influence on Automation: Making the game exist with the 100,000 lines of code he wrote so far.ĭrives: 06’ E60 BMW 530i, and ‘92 Suzuki Cappuccino race car (currently being rebuilt after Andy crashed it in a rally).īackground: Australian. Influence on Automation: Created most of the game mechanics and made them work together.ĭrives: ‘08 Toyota Ractis that gets 46mpg.īackground: Vocational teacher for games programming. PhD in experimental nuclear physics, worked at a large particle accelerator lab for four years before joining the crew. Robert (Rob) Hoischen, Lead Designer & Producerīackground: German. His coworkers say, “We’re trying to convince him to daily an early 90s Peugeot 306 TD, because why not.” Influence on Automation: The reason the UE4 port is happening.ĭrives: ‘83 Honda City Turbo with intercooler, turbo upgrade and lots of boost. Made most of the visual things in game.ĭrives: 06’ E60 BMW 530i and ‘94 Mazda Lantis V6 race car.īackground: Recent university graduate. Influence on Automation: Came up with the original idea for Automation, and has been dreaming of making it since he was 10. Mac Cost Free Interactive prototypes No Exporting HTML only Easy to learn Noooooo! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! (Mac version in development) Cost $589 Interactive prototypes Yes Exporting HMTL, JPG (etc), MS Word Easy to learn Yes for basics, interactive stuff is a bit tricky Using masters saves time Crappy default library Interactivity is powerful Steep learning curve for interactivity Specification output is great Lousy HTML output Takes some fiddling around to 'get it' Exporting PNG, PDF, HMTL Easy to learn Yes for basics, interactive stuff is a bit tricky Allows multi-selection of objects filling an object with colour is weird Beige city! Mac (Disk image) Cost $79 Interactive prototypes Yes. Only Cost Free Interactive prototypes No Exporting PNG only Easy to learn Yeah, sort of It’s a Firefox addon! Editing elments is quirky It’s free! Hard to useĬost $299 Interactive prototypes Yes Exporting PNG, HTML Easy to learn Yeah, takes some time though selecting layers and objects is seemless wireframes look too boxy month Interactive prototypes No Exporting No exporting (in planning) Easy to learn Yes Masters are good Can only apply one master per page Very quick to use Lacks functionality Some bits in Polish Can add other users to edit $100 Interactive prototypes Not really Exporting HTML and PDF Easy to learn Yes The skins feature is ok lacks important functionality Mac & Linux Cost Online - Free, Desktop $89 Interactive prototypes Yes Exporting Unsure Easy to learn No…because it appears to be buggy a lot of features that don't work well online version seems to be buggy HTML coming soon Easy to learn Yeah, sort of 'undo' limit seems to be limitless 'snap to guide' feature is too sensitive Great for creating prototypes of forms Widgets are interactive by default Text boxes automatically resize Online hosting of previewĬost $99 Interactive prototypes Yes Exporting PNG, JPEG, XML. Mac Cost Online – Free, Desktop - $75 Interactive prototypes Yes Exporting PDF, JPG, PNG, Preview Easy to learn Yeah, sort of Looks really nice, works smoothly Widgets are in alphabetical order Nice commenting feature Interactivity is only very basic Devil in the detail…. Takes some fiddling around to 'get it' Exporting HTML, MS Word Easy to learn Yes for basics, interactive stuff is a bit tricky A step-up from basic prototyping tools Entering requirements descriptions is not intuitive Couldn’t work out how masters work Worth checking out Expense not justified…yetĬost Free Interactive prototypes Dunno Exporting Dunno Easy to learn Impossible to use Worst tool of all Not sure if it’s in beta Wouldn’t recommend it $80 Interactive prototypes No Exporting HTML only Easy to learn Takes some effort Easy drag and drop shapes Shortcuts not always provided Good search functions Resizing objects not easy Hard to create nav menusĬost $690 Interactive prototypes Yes. Protoshare Platform Online (Firefox only)Ĭost $19 per month Interactive prototypes Yes Exporting Yes! (many options – could be best of breed) Easy to learn Yeah, sort of Collaboration features seem good It's a little slow.$79 Interactive prototypes No Exporting PNG or XML only Easy to learn Yes No keyboard shortcuts no SHIFT drag to contrain angle Great library of drag ‘n’ drop shapesįor basic edition Interactive prototypes Yes, but only very basic Exporting PNG and PDF Easy to learn Yes VERY basic interactivity hard to select multiple objects Very simple and easy create decent wireframes quickly set of widgets and icons are good Long did it take Platform Cost Collaborate with others Interactive wireframes Easy to learn Export options Likes Dislikes Created a simple wireframe Tool is right for you? Balsamiq Mockups Mockflow Powerpoint Protoshare Designer Vista Axure RP Pro Petra Easy Prototype Justinmind Fluid IA iPlotz Flairbuilder Simulify SketchFlow Visio Professional Mockup Screens OmniGraffle Pencil ForeUI Denim SketchFlow Fireworks Lucid Spec Flash Catalyst GUI Design Studio HotGloo iRise Note that starting a new transcription clears the one you have already created. This lets you listen to what you recorded, correct anything it got wrong, add either specific portions or everything to your document. After about a minute Word finished converting the recorded audio it had captured and displayed the transcription in a pane on the right hand side of the document. Once I had finished, I simply paused recording and hit the Save and Transcribe now button. The above was all dictated using the transcription feature. There are still gaps and weaknesses, so you shouldn’t worry that someone will pass a machine off as a person in either direction, yet… it’s already better than some people I know! Conclusion Machines are able to listen to what you say and make a decent job of turning it into text or take text and turn that into really rather fairly human sounding voice, with intonation, pacing and pauses. I’ve mentioned in a previous blog how impressed I am also with the Text to Voice capabilities that are now appearing. Tim Danton has less to say about my written grammar and phrasing less too. I count myself amongst those fortunate enough to be benefiting from these improvements as I suffer with Repetitive Strain Injury from even mild mounts of keyboard and mouse use. They really have taken this to heart Accessibility tools and advanced AI helpers have improved remarkably. Of course, this is all part of Microsoft’s grand vision infusing AI into everything that people do and, more importantly, empowering others ensuring that they enable everybody regardless of circumstance, ability level, or disabilities and differences to interact effectively and fully with technology. Personally, have been very impressed with how big a change Microsoft has made in its approach to these things since their new vision was announced by Satya Nadella a few years ago. “To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” Microsoft’s corporate mission right I think it is really rather impressive. Just Speak normally.ĭon’t forget to review it, since even the very best voice recognition is only about 80 or 90% accurate, and there will be oddities in what you actually said until you build up experience. That’s better than my typing accuracy and some transcription services have you seen the past using real people. This article was dictated at full speaking speed from an ordinary desktop headset. No clever audio hardware needed. No need to change the way you speak. No need to speak slowly or differently. Transcription worked very acceptably with my middle English accent and respected British English spelling, which I suspect is a function of my Word document templates or having been set up with the correct language (unlike so many other people I could mention). Nine dictation languages are supported today, with 12 in preview. However, the press release and Microsoft’s blog that alerted me to the new feature (both dated yesterday as I write this) may already be out of date as it seemed to pick up British English (proper English, as some of us like to refer to it) correctly, based on the existing Dictation settings. Right now, it officially supports just US English. |
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