news 02-08-06

TIPS FOR LIFE:

Goals Setting Tips and Techniques

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Five Self Management ways to Personal Goal Achievement

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Teach yourself speed-reading techniques

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VERY COOL LOOKING:

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

© 2006, Jefferson Y. Han

Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user input on a graphical interaction surface. While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops. Since developing the FTIR (frustrated total internal reflection) technique, we've been experimenting with a wide variety of application scenarios and interaction modalities that utilize multi-touch input information. These are far more interesting than the typical poking-of-the-touchscreen or the gross silhouette gesturing found in most interactive installations of this scale. It is a rich area for research, and we are extremely excited by its potential.  The sensing technology is force-sensing, and provides unprecedented resolution and scalability, allowing us to create sophisticated multi-point widgets for applications large enough to accomodate both hands and multiple users. The drafting table style implementation shown here measures 36"x27", is rear-projected, and has a sensing resolution of ~0.1" at 50Hz. Applications receive events and stroke information using the lightweight OSC protocol over UDP.

http://tinyurl.com/aoh9b

Now if only they showed this in the US:

The other ‘Munich’  There is no doubt about the timing of Ron Meiberg's documentary about Israel's pursuit of the terrorists who killed Israeli Olympians in Germany. Meiberg also leaves no doubts about morality or patriotic justice  Ariana Melamed The host network and the timing are not incidental. Ron Meiberg's "Hit List", a documentary that tracks the reprisals following the Munich Olympics massacre, found a home on Israel's Channel 2, which is slowly but surely expropriating all possible national values. The timing clearly stems from the anger and embarrassment that Spielberg's "Munich" has stirred up. It is also a declaration: It is not a work of fiction, but rather a careful and detailed documentation of the events following the massacre. In other words, Meinberg tries to tell the real story of Munich, in direct contrast to Spielberg's version.

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