Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Board Game Family "Made For Play" - Board Game Documentary

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?Made for Play? documentary now available on DVD!

Did you know that play takes a lot of work?

Especially when that play is a board game!

As a society we often take a lot for granted. It?s so easy to pull a board game or card game off the shelf, sit down, and have some fun playing with our family. But do we ever really think about how much work goes into making the games for us to play?

Well, the ?Made for Play? documentary will give you a new appreciation for board games.

Our friends at The Spiel published a video documentary that provides an amazing view into the manufacturing process of board games ? ?Made for Play: Board Games & Modern Industry?. And it?s now available on DVD!

We wrote about the documentary last fall when the film was made available online via YouTube and Vimeo, but the DVD is out now and offers much higher quality audio and video, plus subtitles in English, French, Swedish, Spanish, and Polish.

The film is just $20, plus shipping and can be ordered through The Spiel Website. DVDs are shipped to US and international addresses via USPS Priority Mail.

While they were in Germany for the Spiel Essen (the largest board game tradeshow in the world ~ 200,000 attendees), they visited a major board game manufacturing company ? Ludo Fact ? to document the fascinating board game manufacturing process.

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The Made for Play documentary shows incredible detail of what it takes to make and assemble all the components of board games and card games.
  • Game boards
  • Cards
  • Cardboard Tokens
  • Wooden pieces
  • Plastic pieces
  • Dice
  • Rulebooks
  • Scorepads
  • Insert trays
  • Game boxes

It?s a fascinating look into all the work that goes into the 4-6 week process of manufacturing great board games and card games.

We hope the film gives you a greater appreciation of the time, effort and investment that goes into every quality board game that makes it to the marketplace and your home. The business of fun requires a lot of hard work! ? The Spiel

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Fighting disease from within the mosquito: New techniques to help halt the spread of disease

Apr. 10, 2013 ? Scientists have revealed a new technique to introduce disease-blocking bacteria into mosquitoes, with promising results that may halt the spread of diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and potentially malaria.

When infected with the bacteria Wolbachia, mosquitoes are unable to spread viruses such as dengue, a disease which kills round 40,000 people each year with no vaccines or specific treatments currently available. There have been around 2,400 cases of dengue infection in Northern Australia in recent years.

However, the bacteria has been difficult to spread within the mosquito population because it reduces the mosquitoes' ability to lay viable eggs.

Now Professor Hoffmann from the University of Melbourne and Professor Michale Turelli from the University of California have shown that by introducing an insecticide resistance gene alongside the Wolbachia bacteria into the mosquito, that the insects pass on the disease-blocking bacteria to other mosquitoes faster. The results are published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

This could mean that the spread of disease can be stopped faster, and less infected mosquitoes would need to be released in a disease control program said Professor Ary Hoffmann from the University of Melbourne's Bio21 Institute and Department of Genetics.

"Our results show that Wolbachia-based strategies could hold the key to a cheap and sustainable approach to disease control," Professor Hoffmann said.

Wolbachia bacteria strains live naturally inside up to 70% of all insects and are known to protect them against viral infection. The disease-blocking strain of Wolbachia was first discovered in Australian fruit flies in 1988 by Prof Hoffmann, and trials with collaborators at Monash and James Cook Universities in 2011 showed that Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were unable to spread the dengue virus.

The approach taken in this new work involves adding a pesticide resistance gene to a newer strain of Wolbachia called wMelPop, which is a strong blocker of dengue and other viruses . Insecticide use is very common in dengue and malaria-prone regions and so this strategy should select for the survival of only the Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, but then these insects would be unable to pass on a virus to humans.

Prof Hoffmann added that insecticide resistance genes would not spread to the uninfected mosquito populations because a Wolbachia-infected female with a resistance gene will always pass on both the gene and the bacteria to her offspring. Then, when an uninfected female mates with an infected male, the bacterium causes cytoplasmic incompatibility, which leads to the death of embryos.

"So the association between resistance and the infection is maintained, the resistance does not move into the rest of the population, and the strategy can utilize insecticides that are no longer part of active mosquito control programs."

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  1. A. A. Hoffmann, M. Turelli. Facilitating Wolbachia introductions into mosquito populations through insecticide-resistance selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2013; 280 (1760): 20130371 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0371

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Student arrested in Texas college stabbing attack

In this photo provided by Teaundrae Perryman, a victim is loaded into an ambulance after being wounded in a stabbing attack on the Lone Star community college system's Cypress, Texas campus Tuesday, April 9, 2013. At least 14 people were wounded when a suspect went building-to-building in an apparent stabbing attack at the college campus authorities said. (AP Photo/Teaundrae Perryman)

In this photo provided by Teaundrae Perryman, a victim is loaded into an ambulance after being wounded in a stabbing attack on the Lone Star community college system's Cypress, Texas campus Tuesday, April 9, 2013. At least 14 people were wounded when a suspect went building-to-building in an apparent stabbing attack at the college campus authorities said. (AP Photo/Teaundrae Perryman)

Students run from the Lone Star College's Cy-Fair campus in Cypress, Texas, where a student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The attacker wounded at least 14 people before being subdued and arrested, authorities said. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen) MANDATORY CREDIT

Students run from the Lone Star College's Cypress-Fairbanks campus Tuesday, April 9, 2013, in Cypress, Texas.At least 14 people were hurt in a stabbing at the campus Tuesday. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen)

Michelle Alvarez a student at Lone Star College's Cypress-Fairbanks campus was one of the injured in the stabbing attack at the campus, authorities are reporting least 15 people were hurt in a stabbing at the campus Tuesday, April 9, 2013, in Cypress, Texas. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen)

This photo provided by Michael Chalfan shows a man in custody after a series of stabbings at the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star Community College in Cypress, Texas, on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. The attack sent at least 12 people to area hospitals, including four who were taken by helicopter. A fire department spokesman says several others refused treatment at the scene. (AP Photo/Michael Chalfan)

CYPRESS, Texas (AP) ? A student went on a building-to-building stabbing attack at a Texas community college Tuesday, wounding at least 14 people ? many in the face and neck ? before being subdued and arrested, authorities and witnesses said.

The attack about 11:20 a.m. on the Lone Star Community College System's campus in Cypress sent at least 12 people to hospitals, while several others refused treatment at the scene, according to Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department spokesman Robert Rasa. Two people remained in critical condition Tuesday evening at Memorial Hermann Texas Trauma Institute, spokeswoman Alex Rodriguez said.

Diante Cotton, 20, said he was sitting in a cafeteria with some friends when a girl clutching her neck walked in, yelling, "He's stabbing people! He's stabbing people!"

Cotton said he could not see the girl's injuries, but when he and his friends went outside, they saw a half-dozen people with injuries to their faces and necks being loaded into ambulances and medical helicopters.

Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said it was not immediately clear what type of weapon was used, but there were indications when calls came in to the department that "students or faculty were actively responding to work to subdue this individual."

"So we're proud of those folks, but we're glad no one else is injured any more severely than they are," Garcia said.

Michelle Alvarez told the Houston Chronicle she saw the attacker running toward other students and tried to back away. She said she didn't even feel it as he swiped at her.

"He came running and swinging at my neck, as I tried to get out of the way," she said.

Student Michael Chalfan said he was walking to class when he saw a group of police officers also running after the suspect. He said one officer used a stun gun to help subdue the man.

Lone Star officials initially urged people on campus, about 25 miles northwest of downtown Houston, to take shelter and be on alert for a second suspect. But the sheriff's department said authorities believe just one person was responsible.

"It was the same suspect going from building to building," department spokesman Thomas Gilliland said.

Garcia said buildings still were being searched hours later. Long lines of vehicles carrying students and staff streamed off campus as law enforcement directed traffic away from the school.

Teaundrae Perryman said he was in class when he received a text message from a friend and went outside to see a young woman being loaded into an ambulance with what appeared to be stab wounds to either her neck or head. He said he didn't receive an email alert from the college until 11:56 a.m.

"I was concerned but I wasn't afraid because I was with a large group of people," the 21-year-old said, later adding, "The police got to the scene very quickly."

One student said she learned one of her classmates was stabbed after leaving the school's Health Science Center building.

"I called to check on another classmate who was still inside the building and she said the classroom was on lockdown and she said one of the classmates had been stabbed," said Margo Shimfarr-Evans told KHOU-TV. "It happened in the hallway."

Courtland Sedlachek, 18, was in class when his phone started buzzing along with the phones of everyone else in class. The room was temporarily locked down, but students were let out and off campus a short time later, in what Sedlachek described as an orderly evacuation.

The attack came three months after a different Lone Star campus was the site of a shooting in which two people were hurt. The suspected gunman in that incident is charged with aggravated assault.

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Associated Press writer Nomaan Merchant in Dallas contributed to this report.

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Ask an Expert: All About Physical Therapy

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Ask an Expert: All About Physical TherapyHi everyone! I'm Dr. Paul Kochoa. I'm a physiotherapist that specializes in the evaluation and treatment of orthopedic musculoskeletal injuries, golf-related injuries, and sports injuries.

I'm an APTA board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist and a Titleist Performance Institute certified golf medical professional. Currently, I practice at Professional Physical Therapy and Training, located in the Madison and Summit, New Jersey YMCAs where I utilizee manual therapy interventions such as the Graston Technique, Kinesiotaping, and joint mobilizations to treat my clients. I received my doctorate of physical therapy from Mercy College and a BS in exercise physiology from Rutgers University. Have questions for me? I'm here for the next hour?ask away!

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Imelda Lidia Paruzzolo - Bell & Burnaby Funeral Home & Chapel ...

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Beloved mother and grandmother, Imelda Paruzzolo, passed peacefully into the hands of our Lord on April 7, 2013 surrounded by her loving family. Born in Selva Del Montello, Treviso, Italy on October 12, 1926, Imelda lived a full and faith-filled life and was predeceased by her husband, Ugo. Mamma will lovingly be remembered by her daughters Mary (Fred), Lorraine (Renato), Neva (Steve); granddaughters Christine, Nadia, and Angela (Ryan); grandsons Jason, Bruno (Brittany), Daniel, Andrew (Nicole), Nicholas, Adam, Jordan, Lucas and Nathan. Her devotion to family was extraordinary, as was her deep faith. Her love for music and gardening brought her many joyful memories. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at Holy Cross Church, 1450 Delta Ave., Burnaby. Entombment to follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Garden Mausoleum. Condolences may be offered to the family at www.bellburnaby.com.

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Sony's 4K TVs Will Be Surprisingly Affordable?in That They Cost Less than a Car

The $25,000 pricetag attached to Sony's 84-inch UltraHD set—the one that's been haunting your dreams since CES—may put that super-sized set out of your financial reach but that doesn't mean everything 4K is prohibitively expensive. In fact, Sony's new 55- and 65-inch sets are downright inexpensive (by comparison) and will be available for pre-order by the end of the month. More »


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