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Information Storage and Retrieval: From MEDLARS to Twitter
Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases. In some instances, we remember the timeline in which we learned about new technology. I recall learning about SIMSCRIPT, "reservoir modeling", cybernetics, "real-time", "information storage and retrieval", APL, and "database" in roughly that order. Of course, it's taken years for me to be able to use real-time and database in the same sentence when describing an application.
An exploration of modern information storage and retrieval encompasses data models, data stores, query techniques, data mining, search engines, automated indexing and classification, machine learning, and a host of topics that could keep a blog busy for years. In looking at information storage and retrieval, one cannot help but take note of MEDLARS and Twitter, two systems born 50 years apart.
One of the most notable achievements in information storage and retrieval was the creation of a centralized database of health sciences bibliographic information. The US National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the US National Institute of Health (NIH), has been indexing and abstracting medical literature for decades. The Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) database was developed at NLM. To publish a variety of documents, including quarterly editions of Index Medicus, NLM linked MEDLARS and the GRACE photocomposition system. Perhaps because of need and good design principles, this information retrieval system has served multiple generations of users.
The MEDLARS example is interesting because it represents an information storage and retrieval technology that has stored data and answered queries for a period of decades. Interactive access to the MEDLARS database became available with MEDLARS Online (MEDLINE). Today, web access to 21 million journal articles is available through the PubMed portal. The original medical literature database has been augmented with database services related to toxicology data, clinical trials, chemical identification, genetic taxonomies, genome mapping, molecular biology. and other knowledge domains.
Figure 1 shows the number of articles related to "Heart" that have been added to the database each year. The current total exceeds 1 million bibliographic citations since 1950.
Vocabulary for Searching
Since the 1960s, NLM has operated computer systems that provide online searches using a controlled, domain-specific vocabulary known as MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). In recent years, the information retrieval capabilities have been augmented to encompass semantic search techniques — finding information based on concepts and not just strict matches against search criteria.
Because the vocabulary is extensive, NLM provides a MeSH Browser for finding descriptors, qualifiers, and other concepts of interest. Today's MeSH vocabulary is hierarchical information that conforms to this tree structure:
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A member of NATO's Afghan force and a civilian contractor have been killed in the latest so-called insider attack by a member of the country's security forces, bringing the US death toll in the conflict up to 2,000.
The attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday came after the United States said joint operations with Afghan forces were returning to normal.
Joint operations were halted two weeks ago after a surge of attacks by Afghan allies. At least 52 members of the NATO force have been killed this year in so-called green-on-blue attacks.
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Some people know him as a quiet man who walks his dog along East Market Street. Some people know him as a boisterous preservationist for the Woolen Mills neighborhood. Some know him for his recent service on the Charlottesville Planning Commission. And some haven't met him but have discovered his photo-driven blog which shows a keen eye for detail and amazing interplays of light. Thus the name: Black & White.
Bill Emory has put the focus on little noticed corners of Charlottesville and other places, so we this week we thought we'd put the focus on his work. –Hawes Spencer
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Truly the work of a talented artist, and what a classy paper to feature them in this beautiful format. Hope this is just the beginning.
Mr Brown, drunk so early in the morning?
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"Hyannis" picture. Bill captures people as they really are, often to their discomfort. Could title that one "4 skanks in a tank".
Bunkum, blah, hooey, eyewash, twaddle, bosh. Get a blah.
Kudos to Bill - he's one of the most artistically thoughtful photographers around.
And kudos to The Hook for publishing this.
I've followed Bill's blog for a number of years now and I've come to depend on Bill's daily picture. He might not admit it, but he's a philosopher who makes his points via his images.
One of our most talented local photojournalists of life. Glad that he is being recognized. Go, Mr. Bill!
What a delight to see Bill Emory's images in a group! I'm proud to say "I knew Bill when he was a high school student." He was marked for success in photo arts and it's great he's gotten there.


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Retiring Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank, a gay pioneer in Congress, plans to marry his longtime partner, Jim Ready of Maine.
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The sound of cascading harmonics is very reminiscent of a harp. In this lesson, Calum show a lick that can be used to add that quality to your songs.
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A technique that provides an aggressive percussion approach as well as a melodic uniqueness, percussive slap harmonics is a useful tool in your arsenal of artistic acoustic techniques.Length: 12:06 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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The sound of cascading harmonics is very reminiscent of a harp. In this lesson, Calum show a lick that can be used to add that quality to your songs.Length: 7:44 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Although not as common, up and down picking strokes with the thumb can be used in fingerstyle guitar playing. In this lesson Calum gives us some pointers on how to execute this.Length: 7:50 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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The CAGED concept has helped countless guitarists over the years. In this lesson, Calum gives his take on the concept, and explores its usefulness.Length: 13:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In this lesson Calum gives us his take on the classic technique called Travis Picking. Using his song "Through the Photo Album", he takes us into this very Tommy Emmanuel-esque composition.Length: 23:26 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Using open strings in your fingerstyle playing is a key technique. Not only does it allow you to achieve a nice sustain, it can also be handy for buying yourself a split second for position changes.Length: 7:36 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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In part two of this lesson on using open strings, Calum shows us how to traverse the length of the neck playing a variation of the C major scale, using as many open strings as we can along the way.Length: 5:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now that we've used open strings to make our scales sustain more, it's time to add yet another technique - harmonics. In this lesson Calum combines fretted notes, open strings and harmonics to achieve...Length: 7:26 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Being able to tune your guitar without an electronic tuner is a great thing to know in a pinch, but also can help train your ear. Calum revisits some popular self tuning methods in this lesson, possibly...Length: 10:32 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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At just 24, Calum Graham has already enjoyed a career that would be the envy of most artists twice his age. The Alberta-based guitarist and singer/songwriter has released five acclaimed albums, won major national music competitions, performed at the Olympic Games in both Vancouver and London, racked up some phenomenal views on YouTube, and was most recently named one of the top 30 guitarists in the world under 30 by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Andy McKee, one of today's most popular acoustic guitarists, calls Calum "the most promising young guitarist I've seen. His command of the guitar is already really impressive!"
Graham just recently released his fifth studio album 'Tabula Rasa' which was crowd funded by fans across the globe and produced by world renowned Acoustic Guitarist, Antoine Dufour. Adding an extra dimension to his compositions, the album introduces Graham's soulful vocals to his audience for the first time. The album was released in March 2016 and features a combination of his exemplary instrumental guitar work punctuated throughout with elements of folk, blues, and pop in his vocal songs with guest performances by Antoine Dufour and Bass Guitar Extraordinnaire, Michael Manring. Calum is currently working on releasing new videos in the coming months on his YouTube channel, and continues to tour throughout Canada, the US, and Europe.
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No way, really? He was your pick? I've been sitting on him for a few rounds, and then I thought "take the 2nd line LWer before the third pairing d-man" but he was just too good to risk letting slide further. I've been trying to trade up since my last pick. Sorry.
EDIT: 25th d-man taken, I could make an easy case for top-20 and I think even higher than that. I feel I got terrific value down here, he might even slide up to the 2nd pair over Mantha.
Yea, I kept thinking he would keep falling and he did. He was honestly my next pick.


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Does anyone know the TRUE location of a placed called the Wedderburn Mansion in Narragansett, RI. Common belief is that it is on Front Street, that town, but there's one problem with that, though, there is no Front Street in Narragansett, RI.
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Blind dates are already both exciting and terrifying—the former because you might meet your future soulmate, and the latter because your date might end up boiling your bunny. That's why a privacy bug in OKCupid's brand new app, Crazy Blind Date, was even more disturbing than usual, even though there's no evidence of that data having been accessed.
The app's goal is to anonymously match you with another dater in your area for, well, a blind date. But the app apparently made users' full e-mail addresses and birth dates easily accessible "to anyone with the right technical skills," the Wall Street Journal discovered, thereby voiding much of the app's benefit. Worse, the bug could be used to see the information of anyone nearby who had signed up to use the service—a blind date did not have to be arranged first—putting the personal information of all of the new app's users at risk.
According to the WSJ, the bug came from Crazy Blind Date's API. In addition to the e-mail addresses and birth dates, someone could use the API to grab a Crazy Blind Date user's ID and correlate it to his or her OKCupid profile, potentially finding more information on that person.
OKCupid fixed the hole immediately after being notified by the WSJ of its findings; a version 1.1 is already out on the App Store, and OKCupid CEO Sam Yagan says there's no evidence that the exploit was actually used. (There is also a version of this app for Android devices.) Still, the incident highlights how easily our information can be accessed through various online services, even when they advertise otherwise. Similarly, a recent FTC report found that numerous children's apps on the App Store collect and report personal information to a remote server, even when they explicitly claim that they don't in their privacy policies.
How do you deal with that as a potential online dater? My personal advice for those using Crazy Blind Date is the same for anyone who might be meeting up with strangers: use a separate, non-identifiable e-mail address to register your account, even if the service claims your e-mail won't be made public. It's also a good idea to fudge your birth date a little bit—subtracting 10 years might be a bit much, but moving the date by a few days could help to keep your info more obscure.


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Importance of Teamwork
Think back to when you were part of a team, maybe for a class project. Was it ever a challenge to listen to a team member who had ideas that were different from your own? Listen to the role models in this video to learn why, when it comes to teamwork, differences can be more valuable than similarities!
You probably already have a lot of experience working on teams, whether for a science project or a sport. So you might have had the experience of wanting people to do their part to make things work. Role models in this video can help you learn to do that, and lots more, to build on what you know about teamwork.
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Northampton director of rugby Jim Mallinder admitted his players need to be better when they reach the Aviva Premiership play-offs after watching his side "switch off" and nearly throw away victory in their 36-21 win over London Irish.
With two tries from Jamie Elliott and one each from Kahn Fotuali'i and Salesi Ma'afu, Northampton were cruising at 29-0, but three quick second half tries from Andrew Fenby, Shane Geraghty and Jebb Sinclair saw London Irish give the home side a real scare.
Marland Yarde's 60-metre score would have made it 29-28 in the final 10 minutes, but the TMO ruled Tom Homer's pass was forward.
The five points keeps Northampton seven points clear of third-placed Bath and on course for a home semi-final, but a relieved Mallinder said: "We need to be better than that when we come up against the big sides.
"At half-time we spoke about keeping that intensity to our game and we did for the first 10 minutes. We got the fourth try and then we seemed to switch off, getting turned over twice in the final third and seeing them go the distance - and then it gets a bit squeaky.
"It is really disappointing as it was a game which could have been a convincing win, but ends up being in the balance.
"I was delighted to see the referee refer the Yarland 'try'. We were very grateful to see it called forward."
Mallinder confirmed replacement hooker Matt Williams, who was carried off on a stretcher, had broken his leg, which therefore leaves him with just one fit hooker in Ross McMillan. Mike Haywood and Dylan Hartley are both injured, though Mallinder said the England hooker might be back for the clash at Bath in two weeks when he hopes to have Alex Corbisiero back as well after a lengthy lay-off.
London Irish boss Brian Smith had no complaints about the TMO ruling out Yarde's try or referee JP Doyle not going upstairs for a questionable grounding in Elliott's first try.
"I thought the pass was marginal, so I don't have too many complaints," said Smith. "Some days you get the tick and some days you get the cross. We were playing away so it was understandable we got the cross today.
"I understand there might have been some problems with the grounding in the first try, that is a matter for the referee and TMO. If the TV are showing it is wrong then that is a learning point for him and you just role with the punches. We just hope at the end of the season we get as many good calls as bad calls.
"We rallied really well in the second half, but we can't be happy with the first half. We made lots of skill errors and they feasted on them."


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Wishlist - Hardware - Novel Devices
From Openmoko
This page details hardware some would like in future OpenMoko devices that are very different from the Neo1973. DVD/media players, cameras, ...
Hard Drive
Providing a hard drive, will allow storing music, movies, etc. Add USB storage device capability to use the device as an external hard drive.
PCMCIA slot
Extensibility would be nice. Standard pcmcia would be great for allowing wireless too. And pcmcia cards tend to be very low power.
- 1. can be used for a spare battery (is this possible?)
- 3. i can use my Echo Audio Indigo I/O
- 2. can be used for different cards around
This is certain not to happen in a production phone, it's simply far too large, and requires complex support in hardware, which does not exist in most system on a chip devices as are used in phones. Even for the Expansion_Back it would be too large. --Speedevil 06:05, 28 February 2007 (CET)
Cameras & Imaging
Interchangeable Camera Lenses
A camera phone with a lens mount would allow swappable camera lenses and filters. Camera phones are usually stuck with tiny fixed lenses that don't allow focusing. Imaging being able to swap out the default lens with one that provides a better focus... or even a zoom!
The C-Mount or T-Mount would be a good choice. Both are standard lens mount with many supporting lenses. Minolta, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, & most other lens manufacturers also have mount adapters for their proprietary lenses. Then share lenses between your camera & cell phone. The mount hole would need to be about 1 inch in diameter and go about 1/4 inch into the camera-phone (with the focal plane array chip at the bottom of this hole).
Added bonus If you work somewhere that doesn't allow cameras: The lens could be removed and a blank insert could be screwed in. The camera capability would be physically disabled!
Business Card Reader
This is probably technically difficult if not impossible, maybe you could do it with the embedded camera hardware & software
I want to be able to place a business card face down on the the screen, and have the device automatically read the card and enter the info in the contacts.
- There is no simple way of reading something placed on the screen, for the basic reason that the screen is in the way.
- Of course you could always just take a picture of the card with a camera-phone. Then store it as it is or image recognition software could do character recognition & extract the information.
Solar Panels
My old pocket calculator had solar panels, why not my phone? See also: Expansion_Back#Ideas which require slight modifications of the phone.
Fuel Cell
Some people want to put them in laptops & fuel cells are the way of the future.
Cork Screw
Every multi-tool has to have a cork screw
TV Out
With help of mouse and keyboard, a TV output may be very useful. Or to watch photos taken with a digital camera on holidays. Or for showing a slide presentation off.
Larger Screen
A model with a larger screen would be of use to many, especially with multi-touch. Higher resolution is probably less important than size until the DPI drops below 150 or so.
Tiny Video Projector - "Beamer"
At the DisplayWeek2007 several embeded video projectors for phones were presented.
Those projecting devices are not much bigger than a cell phone. A LED-laser projects a sharp image at variable distance
Could such a device be connected by bluetooth?
Explay uses two a red and a green laser-LED as well as a conventional blue LED in its "oio". Blue laser-LED are to expensive for customer products. The light passes a transmissive WVGA-LCD(640x480) and goes on to the screen. Its frequency is 60Hz and the projecting distance can be varied from 20cm(8inch) to 2m(80inch) with a sharp picture. It consumes about 5W and its light power is about 6 lumen. As the sharpness does not depend on distance, one can project the image on screens that are not plane. Like someones t-shirt.
Microvistions PicoProjektor however uses soley laser-LEDs. It is also 60Hz though 800x600px or 800x640.
Potential problems might become the approval of a laser class 3 device.
Final prices could be about $300.
Taken from: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/90141 (german)
Possibility to use something like Eyeglass Mounted Display.
Multi I/O adapter
- VGA, standard Jack (line in & out), standard USB
Credit Card Swiper/Reader
- A credit card swipe function on the device, so that business operators can use the device to accept payments. In some markets a 'chip+pin' card reader may be an alternative. Existing devices are very expensive. Transaction information is sent over the internet, transaction "hub" services like 1stData could receive the data and reply with email receipts to the merchant, who could then forward the receipt to customer's email, or print a receipt on a bluetooth printer.
Modular hardware design / interchangeable components
It would be great to have several interchangeable components on the 'bus' of the device. Imagine opening the case and being able to add GPS to an empty internal bay or swap an Accelerometer for 3G support. Similar to the PCI hardware model of desktop PCs -- let savvy users swap and upgrade internal components by intentionally designing swappable components on some standardized bus.
Unfortunately, this is a big problem for compact devices. To take the above examples. An accelerometer module may be 5mm*5mm*2mm. a 3G module 50mm*30mm*10mm, a GSM module 30mm*40mm*5mm and a GPS module 20mm*15mm*5mm. Apart from the wasted space problems, this means also that each module has to be custom-built for FIC. Then there is a second part - you have to have connectors and some way to clamp the module in place. This adds yet more weight and volume. --Speedevil 12:03, 29 June 2007 (CEST)
Different Shapes & Styles
The current shape is great and many people love it (and I myself plan on getting one). Still, different strokes for different folks & we're allowed to muse about other options.
Dump the egg-shaped case design and go rectangular for more screen space
- I'm all for devices that look great and have great features - aside from that I really like the current design. Thus I'd like to comment that the design change request is probably not the majority's opinion. Abraxa 00:00, 18 February 2007 (CET)
There will be many OpenMoko devices, of different designs. --Speedevil 06:19, 28 February 2007 (CET)
Nuff said
Twisting top
Perfect for a multi-directional camera phone (for easier self photos & video conferencing)
Alcohol Sensor
Alcohol sensor adjacent to microphone. It doesn't have to be accurate, just has to detect any amount of alcohol on the speaker's breath. I understand this is a very narrow market, but alcohol is on every parent's mind.
I think those who drive cars might profit from this feature too. --cedel 16:02, 20 February 2007 (CET)
- Although this is a good idea, you have to be very careful about liability here. If it gives a false positive (i.e. you're not over the limit), and you have an accident, the OpenMoko team might be liable.
Bottle opener
- including a bottle opener is very hard, but could be useful.
- example
- It definitely is useful. A metal reinforced corner might be enough. While it is possible to open bottles with most cell phones, they don't look too good after opening a few cases.


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Videos | June 5, 2014
NASA's OPALS Beams Video from Space
The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science will beam video via laser from the International Space Station back to Earth. Here is animation showing how the technology works, with an explanation from the OPALS mission manager, Matt Abrahamson of JPL, plus the video NASA slated for OPALS' first official transmission.
The OPALS payload will transmit a high-definition video
from the space station down to the ground on a laser beam.
We do this by using a telescope high above Los Angeles,
in the San Gabriel mountain range.
It's going to come down on a 2.5-Watt laser, from a payload
called the OPALS payload up on the space station.
The file will transmit over a fiber-optics cable,
on the beam back to the ground station on Table Mountain.
From this location, we will illuminate
the International Space Station with a laser beam.
Once the beacon is received, the OPALS payload points back
at the ground station and will modulate a signal
over a laser beam back to the ground.
We collect an enormous amount of data out in space,
and we need to get it all down to the ground.
This is an alternative that's much faster than our traditional
radio waves that we use to communicate back down to the ground.
And so with this demonstration, we're
paving the way for the future of communications to and from space.
So we have a special message now from the International Space Station.
It's our first video, called 'Hello, World';
an homage to the first output of any standard computer program.
Let's take a look at it now.
It's the story of an endless search to serve the communication needs of America.
[Male Voice] Beep beep beep. 'Why the hurry?'
Here is modern telegraphy at work.
Sending and receiving in facsimile.
[Female voice] 'This is information. May I help you?'
The needs of today keeps pace with the tempo of a fast-moving age.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology


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Rep. Barney Frank, the straight-talking Massachusetts Democrat who serves as ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, announced in late November that he won't seek re-election and plans to retire from Congress at the end of 2012.
Frank will remain a tough and influential legislator throughout 2012 and has vowed to defend the Dodd-Frank financial reform act that bears his name. Recent comments that Frank has made, including those to Investment Advisor, signal that he will vote against House Financial Services Chairman Rep. Spencer Bachus' legislation calling for a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for advisors. When Investment Advisor asked Frank after an early December speech what he thought about Bachus' SRO bill, he replied: "I don't like it."
Like other industry trade groups that are fighting against Bachus' bill, Frank said at a Capitol Hill press conference in late November that he's "skeptical of self-regulatory agencies" and that he would "not want to detract at all from the responsibilities of public agencies." Frank has been a staunch proponent of boosting funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission.
While Frank's status as a ranking member on the financial services committee likely won't prevent an SRO bill from being reported out of his committee, his objections to such legislation "can create a strong partisan bill" that reaches the House floor and "sends a signal" to the Senate about the problems associated with an SRO, says Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis, managing director of public policy for the CFP Board.
An SRO bill, which already looks to be a tough sell in the Senate, will likely not be introduced by Bachus until sometime this spring.
David Tittsworth, (left), executive director of the Investment Adviser Association in Washington, says that while he is "pleased that Mr. Frank shares our concern about the inefficiencies of saddling advisors with an SRO—likely the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) oversight—we believe it is incumbent upon all lawmakers to consider alternative means for providing the SEC with the resources it needs to remain the cop on the beat." User fees must be considered, Tittsworth says, as they "would allow the SEC to retain its regulatory primacy without adding to American taxpayers' burden."
The SEC can't move forward with an SRO until Congress enacts legislation telling it to do so. Bachus' proposed bill would shift regulation and oversight of investment advisors to FINRA or another private regulator, except for certain advisors whose assets under management are concentrated in mutual funds, private funds or with large clients.
But Bachus' SRO bill has supporters. Ken Bentsen, executive vice president of public policy and advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), said at the Consumer Federation of America's financial services conference in early December that SIFMA would like to see Bachus' SRO bill move forward. While SIFMA supports an SRO for advisors, he said, "we haven't come to the view that it ought to be FINRA," even though "a lot of [SIFMA's] dual registrants believe it should; not because they are 'in love' with FINRA, but because we have a 'healthy relationship' with FINRA."
Lawranne Stewart, deputy chief counsel for Barney Frank's office, who sat on the same panel with Bentsen to discuss the future of securities regulation, said that an SRO for advisors "will be a hot topic for a while." Now that Dodd-Frank authorized the switching of advisors with assets under management of between $25 million and $100 million from federal to state registration by mid-2012, "the states have the chance to see what they can do with advisor exams," Stewart said. "We'll see what kind of impact that has. I think there is going to be a lot of evolution over the next few years, to see how this is going to work."
In announcing his retirement, Frank acknowledged that the "very substantial changes" in congressional redistricting was a primary reason he decided not to seek re-election, adding that such redistricting changes would take him away from serving his current constituents and protecting financial reform—one of his top goals.
Frank told attendees at the CFA event that the "public is committed to the financial reform bill continuing."


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Plus, there's Happy Hour and special drinks promotions in our late bar.
Welcome to the Happy Dragon Hostel, your happy home in Beijing! Within two years of opening we have established a great reputation as being one of Beijing best hostels, offering everything a guest needs and more!
All rooms are cleaned daily and are well-maintained, with reading lamps, bed curtains, lockers in the dorms and drawers/cupboards/hangers/shower rails. You can use hot/cold air-conditioners and free extra blankets or a heater if you need. We have a 'quiet policy' for late at night so you can sleep comfortably as, although it's a fun hostel, we still know our guests need a good night's sleep.
All rooms feature ensuite western-style bathrooms with 24hr hot showers and free towels, linen, shampoo and body wash.
We offer a choice of American, English or Continental-style breakfasts. Our restaurant has Chinese and Western food menus and there is a no-smoking policy in our restaurant before noon,
There is free Wi-Fi throughout the premises as well as web access in the lobby, featuring headphones, microphones, webcams, USB connections – and Facebook when it's available! We also offer free internet connection sockets in every room.
There is a 24 hour reception and security and our staff are available around the clock to help with all your needs. We have secure key-card access, a printing and photocopying service, a postal service (with stamps for sale), phone cards, free luggage storage, an efficient laundry service, on-street and free parking, bicycle hire/tours and parking, hair dryers, a tours desk and a taxi-booking service. We're happy to help you buy new SIM cards and recharge your phone. We can also advise you about onward travel to other destinations, with free local, city-wide and national travel info.
Our facilities include cable TV, a refrigerator and a free library with a good selection of Chinese, English and foreign language books, plus travel guides you can read, photocopy or swap 2-for-1.
Don't forget our Kung-fu lessons from Beijing's award winning Tom Zhang!
This is one of the very few hostels in Beijing to have a real bar, so the atmosphere is great for meeting fellow travellers and other guests. It's like a big family, being relaxed whilst being super-clean and tidy.
We have a full tours programme to take you to the must-see Great Wall, plus a variety of spectacular shows that are guaranteed to impress. Tell us anything you need and we will do our very best to help.
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Josef Prusa, designer of the Prusa Mendel, created a Python script to generate code for 3d-printed whistles with the initials of 150 conference attendees at INFOTRENDY. And to celebrate, he's posted a sample chapter from his upcoming MAKE/O'Reilly book, Getting Started with RepRap:
Only thing I was waiting for, was right conference with not too wild number of visitors and actual list of visitors. Fortunately guys making INFOTRENDY conference in Bratislava wanted me to talk about RepRap. I had great time there, even met Adrian Bowyer there.
Conference had only 150 visitors and full list of them one week before. I freed some of my time from writing my Getting Started with RepRap book and coded small python script generating plates of whistles to print.
Well and it worked! I printed all 150 on my Prusa Mendel the day before I left for conference. Everyone was happy to get custom made gift and it was much easier to show them the versatility of 3D printing! No-one has to give out boring prints anymore!!


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To build a great product, you need a solid product roadmap to guide your team. A product roadmap provides a vision for your product, aligns your team around central goals and priorities, and gives everyone an idea of where the product is headed. While product roadmaps are an essential tool for agile development teams, other types of teams can benefit from them as well.
A good roadmap will communicate plans and progress to stakeholders within the team and across the company, and serve as a "single source of truth." Because of this, it's important to keep your product roadmap in a format, that will stay up to date instead of in several versions of the same file.
Planning with flexibility
Your roadmap should serve as a guiding light, not an unbreakable commitment. Include your biggest product initiatives, and then the details on how your team will achieve those goals.
- Who is responsible for each initiative?
- What tasks or features need to be completed before you can call it done?
- When will the work be completed? During a particular sprint, month, or quarter?
Map it out, but be flexible; this should be an iterative process throughout the lifecycle of your product. Being rigid does your team more harm than good, as you need to be able to adapt when things change (and things always change).
What to include in your roadmap
Before you build your roadmap, think about what you want it to accomplish —beyond being a document of your product's development.
- Features – Consider your overall business strategy as well as what your customers have been asking for. You'll need to weigh these things, as well as think about resources, when deciding which features get prioritized over others.
- Other peoples' input – Everyone on the team has something to add, whether it's the engineer who's built certain features before — so they can do it again quickly — or the support team who is in constant communication with your customers.
- Supporting information – Make sure your roadmap includes links or anchor links to documents, customer feedback, interviews, and brainstorms that tell the whole picture of the things you're building.
Build your roadmap in Quip
Quip is great way to research, create, and share your roadmap. With Quip, you can create a document and then embed a spreadsheet right in that doc. Your entire plan, from data to supporting information, can live in one, shareable place. Here are a few pro tips.
- Create a status column with colors and emojis to add some personality to your planning. If something is "On track," make it green with a 👍. If it's "At risk," go with red and try a 🙀.
- Use anchor links to include lots of information in a clean way. Within the cells of your roadmap, you can link to other documents, or areas below in the same doc.
- Get things done quick with formatting tricks: Use option + enter to do a carriage return in a spreadsheet. Here's a full list.
- Use @ mentions to create rich mentions of task, team, or initiatives
- Use the document sidebar to collaborate with your team and other people at the company. Discuss and come to consensus in one, simple place.
- Get things done and track work with check lists, due dates, and assignees.
- Once your roadmap is ready, share the document — you can keep it to your team and key stakeholders, or make it visible to the whole company for ultimate transparency. Read more about your sharing options.
Ready to get started?
Check out our product roadmap template by clicking the link below and start mapping out your next initiatives. Here is what your roadmap could look like:
Product Roadmap Template
If you like it you can sign up and copy the template to your personal folder. The public version is view only, but your copy will be fully customizable.


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Acee: Ravens, 49ers have resilience it takes
For those disappointed we didn't have a SupHarBowl last year, it is fortunate that the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers believe in making the most of second chances.
A year after falling a game short of Super Bowl XLVI, losing in their respective conference's championship games, the teams coached by John and Jim Harbaugh made it all the way to the game with the Roman numerals.
Super Bowl XLVII
Where: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans, LA
When: February 3, 2013, 3:30 p.m. PT
More: Complete Super Bowl coverage
- Super Bowl first look: Baltimore Ravens
- Super Bowl first look: San Francisco 49ers
- Super Bowl Q&A: Baltimore Sun beat writer Matt Vensel
- Super Bowl Q&A: SF Chronicle 49ers beat writer Eric Branch
So in this first ever Super Bowl to feature opposing head coaches that are brothers, we also have the first Super Bowl since XXX to feature opposing teams that lost in the previous year's AFC and NFC title games.
That 1996 game between the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers is the only other time it has happened. It's simply difficult to maintain that level of success and bounce back the way the Ravens and 49ers have.
"I think last year, (was) just like, 'Damn we got so close,' " 49ers defensive lineman Justin Smith said. "I've never been that close in my life. You don't think it's over or your window is closed or anything like that just personally speaking, and you feel it kind of shutting. I was just like, 'Damn, that was it.' To be back in the NFC Championship game, I don't think our team took it as much for granted how hard it is to get there."
This wasn't a blitzkrieg run to the Super Bowl for either team. The Ravens needed to convert a fourth-and-29 to win a game in San Diego at the end of November and then promptly lost three straight games to start December. The 49ers never won more than two games in a row until this point and were down 17 points at halftime of the NFC Championship on the road.
You ask yourself what teams that make the Super Bowl have that your team at home does not. And when you get past the talent, for sure, there must be a high level of perseverance, a resilience. Think about how often the Chargers have talked about "if" and "might have been" when it comes to overcoming injury and close calls.
"You know, last year we felt we had a really good chance at making it to the Super Bowl, and I thought, 'This is what a Super Bowl team looks like,' but then I was reminded in New England that you don't know what a Super Bowl team looks like because you've never been there," said Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs, who tore his Achilles tendon in May and missed the season's first six games. "However, through everything we've been through this year … and the guys we lost throughout the year and losing three games down the stretch, it's just, a lot of things happened. I was just like, 'Well, if this is a Super Bowl team, this is one hell of a team.' You know what I mean?"
Many players on each team were chased by different longer-term pasts as well. The core of the 49ers was around for several losing seasons before Jim Harbaugh came in 2011. The Ravens have been to the playoffs five straight seasons but never made it to the Super Bowl, losing in the AFC Championship after the 2009 and '11 seasons.
Even if you think, as I do, that he is just a little too much, Ray Lewis may just have it right in this sappy description of his team.
"I believe we have found a way to believe in each other, and nothing else matters," Lewis said. "That is one thing about our sideline. When we are on our sideline, there is only one thing that matters, when this game ends, we will be victorious, and everybody believes the same thing. That's what's been our road, no matter who's been up, who's been down, who's been hurt, who's been injured. We found a way to pick each other up. That is what a team is, and I've always said that. The team who wins the Super Bowl is the team who pulls it together chemistry-wise, and everybody believes in one thing. This team is focused on one goal."
Sounds like he could have been describing the 49ers too.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Before the Kansas City Chiefs kicked off their game Sunday, fans at Arrowhead Stadium observed a moment of silence for the victims of domestic violence and their families.
Not mentioned was Jovan Belcher, the Chiefs linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then himself a day earlier, across the parking lot from the stadium.
Barely more than 24 hours later, fans grilled, played catch and enjoyed beverages on an unseasonably warm and sunny day.
The festive atmosphere masked some of the pain Chiefs fans felt after hearing that Belcher had killed 22-year-old Kasandra M. Perkins, then drove to the team practice facility and turned the gun on himself. The couple had an infant daughter.
Coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli had tried to stop Belcher, and watched powerless as he shot himself in the head after thanking both of them for giving him a chance in the NFL.
"To have to witness that, I don't think you would wish that on your worst enemy," Chiefs fan Ty Rowton said. "That memory will never, ever leave them."
Missing from the sky above Arrowhead Stadium was the small plane that had carried a banner during previous home games calling for Pioli's firing. Fans, many of whom had been wearing black Chiefs apparel in recent games to protest the team's performance, turned out in red again.
"Now everybody's just in shock," Rowton said.
Arrowhead was less than half full, and quieter than usual, though the fans made some noise when Peyton Hillis scored a touchdown. The big running back took the ball over to the sideline, where he handed it to Crennel and gave the coach a big hug.
Chiefs fan Ben Cunningham, a 32-year-old who has missed only one home game in 23 years, said he feels sorry for the families and friends who now must endure the aftermath of Saturday's shootings, but not for Belcher.
"I don't have much sympathy for him," Cunningham said. "He caused a lot of heartbreak for a lot of people."


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Troubled by its inability to combat North Vietnamese MiG aircraft throughout the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force launched a top-secret program after the war to train American fighter aircrews on how to do battle with the Russian-manufactured aircraft. This program, based at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, is the subject of Steve Davies' Red Eagles: America's Secret MiGs (Osprey Publishing, 352 pp., $25.95).
This new edition of the book, which was first published in 2008, features recently declassified information. Davies, a military and commercial aviation photojournalist, chronicles the story of the Red Eagles, a unit of the Air Force that learned how to, without manuals or instructions, operate MiGs.
Basing much of his work on first-hand accounts, Davies' book provides illuminating insight into the personalities behind the program and into the challenging, dangerous, and exhilarating work carried out by the members of this top-secret program.
— Dale Sprusansky


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Zeva Oelbaum
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- 1 6-ounce can tuna in water, drained
- 1/2 cup chopped drained sweet pickles
- 3 tablespoons plain nonfat yogurt
- 3 tablespoons light mayonnaise
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped sweet onion (such as Vidalia)
- 1/2 cup chopped peeled cored Granny Smith apple
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups thinly sliced red leaf lettuce
- 4 pita breads, halved, pockets opened
- Mix first 4 ingredients in small bowl. Season tuna mixture with salt and pepper.
- Mix bell pepper, onion, and apple in medium bowl. Add half of vegetable mixture to tuna mixture and stir to blend. Add vinegar to remaining vegetable mixture; toss to combine. Season vegetable mixture to taste with salt and pepper.
- Place 1/4 cup lettuce in each pita half. Spoon 1/8 of tuna mixture, then 1/8 of vegetable mixture into each pita half. Place 2 pita halves on each of 4 plates and serve.
Per serving: calories, 304; total fat, 5 g; saturated fat, 1 g; cholesterol, 17 mg


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Jungle Starfish
Starfish come in a variety of colors and have many different types of patterns.
Shark Eye Moon Shell Black and White
Shark Eyes belong to the Moon shell Sea Snail Family. Moon shells are carnivorous, spending most of their lives digging thru sand, searching for clams and smaller snails.
Nautilus Cross Section
The nautilus is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae,
seashell macro photograhpy
Inferno III
Shark Eye Moon Shell
Moon Shell III
Sand dollar
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Tyra Banks Signs On To Do the "Life-Size" Sequel, With or Without Lindsay Lohan
In a way, it's gratifying to live in a world where the same pop culture products that occupied my time when I was a kid are reincarnated for the next generation. It gives the whole "life" thing a sense of continuity and stability: things stay the same, things matter, we're all going to be okay. […]Read more


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What Idols?
Book review of Strange Gods.
Unmasking the Idols in
Everyday Life
By Elizabeth Scalia
Ave Maria Press, 2013
192 pages, $14.95
To order: avemariapress.com
I'll admit it: I picked up Strange Gods more because I'm a fan of Elizabeth Scalia's writing than because I thought it would really apply to me.
I mean, come on — idols? Are you trying to tell me that the mourning process I've been going through about my ruined iPad might be indicative of something more than just frustration with my children? Let's just call my response to that denial and get back to the book.
The first flag came on page 7, before Scalia even dug into her topic: "If God created humankind in his image, we humans tend to create gods in our image — or perhaps more correctly, we humans create gods so reflective and shiny they keep us looking at ourselves."
Two short pages later, I found myself highlighting again: "Do we stop to think of what it means to have something 'before God'? It means to put something 'first,' yes, but more fundamentally, it means to put something 'in front' of God, as one might put a screen in front of a fireplace and therefore place it 'before' the fire. What is before God, then, is also before us; it stands between God and us; it separates us from him. Just as a covenant of marriage cannot grow in closeness and oneness — cannot become one flesh — if something is put between a couple, the covenant between God and humanity cannot grow and survive if our strange, self-reflective idols are placed between ourselves and him."
It's no surprise that Strange Gods is well-written or thought-provoking. Anyone who has come across one of Scalia's columns or blog posts knows she's articulate and masterful with the written word. She writes through life as a boy pokes through the mud, examining each and every thing she finds and bringing it to the light or stashing it in her pockets to bring out later.
What continues to surprise me as I contemplate this book is how relevant I continue to find it in my life. Scalia, using images, stories and experience, expounds on what idolatry is to us now — and me today.
This is the kind of book that gets so marked up and dog-eared as I'm reading it that it's twice as thick when I'm finished.
Not only does Scalia write colorfully and clearly, in language that even an oaf like me can understand and relate to, but she pushes the edge of the issue of idolatry with each chapter. She begins with a large idea, one that seems so distant. It takes her less than a chapter to bring it home, and with each following chapter, she circles around it and brings it in closer and closer.
I wasn't sure how an entire book about idolatry could speak to me or even make sense. I'm no theologian, and I don't have time for real noodling. (I fall asleep too quickly.) And yet, in under 200 pages, Scalia has defined and demonstrated the concept so well that I can't go through my life blindly any longer.
This book is equal parts conversation, reality check and theology lesson. It's filled with personal insight, hard-earned wisdom and Spirit-inspired prose.
Sarah Reinhard is online at SnoringScholar.com.
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I'm willing to give my friend Rob Zombie as many chances as his crispy disgusting hair wants to toss out. That's just the kind of guy I am. So when he takes to the twitter and says his new film "The Lords of Salem" is looking "demented, perverted satanic", I'm intrigued. For those of you not familiar with the film it's a heartwarming tale about a group of witches who come back from the great beyond to bring death and destruction on modern day Salem. Sounds like they also get some action also. Good for them.
It's about time there was a Roller Derby slasher film isn't it? That is of course if there already hasn't been one and I just haven't seen it. Let's pretend "MurderDrome" is the first of its kind though. The film is about an up and coming roller star who gets caught in a love triangle that eventually evolves into a demon filled blood bath. Demon roller people? That's got to be a new idea. Was there a demon in that Drew Barrymore flick that came out a couple years ago? I never saw it.
For those of you who haven't had a chance to get John Carpenter's "The Ward" you'll be able to get your disgusting little syrup stained hands on the DVD and Blu-Ray on August 16th. And today we've got some cover art, which is the same as the movie poster, and specs, commentary with John Carpenter and star Jared Harris. So there you have it, the same image you've seen 100 times already and some commentary with an actor who's in the movie about 15 minutes. Operators are standing by.
While it's no big surprise it's still nice to see that Bruce Campbell will in fact be in Sam Raimi's upcoming new film "Oz: The Great and Powerful" which tells the story of how everyone's favorite Wizard came to be. That is of course unless you consider those weirdos from "Lord of the Rings" to be your favorite wizards. And if that is the case I'd ask you to kindly stop reading my news.


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Posts Tagged 'meaning'
It's Time for a New Humanity
Here Right Now
So glad to tell you my brotha
It's time to Love 1 Anotha
Call your Mama, Call your Fatha
It time to care for each otha
Oh my brotha so much work to be done
So glad that freedom has come
Now that all humanity is here
It's time for us 2 live as 1
Freedom is Here Right Now
Repeat 3 Times
Oh my brotha so nice to see you again
Oh my sistah nice to see you my friend
Let's come together right now
And show the world how
So much joy
Spread it around
Time for our feet to stand on solid ground
Now that we have discovered
The best part of life is each otha
I go around my neighborhood
Sharing all things that are good
The Green Lifestyle is here
To Serve Humanity
We can plant a garden we can turn the earth
We can even plant a tree
I'll feed you my sistah
My brotha will you please feed me
When we forgive each otha
We set our own selves Free
Its time for Wonder
Time for Delight
Time for a New Humanity
Tap into the source of All Things
And let Joy, Love and Freedom Reign
Now, Now, Now, Now
Now, NOW, Now
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Community Singing: Chorus
1.Freedom is Here Right Now
Repeat 3 Times
2. Now, Now, Now, Now
Now, NOW, Now
Visualization: Visualize Creating Bliss Portals for all living beings – animate and inanimate entities
Why it was written: Amazing, Amazing, Amazing. A very long and difficult journey was completed. A second chance to build was issued and the shamans are together again.
This song was like seeing an intriguing person cross the street two blocks away. I had glimpses of this song yet never could figure it out and get a chance to know it yet oh what a feeling. When I moved my office and location to North Oakland with friends and family the song came all at once like a flood.
What a joy, what a blessings. The lyrics are amazing and I have been singing this song all day and night. What an honor and privilege to sing and play Here Right Now. It is time for us to clearly see we must live as one. After the atom bomb was dropped in 1943 in Japan Eleanor Roosevelt said that time has truly changed and the end of all wars is needed. Either we end the wars or we will end ourselves.
In meditating on the creation of the United Nations the day of his death. Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote. "The work now my friends is Peace – an end to the beginnings of all wars. For those committed to The making of an abiding peace I say the only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. Let us move forward with a strong and active faith."
Tap into the source of all things and let Joy, Love and Freedom Reign
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The Trade and Development Report (TDR) 2012 reviews recent trends in the global economy and explores the links between income distribution, growth and development. Global output growth is slowing down. In developed economies, high unemployment, ongoing deleveraging and downward pressures on real wages are causing lack of demand. An exit from recession in crisis-hit countries cannot be left to market forces alone; policies should aim to restore demand, instead of further depressing it with fiscal retrenchment.
Produced by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Trade and Development Report 2012 says that recent experience, especially in Latin America and other developing countries, suggests that progressive taxation and rising public spending can strongly contribute to the process of inclusive growth.
The report adds that this approach would reduce income inequality while also providing the prospect of expanding demand that is needed for firms to increase investment.In several countries, the richest one per cent of the population now accounts for 10 to 20 per cent of national wealth.
Trends over the last 30 years show income inequality increasing both within countries and between them, UNCTAD said. The share of wages in total income has fallen in most developed and in many developing countries, including by five percentage points or more in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and by 10 percentage points or more in France, Germany and Ireland.
In several countries, the richest one per cent of the population now accounts for 10 to 20 per cent of national wealth. The report notes, however, that governments can use fiscal and labour market policies to reduce income inequality.
"This goal is worthwhile not only for reasons of fairness and social welfare, but because it would improve economic performance," says UNCTAD.
More even income distribution also pays off over the long term, it contends, because high inequality deprives many people of access to education and credit, and prevents the expansion of domestic markets. Over years and decades, that amounts to an enormous waste of a country's economic potential.
"Thus, a better income distribution pattern would help stimulate and sustain economic growth in the short run and would provide stronger incentives for investment, innovation and job creation in the long run," says the report.
In its review of trends in the global economy, the report warns that growth is slowing in all regions of the world, which it says are "hamstrung in part by austerity measures that are hampering demand in the major developed-country markets, thus cutting the export prospects of developing countries."
Global growth fell from 4.1 per cent in 2010 to 2.7 per cent in 2011, according to the report, with a further decline expected by UNCTAD – to below 2.5 per cent – in 2012.
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The San Jose Earthquakes have arrived in London. It took 10 hours in the air, but the trip was filled with plenty of card games, dominoes, movies, laughter and, of course, sleep. The Quakes are here and ready to continue their preparation for the 2010 season, which is now just a few weeks away. The Earthquakes will be in the London area until Sunday, March 14 and will train as well as play in several games over the course of the next week.
San Jose will train at Spurs Lodge in Chigwell, London, the training ground for their club partner, Barclays Premier League side, Tottenham Hotspur. The training began promptly at 3 p.m. GMT, just hours after their arrival at Heathrow International Airport today.
So, how was the trip from San Jose to London? Here's a quick recap:
12:00 p.m. PT: Traveling players and staff boarded the bus and found their way to San Francisco International Airport.
1:15 p.m. PT: Players checked in and tested out the new high-def flip cam. Stay tuned for more on this. We will give fans a daily look inside the trip. Check out the Earthquakes new YouTube page at //www.youtube.com/sanjoseearthquakes to watch some of the videos from Thursday's day of travel.
2:45 p.m. PT: Andre Luiz, Quincy Amarikwa, Chris Wondolowski and Ramiro Corrales played an intense game of cards at the gate.
3:45 p.m. PT: Team boarded their British Airways flight.
4:25 p.m. PT: Departed SFO for London Heathrow.
6:00 p.m. PT: Defender Jason Hernandez makes the tough decision to watch Twilight: New Moon because, hey, he had seen the first one, so why not, right? He then asked Mike Graczyk whether he would be judged for doing so. He most certainly was. To be fair to Jason, he did have a productive trip, knocking out four movies on the trip, including The Dark Knight and The Blindside, as well as catching an episode of Better of Ted. He certainly wins the award for most airline-provided media consumed.
Approx 8:15 p.m. PT: Dinner is served; a solid choice between beef or pasta. Buttering the bread was difficult at times with the small knives, check out the video on YouTube to see Ryan Johnson struggle.
9:00 p.m. PT: Bobby Convey, Brandon McDonald and the aforementioned Johnson got the dominoes out and went after it.
9:30 p.m. PT: Most on board caught some sleep. Andrew Weber attempted to do some silent interviews with Quincy and Jason, who were asleep. However, he wasn't given the tutorial on the hd flip cam, so unfortunately those interviews were never recorded.
10:45 a.m. GMT: Quakes arrive in London and board Tottenham's team bus to the hotel in Chigwell.
The Quakes were joined in London by defender Ike Opara, who came from some midterms at Wake Forest. Midfielder Simon Elliott will arrive from Los Angeles Saturday after New Zealand fell 2-0 to Mexico at The Rose Bowl on Wednesday night).Stay tuned for more updates on the time in London here at sjearthquakes.com, on twitter and on our YouTube page. Also, to check out what Tottenham Hotspur are doing, please go to www.tottenhamhotspur.com.


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Public Sustainable Development Values: A Case Study in Sepang, Malaysia
The continuous process of observing and assessing the development scenarios around them provide the public the perception and understanding of the current development issues. The shortcomings of the current development methods inspire the public to develop a set of preferred development values. The information of public's development values is important to sustainable development management as values underlie people's action and behaviour. Without greater understanding and awareness of this, conflicts over management are prone to occur. This research focuses on the development values from the socio-cultural point of views in Sepang, Malaysia. Using qualitative methods, in-depth interviews and group discussions of selected respondents were held to represent their views and communities represented by them. The analysis of data highlights five theme values in development namely identities, peace, freedom, environment and development. There were seven fundamental needs according to Max-Neef list evident i.e. subsistence, protection, affection, participation, creation, identity and freedom.
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Journal of Sustainable Development ISSN 1913-9063 (Print) ISSN 1913-9071 (Online)
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We take a walkabout in Peoria for new takes on previous columns and local history.
We take a walkabout in Peoria for new takes on previous columns and local history:
Another rebirth? Might a rehabbed Madison Theater include a restored Walk of Fame?
Assistant City Manager Chris Setti likes the notion. And that's good, because he's City Hall's point man on the Madison negotiations. And though I've suggested rehabbing the walk for years, it seems more possible than ever right now.
Everything Madison is up in the air. A development team has a 90-day window to buy the theater and the city-owned parking lot next door. Then it'd be time to pinpoint a plan for not just the theater but the adjacent taverns, along with a residential area along the parking lot.
With all that going on, maybe the Walk of Fame seems like small potatoes. But, if the project advances to big things, the walk could add flair as envisioned in 1994.
Then, Tim Comfort, whose family still owns the Madison property, came up with the idea of the walk. He shared the notion with Mike Sullivan, who at the time was running the original S.O.P. adjacent to the theater, at the corner of Madison Avenue and Main Street (now Shifters).
Sullivan launched the walk guerilla-style: act first, ask permission later. The first inductee would be the late comedian Sam Kinison. The city wasn't happy to discover Sullivan had uprooted a 3-by-3-foot slab of sidewalk and replaced it with a Kinison star. Still, the city eventually warmed to the idea and gave Sullivan the go-ahead to two other inductees that year, opera star Jerry Hadley and sports announcer Jack Brickhouse.
And then the project died. Sullivan moved on to other locales, and no one else took over the reins. The slabs for Hadley and Brickhouse survive, though Kinison's has inexplicably crumbled.
But maybe it's time for a rebirth of the walk. Setti is intrigued.
"I'm from Hollywood," he says, chuckling. "I lived in Burbank, Calif. I know what a walk of fame is."
The Hollywood Walk of Fame has more than 2,500 stars. Peoria's won't get that big, but it's the sort of thing that's great for community involvement. Let the public suggest and debate possibilities. Surely, you'd want some sort of criteria for enshrinement: you don't want it smeared with a bunch of politicians. Remember, this is supposed to attract tourists, so you want celebrity names out there as a way for Peoria to brag to outsiders.
And I say, allow the walk to stretch outside city limits. That way, for every Betty Friedan, you could include a Gary Richrath.
As I said, nothing is definite with the Madison yet. But, if things go well, Setti says the walk would be a nice inclusion.
"I think it would a neat thing," he says.
New and improved: Speaking of old markers, one of Peoria's oldest monuments has returned from overseas.
Since 1919, The World War Soldiers and Sailors of Averyville Monument had stood at the base of Grandview Drive, just off Northeast Adams Street. Residents of the then-village of Averyville solicited contributions and built the 25-foot-tall marker, on which four bronze tablets commemorate veterans of what later became known as World War I. Later, Averyville got annexed to Peoria, and the monument became part of the Peoria Park District.
Over time, weather wore down the marker. But more recently, lightning twice zapped the eagle at the top, then high winds blew it over. The park district had to rope off the monument to keep anyone from getting hit by falling debris.
A monument that crumbles is no real monument at all. And it had deteriorated past the possibility of mere repair.
Last spring the park district decided to replace it. But it consisted mostly of terra cotta, a clay-like material with which no American restorer had much experience. So, piece by piece — 175 in all — the marker was taken apart and sent — by truck then ship — to an expert terra-cotta firm in England. Total cost: $214,000.
Awhile back, the new pieces arrived in Peoria. The park district put it together — including the old bronze tablets, the only original parts remaining — on the old spot.
"The eagle looks handsome," says Bonnie Noble, park district executive director. "It looks the same."
The park district also has the leftover original pieces. Noble says that a future fund-raiser likely will put the pieces up for sale to the public — as a chance to own a piece history.
PHIL LUCIANO is a Journal Star columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com, facebook.com/philluciano, 686-3155 or (800) 225- 5757, Ext. 3155. Follow him on Twitter @LucianoPhil.