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Getting the vermin out of Boston's public housing may have improved living conditions in more ways than one: With the move has come a sharp drop in asthma symptoms among residents.
Boston health officials say new city data indicate that asthma incidences have dropped nearly by half since 2005. That is when the housing authority teamed up with the Boston Public Health Commission to reduce the number of roaches and rodents, while reducing the use of pesticides, which, along with roach and rodent droppings, can aggravate asthma symptoms.
The data, covering 2006 through 2010, the latest year available, show the rate of adults who reported having asthma symptoms in the authority's units dropped from 23.6 percent in 2006 to 13 percent in 2010, the latest year available. At the same time, asthma rates in other low-income housing in Boston not run by the authority remained relatively unchanged.
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The Public Health Commission says pest-related violations have decreased since the program was launched.
Commission researchers are taking a closer look at the relationship between the levels of roach and rodent infestations and a variety of health problems, including asthma, stress, and depression among the authority's 27,000 residents. The study uses housing authority residents to help collect the data through interviews with their peers.
One of the surveyors is Rebecca Davila, a 34-year-old mother of three who has lived in Boston Housing Authority apartments all her life and was also trained as a housing advocate. Davila said that in addition to asking the survey questions, she tries to help residents understand what they must do to help reduce infestations in their apartment.
"It was hard in the beginning," Davila said. "They don't want people coming into their home and telling them what to do, but being a resident helped."
Davila, whose 13-year-old son has asthma, said she understands residents' frustrations with pest problems.
"I have lived in BHA housing all my life, and if you want the BHA, or someone, to do something, you have to call; otherwise it's not going to happen," she said.
Doug Brugge, a Tufts University School of Medicine professor who researches asthma in Boston's neighborhoods, said that the city's program and findings are intriguing, but that more detailed analysis needs to be done to say with certainty that the pest-control initiative is what reduced asthma rates.
Brugge said other factors, such as improved health care, may have also played a role.
"These are substantial efforts to improve the conditions of housing in Boston, especially for people with respiratory illnesses like asthma," Brugge said. ". . . But the leap to say it [alone] is reducing current asthma prevalence is much shakier."
Public health analysts studied data from a biennial telephone survey of Boston adults between 2006 and 2010. The survey asks residents a wide range of questions, and analysts compared the answers from roughly 300 housing authority residents to others not living in city-run housing. They accounted for factors that might skew findings, such as age, gender, ethnicity, smoking habits, health insurance, and whether respondents were foreign-born.
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Wigan have announced Uwe Rosler as their new manager after agreeing compensation with Brentford.
The 45-year-old German leaves the Bees, with whom he was the width of a crossbar away from taking into the Championship last season, and will watch his new side's game with Millwall on Saturday from the stands, starting work on Sunday.
Latics chairman Dave Whelan, who met Rosler on Friday, said: "Uwe is one of the brightest young managers in the Football League and his ambition is to manage in the Premier League.
"He impressed me enormously when I spoke to him, he has a strong philosophy about how to play the game and has a desire to shape all aspects of the long-term future of the club. I think he can and will achieve great things here at Wigan Athletic."
Wigan, who were "reluctantly" granted permission to speak to Rosler on Thursday night, moved swiftly to appoint their second manager in the space of six months after Owen Coyle's offer to resign was accepted by Whelan last Sunday following a run of three successive home defeats in nine days.
Whelan has now tasked Rosler, a manager with Norwegian clubs Lillestrom, Viking and Molde before joining the Bees, with reaching the play-offs this season and restoring the club's Barclays Premier League status by the end of the following campaign.
They spent eight seasons in the top flight and won the FA Cup in May just prior to their relegation, so Rosler must win over an expectant support which is also keen for a return to the style of football that earned former boss Roberto Martinez such wide-spread acclaim.
Wigan are 14th in the Championship, nine points adrift of the play-offs, and still in with a chance of making the Europa League's last 32, which is where Rosler's attention must first turn.
After a trip to Millwall on Saturday, Wigan travel to Slovenia this Thursday to take on Maribor needing to win that clash and hope Zulte Waregem lose against group winners Rubin Kazan to ensure their progression.
Rosler's first game in charge at the DW Stadium will come three days later when Coyle's former club Bolton visit in a derby likely to have now taken on extra significance.
Former Manchester City striker Rosler had been with Brentford since June 2011 and twice came close to lifting them into the second tier of English football last term.
Their dreams were first dashed when Marcello Trotta's penalty hit the bar moments before Doncaster grabbed a winner in an unforgettable last-day clash, then a play-off final against Yeovil ended in more heartbreak for the Bees at Wembley.
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posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 5:13 pm
I have run a multigroup CFA with type = missing H1 with estimator = ML. I have two factors in each of 8 groups. The output provides the factor means in each group, along with the 95% and 99% confidence intervals around the means.
I want to test whether the factor1 means are significantly different across the groups by comparing whether the confidence intervals overlap. In my first group the means of both factors are set at 0.
IS IT VALID FOR ME TO TEST WHETHER FACTOR1's MEAN IN GROUP #2 IS DIFFERENT FROM ITS MEAN IN GROUP #1 BY SEEING WHETHER THE CONFIDENCE INTERVAL IN GROUP 2 INCLUDES 0? I realize that testing for differnces between means by comparing confidence intervals is a conservative approach compared to a t-test etc.
When I test for significant differences between the means of the other groups, I am seeing whether a pair of confidence intervals overlap, but the upper and lower confidence boudaries are all 0 for the group 1 means, which are also 0. I'm a little nervous about not having real confidence intervals around the factor means in group #1 to compare with the intervals around the means in group #2.
Thanks for your help!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 5:21 pm
To test factor mean equality across groups, you can simply use either MODEL TEST or run a model with all groups' means fixed at zero and take the 2*loglikelihood difference between this model and the original one. That seems easier than working with confidence interval?
Calvin D. Croy
posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 9:01 am
Thank you for your response. I couldn't find the MODEL TEST statement in the Mplus 3.0 User's Guide (though I actually run analyses using version 4.1).
I'm interested in finding which groups have factor means significantly different from those in the first group. Your approaches seem geared to testing whether any means are significantly different from 0, but not necessarily pointing to which ones.
I must be missing something because the approaches you suggest seem like extra work to me since I already have the confidence intervals in my Mplus output.
In a 1-7-05 email from you to me you confirmed that I could test for a significant difference between the means in other groups and the first group's mean of 0 by converting the means in the other groups into Z scores by dividing them by their standard errors and seeing whether any were bigger than 1.96 for a test at the .05 level. This approach seems equivalent to just seeing whether the confidence intervals for the means in the Mplus listing contain 0 -- the method I asked about in my post. Anything wrong with doing this?
Thanks again so much for your help.
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posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 7:09 pm
The confidence interval approach works fine if one group has a free factor mean and the other group is the reference group with factor mean fixed at zero. But when you have several groups with free factor means you don't want to use that approach because it is acting as if those free parameter estimates are uncorrelated and they are not (see Tech3). So the 2*logL diff test is useful.
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- Aquarium 8-min walk
- Valet parking (surcharge)
About The Langham, Boston
The Langham, Boston is located in downtown Boston, Mass., across the street from Post Office Square. The Financial District, Freedom Trail, Faneuil Marketplace, and Boston Harbor are within 5 blocks of the hotel. Harvard Square is less than 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) away.
Hotel Features.
Built in 1922 as the Federal Reserve Bank, The Langham, Boston maintains marble entryways, ornate gold-leaf ceilings, and Corinthian columns. The hotel is furnished with antique-style furniture and 16th-century maps. Café Fleuri serves Mediterranean cuisine in the building's 6-story glass atrium and features an open kitchen with a brick oven. On Sundays, the restaurant serves gourmet cuisine and hosts live jazz ensembles. The Reserve, a refined lounge, offers drinks and light entrées. Chuan Body + Soul spa and fitness center provides a 6,000-square-foot (557-square-meter) health club with an indoor lap pool, spa tub, rejuvenation bar, and TechnoGym equipment with LCD TVs, and iPod technology. Massage services and personal training are available for a fee. A total of 12,000 square feet (1114 square meters) of function space accommodates up to 600 people. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access in the lobby and 24-hour concierge service.
This 9-story hotel offers 317 traditionally styled guestrooms featuring signature beds with pillowtop mattresses and down comforters. Rooms provide 37-inch flat-screen LCD TVs. Bathrooms contain Italian-marble floors, granite vanities, makeup mirrors, bathrobes, slippers, and Chuan Spa toiletries. All rooms include minibars stocked with gourmet treats and beverages for a fee. Rooms include complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access, turndown service, and MP3 adapters. Laptop-compatible in-room safes are complimentary.
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 317 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 9 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Valet parking *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
- Resort fee included
In the hotel
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- 24-hour room service
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Spa tub
- Sauna
- Business centre
- Number of meeting rooms - 10
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Built in 1922
- Lift
- ATM/banking
- Terrace
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Chinese
- English
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Turndown service
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 37-inch LCD TV
- Pay films
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Fridge (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Also popular with travellers from the UK
Special features
The on-site spa has 2 treatment rooms, including rooms for couples. Services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, sports massages and facials. The spa is equipped with a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including thalassotherapy.
DiningCafe Fleuri – This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch and lunch. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
The Reserve – This restaurant specialises in American cuisine and serves lunch, dinner and light fare. Open daily.
Awards and affiliations
Green/Sustainable Property
This property participates in EarthCheck, a programme that measures the property's impact on one or more of the following: The Environment, the community, the cultural heritage and the local economy.
The Langham, Boston's small print
Also known as
- Langham Boston Hotel
- Langham Boston
- The Langham, Boston Hotel Boston
- Langham Hotel Boston
- Langham Hotel Boston
- The Langham, Boston Hotel Boston
- Langham Boston Hotel
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms. These are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
The charges below are included in the total price displayed:
- Resort fee
Optional extras
Valet parking costs USD 55 per day with in/out privileges
Rollaway beds are available for USD 35.0 per night
Breakfast costs between USD 10.00 and USD 35.00 for adults, and USD 10 and USD 20.00 for children (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Wired Internet access is available in public areas for USD 17.95 per day (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Recent reviews
Exceptional 9.4 From 893 reviews
Every single detail, from start to finish was absolute perfection!! I can't praise every single member of staff we met enough and the hotel is just sheer luxury!! Huge comfy bed, immaculate room and The Bond Bar....out of this world!! We are headed back there in a few days and I just can't wait!!
I'd like to thank all the staff at the Boston Langhan for another delightful stay. Thank you Kaplan for welcoming us and helping us with our bags on arrival. Great service from many staff who always make our stay so welcoming
Lovely hotel. Great location, very quiet but easily walkable to city centre attractions and T-line stops. Very helpful and professional staff. Would definitely stay here again.
A delightful stay at a very elegant hotel
Beautiful hotel. Service above and beyond!!
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Alright, I'm not really a JavaScript developer, but do they even exists? I think there probably are a few JavaScript developers in this world, but most of the developers that I know of are developing for the Web. Developing for the Web in it's widest sense. Most of the time there's a server technology like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, PHP or something else. A lot of times people actually feel like they are a WHATEVER-SERVER-TECHNOLOGY developer. I felt the same.
But lately the client-side technologies become more and more important. Yes most web developers know a little bit of HTML, and if we're lucky there's some knowledge on CSS as well. Yeah we also write JavaScript. uh actually we write jQuery script. Yes we are lucky to have a library like jQuery, but in the end most of don't know much about JavaScript at all. Yeah we write functions, sometimes. But that's about it, we don't write, maintainable, easy to read JavaScript code. Our JavaScript smells.
And if we want to make use of the full HTML5 stack either for web or for example in a Windows 8 Metro application, our code needs to be maintainable. I can assure you, it's not going to be 10 lines of JavaScript for a JavaScript Metro application.
To == or to ===?
I know C# so I'm using the double equals to check if left and right are equal. WRONG! I really need to admit I didn't know I was wrong until a few months ago. So chances are some of you, my readers, don't know it either. To quote Douglas Crockford's book on JavaScript:
JavaScript has two sets of equality operators: === and !==, and their evil twins == and !=. The good ones work the way you would expect. If the two operands are of the same type and have the same value, then === produces true and !== produces false. The evil twins do the right thing when the operands are of the same type, but if they are of different types, they attempt to coerce the values. the rules by which they do that are complicated and unmemorable.
So from now on I will be using triple-equals instead of double-equals.
Of course there's a lot more in The Good Parts book, I can recommend you buying it.
Object Oriented Programming uh Closures
Most of the JavaScript code I write are just functions, and functions might call other functions, some anonymous some named. The end result is either a large amount of functions, are just a couple of functions with more than 100 lines of code.
Is this maintainable? Hell no!
So why don't I write code in JavaScript like I do in C#? Uh is that possible at all? I recall everybody telling me JavaScript is not an object oriented language. I still have to agree JavaScript doesn't have all of the object oriented language characteristics to call it a fully object oriented language. But still.
JavaScript objects can be created in different ways, but you'll have to know a little bit more about some of the JavaScript language features to be able to get things working like you expect.
Some things were completely new to me like Closures: JavaScript Closures for Dummies
Take some time to get to know the above JavaScript features.
With the above concepts you can learn a little bit about JavaScript patterns, which help you when you want to write your own JavaScript library.
Really interesting articles that can help, but if you need more, you should definitely take a look at the pluralsight course for Structuring JavaScript Code.
PS. Don't feel hurt, there are exceptions to what I write here. Actually if there weren't good JavaScript devs out there the rest of the world, like me, couldn't learn from their expertise.


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Thanks to Thanksgiving-related computerlessness, this preview got pushed back a day from it's normal posting time. As a result, it will have a markedly different tone had it been put together on Friday, due to breaking news first reported by FOX's Jay Glazer this morning that Baby Ben Roethlisberger will NOT play on Sunday night.
Due to the Steelers' brass' decision to not sign a veteran backup earlier this week (they probably figured Benny was pulling one of his typical "oh, ow, it hurts, but um, yeah not really, I'm OK" drama queen acts), the Ravens won't be facing a Jeff Garcia (who would worry us, even in his first week in the system) or Cleo Lemon (who we all remember for beating the Ravens as a member of the then-winless 2007 Miami Dolphins), but instead second year player Dennis Dixon.
Dixon, a guy mentioned in the 2007 Heisman race during his time at Oregon, has thrown all of ONE pass in his NFL career, a 3 yard completion in mop-up duty last season. The Ravens' suddenly rejuvenated defense should have no problem making life terrible for the young scambler, and the hostile crowd at M&T Bank Stadium should be able to rattle him early and often (that is, as long as they use their hands to actually MAKE NOISE and not wave the stupid towels that the Ravens are giving out for the game – Glenn Clark articulated the idiocy of this very well HERE).
Speaking of the defense, Greg Mattison's group, much maligned early in the season, has slowly and quietly crept themselves back into the NFL's top 10. They forced three turnovers against the Peyton Mannings last week to keep the game close, and are rounding into form nicely. The loss of starting cornerback Fabian Washington for the year to an ACL tear definitely hurts, but Lardarius Webb has shown flashes of brilliance, and will now need to step up and contribute on defense the way he has on special teams. The Ravens also promise that we will see more of (ugh) Frank Walker and Chris Carr in coverage, and they signed Cary Williams, another CB, off the Titans' practice squad.
Ed Reed, the goat of last week due to his ill-advised and even worse executed pitch attempt, is nonetheless playing his best football of the season as we get into late November. On NFL Playbook on the NFL Network this week, Brian Billick had the honor of diagramming Reed's interception of Manning, where he absolutely BAITED the best quarterback on the planet into throwing the ball exactly where #20 wanted him to. If you have a chance to catch it, or have it saved on your DVR, go back and be sure to watch the Colts-Ravens segment. Reed broke toward the left sideline, to Pierre Garcon's side, then wheeled toward Reggie Wayne on the right sideline, turning his back to play completely, and lo and behold, there was the ball. Reed vs. Dennis Dixon isn't even fair, honestly.
The Steelers' big-play safety, Troy Polamalu, has been bitten this season by his decision to grace the cover of "Madden 10." The dandruff-less Polamalu has missed five games already in 2009, and the Steelers are just 2-3 without him. Much to the delight of Cam Cameron and Joe Flacco, who won't have to worry about accounting for #43 on every single snap, Polamalu will be forced to sit this one out, as well.
Even without Polamalu for half of their contests, Dick Lebeau's boys have still managed to trot out the league's #1 overall defense. For Cameron, who seemed scared to try any of his trickery that had worked so well against other teams on the Steelers last year, and whose unit has fallen from #3 to #13 over the past six games, Sunday night will be a chance for him to put some of the recent frustrations behind him. The Ravens should be able to score some points on Pittsburgh, not necessarily because their offense will dominate, but because there is likely to be good field position aplenty, due to 3-and-outs and turnovers delivered by Dixon.
Ray Rice, who has over 100 yards from scrimmage in seven consecutive games, has been the Ravens' catalyst and basically only weapon on offense of late. Lebeau, however, is likely to have put together a game plan to stop (or at least contain) Rice, so SOMEBODY else needs to show up and produce. Flacco may find that his safety valves of Derrick Mason and Rice are shut off more often than not against Pittsburgh, and will have to be able to find his other options. Mark Clayton and Kelley Washington have combined for just four (!!) catches over the Ravens last three games (each had 1 each against Cincy and Indy, and got shut out in Cleveland). Make no mistake about it – the Steelers will not let Mason and Rice beat them single (double?) -handedly. If the other guys, including Todd Heap and Le'Ron McClain, can't get involved, this one could be a nail biter even with Dennis Dixon leading the other side.
The Steelers' prime downfall this season has been that they are giving up points not when that strong defense is on the field, but the rest of the time. Pittsburgh has given up a return touchdown (defensive or special teams) in their last eight games, an NFL record. Their kick coverage unit has been at the bottom of the league, and it's so bad that they just signed Corey Freaking' Ivy to help out. Unfortunately, he doesn't figure to see much action in the secondary this week, but we can always cross our fingers and hope. Lardarius Webb should be able to contribute some good field position of his own on kickoffs, although hopefully there won't be more than 2 or 3 kickoffs from Pittsburgh all night, and we all know Chris "Fair Catch" Carr isn't breaking anything, so the Ravens' best bet at making it nine straight games giving up a return score for Pittsburgh is likely to be someone on the defense.
Steelers' running back Rashard Mendenhall is having a good year, and will be out for some revenge after Ray Lewis broke his shoulder last season. Haloti Ngata has been limited in practice this week (still with the ankle issue), and Terrell Suggs will, by all accounts, be inactive again. The Ravens' best bet to neutralize Mendenhall is to get out to an early lead Sunday night, and force the young quarterback to try to beat them throwing. At that point, their pass rushers can pin their ears back, and the ball hawking secondary can have a nice post-Thanksgiving feast.
There are some that will say that, should the Ravens win, the victory will be hollow because of Benny Boy and Troy Toy being out. I'm going to disagree vehemently. If the Ravens were 8-2, yes, I'd be a little disappointed that those two won't be out there. However, with this team 5-5, desperate for a win, and having seemingly found every way under the sun to lose games in 2009, we should be happy for a victory any way we can get it. Especially in a division game, against one of the handful of teams above us in the Wild Card hunt.
Not to mention, it's the Steelers – if you dressed up Glen Burnie High School ('s soccer team) in Pittsburgh jerseys and sicked the Ravens on them, I'd watch all day.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama inherited a wreck of an economy, "put a floor under the crash" and laid the foundation for millions of good new jobs, former President Bill Clinton declared Wednesday night in a Democratic National Convention appeal aimed at millions of hard-pressed Americans yet to decide how to vote.
"If you want a you're-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket," Clinton said. "If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility — a we're-all-in-this-together society — you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
He added, "I want to nominate a man who is cool on the outside but who burns for America on the inside."
Obama joined Clinton on the stage after the speech. Obama was making his first appearance at the convention where the Democratic faithful have gathered to renominate him to be the nation's leader for the next four years.
Obama did not speak to the cheering delegates, who later formally made him the party's candidate. He is to give his acceptance speech at the close of the convention on Thursday.
Clinton spoke as Obama's high command worked to control the political fallout from an embarrassing retreat on the party platform.
Under criticism from Republican challenger Mitt Romney, they abruptly rewrote the day-old document to insert a reference to God and to declare that Jerusalem "is and will remain the capital of Israel." Some delegates objected loudly, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, presiding in the largely-empty hall, ruled them outvoted. White House aides said Obama had personally ordered the changes, but they did not disclose whether he had approved the earlier version.
The convention hall rocked with delegates' applause and cheers as Clinton — unofficial Democratic ambassador-in-chief to anxious voters in a tough economy — strode onstage to sounds of "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow," his 1992 campaign theme song.
"In Tampa the Republican argument against the president's re-election was pretty simple: 'We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up yet, so fire him and put us back in,"' Clinton said.
"I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators."
Obama flew into his convention city earlier in the day and arrived in the hall for Clinton's speech. He arranged to join the former president onstage afterward in a made-for-television joint appearance.
On an unsettled convention day, aides scrapped plans for the president to speak to a huge crowd in a 74,000 seat football stadium, citing the threat of bad weather in a city that has been pelted by heavy downpours in recent days.
"We can't do anything about the rain. The important thing is the speech," said Washington Rey, a delegate from Sumter, S.C.
That and the eight-week general election campaign about to begin between Obama and Republican challenger Romney, who spent his second straight day in Vermont preparing for this fall's debates with Obama.
Clinton shared prime time with Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic candidate for a Republican-held Senate seat in Romney's Massachusetts. For many years "our middle class has been chipped, squeezed and hammered," she said.
In a tight race for the White House and with control of the Senate at stake, Democrats signaled unmistakable concern about the growing financial disadvantage they confront. Officials said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was Obama's first White House chief of staff, was resigning as national co-chair of the president's campaign to help raise money for a super PAC that supports the his re-election.
Unlike candidates, outside groups can solicit donations of unlimited size from donors. At the same time, federal law bars coordination with the campaigns.
Inside the hall, a parade of speakers praised Obama and criticized the Republicans, sometimes harshly.
Sandra Fluke, a law student whom congressional Republicans would not let testify at a hearing on contraceptives, said if Republicans win in the fall, women will wake up to "an America in which access to birth control is controlled by people who will never use it, in which politicians redefine rape."
Clinton's speech marked the seventh consecutive convention he has spoken to party delegates, and the latest twist in a relationship with Obama that has veered from frosty to friendly. The two men clashed in 2008, when Obama outran Hillary Rodham Clinton's wife for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Clinton, then a New York senator, now Obama's Secretary of State, was in East Timor as the party met half a world away. She made a cameo appearance on the huge screens inside the Time Warner Cable Arena, though, turning up in a video that celebrated the 12 Democratic women senators currently in office.
Whatever the past differences between presidents current and past, Obama and his top aides looked to Clinton as the man best able to vouch for him when it comes to the economy, his largest impediment to re-election.
As a group, white men favor Romney over Obama, according to numerous polls, but a Gallup survey taken in July showed 63 percent of them view the former president favorably, to 32 percent who see him in unfavorable terms.
Republicans have suddenly discovered a lot to like about Clinton — a man they impeached in late 1998 when they ran the House and he sat in the Oval Office.
Ryan made no mention of those unpleasantries when he told a campaign audience in Iowa, "Under President Clinton we got welfare reform. President Obama is rolling back welfare reform.
"President Clinton worked with Republicans in Congress to have a budget agreement to cut spending. President Obama, a gusher of new spending."
Independent fact checkers have repeatedly debunked the claim about Obama's welfare proposals. Nor did the Wisconsin lawmaker mention that under a balanced budget compromise with Clinton to rein in federal spending, Republicans agreed to create a new benefit program that provides health care for lower-income children and others ineligible for Medicaid.
The changes in the platform came after the Republicans criticized an earlier decision to strip out a reference to God.
Romney said that "suggests a party that is increasingly out of touch with the mainstream of the American people. … I think this party is veering further and further away into an extreme wing that Americans don't recognize."
Romney had declared in a summertime trip there that Jerusalem was the country's capital. U.S. policy for years has held that the city's status is a matter for negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, and Democrats said at the time he was pandering to Jewish voters in the United States.
The switch puts the platform in line with what advisers say is the president's personal view, if not the policy of his administration. "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel," it says. "The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths."


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Some hours ago photos up to ID 12300000 have been added to Google Earth, so we have got yet another 700,000 new photos.
The next update will be around September 22th and will include photos reviewed before September 10th.
By the way, you may have realized that we are having some trouble adding new photos to Panoramio's map. Photos that are missing will be added to the map when we fix these issues, you don't need to upload them again. Sorry for the problems!
Update 12 August: Problem fixed. New photos are again added to the map. Photos uploaded before this fix, will be added to the "all" tab during the next days.


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French Touch. Graphisme / vidéo / électro
This exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs reveals how the electro-fusion movement in music has also translated into the world of art and video, constantly developing its graphic identity. Futura2000, Alexandre Courtès, M/M, Michel Poulain and other artists who have worked closely with 'French touch' (more commonly known as French house) all come out from behind the scenes, with joyous results. It's a sort of musical and visual osmosis, a universe made up of geometric lines, sweeping curves, old comics and retro sketches which you can see in hundreds of flyers, album covers and clips. The whole thing works together brilliantly: all of it innovative, profoundly anti-conformist and free from the dogmas of marketing, with a highly charged energy.
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Thomson Reuters Takes Blame in Office Depot's Early Deal Release
The finger of blame for Office Depot's wild morning has been pointed squarely at Thomson Reuters.
This morning Office Depot announced it was buying OfficeMax and then promptly deleted the announcement only to later confirm the deal once again. On a conference call, Office Depot's Chairman and CEO Neil Austrian blamed an unnamed "webcast operator" for the error and said he regretted any confusion.
Now there is a more specific culprit: Thomson Reuters, who runs Office Depot's investor relations website, WSJ is reporting.
Thomson has issued a statement taking the blame:
"As a leading global IR website provider, Thomson Reuters Corporate Services business handles thousands of requests each year for updates and postings of new materials to clients IR websites, including Office Depot. Unfortunately, Thomson Reuters incorrectly posted this morning's announcement of Office Depot's intention to merge with Office Max prior to its intended release. We regret this error and are taking all steps necessary to enhance our processes and controls to ensure this does not happen again, as serving our valued customers remains our highest priority."


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What Are the Poor's Most Valuable Items?
I never thought that I would be thinking about treasures while making a documentary about poverty. But life is full of surprises, and last August I found myself scrupulously examining the most-prized possessions of Toronto's poor. And I must say, I was impressed. I spoke with a dozen of homeless people in Toronto. Almost all had treasures of some sort: a photo of a daughter, letters written before life on the street, a cherished dream about a slice of cheese cake or a bowl of salad. It was uplifting when people on the streets of Toronto told us that mostly they valued things of a non-material nature.


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JOHNSTON Press, the parent company of the Hartlepool Mail, is now the biggest and fastest-growing regional online publisher, according to latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).
Our websites attracted a total of 560,721 browsers on average every day during the first half of 2012 - an increase in our digital audience of 29.3 per cent year on year. Trinity Mirror recorded a 14.9 per cent increase (538,152 average daily unique browsers), Northcliffe 6.3 per cent (347,319) and Newsquest 9.4 per cent (499,292).
The ABC figures also show some of our websites for daily titles posted the biggest year-on-year increases in average daily unique users. The Portsmouth News website was up 48.4 per cent, the Yorkshire Evening Post 46.8 per cent and the Yorkshire Post 38.7 per cent. The Sunderland Echo saw an increase of 35.9 per cent and all bar one of the 10 newspaper websites audited showed double digit growth.
The Scotsman remains the biggest regional newspaper title online with 105,959 average daily unique users.
Henry Faure Walker, digital & business development director, attributed the growth in digital audience to both the launch of mobile-specific versions of the company's websites and a greater focus across the Group on the quantity and quality of digital content.
He said: "The strong increase in the number of people coming to and engaging with our local websites is very encouraging, and is an essential part of our strategy to provide advertisers with an unrivalled reach to this unique local audience.
"There is much more we can be doing in terms of digital content and improving the way our websites look and work, but we're making good progress and the momentum is really starting to build."
Some 10 million visitors a month come to the Johnston Press network and audience on mobile has doubled from one million last December to more than two million by June.
The Hartlepool Mail has, on average, 121,000 unique users per month.


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Update: WDSU just caught up with Superindendent Riley and he appears to be meekly backing off. It makes his comments on the radio last week all the more slanderous.
Off-camera, Riley told WDSU that he doesn't believe the e-mail is a big deal, that he's never seen the message and he doesn't have proof that Head actually sent it.
Update II: Seriously, I cannot believe how pathetic this walk back is by Riley. Unbelievable. He should apologize to WBOK's listeners and to Councilwoman Head.
Warren Riley leveled some pretty serious and racially charged allegations in an interview with WBOK last week. I really wish WBOK archived its broadcasts. Thankfully, the T-P's Brendan McCarthy was tuned in.
The allegations about Head's e-mail came up when a radio station caller, who went by the name Malcolm, mentioned the alleged message.
The caller said: "I hear some of our council members are sending e-mails out -- one in particular, Ms. Head, sent an e-mail saying she hopes you fail and let's not approve your budget. But anyway, she's the failure in all of this anyway.
Riley responded: "You forgot the N-word that was in that e-mail, from what I understand."
"Well, yeah, you heard about it," the caller responded. "She said 'Let's make this Negro, not Negro, but she used that other one."
The caller then lambasted the media for ignoring the message. "The news (media) did not, nobody else put that out, nobody else interviewed, nobody made a big story about that. And if it was somebody of color that sat on the City Council who had that kind of behavior, would have been asked to step down."
Those who know Stacy Head personally have been quick to insist that this allegation is baseless and that such behavior would be unimaginable. But considering Stacy Head's history of off-color and, in a general sense, prejudiced language, Riley's allegation must at least be considered plausible.
Saying something that reflects ignorance, prejudice, or bias is different from saying something indisputably racist with malicious intent. Riley's accusations, if true, would be far more condemning of Head's character than her casually offensive observations in the Walmart checkout aisle.
If Head indeed used that epithet toward anyone, she would have to resign. She should not and cannot represent a population for which she has such an expressed, visceral hatred. The public pressure would be intense and well-deserved.
Luckily, we don't have to live in a world of 'what ifs.' Warren Riley claims Councilwoman Head used that particular slur in an e-mail. He should immediately produce the email. Regardless, news organizations should submit a public-records request to Head to obtain it.
Head's colleagues should hold immediate hearings to demand Riley produce the email, to censure Head if he can come through, or to call for Riley's ouster if he cannot.
If this email does not exist, Riley would be guilty of an extraordinarily insidious, divisive and manipulative slander. He knew that the forum he chose to air this allegation, WBOK, would not challenge him. He knew he was speaking to an audience predisposed - because of Head's past intransigence and WBOK's listener base - to believe a plausible, even if baseless, allegation of racism about the councilwoman.
And maybe he thought Head would prefer to ignore the story and minimize its media echo amid a tough reelection fight instead of throwing down the gauntlet to make him prove his charge.
Stacy Head should not and cannot simply ignore this story. Merely asserting that the allegations are totally baseless and false, as she did to the Times-Picayune, is not enough. Because of her salty language in the past, there is a special burden on her to substantively prove her innocence to the extent that she is able. When the e-mail controversy first began, Head took it upon herself to release a large set of emails to the public by publishing them for download on her website. Those emails have since been taken down. She owes it to herself and her supporters to more substantively address her views on race, language, and the allegations being leveled by Warren Riley, perhaps first by reopening her email outbox to additional public scrutiny.
As someone who has interacted with Stacy Head and parsed all of her emails released to date, I personally, have an extraordinarily hard time believing Riley's accusations.
This is different than a blind caller on talk radio throwing out an accusation. This is the Police Superintendent, one of the most important and powerful people in the city.
For someone of that stature to level this kind of accusation without prepared evidence is irresponsible, dangerous, and wrong.
It's not just manipulative.
Mr. Riley seems... a bit... delusional, and here's what I mean:
Riley said the recent release of a poll - showing that only 33 percent of citizens are satisfied with the NOPD - was timed to dissuade him from entering politics. The poll was unveiled by business leaders shortly before the political qualifying period. Riley also alleged The Times-Picayune chose that week to release several negative stories about him.
"There's a revolution going on, and we are missing it," he said.
Riley also criticized the slate of mayoral candidates and promoted his tenure as police chief.
"You know, I listen to the mayoral candidates," he said. "I run a bigger organization, and have had bigger budgets than any of these individuals. And I'm not knocking any of them. I'm just saying, I have had the ultimate challenge. The only person ... there are two people who have bigger challenges than I. And that's Mayor Nagin and President Obama."
Riley appears to be saying that he was all set to enter the mayor's race until that poll, which showed faith in the police force at an all-time low, was released.
Riley apparently put out feelers for a mayor's race over the summer before explicitly announcing in August that he would not seek that office, saying that he had "absolutely no interest."
So Riley is essentially saying that just weeks before the qualifying deadline, with no money raised, and with no campaign team assembled, he was considering swooping into the mayor's race. That is, until, a poll was strategically released to demonstrate his department's almost cartoonishly low approval ratings. Riley is intoning that he had a really great shot at raising money and gaining popular traction had it not been for that poll.
Think about how crazy that is.
Objectively speaking, Riley has presided over one of the most dysfunctional police forces in the country, to say nothing of his own conduct during his career on the force. The feds are looming over the NOPD for its unjustifiable pattern of police brutality, missing evidence, and who knows what else. Hasn't Riley been one of the most unpopular figures in local politics for over two years? Would people argue that the poll released in early December said something they didn't already really know?
If Riley had assembled his record of sloppy, ineffective catch-and-release, fire-when-ready police work during a Presidential administration that put any effort into exercising the powers of the Clinton administration's COPS bill, the NOPD might currently be in the control of a federal receiver right now because systemically discriminatory pattern and practice.
He's not just delusional and silly. He's not just calculating and manipulative.
He's desperate.
Riley's plans, given that this conspiracy of unpopularity dissuaded him from seeking the Mayor's office?
"I'm looking at a public venture ... with a couple people here in the city that I think would be profound and lucrative," he said. "I also am looking at another position that I will absolutely not talk about. Regardless, I am going to do well no matter what. As I stated, my future is bright. If I don't work another day in my life I'll be OK. I'm not just a police chief."


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My name is Pedro Alonso Ferrer, I am Spanish.
I am attending fourth year undergraduate at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona - Spain). I am getting my Computer Science Engineering degree in June 2007.
I will dedicate myself full time to this project.
I have wide experience developing algorithms in C/C++. I have implemented some complex computer graphics algorithms such as:
- Gimp Perspective Clone, detailed informatión and a video-tutorial available in [1]
- Image quilting for texture synthesis and transfer. Alexei A. Efros, William T. Freeman Proceedings of ACM-SIGGRAPH 2001.
- source code and examples available [2]
- Marching Cubes: A high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. William E. Lorensen, Harvey E. Cline Proceedings of ACM-SIGGRAPH 1988.
- source code and examples available [3]
- Parametrization and smooth approximation of surface triangulations. Michael S. Floater Computer aided geometric design, Elsevier, vol 14, pp. 231-250, 1997.
- source code and examples available [4]
I also have experience developing websites, mainly using PHP and MySQL. I have also develop several things in Java, web applications mainly. You can see more detailed information in my Resume [5]
Google Summer of Code 2007
I'm applying for:
Project Description
The project consists of fulfilling a library for feature matching between multiple images using a Hessian-based detector and a suitable descriptor. A detector and descriptor that takes into account the approximately known distortions will have a much higher matching rate, especially when fisheye or wide angle images are used.
An example of algorithm for the detection step is explained in the paper:
- Choose some papers that could be use for this purpose.
Once the feature points are detected on each image, to match them and describe the neughbourhood in highly distorted images, the algorithms that could be used for this is explained in the paper:
- Choose some papers that could be use for this purpose.
To conclude, it would be necessary to facilitate the use of the tool by creating a user's interface. This would allow to choose the set of images to make the panorama. The graphical interface would be developed having in mind the new extensible modular GUI framework SoC_2007_project_New_GUI_Framework.
Project Schedule
- 0w April 9 - Application selection
- Interim Period: Learn more about the project, the literature that is being used to develop it, and build a testing set with ground truth ~200 images. This can be done asking for pictures to the mailing list.
- 0w May 28 - Begin coding for the project
- 1w June 4 - Create all the evaluation software, (mainly available from Miko)
- 3w June 18 - Implement of the algorithm chosen for the detector of feature points on the image.
- July 9: Students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; mentors begin mid-term evaluations
- 7w July 23 - Implementation of the descriptor to match the feature points detected.
- 10w August 13 - Benchmark and code optimization.
- 11w August 20 - Final report (Google Deadline for all student work),students upload code to code.google.com/hosting; mentors begin final evaluations; students begin final program evaluations.
- E-mail: pedro.paf (at gmail.com
- I'm on the "panotools-devel" mailing list
- IM/VoIP
- MSN, Gtalk: same e-mail address as above
- Skype: pedro.paf


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Working with six Pacific Island Governments, IUCN's Energy Programme has been implementing the project "Managing the Ecosystem and Livelihood Implications of Energy Policies in the Pacific Island States". Today in Cancun at the UN Climate Talks, the Italian government which co-finances the project brought together representatives of these six Pacific nations.
The project aims to accelerate the transition to energy systems that are ecologically efficient, sustainable and socially equitable. In partnership with the governments of Italy and Austria, low carbon approaches have been demonstrated in renewable energy projects in Vanuatu, Tonga, Tuvalu and Samoa and energy efficiency projects in Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
The Honourable Faumuina Tiatia Liuga, Samoa's Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, explained just what challenges people were facing in Samoa and how this IUCN-led project is helping solve those problems.
The overall goal of these projects is to reduce the impacts of climate change on small island countries. The results show that on the ground innovative answers are being found for energy within the Pacific.


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It seems a week can't go by these days without some new acquisition news. Yesterday, Eaton announced it had closed on its deal to purchase German filtration company E. Begerow GmbH and Co. KG, a maker of liquid filter media and filtration systems, and today, word comes that Spectris plc, an English instrumentation and controls company, will acquire Stamford, Conn.-based Omega Engineering, which makes controls and instrumentation, including gauges, switches, and valves for fluid power applications.
According to John O'Higgins, chief executive of Spectris, "Omega will continue to serve its customers with innovative products and outstanding service. With its focus on control of temperature, pressure, flow and other common industrial process measurements, Omega is a natural fit for our industrial controls segment and enables us to expand our product offering to customers globally."
Spectris operates across four business segments, which reflect the applications and industries it serves: Materials Analysis, Test and Measurement, In-line Instrumentation and Industrial Controls. Headquartered in Egham, Surrey, England, the company employs over 6400 people, with offices in more than 30 countries.
For more information, visit www.spectris.com.
For more information on Omega Engineering, visit www.omega.com.


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new guy1 wrote:Well, since it is near deadline, and it seems like everyone else is doing it, it has definatly swayed me to put my vote on pmc. Vote pmc
I need some clarity here.
You state here you are voting for PCM because everyone else is. You don't say you believe him guilty? Your vote still counts weather you vote or not. If you were unsure you could have just as easily not voted.


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