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The dimension of location brings social networks back to reality, bridging the gap between the physical world and online social networking services. In this project, we introduce and define the meaning of location-based social network (LBSN) and discuss the research philosophy behind LBSNs from the perspective of users and locations.
Social Networks: A social network is a social structure made up of individuals connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interests, and shared knowledge. Generally, a social networking service builds on and reflects the real-life social networks among people through online platforms such as a website, providing ways for users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests over the Internet.
Location: a location can be represented in absolute (latitude-longitude coordinates), relative (100 meters north of the Space Needle), and symbolic (home, office, or shopping mall) form. By the meantime, a location usually has three kinds of geospatial represenations: 1) A point location, 2) a region, and 3) a trajectory.
Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN): A LBSN does not only mean adding a location to an existing social network so that people in the social structure can share location-embedded information, but also consists of the new social structure made up of individuals connected by the interdependency derived from their locations in the physical world as well as their location-tagged media content, such as photos, video, and texts. Here, the physical location consists of the instant location of an individual at a given timestamp and the location history that an individual has accumulated in a certain period. Further, the interdependency includes not only that two persons co-occur in the same physical location or share similar location histories but also the knowledge, e.g., common interests, behavior, and activities, inferred from an individual's location (history) and location-tagged data [1][2].
[1] Yu Zheng. Location-based social networks: Users. In Computing with Spatial Trajectories, Zheng, Y and Zhou, X, Eds. Springer, 2011.
[2] Yu Zheng. Tutorial on Location-Based Social Networks. WWW2012.
Two Major Tasks and Objects in LBSN
Location and Social networks
Location is not only a dimension but also an important object in LBSN
Location and social networks (users) have a mutual reinforcement relationship
Sharing and Understanding
A good sharing experience attracting more user-generated data for understanding.
A deep understanding of LBSNs provide a better sharing experience in turn.
Research Philosophy of LBSNs
Three Major Graphs in a LBSN
- A user-user graph
- A location-location graph
- A user-location graph
- Making sense of raw data
- Fast and effective information retrieval
- Understanding users
- User similarity or link prediction
- Experts/influencers detection
- Community discovery
- Understanding locations
- Interesting locations and travel sequences detection
- Trip/itinerary planning
- Location-activity recommendation
- Preference-aware location and friend recommendation
- Understanding events
- Life patterns discovery
- Unexpected\anomalous\unsual events detection
Unique Challenges of LBSNs
Heterogeneous Networks
Special properties
Fast evolving
Selected Representative Research
Inferring User Similarity Based on Location History
Abstract: An individual's location history in the real world implies, to some extent, her interests and behaviors. Accordingly, people who share similar location histories are likely to have common interests and behavior. This paper reports on a research that mines similarity between users based on their geographic location histories, considering the sequential, heirarchical and popularity properties of location. The user similarity can enable friend recommendations and community discovery. We further improve this work by exploring the semantic meaning of a user's location history, e.g., going to a move theater or dining in a restaurant. This would be more effective in measuring two users' similarity….(refer to the following publications for details).
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- Quannan Li, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Yukun Chen, Wenyu Liu, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining user similarity based on location history. In ACM SIGSPATIAL 2008.
- Xiangye Xiao*, Yu Zheng, Qiong Luo, Xing Xie. Finding Similar Users Using Category-Based Location History. Poster. In ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010.
- Xiangye Xiao*, Yu Zheng, Qiong Luo, Xing Xie. Inferring Social Ties between Users with Human Location History. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2012.
Location Recommendation using User-based CF
Abstrat: In this scenario, the similarity between each pair of users (introduced above) is incorporated into a collaborative filtering (CF) model to conduct a personalized location recommendation system, which offers locations matching an individual's preferences. The general idea behind CF model is that similar users vote in a similar manner on similar items. Thus, if similarity is determined between users and items, predictions can be made about a user's potential ratings of those items. For instance, if we know user A and B are very similar (in terms of their location histories), we can recommend the locations where user A has already been to user B and vice versa.
Publication: Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Zhengxin Ma, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Recommending friends and locations based on individual location history. In ACM Transaction on the Web (ACM TWEB),5(1), 2011.
Learning Correlation between Locations Using Human Mobility
Abstract: This section focuses on introducing the correlation between locations in the spaces of user behavior, specifically, to what extent two locations are correlated in people's minds. However, mining the correlation from people's location histories faces the following two challenges. First, the correlation between two locations does not only depend on the number of users visiting the two locations but also lies in these users' travel experiences. Second, the correlation between two locations, A and B, also depends on the sequences in which both locations have been visited. In short, the correlation between two locations can be calculated by integrating the travel experiences of the users visiting them on a trip in a weighted manner.
Publications: Yu Zheng, Xing Xie. Learning Location Correlation from GPS trajectories. Short paper (6 pages), In proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Data Management 2010 (MDM 2010), Kensas, Missouri, USA.
Personalized Location Recommendation using Item-based CF
Abstrat: User-based collaborative filtering is able to accurately model an individual's behavior. However, it suffers from the increasing scale of users (in a real system) since the model needs to calculate the similarity between each pair of users. To address this issue, location-based collaborative filtering is proposed. This model regards a physical location as an item and computes the correlation between locations based on the location histories of the users visiting these locations. Given the limited geographical space (i.e., the number of locations is limited), this location-based model is more practical for a real system. The main challenge to the location-based model is how to embody an individual's behavior which is the advantage of a user-based model. The key is to replace the item similarity with the correlation between locations learnt above.
Publications: Yu Zheng, Xing Xie. Learning travel recommendations from user-generated GPS traces. In ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2(1), 2-19.
Mining Interesting Locations and Travel Sequences
Abstract: In this paper, we aim to mine interesting locations and classical travel sequences in a given geospatial region based on multiple users' GPS trajectories. Here, interesting locations mean the culturally important places, such as Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and frequented public areas, like shopping malls and restaurants, etc. The key insight is that users' travel experiences and location interests have a mutual reinforcement relationship. We also mine the classical travel sequences among locations considering the interests of these locations and users' travel experiences. We evaluated our system using a large GPS dataset collected by 107 users over a period of one year …(refer to the following publication for details).
Publication: Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Xing Xie, Wei-Ying Ma. Mining interesting locations and travel sequences from GPS trajectories. In Proceedings of International conference on World Wild Web (WWW 2009), Madrid Spain. ACM Press: 791-800.
Location-Activity Recommendations
Abstract: In this paper, by using the location data based on GPS and users' comments at various locations, we can discover interesting locations and possible activities that can be performed there for recommendations. Our research is highlighted in the following location-related queries in our daily life: 1) if we want to do something such as sightseeing or food-hunting in a large city such as Beijing, where should we go? 2) If we have already visited some places such as the Bird's Nest building in Beijing's Olympic park, what else can we do there? By using our system, for the first question, we can recommend her to visit a list of interesting locations such as Tiananmen Square, Bird's Nest, etc. For the second question, if the user visits Bird's Nest, we can recommend her to not only do sightseeing but also to experience its outdoor exercise facilities or try some nice food nearby. To achieve this goal, we first model …(refer to the following publication for details).
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Qiang Yang. Collaborative Location and Activity Recommendations With GPS History Data. In proceeding of International conference on World Wild Web (WWW 2010), ACM Press: 1029-1038. (Data)
- Vincent Wenchen Zheng*, Bin Cao, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Qiang Yang. Collaborative Filtering Meets Mobile Recommendation: A User-centered Approach, In proceedings of AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010). ACM, 236-241. (Data) (Code)
Constructing Popular Routes from User Check-in Data
Abstract: We present a Route Inference framework based on Collective Knowledge (RICK) to construct the popular routes from uncertain trajectories, e.g., a user's check-in sequence in FourSquare, geo-tagged photos in Flickr, or the migratory trails of a bird. Explicitly, given a location sequence and a time span, the RICK is able to construct the top-k routes which sequentially pass through the locations within the specified time span, by aggregating such uncertain trajectories in a mutual reinforcement way (i.e., uncertain + uncertain → certain). Our work can benefit trip planning, traffic management, and animal movement studies.
- Ling-Yin Wei, Yu Zheng, Wen-Chih Peng, Constructing Popular Routes from Uncertain Trajectories. 18th SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012).
- Hechen Liu, Ling-Yin We, Yu Zheng, Markus Schneider, Wen-Chih Peng. Route Discovery from Mining Uncertain Trajectories. Demo Paper, in IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2011).
Location-based and preference-aware recommendations using sparse check-in data
Abstract: In this paper, we present a location-based and preference-aware recommender system that offers a particular user a set of venues (such as restaurants and shopping malls) within a geospatial range with the consideration of both: 1) User personal preferences, which are automatically learned from her location
history and 2) Social opinions, which are mined from the location histories of the local experts. This recommender system can facilitate people's travel not only near their living areas but also to a city that is new to them.
- Publication:
Jie Bao, Yu Zheng, Mohamed F. Mokbel. Location-based and Preference-Aware Recommendation Using Sparse Geo-Social Networking Data. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012.
Useful Information
- 3-hour tutorial, "Location-based social networks", at WWW2012. (Sldies) New!
- 1-hour tutorial, "Location-Based Social Networks". ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS'11 (Slides)
Dataset Downloads
- GeoLife GPS Trajectories (a 4-year trajectories generated by 178 users)
- T-Drive Taxi Trajectories (a 1-week GPS trajectories generated by 10,000+ taxis)
Related Books
- Computing with Spatial Trajectories (chapter 8 and 9)
Related Conferences and Workshops
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN)
- The 4th International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012) will be held in conjunction with UbiComp 2012 at (CMU) Pittsburgh, USA.
Representative Projects
- Yu Zheng, Trajectory Data Mining: An Overview, in ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, September 2015.
- Jie Bao, Yu Zheng, and Mohamed F. Mokbel, Location-based and Preference-Aware Recommendation Using Sparse Geo-Social Networking Data, in ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012, ACM, November 2012.
- Ling-Yin Wei, Yu Zheng, and Wen-Chih Peng, Constructing Popular Routes from Uncertain Trajectories, in KDD 2012, ACM, 12 August 2012.
- Jing Yuan, Yu Zheng, and Xing Xie, Discovering Regions of Different Functions in a City Using Human Mobility and POIs, in KDD 2012, ACM, 12 August 2012.
- Yu Zheng, Tutorial on Location-Based Social Networks, in WWW 2012, ACM, May 2012.
- Vincent W. Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, and Qiang Yang, Towards Mobile Intelligence: Learning from GPS History Data for Collaborative Recommendation, in Artificial Intelligence Journal, Elsevier, April 2012.
- Yu Zheng and Xiaofang Zhou, Computing with Spatial Trajectories, Springer, 1 November 2011.
- Hyoseok Yoon, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, and Woontack Woo, Social Itinerary Recommendation from User-generated Digital Trails, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer Verlag, 10 May 2011.
- Yu Zheng, Lizhu Zhang, Zhengxin Ma, Xing Xie, and Wei-Ying Ma, Recommending friends and locations based on individual location history, in ACM Transaction on the Web, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., February 2011.
- Yu Zheng and Xing Xie, Learning travel recommendations from user-generated GPS traces, in ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., January 2011.
- Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Bin Cao, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, and Qiang Yang, Collaborative Filtering Meets Mobile Recommendation: A User-centered Approach, in AAAI 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 11 July 2010.
- Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, and Wei-Ying Ma, GeoLife: A Collaborative Social Networking Service among User, location and trajectory, in IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin, IEEE, June 2010.


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Abstract: Rational expectations models make stringent assumptions on the agent's knowledge about the true model. This paper introduces a model in which the rational agent realizes that using a given model involves approximation errors, and adjusts behavior accordingly. If the researcher accounts for this empirical rationality on part of the agent, the resulting empirical model assigns likelihood to the data actually observed, unlike in the unmodified rational expectations case. A Lucas (1978)-type asset pricing model which incorporates empirical rationality is constructed and estimated using U.S. stock data. The equilibrium asset pricing function is seriously affected by the existence of approximation errors and the descriptive properties and normative implications of the model are significantly improved. This suggests that investors do not | and should not | ignore approximation errors. Keywords: Approximation errors, model uncertainty, estimation of structural models, rational expectations, asset pricing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7139
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text: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Share: December 9, 2007 Energy Many people make the mistake of thinking that hydroelectric power is an environmentally benign source of energy. It is renewable (unlike oil), doesn't generate noxious waste (unlike nuclear power), and wouldn't seem to produce harmful greenhouse gases (unlike coal). As a result, hydropower is often featured in packages of "green" energy offered to concerned consumers, and conferences like the one recently organized by Congressman Hall (Poughkeepsie Journal, 18 November) frequently tout the potential of hydropower as a clean energy source for the future.But hydropower, like most energy production, causes serious environmental problems. A river that has been cut to pieces by hydropower dams acts no more like a wild river than a bucket of The Colonel's Extra Crispy acts like a living chicken. Hydroelectric dams prevent fish and other species from moving freely along rivers, and isolate populations of river-dwelling animals into small segments between dams. The magnificent salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest have been decimated by hydropower dams, and attempts to restore these runs have been politically acrimonious, expensive, and so far unsuccessful. Similar problems, although less widely publicized, have occurred wherever dams have been built, damaging or destroying populations of sturgeons, shads, and other valuable migratory fish. Once dams are in place, attempts to undo the damage they cause by installing fish ladders, altering dam operations, or even removing the dams altogether have been complicated and expensive, have caused their own environmental problems, and ultimately often have been unsuccessful.Hydroelectric dams also change habitat conditions for long reaches up- and downstream of the dams. The sediments that formerly nourished floodplains and deltas below the dam are trapped in the reservoir, leading to channel and coastal erosion for many miles downstream. The unnatural flows created by hydropower plants stress or even eliminate the animals that were adapted to the natural rhythms of river flows. And of course, the pond-like habitat provided by reservoirs is unsuited to most river-dwelling species, and has aided in the spread of undesirable invasive species. As a result of these ecological changes, dams have led to the extinction of more species in the continental United States than any other single cause.A further problem with hydropower is that it may actually produce more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels to produce an equal amount of electricity. This surprising result occurs because the ooze that accumulates at the bottom of the reservoir above a hydroelectric dam provides ideal conditions for bacteria to make methane, a greenhouse gas that is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. It has been estimated that the methane produced by some tropical hydropower reservoirs produces 3-4 times as much greenhouse warming as would have been produced simply by burning fossil fuels to produce electricity! So in addition to destroying habitat, hydropower produces greenhouse gases.Of course, other methods of energy production cause serious environmental problems too, and hydropower certainly will be part of our energy mix in the future. However, when we evaluate the potential of various energy sources to contribute to this mix, we should take a hard look at their environmental costs, and not overlook the real costs of supposedly green technologies. When we consider the full environmental costs of any method of energy production, whether for hydropower, nuclear power, ethanol production, or coal-burning, I suspect that we will see that energy conservation is by far our greatest bargain. Share: Dr. David L. Strayer Freshwater Ecologist Dave Strayer is a freshwater ecologist whose work focuses on measuring the long-term effects of zebra mussels on the Hudson River ecosystem, and understanding the roles of suspension-feeding animals in ecosystems. Strayer also works on broader issues in freshwater conservation ecology and invasion biology.


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An Investors' Rights Agreement is a complex legal document outlining the rights and responsibilities of investors when purchasing a company's stock or other kind of securities. Investors' Rights Agreements can cover several different rights awarded to the investors, depending on the agreement between the two parties. Almost always although the agreement will cover three basic investors' rights: Registration rights, Information Rights, and Rights of First Rejection.
Registration Rights are contractual rights of holders of securities to have the transfer of those securities registered with the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933. In other words, Registration Rights entitle investors to force a professional to register shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A venture capitalist shareholder especially wants the ability to register his shares because registration provides it with the ability to freely sell the shares without complying with the restrictions of Rule 144.
In any solid Investors' Rights Agreement, the investors will also secure a promise from the company that they can maintain "true books and records of account" within a system of accounting in line with accepted accounting systems. The also must covenant anytime the end of each fiscal year it will furnish every single stockholder an account balance sheet of this company, revealing the financials of an additional such as gross revenue, losses, profit, and monetary. The company will also provide, in advance, an annual budget for everybody year including a financial report after each fiscal quarter.
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The Hydra is a serpent-like beast with nine heads. The Hydra's nine heads are used to symbolise the number nine in the runic alphabet.[2]
Behind the scenes
- In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Severus Snape describes the Dark Arts as though they were a creature similar to the classical depiction of a hydra: one that regrows two heads for every one that is cut off.
- It's unknown whether or not hydras actually exist in the Harry Potter series, as they are not mentioned in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It is possible that they are mythical; however, as Cockatrices are also omitted, it is certainly possible that hydras do exist.
Notes and references
- ↑ As they aren't mentioned in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real), it is likely they are quite rare or are extinct. Alternatively, the Hydra may be a mythical creature.
- ↑ J. K. Rowling's official site
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This year, I've gradually realized that I no longer identify as a perl
programmer. For a decade and a half, perl was the language I reached
for to solve any problem that didn't have a good reason to be solved in
some other language. Now I only reach for it in the occasional one-liner --
and even then I'm more likely to find myself in
ghci and end up with a
small haskell program.
I still maintain plenty of perl code, but even when I do, I'm not thinking in perl, but traslating from some internal lambda calculus. There's quite a few new-ish perl features that I have not bothered to learn, and I can feel some of the trivia that perl encourages be kept in mind slipping gradually away. Although the evil gotchas remain fresh in my mind!
More importantly, my brain's own evaluation of code has changed; it doesn't evaluate it imperatively (unless forced to by an appropriate monad), but sees the gesalt, sees the data flow, and operates lazily and sometimes, I think in parallel. The closest I can come to explaining the feeling is how you might feel when thinking about a shell pipeline, rather than a for loop.
Revisiting some of my older haskell code, I could see the perl thinking that led to it. And rewriting it into pure, type-driven, code that took advantage of laziness for automatic memoization, I saw, conclusively that the way I think about code has changed. (See the difference for yourself: before after )
I hear of many people who enjoy learning lots of programming languages, one after the other. A new one every month, or year. I suspect this is a fairly shallow learning. I like to dive deep. It took me probably 6 years to fully explore every depth of perl. And I never saw a reason to do the same with python or ruby or their ilk; they're too similar to perl for it to seem worth the bother. Though they have less arcania in their learning curves and are probably better, there's not enough value to redo that process. I'm glad haskell came along as a language that is significantly different enough that it was worth learning. The deep dive for haskell goes deep indeed. I'm already 5 years in, and have more to learn now than I ever did before.
I'm glad I didn't get stuck on perl. But I may be stuck on haskell now instead, for the foreseeable future. I'd sort of like to get really fluent in javascript, but only as a means to an end -- and haskell to javascript compilers are getting sufficiently good that I may avoid it. Other than that, I sense adga and coq beckoning with their promises of proof. Perhaps one of these years.
Of course if Bradley Kuhn is right and perl is the new cobol, I know what I'll be doing come the unix rollover in 2038. ;)


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We took a truck load of eHarmony men to the nearest sports bar, drank Shiner Bock beer and ate chicken wings for two hours, and then talked about what makes a woman sexy. Here's the list from our band of regular guys.
Some men were comfortable with sex only after marriage. Some men were comfortable with it much earlier in the relationship. But all the men wanted a woman who is comfortable talking maturely about sex when the time is right.
She Likes and Understands Men
You might say, "Don't all women who are dating like men?" Not according to this group. Women who know how men function and love them for it are very sexy. There's something about giving a man the rope he needs to pursue his passions that makes a woman irresistible.
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It is hard to overestimate the impact of a physical connection to most men. A woman who understands this and gives affection freely is very sexy.
She's Playful
Women who take themselves too seriously are seriously not sexy. There's something about a woman who is comfortable enough to be playful, flirty, and not worry that she is risking her reputation. Please don't confuse playful with silly. Silly women who are clowning for attention are vexing. In fact, one man suggested that playfulness is a great sign of maturity – a woman who loves life and isn't ashamed to show it.
She's Beautiful
We had a solid discussion about what this means, and the standards were all over the map. Most every man agreed that a beautiful woman a) dresses in a way that flatters her figure b) puts effort into grooming and c) cares how men perceive her, even if the end result is very laid back and simple. There were few absolutes, except to say that a woman who thinks that going to the effort to look nice is somehow beneath her probably won't be sexy to our test group.
She Knows How to Say "Thank You"
Whatever your personal policies, early dating for most men is a time when they are spending money and making plans to arrange a nice evening. Our men greatly valued a woman who was able to say, "That dinner was fantastic," and appreciated the work that went into planning the evening. A woman who has a spirit of gratitude signals to a man, "You can make me happy," which is a primal component to attraction.
She's Willing to Bend the Rules
A woman who has rules, respects the rules and can still say, "This weekend the rules don't matter," is very sexy, and rarer than you might think according to our band of brothers. It's this "partner in crime" mentality that men seem to find irresistible.
She's Willing to Set Aside Her Fear
It isn't being fearless that is sexy. It's having the fear, feeling the fear, and saying, "I'm going to set this aside and go forward anyway." That woman is sexy. She is truly living life. She is going to suffer some failures along the way, but men will be chasing her and asking for her number the whole way.
She's a Great Kisser
Every guy considers himself putty in the hands of a woman who knows how to give a great kiss. It can take a woman's sex appeal from 0 to 10 in 30 seconds. Not sure how you rank? Take the eHarmony Kissing Quiz.
She Likes to Laugh (at His Jokes)
Humor often comes up as a valuable trait, but it can be misleading. Men aren't interested in women who crack jokes every other sentence. In fact, when he says he wants a woman with a great sense of humor he's usually saying "I want a woman who thinks I'm funny." Not surprisingly, when she does think he's funny and laughs out loud he finds that very sexy.
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Did The Democrats Ever Really Have 60 Votes In The Senate, And For How Long?
Once again in the wake of the President's immigration policy announcement on Friday, one refrain you're hearing from critics is that the President never pursed comprehensive immigration reform when had a Democratic Congress. Of course, as we all know too well, having majority control of both house of Congress doesn't necessarily mean much if the opposition in the Senate decides to filibuster your legislation, and without a consistent caucus of 60 votes to overcome a cloture vote, legislation can be effectively blocked.
That leads to the question of how long the Democrats actually had a filibuster proof majority in the 111th Congress. As this chart from Wikipedia reveals, it wasn't for a very long period of time at all:
What this shows is is that there were only two time periods during the 111th Congress when the Democrats had a 60 seat majority:
- From July 7. 2009 (when Al Franken was officially seated as the Senator from Minnesota after the last of Norm Coleman's challenges came to an end) to August 25, 2009 (when Ted Kennedy died, although Kennedy's illness had kept him from voting for several weeks before that date at least); and
- From September 25, 2009 (when Paul Kirk was appointed to replace Kennedy) to February 4, 2010 (when Scott Brown took office after defeating Martha Coakley);
- For one day in September 2009, Republicans lacked 40 votes due to the resignation of Mel Martinez, who was replaced the next day by George LeMieux
So, to the extent there was a filibuster proof majority in the Senate it lasted during two brief periods which lasted for a total of just over five months when counted altogether (and Congress was in its traditional summer recess for most of the July-August 2009 time frame).
It's important to keep this fact in mind when discussing what could have happened in the 111th Congress, I think, and it's probably something I haven't kept in mind myself in the past.


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Participants will be competing in four categories: red, green, vegetarian and professional chef. Howie from the Bj, Howie and Jamie Show on Alice 105.9 has entered the latter category, along with representatives from the Brown Palace Hotel, Vesta Dipping Grill and Overland Golf Course. A $200 grand prize will be awarded.
The entry fee for cook-off participants is $30. Tasters, also serving as judges, will receive a tasting kit and can register online until Friday for $10, or pay $15 at the door.
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Nestled in between lakes Kerr and George in Marion County near Ocala is a somewhat unusual attraction called Salt Springs. The name says it all: in this picturesque pool of roughly 190 by 130 feet, four vents in the limestone floor emit spring crystal clear water with a slight salinity owing to the presence of sodium, magnesium, and potassium salts in the underground passages below.
The saltiness of the water has not deterred many visitors, as Salt Springs has long been one of the foremost attractions of the Ocala National Forest. The water discharged from the springs travels about four miles down a broad run into the northwest corner of Lake George, providing excellent opportunities for boating and fishing, which locals and visitors alike have long enjoyed.
Unlike most Florida springs, however, Salt Springs is home to another fun activity – crabbing. The salinity of the water allows blue crab to live in this aquatic habitat, despite it being over an hour's drive from either coast. As a consequence, many people have enjoyed visiting the springs as much for gathering this favorite Florida delicacy as for the swimming. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, famed Florida author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling, was a frequent visitor to the springs to collect the main ingredient for Crab a la Newburg, one of her favorite recipes.
The connection between Rawlings and Salt Springs goes even farther, as several buildings near Salt Springs were used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios during the filming of The Yearling.
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Putin's invasion in Crimea and his apparent willingness to redraw international borders to have set Eastern Europe and the Baltic States on edge.
Russian forces poured into the strategic Black Sea region under the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians from "lawlessness," setting a dangerous precedent for the Kremlin's intervention in the region.
Nadia Diuk, the vice president at the National Endowment for Democracy, explained on PBS Newshour why Poland is particularly concerned right now:
"There's a place called Kaliningrad, which is kind of in between Lithuania and — and Poland right now, and that is actually part of Russia that could be a staging ground for all sorts of incursions. So — and as well, Poland, I think, traditionally has suffered a lot from Russian overreach, so not surprising that they would be worried right now."
Kaliningrad was originally a part of Germany until its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1945. During the Cold War, Kaliningrad was one of the most militarized and closed off sections of the USSR.
Today, Kaliningrad is of extreme strategic value as it hosts the Russian Baltic Fleet in the port of Baltiysk — Russia's sole ice-free European port. Kaliningrad is also home to the Chernyakhovsk and Donskoye air bases. It is uncertain how many soldiers Russia has in the region; however, short-range mobile ballistic missiles have also been deployed in Kaliningrad since at least 2012.
Poland has been on edge ever since Russian accusations that it had set-up and encouraged militant training camps for Euromaidan protestors. According to these allegations, snipers during the protests were acting under Polish and American orders.
A alleged Russian saboteur has already been detained in eastern Ukraine. He is being charged with planting explosives and preparing other acts of diversion in an attempt to justify Russian action in the region.
Last week, fearing a possible spread of the Ukrainian conflict, Poland invoked a NATO rule allowing for military consultations between allies if it felt under threat.
The United States has since increased military exercises with Poland. It has also supplied additional aircraft to the Baltic States to augment a NATO patrol force there.
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Rails for .NET Developers introduces the joy of Ruby on Rails development to Microsoft .NET developers. This book demonstrates the essential elements of both the Ruby language and the Rails application framework, geared especially for developers already fluent in the Microsoft .NET platform.
Rails for .NET Developers
by Jeff Cohen and Brian Eng
About this Title
Pages: 300
Published: 2008-11-01
Release: P1.0 (2008-10-14)
Learning a new language and a new framework can be daunting. What you need is a guide to help leverage your existing knowledge and skills, and show you just what you need to know to get up and running with a new system quickly.
You're already a .NET developer; we'll help you get up and running as a Ruby on Rails developer on any operating system: Windows, Mac, or Linux. We start with a gentle introduction to the object-oriented Ruby language with examples and direct comparisons to C#, so you'll quickly feel at home writing Ruby code for the first time.
We then get to the heart of Rails development by showing how to tackle everyday tasks in Rails compared with typical ASP.NET implementations, with a tutorial focus. You'll build a sample airline reservation system using Rails, learning essential techniques along the way. You'll come to learn the joy and power inherent in the "convention over configuration" philosophy, the natural elegance of the MVC architecture, and the essence of REST-based design as you develop applications that accommodate web browsers, handheld devices, and even XML web service clients with unparalleled ease.
Along the way, you'll see good agile development practices, explore test-driven development with Rails. You'll be prepared for real-world application deployment, and we'll give you a taste of how Ruby and Rails are reshaping the Microsoft application landscape, including a look at IronRuby.
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- Hello, Rails
- Getting Started with Rails
- Instant Gratification, Your First Rails App
- Switching to Ruby
- Ruby Skills for the Rails Developer
- Rails In Action
- A Bird's Eye View of Rails
- Rails Conventions
- CRUD with ActiveRecord
- Displaying a Grid of Data in a Table
- Directing Traffic With ActionController
- Exploring Forms, Layouts, and Partials
- Using Layouts Instead of Master Pages
- Creating Rich User Experiences with Ajax
- Advanced Topics
- Test-Driven Development on Rails
- Integrating with .NET
- Finishing Touches
- Inspired By Rails
Jeff Cohen has worked with object-oriented programming languages and Microsoft application frameworks for more than 15 years. A former MCSD, he is now a Ruby on Rails core contributor. He is the founder of Purple Workshops and conducts training classes for agile software teams. Jeff is also a senior software engineer at Leapfrog Online.
Brian Eng is the founder of Bluebuzzard, a provider of web-based sales solutions for the hospitality industry, and a freelance Ruby on Rails developer and consultant. He has 12 years of software development experience, the last 3 with Rails, and is an MCSD for Microsoft .NET.
Jeff and Brian write about their transition from .NET technologies to Rails on their blog, Softies on Rails (http://softiesonrails.com).


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Henley Royal Regatta is undoubtedly the best known regatta in the world and is both one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar and the social season.
It attracts thousands of visitors over a 5 day period and spectators will be thrilled by over 200 races of an international standard, including Olympians and crews new to the event.
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My favorite bra is black. It's not my favorite because it's black or because it has lace or anything like that, it is because I like the way it makes my breasts feel and look in my sweaters. I couldn't find that bra in another color, so my favorite bra is black. I got my first bra when I was 12 years old, long before I needed one, and ever since I thought bras were so pretty. I loved shopping for lingerie and especially looking at the varieties of colors and styles of bras. Buying intimate apparel used to be a real favorite excursion. Now shopping for lingerie and especially bras is something I avoid. I didn't realize that until I thought about the fact that my favorite bra is black and that I should look for another one. Then it occurred to me that I wasn't too excited about the prospect of shopping for a new bra.
Your relationship with your breasts really does change after breast cancer. After the first mastectomy I found it hard to be happy about the breast that I still had. I missed having a matched set. Having just the one breast was no consolation. After a second mastectomy and reconstruction of both breasts I now have a matched set, but still the joy of shopping for bras has not returned. Not that I don't love looking through lingerie and admiring the pretty styles and shades, but I have the feeling that I am shopping for someone else. Other women have breasts and I have breasts, but I know that mine are different. I think I am growing to like them though. Maybe I'm even ready for a relationship with them again.
The first step is buying a new bra. I want a new bra and I think I would like it to be pink. That shouldn't be too hard to find since it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and almost everything thing in stores is pink this month. So I am going shopping for a new pink bra and I am not shopping for someone else, I am shopping for myself.


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Business Entrepreneur Spotlight: Jae Gardner
Opening the doors of opportunity for New York City youth to higher education.
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Company: The Ivy Key (Tutor and Test Preparations)
Years: 2009-present
Revenue: $300,000
Raised in a household where banking almost seems to be a birthright, Jae Gardner believed he would be counting numbers for the rest of his life. "My father and brother are bankers. That was going to be my objective at some capacity,†said Gardner. Gardner—who is a dual degree Harvard graduate—interned in the finance field and later concluded it wasn't for him. "I was only happy every other Friday when the check came,†continues Gardner.
Ready to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit within, Gardner decided to establish his own business. "I became an entrepreneur because of Bill Gates and others like him. I saw my peer, Mark Zuckerberg, getting funding and germinating from literally nothing to success almost overnight,†chuckles Gardner. By the age of 24, he'd already launched three unsuccessful businesses. Realizing that he'd just about tried his hands in every field except that which he knew best, Gardner returned to his roots of teaching and launched The Ivy Key—a tutoring, mentoring, and admission consulting company servicing New York City's youth.
Through Gardner's previous fashion line, online therapy program, and mobile advertising companies, he learned a lot about global business, placing one's name on a product and firmly standing by that product. The Ivy Key was, however, the first product Gardner felt convicted to put his approval stamp on. "I never dealt to a business where I could do it with my eyes closed. I could draw out great ideas but the lead time was always miscalculated,†explains Gardner.
With a decade's worth of tutoring he and co-owner Chris Corwell provided to high school students and fellow classmates, Gardner took their combined earnings of $25,000 and opened his first lucrative company. The Ivy Key was launched in 2009 and now revenues $300,000 plus annually. Nearing its fourth year, the company employs 20 tutors and services approximately 500 students per week. "Tutoring is a great market in New York. Public officials have been failing us all these years,†said Gardner. The company has already published three test preparation books and is now shopping them around to different publishers to ultimately get them placed on Barnes and Nobles shelves.
Good news parents. The Ivy Key recently launched free educational videos on YouTube in November 2011. "I understand you cant save everybody, but there is an overwhelming amount of students who want to succeed and just don't have the resources,†explains Gardner. The company's YouTube channel, TheIvyKey—which uploads new videos daily—already has over 40 videos which cover the SAT, GMAT, and SHAT. Gardner is looking to upload 200-300 videos per year that will focus only on standardized test questions, awareness, and anxiety.
When asked which leaders he pulls inspiration from Gardner mentioned two business magnates. "Sir Richard Branson [owner of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies] because he bets big, plays big and follows his heart even if he fails. He's a risk taker,†explained Gardner. "R. H. Macy is by far the epitome of entrepreneurial spirit. He started Macy's in a small town in New York. He stuck with one idea, failed four times and still had the desire to make it. And he did,†Gardner continues.
Through The Ivy Key program, Jae Gardner is able to give back to his community. "Education is a right not a privilege,†he concluded. He looks forward to implementing additional college preparation tutorial programs to what The Ivy Key currently offers.
To find out more about The Ivy Key Program check out their website at www.theivykey.com
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When I noticed our sister store, Danish Design store, was having a sale (buy five and get a sixth for free) on Hans Wegner's Wishbone Chairs, my mind started to spin, as I have been coveting them for years. I don't know if I'd ever be able to pick a style or color as they are so much fun in the bright colors yet so mid-century modern cool in the original finishes, but I dream of having these in my dining room.
Hans J. Wegner was born in 1914 in Denmark. As he matured, it turned out he was the right person in the right place at the right time. He cut his teeth in design and furniture making as a teenager, apprenticing for a master cabinetmaker. He then went on to study furniture making as well as architecture in Copenhagen, where he was inspired by the Carpenters' Guild Furniture Exhibits.
Wegner continued his education by working under Arne Jacobsen. who is probably best known for designing the Swan Chair and the Egg Chair, which both remain modern icons (personally, my favorite is a vintage Grand Prix chair, but that's a story for another day):
After developing his style of organic and functional designs, Wegner designed the Wishbone Chair in 1949, during the height of mid-century modern design. The chair has had a major influence on design ever since and is a Danish Modern icon. It works in so many rooms, from a Japanese tea house vibe to very contemporary spaces.
Feast your eyes on the Wishbone in a variety of colors and room styles:
image from Kristen Rivoli Interior Design
Tempted yet? If you are, add 6 to your shopping cart over at Danish Design Store and enter 6FOR5 at checkout.
Most images via The Wishbone Chair Blog; a few at the bottom I ripped from Pinterest and have no idea where they originally came from, which I hate to do, but I had to share them. Please let me know if you know the sources.
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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