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GeotaggingAugust 31, 2006
Flickr added the ability to geotag your photos the other day. Being a big time map geek, I'm all over this one.
Two nights and 900 photos later, all but a few are now mapped. (As with all things Flickr, they made it easy enough to become a compulsion.) I have a few notes and a couple of suggestions.
First off, though this was perhaps an obvious move to many, I'm still thrilled that it's here. Flickr's implementation is nice and intuitive, and works mostly the way I'd have hoped. Mapped out photo locations is nice extra bit of metadata that will no doubt change how I view my photo archives.
Integrating Yahoo Maps was an obvious move, given the corporate overlord just happened to have a ready-to-go mapping tool on hand. But less-obviously, it's a move that will get Flickr's users more familiar with Yahoo's map offering, which is a nice win for the company. The problem is, compared to Google Maps, I just don't feel the love yet. Google is faster and feels more responsive, its keyboard shortcuts work better, and its data feels more complete. The data issue is a relative one, as Yahoo is more broadly comprehensive with at least major highways showing up for most countries, but it falls down on the fine details. (No street maps of London, for heaven's sake.) Over time this is sure to change, but in stark contrast with Google Maps, Yahoo maps is a tad frustrating. (To be fair, they acknowlege it themselves.)
Then there's the privacy issue. Sure, before allowing you to geotag your own photos, Flickr gives you a nice little warning that you're about to do something that could have repercussions. But that only helps you avoid do something silly like give away your street address by posting a cluster of photos from inside your apartment. What about other people using your name as a tag on geotagged photos? There are some huge implications here that are going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. The immediate saving grace is that this is in no way realtime, but we're bound to see some interesting discussion about this as people catch on.
The only thing that's really bugging me though, is the way photos have been paged. A widget lives up in the top left corner that allows you to navigate through various "pages" of location-mapped photos. There are a few things going on here that might be a little subtle, and I'm going to make a few assumptions, so bear with me.
Let's take it for granted that there are simply too many results to show on the map at any given time. This may be more true for some places than others, but in general, with 2+ million geotagged photos so far, we'll assume it's an issue. Representing that many photos on a map of the earth just isn't going to work, you have to break it down into chunks.
A Flickr photostream runs in reverse chronological order, with newest photos at the top. A Flickr map's pages work in a similar order, but the experience is not the same.
The solution they've hit on is to break down the photos chronologically into separate "pages", almost exactly the same way your average photostream is broken down. But the disconnect comes with the fact that dots on a map don't indicate chronology the same way photos in a linear stream do. It took me a lot of second-guessing to figure out quite what was going on here, and even now that I know, I still feel a sense of disorientation when I know there are many more photos in a location than are currently being shown. The load time in between when I click on the pager control and when the map actually updates isn't helping matters either.
Recognizing the need to break photos down into more digestible chunks, I can see two possible ways of coming at this problem. The first is the way they've already done it. The second takes into account other inherent metadata that's not immediately obvious, the cluster phenomenon. Popular places will contain clusters of photos, whereas more pedestrian places will have only a scattering of individual pictures here and there.
Instead of filtering by time the photos were taken, I suspect a more useful filter would be a popularity threshold where the default behaviour is to only show locations with large amounts of photos (large relative to the total number of photos within that area), but allow the user to manually change that filter. At a glance, I'd be able to tell which spots are hottest, and if I wish I can filter out those and look for the less-travelled paths. And the data that would drive this already exists, given that these number show up on the map as-is, they're just not the main driving force behind the existing filtration method.
Here's a pair of sequences, this first one showing a few pages of the chronological breakdown as it exists at the moment.
This other one is a mockup for how a cluster breakdown might look. The latter is just my own thinking, but I sure hope to see something similar in the future.
Amen; I was thinking the same thing in regards to the paged feature, and you solution actually makes a lot of sense to me.
As for the map coverage, Google Maps even has streets (in miniscule detail) for Copenhagen, Yahoo doesn't :(
Even for Vancouver Google has much better detail on the satellite imagery than Yahoo does (or at least this is true when I dragged my images on to the Vancouver map)
I'm beginning to love geotagging a little too much. I've started geotagging my blog posts :)
Does Flickr use a microformat for the geotagging?
Roger, yes they do. If you have a gander at the source of a photograph which has been added to the map, you can see class="geo".
The mapping for the UK and Ireland is really pants. Not even a little placename let alone being able to identify a road.
So it will have a negative effect on promoting Yahoo Maps to the audience this side of the Atlantic, as Michael's comment about Copenhagen signifies also.
I agree with Kerry. Sadly the poor quality and very limited detail of the Yahoo maps makes the Geotagging almost useless for use here in the UK.
I wanted to geotag some photos that were taken in Wardour Street London (a well known street in a major city) and was amazed that Yahoo maps had no street names at all for London and if I zoomed in to the level I could with Google maps I just got a grey screen.
Yahoo maps suck!
Add me to the list of under-whelmed UK users. It's rendered near-useless by a terrible lack of road detail, even in the cities. What's more, the quality of aerial photography is so far below that of Google that you can't identify things by hand; even when searching by postal code, I can't be sure that the map is focused in the right place. Then to top it off, the drag and and drop performance on my iBook G4 was too painful to consider tagging lots of photos in one sitting.
A Flickr+Google Maps mash-up beckons I think. Maybe the mini-MashCamp at this weekend's BarCampLondon could yield something, if someone with the skills and inclination is present.
oddly enough the town I live in, Huntington WV, has far better support from a satellite perspective on Yahoo Maps that Google (but in general I prefer Google's Maps).
I really like your idea on the clusters and the filtering. I think that would make a lot more sense.
Hmmm… No photos in South America, huh?
@ Ben Ward re: A Flickr+Google Maps mash-up beckons I think. - http://loc.alize.us
http://flagr.com uses Google maps to flag places with the option of adding photos.
There is no batch edit for locations using lattitude & longitude sets :-( That really is a bummer for someone from India. I travel around a bit with my GPS unit and always store locations where my photos are taken. The cool thing is that individual photos can be added the coordinates and they do pop up in the map automatically (no need to drag photos to the map), but no batch edit.
(I also use Flickr Uploaded. Even if there is an update to that utility with the batch adding of geotagging it will be great)
There's plenty of software that will geotag photos from GPS tracks and store the information into the Exif. You can do this on a PC before up-loading to Flikr. I've just learnt how to do this
Of course, this doesn't deal with photos for which there I have no GPS track.
Oops! Spoke too soon. My apologies ;-) All I had to do was to edit 1 photo to include the coordinates and drag the rest of them to the same location point on the map. Worked like charm.
Really should have tried it before posting the comment.
Yahoo's sat photos are a bit on the aged side - my house, which was built 6 years ago, doesn't even exist on there. The photo was taken at least 7 years ago, probably closer to 10 years ago. Whereas the Google sat photo of my area is about 2 and a half years old.
I've been having fun with geotagging my Flickr photos when I get to them. It's a pretty cool feature.
Like Bill, I find that Yahoo actually has vastly superior satellite photos of my town. (Olympia, WA in this case)
And, OMG so addictive. :)
You're right – the paginating of the photos on the map is very irritating. I think they should display spots for all of one's photos on one's own map at the same time. I know they did this to perhaps avoid having to launch all those thumbnail images into the mappage at once, but I think they could avoid that by loading the thumbnails for a particular pinpoint only when one clicks on the pinpoint…
I blogged a bit about this as well, and I also noted that it's irritating that they hide the long/lat geocodes within the page code (in microformat, as one previously mentioned).
Still, it's a very, very strong implementation otherwise, and well worth using IMHO.
I noticed the "taken in Vancouver, BC" on one of your recent flickr photos and quickly found the cool new flickr toy!
Now…all I need is a camera with a gps…so it will auto record where I took the photo. Yes…I know…gps doesn't work indoors…but hey…it could default to the most recent outdoor coordinate as a backup.
Mmmmmm….the intelligent environment vision…is coming true!
What is most surprising to me is that you:
1) Noted down where you took 900 photos or;
2) You could remember where you took 900 photos
A damn fine effort either way!
I am big into maps to I am glad that Flickr keeps adding things to it service I was worried with Yahoo buying them it was going to take away from new stuff coming out, but I still love Google maps and hope to see something similiar for it soon.
I also prefer google maps. but, is it right that in France also some companies will develop a similar tool? any information about this project? thanks and greetz
900 photos! You're like the WhereTheHellIsMatt.com guy, only you're Dave not Matt
Yes, a few guys are working on it, but i don´t know when it is published.
You should try Panoramio (http://www.panoramio.com/), they're geomapping photos for a year ago, or more. Also using google maps, etc.
Aps, it's a spanish iniciative.


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The UK's first commercial 4G network from EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) has gone live in 11 cities today, offering "superfast" mobile download speeds to consumers and businesses.
As a result some UK based owners of iPhone 5 will be able to sign up for LTE 4G speeds. In addition, when it ships, the fourth generation iPad will also be able to offer 4G on the EE network.
In its first phase, the 4G service is going live in Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield and Southampton. The service will be available in a further five cities before Christmas, with more cities and rural locations planned for 2013.
EE intends its 4G service to be available to 98% of the population by the end of 2014.
"Today is a landmark day for our company, the UK mobile industry and, most importantly, the country's businesses and consumers," said Olaf Swantee, CEO at EE.
EE claims that the benefits of 4G LTE include access to the web on the go in an instant, the ability to download large email attachments quicker than ever, watch live TV on the move without buffering and play live multiplayer games on the go.
However, these benefits come at a cost. The company's cheapest consumer package, which includes unlimited calls, texts and a 500MB data allowance, will cost £36, rising to £56 for EE's top-of-the-range 8GB package.
Small business packages range from £35 per month (excluding VAT) for 1GB to £50 for 16GB. Medium sized, public sector and corporate customers can sign up to 4G data plans from an additional £3 a month on top of their existing packages.
Commenting on the cost, Matthew Howett, regulation analyst at Ovum, said that EE has priced services at a premium but not at levels completely inaccessible to the mass market.
"It's fair to say that EE has attracted a fair degree of criticism not so much for the price of the 4G tariffs (they are only priced at a 10–20% premium on most 3G plans), but rather on the amount of data bundled at each level," he said.
"EE was always going to have a difficult role to play being the first mover. However, its peers may be grateful for attempting to move away from an all-you-can-eat world for data to an attempt to monetise it."
The launch was accompanied by some EE-sponsored research, which claims that 74 percent of UK businesses intend to adopt 4G within 12 months. It is believed that the superfast network could help British firms increase innovation, boost productivity and cut costs.
Similar business benefits have been realised by US, Swedish, Japanese and German 4G LTE-enabled organisations since the technology was first introduced, according to the EE and Arthur D. Little study.
Newcastle's business community is showing the strongest demand for 4G in the UK, outstripping London, the home of Tech City. When it comes to rollout within organisations, the study found CEOs and sales staff will be first in line to get the new technology.
"Businesses are using 4G LTE to bring a more fundamental level of mobility to their organisations. For example, 4G can be used to set up a fully-connected office almost anywhere, dramatically increasing agility and responsiveness," said the study's author, Joseph Place from Arthur D. Little.
"We also expect to see innovative 4G-specific products emerging, for instance in the mHealth arena. We're positive that UK businesses will begin to see such benefits as they roll out 4G during 2012 and beyond."
Commenting on the news, Gary Calcott, technical marketing manager at Progress Software said the greatest benefit will be for mobile applications on a 4G network where video streaming is required, as any 'data crunching' in a business sense will be performed on the back-end of the application, in the cloud.
"Applications which could benefit from rapid exchange of potentially large datasets, such as patient x-rays/MRT scans or complex construction plans, could also benefit considerably," he said.
"There may also be additional benefit for '4G enabled business apps' where the state of an interaction between the mobile app and the back-end can be quickly synchronised. Examples could include syncing a subset of a database or the state of a long-running business transaction."
EE also announced that its fibre broadband service is available to 11 million premises from today, offering maximum download speeds of up to 76Mbps. The company's fibre service, which piggybacks on BT infrastructure, will cover 50 percent of the population by the end of the year.

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In what strikes me as an upset, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the D.C. Circuit and ruled in favor of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan. The Court held that the federal courts have jurisdiction over Hamdan's claims, and that the military commission that is to try Hamdan fails to satisfy requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Convention, both of which the Court held to be applicable. You can access the opinions here.
The ruling was by a 5-3 majority; Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito were the dissenters. The Chief Justice did not participate since he was one of the judges who decided the case in the D.C. Circuit.
Scalia's dissent accuses the majority of ignoring the plain language of Congress's enactment providing that:
[N]o court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Scalia further argues that the majority substitutes its own judgment as to "military necessity" for that of the executive branch.
I've only had time to scan the opinions briefly and may have further comments later. For now, the one apparent implication of Hamdan is that hundreds of Guantanamo detainees will become participants in the American judicial system. If they thought Gitmo has been a strange and disorienting experience, they haven't seen anything yet.
UPDATE: Over at NRO, David Frum and the Heritage Foundation take a dim view of the Hamdan majority.


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Saturday, September 7, 2013
Season Predictions
With all of that said I do have a relatively positive feeling about the Cowboys heading into the season. I know there has been a lot of talk about the size of the new contract that Tony Romo received but I think his contract is just the going rate for a quality quarterback these days. And I really believe that by the end of the season everyone will understand why the Cowboys invested in Romo so heavily. I have already seen a lot of signs during the preseason of a quarterback who is really in command of his team both on the field and on the sidelines.
The offensive line is far from perfect but it has undergone some major upgrades this offseason. Travis Frederick will keep pressure from getting in Romo's face up the middle and Brian Waters is going to be a major upgrade at guard when he gets into game shape. I feel confident that the Cowboys will have a vastly improved running game and that will help balance out the offense when compared to the pass happy attack the Cowboys were forced to run last season.
Dez Bryant has slowly morphed into the beast of a player he looked like he could be when the Cowboys drafted him a few years ago. If he can stay healthy he will be nearly impossible to defend. And what makes that even better is if defenses decide to focus in on Dez then the rest of the passing game will open up for Jason Witten and Miles Austin. DeMarco Murray will also benefit if the defense is forced to focus too much on Dez.
On defense I think the Cowboys have found a scheme that will finally force some turnovers. The big problem right now is the health of the defensive line but hopefully they can get Spencer back soon and Ratliff later in the season. Either way it seems that the defense is much more focused on forcing turnovers which we all know are the biggest factors in the outcome of NFL games. Sean Lee should flourish in this defense. And Bruce Carter, Demarcus Ware, Brandon Carr, and Morris Claiborne should all be impact players.
I'm not convinced this is a Super Bowl team unless everything goes just right during the season. But I do expect the Cowboys to be a solid 10-6 team capable of making a decent playoff run. I think the Romo haters are in for a long season because Romo is going to play great all year long. They key to how deep into the playoffs this team can go will be the health of the roster. I think a lot of people are overlooking the Cowboys right now due to their recent struggles but I expect by midseason we will be hearing a lot of praise for the Dallas Cowboys.
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I am there now after watching that debacle last week.
Cowboys will be lucky to beat the Redskins Sunday, even if they do, no way they beat the Eagles at home to win the division. Typical Cowboys season. I am sure it will come down to the final week of the season only for Cowboys fans to sit and watch the Eagles blow em out to take the division....
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The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature fiction writer George Saunders on Monday, April 12, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Saunders will also be interviewed on WTHS, the college's student-run FM radio station, 89.9 FM, on Monday, April 12, at 10:30 a.m., and will participate in a question-and-answer session on Monday, April 12, at 3 p.m. in the DeWitt Center Herrick Room.
George Saunders is the author of three collections of short stories: the bestselling "Pastoralia"; "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; and "In Persuasion Nation," which was a finalist for the 2006 STORY Prize for best short story collection of the year. "Pastoralia" and "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" were both "New York Times Notable Books."
Saunders is also the author of the novella-length illustrated fable, "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil," and the "New York Times" bestselling children's book, "The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip." His most recent book is a collection of essays, "The Braindead Megaphone," which received critical acclaim and landed him spots on "The Charlie Rose Show," "Late Night with David Letterman" and "The Colbert Report." "Vanity Fair" wrote of the book, "Saunders's bitingly clever and compassionate essays are a Mark Twain-syle shot in the arm for Americans, an antidote to the dumbing down virus plaguing our country."
Saunders's work appears regularly in "The New Yorker," "GQ" and "Harpers Magazine," and has appeared in several notable anthologies. In 2006, he was awarded both a MacArthur Fellowship, for "bring[ing] to contemporary American fiction a sense of humor, pathos, and literary style all his own," and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
A 6:30 p.m. performance by the Hope College Jazz Ensemble will precede the reading at the Knickerbocker.
Additional information may be obtained online by visiting www.hope.edu/vws.
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Yesterday, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) at the U.S. Department of Education released a new report, Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales: 2005-2009. The report enables states to compare the rigor of their standards for proficiency in fourth and eighth grades in both math and reading to that of other states. To do so, it places each state's assessment cut-score for proficiency — the score which students much reach to be considered proficient — onto NAEP's scoring scale using statistical mapping techniques. This means it shows where on NAEP's scoring scale a student would fall if that student scored right at the state's cut-score for proficiency on the state assessment.
Example: If a fourth grader in Vermont scored at the proficient cut-score on the Vermont state assessment, that score would correspond to a score of 214 on NAEP, which falls within NAEP's Basic Achievement Level.
What did the report find?
- The differences where states set their proficiency standards vary greatly.
- The difference in scores between the states with the five highest and lowest standards is comparable to the difference in scores between NAEP's Basic and Proficient levels.
- The range of state standards is between 60 and 71 NAEP points, which equates to about six or seven years of learning. It is also more than twice the size of the Black/White achievement gap in 4th grade reading, which is 25 NAEP points.
- Most state's proficiency standards are at or below NAEP's definition of Basic performance.
- In grade 4 reading, 35 of 50 states set their standard for proficiency lower than NAEP's cut-score for its Basic level. For grade 8 reading, 16 out of the 50 states did so.
- In grade 4 math, seven of 50 states set their score for proficiency below the cut score for NAEP's Basic level, with 42 states setting their proficiency score within NAEP's Basic level. One state—Massachusetts—set its proficiency score within NAEP's Proficiency level. Similar results were found in at the 8th grade level.
- The rigor of state standards increased in states that substantively changed their assessments between 2007 and 2009.
- Across the 34 math and reading assessments that substantively changed between 2007 and 2009, in 21 cases the rigor of the standards increased.
- In just 5 cases did the rigor of the state standards decrease.
- Most state results show more positive changes in the proportion of students reaching proficiency than NAEP results.
- The change in the percent of students reaching proficiency between 2007 and 2009 was more positive in 17 of 22 state assessments than on NAEP.
Keep in mind when reading the report that NAEP does not necessarily define proficiency the same way states do. NAEP defines Proficiency as competency over challenging subject matter, not grade-level performance as states attempt to do. It is also worth mentioning that no country, not even the highest performing countries, would have 100 percent of their students reach NAEP's Proficiency level. and that some leading assessment experts have stated that proficiency for accountability purposes probably lies somewhere between NAEP's Basic and Proficient levels.
Even with that in mind, the results should be a warning flag to many states, especially those who set their proficiency standard below NAEP's Basic level. But this could be a moot point in the coming years, as most states have signed on to the Common Core of Standards, where the goal is college and career readiness, not proficiency as both state assessements and NAEP are currently setup to measure. In the meantime, states should still ensure they set their proficiency standards at a level where students demostrate they have the skills necessary to get into college or get a good job after high school. — Jim Hull
For more information on how NAEP's proficiency levels compare to states', check out the Center for Public Education's The proficiency debate: A guide to NAEP achievement levels.
The graph below from today's report shows where your state's cut-score for proficiency falls on the NAEP 8th grade math assessment score scale (Other grade and subjects can be found on pages 10, 11, and 12 of the report). Scores above 299 fall in or above NAEP's Proficient level, while scores above 262 but below 299 fall within NAEP's Basic level.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bomb attacks of the kind that tore through mass transit sites in Russia ahead of the upcoming Sochi Olympics are a top concern of security officials preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl, the head of the New Jersey State Police said on Wednesday.
While law enforcement officials said they were not aware of any specific threats targeting the February 2 National Football League championship in East Rutherford, New Jersey, attacks like those that killed 34 people in two days in Russia late last year are their biggest worry.
"Of particular concern to us is what was going on overseas in Volgograd in regard to the Sochi Olympics. As you know both of those bombings were targeting mass transit," Rick Fuentes, superintendent of the New Jersey State Police, told reporters. "That is a concern with the mass transit; we've prepared ourselves for it."
Officials have sharply limited parking at MetLife Stadium, where Sunday's game will be played, and expect as many as 30,000 people to arrive by bus or rail. Security screening will start at train stations, where fans will not be able to board stadium-bound trains or buses without tickets to the game, officials said.
New York Police Department Commissioner William Bratton said that while authorities were focused on a mass transit type of attack, they were not aware of any specific plans to target the game or surrounding events.
"We are keeping an eye on activities around the world, but certainly at this time there are no threats directed at this event that we're aware of," Bratton said.
The stadium is located about 10 miles west of New York City, the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks. It has been locked down all week, and authorities are scanning all vehicles that go in, a practice that will continue on game day, officials said.
Bratton noted that New York police were using extensive intelligence-gathering operations developed since the World Trade Center attack to watch for possible threats.
About 400,000 people are estimated to have traveled into the region for events surrounding the game, though only about 80,000 fans will get to see the Seattle Seahawks-Denver Broncos match-up in person.
Some 4,000 security officers will be on hand for Sunday's game, and fans will be prohibited from bringing bags into the stadium unless they are transparent and no larger than 12 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches, with women's purses limited to 4.5 inches by 6.5 inches.
Stadium gates will open at 2 p.m. on Sunday, more than four hours before kickoff, to allow fans to pass through a security cordon that will include metal detectors and pat-downs of fans bundled up for temperatures that could drop to 29 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-2 Celsius).
At an undisclosed location near the stadium, officials from some 100 security agencies are monitoring feeds related to security concerns 24 hours a day, Fuentes said.
The contained nature of the game makes it easier to secure than public events such as the Boston Marathon, where two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated amid a finish line crowd of thousands of spectators, volunteers and athletes on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264.
The "Super Bowl Boulevard" street fair, along a 3/4-mile stretch of New York's Broadway, presents a different challenge, as it will be wide open, with up to 1 million people expected to visit attractions, including the Super Bowl trophy and a towering toboggan run.
Large numbers of police officers have been assigned to the event and organizers have taken steps such as removing trash bins along the route and replacing them with clear plastic bags that can be easily inspected visually. Large numbers of security cameras and plainclothes police officers will be deployed along the area, although officials would not disclose precise details.
In planning for the event, Bratton said New York police had prepared to respond to a variety of attacks.
"There was a lot of focus on the lone wolf, the 'backpack left unsecured' scenarios, so we're prepared," Bratton said.
The Boston bombers left their homemade explosives along the course in black backpacks.
Fans who visited the street fair on Wednesday said they were confident due to the large police presence.
"I can see cops all over, so I feel like it's pretty safe," said Steven Ferraro, 18, of New York's Brooklyn borough. "Anything can happen anywhere, but I think it's safe."
Security experts, however, note that it is all but impossible to secure open-air events entirely.
"No amount of technology or deployment of resources and 21st century technology is going to guarantee under all circumstances that something terrible cannot happen," said Tom Nolan, chairman of the criminal justice department at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh. "You have to accept some degree of risk and you have to accept a new level of intrusion into your privacy."
Additional reporting by David Jones in East Rutherford, New Jersey; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Tom Brown and Dan Grebler


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Dr. Esau Chiviya, a Zimbabwean national, was appointed as the SADC Parliamentary Forum Secretary General at the Forum's 25th Plenary Assembly held in Swakopmund, Namibia on 7th and 8th July 2009. He brings to the Forum over twenty years of experience working internationally in the areas of leadership and management, institutional development and democracy and governance.
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From my work with UNDP in Malawi, Zambia, Angola I gained expertise in decentralization and local governance, preparing project documents, writing project reports for donors, providing technical and policy advice to governments, and working in African countries especially in SADC countries. I have lectured at the University of Zimbabwe and Africa University. I am computer literate.
Summary of Work Experience
-work experience in human resources and training: w orked as Head of the Local Government Studies Department at the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (1983-1985); Senior Human Resources Consultant at the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute in Tanzania (1985-1991); Project Officer for training South Africans with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London (1992-1993).
- work experience in elections: 2000 Director of Elections with SADC Parliamentary Forum in Namibia-involved in drafting Norms and Standards for Elections in the SADC Region; directed SADC Parliamentary Forum Election Observation Mission for Tanzania's 2000 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections; Elections Consultant with SADC Parliamentary Forum responsible for SADC Parliamentary Forum Election Observation Missions to South Africa and Malawi in their 2004 Elections; Technical Advisor for SADC Parliamentary Forum Election Observation Mission to Tanzania for the November 2005 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. Trained SADC MPs and Parliamentary staff in election observation at workshops held in Durban, Johannesburg, and Botswana.
-work experience in leadership and management: UNDP Chief Technical Advisor in Malawi, Zambia, and Angola; Regional Director for the Municipal Development Program in Harare; ESAMI Representative in Kenya and Namibia; Head of Department / Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management; leading teams of national and international consultants on several consultancy assignments (1994 Sierra Leone-UNDP funded; 1994 Ethiopia-UNDP funded; 1994/995 South Africa-UNDP/Commonwealth Secretariat funded; 1995 Zimbabwe-UNDP funded; 1995/96 Malawi-UNDP funded; 2000/01 Swaziland - UNDP & African Develop Bank funded; 2001 Uganda UNCDF funded; 2008/09 Lesotho-World Bank funded).
-work experience in institutional development, organizational restructuring and capacity assessment: carried out SADC Management Capacity Assessment (1984/85) commissioned by SADC Manpower Development Secretariat in Swaziland, funded by USAID; Public Sector Management Capacity Assessment and Decentralization Programming, Government of Sierra Leone (1994), funded by UNDP; Development of a Strategic Action Plan for Capacity Building for Regional Administration for the Government of Ethiopia (1994), funded by UNDP; Training Needs Assessment for South Africa in Transition (1992), funded by the World Bank; Provincial Management Capacity Building Project, Government of South Africa (1995/96), funded by UNDP and the Commonwealth Secretariat; Organizational Restructuring for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Swaziland (2001), funded by African Development Bank; Options for Civil Service Retirement in Swaziland (2000), funded by UNDP.
-work experience in decentralization and local governance: conducted study on Capacity Building for Regional Administration in Ethiopia in 1994; designed Malawi's Decentralization Policy in 1995 and Implementation Strategy for the Policy in 1996; UNCDF Regional Technical Advisor on Decentralization and Local Governance for Malawi 2002 2004; UNDP Chief Technical Advisor on Decentralization and Local Governance for Zambia 2004 - 2006 and Angola 2007 - 2008; Deputy Team Leader responsible for the transfer of minor roads from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to Local Government in Lesotho 2008 - 2009.
-work experience as a university lecturer: Lecturer in public administration for first year students at the University of Zimbabwe(1982) and visiting lecturer in decentralization and local governance for Masters Degree students at Africa University in Zimbabwe (1999 and 2006).
Countries Worked: I have substantial work experience throughout Africa, including Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
September 2008 to March 2009: Deputy Team Leader on a Snowy Mountain Engineering Corporation (SMEC) of Australia assignment providing advisory services for planning change and implementation support at central and local levels to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of the Kingdom of Lesotho on its Integrated Transport Project funded by the World Bank involving the establishment of the Roads Directorate and the transfer of minor roads to local government. Assignment is part of the Government's decentralization program and I was responsible for the decentralization of minor roads to District Councils.
May 2007 to Feb 2008: UNDP Chief Technical Advisor, Decentralization and Local Governance (DLG), Luanda, Angola. I was responsible for managing a Decentralization & Local Governance Project in 5 Provinces and 15 Municipalities with a 12 Project staff.
Sept. 2004 to Dec2006: UNDP Chief Technical Advisor, Decentralization Secretariat, Government of Zambia. I was responsible for providing technical advice in the implementation of the country's National Decentralization Policy.
March to June 2004: Elections Consultant with SADC Parliamentary Forum in Windhoek Namibia. I was responsible for designing and coordinating the implementation of SADCPF Election Observation Programs for South Africa and Malawi.
Jan. to June 2004: Election Director with SADC Parliamentary Forum. I coordinated South Africa and Malawi Elections. I was responsible for program design and implementation.
Jan. 2002 to Jan 2004: United Nations Capital Development Fund Regional Technical Advisor on Decentralization and Local Governance covering Malawi and Zambia based in Lilongwe/ Malawi.
Sept.-Dec. 2000: Director of Elections with SADC Parliamentary Forum in Windhoek/Namibia. I drafted Norms and Standards for Elections in the SADC Region Document. I also directed SADC PF Observation Mission operations for Tanzania's 2000 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.
1997 to 2001: Managing Director and Senior Consultant: ZIMKEN Management Consultants. I was Team Leader and/or Team Member for consultancies including:
-Lead Consultant for Ethiopia's Civil Service Reform Program, UNDP-funded.
-Team Leader, UNCDF Project Identification Mission, Uganda, funded by UNCDF.
-Team Leader, Reorganization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Swaziland, IFAD-funded.
-Development of a Strategic Action Plan for Capacity Building for Regional Administration, Government of Ethiopia, UNDP-funded.
-Retirement Options for the Civil Service, Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland, UNDP-funded.
-Mid-term Review of Netherlands funding to Zimbabwe Trust and Campfire Association Secretariat.
-Workshop for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, focusing on the transformation from military to civilian institutions, funded by the Skills for Southern Sudan Program, Oxford.
1996 - 1997: Regional Director for the Municipal Development Program (MDP), Harare, Zimbabwe. MDP operates in 25 countries in Africa promoting and supporting the process of decentralization and strengthening the capacity of local governments to deliver services and promote development at local level.
1995-1996: Consultant for Development of Decentralization Policy and its Implementation Framework and Requirements for the Government of Malawi, UNDP-funded.
1995 - 1996: Consultant for Provincial Management Capacity-Building Project, Government of South Africa, funded by UNDP and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
1995: Team Leader of 5 Consultants: Terminal Evaluation of UNDP Technical Assistance Project on Improving Government Efficiency and Effectiveness in Zimbabwe.
1994: Consultant for Public Sector Management Capacity Assessment and Decentralization Programming, Government of Sierra Leone, UNDP-funded.
1994 - 1995: Consultant for Transformation of the Public Service Training Institute, funded by USAID.
1993 - 1994: Team Leader of 7 consultants (national and international): Development of a Strategic Action Plan for Capacity Building for Regional Administration for the Government of Ethiopia.
1993 - 1994: Consultant: Developing a Public Service Training Policy and a Management Development Policy, Government of Zimbabwe, UNDP-funded.
1992 - 1993: Project Officer for Group Training Programs for South Africans, Commonwealth Secretariat, London.
1992: Consultant for Training Needs Assessment for South Africa in Transition, funded by the World Bank.
1985 - 1991: Senior Human Resources Consultant: Eastern and Southern Africa Management Institute, Tanzania.
1982 - 1985: Government of Zimbabwe--Positions held include:
Head of Department of Local Government Studies, Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management.
Lecturer in Public Administration, University of Zimbabwe.
Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Lands Resettlement and Rural Development, and Ministry of the Public Service.
1984 - 1985: Member of 10-person Team of Consultants: SADC Management Study, commissioned by SADC Manpower Development Secretariat in Swaziland, funded by USAID.
1974 - 1976: UN Volunteer: World Food Program, Under Five Clinics Project, Ministry of Health, Zambia.
Charter for Integrity in Local Government, Governance, Volume 1, Number 1, World Bank, Washington, January 1998.
Human Resources Management and Affirmative Action in Local Government, in Perspectives on Local Government Management and Development in Africa, University of Durban-Westville, Durban, January 1995.
Developing Effective Strategies and Management of Local Government in Africa, Local Government Management Board, Luton, U.K., 1993.
Training Needs for South Africa in Transition, World Bank, Washington, May 1992.
Improving Management in Southern Africa, Regional Training Council, Swaziland, 1985.
Membership of Professional Societies:
Institute of Management Consultants of Southern Africa.


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I think it is one of the finest and nicest professions in the world, and I love what I do. I love it specifically, because I get to sell great, awesome, fantastic products really – and I get to work with fantastic people along the way. But the point is I am not a technical person – at all.
However, I do have a passion for technology, and I feel the urge to understand and taste the products that I sell. And that's exactly what happened when I joined Neo Technology, the makers and maintainers of the popular Neo4j open source graph database.
So I decided to get my hands dirty and dive in head first and also have some fun along the way.
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Part 1: Getting Beer into Neo4j
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The Wikipedia page actually has a full listing of all Belgian beers, and it also includes the brewery, beer type and alcohol percentage – perfect! I can already see a graph emerging.
But how to get it into Neo4j, without doing any programming?
Well, turns out that it was not that difficult…
Read on, or watch this video:
The next step was to "clean" the Wikipedia data and structure it. I used a Google spreadsheet for this – I was actually amazed at its power and ease of use.
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The tool has a visualisation component and an analysis/processing component, but I was most interested in the Data Laboratory. This allowed me to import the CSV files above with two clicks and to create a wonderful visualisation immediately.
(Editors note: You can also use the Neo4j-Batch-Importer to import CSV files directly into the graph [including indexing], ETL-article by Max de Marzi).
So now I had my Gephi project, but how do I get it into Neo4j?
Well, it turns out there is a Gephi Neo4j plugin available that does exactly that. Just install the plugin, export the Gephi project, and it will generate the Neo4j store files that you can copy over to your graph.db directory.
And now my Neo4j database is up and running. And remember: NO PROGRAMMING INVOLVED. Love that.
To be honest, there was one tiny little hiccup at this point. Because to use the graph in a meaningful way, you really need to have indexes.
Neo4j ships with Lucene for indexing of nodes, relationships and properties, and there is an auto-indexing capability in the product – but that only kicks in AFTER you start adding data to the database.
So the initial import into the database is not indexed. Crap.
Luckily, I have some very bright colleagues at Neo Technology, who have written some nifty utilities that do something about this. And that's what I did: used the utility, repopulated the autoindex, and there we were. A bit hairy, but NO PROGRAMMING 🙂
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In the second part, I explore the beer graph visually via the Neo4j Web-interface and some nifty Cypher queries. So, enjoy the video and see the details below:
For example: let's try to find all Belgian Trappist beers, based on one Trappist beer that I know and love, Orval.
To do that, we need to create a query, using the Cypher query language. Here's how this works:
First, I get my starting point in the graph, through an index lookup:
START orval=node:node_auto_index(name="Orval")
Then, I try to find a pattern, with a Match clause:
MATCH orval<-[:Brews]-brewery,
Next, I want another beer, with the same beertype as Orval:
orval-[:isa]->beertype, anotherbeer-[:isa]->beertype
Now, I want to return the other beers:
RETURN anotherbeer.name AS name, COLLECT(beertype.name) AS beertype ORDER BY anotherbeer.name;
This would give me a very straightforward result set, very similar to what you would expect in traditional database systems:
Another type of query would be to try and find *paths* between two beers:
START duvel=node:node_auto_index(name="Duvel"), orval=node:node_auto_index(name="Orval") MATCH p = AllshortestPaths( duvel-[*]-orval ) return p;
In the example above, I tried to see what connects two of my favorite beers: Orval and Duvel.
I found that there are two beers that share either the AlcoholPercentage or the Beertype – very interesting! That is a great recommendation to receive and will require some tasting to be done!
Last but not least, I also experimented a bit with updating the graph, using a Cypher statement like this one:
START orval=node:node_auto_index(name="Orval") CREATE (rik{name:"Rik"})-[:loves]->orval; START duvel=node:node_auto_index(name="Duvel"), rik=node:node_auto_index(name="Rik") CREATE rik-[:loves]->duvel;
I was able to include a real, ACID-compliant transaction on the graph – adding a "Rik" node to the graph and adding two "loves" relationship, one for Duvel and one for Orval.
It was really interesting to see how Neo4j does the commit/rollback, and how it isolates these updates from the rest of the users. You can test that really easily by having two "clients" talk to the database, and executing the transaction in one client – but querying it from the other.
All in all this was a fantastic and a very educational experience for me. Neo4j is a great tool for many database problems – beer-related or other – and it was really fun to learn how to piece things together and get it to a functioning database, all WITHOUT PROGRAMMING.
I hope you found this helpful, if you want to try it yourself, here is the zipped database directory and here are the initial CSV files and the Cypher queries.
Enjoy your beer,
Rik van Bruggen
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Rik Van Bruggen brings 10 years experience in sales, specifically in web-based application development and security/identity management to his work at Neo Technology. Previously with Courion and Imprivata, Rik has managed sales and strived for customer success across Europe. Rik is a Belgian technology addict with a passion for sales, family, friends, music, travel, and of course, good food and even better, beer. Rik also runs the Graphistania podcast on graph databases.
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Hello, I followed the instructions in the tutorial and I find errors;
1. – BeerRelationships.csv file should change the title, start, end by source, target for the Gephi can import
2. – When you import the file, in the Edges tab, I have the following:
Source
1-null
2-null
…
Target
100000-null
10000-null

There is no relationship between the
Hello,

I agree with Marco Guado. When i completely copied graph.db folder, no problem occured. But when i worked with the .csv files, i run into some problems. first of all, BeerRelationships.csv file didn't work with "start" and "stop" title. althought i renamed them with "source" and "target", it nevertheless didn't work out. also when
I wrote some notes to myself before, it may be useful: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2557194903669860540#editor/target=post;postID=4171288855728514861
Haha, I like the in-line editor's note! (Sorry, Rik)
Hello
The right way to import csv files in Gephi, is changing the header;
BeerNodes.csv = id,label,type
BeerRelationsShips.csv = source,target,label

for export of Neo4j Gephi to make the relationship by label and write the first relation: HasAlcoholPercentaje, then open the Web console and visualize the nodes 7474, Okey.
Hello right way to import csv files in Gephi is changing the heading; BeerNodes.csv = id, label, type, BeerRelationsShips.csv = source, traget, label.
for export of Neo4j Gephi to make the relationship by label and write the first relation: HasAlcoholPercentaje, then open the Web console and visualize the nodes 7474, Okey.
Could you actually explain what the indexing utility is? How can one export frmo Gephi to neo4j while auto_index-ing the labels or ids?
Could you actually explain what the indexing utility is? How does one get data from gephi to neo4j while auto_index-ing the id?
I exported my dataset from gephi to neo4j format (using the menu in gephi), but the database do not have the same number of nodes and relationship! Any idea what might went wrong?
Very interesting! How do you get the graph representation with the following query ?
MATCH p = AllshortestPaths( duvel-[*]-orval )
return p;
I really want to know! Thank you 🙂
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With imaginations ignited, this week will see some new animal species get created by the children to represent #BePartofHere with a focus on upcycling old materials. This takes into importance everyone's impact on the community and environment. There will be two trips this week, to Wallace Park and the Irish Linen Museum to inspire what type of natural habitat each child's animal will have. The children will also take part in an archaeological dig whilst creating a time capsule that will be a lovely legacy for the children to leave at ISLAND Arts Centre for years to come. On Friday afternoon, an animal sculpture created by the children will be revealed at the exhibition for all to come along and enjoy.
About Children's Art Festival: Young people aged 4 – 13 years will join like–minded creatives to create, design and turn their ideas into action through group and solo projects. The choice of four creative weeks will include visual arts, drama, dance and music. Parents have peace of mind too, knowing that Arts Weeks bring together a range of energetic professional artists and performers who specialise in working with children and young people. Classes are grouped into small appropriate age bands and are individually tailored so that no two days are the same.
Silver Screen Social – Mamma Mia – Here We Go Again
Thu 28 Feb at 11am
Chess The Musical
Wed 27 Feb - Sat 02 Mar at 7:30pm
Drawing and Painting for Teens with Daniela Balmaverde
Mon 04 Feb - Mon 04 Mar at 10am
COLLECTION #2 Sir Richard Wallace 1818–1890
Sat 02 Feb - Sat 02 Mar at Mon–Fri 9.30am–10pm, Sat 9.30am–5pm
TINY TOTS (Jan–Mar)
Thu 31 Jan - Thu 07 Mar at 11.30am


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Anime World Order Show # 36 - Cagliostro, Phoenix, and Embracing Love
This episode is a week late due to computer troubles, but hopefully the wait is worth it. Gerald reviews Hayao Miyazaki's theatrical directorial debut The Castle of Cagliostro, Daryl reviews the 2004 anime remake of Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix (aka Hi no Tori), and Clarissa reviews the yaoi manga Embracing Love by Youka Nitta.
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Man, we're totally slacking off on these show notes as of late. But hey, we've got a Review Index now! It's incomplete because it doesn't yet include all the instances where we waste time on "weeaboo" when someone asks us "what do you think about..." but it's a start. Did you just read "weeaboo"? 'Cause I think you just saw someone write "weeaboo." Forget about yaoi paddles, for I have seen the future and it is the past.
Introduction (0:00 - 32:03)
Carl Gustav Horn is officially smarter than us, but he was suffering from an inflamed farceurix which required immediate care. This week, we realize that if we keep asking people to send us Odeo feedback, it would do us well to actually PLAY some of them and respond to them on air. Subjects include: cons and cosplay stuff, Planetes, Chobits, Street Fighter II, and why Fist of the North Star is popular everywhere else in the world except for North America. On a highly related note, the US DVDs released by Toei are officially no longer available. This picture sums up AWA in a nutshell:
Promo: GeekNights (32:03 - 33:11)
Rym and Scott exhibited their full recovery from their pierrotlectomies by informing us that the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition-style promo of theirs was not actually meant to be seriously played by anyone, so we're playing the Blues Brothers-style one instead. And you thought it was going to be the Blues Brothers combined with the Inquisition...what a show. They'll be guests at SITACon in New York this weekend, so to help you identify them, here's a picture (Rym is on the left and Scott is on the right):
Review: Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (33:11 - 59:12)
Man. Thirty-six episodes before we officially covered anything directed by Miyazaki, "because everyone knows about him already." Gerald reviews the newly-released special edition available from Manga Video, compares it to the previous DVD release, and in so doing answers the question on the minds of everyone who's ever been hit by a double-dip DVD release: is it worth picking up the new release if you already own the original one? Sure, every other anime podcast has reviewed this movie by now, but only OURS has the foresight to point out how this movie inspired Time Crisis!
- Chris Meadows' Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro commentary track - this has existed in some form or fashion for over two years now, but it was recently updated; pity there's no critically-acclaimed anime films that we're superlative experts on and could make a commentary track for (that wasn't boring)
- Blackmask.com carries many of the translated Arsene Lupin novels, of which there's like 20 of them; thanks to Chris from the Adult Space Child Free Podcast for sending that along
Daryl didn't exactly write any notes to himself whatsoever prior to doing this segment, but he figured he'd try and schmooze his way through this one anyway. The result is that he takes nearly 30 minutes to say what could have been said in 15, and he completely forgot to fully say exactly what the Phoenix was in the story. It's essentially the Power Cosmic incarnate, or for you Excel Saga fans, the Great Will of the Macrocosm. The will of the universe incarnate, as it were. Phoenix is Osamu Tezuka's life work and perhaps his grandest achievement, having been remade multiple times over the years. The Phoenix being reviewed in this segment is the 2004 remake, but since Daryl can't ever stay on topic, he ends up talking about the other stuff too. Under the guise of "putting things in context," you see. Of course, like all of Tezuka's work, almost nobody in America cares about this even though it's really good. PS: Vertical's English-language release of Ode to Kirihito comes out on October 24th.
- Media Blasters told us at AWA that they do actually plan on releasing the anime, so instead of linking to a torrent for the series, here's the opening so you can see how nice this show looks; Youtube/Google Video doesn't cut it
- Viz Media's excellent release of the Phoenix manga - which nobody except Daryl seems to be buying as it comes out, provided he can actually FIND IT because much like Golgo 13, stores and anime con dealers don't tend to carry it...in addition to what's listed on the Viz page, volumes 7 and 8 of are also out, but they're practically out of stock at both Amazon and Right Stuf
- Tezuka in English - a fantastic resource for those who wish to learn more about Tezuka's output and derivative works over the years
- Osamu Tezuka World - Tezuka Production's official English-language webpage
- This was going to be a link to the full English-language text of the February 10, 1989 article that ran in Asahi following Tezuka's death, but we can't find it anywhere. It's got to be out there, but in the meantime, here instead is the often-repeated quote from said article: "Foreign visitors to Japan often find it difficult to understand why Japanese people like comics so much. One explanation for the popularity of comics in Japan, however, is that Japan had Tezuka Osamu, whereas other nations did not. Without Dr. Tezuka, the postwar explosion in comics in Japan would have been inconceivable."
- Japan Media Arts Festival poll where about 80,000 people voted and declared Phoenix the #6 manga of all time - though bear in mind, the list is almost entirely shonen action and Slam Dunk was #1
But it's not like the Viz Signature line is the only manga imprint you can't find sold anywhere! It's been a while since the last yaoi review, but Clarissa was finally able to track down this Youka Nitta manga released by Be Beautiful. Why the Be Beautiful releases are so much more expensive than all other manga releases despite not really being of superior print quality or page count strikes us as being particularly blatant on the "we charge more because fans are willing to pay extra and that's it" front, but that's CPM for you.
Promo: Happy House of Hentai (1:47:35 - 1:47:58)
Last we checked, "Lord Kaosu" and "Hello Kitty" both live in New Mexico, but they're both guests at SITACon in New York on October 6-8. They're inviting a whole bunch of podcasters to be guests there, but we unfortunately cannot attend. Not only would it be tricky for the three of us to all get time off from school/work, we'd have to pay to fly ourselves there. Between Anime Weekend Atlanta and Right Stuf's sale on Geneon DVDs, we're about spent. So if you head to SITACon and you see these folks, be sure to say hello because they totally traveled across the country to be there:
Say, we've got Ninja Consultant T-shirts, too!
Closing (1:47:58 - 1:51:13)
This episode is like, an entire week late. What this means is that in order to catch back up, the next episode will have to come out in a few days. Fortunately for us, the next episode will consist mostly of the recording of our AWA panel on podcasting, which turned out mostly well, boring. Perhaps it would be best to throw in some extra bits while we're at it for the sake of adding excitement.


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In a presentation last week at Marion Senior Center Rex Savage of Windborne Energy told patrons that construction on wind turbines south of Marion could begin as quickly as two to three weeks.
"We will begin putting rock down on 120th St. within two weeks then we will begin construction pads south of 120th in the next two to three weeks," Savage said.
Savage said the hope was to dig three 10-feet-by-60-feet pads this month. The company plans to construct 113 pads total.
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He estimates $800,000 will be brought into and distributed through out the county each year from the project.
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One senior asked if the blades could ever fall off?
"The county has zoned the project so the turbines cannot be built within ¼ mile of any residence," Savage said. "That way, if they fall, and not saying they will — there's been none that have so far — they won't damage anything. Also, if ice built up on the blades it couldn't be thrown as far to hit a structure."
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Accountancy was always out for me because of the whole suit thing (although I do rather like dealing with figures) and anything so executive that it involves power heels, painted nails and well-groomed hair. (I would fall off the heels, and am sadly slack on the whole grooming front [dogs and all are rather unkempt round here].)
And I do remember commuting to London for a week and being totally depressed by the ocean wave of black coats, black bags and black briefcases spilling off the train and into the Big Smoke.
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So I have had a bit of fun this week making a very comfy cosy cover for an iPad, using the Tablet Sleeve pattern from Michelle Patterns. This also provided the opportunity to use up some of the leftover quilt wadding mountain which is building up at one end of my office - it is growing apace, but the problem is that the leftover pieces are never big enough to use for another quilt, not even a baby one. The answer is definitely to step up production of comfy cosy covers for iPads, iPhones and assorted executive accessories.
The pattern comes in two sizes, so you can make your iPad case big enough to accommodate those lids and covers with the little triangular prop-up bit if you want (I rather like these ones from Lente Designs, particularly as they come in all sorts of colours other than black, and are less than half the price of the very smart covers that come from a certain fruity store). So it is quite safe to make pretty cases for friends with boring black Smart Covers - they will not have to eschew their Smart Cover in order to make their Tablets cosy (I am afraid that the word 'Tablet' still evokes a vision of large white elephant pills in my mind, and is not one which is at the tip of my tongue when discussing technology. Alas, I am surely A Digital Immigrant, as I hear so often on the wireless ...)
You might notice that I have a bit of a ribbon tab fetish at the moment - I seem to be putting them on everything I make. Why on earth would you want to attach anything to a phone case? (I am pondering on the significance of these tabs, and seem to be returning to Baudrillard and redundancy.)
|An Apple pincushion from Amy
The phone case was a pattern of my own making - it took me three goes to get it to fit the phone in question, in the course of which I found that I had made Princess Bunchy an iPod cover and a Blackberry-a-like case, neither of which she uses, because gadgets belonging to teenagers don't stay out of their hands long enough to be put in a comfy cosy case. Next time I will use Michelle's phone case pattern - I think it is worth paying $2 to save the useless prototypes and cursing and swearing as I try to wedge a phone into a case a millimetre too small all the way round.
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Annual VT Farm Show Returns to Essex Junction Jan. 28,29,30
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Cabot VT – The Annual Vermont Farm Show returns to the Champlain Valley Fair Grounds in Essex Junction for another exciting year! Scheduled as always for the last Tuesday through Thursday in January, this year's dates are January 28-29-30.
The move from Barre to Essex Junction took place three years ago and has afforded the Show the opportunity to offer more exhibits, activities, meetings and lots of free parking. For agriculture professionals, it is an opportunity to meet with vendors, preview products and machinery and network with the farm community. For consumers, it's a great venue to learn about technological advances in agriculture that benefit all sizes and all kinds of farms.
And of course we have some great animals on display! This year, enjoy miniature donkeys as well as a Morgan horse, sheep, llamas and birds.
We are again proud to partner with the Vermont FoodBank – so even though admission to the Farm Show is free, we are asking all those attending to donate a canned or boxed good to the greeters as you walk in the front door of the Miller Building. The response was wonderful last year, and we hope to continue filling the shelves at the FoodBank.
This year, Consumer Night will be held Wednesday, January 29th from 4-7pm. Food enthusiasts will enjoy the Buy Local Market, which will showcase foods and products from Vermont farms. The "Capital Cook-off," an Iron Chef-type competition featuring the Vermont House of Representatives, Senate, and Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, will also occur this year. Teams will have ninety minutes to create a dish using Vermont products bought at the Buy Local Market. Visitors to the event will have time to purchase all sorts of Vermont products from the exhibitors while waiting for the Cook-off winners to be announced!
For more information, including a list of scheduled 2014 exhibitors, visit www.vtfarmshow.com.


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Two members of the Hope College mathematics faculty are part of a team that is writing a textbook that engages students with the substance of statistics from day one.
Todd Swanson, assistant professor of mathematics, and Jill VanderStoep, adjunct assistant professor of mathematics, are among seven co-authors from four colleges and universities collaborating on "Introduction to Statistical Investigations," scheduled to be published in the fall of 2013 by John Wiley & Sons Inc. of Hoboken, N.J. The cooperative effort earlier this year received support through a two-year, $181,478 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Swanson noted that the book inverts the way the subject is usually taught. While traditional textbooks first walk students through basic concepts and then build up to the deeper applications, the new book introduces these deeper concepts right away. The focus of the book then becomes filling in students' understanding of these concepts as they are applied in various contexts.
"We introduce inferential statistics during the first week of class and focus on it the entire semester," Swanson said. "These inferential concepts are what students need to know in order to understand and conduct research in their major areas."
"Historically, that content has been introduced at the end of the statistics curriculum, which has meant that it often isn't taught with much depth," he said. "Through computer simulations we are able to develop the core logic of inferential statistics at the very beginning and build on it."
In keeping with the holistic approach, Swanson noted, the textbook emphasizes real-life case studies that put the process in context.
"Instead of just giving them data, we give them background," he said. "As they progress through the course, the students also gain a lot more experience in looking at real research and looking at the broader picture, instead of just looking at a data set."
A draft of the textbook has been piloted in statistics courses at Hope since 2009 and is now also being tried out at a variety of other colleges and universities and even a high school.
It was initiated at Hope, Swanson said, in conjunction with the creation of the college's statistical teaching and research computing laboratory through a 2008 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
"The curriculum is heavily computer based, heavily active for student participation," he said. "The lecturing is at a minimum."
The book's lead author, Dr. Nathan Tintle, who is a now a member of the Dordt College faculty, taught at Hope from 2005 to 2011. Along with Tintle, Swanson and VanderStoep, the co-authors include Dr. Beth Chance of California Polytechnic State University; Dr. George Cobb of Mount Holyoke College; Dr. Allan Rossman of California Polytechnic State University; and Dr. Soma Roy of California Polytechnic State University.
The NSF grant went into effect on January 1 of this year. Tintle is the grant's principal investigator, with Rossman, Chance, Swanson and Roy serving as co-principal investigators.


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