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Thanking the Longbeards
This piece resulted from discussions at David "The Rise of the Stupid Network" Isenberg's BigHook Conference last fall http://www.isen.com I presented it there and have edited it to reflect some of what I learned from BigHook's spirited (the word "asshole" was used at least twice) discussion of it. --David Weinberger
Because the infrastructure of the Internet was designed by humans, it represents particular human values. For example, the Net could have been architected to ensure that intellectual property is protected, that all interactions are tagged so they can be traced to individuals, or so that some packets have priority and thus can be sold to those with cash to burn. (Actually, for the last apparently there is an unexploited Net capability.) But it wasn't architected that way. Someone decided otherwise.
Who? Ultimately, it was the Internet "long beards" who share some characteristics: generally white, male, Western, and all highly technical.[1] These are the folks who (again, in general) continue to make decisions about the Net's technical future. Certainly there are organized opportunities for others to comment, but even though this lets in a somewhat more varied group, inevitably those whose comments count are also technically-minded.
Just as journalists tend to favor free speech, artists value creativity, and beauty queens like make-up, engineers tend to share some values.[2] Engineers, for reasons rooted in what they found pleasurable about engineering in the first place, tend to value open communication, to listen to opinions that are fact-based, and to respect people for what they know and contribute rather than for what their business cards say. It's no coincidence that the network they built enables the open, uncontrolled sharing of information.
How explicit are the political values of the Internet? I had a chance to talk about this with Scott Bradner, a literal Internet long beard, at BigHook. While Scott admitted that the infrastructure is loaded with values, he maintains they are first and foremost not political values. The designers set out to build a system that doesn't require modification to be extended and configured for particular uses. The designers' aim was to move packets along briskly while enabling you to add your layers of censorship or IP protection or multimedia streaming or pornographic body suits without requiring the Internet infrastructure to be rearchitected.
But, as Tom Lehrer has taught us, there's no avoiding the political values of science and technology. Lehrer--our finest lyricist until Eminem--wrote a song about Werner Von Braun, the German scientist who built rockets for the Nazis during WWII and for the US after the War: "Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, says Werner von Braun." Lehrer's question holds for people doing AIDS research as well as for Nazis; it has nothing to do with the content of the politics.[3]
To achieve the engineering aim of being capable of being extended without requiring changes to the core infrastructure, the long beards built a system with no built--in checks on the data being carried. Value free? Ask China or the Taliban or orthodox Jews or many Christian communities, all of whom see value in protecting their communities from "assault" by temptations and other bad influences. "For engineering reasons," the long beards in effect are saying "we've built a system that will provide open access to ideas and images you consider corrosive. Ok?" To many communities, the answer is a definite "No, it'snot ok."
It only seemed ok to the long beards because the engineering principles that led to the Net's design were consistent with the basic free-speech libertarianism[4] of its designers. If the Net subverts the plans of the Taliban, the Internet long beards will by and large cheer (as of course will I, but that is precisely not the point) while maintaining that the design of the Net was based on engineering, not political, principles. But the political principles are in fact in part responsible for the decision to build the Net in the first place. Had the engineers designing the Internet been members of the Taliban, they would not have found the idea of building an open, uncontrolled system any more appealing than most Western engineers find the idea of building a gun that can turn any material into an armor-piercing bullet "without requiring any redesign of the gun's fundamental architecture." The design values implicit in the architecture of the Net simultaneously instantiate a set of political values generally shared by the engineering community; that was part of the appeal of working on the Net project in the first place. The most important "unintended consequences" of the Net--a permission-free environment for creating and sharing information--are in fact predictable, foreseen and--one way or another--intended.[5]
Two consequences follow from this. First, technical, architectural discussions always ought to occur within the context of the human and political values that inevitably guide them. Second, those of us who think that the values the Internet instantiates are good values ought to thank the long beards not just for their technical skill but for making the world a better place.
So: Thank you.
Exculpatory Footnotes
[1] Please keep in mind that generalizations are true if they are generally true; a generalization is generally not true in each and every case. Pointing out exceptions does not prove the generalization false.
[2] See note #1
[3] That is, please don't write to tell me that the designers of the Internet aren't Nazis.
[4] I'm using "libertarian" in its original John Stuart Mill sense, not the Ayn Rand "Selfishness is good" sense. Before flaming me, please read Mill's On Liberty and include a book report in a nice binder. (Stapled submissions will be lowered one half grade.)
[5] If you haven't read Lawrence Lessig's Code, consider it a class assignment.
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Re: Thanking the Longbeards
the long beards built a system with no built--in checks on the data being carried. Value free? Ask China or the Taliban or orthodox Jews or many Christian communities, all of whom see value in protecting their communities from "assault" by temptations and other bad influences.
I am an Orthodox Jew and I feel, I think justifiably, offended at your lumping me in with communist China and the Taliban. I certainly am not in favor of censoring the internet for anyone else, and am myself one of the "longbeard" (literally) internet engineers your piece speaks of. I, and my community, value intellectual pursuit for it's own sake; one reason why many scientists are Jewish. (Though of course many are also the Anglo-Saxon longbeards of your piece, as well as Indian, Chinese, and other groups either ignored or maligned in this article.)
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Study for the Treatment of Intermittent Allergic Rhinitis With Desloratadine (Study P04683AM1)(COMPLETED)
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This study will investigate the effectiveness of desloratadine in treating subjects with allergic rhinitis (AR) who meet the criteria for intermittent allergic rhinitis.
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Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial |
Drug: 5-mg Desloratadine Drug: Placebo |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Multicenter/Multinational, Efficacy and Safety Study of Desloratadine 5 mg in the Treatment of Subjects With Allergic Rhinitis Who Meet the Criteria for Intermittent Allergic Rhinitis (IAR) |
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- The Change From Baseline in the 12-hour AM/PM-PRIOR (Reflective) Total 5 Symptom Score (T5SS) From Subject Daily Diaries Averaged Over Treatment Days 1 to 15 [ Time Frame: 15 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Change From Baseline in the Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire-Standardized Version (RQLQ-S) at the Final Visit [ Time Frame: 15 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Enrollment: | 547 |
Study Start Date: | August 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | November 2007 |
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Experimental: 5-mg Desloratadine tablet |
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo tablet |
Drug: Placebo
Placebo tablet, once daily for 15 days
Ages Eligible for Study: | 12 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
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The subject must meet ALL of the criteria listed below for entry:
- For this study, the diagnosis of IAR is not based solely on the current episode of AR. Subjects must have at least a 2 year history of AR consistent with IAR (defined as symptoms of allergic rhinitis present less than four days per week or for less than four consecutive weeks per year); the current episode can count as the second year.
- Subjects must be 12 years of age and older, of either sex and of any race.
- At the Run-In Visit, subjects must be sufficiently symptomatic, with a T5SS 12-hour AM-PRIOR (reflective) symptoms severity score of at least 6.
- In order for a subject to qualify at the Baseline Visit, the sum of the daily averages of the diary recordings of the 12-hour AM PRIOR + PM-PRIOR (reflective) T5SS collected during Days -4 to -1 and the AM PRIOR T5SS on the morning of the Baseline Visit (Day 1) must be >= 30.
- Subjects must have a positive skin-prick test at screening to one or more allergens in the GA2LEN (or the usually used local) panel of seasonal and perennial allergens. Subjects must demonstrate an antigen-induced skin prick wheal at least 3 mm in diameter greater than diluent control. The positive tests must include the allergen(s) prevalent while this study is active.
- Subjects must be free of any clinically significant disease, other than IAR, which would interfere with the study evaluations.
- Subjects, or parents/legal guardians, must give written informed consent. Subjects must be able to adhere to dose and visit schedules and meet study requirements.
- In females of childbearing potential, the urine pregnancy test (hCG) must be negative at the Screening Visit.
- Nonsterile or premenopausal female subjects must be using a medically accepted method of birth control, that is, oral contraceptive, hormonal implant, medically prescribed intrauterine device (IUD), or depot injectable during the entire study. A female subject who is not currently sexually active must agree and consent to use one of the above-mentioned methods, if she becomes sexually active while participating in the study. A female subject who is not of childbearing potential must have a medical record of being surgically sterile (for example, hysterectomy and tubal ligation), or be at least 1 year postmenopausal.
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The subject will be excluded from entry if ANY of the criteria listed below are met:
- Subjects with a history of anaphylaxis and/or severe local reaction(s) to skin testing with allergens.
- Subjects with intolerable symptoms that would make participating in the study unbearable.
- Subjects who have had an upper respiratory tract or sinus infection that required antibiotic therapy, and have not had at least a 14-day washout prior to the run-in period, or who have had a viral upper respiratory infection within 7 days prior to screening.
- Subjects with asthma who require chronic use of inhaled or systemic corticosteroids.
- Subjects with current or a history of frequent, clinically significant sinusitis or chronic purulent postnasal drip.
- Subjects on immunotherapy (desensitization therapy) unless on a regular maintenance schedule prior to Visit 1 and staying on this schedule for the remainder of the study.
- Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, are dependent on nasal, oral or ocular decongestants, nasal topical antihistamines or nasal steroids.
- Subjects who have used any drug or device in an investigational protocol in the 30 days prior to Visit 1.
- Female subjects who are pregnant or nursing.
- Subjects with a history of hypersensitivity to the study drug or to their excipients or known to not tolerate any antihistamines.
- Subject is a member of the Investigational Study Staff (currently involved with this study) or a member of the staff's family.
- Subjects with current evidence of clinically significant hematopoietic, cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, neurologic, psychiatric, autoimmune disease, or other diseases that preclude the subject's participation in the study.
- Subjects whose ability to provide informed consent is compromised.
- Subjects with a history of noncompliance with medications or treatment protocols.
- Subjects with rhinitis medicamentosa.
- Subjects who have, in the opinion of the investigator or designee, clinically significant nasal structural abnormalities, including large nasal polyps or marked septum deviation, that significantly interferes with nasal air flow.
- Subjects who have not observed the medication washout times outlined in the protocol prior to Visit 2.
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Responsible Party: | Head, Clinical Trials Registry & Results Disclosure Group, Schering-Plough |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00406783 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | P04683 |
Study First Received: | November 29, 2006 |
Results First Received: | November 21, 2008 |
Last Updated: | September 25, 2009 |
Health Authority: | Belgium: The Federal Public Service (FPS) Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment |
Keywords provided by Schering-Plough:
Allergic Rhinitis Intermittent Allergic Rhinitis |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal Rhinitis Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial Nose Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Hypersensitivity Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases Hypersensitivity, Immediate Hypersensitivity Immune System Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections |
Desloratadine Cholinergic Antagonists Cholinergic Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Pharmacologic Actions Physiological Effects of Drugs Histamine H1 Antagonists, Non-Sedating Histamine H1 Antagonists Histamine Antagonists Histamine Agents |
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With the Nexus 4, Google totally changed the smart phone game, offering top of the line specs for less than half the price of its technical rivals.
The Nexus 10 is the 4's 10-inch tablet sibling, which has been built by Samsung. It offers a stunning high-resolution screen, great performance and the latest version of Android, which is 4.2 Jelly Bean. Like the Nexus 4, it's cheaper than many of its rivals, but it's not beating them by quite the same margin.
You can snag it for £320 with 16GB of internal storage or £390 with 32GB. It's up for pre-order soon on the Google Play store.
Should I buy the Google Nexus 10?
If you're in the market for a 10-inch tablet, the Nexus 10 is definitely a superb option and well worth your consideration. There may be a mind-boggling array of Android slates around, but with a super high-definition screen, powerful components and the latest Android software on board, the Nexus 10 cleanly beats all its Android rivals. Better yet, it costs less than most too.
The other option of course is Apple's ever-popular iPad. It too offers an extremely high-resolution screen -- albeit marginally lower than the 10's -- but with a starting price of £400, it's quite a bit more expensive. Apple's iOS software is arguably better for apps and games for the moment, but Android is closing that gap.
Although at £320, it's far from being a casual purchase, but it offers extremely good features that puts it easily above its Android rivals. It beats the iPad too in many ways and with a lower price tag to boot, it's a very sensible purchase.
Design and build quality
Although the Nexus 10 has been made with Google's firm hand on the tiller, it's still clearly fallen from the same design tree as Samsung's other slates. It's a 10-inch beast with a buttonless, all-glass front.
At the either side of the screen you'll see two slim speaker grilles. These same speakers are present on Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 as well as its Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, so it's easy to see the family resemblance.
At 8.9mm thick, it shares almost identical dimensions with the Galaxy Note 10.1 and is slightly slimmer than the Tab 2 10.1. It's also got the edge over Apple's iPad with retina display, which at 9.4mm thick is slightly chubbier. Whether you'd ever notice the 0.5mm difference is debatable. You might notice the weight difference though -- the Nexus 10 weighs in 603g, knocking nearly 50g off the iPad's 652g weight.
Even though it's relatively light, it's still not particularly comfortable to hold up in one hand -- unless you've got super-strong forearms. Instead, a two-handed approach is more suitable, or just keep it in your lap as you browse around all the delights the Internet has to offer.
Build quality is impressive. The back panel has got a pleasant rubberised texture which makes it easier to grip and feels much less plasticky than the Note 10.1. There's little in the way of flex or creaks when squeezed, so you shouldn't have any concerns about breakages when it's bumping around in your bag.
Even so, it doesn't feel as sturdy as the metal casing of the iPad, and the plastic shell feels considerably less expensive. It might cost less than an iPad, but there's not a massive chasm between them and if you want the most luxurious feeling device it might be worth splashing the extra dough.
Around the edges you'll find a micro-USB port for charging and data transfer, a micro-HDMI port, power and volume buttons and a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Sadly there's no microSD card slot, so you won't be able to expand the storage. The lower 16GB model will offer enough space for the essentials, but if you're a serial downloader and love having your music and videos stored locally, then you might want to splash the extra £70 for the 32GB option.
The screen is undoubtedly one of the standout features of the Nexus 10. As the name suggests, it measures 10 inches on the diagonal but more importantly packs an astounding 2,560x1,600-pixel resolution.
We were previously blown away by the pin-sharp display of the new iPad with its 2,048x1,536-pixel resolution. The Nexus 10 casually swans past that, to offer an even more refined viewing experience. At those levels though, you'd be extremely hard-pressed to notice the difference and there's really no need to try. Just be happy that they're both sharp enough to slice the front of your eyes clean off.
That stonking resolution makes even the tiniest of text on web pages stunningly crisp. It's particularly noticeable when you look at some of Google's app icons, which are deliciously clear, and reading books for long periods with the Kindle app is much more comfortable than usual too. By comparison, icons like the Spotify logo, which are yet to have their graphics updated to a higher resolution, look rather fuzzy.
I loaded the slate up with some of my super high-resolution snaps from the brilliant Canon EOS 5D Mark III and they all looked every bit as sumptuous as you'd hope.
The screen isn't just crisp though, it's also bright and handles colours very well too. It makes it a great device for watching your movies and TV shows on, through the likes of Netflix or rented through Google Play's Movies service.
It really is an excellent screen and happily trounces the iPad for the best display on the 10-inch circuit. That would be a pretty impressive feat even if they cost the same, but with its cut-down price tag, the Nexus 10 certainly wins in value.
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
The Nexus range of devices is designed to showcase the latest version of Google's Android operating system. As such, the Nexus 10 comes preloaded with the shiny Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on board. It's not a complete update, so it doesn't bear the Key Lime Pie moniker but it does offer some neat new features.
Chief among them, according to Google, is the ability to use the slate with separate user accounts. The idea is that you're able to use the tablet as normal, with your own email, Twitter and Facebook accounts activated and then allow someone else to sign in to it as a different user. They'll then see their own homescreen, complete with their own apps and accounts, keeping your own data safe.
It seems like a great idea, but sadly it isn't actually available on the Nexus 10 yet, so I wasn't able to test how it works in action. Google says it'll receive the feature on 13 November in a software update, so check back soon and we'll see just what's involved.
The core interface hasn't changed much from regular Jelly Bean so existing Android users will feel at home. The standard multiple home screens are present for you to lay down all the apps and live widgets you could want. It's pretty simple to use and doesn't take much learning. If you're yet to take your first steps into the tablet world, the Nexus 10 isn't a bad option to consider.
The notifications bar is still there to drag down from the top, but Google has added in a second window giving immediate access to crucial settings. You can quickly adjust the brightness, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth settings among others without needing to search into the menus each time.
Google's also made a bunch of tweaks to its camera software too. You can use the 5-megapixel camera to capture full 360-degree photos in what it calls 'Photo Sphere' You can then swipe around the resulting image on the slate or on your computer as a long panorama.
There's also a bunch of editing tools built in. You can take that 360-degree photo and turn it into a bizarre -- but undeniably lovely -- mini-planet photo. It's not something you'd want to do a lot, but it's great fun. You can also add those oddly popular vintage-style filters to your snaps, as well as fiddling with brightness, contrast and various other settings as your creative heart desires.
You still have full access to the Google Play store of course, and all the numerous photography apps held therein. The update does mean you don't need to jump into different apps every time you want to make your photos look like they're from the 70s. How's that for progress?
There's a bunch of other tweaks too, including live turn-by-turn GPS satellite navigation, but it's unlikely you'll find that too useful on a 10-inch slate. Google Now is also on board, bringing you personal information about public transport, upcoming events, and local businesses without you needing to search for it. It's a fun feature, but it's still more useful on phones where you have a constant data connection when you're out and about.
Power and performance
Inside the black shell is a dual-core processor backed up by 2GB of RAM. To the hardcore tech lovers among you, a dual-core chip might seem to be lagging behind the quad-core chips on offer on other devices. In many ways you'd be right. You'll find quad cores in the Galaxy Note 10.1 as well as the super-cheap Nexus 4 smart phone.
Considering the Nexus 10 isn't as dirt-cheap as its smart phone brother, it's easy to be a little disappointed at this offering. All is not lost however. Quad-core processors are only useful if there are apps around that can take advantage of them and most of the stuff you can get from the Google Play store doesn't.
A nippy dual-core processor can still offer enough power for anything you're likely to chuck at it, while hopefully being a little less demanding on the battery. Indeed, I found the Nexus 10 to be more than capable of handling what I threw at it.
To see how it stacks up against the tablet competition, I booted up the Geekbench benchmark test and was given the astounding score of 2,376. That is easily the best score I've seen on that test from a mobile device and is leaps and bounds above the Note 10.1's 1,828 or the Asus Transformer Infinity's 1,931.
With such an impressive score, it's unsurprising that I found it be extremely accomplished throughout my testing. Swiping around was responsive and swift and opening menus and apps was immediate without any of the annoying delay that signifies a struggling processor. It was perfectly able to handle demanding 3D games like Riptide GP, Grand Theft Auto 3 and Shadowgun.
There was very little I could find that slowed this tablet down, so rest assured that it'll be able to cope with whatever you ask of it.
On the back of the tablet you'll find a 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash. I found the results to be perfectly acceptable for a tablet. The below shot is fairly sharp when viewed at full-screen size, with only the detail on the pool cues in the background being lost.
It's not able to give a totally even exposure though. The bright sky outside the window has been totally blown out. It's important to remember however, that it's not really not designed to be a dedicated camera -- you're not likely to carry it with you on a photography expedition. Instead, the camera is there to get quick snaps of whatever you fancy to edit and share on Facebook or Twitter. For that, it does the job just fine.
There's also a 1.9-megapixel snapper on the front to take those vain self-portraits, check your hair or video call with your friends over Skype.
The Nexus 10 might not have quite the same teensy price as its smart phone sibling, but it offers a lot to get excited about. The stunning, crisp screen and lightning-fast performance, together with the great software tweaks in 4.2 Jelly Bean make it possibly the best 10-inch slate if you don't want an Apple logo on it.


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Kaggit Digit Recognizer: A Feature Extraction Fail in R
I've written a few blog posts about our attempts at the Kaggle Digit Recogniser problem and one thing we haven't yet tried is feature extraction.
Feature extraction is where we'd generate some other features to train a classifier with rather than relying on just the pixel values we were provided.
Every week Jen would try and persuade me that we should try it out but it wasn't until I was flicking through the notes from the Columbia Data Science class that it struck home:
5. The Space between the Data Set and the Algorithm
Many people go straight from a data set to applying an algorithm. But there's a huge space in between of important stuff. It's easy to run a piece of code that predicts or classifies. That's not the hard part. The hard part is doing it well.
One needs to conduct exploratory data analysis as I've emphasized; and conduct feature selection as Will Cukierski emphasized.
I've highlighted the part of the post which describes exactly what we've been doing!
There were some examples of feature extraction on the Kaggle forums so I thought I'd try and create some other features using R.
I created features for the number of non zero pixels, the number of 255 pixels, the average number of pixels and the average of the middle pixels of a number.
The code reads like this:
initial <- read.csv("train.csv", header = TRUE) initial$nonZeros <- apply(initial, 1, function(entries) length(Filter(function (x) x != 0, entries))) initial$fullHouses <- apply(initial, 1, function(entries) length(Filter(function (x) x == 255, entries))) initial$meanPixels <- apply(initial, 1, mean) initial$middlePixels <- apply(initial[,200:500], 1, mean)
I then wrote those features out into a CSV file like so:
newFeatures <- subset(initial, select=c(label, nonZeros, meanPixels, fullHouses, middlePixels)) write.table(file="feature-extraction.txt", newFeatures, row.names=FALSE, sep=",")
I then created a 100 tree random forest using Mahout to see whether or not we could get any sort of accuracy using these features.
Unforutnately the accuracy on the cross validation set (10% of the training data) was only 24% which is pretty useless so it's back to the drawing board!
Our next task is to try and work out whether we can derive some features which have a stronger correlation with the label values or combining the new features with the existing pixel values to see if that has any impact.
As you can probably tell I don't really understand how you should go about extracting features so if anybody has ideas or papers/articles I can read to learn more please let me know in the comments!
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Congratulations to graduating business students
Professor Ian Palmer, Pro Vice-Chancellor Business and Vice-President.
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Some 2,500 students from the College of Business at RMIT University will take part in the University's graduation parade and the graduation ceremony this month.
"These celebrations are the culmination of years of hard work, commitment and dedication. We congratulate you on this outstanding achievement," Professor Ian Palmer, Pro Vice-Chancellor Business and Vice-President, said.
"You have managed all the pressures and demands required to successfully complete your program, often balancing your time between work, study, family and friends.
"I encourage you to stay connected. Join our alumni community, expand on your professional networks, keep informed about events or opportunities and continue a rewarding life-long learning experience with us."
The RMIT graduation parade is the official launch of the University's annual graduation celebrations. Each year the parade includes more than 2,000 graduands, staff and alumni dressed in academic robes.
More than 5,500 students will gather at Docklands Stadium to collect their degrees in front of 20,000 family and friends in RMIT's spectacular graduation ceremony on Wednesday, 15 December, at 7.30pm.
"I hope you continue a rich and rewarding relationship with RMIT and best wishes wherever your path takes you," Professor Palmer said.
Congratulations to all students graduating from the College of Business this month.


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Kathy Velikov is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan where she teaches design studio, courses in ecology and technology and is the co-coordinator of the Master of Science concentration in Material Systems. She was the 2006/07 Oberdick Fellow at Taubman College, and has previously held teaching appointments at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo. Kathy is a licensed architect in the State of Michigan and the Province of Ontario, a partner in the research-based practice RVTR and a co-founder of the Metropolitan Futures Group. She holds an MA in the history of art and architecture from the University of Toronto, and a Professional BArch and BES from the University of Waterloo. Prior to founding RVTR, Kathy spent over ten years in practice as a project architect and senior designer on urban masterplans, institutional buildings, private residences, and design competitions. She has also spent a number of seasons working with archaeological teams in Carthage, Tunisia.
Founded in 2007, RVTR serves as a platform for platform for exploration and experimentation in the agency of architecture and urban design within the context of dynamic ecological systems, infrastructures, materially and technologically mediated environments and emerging social organizations. The work of this highly collaborative practice ranges in scale from that of the regional territory and the city, to high performance buildings, to full-scale installation-based prototypes that explore responsive and kinetic envelopes that mediate energy, atmosphere and social space. These operational scales are tied together through a methodology that entails an ecological approach; one that assembles around each project a multiplicity of agents, forces and contexts and actively uses these multivalent and sometimes contradictory agents to drive new potentials for the work. Kathy is also a co-founder of the Metropolitan Futures Group (MFG), a trans-disciplinary design consortium comprised of internationally recognized researchers and designers across different University of Michigan academic units that was established to address the problem of the notable absence of design in policy processes that affect the organization, form and materiality of constructed environments, and, therefore, issues concerning quality of life.
Kathy's work has been highly awarded and published widely. Awards include a Journal of Architectural Education Best Design as Research Article (2013), the Architizer A+ Award Program's Architecture + Sound Jury Award (2013), an ACSA Faculty Design Award (2012), a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Award of Excellence for Innovation in The Practice of Architecture (2011), a Special Jury Prize from EcoStructure Magazine (2011), an R&D Award from Architecture Magazine (2010), the Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture from the Canada Council for the Arts (2009-2010), a Young Architects Forum Award from the Architecture League of New York (2008) and a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence (2005). Critical writing and projects have been published in Volume, [bracket] Goes Soft, MONU, Leonardo, International Journal of Architectural Computing, New Geographies Journal, Journal of Architectural Education, and in books published by MIT Press, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, Princeton Architectural Press and Jovis Verlag. Most recently, RVTR completed a major solo exhibition at the UQAM Centre de Design in Montreal entitled Infra Eco Logi Urbanism(e).
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Walmart offers the refurbished Vizio 42" 1080p LED-Backlit LCD HD Television, model no. E420-A0, for $298 with free shipping. That's tied with our mention of a refurb from December as one of the least expensive 42" 1080p LED LCD HDTVs we've ever seen. (It's also $104 under the price of a new unit.) Features include a 1920x1080 (1080p) native resolution, LED backlight, USB, and two HDMI inputs.
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Alexander Olch Designs for Colette
American movie director and fashion designer Alexander Olch has been dressing Harvard alum and various high-class nightclub goers for years and now he's created a collection of men's accessories for Colette including neckties, bow ties, and handkerchiefs all in a very spunky and brand-friendly pattern of blue-on-white or white-on-blue. The line is made of 100% printed English cotton and comes with fun (although seemingly de-masculating) names like The Little Guy Pocket Round and (shown here) The Little Guy Necktie. The line will be available at Colette through January 29th. €60 - €185
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After more than four decades of research, it is still unclear how much rape and sexually violent activity occurs in prisons, jails, and other corrections facilities in the United States. What is clear from research is that, as with rape in free society, prison rape goes largely unreported.
Of the hundreds of studies in institutional corrections, less than 25 research studies have been conducted on prison rape. Of those studies, some asked inmates to describe their victimizations, including nonconsensual activities other than rape, while others examined official reports filed by inmates. Because none of these studies were national in scope, it remains difficult to estimate the extent of the problem. A meta-analysis of this research estimates a 1.91 percent lifetime prevalence for all inmates in the United States. [1]
In 2004, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) examined administrative records from adult and juvenile facilities at State and local levels. According to these official records, slightly more than 8,000 male, female, and juvenile inmates—or 0.005 percent of the total incarcerated population—reported that they had been victims of sexual violence while incarcerated. An even smaller percentage of inmates' claims were substantiated. [2]
Thus, although the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) 2003 states that 13 percent of all inmates have been raped in American prisons and jails, the most recent research estimates less prevalence of rape, whether inmate-on-inmate or staff-on-inmate sexual misconduct.[3], [4]
Whether the number of prison rapes is large or small, the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 requires that Federal, State, and local correctional facilities maintain and enforce a zero-tolerance policy on sexual assault, including inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate misconduct. NIJ was given the task under PREA to conduct research on rape in prisons, jails, and lock-up facilities.
Learn about the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Next section: Research Findings on Prison Rape
[1] Gaes, G.G., and A.L. Goldberg, Prison Rape: A Critical Review of the Literature, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2004, NCJ 213365.
[2], [4] Beck, A.G., and T.A. Hughes, Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2004. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 210333.
[3] Bureau of Justice Statistics, Data Collections for the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 206109.


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Our facilities include hairdryers and shaving points. Showers are hot and free. As well as the ladies' and gents' we have family rooms with a shower, WC and basin in one room like at home. We also have a disabled wet room.
Our play area is a favourite with young children, with a toddler swing, swing, climbing frame, monkey bars, climbing wall and slide. There's also a picnic table, and table top tennis/ping pong in the play area.
As well as being child-friendly, we also welcome well-behaved dogs and we have a field for dogs to roam off the lead. Elsewhere, dogs must be kept on leads at all times.
We have a great takeaway for breakfast and evening meals, serving a full English or bacon sandwiches and more for breakfast or a large selection of evening meals including pizza, chilli, curry and traditional fish and chips. Steve's curry is a favourite with many of the regulars!
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The Day of Surgery
- Take another bath or shower with Hibiclens or any antibacterial soap, to reduce the chance of infection.
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- You may brush your teeth and rinse your mouth, but do not swallow any water.
- Do not apply perfume, powder, body lotions or deodorant on the day of surgery.
- If you choose to wear makeup, it should be minimal. Limit mascara. No false eye lashes. Nail polish should be removed.
- Wear comfortable clothes, such as a button front shirt and loose fitting pants.
- Leave all jewelry, including body piercings, and valuables at home.
- Hairpins and clasps must be removed before you enter the operating room.
- You may wear glasses, dentures, and hearing aids before and after surgery. They may need to be removed before going into the operating room. Contact lenses worn before surgery must be removed before entering the operating room. Please bring a case for your hearing aids, glasses, and/or contacts.
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Picos de Europa Adventure Holidays
The Picos National Park was the first in Spain, and contains some of the finest and wildest scenery on the Iberian peninsula. Picos Europa, so remote in places that bears and wolves still survive here. The Picos are ideal for walking holidays, dotted with tiny villages and mountain huts. Mountain biking in the Picos is a well established sport, and there are enough different activities to fill a week of 'flexi' options.The Naranjo de Bulnes is one of the most spectacular limestone monoliths anywhere. The Picos are just a stones throw from the beaches of northern Spain, and walking in the Cares gorge is, for such a spectacular walk, surprisingly easy on the legs.


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Senate Armed Services Committee Considers Vice Admiral Michael Rogers Nomination as NSA Chief
At the height of the Vietnam War, the National Security Agency secretly monitored the overseas communications of two U.S. senators -- as well as those of boxer Muhammad Ali, civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and prominent journalists -- as part of a secret surveillance program, a newly declassified document revealed Tuesday
The disclosures about "Operation Minaret" -- the code name of the NSA program that targeted anti-war critics-- were contained in a previously classified paragraph of an internal history of the agency. It was made public in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by historian Matthew Aid and the National Security Archive, a group that advocates for public disclosure about the intelligence community.
The paragraph identifies for the first time seven individuals who were on the NSA's "watch list" of 1,650 U.S. citizens whose overseas phone calls and cables were monitored under Operation Minaret: Idaho Democratic Sen. Frank Church, Tennessee Republican Sen. Howard Baker, New York Times columnist Tom Wicker, Washington Post humor columnist Art Buchwald, civil rights leaders King and Whitney Young and Ali.
It was not immediately known why those seven names were singled out in the account written by NSA historian Tom Johnson. Many of those listed were critics of the war, but Baker was a supporter of the conflict.
"None of the seven people who are on the list could in any way, shape or form be considered a threat to national security," said Aid, who has fought for years to have the list declassified.
The existence of Operation Minaret was first disclosed by the Senate committee headed by Church in 1975. The committee's disclosures about intelligence agency abuses lead to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which required warrants by a special national security court before the NSA could intercept the communications of U.S. citizens.
According to the secret NSA history, Minaret grew out of concerns by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson that the anti-Vietnam War movement was receiving assistance from overseas. He tasked the intelligence community to find evidence of this, and the FBI provided most of the names for the secret NSA watch list. The NSA added 13 names-- including those of two spies and an Air Force analyst who had leaked names about surveillance activities to journalists.
The secret history by Johnson said NSA officials understood at the time that the program was "disreputable if not outright illegal."
The disclosure of some names on the watch list came as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA Director Keith Alexander testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee in defense of NSA surveillance programs recently revealed by former government security contractor Edward Snowden.
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Let me start off by saying my confidence in the Big Banks is wearing very thin. From Bank of America's (BAC) calling out of JPMorgan Chase (JPM) over who happens to be the smarter bank when it comes to derivatives, and Morgan Stanley (MS) at the center of the Facebook (FB) IPO scandal, there really isn't any short term benefit to the retail investor. The Big Banks may have the capability of posting some nice returns, but I strongly believe they will be short lived. As an alternative to the Big Banks, I've compiled a list of Midwest Regional banks that yield at least 4% and allow retail investors the ability to sleep much easier at night.
Park National Corporation (PRK) - Founded in 1908 and based in Newark, Ohio, Park National Corporation currently trades at a P/E ratio of 11.91 and yields 5.8% making the stock very inexpensive by most investing standards. Analysts are expecting to PRK to earn $1.14/share on revenue of $76.25 million, which they should considering their most recent earnings trend. PRK has surpassed analysts' estimates in three of the last four quarters by an average beat of 25.36%. One thing that should sit very well with investors is the fact the company announced on April 20th that it has the ability to repay the TARP package the Federal Government had allocated as part of their 2008 bailout package.
The strategy here is to start small and then build up your position as you move forward. In the beginning I'd establish a small to moderate position, and then as the company's earnings announcement draws near begin to increase my position.
First Merit Corporation (FMER) - Founded in 1855, and based in Akron, Ohio, First Merit Corporation currently trades at a P/E ratio of 14.22 and currently yields 4% which makes the stock cheap by most standards. Analysts are expecting FMER to earn $0.28/share on revenue of $174.94 million dollars in revenue. If we examine the last three quarters FMER reported, investors will be pleased to see that they've beaten EPS estimates by an average of 9%, which leads me to believe that posting EPS results of $0.32/share on revenue of $181.44 million isn't out of the question. In an effort to cut capital spending FMER announced they were recently closing 8 branches and reducing their workforce by 340 employees.
I'd begin be establishing a moderate to medium sized position at these levels for two reasons. The company has a great dividend and management is very conscious of the way it utilizes certain type of capital. By implementing a cost-cutting strategy the company will begin to save nearly $45 million dollars over the next 18-24 months, I would consider increasing my position on a regular position over the next few quarters.


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You can buy iWork now, and no doubt thousands of people are doing just that.
The important thing to remember is that iWork is not competing with Microsoft Office. Sure, there are similar features, and admittedly Keynote does compete more directly with Powerpoint.
But iWork is not an office productivity suite, nor is it intended to be. There used to be some heated arguments about this; some people said Apple was working on a word processor to compete with Word; others said such a move would annoy Microsoft, and Apple couldn't afford to lose Office:mac.
With hindsight, we can see that both of these were simplistic views. Apple has created Pages, and it does process words, but it's not going to compete with Word. It's a consumer-level desktop publishing app; it's iMovie for paper. It means ordinary people can make spectacular printed documents.
Microsoft's Apple Business Unit has invested too much in Office:mac to give up just because Pages has come along. They certainly don't consider it a competing app, either. It simply doesn't offer anything like the feature set found in Word; look at the screenshots at Apple-x.net and you'll see what I mean.
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