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By Gaurav Sharma | CFO UK | Published 14:11, 03 December 12
Risk and compliance salaries are expected to rise at rate above other segments of the accounting profession as overall recruitment in the City financial services industry falls to its lowest level in 5 years.
According to Robert Half Financial Services, risk and compliance audit salaries are expected to rise by 5.4 percent in 2013, while most other segments of the accounting profession will see rises between 2.5 percent and 3.6 percent.
Salary for management positions for regulatory accountants should rise by 3.7 percent, while an accountant with 4 to 7 years' post qualification experience could expect a 2.5 percent rise. Newly qualified professionals to those with 3-years' post qualification experience could see a 3.6 percent rise, while others should see a 3.4 percent increase.
Robert Half attributed the rise in compliance salaries to increasing regulation and finance functions. Its managing director, Phil Sheridan, said, "Professionals are benefitting as companies look for additional insight and strategy into business process improvement, cost savings and new sources of revenue."
Meanwhile, city recruitment firm Astbury Marsden said on Monday that London's financial services sector suffered its worst November for hiring for 5 years with the number of new jobs created falling by a third in year-over-year terms.
A mere 1,790 new finance jobs were created in London last month down from 2,670 in November last year and 13,000 in November 2007, before the onset of the global financial crisis.
In a separate study, another recruitment consultancy Morgan McKinley found that there were 2,079 new financial services jobs in November; a 24 percent drop on an annualised basis.
It also added that the number of job-seeking professionals in London's financial sector is now at its lowest level since January 2004.
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Hersh Fine Art, a new gallery of contemporary art in Glen Cove, opens its doors this week to the public with its inaugural exhibition, "Fiction / Non-Fiction." The exhibition will run through June 3. All are welcome to its opening reception, which is expected to draw a large and varied crowd, on Friday, April 20, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The gallery occupies a previously empty storefront space just across from City Hall, on Glen Street, bringing vital new energy to a beautiful and deserving area of the city.
Last month, the senior center and its program was selected as the recipient of the 2012 MindAlert Award in the Lifelong Learning/Third Age Educational Programs category by the American Society on Aging, in collaboration with MetLife Foundation. The program is a multidimensional lifelong learning program that provides new opportunities for mental stimulation and retention, socialization, and may spark an interest for continuous learning among program participants.
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The North Shore Board of Education officially adopted a proposed budget for the 2012-13 school year on March 29 at North Shore Middle School.
The $90,509,228 budget represents a 1.85 percent increase from the 2011-12 school year. That percentage represents the smallest budget-to-budget increase in two decades, according to fliers made available by the board at the meeting.
Though the budget will not be adopted until next month, the Glen Cove City School District Board of Education trustees voted – after much discussion – to stay at the 2 percent tax levy for the 2012-13 school year. A large part of the three-hour-long meeting revolved around the "fine print" involved in the tax cap law number, each of the board members' view on that law and what it means for Glen Cove public schools.
After being selected, last fall, as one of the top 100 communities for young people, the City of Glen Cove held a celebration honoring those youth at the Finley Middle School cafeteria last week. The party drew a crowd of students, parents, siblings, teachers and members of local government and organizations.
The kids enjoyed themselves eating pizza and painting their faces prior to the award ceremony. The Glen Cove High School production studio created a video highlighting all that the city has to offer, which played right before the awards ceremony. Awards were presented to the children by Mayor Ralph V. Suozzi and Deputy Mayor Maureen Basdavanos, and citations were given to the city by Mayor Bruce Kennedy on behalf of the Village of Sea Cliff, by Delia DeRiggi-Whitton and by Assemblyman Charles Lavine, congratulating the city for achieving this status.
The North Shore School Board had to wrangle with budget constraints and the resulting cutbacks at its latest meeting even though a budget discussion was not on the agenda. North Shore High School students and residents spoke to the board to protest proposed cuts to North Shore's foreign language program.
"The students here are not going to see the effects of these cuts," said a North Shore student to the board. "We are here genuinely as concerned citizens of this school district. Languages, learning about other cultures, being able to communicate with other cultures, [and] developing our brains are an essential component to having a full, healthy, meaningful, and fun education."
As the contested election for the Village of Sea Cliff Board of Trustees draws near, residents have to weigh in on the three candidates vying for the two open positions. Tom Powell and Peter Hayes of the Civic Progress Party are seeking re-election, while Anthony Losquadro of the newly formed Property Owner's Party is running for the first time. The village held a "Meet the Candidates" forum last week to give the candidates an opportunity to give their statements about their reasons for running for office as well as to give the public a chance to ask questions.
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I always felt like it was a beautiful way to show how their love changed them , and their destiny. It impacted their life forever even if they were apart. Angel was about to kill himself , thinking he was brave by giving up but Buffy teached him that strong means fighting and to never give up. She gave him a purpose , a goal , a meaning to his life. The show ends with Angel still fighting even when the world is against him. Angel sacrificied his love her , the only woman he ever loved for two centuries , the woman that made him feel human again because he wanted her to have a normal life , to shine and that's how the show , after 7 seasons , ends. Angel gave her the necklace ( that also saved the world ), ending their meeting with the famous "I ain't getting older" in response to Buffy's thoughts that they may end up together , if she is done baking ;).


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- Yield Serves 4 servings
- Prep 5 minutes
- Cook 10-15 minutes
A great light supper or appetizer to eat out of hand.
Look for peanut sauce in the ethnic section of your supermarket.
- 1 1/2 pounds ground beef (95 percent lean)
- 1/2 cup hoisin sauce
- 1/2 cup jarred peanut sauce
- 1 medium cucumber, seeded and chopped
- 1/2 cup shredded carrot
- 1/4 cup torn fresh mint
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 12 large Boston lettuce leaves (about 2 heads) or iceberg or romaine lettuce
- Fresh mint
- Brown ground beef in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes or until no longer pink, breaking up into small crumbles. Pour off drippings. Stir in hoisin sauce and peanut sauce; heat through.
- Just before serving, add cucumber, carrots and torn mint; toss gently. Season with salt and pepper. Serve beef mixture in lettuce leaves. Garnish with mint and serve with your favorite peanut sauce.
Recipe adapted from The Healthy Beef Cookbook, by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the American Dietetic Association (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2006).


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Staten Island, N.Y. – Some people may not really care about the team at this time of year. Its the beginning of the off-season. The Stanley Cup Final is still going on & other than the Rangers signing a new head coach there isn't much exciting news in the news at the moment.
After the New York Rangers landed big name forward Rick Nash last off-season, they quickly became the big man on campus & a heavy favorite to win the Stanley Cup. Well that dream came to an end when they lost to the Boston Bruins in 5 games in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Now some may sit and wonder, in what years will it be the best chance for this team to bring Lord Stanley back to the City that Never Sleeps? Well the time is now. I give this team the next 2 seasons as they're best chances to get it done. Here's why:
Anybody who has been on capgeek.com knows what the Rangers roster looks like in the next two seasons, and if you haven't you should go take a look. Be careful not to eat before hand, the amount of red and blue you may see might make you sick.
Rangers UFA this season: Rangers RFA this season:
– Ryane Clowe – Derek Stepan
– Roman Hamrlik – Carl Hagelin
– Steve Eminger – Mats Zuccarello
– Matt Gilroy – Ryan McDonagh
Rangers UFA next season: Rangers RFA next season:
– Ryan Callahan – Derrick Brassard
– Brian Boyle – Chris Kreider
– Taylor Pyatt – Michael Del Zotto
– Darrol Powe – John Moore
– Aaron Asham
– Dan Girardi
– Anton Stralman
– Henrik Lundqvist
– Martin Biron
So basically, the majority of the teams contracts will be up in the next two seasons. Yes, Glen Sather & Co. will do everything in their power to re-sign every key piece to this team, but lets face it you cant have your cake and eat it too. If you read my post earlier in the off-season about Brad Richards I posted that I figured the organization would get Zucc, Stepan, Mac, Hagelin, & Clowe under contract IF they buyout Richards. We can only wait on that part & after hearing Clowe may have suffered 3 concussions from late March to the end of April I'm not entirely sure you take the risk on him. So if you can manage to get those other 4 under contract, basically this season may be the BEST chance this team has at winning the Cup. Or else pretty soon us die-hards may have to go through the brutal process of waiting to watch the team rebuild.
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Critics charge program invites fraud
Senators are raising questions about abuses of current contracting preferences given to companies owned by Alaska natives.
Critics have long charged that the Alaska Native Corporation set-aside program invites fraud, enabling large companies to gain access to lucrative sole-source contracts by becoming partners of qualified Alaskan companies. A Senate subcommittee has now validated that accusation.
"Nobody begrudges giving small, disadvantaged businesses a chance to win federal contracts," said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Contracting Oversight Subcommittee. "But the Alaska Native Corporations have used their special preferences to bust the door down."
The subcommittee held a hearing July 16 to examine the program. Debra Witt, assistant inspector general for auditing with the Small Business Administration's IG office, referred in her testimony to prior IG and Government Accountability Office audits that "have shown that non-competitive contracts have been misused, resulting in wasted taxpayer resources, poor contractor performance and inadequate accountability for results."
From 2000 to 2008, the spending on ANC contracts increased 915 percent, from $600 million to $5.2 billion, an average annual increase of 33.6 percent, according to a statement from members of the subcommittee. By comparison, overall contract spending increased only 149 percent during that time.
Since 1986, Congress has extended special procurement advantages to ANCs in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) program. They can receive sole-source contracts for any dollar amount, unlike businesses in other categories that face a cap.
Last week, in advance of the hearing, a coalition of American Indian tribes and organizations called Native8(a)works launched an effort to tell Congress their side of the story: that for them, the program works as intended, bringing much-needed revenue into small, isolated communities in Alaska.
"The original congressional mandate was 'Go forth and prosper,' and some of us have done exactly that," said Helvi Sandvik, president of NANA Development, an ANC. "For many native-owned companies, this is the one program that finally is beginning to make a difference."
NANA Regional, the parent company of NANA Development, ranked No. 47 on Washington Technology's 2009 Top 100 List. Its federal business nearly doubled from 2007 to 2008.
Meanwhile, senators are raising and investigating questions about the value of the program.
"If we take a hard look at the numbers, only about $615 a year in money, scholarships and other benefits goes back to each member of the Alaska Native community," McCaskill said.
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This is another example of the federal government gone wild with tax payer money. All Small Businesses need a break with the current economy. Open the playing field and allow all us small businesses to compete. No more set asides, no more 8A, this is nothing more than wasting tax dollars on sometimes less than capable companies. KT
Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) initiated a study by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska earlier this month. The study found that 70% of all Native corp. dividends went to their shareholders. In rural Alaska, where a gallon of milk costs $11 and jobs are scarce, these dividends are vital to survival.
What is "fraudulent" about the program? It was created by the U.S. Congress, and despite the Native share of federal contracts "skyrocketing," Native corps. receive only about 1% of all federal contracts.
The program is working exactly as it was intended. That's the bottom line.
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These beautiful hand-made dolls are produced by survivors of rape and sexual violence through the Arts With Hearts program. Arts with Hearts is a Social Enterprise that raises money for RSVP (Rape and Sexual Violence Project), RSVP have seen an increased demand for counselling this year and are badly in need of more counsellors. Making a purchase from the Nana Gina Doll collection would be a great help in the push towards achieving this goal.
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The Folksy Summer School is coming! Over one weekend in August we'll be sharing the best advice from some of the most inspirational and experienced people in the UK on how designers, makers and crafters can be the best at what they do. It's all going to happen in a beautiful wood on the outskirts of Sheffield on the 10th & 11th August. We're VERY excited.
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I am branching out by selling some of my photos as prints and blank greetings cards. Half the profits will go to http://www.rsvporg.co.uk/About.html (Rape and Sexual Violence Project, West Midlands).
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In case you missed it, the Enquirer ran a story last weekend recapping Hamilton County's stadium fund crisis and just how serious the problem is. It also explained why the 1996 financing model–once thought to be a good deal–has gone so far south.
In addition to cost overruns, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2008-2009 recession, Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes blames another factor on the fund's decline– The Banks project.
This didn't make the story, but here's what Rhodes says on that front.
Rhodes, one of the most vocal critics, says the fund was never intended to finance The Banks and that the county, which has known for years the deficit was coming, shouldn't have spent a dime on the project.
"The problem with the stadium fund is mission creep," said Rhodes. "They decided this (sales tax) gave them carte blanche to remake the whole riverfront. They're like kids in a candy store with taxpayer money and now when the chickens are coming home to roost there's a lot of hand-wringing."
The county using Stadium fund money to help fund the parking garage, street grid and utility work for the long-envisioned public-private residential and retail development sprouting between Paul Brown Stadium and the Great American Ball Park. The county spent $2.16 million in stadium fund dollars on the project last year and has budgeted $2.67 million this year. The fund also has paid for millions in legal fees over the years for The Banks and other riverfront issues. Private developers will build the restaurants, retail and apartments.
Rhodes doesn't think the public would support a sales tax hike to bail out the fund until the county stops spending on this "extra stuff," he said.
But others, including Commissioners Todd Portune and David Pepper, say the riverfront garages and street grid under construction are a legitimate use of stadium dollars. They note the project promises jobs and economic growth.
Given the impending deficit, commissioners agreed to cut back 2010 spending for The Banks and haven't budgeted anything for the second phase of the project. Even if they completely eliminating spending on The Banks it wouldn't amount anywhere near enough to fix the fund, said project supporters.
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17. Oakland Raiders (8-8) (traded to Cincinnati)-Michael Floyd, WR, Norte Dame
I don't think the Bengals entered the draft considering taking a player like Michael Floyd, but if he happens to be available at this spot how do you pass it up? Imagine having Floyd on one side and A.J. Green on the other side. There are still doubts about whether or not Dalton has much higher of a ceiling, well if he has A.J. Green and Floyd to throw too with Jermaine Gresham and Jerome Simpson and Jordan Shipley, he'll never be able to blame the talent around him.
I'll write it again-I don't love the talent in this draft so teams should just take the best player available and hope it pans out. Floyd is a terrific prospect, except for that pesky baggage.
18. San Diego Chargers (8-8)-Courtney Upshaw, LB, Alabama Crimson Tide
I think this is an ideal pick for the Chargers. They need a pass rusher and Upshaw is a pretty darn good one.
19. Chicago Bears (8-8)-Peter Konz, C, Wisconsin
Every year the Bears draft OL and every year their OL stink. Well here comes another offensive linemen. Konz is a vastly superior prospect, to me, than Mike Pouncey of a year ago and good value here. Perhaps the Bears also consider a Dwayne Allen here (though it's about 15 spots too early) with Martz out, they could use a real tight end.
20. Tennessee Titans (9-7)-Whitney Mercilus, DE, Illinois
Derrick Morgan hasn't developed quite the way the Titans had hoped probably due to numerous injuries, but they could look to grab a talent like Mercilus if he's available at this point. He was one of the most productive players in College Football this year, I'd also be stunned if they didn't consider adding a wide receiver here.
21. Cincinnati Bengals (9-7)-Lamar Miller, RB, Miami Hurricanes
The Bengals run game needs to improve if they want to be a balanced offense. With two first round picks here the Bengals can go in any number of directions. I think this draft is a bit down so the Bengals should really just grab the top players on their board and move forward with the new infusion of talent. Miller can run between the tackles, but unlike Benson also brings big play ability to the table.
22. Atlanta Falcons (10-6)(traded to Cleveland)-Kendall Wright, WR, Baylor Bears
If at all possible, the Browns need to find a way to improve their offense. If they are not going to take Robert Griffin III they should at least give Colt McCoy a real option at the wide receiver position. I think Justin Blackmon is the ideal fit for their offense, but he might not be available at #4 overall, if not they could use their second first round pick to add a player who brings a lot of speed to the position and an ability to rack up the yards after the catch.
23. Detroit Lions (10-6)-Mark Barron, S, Alabama Crimson Tide
The Lions need to improve their secondary. Pairing Barron with Louis Delmas would give the Lions two smart, tough, athletic safeties in the back of their defense, which might improve the whole defense. Barron won't get beaten deep often because he's out of position, that's for sure.
24. Pittsburgh Steelers (12-4)-Janoris Jenkins, CB, Northern Alabama
If anyone watched Ike Taylor (the best CB on the team) play in the playoffs you realize how much talent is needed at the cornerback position for the Steelers. Yes, OL is also a bit of a worry as is replenishing the talent on an aging defensive line, but cornerback offers the best value here and fills a huge need. Jenkins also has some character issues, but is a terrific prospect and was potentially a top 15 pick last year had he kept out of trouble off the field.
25. Denver Broncos (8-8)*-Jerel Worthy, DT, Michigan State
Worthy had an impressive bowl game and has had some big time games this season. You'd like to see a bit more consistency, but he's always had 1st round physical ability. The Broncos have ok weapons on offense though they could use an upgrade at Tight End, another WR, and another RB the value's not here with this selection. They need to beef up the interior of their defensive line.
26. New York Giants (9-7)*-Cordy Glenn, G/T, Georgia
The Giants offensive line is playing better as of late, but Kareem McKenzie looks like he's on his last leg. The Giants like versatility in their offensive linemen and Glenn has shown this year that he is athletic enough to play tackle. He has great size and is powerful. Adding Glenn would provide talent and depth to any of the guard spots or tackle spots, even though the Giants have some young talent they like there with Mitch Petrus and James Brewer I wouldn't be surprised to see them make this move.
27. Houston Texans (10-6)*-Mohamed Sanu, WR, Rutgers
This is a position I've mocked to the Texans a few times, often looking at Kendall Wright the WR out of Baylor who has the best speed of potential first round WR picks. Sanu is a fringe first round guy who is a jack of all trades and does everything for Rutgers. Sanu has been compared to Hakeem Nicks by Dan Kadar of mocking the draft which might be a bit of a generous comparison. Sanu can be Brad Smith, if Brad Smith was a legitimate #2 WR option. The Texans should find someone to play opposite of Andre Johnson in this draft.
28. Baltimore Ravens (12-4)*-Vontaze Burfict, LB, Arizona State University
At this point you have to take a chance on the potential next Ray Lewis. Burfict is supremely talented, he just doesn't have great instincts and can't play consistently under control. The Ravens will coach that out of him, and if they can't it's not meant to be and no one probably would get the best out of him.
29. New Orleans Saints (13-3)*(traded to New England)-Brandon Thompson, DL, Clemson Tigers
The Patriots need to beef up their defense in whatever way they can during the off-season either through free agency and draft. I think one of these years the Patriots will actually use both of their first round picks one of these teams while the Tom Brady window is still open I'd think.
30. San Francisco 49ers (13-3)*-Jamell Fleming, Oklahoma Sooners
Late in the first round in mock drafts, I always like to highlight a player I think has a big chance of shooting up draft boards between now and the draft. I don't think Fleming is a first round talent, but his stock could really emerge during the pre-draft process. Be on the lookout for him.
31. New England Patriots (13-3)* -Luke Kuechly, LB, Boston College
Kuechly's better than the 31st overall prospect, but players who lack elite measurables sometimes have a habit of slipping in the draft despite how productive they have been in college football for example James Laurinatis, Paul Poz, and Rey Maluaga. Kuechly could be the next and everyone's loss is the Patriots gain.
32. Green Bay Packers (15-1)*-Melvin Ingram, OLB, South Carolina
The Packers have done a great job of creating turnovers this year, but haven't been able to stop anyone really. It could be their undoing in the playoffs, though that remains to be seen. Melvin Ingram is a very talented player who is versatile at the College level, but will likely have to move off the line and play in the 34. Ingram can play opposite Matthews to give the Packers defense some more teeth and play-makers.
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Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) is a specific gaze abnormality characterized by impaired horizontal eye movement with weak adduction of the affected eye and abduction nystagmus of the contralateral eye. It is one of the most localizing brainstem syndromes, resulting from a lesion in the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) in the dorsomedial brainstem tegmentum of either the pons or the midbrain [1].
Foveation or visual targeting with binocular fusion and stereoscopy (depth perception) requires highly synchronous eye movements that place objects of visual interest on the corresponding points of both retinas. This process is dependent upon the precise coordination between cranial nerves III, IV, and VI and their interneuronal pathways that project through the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) (figure 1).
The paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF) is often referred to as the conjugate gaze center for horizontal eye movements. During horizontal eye movement, the PPRF burst cells innervate the abducens nucleus, which contains two distinctive sets of neurons. Axons from the abducens motorneurons innervate the ipsilateral lateral rectus muscle. Axons of the abducens interneurons cross the midline to become the MLF and subsequently innervate the medial rectus subnucleus of the oculomotor complex (cranial nerve nucleus III) and finally the medial rectus muscle.
The MLF exists as a pair of white matter fiber tracts that lie near the midline just under the fourth ventricle and cerebral aqueduct and extend through the dorsomedial pontine and midbrain tegmentum. Because of their close physical proximity, bilateral injury is common.
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And it's gonna be fucking awesome or else I'll burn this world down to the ground. Or just be a sad panda. Whichever is easier.
I can't be the only person to worry about Elijah Wood sometimes.
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So tired…
So ive been working two jobs lately and jesus christ let me tell you this shit sucks.
I recently moved out of my fathers house and don't have the extra stress holding me down. It's pretty nice not having to deal with anybody elses shit :)
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Last straw.
Because yes, talking down to me, insulting me for FUCKING NOTHING and then ordering me around like I'm ten years old is how you get me to give a shit. I will burn this house down quicker than I will give a shit what you have to say.
A food blog just started following me…
This is what I have become…
Oh well
Life hits hard…
and I'm just not sure how I can handle it anymore…
I'm getting kicked out of my house because of my "disrespectful attitude" how I "refuse to help out" and how I "post things to my facebook that make [someone] out to be an asshole for the family to see"
The disrespectful attitude is because I don't do housework or yard work. I don't do these things because I work graveyards and am only ever home for about 6 hours at a time to sleep. I wake up, shower and take off again.
The refuses to help out part is because I wouldn't give my dad an additional $250 last month. I didn't want to because I have my own bills that I haven't paid on in nearly three years. I haven't been able to pay on that because I was unemployed for a long time and only got jobs that were minimum wage and low hours. I only recently found a job that pays decent. It's 9 an hour at 40 a week so my checks (without overtime) are roughly 640. This is literally 10% of what my dad makes. Another reason I didn't want to give him that money was because I had given him $500 two weeks earlier and because the rent he charges me is $500 a month. So he got angry that I wouldn't give him an additional $250 for the month of July.
The things I posted on my Facebook that he didn't like was a picture of our empty fridge with a tub of butter in it that I captioned "Hunger Games in real life." It was purely intended as a joke but he took it to the extreme.
The basic end result is that he's kicking me out because of those reasons and included that he is tired of basically being a parent. He's upset that he got a truck that he let me use to go to work (which he never misses a chance to let me know it's not mine), paying various bills that I'm connected to in some way and feeding me for 21 years.
But what really gets me, is that my mom walked out on me and my dad when I was 13 years old and he was all I had. He basically worked all the time and I was home alone to take care of myself, him, four dogs and the house. I cooked as best I could as a 14 year old boy and I got occasional help from my sisters who were in there early 20's who didn't come around a lot…I never asked for much although I know I took a lot. I never complained about the birthdays that I didn't get anything or the Christmases where we just hung out and watched the parade on TV because we couldn't afford to get anything for one another. I was simply happy that I still had a parent who wanted me around…and now I don't even have that.
I'm not sure what else life has in store for me but I do't know if I can handle anything else at this moment. There is a weight on my shoulders that is weighing me down and it's getting harder and harder to keep on moving through everything. Two weeks ago I fell into depression because of a situation that happened with a lady who I truly enjoyed being around. This week, I was pushed further into the deep end of that depression.
You know what the kicker is? I've never done any drugs other than smoked pot from time to time (which, although I don't smoke anymore, I don't count it as a drug) and have been clean from it for over a year and a half, I attempted to join the military at 18 (which didn't work out because of an overlooked eye condition,) I've never been arrested, gotten a ticket, been in a car accident and have no kids.
But, in the eyes of my father, I've failed at every turn…
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This weekend in New York City:
- Explore Elvis' old stomping grounds. chashama, located at the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal, is open to the public for touring this weekend. Tour the studios, meet the artists, and experience the rich cultural history of the Brooklyn Army Terminal buildings. A private, guided tour is available tonight by the Municipal Art Society - tickets here. More information on Brooklyn Army Terminal tours can be found here.
- Stroll through the arts. Stories will be told by dancers, musicians, poets, and mural artists on Saturday along Lenox Avenue from 116 to 130th Street at The Harlem Story Walk.
- Make something at the World Maker Faire. Maker Faire is the greatest show (and tell) on Earth - a family-friendly festival of invention. It's not too late to buy tickets now. Plus 3 of our Next Top Maker finalists will be in action!
- Play! Saturday is Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play. Participate in activities like football, tennis drills, dancing, and double dutch with the NFL, NBA, USTA, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the YMCA of Greater NY and more at The Nethermead in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
- Ride the Red Hook ferry for a chance to win $100. Between now and September 30, Fairway Market Red Hook will be running a photo contest! Ride the ferry and snap a photo of your Red Hook adventures. Upload to Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter with the hashtag #DestinationRedHook. We'll be featuring the best images on our blog and awarding the most creative photo with a $100 Fairway gift card. There are just two more weekends to take advantage of this free ferry service on Saturday and Sunday from 10 am- 9 pm, so rain or shine, make your weekend #DestinationRedHook.
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How do you know what to charge? Hourly or flat rate? What are the market prices? Once you find the answers to these questions, many things will begin to fall into place. I have noticed, however, there are two HUGE myths floating around the design business in regards to setting prices. The two myths are essentially the same, just with two different view points and arguments. What are they you ask?Read More
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Defense researchers are looking to stem the tide of counterfeit electronic parts invading the military supply chain by developing a tiny electronic component to authenticate other electronic components.
The component, called a dielet, is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense (SHIELD) program.
DARPA is looking for proposals from industry to develop a 100-micron-x-100-micron dielet that authenticates the provenance of electronics components. The dielets, it said in a Feb. 24 announcement, should contain a full encryption engine, sensors to detect tampering and would readily affix to today's electronic components such as microchips.
DARPA will host a SHIELD program proposers' day workshop on March 14.
The proposed component is aimed at stanching the flow of used and non-authentic counterfeit electronic components that have penetrated the defense supply chain. Over the past two years, according to a Senate Armed Services Committee study, more than 1 million suspect parts have been associated with known supply chain compromises.
DARPA wants the new technology to protect against a range of threats, including recycled, unlicensed, test-rejected or falsely marked components. It also wants to weed out clones, low-quality and secretly re-packaged copies.
Counterfeit and suspect electronic components are pervasive, targeting both expensive and inexpensive electronic parts, threatening to introduce critical weak points in weapons and defense information systems, according to DARPA. The new program looks to develop a tool to verify, without disrupting or harming the system, the trustworthiness of a protected electronic component. The dielet will be inserted into the electronic component's package at the manufacturing site or affixed to existing trusted components, without any alteration of the host component's design or reliability, said the agency.
According to DARPA, the dielet would not be connected electronically to the component it accompanies, and authenticity testing could be done anywhere with a handheld probe or with an automated one for larger volumes.
After a scan, an inexpensive appliance, like a smartphone, would upload a serial number to a central, industry-owned server. The server would then send an unencrypted challenge to the dielet, which sends back an encrypted answer and data from passive sensors—like light exposure—that could indicate tampering.
"SHIELD demands a tool that costs less than a penny per unit, yet makes counterfeiting too expensive and technically difficult to do," Kerry Bernstein, DARPA program manager, said in the agency statement. "The dielet will be designed to be robust in operation, yet fragile in the face of tampering. What SHIELD is seeking is a very advanced piece of hardware that will offer an on-demand authentication method never before available to the supply chain."
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All roads lead to? Experiments with Gephi, Linked Data and Wikipedia
Gephi is "an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs". Tony Hirst did a great blog post a while back showing how you could use Gephi together with DBpedia (a linked data version of Wikipedia) to map an influence network in the world of philosophy. Gephi offers a semantic web plugin which allows you to work with the web of linked data. I recommend you read Tony's blog to get started with using that plugin with Gephi. I was interested to experiment with this plugin, and to look at what sort of geospatial visualisations could be possible.
If you want to follow all the steps in this post you will need to:
- Install Gephi
- Install the geolayout plugin
- Install the 'recast column plugin'
- Install the semantic web plugin
- Read Tony's blog
Initially I was interested to see if there were any interesting networks we might visualise between places. In order to see how Wikipedia relates one place to another was a simple case of going to the DBpedia SPARQL endpoint and trying the following query:
select distinct ?p
?s a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?o a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?s ?p ?o .
- where s and o are places, find me what 'p' relates them. I noticed two properties 'http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeStart' and 'http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeEnd' so I thought I would try to visualise how places round the world were linked by transport connections. To find places connected by a transport link you want to find pairs 'start' and 'end' that are the route start and route end, respectively, of some transport link. You can do this with the following query:
select ?start ?end
?start a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?end a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeStart> ?start .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeEnd> ?end .
This gives a lot of data so I thought I would restrict the links to be only road links:
select ?start ?end
{?start a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?end a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeStart> ?start .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeEnd> ?end .
?link a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Road> . }
We are now ready to visualise this transport network in Gephi. Follow the steps in Tony's blog to bring up the Semantic Web Importer. In the 'driver' tab make sure 'Remote – SOAP endpoint' is selected, and the EndPoint URL is http://dbpedia.org/sparql. In an analogous way to Tony's blog we need to construct our graph so we can visualise it. To simply view the connections between places it would be enough to just add this query to the 'Query' tab:
construct {?start <http://foo.com/connectedTo> ?end}
?start a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?end a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeStart> ?start .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeEnd> ?end .
?link a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Road> .
However, as we want to visualise this in a geospatial context we need the lat and long of the start and end points so our construct query becomes a bit more complicated:
prefix gephi:<http://gephi.org/>
construct {
?start gephi:label ?labelstart .
?end gephi:label ?labelend .
?start gephi:lat ?minlat .
?start gephi:long ?minlong .
?end gephi:lat ?minlat2 .
?end gephi:long ?minlong2 .
?start <http://foo.com/connectedTo> ?end}
?start a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?end a <http://schema.org/Place> .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeStart> ?start .
?link <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/routeEnd> ?end .
?link a <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Road> .
{select ?start (MIN(?lat) AS ?minlat) (MIN(?long) AS ?minlong) where {?start <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#lat> ?lat . ?start <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#long> ?long .} }
{select ?end (MIN(?lat2) AS ?minlat2) (MIN(?long2) AS ?minlong2) where {?end <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#lat> ?lat2 . ?end <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#long> ?long2 .} }
?start <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> ?labelstart .
?end <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> ?labelend .
FILTER (lang(?labelstart) = 'en')
FILTER (lang(?labelend) = 'en')
Note that query for the lat and long is a bit more complicated that it might be. This is because DBpedia data is quite messy, and many entities will have more than one lat/long pair. I used a subquery in SPARQL to pull out the minimum lat/long for all the pairs retrieved. Additionally I also retrieved the English labels for each of the start/end points.
Now copy/paste this construct query into the 'Query' tab on the Semantic Web Importer:
Now hit the run button and watch the data load.
To visual the data we need to do a bit more work. In Gephi click on the 'Data Laboratory' and you should now see your data table. Unfortunately all of the lats and longs have been imported as strings and we need to recast them as decimals. To do this click on the 'More actions' pull down menu and look for 'Recast column' and click it. In the 'Recast manipulator' window go to 'column' and select 'lat(Node Table)' from the pull down menu. Under 'Convert to' select 'Double' and click recast. Do the same for 'long'.
when you are done click 'ok' and return to the 'overview' tab in Gephi. To see this data geospatially go to the layout panel and select 'Geo Layout'. Change the latitude and longitude to your new recast variable names, and unclick 'center' (my graph kept vanishing with it selected). Experiment with the scale value:
You should now see something like this:
in your display panel (click image to view in higher resolution).
Given that this is supposed to be a road network you will find some oddities. This it seems to down to 'European routes' like European route E15 that link from Scotland down to Spain.
A Crude BBC Places Linked Data mashup
Last night I did some more experimenting with the Python rdflib directory. This time I did a crude (it's not that pretty or polished yet) mashup of some of the BBC linked data and DBpedia linked data.
The Beeb have been in the linked data business for a while and their initial efforts were around programmes and music (but you also check out the great linked data powered wildlife finder).
Recently they've started to experiment with tagging their programmes with relevant people, places and organisations.
I decided it might be quite nice to have a simple mashup showing TV and radio shows about different places. To this end I did a quick linked data mashup to produce some KML showing this information.
To do this I again used Python's rdflib. Here it was a simple case of following links from a place to a TV/radio programme and loading the RDF into a graph. It was then a case of executing a simple SPARQL query over this graph to get a KML file containing programme details and a lat/long coordinate for plotting it on a map. The BBC place data did not contain lat/long for all the places, but luckily they did include a 'sameAs' to the place information in DBpedia. Here all we had to do was follow the 'sameAs' link and load in the DBpedia data.
I explained how to use rdflib to do this sort of thing in my last post, but meanwhile here is the source code and here is the KML. The KML can be used with a mapping API of your choice, but for a quick view drop the KML URL into the search box on Google maps or view in Google Earth.
At the moment this is a bit clunky, but it's just a start…


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The Miami Dolphins moved up last year to get to the third overall spot in the draft. It cost their first round pick and their first of two second rounders. Jeff Ireland, in October, said he would do it again. We are now learning that the Dolphins are shopping Dion Jordan for trade. Initial reaction would be how could you but the reality is that with the new rookie wage scale in place trading a one year former first rounder isn't all that difficult.
In addition, there are now several reports circulating from other NFL club insiders that the Dolphins are also exploring, internally or quietly externally, the possibility of interests in Cameron Wake and Mike Wallace. It would seem that if the Dolphins are indeed shopping then they are not simply retooling a team that came one victory away from a playoff spot last season. This could be an overhaul of the team.
Speculation is just that. It means nothing in regards to the Wake and Wallace rumors but there is some noise surrounding a player that saw little playing time last season as the third overall pick. It's looking more and more like Jordan's failures on the field last year could be because Philbin didn't want him on the team to begin with. With NFL Combine rumors swirling that Miami was paying particular attention to the CB's it could beg the question about Will Davis and Jamar Taylor's future with the team as well.
The Dolphins could be looking to save some money on Jordan that they could use towards Paul Soliai or Randy Starks. Or both. Or it could mean they are simply moving on from a player that many don't see fitting into Miami's defensive system. Speculation, there's that word again, seems to be on Philadelphia as a possibility given Jordan's history with Chip Kelly who runs a system that Jordan excelled in.
What we don't know is if Dennis Hickey is seeing all this and is incredibly smart or incredibly stupid. We will find out soon enough.
Of course the reports come from Jason LaCanfora who isn't exactly known for breaking news.