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Tim Murray Lt. Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts View Lt. Governor's Bio Guten Tag from Dresden, Germany! As Chair of the National Lieutenant Governors Association (NLGA), it is a tremendous opportunity to visit another country and promote the great synergies between Massachusetts and Germany. Like Massachusetts, …Continue Reading Guten Tag from Dresden, Germany
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Governor Patrick celebrating Vertex Pharmaceuticals' expansion earlier this month. (Holland Hinman/Governor's Office) Governor Patrick today continued participating in the 2011 International BIO Convention, promoting Massachusetts' life sciences leadership and our strengths in the innovation economy. After a breakfast with international corporate leaders and a roundtable discussion …Continue Reading 2011 BIO Convention | Day Two
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Looking for a St. Patrick's Day craft? Check out this easy green burlap pillow.
- green burlap
- freezer paper
- white fabric paint, matte finish
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Looking for a St. Patrick's Day craft? Check out this easy green burlap pillow.
Hi! I'm Linda, the craft addict behind Craftaholics Anonymous®, a craft blog. Crafting is cheaper than therapy, right? When not crafting, I can be found chasing my 2 small {but very energetic!} boys or playing with my new baby girl. Or shoe shopping... because you can never have too many shoes! Happy crafting! ♥
That is a cute idea, I love the fringe!
ooooo this looks easy enough makes me want to go get my sewing machine from my gma's house… (been saying that for 3 yrs.. this maybe what makes me DO it:)) THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
I don't know what rock I've been hiding under, but I didn't realize there were other colors than brown burlap! Love the pillow
I didn't know there were other colors for burlap either! lol This is great.. so cute! Great job!
Great tutorial and wonderful pillow!! I have to check out your shop!
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Love the green burlap!! I'm so featuring this!
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That is darling! I love it and am totally featuring it on my Friday Favorites this week! So cute!
Way cute! I just made a couple things with green burlap for St. Patrick's Day too… check them out on my blog if you want! ;)
I love this idea! I may just need to learn how to sew!!
I am featuring your lucky pillow on my blog saturday march 13th. Come on by and check it out at simplydesigning.blogspot.com. And feel free to grab my I've Been Featured button for your blog if you like! thanks for the great idea and the tutorial!
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Getting to Campus
Transportation and parking are two crucial issues that impact most commuter students. The University of Houston offers a variety of easily accessible options to aide in the transportation needs of our commuter student population.
Parking on Campus
- Campus Map
- Printable Parking Map
- UH Parking Lot Map Availability: Live Updates
- Parking updates from twitter
Campus Shuttle Info
- Campus Loop
- ERP Loop
- Outer Loop
- Shuttle Bus Manager, provides up-to-the minute information on the shuttles routes, times, and any service announcements.
Houston Metro Info
Traffic Updates
Park and Ride Options
METRO also provides Park and Ride service, allowing commuters to drive to a nearby transit center and ride in from there. Available from most all Houston suburbs, Park and Ride service allows you to save gas and skip the frustration of rush hour traffic.
Residents along the Gulf Freeway corridor can connect via the Eastwood Transit Center and ride the Cougar Line campus shuttle. All other areas will connect to local routes at the Downtown Transit Center. View a map of Park and Ride service here, or view schedules and route information at ridemetro.org.


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At the July 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, G8 leaders pledged to cancel the debt of the world's most indebted countries. A buildup of foreign debt, owed by many low-income countries throughout the 1970s and 1980s, left many nations with unsustainable debt burdens. A number of creditors, including the main multilaterals, joined the G8 decision to provide debt relief for the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).
Ever since, Multilateral Development Banks have met on an annual basis to discuss debt and related issues. The meeting has focused on progress in the implementation and financing of the HIPC Initiative, which was launched in 1996 to call on the voluntary provision of debt relief by all creditors. Other points covered have included country-specific HIPC cases, participation of creditors as well as debt sustainability in LICs in the context of the HIPC Debt Relief Initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI).
Invitees are mainly representatives from multilateral institutions from around the world. Bilateral creditors also participate.
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - July 10 & 11, 2012
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Program Agenda
Future of the HIPC Initiative - Jeffrey Lewis - [Presentation]
The G20 Leaders' Summit: Los Cabos, June, 2012 - Jeff Chelsky - [Presentation]
Updated on Debt-Related Operations - Senait Assefa - [Presentation]
Debt Issues at the Asian Development Bank: Recent Changes and Operational Implications - Ananya Basu - [Presentation]
European Investment Bank: The EIB's HIPC Debt Relief Contribution(s): The Case of Ghana - Limits and Innovative Solutions - Robert Schmitz - [Presentation]
Debt Reduction Facility (DRF) and External Commercial Debt Buyback Operations - [Presentation]
The Fund's Debt Limits Policy: Then, Now and What's Ahead - Reza Baqir - [Presentation]
The Debt Sustainability Framework Revisited - Sudarshan Gooptu - [Presentation]
Debt Sustainability Analysis at the IDB - Eduardo A. Cavallo - [Presentation]
Implementation of the Debt Sustainability Framework - Brian Baldwin - [Presentation]
Evolving Development Financing Landscape and IDA NCBP - Clara de Sousa - [Presentation]
Update on Infrastructure Lending - Senait N. Assefa - [Presentation]
CAF's Role: Infrastructure and Development - Luis Enrique Berrizbeitia - [Presentation]
EIB Infrastructure Lending in Low-Income Countries and Debt Sustainability - Bernard Ziller - [Presentation]
Debt Management Activities - Abha Prasad - [Presentation]
Public Debt Management in MICs: Challenges and Emerging Issues - Phillip Anderson - [Presentation]
Growth and Financial Re-Balancing in Emerging Europe - Juan Zalduendo - [Presentation]
AIDFLOWS: Sources and Uses of Aid Funds - [Presentation]
Aid Flows, Sources and Aid Funds - Benoit Chervalier - [Presentation]
Innovative Financing - [Presentation]
New Lending Instruments for LICs - Josselyne Ahogny - [Presentation]
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - July 6 & 7, 2011
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - July 7 & 8, 2010
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - July 8 & 9, 2009
Multilateral Debt Relief under HIPC and MDRI - 2010 Reporting Exercise
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - July 9 & 10, 2008
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - July 11 & 12, 2007
MDB Meeting on Debt Issues - June 21 & 22, 2006
Multilateral Debt Relief under HIPC and MDRI - 2006 Reporting Exercise
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The micro pigs have arrived and are readily available in the United States and are shipped to other countries. We have a great selection of micro pigs, teacup pigs and teacup minis, and now have super micro pigs available as well. All our piglets range in adult weight from 40lbs on up to about 95 lbs (full teacup size). We offer a weight guarantee here at teacuppigsforsale.com for both the micro minis and the super micro minis. Fill out our pre-adoption form at no obligation in order to pre-qualify as a potential new parent of the one of these amazing piglets.
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Unjolee Tremone Moore is escorted into Judge Don Poole's courtroom to continue his trial in the killing of Bernard Hughes at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Courts Building on Thursday.Photo by C. B. Schmelter /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
The 27-year-old Chattanooga man on trial this week for a 2010 slaying told police that he helped plan a robbery but didn't know it would turn into a killing.
In a 2010 police interrogation recording played throughout most of Thursday afternoon in Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Don Poole's courtroom, Unjolee Moore reluctantly told Chattanooga police that he knew from friends that Bernard Hughes, 46, dealt marijuana and would be an easy target to rob.
For taking the men to Hughes' 4417 Oakwood Drive apartment, Moore was to get 40 percent of the money taken.
He never got the money. He told police he only learned Hughes had been killed a week after the June 29, 2010, shooting death.
Prosecutors Neal Pinkston and Cameron Williams finished their portion of the case late Thursday afternoon. Defense attorneys Garth Best and Kelli Black will begin their portion of the case this morning.
On the second day of the trial Wednesday, Timothy Westfield, Hughes' childhood friend who also tried to help him fend off attackers the day he was killed, testified to details of the event.
Westfield, Hughes and two others were in the victim's apartment when a knock at the door brought Hughes outside. He fought with at least two men. Westfield helped but was knocked unconscious. When he came to, Hughes was dead.
Police arrested Moore along with John Thomas "Cutthroat" Simpson, 32; Harold Francis Butler III, 33; and Steven James Ballou, 33.
Simpson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in January and agreed to testify against the other men. He was not called to testify by the prosecution.
Ballou and Butler are scheduled to be tried together on July 16. Best referenced Butler as the shooter in Hughes earlier in the trial.
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- Reform Government Surveillance — hard not to view this as a demarcation dispute. "Ruthlessly collecting every detail of online behaviour is something we do clandestinely for advertising purposes, it shouldn't be corrupted because of your obsession over national security!"
- Brian Abelson — Data Scientist at the New York Times, blogging what he finds. He tackles questions like what makes a news app "successful" and how might we measure it. Found via this engaging interview at the quease-makingly named Content Strategist.
- StageXL — Flash-like 2D package for Dart.
- BayesDB — lets users query the probable implications of their data as easily as a SQL database lets them query the data itself. Using the built-in Bayesian Query Language (BQL), users with no statistics training can solve basic data science problems, such as detecting predictive relationships between variables, inferring missing values, simulating probable observations, and identifying statistically similar database entries. Open source.
"data science" entries
Financial analytics as a service
Analytic services are tailoring their solutions for specific problems and domains
In relatively short order Amazon's internal computing services has become the world's most successful cloud computing platform. Conceived in 2003 and launched in 2006, AWS grew quickly and is now the largest web hosting company in the world. With the recent addition of Kinesis (for stream processing), AWS continues to add services and features that make it an attractive platform for many enterprises.
A few other companies have followed a similar playbook: technology investments that benefit a firm's core business, is leased out to other companies, some of whom may operate in the same industry. An important (but not well-known) example comes from finance. A widely used service provides users with clean, curated data sets and sophisticated algorithms with which to analyze them. It turns out that the world's largest asset manager makes its investment and risk management systems available to over 150 pension funds, banks, and other institutions. In addition to the $4 trillion managed by BlackRock, the company's Aladdin Investment Management system is used to manage1 $11 trillion in additional assets from external managers.
Expanding options for mining streaming data
New tools make it easier for companies to process and mine streaming data sources
Stream processing was in the minds of a few people that I ran into over the past week. A combination of new systems, deployment tools, and enhancements to existing frameworks, are behind the recent chatter. Through a combination of simpler deployment tools, programming interfaces, and libraries, recently released tools make it easier for companies to process and mine streaming data sources.
Of the distributed stream processing systems that are part of the Hadoop ecosystem0, Storm is by far the most widely used (more on Storm below). I've written about Samza, a new framework from the team that developed Kafka (an extremely popular messaging system). Many companies who use Spark express interest in using Spark Streaming (many have already done so). Spark Streaming is distributed, fault-tolerant, stateful, and boosts programmer productivity (the same code used for batch processing can, with minor tweaks, be used for realtime computations). But it targets applications that are in the "second-scale latencies". Both Spark Streaming and Samza have their share of adherents and I expect that they'll both start gaining deployments in 2014.
Four short links: 9 December 2013
Surveillance Demarcation, NYT Data Scientist, 2D Dart, and Bayesian Database
Reproducing Data Projects
Popular approaches for reproducing, managing, and deploying complex data projects
As I talk to people and companies building the next generation of tools for data scientists, collaboration and reproducibility keep popping up. Collaboration is baked into many of the newer tools I've seen (including ones that have yet to be released). Reproducibility is a different story. Many data science projects involve a series of interdependent steps, making auditing or reproducing1 them a challenge. How data scientists and engineers reproduce long data workflows depends on the mix of tools they use.
The default approach is to create a set of well-documented programs and scripts. Documentation is particularly important if several tools and programming languages are involved in a data science project. It's worth pointing out that the generation of scripts need not be limited to programmers: some tools that rely on users executing tasks through a GUI also generate scripts for recreating data analysis and processing steps. A recent example is the DataWrangler project, but this goes back to Excel users recording VBA macros.
Data Scientists and Data Engineers like Python and Scala
Python and Scala are popular among members of several well-attended SF Bay Area Meetups
In exchange for getting personalized recommendations many Meetup members declare1 topics that they're interested in. I recently looked at the topics listed by members of a few local, data Meetups that I've frequented. These Meetups vary in size from 600 to 2,000 total (and 400 to 1,100 active2) members.
I was particularly interested in the programming languages members expressed interest in. What I found3 confirmed trends that we've noticed in other data sets (online job postings): Python has surpassed R among data scientists and data engineers, Scala is second to Java among JVM languages, and many folks are interested in Javascript. As pydata tools mature, I've encountered people who have shifted more of their data workflow from R over to Python.
Data Wrangling gets a fresh look
We are in the early days of productivity technology in data science
Data analysts have long lamented the amount of time they spend on data wrangling. Rightfully so, as some estimates suggest they spend a majority of their time on it. The problem is compounded by the fact that these days, data scientists are encouraged to cast their nets wide, and investigate alternative (unstructured) data sources. The general perception is that data wrangling is the province of programmers and data scientists. Spend time around Excel users and you'll learn that they do quite a bit of data wrangling too!
In my work I tend to write scripts and small programs to do data wrangling. That usually means some combination1 of SQL, Python, and Spark2. I've played with Google Refine (now called OpenRefine) in the past, but I found the UI hard to get used to. Part of the problem may have been that I didn't use the tool often3 enough to become comfortable.
For most users data wrangling still tends to mean a series of steps that usually involves different tools (e.g., you often need to draw charts to spot outliers and anomalies). As I've pointed out in previous posts, workflows that involve many different tools require a lot of context-switching, which in turn affects productivity and impedes reproducability.
We are washing our data at the side of the river on stones. We are really in the early, early ages of productivity technology in data science.
Joe Hellerstein (Strata-NYC 2012), co-founder and CEO of Trifacta
Day-Long Immersions and Deep Dives at Strata Santa Clara 2014
Tutorials for designers, data scientists, data engineers, and managers
As the Program Development Director for Strata Santa Clara 2014, I am pleased to announce that the tutorial session descriptions are now live. We're pleased to offer several day-long immersions including the popular Data Driven Business Day and Hardcore Data Science tracks. We curated these topics as we wanted to appeal to a broad range of attendees including business users and managers, designers, data analysts/scientists, and data engineers. In the coming months we'll have a series of guest posts from many of the instructors and communities behind the tutorials.
Analytics for Business Users
We're offering a series of data intensive tutorials for non-programmers. John Foreman will use spreadsheets to demonstrate how data science techniques work step-by-step – a topic that should appeal to those tasked with advanced business analysis. Grammar of Graphics author, SYSTAT creator, and noted Statistician Leland Wilkinson, will teach an introductory course on analytics using an innovative expert system he helped build.
Data Science essentials
Scalding – a Scala API for Cascading – is one of the most popular open source projects in the Hadoop ecosystem. Vitaly Gordon will lead a hands-on tutorial on how to use Scalding to put together effective data processing workflows. Data analysts have long lamented the amount of time they spend on data wrangling. But what if you had access to tools and best practices that would make data wrangling less tedious? That's exactly the tutorial that distinguished Professors and Trifacta co-founders, Joe Hellerstein and Jeff Heer, are offering.
The co-founders of Datascope Analytics are offering a glimpse into how they help clients identify the appropriate problem or opportunity to focus on by using design thinking (see the recent Datascope/IDEO post on Design Thinking and Data Science). We're also happy to reprise the popular (Strata Santa Clara 2013) d3.js tutorial by Scott Murray.
How companies are using Spark
The inaugural Spark Summit will feature a wide variety of real-world applications
When an interesting piece of big data technology gets introduced, early1 adopters tend to focus on technical features and capabilities. Applications get built as companies develop confidence that it's reliable and that it really scales to large data volumes. That seems to be where Spark is today. With over 90 contributors from 25 companies, it has one of the largest developer communities among big data projects (second only to Hadoop MapReduce).
I recently became an advisor to Databricks (a startup commercializing Spark) and a member of the program committee for the inaugural Spark Summit. As I pored over submissions to Spark's first community gathering, I learned how companies have come to rely on Spark, Shark, and other components of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS). Spark is at that stage where companies are deploying it, and the upcoming Spark Summit in San Francisco will showcase many real-world applications. These applications cut across many domains including advertising, marketing, finance, and academic/scientific research, but can generally be grouped into the following categories:
Data processing workflows: ETL and Data Wrangling
Many companies rely on a wide variety of data sources for their analytic products. That means cleaning, transforming, and fusing (unstructured) external data with internal data sources. Many companies – particularly startups – use Spark for these types of data processing workflows. There are even companies that have created simple user interfaces that open up batch data processing tasks to non-programmers.
Simplifying interactive, realtime, and advanced analytics
Tools for unlocking big data continue to get simpler
Here are a few observations based on conversations I had during the just concluded Strata NYC conference.
Interactive query analysis on Hadoop remains a hot area
A recent O'Reilly survey confirmed SQL is an important skill for data scientists. A year after the launch of Impala, quite a few attendees I spoke with remained interested in the progress of SQL-on-Hadoop solutions. A trio from Hortonworks gave an update on recent improvements and changes to Hive1. A sign that Impala is gaining traction, Greg Rahn's talk on Practical Performance Tuning for Impala was one of the best attended sessions in the conference. Ditto for a sponsored session on Kognitio's latest features.
Existing SQL-on-Hadoop solutions require that users define a schema – an additional step given that a lot of data is increasingly in key-value or JSON format. In his talk Hadapt co-founder Daniel Abadi highlighted a solution2 that lets users query complex data types (Hadapt reserializes complex data types to speed up joins). I expect other SQL-on-Hadoop solutions to also offer query support for complex data types in the near future.
Empowering business users
With its launch at the conference, ClearStory joins Platfora and Datameer in the business analytics space. Each company builds tools that lets business users wade through large amounts of data, while emphasizing different areas. Platfora is for interactive visual analysis of massive data sets, while Datameer connects to many data sources (not just Hadoop), has started offering analytics, and can run on a laptop or cluster. Built primarily on the Berkeley stack (BDAS), ClearStory's interesting platform encourages collaboration and simplifies data harmonization (fusing disparate data sources is a common bottleneck for business users). For organizations willing to tag and describe their data sets, Microsoft unveiled a tool that lets users query data using natural language (UK startup NeutrinoBI uses a similar "search interface").
The emergence of Crowdsourcing specialists
As companies continue to use crowdsourcing, demand for people who know how to manage projects remains steady
A little over four years ago, I attended the first Crowdsourcing meetup at the offices of Crowdflower (then called Dolores Labs). The crowdsourcing community has grown explosively since that initial gathering, and there are now conference tracks and conferences devoted to this important industry. At the recent CrowdConf1, I found a community of professionals who specialize in managing a wide array of crowdsourcing projects.
Data scientists were early users of crowdsourcing services. I personally am most familiar with a common use case – the use of crowdsourcing to create labeled data sets for training machine-learning models. But as straightforward as it sounds, using crowdsourcing to generate training sets can be tricky – fortunately there are excellent papers and talks on this topic. At the most basic level, before embarking on a crowdsourcing project you should go through a simple checklist (among other things, make sure you have enough scale to justify engaging with a provider).
Beyond building training sets for machine-learning, more recently crowdsourcing is being used to enhance the results of machine-learning models: in active learning, humans2 take care of uncertain cases, models handle the routine ones. The use of ReCAPTCHA to digitize books is an example of this approach. On the flip side, analytics are being used to predict the outcome of crowd-based initiatives: researchers developed models to predict the success of Kickstarter campaigns 4 hours after their launch.


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William Katz: Urgent Agenda
BIAS? WHAT BIAS? – Hollywood is left-wing. Period. Yes, there are some conservatives, but they must tread cautiously, and only those with proved money-making potential can survive. Consider this story, to prove the point. From the Hollywood Reporter:
COMMENT: Very true. I recall about eight years ago proposing a film to a Hollywood agent about the family of a West Point cadet who had lost their father, a fireman, on 9-11. The agent's first response? "Those are the people who elected BUSH!" And that was that.
You toe the party line, or else.
It is a farce that "2016: Obama's America," wasn't nominated. But Hollywood, to the extent it still exists, is about farce.
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Women could soon have access to free birth control and other contraceptive methods after a recommendation by some of the top medical experts. While some organizations are applauding the idea, others oppose it.
Free birth control, cancer screenings and STD counseling are just a few of the eight preventative services the non-partisan Institute of Medicine (IOM) feels should come without co-pays for women. As part of the new healthcare overhaul, IOM was asked to examine women's health issues and report back on what it thought should be included as free, preventative services.
"Making birth control more accessible and affordable for women will increase the use, it will make sure that they're using it consistently and it will help them avoid unintended pregnancy," said Julie Mickelberry, Director of Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood in Baton Rouge.
Studies show over half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended, and Mickelberry said the IOM's recommendation is a break through in women's healthcare.
"Women need access to this basic care to be able to plan their families, space their children and make decisions that are right for them and their families," explained Mickelberry.
But many organizations disagree, including many conservatives, religious groups and the Catholic Church.
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Desormeaux said contraception is already easily available, and making it free would only cause more problems in society and deteriorate morals in America.
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Bao, Jiming and Zimmler, Mariano A. and Capasso, Federico and Wang, Xiaowei and Ren, Z. F. (2006) Broadband ZnO single-nanowire light-emitting diode. NANO LETTERS, 6 (8). pp. 1719-1722. ISSN 1530-6984
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We present a novel technique for reliable electrical injection into single semiconductor nanowires for light-emitting diodes and lasers. The method makes use of a high-resolution negative electron-beam resist and direct electron-beam patterning for the precise fabrication of a metallic top contact along the length of the nanowire, while a planar substrate is used as a bottom contact. It can be applied to any nanowire structure with an arbitrary cross section. We demonstrate this technique by constructing the first zinc oxide single-nanowire light-emitting diode. The device exhibits broad sub-bandgap emission at room temperature.
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The eight charter members of the American Football League are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the league's launch by wearing throwback uniforms for select NFL games this season.
Improv Everywhere is a collection of artists who stage scenes in public places.
Most of us are pretty familiar with carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating, but there are plenty of other Halloween traditions out there.
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Siblings Este, Danielle and Alana Haim have been steadily gaining momentum with tour support slots for Mumford & Sons, Rihanna and Florence + the Machine. Their audience is mostly comprised of young girls who just want to rock out without giving up on their pop just yet.
"Days Are Gone," the trio's debut album, is slick and radio-friendly, thanks to producers Ariel Rechtshaid (Vampire Weekend, Usher) and James Ford (Florence + the Machine, Arctic Monkeys). The tracks are delivered with energy and confidence and catchy hooks are easy to come by. This album is instantly likable.
"Forever," ''Falling" and "Don't Save Me" are upbeat jams laced with 1980s synth guitars, while "My Song 5" is gritty with its Muse-esque dark guitar licks and R&B vibe. "Let Me Go" is full of attitude, with the group showing off their perfect harmonies.
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A 20-year-old Chico man was arrested early Saturday after police said he threw a bottle at officers.
The incident happened at 12:52 a.m. near Ivy Street and W. 6th Street. Chico Police said officers saw people throwing bottles at vehicles.
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Mother's Day is this weekend. Therefore, I will be focusing a few posts on technology gifts, gadgets and apps for moms.
Today I was featured on Great Day Houston sharing some of my favorite apps for moms. They are listed below and I included the 5 minute segment from the show.
Pregnancy Buzz
For those that are expecting, this app has it all. Answers and advice on what is normal, tests, checkups, nutrition and exercise.
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Help and recommendations for parents on all things media. If you want to know if any media related item is appropriate for your child, check on Common Sense Media's app. They review movies, dvd's, video games, apps, websites, tv shows and more.
Free app but requires a care.com premium membership.
Based on their website and provides help with care, including finding a babysitter, nanny, tutor, senior care, housekeeper, pet sitter, etc. They run background checks and have reviews posted from prior users.
Covenant Eyes
Free app, but requires subscription to Covenant Eyes.
My number one tip for parents is to have a web monitoring and filtering program. Our family uses Covenant Eyes on our home computer, laptops, iphones and ipads. An app is available to use as a search engine. I disable safari on my kid's digital devices and they use Covenant Eyes search engine. Covenant Eyes is a subscription and has a small monthly fee depending on number of users.
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A great family organizer. 2012 Appy Award Winner for Best Family/Parenting app! Easily share family schedules on calendar, shopping lists, to do lists and a family journal.
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Drawing game to play with family or friends. Fun interactive way to communicate with your kids over apps. Receive a three words, choose one, draw and see if your partner can guess it. Work together to increase your points.
Great educational app for kids (and some adults) 2 to 6. Teaches and reinforces colors, shapes and more.
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SnipSnap Coupon App
Snap a picture of any printed offer and it is turned into a mobile-optimized offer, which you can redeem off your screen. Reminds you of coupon when entering a store and expiration date.
Currently does not support manufacturers coupons (redeemed at grocery stores) but should be available on next update.
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In preparations of an upcoming feud against his former Prime Time Player teammate and real life good friend, Darren Young has gone with a shorter haircut. While many are expecting Titus ONeil to be on the receiving end of the push, WWE may be elevating both performers.
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William Burroughs, the noted American novelist, is the subject of this long documentary filmed aver five years and including material shot earlier, in black and white, by British film director Antony Balch.
In cinema verite style, director Howard Brookner in his first film, shows Burroughs as a private person, in his "Bunker" flat in New York, in St. Louis, London and Morocco, reminiscing about his inspirations and exploits, then as a highly entertaining showman, reading excerpts from his two best known books. "Naked Lunch" and "Nova Express", in nightclubs to young audiences. The notorious and tragic accident, in which the author accidentally killed his wife in William Tell-style, with an arrow, is discussed. He also performs for the camera in a grand guignol scene with gory special effects.
Some of Burroughs friends (including Allen Ginsberg and Francis Bacon) discuss the man and his influence on American letters, to round out this rich portrait of a most unusual individual. To call "Burroughs" a labour of love may be misleading, but at least it bears tribute to Brookner's remarkable endurance and cinematic sensitivity.


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Using "Star Trek: Voyager" as inspiration, Tony Alleyne remodeled every inch of his apartment.
As kids, we all created forts. If you were really stylin', yours was probably made of cardboard and included your mom's best (or worst) bedsheets. Tony Alleyne, however, is no kid and his detailed living space takes "forts" to a whole new level.
North of London, on a private block in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK, lies the most tricked out 'Star Trek'-themed studio apartment in the world. Ring the doorbell, and you'll be greeted by Patrick Stewart saying "Welcome to the 24th century."
The touch of this one button will get Trekkies salivating, but we haven't even touched the surface of the launching pad. With the looks of Picard and the skills of Data, Alleyne has taken his sci-fi passion to the next level—he lives inside it.
How does one go about transforming their entire living space into space-worthy? It takes some serious motivation. After his wife left in 1994, Alleyne needed a project to keep his hands and mind busy.
In late 1997, Alleyne set out to create his ultimate bachelor pad. Since the local Home Depot doesn't have a sci-fi section, Alleyne had to handcraft everything himself. However, most of the materials used in the construction can be found at almost any home improvement store.
Nearly three years ago, Alleyne began work on the "Star Trek: Voyager" re-fit of the apartment. "I decided that I would apply a harder luxury interior," he says. "I have always considered that of all the Starfleet ships, Voyager is, in terms of interior, the luxury liner of the galaxy." Alleyne then added shades of grey and incorporated aluminum inlays as featured in and around the Voyager ship. "I also added some pretty cool LCARS [Library Computer Access and Retrieval System] and some new lighting effects."
Currently, his home/Transporter room includes AEI Security Systems, Vos System voice-activated lighting, running light modules, AgiLight z-LED lighting, and a DeLonghi air conditioning system. While it may not seem like the ultimate electronic house, it's actually a lot, considering the apartment is a mere 500 square feet. "The way the design features have been applied, it looks much bigger," Alleyne says. For added effect, there are various cooling systems that, when activated, give the feel and sounds one might experience aboard a spaceship.
"Apart from the shower tray, I alone designed, built and applied the entire interior. I just do not like plumbing in any shape or form," he says. "The plumber did a marvelous job by the way—thanks Rob."
After years of blood, sweat and tears, Alleyne says there are various things he'd like to add, but his favorite piece is still the Transporter Control. "It was the first 'Star Trek' prop I built and it took almost two years to construct," he says. "It's quite a complex piece as it features a working fader control system that triggers an original Transporter sound effect."
Naturally, Alleyne's apartment has garnered attention—and even prompted him to start his own design business, 24th Century Design. However, it's also brought in a ton of requests from people seeking a similar setup. While many installers might see an opportunity, Alleyne found that many of these potential clients were hoping for a freebie.
"I receive many requests for various science fiction applications including 'Star Trek,' 'Dr. Who' and 'Star Wars'," says Alleyne. "The strange thing is most of the inquiries come from people who, for reasons I have yet to understand, expect me to work free of charge. I wouldn't dream of writing to a motor mechanic saying, 'Can you tell me how to fix my car via email because I don't want to pay you to do it'."
While Alleyne's "Star Trek" project didn't drive him mad, it did drive him into bankruptcy. He emerged from bankruptcy earlier this year and now says he'd like to move on to a bigger place to play with. There he could add more voice activation into the mix.
"My motto has always been: Bliss is a room without wires," he says. "I make a point of not showing plug sockets, cable or any evidence of how things function so complete voice activation would complement the current design." Other future options include new lighting, wall paneling, a new ceiling design, some original contemporary artwork and, if space permits, sliding doors.
Alleyne suggests that anyone willing to undertake such a project should have a strong passion for sci-fi. No kidding—Alleyne actually parted with his own bed to perfect the Transporter area. However, it wasn't entirely for aesthetic purposes. "A few years ago I suffered with sciatica and was advised by my GP [general practitioner] to sleep on the floor," he says. "It cured the sciatica and gave me the opportunity to convert the bed area into the Transporter area—bed space is overrated."
If you're serious about getting your geek on, start saving. Alleyne expects to relist his "Star Trek: Voyager" apartment on eBay sometime in March for around $200,000.
For more information on Alleyne's apartment, check out www.24thcid.com. The site includes virtual tours created by Yakub Llewelyn Ahmed at www.digitalcreation.biz.


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