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On February 22, 2013, FSCO released its appeal decision in Hodges v. Security National. The applicant was represented by Tammy Ring and Marc Flisfeder from the Toronto office of Lerners LLP's personal injury group.
The applicant was the driver of a motorcycle which was involved in a head-on crash with a minivan on August 9, 2009. As a result of this accident, the applicant suffered numerous serious injuries including a closed head injury with left occipital subdural and subarachnoid bleed. The first Glasgow Coma Scale ("GCS") score was recorded as 11 at the scene of the accident. The applicant was transferred to hospital where he was administered consciousness lowering medications and intubated. The applicant was extubated on August 7, 2009. His GCS score continued to be monitored and was recorded hourly. On August 8, 2009, the GCS score was noted to be 9 between 11:00 hours and 15:00 hours. On August 10, 2009, the GCS fell to as low as 7.
The insurer argued that the GCS scores were invalid for a plethora of reasons, including that the applicant has been prescribed consciousness lowering medication and because his GCS scores were impacted to some degree by injuries other than his brain impairment. The insurer also argued that imaging tests should be used to determine whether an individual is catastrophically impaired, rather than the GCS test set out in the SABS. Finally, the insurer argued that the GCS test should only be considered valid if administered within 24 hours of the accident.
On May 22, 2012, Arbitrator William Renahan rejected the insurer's arguments, holding that the applicant suffered a catastrophic impairment within the meaning of section 2(1.2)(e)(i) of the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule. The insurer appealed this ruling.
The two issues on appeal were whether the applicant had a valid GCS score of 9 or less, and whether the GCS score was recorded within a reasonable period of time after his car accident. Delegate Blackman rejected the insurer's arguments entirely and was critical of the fact that the insurer's written submissions made little reference to the relevant case law. In dismissing the appeal, Delegate Blackman set out 22 points that succinctly summarized the law on the application of GCS test in relation to the determination of catastrophic impairment.
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"Masada shall not fall again."צבא הגנה לישראל Tzva Haganah LeYisra'el,note known in English as the Israel Defense Forces, or Tzahal (from its Hebrew acronym) to its friends. Formed in 1948 from the various La R�sistance factions of the time, involved in at least one war per decade, usually against numerically superior Arab forces, all won, except for the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which is up for debate (depending on whether you consider victory to be decided by kill ratio or objectives achieved). In terms of flying skills (as measured in tactical exercises vs American and NATO forces) the IDF has some of the best pilots in the world. This is also evidenced by their very good record against Arab aircraft, even if said aircraft are downgraded export versions of Soviet stuff—though for most of the wars, Israel's aircraft was even worse. (Israel is partly able to make up for it with superior mobilization, this can be considered a real life example of Conservation of Ninjutsu). As a result, if you're looking for an Ace Pilot post WWII, Israel (or Pakistan) should be the first place you check. The State of Israel uses universal conscription of both sexes for all Jewish Citizens. This has resulted in the IDF gaining a reputation for hot female soldiers, although many girls, particularly religious ones, fulfill this obligation by doing National Service, instead of serving in the Army. Many Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) Jews are excused from service in order to study at religious schools (there are some Ultra-Orthodox who do serve, and at least one military base designed specifically for their needs). This exemption is very controversial amongst secular Israelis, who feel the Haredim get a free pass, and there have been efforts to lift it (in addition to being considered unfair, it is also hoped that serving in the army would allow Haredi youth to learn practical skills and become more engaged in Israeli society as a whole. It is suspected that part of the resistance amongst the Haredi community is for exactly this reason). Israeli Druze also have to serve, as do male Circassians (a mostly Muslim Caucasian minority that moved to Israel after their homeland was invaded by Russia in the 19th century). Non-Druze Arabs are excused, although some do volunteer (largely Bedouins and Palestinian Christians). Israel's principal military supplier until the early 1960s was France. The United States became Israel's major supplier after the Six Day War and remains so until the present day. However, over the decades Israel has developed its own defense industry, developing, among others, a number of local aircraft, an indigenously developed series of main battle tanks and APCs, several types of missile boats, various firearms, rocket and missile systems, combat related robots, electronic warfare systems and a wide range of UAVs. Despite this, what most people would probably say when asked what weapon was made in Israel, would probably be "the Uzi". Israel was also the first export customer for the F-15 Eagle and first to use it, as well as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, in combat. The Israeli air force is still responsible for over half the air to air kills for both fighters to this day. Due to Israel's universal conscription, it is often assumed that all Israeli adults have military training, and are therefore combat capable. This is not entirely true, as Arabs (but not Druze or Circassians) are exempt from conscription, and previously so were ultra-Orthodox Jews (their exemption is in the process of being phased out due to Israeli courts ruling it unconstitutional), and usually do not serve. Also a non-negligible percentage of the population that does need to serve avoids it anyway. So not all Israelis have military training... just most of them. It's also important to note that most of the IDF's personnel are non-combat soldiers that have only a very basic combat training. Officially Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons. Everyone is pretty sure they possess them anyway. Related to this is the Israeli intelligence service. The Mossad (the Israeli counterpart to the CIA) is infamous for carrying out assassinations, as well as being very good at their job in general. See also: Arab-Israeli Conflict, The Samson Option.
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The Bartered Bride (in Czech, ProdanГЎ nevДӣsta) is the second opera of eight by BedЕҷich Smetana. It is a comedy. The Czech libretto is by Karel Sabina who had written also the libretto for Brandenburgers in Bohemia. Smetana was the conductor of the first-night performance.
There are four versions. The original version (1863вҖ"66) is in two acts, as is the first revision of 1869; the second revision, also of 1869, is in three acts, and the definitive version, of 1869вҖ"70, is also in three acts. The first performance of the definitive version was at the Provisional Theatre in Prague on September 25, 1870.
Thanks to efforts of Princess de Metternich, The Bartered Bride was produced in Vienna in 1892, to considerable popular acclaim, and it became the only one of SmetanaвҖҷs operas to maintain a permanent place in the repertory outside of the Czech homeland. The opera's overture and three dances are also part of the orchestral repertoire.
In many German language productions of this opera, MaЕҷenka is renamed as Marie, JenГӯk is renamed as Hans, and VaЕЎek is renamed as Wenzel.
MaЕҷenka and JenГӯk want to marry. However, MaЕҷenkaвҖҷs father, KruЕЎina, has other ideas. He wants MaЕҷenka to marry a boy she has never met, VaЕЎek, the son of Micha, who is a wealthy landowner. The marriage-broker Kecal is hired to broker the marriage between MaЕҷenka and VaЕЎek. Kecal is made aware of the relationship between MaЕҷenka and JenГӯk, and becomes determined to break them up in order to facilitate the marriage of MaЕҷenka with VaЕЎek. MaЕҷenka and VaЕЎek meet each other by accident, and while MaЕҷenka works out who VaЕЎek is, VaЕЎek, on the other hand, is too much of a simpleton to realize who she is, and MaЕҷenka starts painting a picture of VaЕЎekвҖҷs intended bride as a woman who would make his life a total misery if he should marry her. This turns VaЕЎek off the idea of marrying his intended wife, and also makes him interested in this girl who obviously has his best interests at heart. Meanwhile, Kecal starts his campaign to pay off JenГӯk, so that JenГӯk will renounce his right to marry MaЕҷenka. Kecal eventually reaches a price with JenГӯk finds agreeable, and JenГӯk agrees to barter his bride away for 300 guilders. JenГӯk also specifies that this is on condition that MaЕҷenka marries MГӯchaвҖҷs son. Since Kecal intends MaЕҷenka to marry VaЕЎek, so that he can get his money, he readily agrees. As soon as the contract is signed, the entire town repudiates JenГӯk.
A travelling circus comes to town, and VaЕЎek becomes entranced with the gypsy, Esmeralda. There is some trouble with one of the acts, and VaЕЎek is convinced to assist the circus. MaЕҷenka is angry with JenГӯk for what he has done, and she angrily turns her back on him and agrees to marry VaЕЎek. When both sets of parents meet with MaЕҷenka, the appearance of JenГӯk at the meeting results in the revelation that JenГӯk is the long-lost son of MГӯcha from his first marriage, and that JenГӯk had been hounded out of house and home by his stepmother, HГЎta (who is also VaЕЎekвҖҷs mother). As a result of this revelation, the terms of the contract between Kecal and JenГӯk, whereby JenГӯk gave her up (that MaЕҷenka marry the son of MГӯcha), allows MaЕҷenka to marry either JenГӯk or VaЕЎek. MaЕҷenka chooses JenГӯk, and Kecal is left with the embarrassment of having paid JenГӯk 300 guilders in order for JenГӯk to give up the right to marry MaЕҷenka, to JenГӯk, himself. At this time, a frightened child rushes in and exclaims that a bear has escaped from the circus. As everybody cowers, the bear wanders in and pulls off its head, revealing that it was just the immature VaЕЎek disguised in a bear costume for the circus. Embarassed, HГЎta drags VaЕЎek off and the parents and the villagers congratulate the happy couple.
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People all around the world are tweeting, posting, checking in, sharing photos & videos and more. Understanding how these activities relate to various real-world locations unlocks new doors for analytics, engagement and product development. With Gnip's unique data sources and geo solutions, you have unparalleled access to social geodata from a single data provider.
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News Pal™ (voice browser)
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Utilizing the latest state of the art text-to-speech and speech recognition technologies, VoiceSee™ News Pal is the world's first hands-free *and* eyes-free newspaper web browser for your Android mobile phone or tablet.
* Reading your favorite newspaper while commuting to work or... on the beach, in that beautiful sunny day.
* listening to online digital media, enjoying a calm and relaxed breakfast instead of fast and furious headline scanning.
* Having the opportunity to take your daily power walk while listening to the latest news
News Pal gives you more choices to enjoy the things you routinely strive for in your life.
Use your voice to tell The New York Times which section to read. Speak to navigate through the previews, articles and sections via voice only – no need to use your eyes either, because Sadie (the voice of VoiceSee) will be reading you, the entry's content. All you have to do is listen.
Enjoy the "Dick Tracy" access to Internet - ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. This is unlike anything you have seen before: Siri doesn't read you websites. VoiceSee does! Screen readers don't listen. VoiceSee does!
As an added bonus, you can say: "Google!" and you will hear News Pal prompting you for the search term. You can visit any website using News Pal, just like any web browser.
There are also usage FAQs at:
+ http://www.yizri.com/how-it-works/usage-faq-and-tips/
+ http://www.yizri.com/how-it-works/news-pal-faq/
1. When prompted to speak, always wait one or two seconds after the low tone double-beep.
2. Sometimes, you may need to repeat the answer in order to be heard.
3. To interrupt Sadie in the middle of a paragraph, touch the Search button.
4. To interrupt Sadie at the end of paragraphs, talk as soon as you hear the double-beep: "stop!" or "pause!"
5. To continue from the next paragraph, say: "continue!".
6. To disable scrolling & link opening via touch, say: "Disable Touch!". To re-enable, say: "Enable Touch!"
7. To skip directly to an NYT section, just its name. e.g. "Business!", "Technology!", etc.
8. To go The Wall Street Journal, say: "The Journal!"
9. To make Sadie speak faster (or slower) say: "Speak faster!" (or "Speak more slowly!").
10. To reset to default speech rate say: "Speak normal!"
11. To accurately spell a search term or phrase, enter SPELL mode by saying: "Let me spell it for you!" (or just "Let me spell!"). Then, spell each letter only after Sadie has acknowledged the recognition of the previous letter.
12. To exit SPELL mode, say: "finish spelling", "end spelling" or "spelling complete".
13. To skip 1-9 paragraphs when reading an article, just say the number (e.g. "one!", "three!", etc.)
14. If you're not sure what to say, just say: "Help!"
15. Shake your phone to wake up listening if stuck (acknowledged by Sadie saying "Ouch!")
To use a headset with PAUSE/PLAY, NEXT & PREV buttons, press:
1. PAUSE/PLAY (middle) to pause. Press it again to continue.
2. NEXT (bottom) to immediately skip to the next item in the list.
3. PREV (top) to immediately go back to the previous item in the list.
*Pressing headset buttons while NOT reading an item or an article may produce erratic results. Use this feature only when Sadie reads an item from a list.
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The Washington & Lee University community is mourning the loss of a student, killed early Tuesday morning in a DUI crash in Rockbridge County.
Police say the single-vehicle accident happened around 1:30 a.m. on Turkey Hill Road. There were 10 students riding in a 2006 Chevy Tahoe.
Twenty-one-year-old Kelsey Durkin of New Canaan was killed in the crash. Durkin was not wearing a seat belt, and was reportedly thrown from the SUV.
Three other students were seriously injured in the wreck. Two were flown to the UVa. Medical Center, and one was flown to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
The driver, 21-year-old Nicholas Hansel of New Orleans, has been charged with driving under the influence and is being held at the Rockbridge County Jail.
William & Lee University President Kenneth P. Ruscio released a statement, saying in part:
"Our hearts go out to the family of Kelsey Durkin and her many friends on this campus. Kelsey, a senior from New Canaan, Connecticut, was the student who died in the accident early this morning.
"There are no words to express the grief we feel over the loss of someone taken from us so suddenly and tragically. In the days ahead, in the weeks and months ahead, our sadness will be lessened only by the memories of her time with us."
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November 28, 2014
Summer time fun with the kids doesn't have to be expensive.
In this week's "Pin it in a Minute," we test a pin from social media website Pinterest, to see if water sponge bombs can take the place of the classic summer water balloon.
The pin said you'll need a couple of supplies: a variety of colored sponges, a scissors and string.
First, take your sponges, and cut them into 1-inch pieces.
Next, measure out 1-inch pieces.
Then, gather 9 strips of sponge and tie them tightly together with a string.
Shift the sponge pieces around a little so they create a ball shape, otherwise they'll stay looking like a bow tie.
Snip off excess string, and finally they're ready to soak in water and use.
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Written by Melissa Argueta Friday, 04 June 2010 00:00
Garden City residents may have to wait a little longer to view the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on the demolition of St. Paul's School. At the most recent village board meeting, Mayor Robert J. Rothschild announced that the board is requesting additional work on the project from AKRF, an environmental and planning consultant.
The mayor announced that neither the board of trustees nor staff has received a completed DEIS yet and that it is expected to be in their hands within a few weeks. "We anticipate receiving it from special legal counsel and the environmental planning consultants by the June 17 board of trustees meeting," the mayor explained.
Rothschild told a room full of citizens that the village received three proposals for the SEQRA (State Environmental Quality Review Act) work on this project. Two were in the $80,000-$90,000 range, and one was for $35,350 from Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. The mayor said that having had positive experiences with Greenman-Pedersen's work on prior projects such as the Saks' relocation to Roosevelt Field Mall and the proposed Lighthouse project, Greenman-Pedersen was selected to work on the DEIS, along with special counsel, Sive, Paget & Riesel.
The mayor announced that "Sive, Paget & Risel advised the village board that they felt that there is a need to supplement the material provided by Greenman-Pedersen, in order to meet the standards which they feel are necessary for a proper and balanced SEQRA review of the project."
Following an executive session at the May 6 board of trustees meeting, the board approved engaging the firm of AKRF, Inc., environmental and planning consultants at an estimated cost of $42,225 to supplement the work already undertaken by Greenman-Pedersen. Greenman-Pedersen has been paid $25,590 to date, according to Rothschild.
Maureen Taxler, a member of the Committee to Save St. Paul's, asked the board if Greenman-Pedersen's work would still be used by AKRF. The mayor assured Taxler that any work Greenman-Pedersen performed on the DEIS will be used and that the village would pay for the work already done. Taxler also expressed her dissatisfaction with the extremely lengthy process of getting the report completed. "I think it was unfortunate that we have gone 14 months down the road, and we're still not satisfied. We could have been a little more diligent," she said.
The mayor directed Village Counsel Gerard Fishberg to explain why the new consultants were brought on to the project. "We need transparency…tell them what happened," Rothschild stated.
Fishberg went on to explain why the DEIS was still not complete. "It was determined that Greenman-Pedersen did not do the fully expansive job that Sive, Paget & Risel felt was needed." A representative from the firm told the board during an executive session that Greenman-Pedersen had not addressed certain things adequately. AKRF was brought in to supplement what was done and expand it so that the DEIS is a better document.
Garden City Historical Society President Brian Pinnola was to see written documentation from Sive, Paget & Risel stating their recommendations for new consultants. "Mr. Mayor, with all due respect, for something like this, there is always a paper trail. There's got to be some documentation from the special counsel," Pinnola stated.
Fishberg flatly said "no," and that the DEIS is still a work in progress. "It's a draft; it was a draft of a report. You'll see a final report. You'll see how it all comes out at the end, but it serves no purpose to show reports that are partial reports or reports that are drafts," Fishberg stated. The mayor added, "When you get the final report, I am sure you will have plenty of comments to make. In the meantime, we await the white knight," he said.
Pinnola said he didn't need to see the DEIS itself but wanted a document from Greenman-Pedersen telling the board that the report was "inadequate." Fishberg said no document existed and that the recommendation was given to the board during a verbal presentation. Pinnola wanted a memorandum outlining why a respected firm such as Greenman-Pedersen would not have done a complete job.
"No one on this board wants to demolish St. Paul's," the Mayor said. "After 18 years, with no one who has come up with a viable alternative that the village residents want or the board of trustees wanted, we cannot continue to put this on a back burner and continue to push it away. We're trying to get to the final line on this. If it's demolition, it's demolition. If it's not demolition, I'll be the happiest guy in the village. You think I want to be mayor and be the one who's making the decision to demolish St. Paul's? I don't," Rothschild stated.
Deputy Mayor Donald Brudie received applause for his stance on the issue. "I agree with what Brian said and I can only speak for myself, I will not approve another expenditure without seeing something in writing. I don't want to hear someone else tell me it's deficient. I'm not adult enough to see it? I am on the board approving it, approving the expenditure," he said.
One woman asked about what will happen once the document is completed. Fishberg stated that the DEIS is "anticipated" to be received and distributed by the June 17 board of trustees meeting. According to Fishberg, a four-month period of comments on the document will take place this summer, as well as a public hearing this fall. After the hearing, the board will consider comments and the DEIS will become a FEIS (Final Environmental Impact Statement). The resident went on to suggest that summer is not an ideal time to get feedback and comments due to vacations. The mayor responded that the village does not stop working in summertime. "Bring a copy of the report with you to the beach and go through the details of it and come back fired up in September and October, and we'll be happy to listen to all comments," Rothschild said.
Another citizen asked if the board will make copies of the DEIS to give to residents. The mayor said that although he couldn't guarantee exactly what date, copies will be made available to the public.


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2x01 Angelina and Cheddar Cheese Slide
January 23, 2010 12:00 am
Angelina and her pals need one more person for the "Cheddar Cheese Slide" dance. Gracie joins in, but because she only knows the French version, things don't go so smooth
2x02 Angelina and the Case of the Missing Music
January 23, 2010 12:00 am
Vici turns detective when Marco's sheet music disappears.
2x03 Angelina, the Pet Sitter
January 30, 2010 12:00 am
Angelina pet-sits Ms. Mimi's canary for a weekend, but the bird escapes from its cage
2x04 Angelina and the Music Box
January 30, 2010 12:00 am
Angelina accidentally breaks a music box that Polly received from her grandmother.
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February 6, 2010 12:00 am
Gracie accidentally recycles the pledge sheet when Angelina and pals hold a Chipping Cheddar Earth Club dance marathon
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February 6, 2010 12:00 am
Vici tries to paint Angelina and Gracie for the Camembert art show, but they can't hold still long enough for her to finish the picture.
2x07 Angelina's Hiccups
February 20, 2010 12:00 am
Angelina comes down with the hiccups prior to a performance
2x08 Angelina and the Must-Have Bag
February 20, 2010 12:00 am
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2x09 Angelina's Room
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Angelina and Gracie learn that being roommates isn't always easy when Gracie stays with Angelina for a few days
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February 28, 2010 12:00 am
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2x11 Angelina Ballerina and the Band Leader
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2x12 Angelina and Polly's Two-Hour Show
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Angelina, Gracie, Vici and Alice form a girls-only club
2x16 Angelina and Her Parents' Dance Lesson
March 20, 2010 12:00 am
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2x17 Angelina's New Jeans
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AZ's uncomfortable new jeans make dancing difficult
2x18 Angelina and the Poster
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Annual Conference will this year be held at the University of Durham, UK, on 10th-12th September. The website is here:http://www.annualmeeting.sgthome.co.uk/
The Contemporary Glass Society was founded in 1997 with the dual objectives of encouraging excellence in glass as a creative medium and helping to develop a greater awareness of Contemporary Glass world-wide.
The world's best collection of art and historical glass. More than 45,000 objects trace 3,500 years of glassmaking history.
The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (or CVMA) is an international research project dedicated to the publication of medieval stained glass. This website explains the project's activities, the people and organizations involved, our Books and how to order them. There is also free access to our digital Picture Archive, containing over 10,000 images, most of them in colour. Also Vidimus, the only on-line magazine devoted exclusively to stained glass.
The Kempe Society was set up to promote interest in the work of the Master of Glass, Charles Eamer Kempe, 1837-1907 and that of his firm which specialised in stained glass design & production, as well as church decorative art of many kinds.
The National Glass Centre is an important and unique venture. Based in an innovative new building, set on the north bank of the River Wear, the National Glass Centre is dedicated to promoting glass in all its uses; in design and technology and as a vehicle for artistic expression.
English Heritage exists to protect and promote England's spectacular historic environment and ensure that its past is researched and understood.
The Stained Glass Museum offers a unique insight into the fascinating story of stained glass, an art-form that has been practised in Britain for at least thirteen hundred years.
What's on at the Stained Glass Museum - Summer 2014
Summer Garden Party and tour
By kind permission of Sir Jeremy Bagge, Friends and supporters of The Stained Glass Museum are invited to join us on a visit to the church of St Mary's, Stradsett, on the Stradsett Estate, Norfolk. After visiting the church we will enjoy a light buffet of sandwiches, cake and refreshments.
Venue: St Mary's Church, Stradsett Hall, near King's Lynn, Norfolk
Date: Friday 15 August, 3-6pm. A coach will depart Ely at 2pm, returning at 7pm.
Tickets: £20 including coach travel from Ely and refreshments. £10 for ticket (without travel)
Summer Holiday Activities
We are running a whole range of weekly activities for the family at the Stained Glass Museum this summer.
Spring/Summer Newsletter 2014
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Radiance and Reflection: Glass Collections in East Anglia
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The Stained Glass Museum is pleased to announce a series of Autumn talks jointly hosted with the Fitzwilliam Museum on Glass Collections in East Anglia.
Venue: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Dates: Talks will be held on at 2pm on Thursdays 18 September, 25 September, 2 October and 9 October. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Paul Greenhalgh, Director of the Sainsbury Centre, and Dr Vicky Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum.
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The Guild of Educators is a charitable organisation committed to further the development of teaching and learning in the United Kingdom.
Here are Michelli's art history course materials, with the Art History Browser and completely unique History of Stained Glass Browser, all set in the social context of leadership, creativity, intellectual and professional endeavour.
A famous historical figure associated with St Saviour's was John Harvard, who emigrated to Massachusetts and endowed Harvard University. He is commemorated by the Harvard Chapel.
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The Glass Association was founded to promote the understanding and appreciation of glass and glass-making methods; and to increase public interest in the subject of glass.
houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) including Tiffany jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and the chapel interior he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
A listing for the London Livery Companies with contact details, Master & Wardens, etc.
dedicated to the stained glass work of Henry Thomas Bosdet, 1856-1934, who was not only a prolific & quality designer of stained glass, but was also the longest serving head of the Life School at the Royal Academy.
Courses for the New Year. Click on Art & Design then Glass to access the list of course details.
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Thursday, 8 March 2012
Stepping Out: New Look Shoes 1948
From the Ideal Home Year Book published at the end of 1948.
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Ideal Home Magazine Brevitts February 1948
Picture Post May 1948 Lotus Sandals
Ideal Home Magazine Holmes August 1948
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Ideal Home Magazine Brevitts February 1948
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7 comments:
- Straight Talking Mama! said...
Thank you for this, it was fascinating! I'm a big fan of wedges with my flat feet and general rush around lifestyle.
- 9 March 2012 07:42
- Vix said...
I always associate Brevitts with those sandals in the 1948 ad, I had no idea they made such fabulously glam designs, too.
A dolls's head? I want to see it! x
- 9 March 2012 08:05
- Catwalk Creative Vintage said...
A fascinating read and the shoes are fabulous too! Thanks so much for sharing. L xx
- 9 March 2012 11:30
- Kelly Conway said...
Great article ...love shoes which aren't 8 inch heels as all new ones seem to be!
- 9 March 2012 11:37
- lola said...
old shoes, great shoes...:)
- 9 March 2012 22:21
- his_girl_friday said...
Can't get enough of these shoes!
- 10 March 2012 01:39
- Ange said...
What gorgeous shoes- so lovely to see the authentic original designs and how great that Miss L Fire, Schuh and even New Look at times have found ways to re-create the look with comfort built in! (Well, maybe not New Look for comfort?!...)
- 12 March 2012 09:57
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Out of the Blue' is a charming two bedroom/two bath cottage at the gateway to beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea. The unique nautical theme throughout Out of the Blue introduces you to authentic Carmel.. You will enjoy the benefits of the Carmel lifestyle including walking to the town and white sand beaches, the Forest Theatre and wonderful restaurants.
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The Big House could be in big trouble with the government.
The Justice Department today asked to join a paralyzed veterans' group in its lawsuit demanding more wheelchair-accessible seating at the University of Michigan football stadium.
The Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America sued the school about a year ago. It claims the existing stadium is inaccessible.
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University officials released a statement saying they believe Michigan Stadium does, and will, comply with the ADA. They say they intend to continue with their existing renovation plan.
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Singin' in the Rain: 60th Anniversary
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This 1952 classic stars Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, a silent film star dealing with the advent of "talkies" and a misguided on-screen love interest. Besides a slew of classic songs (including the title number), the musical comedy stars Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse, and Rita Moreno.
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Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
Triple Feature
Directed by Brion Rockwell
Maria Palentini
Angelina Dekker
Peter Pistol
76 Minutes
Not Rated
Format: DVD (R0 - NTSC
2-disc set)
Retro-Seduction Cinema
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10 = Highest Rating
Part of the
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Whoa... Just who IS this chick?
I speak of Maria Palentini (apparently not her real name), co-star of the 2009 'reimagining' of
Fire in Her Bed
, one of the films in Retro-Seduction's
Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll Triple Feature
collection. As of this writing, she doesn't have an IMDb page (nor does the movie) and Googling her comes up with nothing. She's an enigma. A complete mystery.
And hella sexy.
Very loosely inspired by the 1972 Nick Philips film of the same name (it has virtually nothing in common with that pic),
Fire in Her Bed
is the story of two young women and their kinky lesbian relationship of dominance and submission, mistress and slave. Palentini plays Ivy, a vivacious young college art student with a steady boyfriend (Peter Pistol) she has been dating since high school. Her life radically changes when she meets the assertive and aggressively self-confident Vera (Angelina Dekker). A sensualist, Vera lives according to a Sadean philosophy. To her, romantic love is illusory and inevitably disappointing — only the unapologetic pursuit of physical pleasure, the kinkier the better, reveals the true beauty within people. She sees Ivy as unformed clay to be sculpted into just such a decadent beauty, but only if the girl totally surrenders her body and will. Vera seems to instinctively know Ivy's every weakness, her darkest, repressed desires; that her protestations (
"I'm not like that... I was experimenting!"
) do not reflect her innermost feelings. Ivy is surprised to experience fulfillment as Vera's obedient sex slave. Even when her mistress is emotionally and physically abusive, deliberately humiliating her, Ivy's role as a complete submissive turns her on like nothing ever has. The longtime boyfriend, whom Ivy once dreamed of marrying, can have no place in this new paradigm the women create
A stimulating slice of minimalist erotic cinema,
Fire in Her Bed
was shot almost four years ago (in and around Seattle, over a span of six days) but not released until now. Writer-director Brion Rockwell hews to the Joe Sarno school of softcore, which posits that intense eroticism is to be found as much in the faces and expressions of lovers caught in the throes of passion as it is in writhing, naked naughty parts. (Don't worry, there are still plenty of
on display.) For a microbudget production it's nicely lensed and edited, marred only be some occasionally bumpy sound recording. Since there isn't much plot or dialog to get in the way the majority of the film is concerned with Vera and Ivy's lengthy sex sessions, in which the former establishes the rules and boundaries of their kinky relationship while the latter discovers things about her carnal persona she never dared imagine.
According to the liner notes booklet that comes with this set, Palentini and Dekker were cast when they answered an ad on Craig's List. Neither had any professional acting experience, certainly never appearing in a sex film before, and are supposedly straight. If this is indeed the case then I'm compelled to give these ladies some serious props. They're both quite good; aside from some awkward voice-over narration by Palentini the performances are very naturalistic and uninhibited. These women ignite some genuine erotic heat, sharing a palpable physical chemistry... Softcore sex films rarely succeed as wood inducers (or, if you prefer, stroke fodder) without some kind of 'it' factor, a special quality that draws the viewer in, and in this case it's our lead actresses playing off — and with — one another. Dekker, a pale, willowy blonde, radiates a maturity and sophistication well beyond her 19 years, making the seduction and domination of the Ivy character believable. (Had the roles been reversed the film wouldn't have worked.) As for Maria Palentini, she's a pert, nubile combination of a barely legal Ashley Judd and Sarah McLachan. Even her shoulder tats and demure little nose stud are cute. I couldn't take my eyes off of her. Scrumptious.
As mentioned, the two-disc set contains three films: both versions of
Fire in Her Bed
(Disc 1) and
Where the Air is Cool and Dark
(1997), also written and directed by Brion Rockwell (Disc 2). All three are presented in their original fullframe AR; the '72
Where the Air is Cool and Dark
were shot on film whereas the 2009
is digital video. Given the extremely low budget nature of these movies I don't have any serious issues with their respective A/V quality. (The Philips film actually looks considerably better than his other surviving works from that period.) The set's title is kind of misleading, though, in that there's really not much "Rock 'n' Roll" involved... but thanks to Ms. Palentini and Ms. Dekker, at least there's plenty of sex. (
Where the Air
provides the drugs.)
Some brief notes about the co-features: The short 1972 Nick Philips film of the same name is much like his porno features of the period (
Les Chic
Dr. Christina of Sweden
), except that the sex is purely softcore. Essentially it's an hour-long montage of jumbled images, trippy music, bullshit stream-of-consciousness narration and generally unattractive hippies toking, drinking and shagging on some particularly hideous-looking furniture.
The film is completely skippable unless you're even more of a masochist than Ivy is.
Where the Air is Cool and Dark
(88 min.) is a character drama about drug use and rehab set in the
Twin Peaks
logging country of Washington state, a fairly accomplished piece for a first-time director working with little money and many amateur actors. It's earnest if a bit dull.
Extras: Of most interest on Disc 1 is a selection of seven scenes deleted from the final cut of
Fire in Her Bed
'09. Among these is a languid tryst
in a
and one of a nude Palentini getting dressed in stockings,
and garter belt. The first disc also contains a massive 20 skin-filled trailers, divided into Joe Sarno and Retro-Seduction categories. Disc 2 offers a further 15 trailers, rather incongruously from the horror-themed Shock-O-Rama vault.
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The following text is from the Executive Summary of the OED Report (No. 19599) "Civil Service Reform: A Review of World Bank Assistance," authored by Navin Girishankar, et. al. (1999).
1. Over the past two decades, Bank support for civil service reforms (CSRs) has served as a primary vehicle for removing institutional impediments to market-led development in client countries. Despite its growing importance, CSR continues to suffer from definitional, strategic, and operational ambiguities. In an attempt to clarify these issues, this OED review "unbundles" Bank assistance, evaluates its relevance and efficacy, and makes recommendations based on the findings.
2. The study sample comprises 124 loans approved in 32 client countries, as well as economic and sector work (ESW) from a subsample of 11 countries, over the 1980–97 period. For relevance, the review evaluated substantive issues as well as upstream processes (ESW, SARs, and diagnostic assessments) that shaped Bank-client responses to bureaucratic dysfunction. For efficacy, it examined substantive and process-related downstream factors (supervision, project management, and evaluation) that influenced implementation.
Combating bureaucratic dysfunction: Bank support, 1980–97
3. Between 1980 and 1997, the Bank diagnosed three stylized forms of bureaucratic dysfunction that undermined the ability of governments to secure the fundamentals of adjustment and development. First, endemic overstaffing accompanied by unsustainable wage bills was identified from the early 1980s onward. Second, a combination of misaligned organizational structures, poor human resources, and inadequate incentives weakened administrative capacity to carry out core government functions. Finally, by the early 1990s, the Bank found that the credibility and accountability of state institutions strained under the weight of cumbersome CS rules, political interference, and cultures of nonperformance.
4. In the first decade of support, the Bank's strategy to combat bureaucratic dysfunction turned on the notion that governments could "do more with less." It supported downsizing measures to limit and cut CS size, while imposing hard budget constraints on wage expenditures. These cutbacks were typically complemented by capacity building initiatives designed to help governments "do more"—that is, implement difficult adjustment programs. By the early 1990s, the Bank added a third class of measures—institutional reforms such as intra–public sector regulatory reform and external checks and balances—in order to make governments "more transparent and accountable," in addition to being more efficient.
Relevance of Bank strategy
5. Given the conventional wisdom on the role of the state in the early 1980s, the Bank's strategy of "doing more with less" broke new ground. It pioneered the notion that governments in developing countries could simultaneously limit CS growth and improve policymaking capacity and operational efficiency. For the first time, the Bank subjected questions of bureaucratic quality to the test of fiscal performance, thereby providing the impetus for borrowing governments to improve the allocative and technical efficiency of personnel expenditures. A key instrument in this early strategy, Bank ESW significantly enhanced knowledge of public administration in developing countries.
6. The relevance of this strategy was hampered, however, by erratic assessment of bureaucratic dysfunction and insufficient emphasis on performance incentives. The objectives of lending operations did not adequately stress either the removal of wage disincentives or the strengthening of linkages between wages and basic performance criteria. Interventions seldom sought to influence nonwage incentives such as organizational culture. Moreover, the Bank has been slow in mainstreaming the new thinking about institutions and the role of the state, which gained prominence in the past decade.
Efficacy of Bank support
7. On average, only 33 percent of closed CSR interventions and 38 percent of ongoing efforts achieved satisfactory outcomes. Even when desirable, outcomes were often not sustainable. Downsizing and capacity building initiatives failed to produce permanent reductions in CS size and to overcome capacity constraints in economic management and service delivery. There was no evidence that civil servants began to "own" and follow formal rules such as codes of ethics in any meaningful way. As a result, institutional reforms could not substantially limit arbitrary action by bureaucrats or politicians.
8. Four factors undermined the efficacy of Bank-supported interventions: (i) the poor quality of information on CSR performance, (ii) the limited role afforded to strategic management and cultural change, (iii) the absence of checks and balances on arbitrary action, and (iv) a failure to appreciate key contextual constraints. The significance of these factors in explaining outcomes illustrates how the Bank's approach to CSR has been largely "technocratic." Rather than engaging CSs as dynamic systems that are influenced by multiple stakeholders, Bank operations relied on small groups of interlocutors within core ministries to design and implement one-size-fits-all CSR blueprints in diverse country settings.
9. Poor Information on CSR Performance. With the exception of fiscal data, standardized indicators of CSR performance were neither fully developed nor operationalized for monitoring and evaluation (M&E). As a result, implementation suffered from information asymmetries that prevented reforming governments from holding bureaucrats accountable to CSR objectives. For instance, managers granted accelerated promotions to raise salaries during wage freezes, which led to higher wage bills rather than savings.
10. Limited Role for Strategic Management and Cultural Change. Capacity building efforts were based on a narrow understanding of incentives as wage enhancements. They did not envision appropriate roles for strategic management (including the reorganization of work) and cultural change in strengthening incentives to perform. M&E often failed to acknowledge the detrimental impact of conventional Bank processes—such as the use of expatriate consultants and Project Implementation Units (PIUs)—on the credibility of standard operating procedures, as well as on the morale of civil servants. On a related point, the Bank's skepticism about promoting greater autonomy for public sector managers meant that CSRs often compelled bureaucrats in client countries to be efficient without empowering them to be innovative.
11. Absence of Coordination Arrangements, Checks, and Balances. Efficacy and sustainability suffered as borrowing governments carried out interventions without establishing the institutional arrangements necessary for coordination between government bodies or providing checks and balances to arbitrary action. For example, poorly defined authority between budgeting and personnel departments allowed overstaffing and the proliferation of ministries to continue, even after downsizing efforts. Similarly, in the absence of external checks on political interference, CS hiring remained a primary mode of dispensing patronage. Broad groups of stakeholders such as public employees, citizens, and private firms rarely participated in the process of defining and enforcing new rules and norms governing CS activities.
12. Failure to Appreciate Labor Market and Institutional Constraints. While all three contextual constraints—macroeconomic performance, labor market trends, and institutional endowment—significantly influenced CSR outcomes, the Bank relied mainly on budget scenarios to guide the design of CSRs. Neither ESW nor M&E used models of CS systems that adequately accounted for labor market and institutional trends (for example, projected demand for CS jobs or the level of political appointments in the CS) when elaborating reform scenarios.
Conclusions and recommendations
13. The review found that Bank-supported CSRs were largely ineffective in achieving sustainable results in downsizing, capacity building, and institutional reform. This was, in part, due to significant political difficulties in implementing CSRs. Yet the relevance and ownership of reforms were also weakened by a technocratic approach that failed to mainstream institutional analysis and develop a coherent framework for intervening in administrative systems. The Bank should take the following steps to promote lasting improvements in public sector performance.
14. For the purposes of monitoring and evaluation, the Bank should develop a system of categorizing CSR interventions in three classes based on their primary objective—downsizing, capacity building, or institutional reform. In addition, the Network should standardize performance indicators for each class of CSR in order to monitor impact.
15. Future CSR operations should systematically link capacity building interventions to job descriptions and monitorable performance of civil servants and their respective units
16. Bank-supported CSR interventions should be preceded by institutional assessments of administrative systems and analyses of labor market trends in addition to budget scenarios.
17. Where the Bank supports comprehensive reform programs, interventions should be designed as stand-alone projects and supported by lending instruments that allow adequate time for implementation (such as adaptable lending). The Bank should also employ participatory processes to nurture reform constituencies in government, the private sector, and civil society.
18. The Bank should use ongoing evaluations of CSR support by other multilateral and bilateral donors as a basis to more clearly define its strategic role in different contexts. Where it does not have a comparative advantage, the Bank should only play a supporting role.
19. Finally, the Bank should explore the feasibility of promoting results-based management by supporting comprehensive reforms of this kind in three to five pilot countries.
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Physiological Parameter Estimation With GlassPosted: October 23, 2014 | Tags: glass, physiology, wearables Leave a comment »
BioGlass is a research project by MIT and Georgia Tech aiming to estimate physiological measures from a head-mounted wearable device. Yes, that would be Google Glass. I've just started experimenting with Glass and decided to see if I could visualize my heart beat rate from inertial sensor data collected with the device.
Sure enough, it was quite easy (but I had to be completely still).
BioGlass's goal is to go beyond heart and breathing data, and estimate stress levels, for example. It looks like they are on the right track.
Recognizing Smoking Gestures with Inertial SensorsPosted: October 8, 2014 | Tags: inertial, smoking Leave a comment »
Here is another paper for Mobisys 2014 from researchers at UMass Amherst that I found quite good. Instead of eating detection, it focuses on smoking gestures.
Authors: Parate, Chiu, Chadowitz, Ganesan, Kalogerakis (UMass Amherst)
Idea: A wristband with inertial sensors (IMU) that can detect smoking gestures and sessions in real-time.
Approach: An arm trajectory-based (quaternion) method segments the signal, extracting candidate hand-to-mouth gestures. Trajectory-based features are used for distinguishing smoking features from non-smoking features (confounding gestures). A probabilistic model is employed to find out which hand-mouth gestures belong to individual smoking sessions. For evaluation, multiple IMUs and 3D animation were used for obtaining ground-truth.
Study: (Dataset) 28 hours, 15 subjects, 17 smoking sessions, 10 eating sessions, resulting in 369 smoking puffs, 252 food bites.
Results: 91% precision, 81% recall.
Study II: Study in the wild with 4 participants, 4 hours per day for 3 days. Thirty smoking sessions, missed 3 sessions; Not too many false positives low, less than 2 per day.
Note: Wristband with IMU (9-axis: accel, gyro, compass) provides 3D orientation of the wrist. Interesting approach for obtaining ground truth (3D animation of arm). Good description of challenges (concurrent activity while smoking). Good overview of pipeline, segmentation, features. Comparison to BiteCounter, mPuff (respiration chest band)
Published: Mobisys 2014
You can download the paper here.
Ubicomp 2014Posted: October 3, 2014 | Tags: conference Leave a comment »
Three weeks ago I headed to Seattle for the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, also simply know as Ubicomp. It is my favorite conference of the year, and this one did not disappoint; the work presented was very good. I co-organized a workshop on Personal Informatics (PI) on Sunday before the conference program began and then attended three days of paper presentations. Here is a small sample of the papers/presentations I enjoyed:
StudentLife: Assessing Mental Health, Academic Performance and Behavioral Trends of College Students using Smartphones
Rui Wang et al. (Presentation)
BiliCam: Using Mobile Phones to Monitor Newborn Jaundice
Lilian de Greef et al. (Presentation)
MobileMiner: Mining Your Frequent Behavior Patterns on Your Phone
Vijay Srinivasan et al. (Presentation)
Your activity tracker knows when you quit smoking
Ken Kawamoto et al. (Presentation)
Connecting Personal-scale Sensing and Networked Community Behavior to Infer Human Activities
Nicholas D Lane et al. (Presentation)
Chroma: A Wearable Augmented-Reality Solution for Color Blindness
Enrico Tanuwidjaja et al.
InterruptMe: Designing Intelligent Prompting Mechanisms for Pervasive Applications
Veljko Pejovic and Mirco Musolesi
Aside from the papers, three highlights of the conference for me were the closing keynote by Gaetano Borriello (historical perspective on Open Data Kit), the evening reception at the Experience Music Project (fantastic venue, especially with the ISWC design exhibit), and of course, the telepresence robots (for remote attendees).
Looking forward to Ubicomp 2015 in Osaka!
Summer Visits and ActivitiesPosted: August 20, 2014 Leave a comment »
Summer is coming to an end quickly, as it always happens. In fact, at Georgia Tech, Fall classes started this week. Most of my time in July and August was dedicated to examining on-body sensor streams and evaluating ways to process and make sense of them. I am getting ready to run some studies in the Fall, and it was immensely useful to concentrate on improving the methods and techniques I will be relying on for analysis and activity inference.
At the end of July, I had the chance to visit Prof. Bonnie Spring's lab in the School of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University. We are exploring a collaboration where some of the eating recognition systems that I am building as part of my dissertation work will be employed in diet/behavior studies. I will save all the details of this possible collaboration to another post, but I am thrilled about the opportunity to work with Prof. Spring and her team. In my view, working closely with experts in the medical sciences beyond computer scientists interested in addressing health problems is critical to making meaningful impact. Hopefully I will have more to share soon.
Finally, just last week I attended the third annual Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing (ISTC-PC) retreat, which was held close to Seattle, WA. Intel has been a major support of my graduate research work. As expected, I met many colleagues and had numerous productive conversations. Joe Paradiso gave the keynote speech after dinner:
Intel executives and researchers often come to this event. Bruce Horn, one of the members of the original Macintosh team, and none other than the man who created the Finder, is now the head of an Intel research unit. His signature is inside the case of the original Mac 128K, alongside other legends like Jobs, Raskin, Espinosa and Hertzfeld:
Here is a great post where he describes joining the Mac team. Naturally, I had to ask him to sign my MacBook Air:
Fun times. I hope the Georgia Tech folks tolerate my appreciation for the history of computing.
My Smartphone Knows I am HungryPosted: June 19, 2014 Leave a comment »
Really? Well, at least that's what the authors of this paper published at the Workshop on Physical Analytics (Mobisys 2014) claim. Yes, I did say I was focusing on CHI2014 papers over the next few weeks, but I ran into this one and had to read it. After all, my dissertation topic is in large part about inferring eating activities.
Authors: Chen, Wang, Zhou, Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Idea: Use of behavior data and location history from smartphones to predict if an individual is going to eat or not in the future. The goal is to provide just-in-time feedback to people about healthy food and drink choices.
Approach: Built a CART (classification and regression trees) model to predict food purchases of a group of undergraduate students. Top six features were (1) the current building, (2) arrival time of current building, (3) departure time of previous building, (4) activity ratio of last building, (5) arrival time of previous building, and (6) conversation duration at previous building. A prediction baseline was set with random guessing and compared with a generic model (10 fold cross-validation on all the data), personalized model with and without adaptation. With adaption, the prediction model is trained for each individual and updated over time to reflect most recent behavior.
Study: 10-weeks, 25 undergraduate students, used dining card purchase records as ground truth.
Results: 74.2% accuracy, 52.7% precision, 55.1% recall (using three weeks of training, personalized model with adaptation).
Published: Workshop on Physical Analytics (WPA) 2014 – Mobisys 2014
Personal Tracking as Lived InformaticsPosted: June 13, 2014 Leave a comment »
As part of my CHI 2014 paper reading series, today I read "Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics" by Rooksby et al. from the University of Glasgow in the UK. They offer a compelling take on activity tracking. It is a good read, even if a bit contradictory at times, in my opinion.
Idea: Understand people's practices and relationships with activity tracking devices and personal tracking in everyday life. This paper claims that personal tracking has been studied very narrowly so far, where devices serve as nothing more than activity detectors or as part of interventions.
Approach: Unstructured and follow up interviews with 22 participants.
Findings: Tracking is social (but not in the 'share on Twitter/Facebook' social, there are different styles of tracking (directive, documentary, diagnostic, reward-based, gadget-based), multiple trackers are used, tracking information used for meeting daily or short-term goals.
Notes: People chose different metrics to examine out of the devices they used, data collected and analyzed for short-term use (people not concerned about saving the data), tracking punctuated memorable life experiences (e.g., finishing a marathon), self-esteem. Idea that tracking is actually almost always prospective, since it's about where one's heading (e.g., losing weight, training for a marathon.
Feedback for Improving Medication TakingPosted: June 12, 2014 Leave a comment »
Over the next couple of weeks I will be writing several posts about CHI 2014 papers that caught my eye. I will format my summaries in 4 short paragraphs: Idea, Approach, Study, Notes. This structure will fit most papers I think. I will start with a paper by Matthew Lee and Anind Dey titled "Real-Time Feedback for Improving Medication Taking". As I understand it, this is Matt's PhD work at CMU under Anind. Matt is now at Phillips Research.
Idea: Study the effect of an instrumented pillbox and ambient display providing real-time feedback on medication taking. Research questions: (1) does real-time feedback improve consistency of medication taking?, (2) does real-time feedback improve self-efficacy for medication taking?, and (3) do medication taking behaviors change when removing real-time feedback after long-tern use?
Approach: Added various sensors and communication capabilities to a pill-box. Activity uploaded to server, projected back onto a visualization on a tablet that participants kept around the house.
Study: Longitudinal study with 12 people over 10 months. Participants divided in control, feedback groups. Two months for baseline, no feedback for both groups. After 6 months, real-time feedback was removed from feedback group.
Notes: The real-time feedback improved medication-taking behaviors and self-efficacy, but when it was removed after long-term use, performance was not sustained.
Disasters in Personal Informatics Ubicomp WorkshopPosted: April 28, 2014 Leave a comment »
Together with Jon Froehlich, Jakob Eg Larsen and Matthew Kay, I am organizing a Ubicomp workshop later this year. The theme: disasters in personal informatics. Here is a synopsis of what we are trying to accomplish:
In this workshop, our goal is to uncover, analyze, discuss, and learn from the failures of PI and QS research—failures that are most often not captured or surfaced in traditional publications because of embarrassment, perceived irrelevance, or simply lack of space. We want to provide an explicit forum to share stories of failure, perhaps even entire lines of research that did not succeed, in order to synthesize lessons learned and help progress the PI research community forward.
More details can be found on the official workshop web site. Please considering submitting – I believe this will be a rewarding experience for all who are working in the Personal Informatics space.
Variation of Serum Cholesterol in ManPosted: April 28, 2014 Leave a comment »
Unlike many of my colleagues, I am not going to CHI this year. Instead, I am staying put in Atlanta and laying the groundwork for some of my upcoming studies. With my many April deadlines and to-dos behind me, I am looking forward to resuming my paper reading routine. This morning I set aside 20 minutes for a paper published all the way back in 1939, "Long Term Study of the Variation of Serum Cholesterol in Man".
In this work, Turned and Steiner examined how cholesterol levels change in individuals over time. They had the opportunity to study 10 hospitalized patients over a period of 12-14 months at approximate weekly intervals. These patients were tested under different conditions (e.g., administration of thyroid medication, on a high-fat diet, on a low-fast diet, etc.). Thyroid admin resulted in drop in cholesterol and rise in basal metabolic rate, whereas a high fat diet caused a small increase in cholesterol. A low fat diet failed to influence cholesterol level.
As it becomes possible to monitor our physiology non-invasively with wrist-worn devices such as this and this, I am curious about which biomarkers might be fruitful to track, and how often.
QS Public Health SymposiumPosted: April 9, 2014 Leave a comment »
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Quantified-Self Public Health Symposium organized at UCSD by Bryan Sivak (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), Larry Smarr (Calit2 and ), and Gary Wolf (Quantified Self Labs). The intent of the one-day event was to provide a conducive environment for researchers, policy makers and developers of QS-type tools to discuss issues around data and its potential for use in public health. Many attendees such as Susannah Fox have written about the highlights of the day from their perspective. Here are my notes:
At the beginning of the day, Larry Smarr said he believes this is the "year of scale" when it comes to personal health informatics. Stephen Downs (Robert Wood Foundation) reiterated this point with a remark about our "rapidly expanding oceans of personal health data" and expanded on how RWJ Foundation has identified that a cultural change is needed around the value of health in society. Gary Wolf pointed out the uniqueness of the researchers involved in QS, ranging from public health epidemiologists and CS/HCI types, and also claimed that we are at "the beginning of a new program in the human sciences", which I very much agree. Susannah Fox from the Pew Research Center made a number of excellent points based on the data she has been collecting and studying. When it comes to self-quantification, do "people want the unforgiving bright light of numbers in front of them"?, she asked. Fox also talked about how it is important to respect cultural rituals.
Brian Sivak was one of the major forces in the event. It was a pleasure to see someone from a government agency be so forward-thinking about the opportunities in this field. He discussed a number of topics, from areas he considers critical (e.g., data ownership, privacy and standards) to the possibility of a broad public health campaign around activity tracking. He also introduced the theme of sharing documents such as terms of service and privacy policy agreements amongst tool developers to facilitate the exchange of personal health data.
Later in the day, in a session reserved for "toolmakers", Anne Wright from Fluxtream discussed how personal health data should be as portable as personal financial data, where one can download documents from banks and upload them to tools such as Mint and Quicken. In terms of visualizing and making sense of data, she mentioned the need for different types of interfaces at different levels (e.g., personal dashboards versus deep history introspection). Margareth McKenna from Runkeeper brought with her a number of research questions that are difficult to answer even in light of large amounts of data, such as what happens when people are not logging their exercise and activities ("sensors can only capture so much"). She also emphasized the need to disseminate tools to everyone, echoing others during the day who talked about the "digital health divide". Andy Hickl from A.R.O. presented the "11-week problem", at which point self-tracking devices go to the drawer. In other words, "what should we care?", or how can we make self-tracking data meaningful? At the end of the session, Gary Wolf came back and proposed a research toolkit that could be shared within the community.
In one of the sessions focused on study designs, a highlight for me was Eric Hekler, a behavior psychologist and deep thinker around behavior change. He discussed how he lost faith in randomized clinical trials and how we should be asking people what they truly want from data and devices. He also made the point that we should support people to come up with their own interventions and find out ways to "get more functional life years".
To me, the high-point of the day was a panel with Larry Smarr and Lee Hood. Hood, whose work has revolutionized biology and genetics, is leading a longitudinal, Framingham-like study with the goal of better understanding how digital technologies and ongoing self-tracking can be leveraged to quantify what it means to be healthy. Another goal of the study is to look at the progression of disease, as observed by these devices. Smarr, one of the most recognized self-trackers in the Quantified-Self movement today, started his tracking journey to understand his own personal health issues, in a way doctors could not, or were simply unwilling to listen.
In addition to the plenary talks and discussions, the day was filled with coffee breaks, where I had the chance to chat and exchange ideas with many researchers and developers, such as Kevin Patrick from UCSD and Mike Lee, who leads MyFitnessPal. Overall, a great day in the campus of UCSD.


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Juan Pablo will be joining his two chosen finalists for one more rose ceremony tonight. You know youll be watchingand so will we. Here are 15 signs weve been on The Bachelor bandwagon—all 27 seasons of it—for (possibly) longer than wed care to admit:
15. Your PDA motto is: "What happens in the ocean, stays in the ocean."
14. All of your friends' wedding rings are starting to look a bit puny.
13. You know what Neil Lane, the person, actually looks like.
12. You get anxious anytime you hear a glass being clinked. Pavlovian responses apply to rose ceremony signals, too.
11. You're starting to think Chris Harrison should just combine roles and become the Bachelor already.
10. You expect to be asked out on date night with a written invitation.
9. You're not the least bit freaked out by emotional men. Sobbing = sexy.
8. You long for the good ol' days, before Reality Steve ruined the suspense.
7. You find yourself wondering whether you've "really made a connection" with everyone you meet.
6. You occasionally refer to your bedroom as "The Fantasy Suite."
5. You get mad when you're not getting enough "one-on-one" time with your husband/BFF/2-year-old.
4. Your home décor is influenced by Le Bachelor Mansion. Wall of tea light candles? Check. 7x10 framed photos of all the men you've dated? Check.
3. You get annoyed with friends who can't commit to a guy they've been with for 12 months. Hello! 12 weeks!
2. You've cancelled your subscription to Travel & Leisure and just get all your destination ideas from the show. Phuket, anyone?
1. You've lied to someone about how long you've been watching The Bachelor.
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i am new here and i really dont know anybody here kuz ya just introduce yourself here... okey? i am clueless...
i am new here and i really dont know anybody here kuz ya just introduce yourself here... okey? i am clueless...
and i sign my name after every post
posting in the introduction forum demanding others introduce themselves to you. this is one of the boldest moves in the history of the internet.
Justin I don't think you have the right to talk until you tell lulugirl122 who you are.
Wow I just noticed their text thing below the name actually says Gijinka Lover. I had to look it up, but I can very well say that you are justified in your criticisms.
pokedream forums clearly are not big enough for both justin and lulugirl122
i'm jim carey fighting a grizzly bear
the action, not the participants.
your welcome
Horny guys? On MY Pokedream?
Way to scare her off guys- assuming she really is a "lulugirl".
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~ I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. -- Kyle Schmidt ~
~Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. -- Josh Billings ~
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