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KIRKLAND, Wash. and BEIJING, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- INRIX®, a leading international provider of traffic information and driver services, and CenNavi, a leading provider of traffic information services in China, announces a partnership for delivering premium real-time, predictive and historical traffic services across China.
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The collaboration leverages INRIX's sophisticated Traffic Intelligence Platform, vertical market expertise and connected services technologies with CenNavi's abundant real-time traffic information and advanced technologies, deep domestic experience and automotive relationships. The partnership furthers both companies' efforts to deliver premium traffic information, traffic-powered applications and analytics to help automakers, government agencies, mobile app providers, wireless carriers, and media companies improve mobility for travelers in one of the fastest growing and most traffic-choked automotive markets in the world.
"Our partnership with CenNavi advances our global automotive customers' efforts to deliver premium, traffic information and drivers services vital to their continued growth and success in the world's largest automotive market," said Bryan Mistele, president and CEO of INRIX. "By providing a singular global data format and technical interface, we're simplifying auto manufacturers' efforts to provide drivers with high quality traffic information services worldwide."
Traffic congestion across China's major cities is among the worst in the world and the unrivaled rapid pace of car sales is creating severe gridlock and pollution. The Beijing Transportation Research Board recently estimated registered vehicles in Beijing will grow to over 7 million in 2015, straining the current road network's capability.1 INRIX's advanced technologies and traffic information in the car, on smartphones, on broadcast news reports and in intelligent transportation systems helps drivers not only avoid costly delays but supports municipalities efforts to better manage traffic congestion across their road networks.
"We look forward to working with INRIX applying our combined expertise to solve one of China's biggest problems," said Haijun Tao, president of CenNavi. "This problem presents us with a significant market opportunity to deliver to automakers, mobile app providers and municipalities high quality traffic information and applications that improve urban mobility for everyone in China."
INRIX offices in Beijing are led by General Manager Dr. Harry He. Dr. He and Director of China Business Development He Bing (Bill) offer customers a combined 30 years of experience in information technology, telecommunications and mobile embedded software markets as well as an in-depth understanding of local transportation networks and the complex Chinese regulatory process.
About INRIX
INRIX® is a leading traffic intelligence platform delivering smart data and advanced analytics to solve transportation issues worldwide. INRIX crowd sources real-time data from approximately 100 million vehicles and devices to deliver traffic and driving-related insight, as well as sophisticated analytical tools and services, across five industries in 32 countries.
With more than 200 customers and partners including Audi, ADAC, ANWB, BMW, the BBC, Ford Motor Company, the I-95 Coalition, MapQuest, Microsoft, NAVIGON, Telmap, Toyota and Vodafone, INRIX's real-time traffic information and traffic forecasts help drivers save time every day.
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CenNavi Technologies Co., Ltd (CenNavi) is a leading traffic/travelling information service provider in China, which is affiliated to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (SASC). Based on its in-depth understanding of local traffic situations and customer demands, CenNavi keeps providing traffic/travelling information and service with the highest quality and the best customer experience.
Since the first Chinese commercial traffic information services officially launched in 2008, the CenNavi's services has now spread to 28 major cities nationwide. Amongst its partners in related industry, there are BMW, Benz, Toyota, Lexus, Nissan, Infiniti, Honda, Acura, Volkswagen, Nokia, Garmin, Unistrong, Shinco, Baidu, Google, Sohu, China Mobile and China Telecom among others.
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Published at 13:34, Thursday, 05 January 2012
A SUPER-SLIMMING GP lost almost half her body weight to scoop an award.
Dr Arabella Onslow, a GP from Kirkby, has scooped the Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Magazine Health Professional Slimmer of the Year 2012 Award.
The 41-year-old shed a massive 10 stone with the help of the Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Club in Ulverston.
She now weighs just 11st 10lb and wears a dress size 12 for the first time in more than 20 years. Before shedding the weight. Dr Onslow used to weigh 21st 10lb and wear a size 26.
She managed to shed three stone before taking the plunge to join the slimming club in August 2010.
The new lean and healthy doctor, a GP at the Market Street Medical Practice in Dalton, says she feels she is finally giving a positive message to her patients. She said: "As a GP you listen to patients with all sorts of problems and, of course, not all of them are connected with weight, but a lot can be, like breathlessness, bad joints and diabetes. So when I had to tell a patient they would benefit from losing weight I felt they were judging me."
Dr Onslow had spent 20 years piling on the pounds due to her enormous portion sizes, fatty snacks and the lavish fat-laden meals she would prepare.
When she became a respite foster parent to two children she was concerned about the example she was setting them.
She said: "I would cook them huge meals and everything revolved around food."
The GP also began to suffer the effects of her overeating.
She said: "I couldn't sit down comfortably, my knees ached, I developed sciatica and at one point I needed an extra seat belt extension on a flight."
The super-slimmer added: "If someone had told me when I first started that it would take just a little more than a year to transform my life, I would never have believed them. The support and guidance I received proved invaluable.
"I don't feel that people are judging me any more. I have a responsibility to set an example to my patients.
"I keep a picture of the 'old' me on my desk so I can show them that if I can do it, they can too. I've changed my life for the better and I hope I can help others change theirs too."
She received her award – along with £1,000 cash – from Rosemary Conley, CBE, at a glittering ceremony held at the London Marriott County Hall Hotel yesterday.
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Preseason NFL and President Obama mean Thursday night's initial ratings are likely to go down.
There will likely be more than a few adjustments to Thursday's Fast Nationals. With preseason NFL affecting the Big Four in several markets and President Obama airing a 10-minute speech from the White House at 9:30 p.m. ET, several early numbers are likely inflated.
CBS saw delays in a whopping 22 percent of the country, so while the preliminary 2.7 rating among adults 18-49 for Big Brother is destined to go down, it will still win the night in the key demo.
NBC's offerings — renewed Welcome to Sweden (0.8 adults), Working the Engels (0.8 adults) and Last Comic Standing (1.2 adults) — all represented slight growth from last week's scores. The same can be said for Fox's Gang Related (0.9 adults).
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The language I'm using is R, but you don't necessarily need to know about R to answer the question.
Question: I have a sequence that can be considered the ground truth, and another sequence that is a shifted version of the first, with some missing values. I'd like to know how to align the two.
I have a sequence
ground.truth that is basically a set of times:
ground.truth <- rep( seq(1,by=4,length.out=10), 5 ) +
rep( seq(0,length.out=5,by=4*10+30), each=10 )
Think of
ground.truth as times where I'm doing the following:
{take a sample every 4 seconds for 10 times, then wait 30 seconds} x 5
I have a second sequence
observations, which is
ground.truth shifted with 20% of the values missing:
nSamples <- length(ground.truth)
idx_to_keep <- sort(sample( 1:nSamples, .8*nSamples ))
theLag <- runif(1)*100
observations <- ground.truth[idx_to_keep] + theLag
nObs <- length(observations)
If I plot these vectors this is what it looks like (remember, think of these as times):
What I've tried. I want to:
- calculate the shift (
theLagin my example above)
- calculate a vector
idxsuch that
ground.truth[idx] == observations - theLag
First, assume we know
theLag. Note that
ground.truth[1] is not necessarily
observations[1]-theLag. In fact, we have
ground.truth[1] == observations[1+lagI]-theLag for some
To calculate this, I thought I'd use cross-correlation (
ccf function).
However, whenever I do this I get a lag with a max. cross-correlation of 0, meaning
ground.truth[1] == observations[1] - theLag. But I've tried this in examples where I've explicitly made sure that
observations[1] - theLag is not
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idx_to_keep to make sure it doesn't have 1 in it).
The shift
theLag shouldn't affect the cross-correlation (isn't
ccf(x,y) == ccf(x,y-constant)?) so I was going to work it out later.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding though, because
observations doesn't have as many values in it as
ground.truth? Even in the simpler case where I set
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The Rocky® Timberwolf 800 insulated field boot gives you dependable outdoor protection with a full-grain leather and nylon upper and a GORE-TEX® waterproof-breathable membrane. It comes equipped with a football cleat-inspired, exclusive Rocky Vibram® Pro Hunter outsole for exceptional traction, and 800 grams of Thinsulate™ Ultra Insulation to ensure warmth in any climate.
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This boot is lightweight and fits perfect.... Just bought my third pair of these..I work outdoors and abuse them.I just hope the back doesnt split again. November 16, 2014
So far, so great. Very comfortable so far. Have kept my feet completely warm down to 10 degrees. Warm enough, in fact, that once back inside the house, I took them off and my feet felt chilly! I have one foot that's a half-size bigger than the other, but I can adjust the lacings to provide a snug fit on both feet. I'll try to report back once I've slogged through some serious white stuff. November 15, 2014
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Rocky Timberwolf Field Boots Item was as described and just what I expected. Very comfortable just what Rocky boots are all about. October 31, 2014
Disappointed I bought these boots because the were water resistant. Well pulled them out of my closet and they turned moldy! Don't understand as we use a boot dryer before we put winter boots away. All others were fine. Can't get the smell out of them so they went in the trash after one hunting season. The sad part is I loved the boots October 19, 2014
Very comfortable boots My husband had his last pair of Rocky boots over 10 years, so we're hoping these last as long. He said there are very comfortable and can't wait to try them out deer hunting this fall. October 14, 2014
Rocky Men's Timberwolf Boots These are the best boot I,ve ever had for snowy and winter weather. The Rocky Men's Timberwolf GoreTex 800g field boot are warm tall and waterproof and very comfortable.This pass winter weather was (2013-2014) was long and the snow fall was heavy I am so glad I bought these boots, they are excellent boots. I am going to buy another pair , can't have to many. April 30, 2014
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Check out a group of people rocking out on a dance floor, and it's easy to figure out who's got rhythm and who doesn't. But how you move on the dance floor says even more about you than your dancing ability. Forget about taking a guy home to find out what kind of person he is. According to a study published in the Journal of Research in Personality, you can size up someone's personality by his or her dancing style. So the next time you're about to give out your digits, make sure he does a little jig for you first.
For the study, researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland asked 952 volunteers to complete a questionnaire that measured various aspects of their personality. They were then divided into five different personality types: Extroverted, neurotic, conscientious, agreeable and open-minded. According to psychologists, we all have varying degrees of each trait in us. For the sake of the study, researchers chose the 60 volunteers who scored highest in one particular trait and studied their movements on the dance floor. This allowed them to isolate each personality type and analyze whether these traits expressed themselves in certain ways when dancing. Here's what they found out:
Open-minded people like to bounce. They tend to move up and down rhythmically, and do not move around as much as other personality types.
Conscientious people are all over the dance floor. They like to take up space and move around the dance floor often -- what researchers refer to as "global movement." Their hands also move in longer, more sweeping gestures.
Extroverts make the most use of their body, especially their arms and heads. Their moves are often exaggerated and energetic. Though they don't circulate the dance floor as much as conscientious people do, they score high in "local movement."
Neurotic people dance with sharp, jerky movements of their hands and feet. Think Devo or Elaine Benes.
Agreeable people tend to have smoother movements than others. Their signature move: Moving side to side while swinging their hands. That sounds to me like the junior high side step: Don't do anything too crazy out there. Just move your feet back and forth and no one will make fun of you. Very agreeable indeed.
To quote Sarah Jessica Parker in what's arguably her best movie ever, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, "I love to dance!" Though my days of trolling nightclubs are over, I still enjoy watching men move on the dance floor. If a guy can dance, I am smitten. The more risks he takes on the dance floor, and the more willing he is to goof around, the more in love I become. I think that makes the type of guy I fall for a combination of conscientious, extroverted and neurotic. I'd say that sums up my husband well. Even though Ryan says he doesn't like to dance, he always clears the dance floor. He puts on a performance that's so comedic, at some point people have to stop and watch. Don't believe me? Here's a little glimpse of him dancing to MC Hammer at our wedding. As for me? My herky-jerky movements are neurotic all the way.
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Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and ex-Sleater-Kinney frontwoman Corin Tucker have formed a new band together, as the Portland Mercury reports. Little has been revealed about the group aside from the fact that they're opening for Buck's solo sets at Portland's Secret Society Ballroom tonight and tomorrow. The band also features Scott McCaughey (Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5), Bill Rieflin (Swans, Ministry), and Kurt Bloch (ex-Fastbacks). Their working name (subject to change) is super-Earth.
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Corin Tucker has remained fairly quiet since releasing her 2010 solo album 1,000 Years. Now the ex-Sleater-Kinney frontwoman has announced her next record, Kill My Blues, to be released September 18 via Kill Rock Stars. According to a press release, the record finds Tucker "returning to her riot grrrl sonic roots." It's her second record since Sleater-Kinney went on indefinite hiatus in 2006.
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Former Sleater-Kinney frontwoman Corin Tucker's solo full-length debut, 1,000 Years, drops October 5 via Kill Rock Stars. Above, you can check out the album's seventh sequential track, "Riley". UPDATE: This track was mistitled. It is called "Doubt".
The song features Tucker's distinctive vocals, as well as plenty of punky guitar shredding and a rousing organ-and-handclaps section. In other words: pure catnip for S-K fans.
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By Tom Breihan on July 29, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
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Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
This time, we spoke with former Sleater-Kinney leader Corin Tucker, 37. She'll release her first solo album, 1,000 Years, via Kill Rock Stars on October 5.
Corin Tucker Announces Solo Album
By Tom Breihan on July 12, 2010 at 3:15 p.m. EDT
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On October 5, former Sleater-Kinney frontwoman Corin Tucker will release her first solo album, 1,000 Years, via Kill Rock Stars. It's credited to the Corin Tucker band, which also features Unwound's Sara Lund and the Golden Bears' Seth Lorinczi.
Some songs on the album were originally written for the Twilight: New Moon soundtrack, but didn't make the cut. As Tucker says in a press release, "They didn't work for the movie, but I kept them anyway. The themes work exactly. The monsters, beasts and demons, all those things working on you. I think there's a lot of personal angst in that story."
Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker Announces Solo LP Release Date, Tour
By Tom Breihan on June 7, 2010 at 6:15 p.m. EDT
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Corin Tucker, the former and hopefully future Sleater-Kinney leader, is gearing up to release her first-ever solo album this fall. Today, the folks at Kill Rock Stars announced that they'll release the as-yet-untitled album on October 5. And around the time that album drops, Tucker will take her oceanic wail on the road, hitting a few venues on the West Coast.
On the brief five-date trip, Tucker will be backed by Unwound's Sara Lund and the Golden Bears' Seth Lorinczi, both of whom play on the album. We've got the dates below. Get excited.
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Gephardt's gay daughter: Chrissy Gephardt is revving up to solicit gay and lesbian votes for her dad's presidential bid. (Campaign 2004).
The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reported May 8 that Chrissy Gephardt, a Washington, D.C., social worker who assists female survivors of trauma and abuse, "will be far more aggressive than Mary Cheney in soliciting gay and lesbian votes for dear old dad."
And in another departure from Cheney's 2000 campaign, this time "dear old dad" isn't shying away from talking openly about his daughter. Gephardt's campaign Web site reports that Chrissy lives with her partner, Amy, and features a photo of Amy with the rest of the Gephardt family. "Dick loves his daughter very much, and they are a very close family," Gephardt campaign spokeswoman Kim Molstre told The Advocate. "He hopes she will take a very active role in his campaign for president."
What remains to be seen, however, is how much having an openly gay daughter can help the congressman from Missouri in a campaign in which nearly all the Democratic front-runners are jostling for the title of "gay-friendliest"--and if his daughter's openness will have any effect on Gephardt's position opposing equal marriage rights for gay men and lesbians.
During a May 3 debate in Columbia, S.C., Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Howard Dean sparred over who was the bigger supporter of civil unions. "My position in fact is stronger than Governor Dean's," Kerry said of the former Vermont governor, who signed the nation's first and only civil unions law when he was in office.
Gephardt also supports civil unions. But he has so far drawn the line at equal marriage rights for gay people, telling The Advocate in 2000, "I think we can make progress on all the legal questions facing same-sex couples.... Down the road, who knows? Maybe we will make progress [on marriage tool."
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I am not in the salt business. I am an obsessive shopper of food souvenirs. Who needs a postcard or a snow globe? You can't eat them. I want ingredients to cook with at home that will remind me of the places I've been, the flavors I have enjoyed.
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Organizations get the most out of technology when they also adopt new management practices
In the early 1990s, when information technology was beginning to spread as a way for organizations to get their work done, the business process re-engineering movement was also spreading. Two common phrases associated with BPR were often applied to IT: "Don't automate, obliterate" and "don't pave the cow path."
Both phrases reflect the idea that an organization is unlikely to improve productivity by simply computerizing existing ways of doing business. Instead, re-engineering advocates argued for re-examining the work. Rather than take a process with 46 steps and automate it as is, see if there is a way to streamline it and reduce the number of steps to, say, six.
That approach might have been valuable even without automation, but it is necessary if an organization is to take full advantage of IT applications.
In the beginning, the approach was applied mostly to routine activities, such as processing applications or placing orders. I recently came across a scholarly paper in the January 2010 issue of the "Journal of Labor Economics" — a highly regarded journal for economists who study the issues of workforce productivity and behavior — that added another layer of understanding to the role of IT.
Luis Garicano of the London School of Economics and Paul Heaton of Rand studied extensive data from 1987 to 2003 on police departments' practices in IT management. Their goal was to gauge the connection between the expanding use of IT and police performance, as measured by crime clearance rates and overall crime rates.
Their findings, published in an article titled "Information Technology, Organization and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments," are fascinating. After controlling for other factors that influence crime, the researchers did not see any difference in the performance of police departments based on their level of IT use.
What did make a difference was IT combined with new management practices. When agencies bought new technology and began using performance data to set goals and measure progress and when they adopted a geographic-based command structure, clearance rates went up and crime went down.
That is a variation on the old "don't pave the cow path" mantra as applied to higher-end, more mission-oriented activities.
Furthermore, the findings reinforce the longtime recommendation that chief information officers be included in agencies' program discussions. If IT is off in a world by itself, it is unlikely to deliver noticeable performance improvements for agencies. However, when IT changes are combined with other, complementary management improvements, better performance occurs.
For that to happen, program managers need to know what IT can offer, and CIOs need to understand programs well enough to know how they can contribute.
I urge CIOs to take these research findings to heart and make sure program managers and those concerned with agency missions understand that you need to be involved in program planning — not for your own power or self-aggrandizement but in the interest of delivering better mission results.
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I know what you mean about the prejudices still being out there. I try to keep Jinx adhering to Starfleet's levels of acceptance when it comes to such things, but there are some things that just push people a little too far (like being presented with a child as a reward for helping someone) towards thinking 'these people aren't human/vulcon/andorian/trill/etc.
I know where you're coming from, as I'm trying to accomplish a similar thing with the relationship between Marcus and S'rR's, where his Human cultural values and morals have been challenged not only by Pentaxian bonding customs, but also the additional twist that S'rR's is not really his biological daughter, but a binary clone with what is essentially a hardwired Electra complex...
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The tribe in my entry were actually meant to be fairly well civilised for a primitive people, just with a very rigid sense of obligation. Their sense of honour/obligation/whatever you want to call it meant they had been provided with a future at the hands of these outsiders. Literally the only way to repay them would be to provide the outsiders with a piece of their future, and for the outsiders to refuse, it would have been seen as an insult of massive proportions, implying that the outsiders thought very little of the tribe and that one of their own would not be 'worthy' of becoming a 'great hero'.
But, because of this strict code of conduct, Jinx's first reaction when she hears they are giving her a child is to call them savages. What she didn't see is that the child's parents had willingly gave up their child in the hopes that he becomes something great.
I definitely want to know more of what will happen to the boy, how he grows, and what he grows into. When I first wrote the character of S'rR's, she was supposed to be a 'background character' and an early teen in the Nemesis era, so when SOL jumped the timeline forwards a few decades, I was left with the necessity to 'update my crew', and discovering the woman she would have became seemed a logical thread to follow


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Appeal to halt landfill expansion rejected
Posted May 30th 2009, 12:00am by Joyce Ng
... Joyce Ng Town planning advisers have rejected villagers' demands to stop an expansion of a landfill in northeastern New Territories, which locals fear will create a bad smell and attract pests. The Town Planning Board said the mitigation measures planned by the Environmental Protection Department should be enough to manage any pollution from the bigger landfill. Moving ...http://www.scmp.com/article/681983/appeal-halt-landfill-expansion-rejected
HK$3m odour sniffers for Tseung Kwan O landfill and town
Posted Mar 05th 2009, 12:00am by Staff Reporter
... Cheung Chi-fai Two electronic odour detectors will be installed in the Tseung Kwan O landfill and nearby new town to assess the source of smells in a scientific manner, Secretary ... a trial scheme for the detection and measurement of odour nuisance at the landfill and Tseung Kwan O town,' he said. The detector, known as e-noses and developed in Canada, measures ...http://www.scmp.com/article/672098/hk3m-odour-sniffers-tseung-kwan-o-landfill-and-town
Landfill extension 'inevitable'
Posted Mar 09th 2009, 12:00am by Joyce Ng
... Joyce Ng Environment secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah said a 5 hectare extension of the Tseung Kwan O landfill into the Clear Water Bay Country Park was inevitable because the city faced a mounting waste problem. More resources had been put into opening new country parks in the past two years, said Mr Yau, who was speaking at an organic farming event in Pok Fu Lam. ...http://www.scmp.com/article/672596/landfill-extension-inevitable
Greens want land swap for country park landfill
Posted Jan 10th 2009, 12:00am by Anita Lam
... for 5 hectares lost to an extension of the Tseung Kwan O landfill. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said yesterday that the Country and Marine Parks Board would hold a meeting ... would consider the extension necessary, said the board had no consensus yet on the compensation proposal. The Environmental Protection Department said extension of the Tseung Kwan O landfill ...http://www.scmp.com/article/666456/greens-want-land-swap-country-park-landfill
Green groups warn of legal challenge over landfill extension into country park
Posted Apr 25th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter
... Cheung Chi-fai The government may face a legal challenge from green groups if it approves the encroachment of a landfill extension on Clear Water Bay Country Park. The groups say ... for the Tseung Kwan O landfill extension into a 5 hectare area in the park. Last year, the Country Parks Board, an advisory body to the director of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department ...http://www.scmp.com/article/635119/green-groups-warn-legal-challenge-over-landfill-extension-country-park
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