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How does your Facebook garden grow?
An article in the Globe this Sunday reported on an MIT student project:
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person's friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction.
Well, yeah. People in general tend to like to hang out with others who are like themselves. This isn't really news, and I'm not sure why the article pitched it as a privacy issue:
Discussions of privacy often focus on how to best keep things secret, whether it is making sure online financial transactions are secure from intruders, or telling people to think twice before opening their lives too widely on blogs or online profiles. But this work shows that people may reveal information about themselves in another way, and without knowing they are making it public. Who we are can be revealed by, and even defined by, who our friends are: if all your friends are over 45, you're probably not a teenager; if they all belong to a particular religion, it's a decent bet that you do, too. The ability to connect with other people who have something in common is part of the power of social networks, but also a possible pitfall. If our friends reveal who we are, that challenges a conception of privacy built on the notion that there are things we tell, and things we don't.
Did we not already know this? I mean, just keeping to the "gay" thing, if I'm gay and in the closet, even pre-Facebook, I would probably make sure that I was not seen coming out of gay bars, and I wouldn't hang out publicly with gay-rights activists. People are judged by their friends.
Which I suppose means, if you don't want anyone to know your sexual preference, political beliefs, religion, or sports team affiliation — why are you even on Facebook? But if you want cover, you should, obviously, get as varied a group of FB friends as you can. "Celebrate Diversity: It Keeps People from Knowing What You're Up to." Now there's a slogan that might just work.
I'm not sure what the software would say about me, except that I'm probably a mobbed-up farmer living in Fairyland. Which I suppose could be considered true in some highly metaphorical sense, but what couldn't?
Anyway, when I posted this question on my boston.com blog about whether or not one should refrain from posting happy updates on FB when a friend is in mourning, I got to thinking about the shape of social networks of FB users. What does your network look like, if you're on FB? How connected are your FB friends with each other? Does your network look more like this:
Or like this:
If you have "clumps" of friends on FB who all know each other, what are the clumps?
This struck me in relation to the mourning question because I think one element of that is how interconnected the friend in question is to the rest of your network. I have two major "clumps" of Facebook friends: my maternal cousins, and some friends of theirs; and friends from my Kansas City theater days. I think if anything seriously bad were to go down for anyone in those two clumps, the social obligation around it — as regards Facebook only, obviously — would feel different to me than if something bad went down for a friend who isn't connected to anyone else. Because it wouldn't just be a matter of the affected person's feelings, but of everyone else in that particular sub-network.
How does your Facebook garden grow? Are you the hub, or are you one hub of many? What are your "clumps"? And have you ever had the experience of realizing that friends from different contexts knew each other on Facebook?
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veronica on
September 22, 2009 9:19 pm
the weirdest connection i ever made was that the ex-girlfriend of a guy I knew in college was dating someone I went to high school with. just to give some context, I went to HS in north central MA but went to college in NYC. This guy from HS now goes to grad school at Yale, where he is in the same program as the friend of his girlfriend. Now i start noticing him as a mutual friend of college "friends" and it's really weird.
My clumps are as follows: family (nuclear and extended), high school, undergrad, grad, externship, and AMC. So the HS friends all know each other, the undergrad friends know each other, the grad friends don't really know each other (unless we did our externship together). The AMC theaters friends know each other. There are rare connections b/w groups…but for the most part all my groups are independent of each other.
car on
September 23, 2009 8:28 am
One of the ways you can visualize your clumps on facebook is the "friend wheel" app. It's a fairly old one, but I like the way it links everyone by who is friends with whom. The weirdest linkage I've seen is the college roommate of my spouse as friends with the college roommate of one of my friends' spouses, each of whom went to schools on other sides of the state. Turned out they had one mutual friend, one from knowing her in college, the other from knowing her in high school, and had met once at a party she had.
Carolyn on
September 23, 2009 9:47 am
I just did my wheel, thanks car, and I found what I expected: a small church clump, and a giant high school clump, the people I have twenty or more mutual friends with (of 130 or so.) The rest are near isolates, either because I've been more selective and waited for them to friend me (the neighborhood before high school, church camp, college) or by nature (people whose lives I wanted to follow when they left where I work, who didn't work together.)
That ap is the second place I've seen 'embiggen', Robin; you were the first.
I think I'd like to see the geographical map, too, though I don't think fb's would be perfectly accurate, because the posted home town can be someplace you don't live. But I have some mental clusters from common comments–too much homework in Texas, too much rain in Atlanta.
Alyson on
September 24, 2009 11:54 am
Oooohh, the wheel is fun!
I have a grammar school group, a high school group, a college group, family, after college and work. Some of them overlap slightly, for instance, a former co-worker in New Orleans, who is also a former roommate, is friends with a few of my college friends and I'm friends with a few of her high school friends.
One of the weirdest connections I have is that a former roommate of mine (T) has a former roommate (A) who went to high school with my college roommate (J). A & J are from the same south shore town, A, J, and I are all from MA and T is from California and also younger than all of us. We discovered this crazy connection one night when J was over for dinner, while T still lived with us, and A stopped by. Also, J is friends with a former co-worker of my husband who currently lives in California. My husband and I, aside from the meeting and marrying part, have no real connection to each other – except that we, too, are former roommates (of the platonic variety, we didn't get married and stop living together, just swapped out the term 'roommate' for '*insert appropriate sex*friend', 'betrothed' and then 'spouse'.)
Robin on
September 24, 2009 4:15 pm
Chiming in praise for "The Wheel!" A very cool app.
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Why did NBC not air the most damning part of Jerry Sandusky-Bob Costas interview?
BY JOE COWLEY email@example.com June 18, 2012 9:38PM
In this Dec. 13, 2011 photo, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives for a preliminary hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. A hearing is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 to consider Jerry Sandusky's request to see his grandchildren _ prosecutors don't even want him out on his back porch _ and whether a jury should be brought in from outside Centre County. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Updated: July 20, 2012 6:28AM
NBC isn't on trial.
Thankfully for the peacock network, blatant ignorance isn't a crime.
But shame on them for not airing the entire November interview with former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, in which the coach admitted, "I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped.''
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A Pennsylvania prosecutor contacted an NBC News lawyer on Friday, and asked the network to re-authenticate the full unedited transcript of the interview, which aired on "Rock Center with Brian Williams,'' and was conducted by NBC Sports host Bob Costas. The hope? Further damning evidence.
In the unaired portions, Costas called Sandusky out for using his charity for troubled youth, The Second Mile, as a way of luring alleged victims in.
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Costas responded by challenging Joe Paterno's one-time coordinator, "But isn't what you're just describing the classic MO of many pedophiles? And that is that they gain the trust of young people, they don't necessarily abuse every young person. … So it's entirely possible that you could've helped young boy A in some way that was not objectionable while horribly taking advantage of young boy B, C, D and E. Isn't that possible?''
Then came the sound bite NBC should have aired on every television set around the country as soon it was muttered from Sandusky's mouth.
"Well — you might think that,'' Sandusky said. "I don't know. In terms of — my relationship with so many, many young people. I would — I would guess that there are many young people who would come forward. Many more young people who would come forward and say that my methods and — and what I had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. And I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped. There are many that I didn't have — I hardly had any contact with who I have helped in many, many ways.''
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An NBC news executive emailed me the explanation as, "There were a lot of compelling comments in the original interview, but we did not have time to include them all.''
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The prosecution rested its case this week by calling the mother of Victim 9 to the stand, after the now-18-year-old had already detailed that Sandusky had made him bleed by anally raping him. The mother told the jury that she always wondered why her son's underwear were always missing from the laundry.
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LOS ANGELES — Ron Cey doesn't claim to know a lot of details about the Cubs' expansion-looking overhaul of the organization or how long it might take to produce a winner.
But 30 years after he joined the Cubs, he has a strong recollection of how successfully and how quickly the Cubs did this thing the last time a new owner hired somebody to do a culture-changing overhaul.
"We gave Chicago fans something they hadn't seen in quite a while," said Cey, the slugging third baseman on the storied 1984 Cubs. "Maybe ever."
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"Everybody uses a computer these days," said Cey, a six-time All-Star who now works with the Dodgers' community-relations and marketing departments.
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"You can't continue to do that," he said. "Loyal Cubs fans are going to continue to come out, but you can't do that with the fans. There are a lot of people who'd love to see [the Cubs] getting into the postseason. And I think it would be great for baseball.
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It may sound easy to say from where Cey sits — as a member of a $2.1 billion franchise with the highest payroll in major-league history and a blank-check mandate from ownership to win.
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"I don't see it," said Cey, who recalls a time when he was a free agent and Wrigley Field was not exactly as desirable as it seems to many players today.
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That involved raiding his old Phillies team for veterans Larry Bowa and Gary Matthews.
"None of us wanted to go over there and just finish out our career," said Cey, whose Dodgers had battled those Phillies for pennants in recent seasons. "We wanted that to happen in Chicago, and Dallas said he was going to make it happen. And he did."
Green also rebuilt the sagging farm system at the same time he put a winner on the field by his third year in charge, Cey's second with the team.
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It may not have had the volatility of Dan Gilbert's letter to the public concerning LeBron James, but Bryan Colangelo has come out firing against his former star, Chris Bosh.
"Despite limited swelling and any excessive damage on an MRI, he felt like he needed to sit for six more games…I'm not questioning Chris's injury. I'm telling you he was cleared to play subject to tolerance on his part, and the tolerance just apparently wasn't there and he chose not to play." [credit: Toronto Sun].
The timing of Bosh's reluctance to play is stunning. The Raptors had an outside chance of slipping in to the eighth spot in the playoffs, and finished the season with a 3-5 SU record in April that knocked them out of the post season. Bosh was absent for the final six games of the season and scored 42 points and 13 rebounds in his final game in a Raptors uniform.
Colangelo, who almost lost his job when Bosh made no indication he was going to return to Toronto, also said that he tried in vain to build a team around Bosh but nothing seemed to work.
Sound familiar, Toronto? It should. The same thing happened with Vince Carter.
It's easy for the jilted fans of Toronto blame Chris Bosh for leaving Toronto and giving his former team virtually nothing in return. Yet I'm still not convinced they're sad to see him go. Sure, losing any "star" is hard on a city (just ask Cleveland) but those who track the Toronto Raptors in NBA betting know that Bosh was not a game breaker.
The NBA All-Star game in Dallas was a pivotal moment for fans in Toronto, who saw Chris Bosh play with more energy, heart and vitality while he was getting alley-oops from LeBron James than they had seen him play in his entire 7-year career north of the border. I remember getting a text from a friend who loves the Raptors and all it said was, "He never plays like this in a real game. I hate my life."
If you need more reasons to hate your team, Toronto, keep reading.
Whether Colangelo meant to or not, all he's done is made Toronto a less inviting place to play. They're already in another country, although Toronto has been routinely ranked as one of best cities to live in throughout the world. Taxes and currency exchange aside, it's not like the Raptors have ever been to the Eastern Conference Finals in their 15-year lifespan.
Now you have all those tangible facts tied to a GM who will cuss you out if you choose to leave.
The team is now built around Leandro Barbosa and Andrea Bargnani, and if you thought Toronto wasn't physical with Bosh in the post, just wait until you see the new team in 2010-11. The team already finished with a 40-42 SU record with Bosh on tap, but went just 39-43 ATS making them an unreliable basketball spread beating team.
What's going to happen now when their best low-post option is rookie Ed Davis?
What's going to happen in free agency when Toronto can't sign anyone to play with Barbosa, Calderon or DeMar DeRozan in the backcourt?
What's going to happen when they draft future stars in the league who want to play in America, or who see that this team has only won the division once in its entire career?
The team has already lost stars like Tracy McGrady, Vince Carter and Chris Bosh through free-agency. It's not exactly the NBA betting trend you want to see, but the only thing you can count on in Toronto is that it is not where great players want to play.
Whining about it isn't going to change anything.
Bet on NBA Rookie of the Year Odds here where Ed Davis is +1500 to upset the big dogs!


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Social Security Offices To Be Closed Christmas Eve
A Message To All SSA Employees
Subject: Leave on December 24th
This has been an unbelievably challenging, yet remarkable, year for us. I am keenly aware of the impact that the nation's current economic situation has had on our workloads. Once again, you have stepped up to this challenge and continue to set the standard for public servants. In appreciation for your hard work and dedication, on December 24, 2009, I am excusing employees from work and closing all Social Security Administration offices for normal business. The excused absence will be handled in accordance with existing policy and applicable negotiated agreements. The Office of Personnel will issue detailed guidance to managers and timekeepers.
I am grateful for the work that you do and for your accomplishments. Enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done and the additional time to be with your family and friends during this holiday season.
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VA Courtesy Print
In order to expedite your VA check in process, we are asking that you get courtesy fingerprinting done at a VAMC close to your current location. This will greatly reduce the amount of check in time that you will need to spend at the VA in Portland.
In order to get your courtesy prints, you will need to follow these steps:
In order to get your courtesy prints, you will need to follow these steps:
- Go to http://www.va.gov. Click on "Locations" and then "Hospitals and Clinics." From this map, you can determine the VA Medical Center closest to your current location by clicking on the state. Fingerprints are available at all VA Medical Centers.
- Call your selected VA Medical Center to make an appointment to have courtesy prints done. When setting up this appointment, please confirm with VA personnel what pieces of identification are acceptable.
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Creepiness 5/5
Undocumented is part cinema verite and part live action. And all too close for comfort. It's the type of film that makes you think 'Hey, this isn't that far off from reality.' And this thought which makes you sick. Like pit of your stomach sick. A type of sickness that can't be achieved by a monster, zombie or other supernatural force. This is gut punching realism at its finest.
Our film follows the progress of four students and a guide as they set out to document the perilous trek of a group of Mexicans as they attempt to cross the border, risking their lives for the hope of a better one. They meet up with a man and board a bus and are taken to an area where the entrance to an underground tunnel resides. The group make their way through and to the other side and meet up with their transport. Their ride is a moving truck which is supposed to drive them into the heart of Texas. But just when they think they're well on their way to freedom, things get derailed when someone hijacks the truck.
The truck pulls up to a compound, the back of it opened up and immediately, the group is hit by spotlights. A voice comes over the speaker and demands that all strip down naked. The group of students and their guide call out, telling anyone who will listen that they are American. They are then taken into separate interrogation rooms and quizzed about their backgrounds along with being asked about the purpose behind the documentary. Travis, the head of the film crew, strikes a deal with the masked men. The crew is to film the group who runs the compound, documenting their actions and their guiding philosophies and principles. Little does he know that he (and the group) are going to get a lot more than they bargained for.
Things start off seemingly justifiable as the masked men talk about ridding the U.S. of the vermin who cross the boarder with drugs. They bind and torture a man who's revealed to be one such smuggler, going down a laundry list of his crimes. But it soon becomes apparent that no one is safe within the group not even the innocent. The sickest moment coming when a man is strapped to a chair and asked to answer questions about American history. For every wrong answer, his wife, attached to a drawn and quartering device, is stretched out inch by inch. Even the students aren't without consequence as they're killed when they attempt to help out members of the illegal immigrant group.
Things come to a head (literally) when Travis, who's heavily sedated, is forced to swing a bat adorned with nails into a pinata. The only problem? The pinata is filled with one of his friends. It's brutal and absolutely sickening. When he comes to and realizes what it is that he's done, he makes a last ditch effort with the surviving members of the crew to break free and get out.
This one is hard to stomach and get through folks. It feels like a ripped from the pages type of a story. Next to the psychological, this is the other type of genre film that gets to me the most. Steeped in realism, Undocumented will shake your core.
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[JIRA OnDemand] Integration with Zendesk
On some cases, you may wish to integrate your JIRA OnDemand instance with a 3rd party ticketing system. Zendesk comes to mind as one of the most used application for frontline ticketing system. A use-case with Zendesk may be as follow:
- Zendesk as the customer-facing instance for logging bugs and new features for a product.
- JIRA is used by the company to analyse these bugs and use it for their internal development purposes:
- GreenHopper for agile management.
- Bitbucket for source code management.
- Bamboo for continuous integration and release management.
Which is why the creation of the Zendesk for JIRA plugin was created: for such a use case to exist.
In this post, I will discuss on the steps on how to integrate JIRA OnDemand with Zendesk; the steps below will differ than the instructions provided by Zendesk just because those instructions are directed for users who host JIRA locally.
Setting up JIRA OnDemand with Zendesk Integration
- Go to your Cloud Connectors settings:
- if you are on JIRA-only Atlassian OnDemand, go to Administration > Plugins > Cloud Connectors > Connections:
- if you are on a multi-product Atlassian OnDemand, go to Administration > JIRA > Cloud Connectors > Connections:
- if you are on JIRA-only Atlassian OnDemand, go to Administration > Plugins > Cloud Connectors > Connections:
- Enter the Name of your Zendesk connection. Choose Zendesk from the External System Type dropdown. Click Add.
- On the next screen, click Manage Application Links. We are going to add the connection to Zendesk by this method.
- On the newly opened tab, enter the URL of your Zendesk application on both the RPC URL and the Display URL. Click Add.
- You will notice that the application have been created in the list of configured application links. Click Configure Authentication.
- Here is where you configure authentication for your JIRA to connect to the Zendesk application. There are two methods for this:
- you can use your username and password for authentication
- you can use token authentication. This is the preferred approach for authentication, and you can grab the token from
http://settings/api. Then, it's just the matter of entering your_username/token as the Username and the token as the Password/Token
- you can use your username and password for authentication
- Once you have set the authentication, click Update. You will notice the created application link's authentication status has turned green and it shows Configured. Close this tab.
- Go back to the page from step 3, and click Reload Options.
- Under Application Link dropdown, you will now notice the newly created application link. Select it, and click Add.
- In the next page, choose Launch Wizard.
- Here is where you configure which projects you would like the mapping schemes to be associated with. You can select one project, or select multiple project (hold down
Ctrl(for Windows/Linux) or
Commandfor Mac) from the list. Also, choose Yes for Would you like to automatically associate the field with all screens? option. Click Create Configurations.
- We will now attempt to configure the ticket sharing agreement between JIRA and Zendesk. Go to your Zendesk, and access the Settings > Tickets page.
- Choose Ticket sharing tab.
- Click on add sharing invite.
- Choose Atlassian JIRA on the next screen.
- In the subsequent screen, enter the following:
- full URL of your instance in the JIRA server URL field (include https:)
- for the Comment and status permissions section:
- Make public & private comments, sync status – sync comments across between JIRA and Zendesk
- Make private comments, do not sync status – comments in Zendesk would not appear in JIRA, and vice versa.
further information can be read here: Sharing tickets with other Zendesk accounts.
- for Tag synchronization:
- No, do not share tags between me and the receiver. – any tags from Zendesk will not be parsed to JIRA.
- Yes, share tags between me and the receiver. – tags in Zendesk will be parsed to JIRA (as labels).
- Once the setting has been done, send the invite.
- Go back to the Connections page in JIRA, and choose Ticket Sharing.
- In the next screen, you will see the ticket agreements from Zendesk. Choose Activate.
- If you would like to customize further, you can set the default reporter as well as allow public comments.
- Go back to the Connections page, and choose Test. This option would test for your communication between JIRA and Zendesk.
- If the connection was successful, you will get the Connection Successful message
If you are using custom domains (
https://support.abc.comfor example), make sure that you are using the custom domain for these fields.
Testing the Integration
Once the integration is completed, you can then start sharing tickets between JIRA and Zendesk. Go to Zendesk, and attempt to share a ticket to JIRA. This can be done by choosing the JIRA instance in the Share section of a Zendesk ticket. You can either choose to create a new JIRA issue, or link the Zendesk ticket to an existing JIRA issue:
When the ticket gets shared from Zendesk, you will notice two things in Zendesk:
- Ticket is shown to be shared:
- A link to the JIRA issue will be shown on the right sidebar of Zendesk:
Clicking on the Issue ID on the right sidebar would redirect you to the linked JIRA issue. There is also a custom field that was created during the integration process; which will redirect you to the relevant Zendesk ticket.


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15 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Vacation
Get away without being taken for a ride
By Meghann Foye
Consider condo resorts
In just about every major U.S. vacation destination, you can find time-share communities that reserve a certain number of one-, two- and three-bedroom suites with kitchens for renting out by the night. These suites give families space to spread out, as well as the option of cooking, which can save you hundreds of dollars even if you only eat in for breakfast. To entice visitors, these resorts often have additional amenities for vacationing families, such as pools and great restaurants. Two locations offering these great deals this summer include MonteLago Village Resort in Las Vegas and Squaw Valley in Lake Tahoe.


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Company promises 1 cm, 1 terabyte holographic storage cube
Holographic storage systems have been around for years, but haven't taken off due to the cost and lack of a clear advantage over competing storage mediums. A company called AON now claims to have developed a one centimeter cube that can store a terabyte of data in holographic, optically-encoded pages.
Holographic storage works on the same principle as holograms do: you take a laser, split it into two beams (the data beam and the reference beam), bounce the data beam off of an object, and then recombine it with the reference beam onto a photographic plate.* Instead of storing an image of the object, the plate stores the interference pattern produced with the two beams combine with each other at the plate. This pattern contains much more information about the object than a picture does: it's actually a representation of the entire light field reflected by the object, allowing you to see the object from multiple angles and in three dimensions.
In terms of storing data holographically, the principle is generally the same, except that instead of bouncing the data beam off of an object, you bounce it off of an array of tiny electromechanical mirrors that either reflect the light or don't, creating a holographic "page" made of up of an array of bright spots and dark spots, which is how your data are stored. Once a page is "written," you can slightly alter the angle at which your laser intersects your storage medium, and then record another page. To retrieve the pages, you just shine a laser into your storage medium at the exact same angle that it was stored at, and the holographic "page" pops right out.
If you've got a three-dimensional storage medium like a holographic cube (which in this case is a lithium niobate crystal), the amount of data that you can store is limited only by the volume of the material itself and the precision with which you can control the read/write angle, meaning that you can store a lot of data in a very small space. AON says that their current capacity roadmap tops out at just under 10 terabytes, with a data transfer rate of 1.2 terabytes per second. Furthermore, holographic data are stored permanently (there's no degradation), they system as a whole is extremely robust, and the price per gig is well under $1.
Generally, we're not fans of the "we have this super-secret awesome technology but you can't see it or know how it works" type of pitch, but enough similar technology exists that we're willing to believe that AON's just about ready to bring volumetric holographic storage to market, provided that they can find the right partners to throw some funding their way.
*It's actually very simple, and a lot of fun, to make holograms at home. You can buy a kit with everything you need to do it and 20 plates for under $100.
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The 2014 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award (TBDA) nominees were announced on stage at the free Telstra Outdoor concert held in Melbourne on 7th March in front of an audience of 8,106 attendees.
Six talented young dancers are in the running to take home The Australian Ballet's highest honour and the nominees are; Dimity Azoury (Queanbeyan, ACT), Imogen Chapman (Kelmscott, WA), Ingrid Gow (Randwick, NSW), Cristiano Martino (Adelaide, SA), Rina Nemoto (Tokyo, Japan) and Jade Wood (Cairns, QLD).
Introduced in 2003 to encourage young Australian ballet dancers to reach their full potential, the Telstra Ballet Dancer Award has catapulted some of The Australian Ballet's brightest stars into the stratosphere.
Last year Coryphée Christopher Rodgers-Wilson won the 2013 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award and the Telstra People's Choice Award went to Benedicte Bemet.
Six previous TBDA winners have ascended the ballet rankings to reach principal artist status, including Chengwu Guo (2011) Matthew Lawrence (2003), Amber Scott (2004), Lana Jones (2005), Daniel Gaudiello (20007) and Kevin Jackson (2008).
This year marks a remarkable 30-year partnership between The Australian Ballet and Principal Partner Telstra. Warwick Bray, Telstra's Group Managing Director, Products, said the Award aims to support and encourage the next generation of talent within The Australian Ballet. "The announcement of our six nominees is a highly anticipated moment every year as it is an opportunity to recognise and reward young dancers for their hard work, talent and passion in this highly competitive and demanding industry," said Mr Bray.
This year's nominees were chosen by The Australian Ballet's artistic staff, previous winners of the award and principal artists. The six dancers were judged on their performances throughout 2013, the ongoing development of their skills and their support of fellow company members.
The winner, announced near the end of 2014, will be decided by an industry panel – comprising of representatives from The Australian Ballet, Telstra and the media – and will receive a $20,000 cash prize from Telstra. The People's Choice Award has a $5,000 prize and is decided by public vote.
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The California State Controller's Office says December revenues were 103-million dollars above estimates. But as Amy Quinton reports from Sacramento, the report shows the state in only fair fiscal condition.
2012 is over, but the state's fiscal year is at the halfway mark. And while revenues were above estimates in the state budget for the month, California still has a cash flow gap of 14-point 6 billion dollars for the first six months of the fiscal year.
Income tax revenues in December were 767-million dollars above estimates, or about 13-percent. But adjusted sales tax revenues were down almost seven percent. The major disappointment continues to be the performance of corporate taxes. For December those revenues were 31-percent below estimates.
That's well below last year's totals. Still, the report suggests there are signs of a slow economic recovery for the state. Total revenue for December was almost 3 percent above last year's.
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Assemblyman Lopez Announces Extension For STAR Applicants
October 24, 2007
Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I – Schoharie) has announced that the Assembly passed legislation that will extend the deadline for the STAR rebate program from November 30 to December 31 of this year.
"This is a great chance for anyone who has not sent in their application yet," said Lopez. "All property owners who are eligible should apply for their rebate check as soon as possible."
Applications have been mailed out to homeowners, but if you need another copy, or more information, go to http://www.tax.state.ny.us/star/2007/ or call 1-877-678-2769.
"All homeowners should take advantage of this opportunity. I know that property taxes present a serious burden for property owners and I will continue to fight for relief," Lopez stated.
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Caturday: Matej the multi-purpose cat
Whether it's laying comfortably in front of a classic slot-loading iMac in 2003 -- presumably there to clean off CDs and DVDs going into the drive -- or getting exercise more recently batting at fish in the Friskies iPad app (below), Matej knows his Apple products and loves 'em. Matej hails from Prague, Czech Republic, hanging out with TUAW reader Juraj.
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Healthy Tech: Heart rate monitors, running and you
When I go running outside, I always have some sort of music playing device with me — either my iPod Nano worn on my wrist or my iPhone worn on my arm. I also usually have an app running that tracks how far I've gone, how fast I've been going and with the iPhone, where I've run, thanks to a GPS app like Runkeeper.
But lately, I started looking at wearing heart rate monitors when I run as well; a friend swears by them. I even tested out two different models recently — the Sportiiiis and PEAR Square One (pictured above). While you can use free and paid apps on your iPhone or Android to monitor your heart rate, the best way to do it is with a dedicated device. They're a little more involved: many consist of a band that wraps around your chest just under your heart with a sensor that connects wirelessly to a monitoring device worn elsewhere on your body via Bluetooth.
But before I get into what I thought about those two particular devices, it's important to find out why you might want to think about wearing a heart rate monitor when running.
Is A Heart Rate Monitor For You?
To find out the fitness-related advantages of wearing a heart rate monitor when running, I consulted a number of experts as well as a friend who wears one when training for Iron Man races — a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a full marathon of 26.2 miles (for the uninitiated).
The benefit boils down to knowing your body better — how it's performing and how you can make sure it's performing at its peak.
According to Matt Tuthill, C.S.C.S. (Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist), and Senior Editor at Muscle&Fitness, "you can't trust the 'zones' provided on most machines in the gym because they can't tell you how hard you — personally — are working. And while the heart rate sensors on most treadmills are fairly reliable, they require a break in your natural stride if you want to get a measure in the middle of your run."
But what about for running outside with one as I've tried doing? According to Tuthill, it's a good idea because "too many people think it's good enough to just go for a jog or hop on a treadmill for time. But if you're not elevating your heart rate beyond your comfort zone, you're not being as efficient with your time as you could be."
In other words, just as wearing a pedometer has been proven to increase people's steps a day (according to a piece in the Harvard Health Letter ) — especially when you're competing with friends online like with a Fitbit — wearing a heart rate monitor constantly reminds you when you're not making your body work the hardest.
Monitors are especially important for long-distance runners. My friend Andrew C., an Iron Man runner, wears one because "it provides me the real-time insight I need to know how hard I'm working. When I first started to wear one, I quickly realized that I was not running as hard/fast as I could be while maintaining a safe heart rate level." When running an Iron Man, that's key because the distances are so great and you want to make sure you maintain a safe and balanced level of activity the entire time.
Tuthill and Andrew are both joined by plenty of supporting voices.
For instance, RJ Boergers, PhD, ATC and a Master of Science in Athletic Training at the School of Health and Medical Sciences at Seton Hall University said that wearing a heart rate monitor serves as a "physiologic measure to help guide the intensity of the runner." In addition, he said it's "helpful for determining your fitness level by seeing how quickly you recover after intense bouts of exercise."
Matt Fitzgerald, a training intelligence specialist for PEAR Sports (the company behind the PEAR Square One), would agree. He says, "with a heart rate monitor it's no longer possible to kid oneself about one's running intensity and it's much easier to vary the intensity of one's workouts appropriately."
Jeff Viacrio, a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling Certified coach with 4iiiis echoed everyone else saying, "The best way to improve fitness and see results quickly is to train at the correct intensity."
Tuthill also recommend pregnant women who "want to (and should) keep exercising because there are very strict heart rate guidelines once you're expecting" and a heart rate monitor can help them monitor properly.
There can be a downside, however, according to Boergers. "Some people become dependent on them to guide their intensity level and never really get to 'know their body.'" In other words, "they are always looking for a number to guide them rather than developing a 'feel.'" That's why Boergers usually recommends them for training "but wouldn't recommend it for racing personally."
The same can be said about running with music. I have a lot of friends who run and never listen to music, which for me is just unheard of. They found it allows them to instead pay more attention to cues such as their breathing and heart beat, and perform better since they're more tuned with their body.
Cost can, however, also be another major downside. The majority of heart rate monitors I've tested can cost upwards of $200. So unless you're serious about your running and serious about wanting to improve your strides and performance, you'll want to really weigh the pros and cons before you shell out the cash.
How To Do It Properly
Both of the devices I've tested, the Sportiiiis and PEARS Square One, couldn't be easier to set up. If you buy the devices as a package with the heart rate monitors, they're already pre-configured and when you turn them on, they'll automatically be synced through Bluetooth with the sensors.
Both included elastic bands to wear on your chest under your heart. I was surprised at how snug yet comfortable they were — I barely noticed they were there. The two devices also have widely different approaches to how they provide you with the data those sensors collect.
The Sportiiis is definitely a "unique" kind of device. It consists of a small boom device that fits onto any pair of standard glasses/sunglasses, and has seven LEDs that light up, corresponding to whether or not your heart rate is in your targeted zone, which you personally set up in the included PC software. You can also receive audio cues every so often, but the boom allows you to see at any moment whether or not you're performing where you should be.
The PEAR Square One, meanwhile, is a more standard device. It consists of a tiny device that an iPod Shuffle can actually plug directly into. It will periodically speak your heart rate (and anything else you want mentioned such as calories burned, distance traveled and so on, which you can set up on the website) or you can press a button at any time to hear how you're doing.
According to Fitzgerald, since most runners don't wear heart rate monitors that "require a good deal of coaching knowledge to be used effectively," he recommends the Pear Square One because "training with a Square One is the nearest thing to having a world-class running coach as your personal training guide and mentor."
Vicario recommends the Sportiiiis from 4iiiis because, "Sportiiiis provides real-time feedback to the runner so he can nail each and every interval in training enabling him to focus on technique. Refining your running skills is probably the easiest way to lower your running times and with Sportiiiis you can focus on just that."
So how do you make sense of all the numbers if you don't want to shell out for a monitor in the first place? Tuthill suggests using an easy-to-remember theoretical maximum heart rate (MHR) calculator, which is 220-Age=MHR. He said the closest you'll ever want to get to your MHR is 90%. So for instance, if you're 30 years old, the calculation would be 220-30 = 190x.9 = 171 beats per minute.
Boergers also suggested runners can use a "simple stop watch to monitor your pace, which will help control your intensity (faster pace = higher intensity)." (And it will require a lot less math for Writing majors such as myself.)
Knowing What Data Is Useful To You
I ran a few times with each of my heart rate monitors and I found they weren't for me. I didn't find I cared that much about that data, as I did about calories burned and distance traveled.
Then again, while I've been running steadily for over a year and a half now, I'm still not what I would consider a "serious" runner. I do it just to keep in general shape. (And because the shirts they give you when you sign up for 5K runs are really comfy.)
But the more I did it, and the more I talked with experts such as Tuthill, Boergers and Andrew, the more I started to believe that wearing one would force me to run faster and harder.
If you want to make sure you're performing at your peak during long distance runs like Andrew, you should consider a heart rate monitor. But if you're like me, start with just running regularly before you start strapping things to yourself.
You're in luck. At least in the Northeast. Because as of right now — the weather couldn't be more perfect.
About Healthy Tech
This is the Healthy Tech Weekly, where guest columnist Alan Danzis reports on choice healthy technology news stories. Each week you'll discover new fitness gadgets, apps and going-ons, as well as what's around the corner, with medical innovations that will one day change the way you monitor and impact your overall health and well-being.
By day, Alan Danzis works at Atomic Public Relations. His opinions here are his own and do not reflect the opinions of Atomic, nor the clients Atomic works with.


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Here is Rascal after being in Long Beach, Ca. invited as special guests and to have Rascal be the Grand Marshal to lead their Haute Dog Easter Parade of about 400+ dogs for a 2 mile parade.
Rascal, The only living and competing Ugly dog to hold the coveted "Ring of Champions" title which makes him the current "World's Ugliest Dog".
Rascal is a very healthy 7.lb 8 years old pure bred Chinese Crested. We do NOT shave him; he is naturally and completely hairless except for his Mohawk and a little hair on his tail and feet. He is complete with ugly dog warts and freckles. Rascal has a lack of teeth, so he can keep his tongue in his mouth, and his face appears crooked at times.
Owned by Actor, Dane Andrew of Sunnyvale, Ca. USA. Rascal is Ugly Dog Royalty being from a dynasty of ugly with his Mom, Grandmother, and Grandfather all who have held the title of "The World's Ugliest Dog". Rascals Grandfather "Chi Chi" is in the Guinness Book of World Records for winning the most ugly dog contests and was undefeated with 7 ugly dog wins. He may be the only dog along with Rascals Mom to receive a Mayoral proclamation.
Some people are calling him a Space Alien, and even nicknamed, Hairless Potter, but to us he is just our loving little Family member.
Rascal was ugly enough that Jay Leno had him on the NBC Tonight Show before he had ever even won his 2002 title, since then he has done several more TV shows and has been cast in 3 horror movies, one with the Scream Queen, Brinke Stevens.
Rascal has a cartoon strip on the way, called The Ugliest Dog.
Rascal Has been on a number of TV shows, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jane Pauley at NBC NY., America's Greatest Pets, Guinness World Records Prime Time, Mornings on 2, Evening Magazine, and many others not to mention TV news and newspaper stories.
Rascal now has a film career and has been in the movie "Tele-Zombie", as the killer Zombie Dog, and just played the witches pet in a new movie "The last Nightmare" . He has two other movies pending.
A Family History of the Worlds Ugliest Dog.
Here are photos of the dog who started it all, and some of his descendents who have all won the title of World's Ugliest Dog.
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Slappa Ballistix Aura Pro-Tour Backpack Review Discussion
As the shopping deadline for Christmas fast approaches, Slappa comes to the rescue with one of the best laptop backpacks we've ever reviewed. This isn't an ordinary notebook backpack, folks. This backpack has padded storage and dividers for all your digital lifestyle needs; from notebooks and digital cameras, to iPhones and USB flash drives. We also happen to love this backpack because Slappa contacted us after reading some of our other laptop bag reviews and asked for our help in designing a backpack that will comfortably carry everything a modern tech-head needs. Is the Slappa Ballistix Aura Pro-Tour Backpack as good as it sounds? We put it to the test to find out.
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20th December 2008, 12:38 PM #2
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Sorry to spoil the atmosphere but isn't there a conflict of interest somewhere if you guys are reviewing a bag that you helped design?
20th December 2008, 12:44 PM #3
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Interesting, and it seems to have a place for most things. It must be quite bulky when full with all that padding and a claimed usable volume that is 27 litres (or 40% of my medium-sized suitcase).
17" x 19" x 19" means an enormous thickness. Anyone wearing this is going to look like a snail! How much does it weigh when empty?
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This bag obviously is not something that normal consumer would like to carry from day to day. Nevertheless, there's people out there, who will find this bag to be god send and I would gladly like to support the effort of any company that listen and stay so close to consumer.
Great review!
20th December 2008, 01:14 PM #5
Re: Slappa Ballistix Aura Pro-Tour Backpack Review
We felt that it was important to disclose that information ... and I will also disclose the fact that we received ZERO money from Slappa and that we receive no financial compensation in any form whatsoever.
We agreed to work with Slappa in the creation of this bag because we haven't been happy with many of the laptop/camera bags we've reviewed in the past and it seemed like an opportunity to help create a bag that met our personal needs.
About the only thing remotely close to financial compensation that we received was the discount code for our readers ... but we don't get any money from that and I suspect Slappa offers similar discount codes to other sites.
Bottom line, is it a "conflict of interest" that we reviewed this bag? Maybe. But considerably less of a conflict of interest since we make absolutely ZERO money from this bag ... and we still called out the potential problems/cons in our review of this product.
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nice review the bag looks nice. to bad it's 135
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John, The product dims are actually 17" high X 9.5" deep (front to back) X 12.5" across. The weight is 4.5 lbs empty (including the inner bag).
Adyingwren, we did approach Jerry when we were making our first prototypes because we know that he see's most every bag/case come across his desk, and we figured he had better insight as to the shortcomings of other bags AND the needs of notebook users and SLR photographers.
As he stated in his above post, there is absolutely no remuneration or compensation of any sort. We simply asked for his advice and he graciously provided it. If you know anything about SLAPPA, we are ALWAYS asking for advice from customers, experts (which is what we classify Jerry as), resellers and sales people. When I am in retail stores I ALWAYS ask people what they like, what they don't like and what they want to see. At first people think I'm insane, but when I then explain to them why I ask these questions, 99% of them appreciate the fact that I'm trying to build products based on feedback.
Jonhapimp.....$135 is alot for a pimp like you ??? I really believe that for what we've built into this bag (and the fact that it's a 2 bag set) the price point is a steal (but of course you would expect me to say that since it's my brand)
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slappa i awesome and this is for sure i nice bag.. i use slappa on a daily basis and i wouldnt want it any other way. i may consider this one nowSee my guide on how to make a bootable usb stick: http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/246530-how-flash-your-bios-dos-using-usb-stick.html new updated one will be here soon: http://forum.notebookreview.com/show...87&postcount=1
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20th December 2008, 03:53 PM #9
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Nice review Jerry! Although the aesthetics isn't quite my cup of tea, I do appreciate the ruggedness this backpack offers. One quick question (for either Jerry or Dom): When you mention that the bag is water resistant, do the zippers also resist water seeping into the inside compartments? From experience, I've noticed that one of the easiest ways for water to enter the inside cavity of the bag is through the zippers and the surrounding area. I have the Tom Bihn checkpoint flyer bag and that bag uses some sort of nylon lining that covers the zippers and does a fantastic job repelling water. For any bag that carries expensive electronics, I feel that is an important feature that should be incorporated in all laptop/camera bags.ASUS U36JC-A1 w/ Intel 6300 wifi || G.Skill 256GB SSD
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However, the zippers are not fully weather sealed ... meaning if you poured water directly over the closed zippers some would get through.


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Summer Fest: The Fresh-for-Once Tomatoby Allison Milam in Uncategorized, August 1, 2012
There's the bottle of ketchup in the fridge. A weightlifter's load of canned tomatoes in the pantry—crushed and whole, of course. You've got your tomato paste, your bag of sun-dried, your jar of marinara, your jarred salsas and your canned tomato soups. You could survive a natural disaster with the amount of tomatoes in your house. In its preserved form, the tomato is your lifeblood, your fallback. A sauce injects limp pasta with life and tomato soup reinvigorates grilled cheese with just a dip. It graces the tops of our favorite pizzas and finds its way on top of our hotdogs. Tomato products—keyword: products—build the foundation of our kitchens and is one of the only products that we do not insist on freshness. And that's fine, up until a certain point.
But when tomato season rolls around, close the pantry door and leave the fridge locked shut. The only red rolling around on your kitchen counter should be the real thing, the real tomato. We are done with tomato in its disguised form and ready to tear into a juicy one straight from the vine. Taken raw, they are acidic and juicy. Met with a simmering heat, it's an entirely different ballgame.
Expand your fresh tomato repertoire with a series of healthy recipes, both cooked and uncooked.
The Uncooked: Just As Nature Intended
Stick your fork in a fresh, polychromatic Tomato Salad (above) with a simple balsamic and brown sugar dressing.
Ellie's uses plum tomatoes in her peppery, blender-bound Tomato Salsa because they're super meaty.
Top your next salad with Tomato Ginger Dressing, a zesty blend of both sun-dried and fresh tomatoes.
Embark on some hardcore dicing with Ellie's Tomato, Cucumber and Red Pepper Relish as a light side or a colorful salad.
The Cooked: With a Zap of Heat
Ina roasts plum tomatoes in olive oil for her summery Roasted Tomato Basil Soup, which is chock-full of basil and made complete with a dollop of yogurt.
Got a grill? Paula's Garlic Grilled Tomatoes are oozing with heated juices.
Bobby Deen's Baked Green Tomatoes are a slimmer version of the fried southern classic that are still crunchy as ever.
Rachael's Tomatoes Stuffed With Tabbouleh Salad make for a compact spin on a nourishing dish.
One stuffed tomato recipe just wasn't enough. Alton's version of Stuffed Tomatoes is jam-packed with a heartening trio of mushrooms, goat cheese and bread crumbs.
Sure, gazpacho goes down cold. But this Charred Tomato Gazpacho reels in a toasted flavor by grilling the tomatoes first.
More Tomato Recipes from our Family and Friends:
Cooking With Elise: Fresh Tomato Sauce
Jeanette's Healthy Living: Tomato Gazpacho Salsa
Napa Farmhouse 1885: Tomato Cobbler Anyone?
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What's Gaby Cooking: Chicken Kebabs With Romesco Sauce
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Salmon Spaghetti With Plum Tomatoes and Avocado
Feed Me Phoebe: Roasted Fresh Tomato Puttanesca Sauce
Chez Us: Easy Tomato Tart
Made By Michelle: Tomato and Pesto Pizza
Ingredients, Inc.: Lighter Fried Green Tomatoes
Delicious Lean: Creamy Light Tuna Salad Stuffed Tomatoes
Daily*Dishin: Spicy Tomato-Tomatillo Chicken Tenders
From My Corner of Saratoga: Tomato Jam
Dishin & Dishes: Tomato Zucchini Frittata
And Love It Too: Roasted Garlic, Basil and Tomato Paleo Tart
Healthy Eats: The Fresh-for-Once Tomato
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