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Requirements Gathering and Analysis IITuesday, October 11, 2011
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In class today we will continue looking at requirements gathering and analysis techniques. Today we will focus on capturing and documenting Quality Attribute requirements. Quality attributes describe characteristics of the system as a whole, rather than specific functionality of the system. Common quality attributes include issues related to security, performance, fault-tolerance, and reliability, among many others.
We will explore the importance of capturing quality attribute requirements and why they are in many ways more challenging to capture and evaluate effectively. As in the previous class, there will be a significant emphasis on working through requirements specification exercises in class.
By the end of today's class you should be able to:
- Explain the difference between a functional requirement and a quality attribute requirement (quality attributes are also known as non-functional Requirements)
- Identify common categories of quality attribute requirements
- Identify and explain some common techniques for capturing requirements, including interviews, document analysis, business process analysis (and re-engineering), use cases, and requirements workshops.
- Write clear, effective, and unambiguous quality attribute requirements
Preparation for class:
Today's class will build on the readings from the previous class. You will be responsible for the material in Chapter 5 of the book:
- Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, and David Tegarden, Systems Analysis and Design with UML Version 2.0, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 0-471-34806-6.
A digital reserve version of the chapter is available through a link in the Course Documents section of Blackboard
You should also review the following article on wikipedia regarding quality attributes:
- Nonfunctional Requirements (aka Quality Attributes): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-functional_requirements
Finally, we will begin today's class by looking at the example functional requirements from the previous class's slides. Please look through those and try to answer the questions of whether each one meets the criteria for being a well written requirement. If it does not meet all of the criteria, try to reword the requirement so that it is an effectively written requirement statement.
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Pre-class exercise:As an exercise prior to class, select an information system applications that you use regularly. For that application, precisely specify one Functional Requirement and one Quality Attribute Requirement. This can be the same system that you listed for the previous class, or a new system. As a general rule, the more you practice writing requirements the better you will get at doing so.
[Bob Monroe]
- Application: Apple iTunes
- Functional requirement: After purchasing a song, an iTunes customer should be presented with a list of recommended songs available for purchase by the same artist.
- Quality Attribute requirement: The iTunes web service should be offline for system maintenance no more than 2 minutes each week.
[Hind Al Khulaifi]
- Application: EasyInternet QNB
- Functional requirement: EasyInternet should enable customers to transfer funds directly to other QNB customers.
- Quality Attribute requirement: QNB should not take more than one day to process transfer of funds from the internet to another QNB account.
[Maryam Al-Subaie]
- Application: iChat
- Functional requirement: iChat should enable users to have text, video or audio chats with one or more people.
- Quality Attribute requirement: Mac's iChat should prevent disclosure of users' account information to unauthorized individuals or systems (Security Attribute).
[Maryam Al-Thani]
- Application Apple's FaceTime
- Functional requirement: Apple's FaceTime application should allow its users to have video chats with other FaceTime users.
- Quality Attribute: Apple's FaceTime application should be unavailable for maintenance for no more than 5 minutes every 2 weeks.
[Nasser Al-Khori]
- Application: Qatar Airways online reservation
- Functional requirement: After purchasing a ticket, Qatari Airways allows the customer to choose his/her seat and other preferences (meals, air miles, etc. )
- Quality Attribute: Qatar Airways online reservation should be offline for system maintenance no more than 5 minutes every 2 weeks.
[Fatima Al-Khayat]
- Application: Twitter
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to post instant updates and view tweets of other users.
- Quality Attribute: When Twitter experiences an outage, the down time should not be more than one hour. They should recover fast from the overcapacity (Disaster recoverability)
[Khadeejah Al-Husseiny]
- Application: Blackberry App world
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to see a list of recommended apps or games under the same category of previously purchased items
- Quality Attribute: (performance) The system should be readily available for use 24 hours a day
[Mohammed Kamal]
- Application: Expedia
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to write a recommendation if they booked a trip via Expedia.
- Quality Attribute: The system should charge the customer's credit card within 24 hours.
[Sara Al-Mannai]
- Application: Qtel E-bills
- Functional Requirement : users should be able to view their monthly phone bill online in full detail.
- Quality Attribute: if you pay your bill, the system should take 24 hours to update your current bill status.
[Abdullrahman Al-Muftah]
- Application: Blackberry Messenger
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to view people's updated statuses, and have the ability to update their own status
- Quality attribute: When updating your bbm status, the update should appear to other users in less than 2 seconds upon updating the status.
[Al-Jawhra Al-Mana]
- Application: wikispaces
- Functional Requirement : users should be able to edit, preview, add images, videos, audio files and save
- Quality Attribute: wikispaces should not take more than few seconds to save and update the page
[Nahan Arif]
- Application: Facebook
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to update their status anytime of the day.
- Quality Attribute: It should not take more than a few second for an inbox message to be received by the other party.
[Hussain Hejji]
- Application: MSN Messenger
- Functional requirement: the users should be able to chat and change their statuses.
- Quality Attribute: it only take few seconds to show your status after you update it
[Walied El Hag Ali]
- Application: FedEx Tracking System
- Functional requirement: The system should allow the users to view the exact location of their packages at any point of time.
- Quality attribute: It should take at most 3 seconds to view the location of your package.
[Fatima Abdulla]:
- Application: Schedule Man
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to create their semester schedule and easily share it with others.
- Quality attribute: It shouldn't take more than seconds to share the schedule with others.
[Amal Osman]
- Application: Student information online
- Functional requirement: users should be able to view their grades and GPA for all semesters
- Stakeholder: it should take a maximum of 1 minutes to view the page
[Hamsa M Al-Massri]
- Application: google scholar
- Functional requirement: Users should get results for the search based on what's most relevant to the key terms inputted by users.
- Quality attribute: when the site experiences an system outage, it should not take more than 30 minutes to fix the problem.
[Ayah Abujarbou]
- Application: Facebook Messenger
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to receive their Facebook chat messages and inbox on their smartphone.
- Quality attribute: the application should show a popup within 30 seconds of receiving that message or inbox on Facebook.
[Mohammed Al-Rawahi]
- Application: ebay
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to see a summary of the purchase including the price before final payment
- Quality attribute: After purchase, it should take no more than couple of minutes to confirm the purchase (order)
[Ahmad Al-Sarraf]
- Application: Traffic violation SMS
- Functional requirement: users (drivers) should be able to know if they commit any traffic violation, as they receive an instant SMS message.
- Quality attribute: After committing the traffic violation, it will take at most 48 hours to receive the SMS message about the violation.
[Mohammed Al Ahmadani]:
- Application: Facebook wall post
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to post comments and/or links on their friend's "wall"
- Quality attribute: after posting the comment, it should appear within somewhere between twenty to 30 seconds top after the user clicks the the "post" icon.
[Orkhan Rustamzade]
- Application: PayPal
- Functional requirement: After paying for the item the user should receive the invoice and confirmation about the payment.
- Quality Attribute requirement: PayPal service should be offline for system maintenance no more than 10 minute each week to keep the network secured.
[Mohammed Hadi Takiddin]
- Application: Digital Drop Box
- Functional requirement: Students should be able to submit their assignments on the web.
- Quality Attribute requirement: Students should receive a warning message saying that "are you sure this is the assignment you want to submit?" That is because students might upload the wrong file accidentally.
[M Hammad Abbasi]
- Application: Dropbox
- Functional requirement: Allows user to send file to online cloud storage.
- Quality Attribute requirement: Users should be able to browse around in a file dialog box in order to send a file to Dropbox. [Ease of use or usability attribute]
[ Noof Al-muzaffar]
- Application: Hotmail sign in
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to type their email address and password.
- Quality Requirement: The system should be able to check the validity of the email and password in less than 2 seconds.
[Firas Bata]
- Application: Twitter
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to post text provided it is within 140 characters
- Quality attribute: upon refreshing the page, new posts should appear in no more than 20 seconds from when they were posted.
[Aisha Al-Zaman]
- Application: TwitterApp
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to mention any user in any tweet they write.
- Quality attribute: The system should send a notification message to the mentioned user in no more than 10 seconds.
[Jevika Shetty]
- Application: WhatsApp messenger
- Funcional requirement: Allows users to instantly message each other and also include photos, audio notes and videos within the conversation.
- Quality Attribute: The application allows users to save up on their text messages charges by providing them with a platform to chat with much cheaper rates.
[Anas Ali Chaudry]
- Application: Google Search
- Functional Requirement: Users are able to search the web regarding the text they have provided in the search bar.
- Quality Attribute: Google provides millions of search results in a fraction of a second.
- Application: YOUTUBE
- Functional requirement: Browsers can watch and share videos online. If you sign up for an account, Youtube keeps track of your views, subscribers and further recommends videos to you.
- Quality attribute: Its quick, efficient, reliable and has pretty much everything online. [especially the stuff that goes viral]. Oh you will find it!
[Meshail Al Misnad]:
- Application: Basecamp Sites
- Functional Requirement: Listed users should be notified when progress is being made and messages have been posted.
- Quality Attribute: Users can easily collaborate and share projects. It is easy to use and makes client discussions centralized.
[Fatima Fikree]:
- Application: Wiki
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to edit information made accessible to them on the page
- Quality Attribute: It is an easily accessible, customizable and flexible modern day internet encyclopedia.
[Jim Briggs]
- Application: Free lancer
- Functional requirement: After posting project , a freelancer customer compares prices and select bidders, create payment for the project and approve payment.
- Quality Attribute requirement: The freelancer web service should be offline for maintenance for no more than 2 minutes in two weeks.
[Noor Al-Mohannadi]:
- Application: Turnitin
- Functional requirement: users should be able to enroll in classes, upload assignments and the website checks the originality of the assignment by detecting plagiarism.
- Quality Attribute: The maintenance of the website should not be more than 3 minutes per week.
[Dua'a Althabatah]
- Application: Iphone App Store
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to update their existing apps anytime they want.
- Quality Attribute: It should not take more than a few second for an app to be updated and work instantly with the updated features.
- Application: Google Calendar
- Functional requirement: Users can receive email notification reminding about the upcoming events.
- Quality Attribute requirement: It is an easily accessible, customizable and sharable modern day calendar in order to organise your tasks efficiently.
- Application: QNB eazy banking
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to transfer money to other accounts
- Quality Attribute: The user's personal data should be secure.
[Dalia Saleh Hassan]
- Application: HUB
- Functional requirement: Users should be able to view their grades that their professors posted online.
- Quality Attribute: Student must have privacy and shouldn't see each others grades.
[Ognjen Popovic]]
- Application: Student Information Online [SIO]
- Functional Requirement: Users should be able to view information about their finance, GPA and QPA, amd schedule information as separate batches
- Quality Attribute: Students need to user name and password in order to access their personal information.


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Earlier, we announced that Chloe Sevigny will be joining the third season of IFC's 'Portlandia' as Fred and Carrie's new hipster roommate. Now, the full list of season three guest stars has been rolled out... and boy is it a lengthy one.
On top of reappearances by past guest stars Kyle MacLachlan, Jeff Goldblum, and Kumail Nanjiani, the third season will also feature: Roseanne Barr ('Roseanne'), Juliette Lewis ('Whip It,' 'The Firm'), Patton Oswalt ('Young Adult,' 'Two and a Half Men'), Rose Byrne ('Damages,' 'X-Men: First Class'), George Wendt ('Cheers,' 'Fletch'), Bill Hader ('Saturday Night Live'), Jim Gaffigan ('Away We Go'), Matt Berry ('Snow White and the Huntsman'), Matt Lucas ('Shooting Stars,' 'Come Fly with Me'), J Mascis (musician behind 'Young Adult'), and the funniest member of the current SNL cast, Bobby Moynihan.
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Information for module Cell2007
This module is available for: The current academic year and The next academic year(provisional)
If you're a member of UCL you can add this module to your personalised course list
This information is for guidance only. If you are a UCL undergraduate interested in studying one of these courses, you must seek permission from both the providing department and your 'home' department. Appearance in this database is not a guarantee that a course is running in any particular academic year.
|Module code:
|CELL2007(Add to my personalised list)
|The Principles of Cellular Control
|Credit value:
|Division of Biosciences
|Module organiser:
|Prof Geraint Thomas
|Organiser's location:
|Cell and Developmental Biology
|Organiser's email:
|Available for students in Year(s):
|Module prerequisites:
|Open to negotiation but BIOC1001 or BIOC1009, CELL1001 or CELL1002 in the first year, and either BIOC2001, BIOC2003, or BIOL2004 in the second year.
|Module outline:
|This course will provide a strong introduction to the principles of cellular regulation and range across molecular and cellular scales. Using key examples students will learn how molecular mechanisms orchestrate cellular processes. In a wider context cell signaling will serve as a vehicle for students to discover how to fuse an understanding of molecular concepts with macroscopic biology. Lectures will concentrate on: the molecular properties of different classes of receptors; the structure-function relationships of kinases, small and heterotrimeric G-proteins; second messenger molecules and the enzymes that generate them, structure-function in the recognition and binding of phosphoproteins and second messengers; signalling through polyphosphoinositides; integration of molecular-scale information into an understanding of major signaling pathways; adrenalin, insulin and EGF and the Wnt/catenin signaling pathways in example processes like energy metabolism, cancer biology, circadian rhythmicity and tissue differentiation.
|Module aims:
|To provide an introduction to the principles of cellular regulation. Using examples, students will understand how molecular-scale mechanisms orchestrate cellular process and events. The component will also enhance the learning provided by the immediately preceding CELL2006 Cell Biology course and prepare students for more specialized 3rd year study. However you will not be permitted to study both CELL2006 and CELL2007 as two separate courses - to combine them you must study CELL2008 Integrative Cell Biology.
|Module objectives:
|Cell signaling will serve as a vehicle for students to discover how to fuse an understanding of molecular scale concepts and mechanisms with cell biological, metabolic and developmental consequences. In this way, comprehension of both the scope and the limitations of molecular genetic and biochemical interventions in the investigation of the processes of life will be arrived at.
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|Module assessment:
|Unseen two-hour written examination 75.00%.
1 project and 1 laboratory report 25.00%.
|The course has three (3) pieces of coursework. To be complete for CELL2007 a candidate must submit at least 2 pieces by the required deadlines.
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UNC Authentication
Updated: August 22, 2005
Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1
The UNC authentication method, which is also known as UNC Passthrough authentication, determines the credentials to use for gaining access to a UNC share on a remote computer. UNC Passthrough authentication works only with authentication methods that can perform delegation, for example, Basic authentication and Kerberos authentication. If you use IIS Manager to create a Web site or virtual directory and you specify a UNC path for the content, IIS Manager prompts you to type a user name and a password for the network resource. The user name must be specified as domain\username. If you specify a user name and password, both the UNCUserName Metabase Propertyy and the UNCPassword Metabase Property are set.
In IIS 6.0, UNC authentication works by looking at the requesting user and the credentials that are stored in the UNCUserName and UNCPassword properties of the metabase to determine the credentials to pass through to the computer with the UNC share. If UNCUserNameis specified (not empty) and UNCPassword is valid, the metabase user credentials are sent as the user identity for access to the remote share. If UNCUserName is specified (not empty) and UNCPassword is not valid, a "500 Internal Server Error: Invalid User Name or Password" message is sent to the client. If UNCUserName is empty, the credentials of the request user, which can be either an authenticated set of credentials for authenticated requests or IUSR_computername credentials for anonymous requests, are sent as the user identity for access to the remote share.
Table 5.6 shows the behavior resulting from the values of UNCUserName and UNCPassword.
Table 5.6 Values and Behavior of UNC Passthrough Properties in the IIS Metabase
|UNCUserName Value
|UNCPassword Value
|Resulting Behavior
Specified (not empty)
Valid value
Metabase user credentials are sent as the user identity for access to the remote share.
Specified (not empty)
Invalid value
500 Internal Server Error: Invalid Username or Password message is sent to the client.
Not applicable
Credentials of the request user — either an authenticated set of credentials for authenticated requests or IUSR_computername credentials for anonymous requests — are sent as the user identity for access to the remote share.
|The UNCAuthenticationPassthrough metabase property is no longer used for UNC authentication.
Constrained Delegation
Delegation is the act of allowing a service to impersonate a user account or computer account to access resources throughout the network. When a service is trusted for delegation, that service can impersonate a user to use other network services. Constrained delegation is a new option for Windows Server 2003 that allows you to specify the SPNs to which an account can delegate. A service can be trusted for delegation, but the domain administrator can limit that trust to a select group of explicitly specified services. By allowing delegation only to specific services, you can control the specific network resources the service or computer can use.
Constrained delegation is particularly useful in scenarios in which a site that requires authentication — a site that does not allow anonymous access — contains content that is housed on a remote UNC file server. With constrained delegation, you can enable Integrated Windows authentication, which can use NTLM authentication or send credentials across the network as a Kerberos token. For more information about Integrated Windows authentication, see Integrated Windows Authentication.
Figure 5.3 shows how constrained delegation works in a simple configuration.
Deciding Whether to Use Constrained Delegation
Constrained delegation is best implemented in a Windows Server 2003 domain. Although you can use constrained delegation in a Windows 2000 Server mixed domain, there are significant limitations. In a Windows 2000 Server mixed domain, constrained delegation works only for users that are authenticated using Basic or Kerberos authentication. In addition, you cannot restrict delegation to a specific set of services on a computer running Windows 2000 Server, which makes it difficult to implement this feature and reduce the attack surface of your server.
If you do not use constrained delegation but you enable Integrated Windows authentication, the token that the Web server obtains from the security infrastructure of Windows does not have sufficient permissions to access another computer, such as your file server. However, with constrained delegation and Integrated Windows authentication, the token received by the Web server from the security infrastructure of Windows is a Kerberos-based token with permission to access other computers, including the file server. Essentially, constrained delegation allows an NTLM-based token to be upgraded to a Kerberos-based token.
If you use Basic authentication, you probably do not need constrained delegation because the tokens cached by Basic authentication have sufficient permissions to access other computers in the domain, including the file server. However, in some situations you do not need to allow clients to authenticate with Integrated Windows authentication, but you might need constrained delegation. For example, you might have applications that need to access a file server using computer accounts, such as an enterprise intranet application that impersonates the client to gain access to information on various servers in the enterprise and then presents the consolidated data to the client over HTTP.
If you are running IIS 6.0 in IIS 5.0 isolation mode and you have an out-of-process application, this process normally runs as the local IWAM_computername account, which prevents constrained delegation from working correctly. One example of an application that might fail to perform as expected in this scenario is an ASP application that accesses a remote computer running Microsoft® SQL Server™ on which you intend for the authenticated users credentials to be used. To fix this, switch IIS to run in worker process isolation mode.


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House in the village 30 km toAssisiItalyUmbriaTrevi
About this listing
Our charming home, located in a quiet area in the center of one of the most beautiful Italian villages, entirely of stone and wood-beamed ceilings, beautifully furnished with traditional objects, provides the ability to accommodate up to four people.
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
In the building, free or for a fee
The Space
The house is located in a quiet and central area of the village, close to the cathedral that dominates the city skiline. It's on three levels between staggered and is furnished with traditional furniture and objects that make it even more fascinating. A beautiful terrace offers a breathtaking view of Mount Subasio (towards Assisi) and across the Umbrian Valley. There you can spend moments of relaxation from morning to night.
The bathroom has a large shower. It's equipped with a double bed in the loft that overlooks the living room and a double sofa bed in the living room opening onto the terrace.
Guest Access
Guests will have access to the entire house. Will be left out the utensils (pots, plates, glasses and cutlery), towels, bed linen tablecloth at their disposal.
Interaction with Guests
I will be present at the time of acceptance and at the time of departure. For the rest I will leave my telephone number for any problem. There will also be a person to contact in case of need.
The Neighborhood
The country is not very big, but will simply be pleasant walk all the alleys from top to bottom to discover the charm of this village surrounded by olive trees, among the stately mansions and ancient monasteries.
Getting Around
For those who have the car will definitely be easy to make a journey to discover the many historic sites near Trevi. It is only 30 km from the city of St. Francis Assisi. Spoleto, the city of the Festival dei Due Mondi is located at 17 km
Other Things to Note
The month of October is a month of great attraction from the first weekend in which it plays a historical competition between the three districts of the city. The party, accompanied by a parade of ladies, knights and flag-wavers, is the evocation of a skill challenge that now involves the whole city and, once you've seen, even those not part of the community. The third weekend in October hosts a festival of black celery and sausage, also became history, with tastings in the square, and the fourth in the alleys of the city presents a depiction of medieval life with productions of scenes in costume and the last closed all the festivities in the month of October and accompanies the pressing of the olives and tasting of the new oil production: the Festivoil linked to agriculture in the area surrounded by olive groves.
Guests must behave according to the rules of civilized life. Respecting the property of others would respect as well as his own. The house, although having a separate entrance, is part of a village in the neighborhood context. Therefore not allowed crowds, listening to music at high volume.
Dogs are allowed.
And 'no smoking inside the house
Your Host
Adoro Trevi, dove ho trascorso vacanze estive indimenticabili in compagnia degli amici del posto con i quali ho sempre mantenuto contatti. Avrete modo di conoscermi il giorno del vostro arrivo, vi darò tutte le informazioni per la gestione della casa e per le possibilità di escursioni che potrete fare durante il vostro soggiorno. Cinque cose di cui non posso fare a meno: viaggiare con mio marito e pensare a posti nuovi e persone nuove da incontrare, la mia casa di Trevi e capirete perché dopo avervi soggiornato, la musica tutta e in particolare la musica flamenca, la buona cucina e vi assicuro che a Trevi e dintorni c'è solo l'imbarazzo di scegliere dove pranzare o cenare.


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Council received complaints from beach walkers about oil on
the beaches. She said before tropical storm Lusi the last
time someone had reported oil on Bay beaches was October or
November last year.
Regional council environmental management general manager
Eddie Grogan said 20kg of oil and debris was picked up on
Mount Main Beach and another 15kg on Papamoa Beach by
Local resident Nevan Lancaster said he had been collecting
pieces of container insulation from the Rena along the
beaches for quite some time.
"You find it washed up on the beach every day, it's basically
dense polystyrene that lines the containers on the Rena.
"On Sunday, there was also quite a few plastic beads around
Tay St and Omanu surf club, too."
Mr Lancaster, who also spearheads the Rena Business Oil
washes up on beaches as storm shifts Rena
Compensation Group, said it showed the ongoing damage the
Rena was causing to the environment.
Spokesman for Rena's owner and insurer Hugo Shanahan said:
"Some debris and small amounts of oil were recovered by the
onshore debris management teams last Sunday and Monday."
Mr Shanahan said the "bulbous bow" which had separated from
the main bow section had also broken in several pieces.
Iwi spokesman Mr Mikaere said leaving the wreck on the reef
was a cultural offence.
"To have this wreck suddenly appear on our reef and go
through the whole process of the cargo, oil and all the other
pollutants come out of it and on to our beaches, to get us
this far and for them to say 'No we have done enough, we
think we are going to leave it now', it's not fair on us, on
the people who live here and the people in New Zealand.
"Just because we are at the bottom of the world doesn't mean
we shouldn't expect the same treatment as the Concordia."
Pat Spellman, Moana Radio host and driver behind the Restore
our Reef - Remove the Rena campaign, said the petition was an
opportunity for the people of Tauranga to really get behind
the removal.
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Rents along retail corridors in Downtown Brooklyn and Bay Ridge are the priciest in the borough, a report released last week revealed.
The 2010 Retail Report issued by CPEX Real Estate found that rents in Bay Ridge, along 86th Street from Fourth Avenue to Fort Hamilton Parkway, and along Fulton Street, from Marcy Avenue to Adams Street, ranged in price from $65-$125 a square foot, and from $35-$125 a square foot, respectively, ranking them tops in Brooklyn.
But Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Bensonhurst and Williamsburg were right behind, the data shows.
Rents along Montague Street, from Court to Hicks Streets are between $80-100 a square foot, and rents in Bensonhurst along 86th Street from 19th Avenue to 23rd Avenue, and in Williamsburg, on Bedford Avenue from North 8th Street to Metropolitan Avenue, were also $80-$100 a square foot.
Rents on Court Street from Montague Street to Fourth Place ranged from $35-$100.
Of the 44 corridors surveyed in Brooklyn, none had a rent lower than $35 a square foot.
Also at the high end of the range are Park Slope's Seventh Avenue, which demands rents up to $80 a square foot, as does Borough Park's 13th Avenue, and Kings Highway, from Coney Island Avenue to East 17th Street.
But Brooklyn's retail gold coasts are nowhere near Manhattan's most expensive — $1250-$2000 a square foot fetched along Fifth Avenue between 50th and 59th Streets.
The report, available online at cpexre.com, looks at pricing in over 193 commercial districts throughout the five boroughs.
The two-year-old, Livingston Street-based firm lists rents based on a review of an aggregate survey of market data collected from internal and external sources,including city agencies, data service companies and completed transactions by CPEX, according to its director of market research, Ira Krivit.
Krivit noted that considering the dynamics of the New York retail market and the overall economic conditions "we face in these difficult times," the prices are not only subject to change, but "will most likely change as various market conditions, supply, demand, as well as economic indicators change from quarter to quarter." Still, he said in the report,the data can be used as an important tool for a variety of uses, including leasing comparisons and percent changes across neighborhoods and boroughs.
CPEX principal Timothy King, formerly of Massey Knakal Realty Services, told The Real Deal that the data seeks to give prospective retailers a road map, providing "a logical starting point."
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Stream 1: Audio, MP2, 44100Hz, 192kbps
I am trying to convert the above file into SVCD complaint mpg file. So, I used the following command to convert it.
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The output video now has the following specs
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The output video runs the audio at normal pace but the video is played at accelerated pace. The original video ends in 35mins 27s but the output video ends in 25mins 43s.
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GEYSER, Mont. (AP) — As music director Misty Annala pulled Jacob Noland from the stands at a recent basketball game, he protested that too many years had passed since his high school band days.
"Dutch will show you how," Annala assured him.
So the 24-year-old civil engineer grabbed a spare trombone and squeezed in between Geyser High School alumni Dutch Knutson and Trace Annala.
The combined efforts of Stanford and Geyser high schoolers, middle schoolers and community members like Knutson make the pep band possible.
Mark the calendar! The public is invited to take advantage of the annual KRC health fair event that will be held on Wedneday from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. in the McLane Commons.
Participants will have access to a vast array of health education materials through interactive learning centers and exhibits. There will be health screenings available including blood pressure measurement, body mass index readings and vision checks.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in Assembly Chambers in the borough building, at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna (unless otherwise noted).
For more information, call 714-8888 or visit http://www. kpbsd.k12.ak.us/school_board.aspx?id=13414. The agenda and packet items are posted on Wednesday afternoon prior to the date of the Board meeting.
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Even though winter's grip is still holding tight, KPC has posted a full slate of courses for the upcoming summer semester. It is important that students know their options as early as possible to ensure that they meet their degree requirements.
There will be 78 courses offered from Kenai Peninsula College campuses; 54 are web-based, making their accessibility more flexible for students during the long days of summer.
WASHINGTON — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation's schools.
For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.
Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out of lunch lines and vending machines. In their place would be foods like baked chips, trail mix, diet sodas, lower-calorie sports drinks and low-fat hamburgers.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As groups of students pushed each other on a tire swing, fired basketballs at a hoop or bounced each other out of the four square court on a recent Thursday, several followed a solid white line along the perimeter of the Eugene Field Elementary School playground.
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Bearing the Burden of Writing the Speech
Three days before his inauguration, as Time magazine correspondent Hugh Sidey sat down to interview him, president-elect John F. Kennedy was scribbling on a yellow pad, crossing out words and scribbling more. The two men were on JFK's campaign plane, flying from Palm Beach, Fla., to Washington. Kennedy was writing his inaugural address and eager to talk about it with Mr. Sidey, to whom he presented himself as a writer mulling a work in progress with another writer. Before landing, Kennedy had nine handwritten pages. Several reporters had seen them and later wrote about "Kennedy's first draft."
Except that it wasn't. The speech was already essentially completed. Speechwriter Theodore Sorensen would spend the next couple of days polishing it. But Kennedy wanted to avoid the speculation that had followed the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Profiles in Courage" -- that Mr. Sorensen and not he was the true author. So he staged a show for Mr. Sidey and the other reporters, copying what had been drafted and presenting it as evidence of his continuing labors.
In "Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America" (2004), Thurston Clarke called Kennedy's plane performance "a charade, but an honorable one" that merely underlined the truth that Kennedy had drafted his own speech. Mr. Clarke acknowledged but largely dismissed other contributions, particularly Mr. Sorensen's.
"Sounding the Trumpet" (Ivan R. Dee, 214 pages, $25) covers exactly the same ground and reaches exactly the opposite conclusion. The speech was the outcome of collaboration, says Richard J. Tofel, former assistant publisher of The Wall Street Journal, but if authorship must be assigned, Mr. Sorensen was the true author. Mr. Tofel suggests that Kennedy's airborne fiction ranks somewhere between understandable political mythmaking and fraud. His research for the book included Mr. Sorensen's first extended interview about the inaugural. It is safe to say that Mr. Tofel gets the better of the exchange with Mr. Clarke.
The historical stakes are high. Few inaugural addresses are as well remembered as John F. Kennedy's. The nearest modern competitor, Franklin Roosevelt's first, produced "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" and "good neighbor" (for FDR's foreign policy). JFK's produced: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"; "if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"; "the trumpet summons us again...to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle." Nearly every paragraph includes a phrase that remains familiar almost a half-century later.
Content is not the reason. What Kennedy said is of a piece with the scarcely recalled Cold War inaugurals of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. All the arguments and commitments that Kennedy made they had made. Even Kennedy's characteristic list -- addressing one group of nations after another with appeals and pledges -- is foreshadowed in Eisenhower's first address. But no other inaugural in recent memory matches the power of Kennedy's language. It is natural that there has been extraordinary interest in who wrote the speech and how it was written.
Mr. Tofel shows that, instead of being the primary author, Kennedy can solidly be said to have contributed only nine of the address's 51 sentences. Adlai Stevenson was the source of eight. The biblical references were the suggestions of the Rev. Billy Graham and Rabbi Isaac Franck, Mr. Sorensen's go-to man for Old Testament quotations. From a draft submitted by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith Mr. Sorensen took the exhortation, "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
Mr. Clarke's case depended heavily on a shorthand dictation that Kennedy's secretary took from the president-elect 10 days before the inauguration. Mr. Tofel appears to have gotten hold of a more complete transcription of the shorthand draft and publishes it as an appendix. Reading it makes clear that Kennedy's sentence-by-sentence role in his address's construction was far from central.
Does it matter? Ever since James Madison helped George Washington with the first presidential inaugural, presidents have had speechwriters. Abraham Lincoln's one-time rival and secretary of state, William Seward, turned out the initial draft of Lincoln's first inaugural. Columbia law professor Raymond Moley did most of the work on FDR's first.
Like Kennedy, Roosevelt apparently thought it a political embarrassment for a speechwriter's role to become known. Mr. Clarke notes that, until Moley published his memoirs in the mid-1960s, all accounts had FDR writing the speech himself, sitting before a fireplace at Hyde Park. The truth was that Roosevelt copied over Moley's typed draft, which Moley then burned in the fireplace, remarking to FDR: "This is your speech now."
Such diffidence is rare today. In recent decades there has developed a near cult of the presidential speechwriter. As a former speechwriter myself (for President Reagan), I suppose I have an interest in fostering it. But neither the adulation of speechwriters as intellectual prime movers nor the Clarke-like dismissal of them as near factotums fits what I saw of how a political leader and his writers work.
None of Mr. Reagan's speechwriters invented his style, and none has written in just that manner since. Speechwriters learn to "hear" the voice of the president, fitting their habits of language and argument within his. Insiders can tell which writer wrote which speech even as each speech remains distinctly the president's.
Thus Mr. Tofel is right to emphasize collaboration. "Sounding the Trumpet" allows us to understand that the JFK inaugural address was both Kennedy's and Mr. Sorensen's. Forty years later, it does not diminish either man to acknowledge that.
Mr. Judge, a former special assistant to President Reagan, is head of the White House Writers Group in Washington.


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Peterson turned the left corner and saw Harris waiting for him at the Vikings' 41-yard line. Lowering his right shoulder, Peterson ran over Harris and left the Packers cornerback on his back while finishing an 11-yard run.
Last season at Lambeau Field, of course, Harris' low tackle left Peterson with a torn lateral collateral ligament. Peterson missed two games amid rumors that Packers had created an informal pot of cash to distribute if Peterson finished the game with less than 100 yards.
Early in tonight's game, Peterson is running like a man who won't be denied 100 yards. He followed the crushing blow on Harris with a 34-yard run to the right side. Peterson, in fact, single-handedly set up the Vikings for the first score of the game, a 37-yard Ryan Longwell field goal with 13 minutes, 35 seconds remaining in the second quarter.


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FeedSync Newshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/feedsync/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2007-12-18T13:37:18ZWelcome Live Mesh!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/feedsync/archive/2008/04/22/welcome-live-mesh.aspx2008-04-23T09:18:00Z2008-04-23T09:18:00Z
It's great to see the public announcement of the Live Mesh Technology Preview from the Live Mesh team. Live Mesh is a Software + Services platform, and it uses FeedSync as the core sync technology. See my blog post here for more info and some links.

We'll be talking more about the developer experience for Live Mesh in a few months, but in the meantime stay tuned here for more samples and discussion of FeedSync so that you'll be ready for the Mesh when the time comes.

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StevenLeeshttp://blogs.msdn.com/StevenLees/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxFeedSync and the OSPhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/feedsync/archive/2007/12/19/feedsync-and-the-osp.aspx2007-12-19T21:16:50Z2007-12-19T21:16:50Z
Since our publication of the FeedSync 1.0 specification earlier this month, a few people have asked me questions about the licensing terms in the spec.
So, today, we wanted to make our intent as clear as possible by covering the FeedSync specification under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. By doing this, we are confirming that anyone can implement the FeedSync specification for free.
The specification itself remains under the same Creative Commons copyright license, as described in Section 6 of the spec. What this means, roughly, is that if you want to create a derivative version of the specification, you're welcome to do so as long as you properly attribute the original spec, and you provide your work under the same license. Full details are here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.
The Open Specification Promise is intended for developers who want to implement the spec. As is our general practice (and general practice within the industry), we have filed patents on innovations relating to FeedSync. As the spec has stated since the original version, it has always been our intent to enable broad royalty-free use of the specification. We are now covering the FeedSync specification under the Open Specification Promise to enable that use in a simple way, and to reassure you that you're welcome to implement the specification for free, easily, now and forever.
The Open Specification Promise is the same royalty-free patent promise that Microsoft has used for the WS-* and other specifications. One of the benefits is simplicity: the promise is very clear that other than reading and agreeing with the terms, you don't need to sign it or have any interaction with Microsoft in order to benefit from it. In other words, It Just Works. We developed the promise based on feedback from customers and the open source community. You can find more information about it at http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx, and see specific community feedback here.

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StevenLeeshttp://blogs.msdn.com/StevenLees/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWelcome to FeedSync!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/feedsync/archive/2007/12/18/welcome-to-feedsync.aspx2007-12-19T00:37:18Z2007-12-19T00:37:18Z
This new blog is the place to look for FeedSync news and announcements. I'll be posting FeedSync related news here, such as news about new sample code and implementation guidelines. I'll also continue to post more detailed technical information about FeedSync on my MSDN blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/stevenlees/.

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It is often important to obtain the real-time location of a small-sized ground robotic vehicle when it performs autonomous tasks either indoors or outdoors. We propose and implement LOBOT, a low-cost, self-contained localization system for small-sized ground robotic vehicles. LOBOT provides accurate real-time, 3D positions in both indoor and outdoor environments. Unlike other localization schemes, LOBOT does not require external reference facilities, expensive hardware, careful tuning or strict calibration, and is capable of operating under various indoor and outdoor environments. LOBOT identifies the local relative movement through a set of integrated inexpensive sensors and well corrects the localization drift by infrequent GPS-augmentation. Our empirical experiments in various temporal and spatial scales show that LOBOT keeps the positioning error well under an accepted threshold.
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01211: Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio (STU 0121100)
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Pierre Bélanger, Philippe Coignet, Robert Pietrusko, Luis Rodrigo Callejas Mujica, Kelly Doran, Rosetta Elkin, Andrea Hansen, Niall Kirkwood
Course Description
Addressing the inertia of urban planning and the overexertion of civil engineering in the 20th century, this course focuses on the design of large, complex, contaminated brownfield sites with a regional, ecological and infrastructural outlook. Employing the agency of regional ecology and landscape infrastructure as the dominant drivers of design, the studio involves the development of biodynamic and biophysical systems that provide flexible yet directive patterns for future urbanization. Through a series of contemporary mapping methods, field measures, case studies, readings and design investigations, the course results in a series of collaborative exercises leading to a large scale design project and future scenarios. Drawing from canonical case studies on regional reclamation strategies from across the world, the studio is further enhanced by a robust, regional representation program. Focusing on the metrics of geospatial representation and remote sensing, two intensive workshops throughout the term of the studio didactically deal with the interrelated subjects of regional cartography and site topography as operative and telescopic instruments of design across scales. Contributing to a complex, multi-layered profiling of the site as 'system' and the reformulation of program as 'process', the studio establishes a base platform for engaging an array of complex issues related to site contamination, biophysical systems, regional ecology, land cover, urban infrastructure and economic geography. Precluding conventional forms of urban development such as housing or retail development, the penultimate objective of the course is to explore and articulate the potential effectiveness of broader and longer range strategies where biophysical systems prefigure as the denominator for re-envisioning public infrastructures and regional urban economies in the future.
01403: After La Villette (STU 0140300)
Landscape Architecture
Option Studio - 8 credits - Limited enrollment
This course has an IRREGULAR meeting schedule. Please see full course description.
Thursday Friday 2:00 - 6:00
Philippe Coignet
Course Description
Why after?
After, because the site is located in Paris, right behind the Park de la Villette.
After, because we can no longer design as Tschumi's did in terms of programs and a lack of dialogue with infrastructure, topography and ecology. Complexity does not come from the mere assemblage of several programs and surfaces, but lies into the capacity to make emerge new usages, new ecological habitats and places to inhabit that shape and organize the site and its adjacent surroundings.
After, because Paris is no longer a centripetal city surrounded by circular highways but offers a system of transversal situation between suburbs and downtown that leads to new territories of intervention. Today, the new campus of Condorcet, headquarters, housing, offices, concert halls, tramways and shopping mall are booming all around the Park leading to the Northern suburbs. After being the Parisian farmland and industry, the Asian import-export textile firms, this part of Paris is becoming the new place to live, study, play and work.
The After La Villette studio addresses the urban scale, the infrastructure of the highways and the canal, the urban landscape, the ecology of asphalt and the water. Obviously, it is more than extending the park of La Villette. Starting from the park, the studio seeks to define topographic, ecological and infrastructural principles to reorganize a 40 hectare site made of warehouses, rubbles and vacant lands.
The studio will begin by a series of short exercises on mapping, topographic modeling and 3D milling. The goal is to create a common vocabulary and database of precedents, actions, forms and surfaces that will inform the project.
Course format:
Foam models with the 3 axis mill, videos, axonometric, phasing diagrams, plan, and sections.
Working with CNC technology offers an interesting analogy to landscape architecture. Milling is a subtractive process where material is taken away from a uniform foam block. This is similar to the way landscape is modified and sculpted: earth is also subtracted or displaced. The CNC proceeds from a rough to a fine surface as bulldozers do in digging, terracing and leveling the earth.
Collecting, Setting, Subtracting, carving, stretching, Drawings, Testing
Time 2
Design Process, hypothesis, topographic modeling
Time 3
Final modeling, drawings and representations
Method of Evaluation:
- intermediate juries and a final jury
Knowledge in Rhino, Mastercam, landscape ecology, grading and topographic design. Interest in urban landscape, hydrology, phasing, programs, public space.
Irregular Schedule:
Thursdays and Fridays 2 pm - 6pm
Studio meets 8/29 (evening) and 8/30; and 9/12, 9/13, 9/26, 9/27, 10/10, 10/11, 10/24, 10/25, 11/7, 11/8, 11/14, 11/15, 11/21, 11/22, 12/5 (optional), 12/6 (optional). Philippe will be available to meet individually with students at mutually agreeable times the days that he is in town.


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, Volume 20, Issue 7, pp 841-855
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Do Habitat Corridors Influence Animal Dispersal and Colonization in Estuarine Systems?
- Meaghan C. DarcyAffiliated withDepartment of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State UniversityCenter for Fisheries Enhancement, Mote Marine Laboratory Email author
- , David B. EgglestonAffiliated withDepartment of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University
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Studies investigating animal response to habitat in marine systems have mainly focused on habitat preference and complexity. This study is one of the first to investigate the affect of benthic habitat corridors and their characteristics on dispersal and colonization by estuarine macrofuana. In this study, mark-recapture field experiments using artificial seagrass units (ASUs) assessed the effects of seagrass corridors, interpatch distance (5 m vs. 10 m), and the ratio of corridor width to patch width (0.5 m:1 m vs. 0.25 m:1 m) on dispersal of two benthic organisms: the highly mobile grass shrimp, Palaemonetes sp., and the less mobile bay scallop, Argopecten irradians, in two estuarine systems in southeastern North Carolina (NC). The presence of a seagrass corridor, interpatch distance, and corridor width to patch width ratios did not significantly affect shrimp or scallop dispersal to receiver patches. Bay scallop dispersal to receiver patches was significantly higher at one site (Drum Shoals) with relatively high flow, compared to a second site (Middle Marsh) with lower flow. We then examined colonization of estuarine macrofauna to seagrass patches with and without corridors to determine which, if any, taxonomic groups respond positively to corridors at scales of 10 m and over 1 month. Colonization of estuarine macrofauna to seagrass patches was enhanced in the presence of corridors at a relatively large interpatch distance (10 m), which was statistically significant for relatively slow moving polychaete worms. Thus, although benthic habitat corridors may facilitate dispersal of relatively slow moving estuarine animals between otherwise isolated seagrass patches, several common seagrass fauna such as grass shrimp and bay scallops apparently use water currents to rapidly disperse across the seagrass/sand landscape.
Key words:Bay scallops Colonization Corridor Dispersal Estuarine macrofauna Grass shrimp Interpatch distance Recruitment
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- Title
- Do Habitat Corridors Influence Animal Dispersal and Colonization in Estuarine Systems?
- Journal
Landscape Ecology
Volume 20, Issue 7 , pp 841-855
- Cover Date
- 2005-11
- 10.1007/s10980-005-3704-y
- Print ISSN
- 0921-2973
- Online ISSN
- 1572-9761
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Bay scallops
- Colonization
- Corridor
- Dispersal
- Estuarine macrofauna
- Grass shrimp
- Interpatch distance
- Recruitment
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Meaghan C. Darcy (1) (2)
- David B. Eggleston (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, 27695-8208, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
- 2. Center for Fisheries Enhancement, Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, 34236, Sarasota, FL, USA