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Singapore's Marine & Offshore Sector Powering Output
Singapore's first-quarter growth could be revised higher after data on Friday showed unexpectedly strong industrial output in March, double the pace of market expectations, with output in marine and offshore engineering +45.1% y/y. Manufacturing output in March surged 12.1 percent from a year earlier, far exceeding expectations in a Reuters poll for growth of 6.3 percent. Output rose 6.1 percent on a month-on-month, seasonally adjusted basis, quicker than the median forecast of 1.5 percent. The jump in manufacturing output was stronger than what was implied by the government's advance estimate of first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) released Marine And Offshore Engineering Helping to drive the surprising strength in industrial production was a surge in output in the marine and offshore engineering segment, which jumped 45.1 percent year-on-year. The rise came as work on several rig and ship building projects played a part in the jump in output from those sectors, the Singapore Economic Development Board said. (By Masayuki Kitano)
DNV Greater China Offshore Committee
Zhou Shouwei, Vice General Manager of CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering accepted DNV's invitation to be the chairman of the DNV Greater China Offshore Committee. The DNV Offshore Committee is the first of its kind to be organized by a classification society in China. "The objective of establishing this committee is to create a forum where senior executives from the Chinese offshore industry can meet to exchange
Petrobras Standardizes on Intergraph 3D Technology
The world's eighth largest oil company and a longtime Intergraph customer, Petrobras will completely adopt SmartPlant® 3D modeling and visualization, engineering and schematics, information and materials management, and project controls solutions to enable Petrobras to develop, operate and maintain its fixed offshore drilling platforms, semi-submersibles and FPSOs. Petrobras has already used Intergraph solutions for 10 FPSOs, four semisubmersible floating production platforms
Reeve's Joins Robert Allan Ltd
Robert Allan Ltd. announced that Henry Reeve, P.E. (BASc, UBC Mech 95, Masters, NA and Offshore Engineering, Berkley '97) has joined Robert Allan Ltd. as a Senior Naval Architect. Reeve's areas of expertise include hydrodynamics and motions, mooring, resistance predictions, stability (ship and offshore), model testing, CFD analysis, regulatory and classification issues, and vessel survey. He has worked on the naval architecture aspects of CNG and LNG Terminals and Ships
China Shipbuilding Industry Midgets Reigned In
China signaled that it will cut its vast shipyard army to get industrial growth back on a healthy track this year, as its earning ability falters amid cheap vessel prices, blind expansion and speculation in the shipbuilding sector, according to Xinhua. China will drastically curb the number of shipyards, docks, berths and maintenance facilities it opens, reports Xinhua, citing Li Dong, deputy director-general at the department of equipment industry at the Ministry of Industry and Information
Aqualis Offshore and CSDC Join Forces
Aqualis Offshore and China Ship Design & Research Center Co., Ltd (CSDC) have signed an agreement to cooperate on engineering projects both in China and internationally. CSDC, a subsidiary company of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC), specializes in shipbuilding and offshore engineering services. Aqualis Offshore, part of Oslo-listed Aqualis ASA, is a specialized offshore marine and engineering consultancy firm
DPS Offshore is now Forum Subsea Rentals
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FET) recently announced the rebrand of its DPS Offshore product line to be known as Forum Subsea Rentals. With an extensive inventory of the most advanced subsea rental products, Forum Subsea Rentals is recognized as one of the global leaders within the industry. Supported by a dedicated team of experienced technicians and offshore engineers, Forum Subsea Rentals services both existing and new clients from key locations in Aberdeen, Great Yarmouth, Houston
China Marine Services: New Research & Markets Report
This new offering 'Marine Services in China' from Research and Markets covers the scope, size, disposition and growth of the industry including the key sensitivities and success factors. The Marine Services industry in China comprises establishments that provide a wide range of specialized marine and offshore services, including marine management, marine evaluation, marine and polar expeditions, marine weather forecasting, marine pollution control and other marine services
Sheen Named ICG Managing Director
Andrew Sheen has been appointed by the Irish Continental Group (ICG) to the position of Managing Director of its Irish Ferries division. Sheen will assume his new role with effect from the beginning of April, reporting to ICG's CEO, Eamonn Rothwell. Operations Director since 2012, Sheen has been involved in shipping for over 26 years, 10 of them with Irish Ferries - first as a sea-going Chief Engineer and, since 2010, in shore-based operations roles
Green Signal for Sinotrans-China Merchants Merger
China's cabinet on Tuesday (Dec 29) approved a deal that fuses two of the country's biggest state-owned transport and logistics firms, reports Reuters. China's cabinet has approved China Merchants Group's acquisition of Sinotrans & CSC Holdings Co, the state asset regulator said on Tuesday. Previously directly supervised by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC)
Hyundai Heavy Sails Back to Profit in Q1
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has posted a net profit of KRW462.3bn ($409.6m) for the first quarter of 2017, making it the fifth consecutive quarterly profit for the group. This represents a surge of 90% from the previous corresponding quarter. However, sales fell 1.9 percent to 10
CFD Simulation of a Fully Featured Offshore Platform Model
CFD simulations of offshore oil and gas platforms are used to predict the maximum wind loads acting on the structure of the platform topsides (the upper half of the platform, above sea level and outside the splash zone, including the oil production plant
Global Marine Group Keeping Busy in 2017
Offshore engineering firm the Global Marine Group (GMG) reported a busy first five months of 2017 with a strong outlook for the rest of the year. The company said all key assets from the GMG fleet are currently mobilized, either supporting maintenance zone agreements around the world
Offshore Gas Safety atop the Agenda for Martek Marine
Maritime industry technology specialists Martek Marine say it is setting the bar high when it comes to offshore gas safety. The company has developed a first-of-its-kind gas sampling system for a new moored floating production unit, which forms part of the Jangkrik Complex gas fields development
DNV GL Launches New Stability Analysis Tool
With the latest release of Sesam HydroD software for floating structures, DNV GL is now offering a completely new and pioneering stability analysis solution that allows for hydrodynamic and stability analysis on one common model, giving naval and offshore engineers unprecedented control over their
DNV GL's Sesam GeniE Reduces Engineering Costs
When warping analysis is required during design of certain types of beam offshore structures, it can involve many costly hours of manual calculations by senior engineers. With the new release of Sesam GeniE software, the most common methods of performing such analyses can be done automatically
Energy Doldrums Force Boskalis to Cut Fleet, Staff
Dutch offshore engineer Boskalis said it was cutting 650 jobs worldwide and culling 24 vessels in response to what it called drastic changes in the company's outlook caused by low energy and commodity prices. The job cuts, including 150 Dutch employees
First ME-GIE Ethane Engine Unveiled at Mitsui
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) has completed the world's first ME-GIE ethane-operated two-stroke diesel engine. The engines will be for propulsion of three ethylene carriers, which will also carry ethane as cargo.
6Sigma Named a HydroComp Representative
HydroComp, Inc. announced 6Sigma Naval Architects of Capetown, South Africa as its new representative. 6Sigma Naval Architects & Offshore Engineering Pty Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa was founded in 2012 based on the backing of exposure to the European market
Singapore Considering Financial Aid to Marine Sector
Singapore's minister of trade and industry S. Iswaran said the government is working in consultation with the marine and offshore engineering sectors, plus the region's financial institutions, to review the possible need for measures to help them recover from the economic downturn
BV Helps to 'de-risk' Marine Renewable Energy Tech
Bureau Veritas has published a set of guidelines, NI 631 "Certification Scheme for Marine Renewable Energy Technologies", addressing a broad spectrum of the needs of marine renewable energy (MRE) businesses and projects. The certification scheme covers:
Swiber-Linked Vessels Seized in Singapore
Three of of Swiber Holdings vessels had been seized in an arrest moved by a syndicate of banks, reports Business Times. All three vessels were arrested at ASL Shipyard, the litigant in the arrest is United Overseas Bank (UOB), acting as security agent for the syndicate of banks that
Sri Lanka Approves $180 mln Vessel Deal for Colombo Dockyard
Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved the awarding of a $180 million deal for three offshore patrol vessels for the country's coast guard to Colombo Dockyard , a government document said on Wednesday. Colombo Dockyard has agreed to arrange a loan for the deal
Cosco Closing Down Yards
COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Co is planning to cut the number of shipyards that are able to manufacture offshore engineering products from five to two by 2020, China Daily reported. China's third largest shipbuilder by output makes this move as the company's latest effort to cut
Rolls-Royce Signs MoU to Develop Smart Ships
Rolls-Royce and the Technology Center for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a strategic partnership to develop smart ship technologies. The partners will work on world leading research to develop fundamental technologies


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Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. While he's is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.'s board of directors, Gore spends the majority of his time as chair of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis.
He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.
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Being a new mom is great but sometimes you miss the woman you
were before the baby. We spoke to a few experts on how to get your
mind, body and soul back in their groove.
You wouldn't change a thing about being a mom (well, maybe it'd
be nice to sleep through the night), but you sometimes long for the
woman you were before your bundle of joy arrived.
So, we turned to a few experts.
1 Hire a wardrobe stylist/personal
Your body has changed, but that should not discourage you from
dressing like the pre-baby you. She's in there somewhere! The
better you feel in your clothes, the better wife and mom you will
be for your family. Hire a stylist who offers closet consultations
and will escort you shopping or shop on your behalf. Nothing feels
more glamorous than showing up at your favorite shop's dressing
room that's filled with items hand-selected just for you! It's not
as expensive as you think. Many stylists offer maternity and
post-baby styling packages and will work within your budget.
2 Get Movin'
I know what you're thinking, hitting the gym is at the bottom of
your list. Not interested in the gym? Go for a walk with baby or
find a workout group like Active Moms Club. My only workout source
for almost four years was exercising at home with DVDs like Turbo
Fire, Turbo Jam and Physique 57. Find an at-home program that is
intense enough to increase your heart rate and incorporates weight
3 Hire a sitter
There is no better gift than giving yourself a break from baby,
especially if you are a stay-at-home mom. Nothing creates burnout
quicker than 24-hour mommy duty. Hire a sitter so you can work out,
shop, sleep, run errands, have girl time, go to the spa, etc. Don't
forget to budget for babysitter hours, even if you plan to leave
your full-time job. Find the resources (friends, family, sitter
service, etc.), even if it's only for an hour.
4 Make Me Over
Chances are you frequently are missing showers, and applying
makeup has become a luxury. Every woman should have her very own
makeup artist. It's easier than you think and it's FREE. Go
immediately to your favorite department store, proceed to your
favorite cosmetic counter and schedule an appointment with a beauty
stylist. If you love the results, then use their services for any
occasion you want to feel sassy (girls night out, date night, gala
events, etc.). Most department store stylists will come to you for
a small fee. Having your makeup applied professionally not only
elevates your inner glam, but it gives you confidence knowing
someone made sure you did not walk out the door with baby goo on
your face.
Alison Ray, founder of SassyMomsintheCity.com
1 I don't have time for myself
It's important to create time for yourself. Ask for help and
accept help when it is offered. It's in the best interest of the
baby to make yourself a priority-if you can do a few things a day
for yourself, life will feel less chaotic and you will have more
patience as a mother. Remember, your baby senses your energy, so if
you are feeling chaotic and overwhelmed, your baby feels it,
2 I'm having an identity crisis
Becoming a mom is such a huge change, especially if you move
from working full-time to staying home. After having a baby, you
experience growing pains-your time no longer is your own, you are a
novice at this new job of mothering, and every aspect of your life
has been altered. Just knowing that it's normal to feel overwhelmed
and unsure of yourself can be soothing.
Moms feel guilty when they struggle with the change-they feel
they aren't maternal or that they are doing something wrong-but
mothering takes adjustment, practice, and patience. The more you
accept this, the easier it will be.
Cathy Cassani
Adams, author of The Self-Aware Parent and host of Zen
Parenting Radio
1 Find five minutes for quiet and do
It can be in the morning or night when the baby is asleep, or
naptime during the day. Take five minutes to not be "on," not do
laundry, not clean the house. Just sit for five minutes and
breathe. Release the stress, relax your body, and take in the
The first couple months, even the first year, have so many
challenges, but they also have so many beautiful moments. If we are
lost in the chaos, it is hard to appreciate what is happening.
Taking five minutes a day for breathing and being present can make
a big difference in how you perceive yourself and your
2 Make time for the things you
Don't forget about yourself as a person; you are a mom, but you
also are (fill in the blank with your name). Have a date with your
husband, exercise, go on a walk with your friends, or go get coffee
by yourself. Even a trip alone to the grocery store can feel like a
wonderful escape. Let go of the martyrdom and realize that other
people can and want to support you. Being away for an hour or two
is good for you-it's an opportunity to recharge your battery so you
are excited and ready to return to your baby.
If Stella can do it, so can you.
It might seem like the last thing on your mind or just one more
item on your to-do list, but a healthy love life is just as
important post-baby as it was before your little bundle of joy
entered the picture. Why? Intimacy is one of the most critical
connections you can have with your partner. It is a physical
affirmation of all of your feelings of desire, admiration and love
wrapped up in one very pleasurable act.
Looking for ways to rekindle your boudoir
1 Try, try again
It might take multiple times for you to feel the spark again
with your spouse. Don't give up! Even if the first time doesn't
knock your socks off, don't obsess about the extra 20 minutes of
sleep that you could have. Remember that sex is not all about the
physical. Stay focused on the emotional connection you are
reestablishing by letting yourself linger for a few minutes of
cuddling afterwards. That tender hug from your partner likely will
show up again outside of the bedroom when you need it most. And,
trust me, all new moms can agree that while the first few times are
a bit ™different,∫ eventually it will start to feel more natural
again and you will remember why you loved being a sex goddess in
the first place!
2 Bring sexy back
OK, you might not be ready to break out the lingerie quite yet,
but there are some products that instantly will make you feel sexy
with minimal effort. I love kissable dusting powder (it comes it
lots of delicious flavors). Just a quick dusting to your shoulders
and décolletage and suddenly your body will turn into a walking
aphrodisiac. Or, treat yourself to a new perfume. It's our
best-kept secret for masking the smell of breast milk and giving
your partner a quick reminder of how delicious and sensual you
3 Use a lube
After childbirth your hormones still are regulating and you
might feel some dryness, which is perfectly natural. A lube will
make sex so much easier and more enjoyable. Plus, there are a lot
of ™fun∫ lubes on the market so you and your partner can add an
element of surprise as you experiment with different brands and
types (flavored, water-based, silicone, etc). Remember, if you are
using a condom as birth control, make sure you do NOT use an
oil-based lubricant.
Andee Harris, co-founder of Bedroom Chemist, an online
team ready to help break the boudoir boredom


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CORNER BROOK — Lloyd Whitehorne, an elementary school teacher from Port aux Basques, has been found not guilty of two sex offences alleged to have taken place with a 13-year-old girl.
In her decision brought down in provincial court in Corner Brook Tuesday morning, Judge Catherine Allen-Westby said she believed the 41-year-old man did have inappropriate email and text message exchanges with the young girl in 2009 and had failed to do anything to discourage her from continuing their conversations.
However, Allen-Westby said the inconsistencies in the girl's statements to police and her subsequent testimony at Whitehorne's trial in early September cast a reasonable doubt about whether any inappropriate physical contact had taken place when the two were together.
The allegations against Whitehorne were that the two would arrange meetings during which they kissed and that Whitehorne had touched her sexually.
Whitehorne took the stand in his own defence and denied having ever touched the girl in a sexual manner. He did acknowledge that he had communication with her, but did not agree that he had sent or received all of the digital communications presented as evidence before the court.
In one of the communications Whitehorne acknowledged that he received, the girl said she was looking forward to "kissing (Whitehorne) all over."
Crown attorney Mike Fox did ask Whitehorne why he never informed the girl's family about any inappropriate conversations they may have had. Whitehorne said that he wanted to first ask the girl herself what she had meant by them.
The girl had been confronted by her mother after some of the messages were discovered in 2009, but the girl denied anything physical had happened. It wasn't until 17 months after the discovery of the messages that the girl disclosed that there had been a physical relationship with Whitehorne.
Defence counsel Rosellen Sullivan argued that it had not been proven who exactly had been using the computer Whitehorne was alleged to have used when the questionable messages were communicated. She also said the credibility of the girl must be viewed cautiously by the court since she did deceive those closest to her for 17 months about the nature of the alleged relationship.
There were also inconsistencies, said Sullivan, about the number of physical encounters and the nature of the physical contact the girl alleged took place.
"I am unable to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that Lloyd Whitehorne committed the two offences with which he is charged ... In assessing the credibility of the complainant, I found that her behaviour prior to the charges being laid causes me to question the veracity of her evidence," decided Allen-Westby.
The judge's analysis of the case did touch on the inappropriateness of the communication between Whitehorne and the girl and that there may have been times when they were alone together.
"I am not convinced that a sexual assault took place during those encounters," said Allen-Westby. "Although I believe that the accused indulged in inappropriate communication with the complainant and did nothing to discourage what the court believes to have been her infatuation with him, I am unable to conclude that a criminal offence occurred here."


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Tom Lane writes: > Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes: > > The Linux man pages indicate that the behavior and underlying > > implementation of random() and rand() are the same (so I just picked > > one). > > Ah, well, there's your problem. Whoever did this part of the library > on Linux took shortcuts. Why? Linux is compliant with the Single Unix Standard v2 from my brief reading of it. The only fragile part is the man page for random(3) which on Linux says "range from 0 to RAND_MAX" whereas SuSv2 says "range from 0 to 2^31-1". Since RAND_MAX on Linux is actually 2^31-1 anyway, it is still correct albeit misleading. Documentation bug, say. > I believe using random() is the right thing. The portability bug here > is the assumption that RAND_MAX applies to random() (or is even defined; > none of the man pages I've looked at so far mention it). But all the > machines say that the output of random() is 31 bits, so INT_MAX should > work. SuSv2 says explicitly 2^31-1 so you should use that, otherwise you'll be non-portable to platforms with 64-bit ints, for example. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie(at)sable(dot)ox(dot)ac(dot)uk> Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services
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Former NFL star Junior Seau, 43, apparently took his own life at his Oceanside, Calif., home Wednesday.
Oceanside police chief Frank McCoy said authorities received a call from Seau's girlfriend at approximately 9:45 a.m. PT. Seau suffered what seems to be a self-inflicted gunshot to the chest in his bedroom. First responders were unable to revive him.
The San Diego Chargers, Seau's employers for 13 seasons, released a statement saying: "Everyone at the Chargers is in complete shock and disbelief right now. We ask everyone to stop what they're doing and send their prayers to Junior and his family."
In a subsequent press conference, team president Dean Spanos said, "I can't put into words how I'm feeling right now. I'm shocked and devastated. Junior was my friend. We all lost a friend today.
"Junior was an icon in our community. He transcended the game. He wasn't just a football player, he was so much more. He was loved by everyone in our family, our organization and throughout the NFL. This is just such a tragic loss. One of the worst things I could ever imagine. My prayers go out to Junior's family. It's heartbreaking."
Hundreds of bystanders gathered outside Seau's residence. Mourners also left flowers at his restaurant.
Seau's ex-wife, Gina Seau, said that he separately texted her and all three of their children yesterday the message: "I love you."
"We're all in shock," she said. "We're beyond sad and beyond shocked. The kids and I are just huddled together at home. There is no way to make sense of this. ... I hope and pray everyone remembers what a wonderful man he was."
Several police officers surrounded an unmarked white van that backed up to Seau's garage, and onlookers pointed camera phones toward the van. It departed the scene with two motorcycles and a police car providing an escort.
A few supporters yelled, "Junior!" as the van pulled away from the residence.
Family members then spilled out to the driveway, and a large green chair was brought to the driveway for Seau's mother, Luisa Seau, to sit. Visibly distraught, she then returned to the home.
Despite the large amount of people, it was a quiet scene, the sound of the wind and crashing waves most predominant.
Shortly after 1:30, Luisa Seau got into a different van and, waving a bottle of water in a friendly manner toward onlookers, told the crowd, "I appreciate everybody. God bless you." The van pulled away as other friends and family remained in the garage.
Miles McPherson, a former Chargers linebacker (1982-1985), a minister in San Diego and a friend of Seau's, addressed the crowd, calling for those gathered to be attentive to friends and family who appear to be in despair.
"We ask that you hug people that you love, and don't take for granted your friends and family," McPherson said. "Let's turn this tragedy into a lesson for us. Do whatever we can to make sure everyone in San Diego feels valued and important."
On the beach beneath Seau's house, a cross in the sand was formed with shells and rocks. Directly below that, Seau's No. 55 was spelled out with rocks while another set of rocks was clustered to spell "RIP."
The Seau family is asking their privacy be respected at this time. His sister and mother thanked well wishers while trying to cope with their shock. Grief-stricken, Luisa Seau asked bystanders to "Show your love to my son" (watch video) while briefly addressing them.
"He was a local hero -- he certainly gave back to the community and to the youth through his Junior Seau Foundation," Oceanside Mayor Jim Wood told The North County Times. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends."
Dave Duerson, a star NFL safety from 1983-93, fatally shot himself in the chest Feb. 17, 2011, but instructed his brain be donated to Boston University, which is studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and how repeated blows to the head affect pro football players in their post-retirement years.
Former Falcons S Ray Easterling also committed an apparent suicide last month. Ex-Eagles S Andre Waters' 2006 death was ruled a suicide.
PHOTOS: Junior Seau's NFL career in pictures
The Times reports Seau's body was found by a maid.
"What made him tick was the emotional side of it. He played with a controlled fury, was an awesome thing to watch, him playing linebacker," Seau's former Chargers teammate, Billy Ray Smith, told KGTV-10 in San Diego. "The Seau Foundation ... all the great things he did for kids.
"It's crushing. Quite frankly, it's just crushing. ... I'm dying to know (what happened). It took one of my best teammates away."
In a tragic coincidence, Seau becomes the eighth member of the 1994 Chargers, who lost Super Bowl XXIX to the 49ers, to die at a young age. The others: Chris Mims, David Griggs, Rodney Culver, Lewis Bush, Curtis Whitley, Shawn Lee and Doug Miller.
Former Chargers RB LaDainian Tomlinson, who was Seau's teammate for two seasons (2001-02) said: "I'm hurt. It's hard to put to words how I feel right now. I learned how to be a pro because of him. I learned how to start a foundation and work in the community because of him. I learned how to relate to people because of him ... fans ... signing autographs. I'm just hurt. He's an icon I looked up to my entire life before I got to San Diego. Even to this day. It's a numb feeling in my heart right now."
TWITTER: NFL players react to Seau's death
San Diego native and current Dolphins tailback Reggie Bush tweeted:
"R.I.P Jr. Seau one of the greatest players to play the game! Damn this one hurts San Diego! One of the greatest to to come from the city."
Deion Sanders, who will likely one day be joined by Seau in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, tweeted his own thoughts:
"Junior Seau will certainly be missed. A great football player but a better man. He was classy,caring & courageous.God bless the Seau family"
Seau played linebacker for 20 NFL seasons, earning 12 Pro Bowl nods while being named first-team all-pro six times. A USC product, he was drafted fifth overall by the Chargers in 1990 and played for the Bolts during his prime years from 1990 to 2002.
He joined the Miami Dolphins in 2003 for a three-year hitch.
The Dolphins offered this statement:
"We are stunned and saddened at the passing of Junior Seau. During his time with the Dolphins he made a unique contribution to the team and the South Florida community. ... Junior was a fierce competitor whose passion and work ethic lifted his teammates to greater heights. His enthusiasm for the game was infectious and he passed that on to everyone who was around him. He loved the game so much, and no one played with more sheer joy. ...Junior was one-of-a-kind. The league will never see anyone like him again. He will be missed, and on behalf of the Miami Dolphins we want to extend our condolences to his family."
After a four-day retirement following the 2005 season -- Seau deemed it a graduation into the next phase of his life at the time -- he reversed course to spend four final seasons (2006-09) with the New England Patriots. He played sparingly the final two years, joining the club at midseason in both cases, but continued on at the behest of coach Bill Belichick, who valued Seau's legendary work ethic and leadership skills.
The Patriots released their own statement:
"We ... are deeply saddened by the news of his death. We were fortunate to have had Junior join the Patriots in 2006 and are thankful for his many contributions to the team over the next four years. He had a legendary NFL career and his unrivaled passion for the game quickly made him a fan favorite here in New England. This is a sad day for the entire Patriots organization, our coaches and his many Patriots teammates. Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to his family and his many friends who will mourn this loss."
Contributing: Tom Krasovic from Oceanside, Calif.
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Shine America is hiring its first in-house PR executive. NBC veteran Joe Schlosser is joining the company in the newly created position of SVP, Communications, Shine America. He will oversee the company's corporate branding, trade and consumer media relations, programming publicity, events and talent relations. Publicity for Shine America has been handled by Triple 7 Public Relations' Carrie Simons going back to the days of Reveille. She will continue to do work for Shine, now in tandem with Schlosser. Schlosser spent the last ten years working at NBC, most recently as SVP, NBC Entertainment Television Publicity. He was previously SVP communications, NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution and VP publicity for NBC Enterprises. Schlosser started off in trade journalism, serving as the Los Angeles Bureau Chief for Broadcasting & Cable.
Joe Schlosser Named SVP Communications For Shine America
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Joe's a great guy, super-smart and not a political bone in his body. Shine is lucky to nab him.
Joe's the best, Shine is lucky to have him!
There's another classy exec bailing out of NBC. Hope Comcast is watching what's going on.


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While fibroin isolated from the cocoons of domesticated silkworm
Silk proteins have been introduced as biomaterials in the early 1990s through Minoura's seminal papers [
In most applications, a prerequisite for any biomaterial is its ability to function effectively as a substratum for the attachment and growth of a large variety of cells that are specific to the human tissue with which the biomaterial must come in direct contact and interact. The silk fibroin isolated from the cocoons produced by the larvae of domesticated silkmoth
A strategy for enhancing the cell adhesion to BMSF has been the incorporation of ligand peptide motifs (usually RGD sequences). Preferred techniques include chemical functionalization of BMSF with adhesion motifs by binding them covalently to the protein [
In this study, we attempted to enhance the cell-adhesivity of BMSF by blending it with
All cell culture reagents were purchased from Life Technologies Inc. (Mulgrave, Australia), with the following exceptions. Foetal bovine serum (FBS) was purchased from Thermo Scientific (Scoresby, Australia). 3,3,5-Triiodo-L-thyronine sodium salt (T3), adenine, transferrin, hydrocortisone, insulin, tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, and EDTA were all purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). Isoproteranol was purchased from Merck (Kilsyth, Australia). Sterile ethanol 70% for sterilization was supplied by ORION Laboratories (Perth, Australia).
A solution of regenerated BMSF was prepared according to a protocol previously reported [
In order to obtain the solution of regenerated APSF, the cocoons were first dried, cut into approximately 1 × 1 cm pieces, weighed, and then placed in a 1-L beaker with a boiling solution of sodium carbonate containing 0.85 g salt for 1 g of cocoon material. During 1 h of boiling, the fibres were occasionally pulled gently apart using tweezers. After boiling, the supernatant was discarded, the fibrous material squeezed to remove the excess liquid, and then treated for 20 min, three times in succession, in 1 L of warm (60 °C–70 °C) water, followed by drying in a ventilated fume hood for at least 12 h. The dry fibrous mass was mixed with neat calcium nitrate tetrahydrate (20 times weight excess to the amount of fibres) at 105 °C and kept for 5 h on an oil bath while stirring very slowly. The resulting solution was aspirated in a syringe and injected into pre-treated (4-h soaking, with 5 water exchanges) dialysis tubing (MWCO 12.4 kDa), which was then placed into a 1-L beaker with chilled water (4 °C) and kept in a refrigerator. Water was exchanged for fresh pre-chilled water 6 times at increasing intervals over 3 days of dialysis. The resulting fibroin solution was removed carefully from the dialysis tubing and filtered successively through 0.8 and 0.2 µm filters into a dialysis cassette (MWCO 3.5 kDa) in pre-chilled (4 °C) 30% wt/vol aqueous solution of poly(ethylene glycol) (MW 10 kDa), and left to be dialysed for about 10 h. The solution collected in this particular batch from the dialysis cassette contained 1.4% APSF (by gravimetric analysis).
The BMSF and APSF membranes were cast from their respective solutions produced as described above. For making the blended membranes, the two fibroin solutions were mixed together to provide mixtures with the following compositions (BMSF/APSF, in % wt/wt): 90/10, 70/30, 50/50, 30/70 and 10/90. Prior to casting, all solutions were allowed to homogenize at 4 °C for 3 h in a refrigerator. The membranes for cell attachment studies, around 10 μm in thickness, were cast directly in the wells of 24-well tissue culture plates, starting with 265 μL solution in each well. Prior to the water annealing, the membranes rich in BMSF (≤50% APSF) were placed in a fan-driven oven and kept for 12 h at room temperature; the membranes with higher APSF contents had to be dried at 4 °C (refrigerator) for 2 weeks, in order to avoid premature phase separation (cloudiness). After drying, the coated plates were placed in a vacuum enclosure, where they were annealed at –80 kPa and room temperature in the presence of water (in a beaker). The annealing duration for the membranes rich in BMSF (70%, 90% and 100%) was 6 h, while for the others was 24 h, which assured their complete insolubility in water.
The BMSF membranes were cast and processed in the wells of 24-well tissue culture plates. Annealed and dry BMSF membranes were functionalized with an RGD-containing peptide (GRGDSPC) following a slightly modified version of a reported method [
The presence of the RGD domains on the surface of BMSF after chemical modification was assessed by XPS, based on detecting the presence of sulfur (in the cysteine structural units) as a marker for the entire sequence, a procedure that has been previously used [
For this analysis, the membranes of BMSF, APSF and their 50/50 (wt/wt) blend were cast and annealed directly onto microscope glass slides that were not removed prior to measurements. Contact angles were measured after placing a water droplet onto the dry annealed membranes. A water droplet of about 5 µL was applied onto the membrane surface, and photographs were taken with a Sanyo VCB-3512 T CCD camera at an interval of 5 s after the droplet was dispensed. The resulting contact angle was measured in a goniometer (FTÅ200, First Ten Ångstroms, Inc., Portsmouth, NH, USA) using the FTÅ Drop Shape Analysis Software Version 2.0 (2002). The results reported are the average values of 16 measurements for each membrane.
Ocular tissue was collected as either corneoscleral rims or corneoscleral caps, both provided by the Queensland Eye Bank (QEB), Brisbane, Australia. The tissue was washed three times with PBS for 10 min, sectioned into quarters, and subsequently incubated with 0.25% dispase at 37 °C for 1 h. The dissociated HLE sheets from the corneoscleral quadrants were collected, pooled, centrifuged at 300
Cell attachment assays were performed as per manufacturer's instructions for the Quant-iT PicoGreen dsDNA Assay (Life Technologies Inc., Carlsbad, CA, USA). Briefly, 2 × 104 HLE cells/cm2 were seeded onto BMSF, APSF, their blends, or RGD-functionalised BMSF coated in the wells of a 24-well plate. Prior to seeding, the coated wells were sterilized with 70% ethanol, followed by extensive rinsing with PBS. Cells were incubated for 4 h in serum-free medium, washed twice in PBS, and then 1 mL of 0.1% Triton-X100 was added. The plates were then incubated at room temperature for 1 h. Each well was then triturated and the supernatant was transferred into individual 2 mL Eppendorf tubes. The tubes were centrifuged at maximum speed for 5 min. To set up the PicoGreen analysis, the samples were aliquoted at 25 µL each into a 96-well plate with 75 µL of 10 mM Tris-HCl in 1 mM EDTA buffer (TE buffer). PicoGreen dye was then added at 1:200 dilution in TE buffer to each well in 100 µL portions. The plate was read on fluorescent microplate reader (FLUOstar OPTIMA, BMG Labtech Pty Ltd., Mornington, Australia). DNA content, calculated and plotted in ng/mL, relates directly to the cell number. These experiments were conducted a minimum of 5 times for each series of experiments using cells obtained from a different tissue donor on each occasion.
For all results that needed to be statistically processed, the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) in conjunction with Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons test was employed, using the GraphPad InStat® Version 3.10, or GraphPad Prism® Version 6.0.
The blend membranes displayed similar handling properties to BMSF alone, however an increasing content of APSF made the membranes more brittle and prone to breaking, which was substantiated quantitatively in a separate study [
The values measured for the contact angles onto the surface of the membranes made of BMSF, APSF and their equivalent blend (50/50 wt/wt) were, respectively, 48.4 ± 1.2º, 62.4 ± 1.0 and 50.0 ± 0.07º (as mean values ± SEM for
Successful binding of the RGD-containing peptide to the surface of BMSF membranes was confirmed by XPS analysis. A signal corresponding to sulphur was observed as a S 2
Primary cultures of HLE cells established from donor human eye tissue displayed cobblestone morphology and achieved confluence within approximately 14 days. When subsequently passaged and re-suspended in serum-free culture medium, the HLE cells attached to the substrata, and then maintained their morphology (
Primary human corneal limbal epithelial (HLE) cells grown on (
Quantitative comparison of the HLE cell attachment to BMSF, APSF and their blends, when seeded in the absence of serum. Bars represent the mean value ± SEM for the total number of viable cells assessed after 4 h by the DNA content
A dose-dependent increase was observed in the level of HLE cells attached to the BMSF membranes modified with an RGD peptide (
Quantitative comparison of the HLE cell attachment to BMSF and BMSF modified with an RGD-containing peptide. Bars represent the mean value ± SEM for the total number of viable cells assessed after 4 h by the DNA content
The regeneration (
Amongst the fibroins isolated from the so-called "non-mulberry" silks produced by silkworms of the genus
Attachment and growth of cells on APSF has been investigated to a lesser extent [
In our present study, neither the grafting of RGD adhesion domains onto the surface of BMSF, nor its blending with the RGD-containing APSF were found to have a significant effect on the attachment of HLE cells. There is a definite trend towards enhanced (rather than reduced) cell attachment, as clearly seen in
The presence of the RGD peptide ligand is not sufficient to promote a statistically significant enhancement of cell attachment and growth on substrata of


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Economists have welcomed the greater transparency that may arise from Treasurer
Speaking at an Australian Business Economists breakfast on Friday, Mr Swan said he would give the PBO more resources so that it could analyse the costings of all political parties ahead of the September 14 poll, but not produce an audit until later.
"The horse has bolted by then," said the head of investment strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital, Shane Oliver. "Any increased transparency is welcome, but it makes more sense to have it audited before the election."
Mr Swan said that had the last election not resulted in a hung Parliament and subsequent negotiations to form a minority government, it would never have been revealed that the Coalition's election promises had blown out by $11 billion.
"Anything to do with transparency around budget costings is a good thing," said RBC senior economist Su-Lin Ong.
"But if you are really talking about improving transparency for a voter, I would have thought it was better to do so before the election rather than after it so people and the market have a good idea of the cost of what is being proposed on both sides."
The government, in a bid to expose a budget time bomb from the opposition, said the change was needed to encourage the Coalition to have its policies costed through a beefed-up PBO.
Shadow treasurer
The Netherlands has an arrangement where costings can be requested by parties during an election period – but not a full "audit".
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Republican strategists and political prognosticators are quick to assure us that Romney's gender gap—which at 19 points is now more like a gender chasm—will evaporate as general election campaigning gears up and the attention of voters returns to bread-and-butter issues like the economy. Even Romney seems to think it's just a blip—assuring reporters that women are talking about "the debt that we're leaving the next generation" and "the failure of this economy to put people back to work," not access to reproductive health care.
The Republicans seem to think they can erase the past four months and their "war on women," but if history is any guide, this is wishful thinking. In fact, the historical record suggests we may be witnessing a re-awakening of the reproductive rights movement, especially among groups where concern about access to contraception and abortion has languished: young women and independent women.
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Character change of New England snow
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AbstractThe annual ratio of snow to total precipitation (S/P) for 11 out of 21 US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) sites in New England decreased significantly from 1949 through 2000. One possible explanation for the observed decrease in S/P ratio is that their temperature increased in New England during the 20th century. The results are consistent with published reports indicating lengthening of the growing season in New England.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is not known for its liberal take on exposed thighs or high fashion styles, so it came as something of a surprise when news emerged that one of the top members of the party was hitched to a Syrian model.
According to documents obtained by social media sites, former presidential candidate and current bigwig of the Freedom and Justice Party, Khairat El-Shater [2], is legally married to a Syrian fashionista, Al-Bayan newspaper reported this week.
In March this year, the Freedom and Justice Islamist party [3] announced their candidate for the Egyptian presidential elections. Khairat El-Shater had to formally resign from the Muslim Brotherhood in order to run but most commentators considered the two parties to be synonymous in any case.
Sadly for El-Shater, his recent stint in prison disqualified him from the race, leaving current president, Mohamed Morsi, to pick up the pieces. However, the original candidate seems to have found other ways to enjoy life's little pleasures, according to the marriage documents.
Political Islam certainly takes a dim view of women straying from the path of modesty but this was apparently no obstactle to El-Shater who, just four months after his disqualification from the race, married Maisa Imar Mohammed Khalil, a 21-year-old Syrian fashion model, living in Shekh Zayed City [4], just outside the capital.
While Syrian women are known in the region for their extraordinary beauty, a strongly religious man such as El-Shater would surely look for other qualities in his life-long partner.
Does the marriage make El-Shater a hypocrite? Or should personal and political lives stay entirely separate? Tell us what you think below.
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[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khairat_El-Shater
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[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Zayed_City
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> But then that leads to the other question, from what I know both the
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Trenton, NJ – The Christie Administration is encouraging New Jersey voters to take advantage of the extended weekend hours at New Jersey's county elections offices to cast their vote before Election Day. Registered New Jersey voters can vote in-person by visiting their county clerk's office no later than 3 pm Monday. Once they receive a ballot from their clerk's office, voters will be able to complete their ballot and immediately deliver it to their county board of elections office. In a directive issued yesterday by Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, county election offices are to remain open, at a minimum, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm beginning November 2 until November 5, and are to take all reasonable measures to inform voters of the extended hours.
"The extent of Hurricane Sandy's destruction is impossible to fully describe," said Lt. Governor Guadagno, who serves as Secretary of State and is responsible for overseeing the Division of Elections. "For many New Jerseyans, the hurricane's impact may have made Election Day the last thing on their minds, but we want to make voting as easy as possible considering the devastating circumstances. Despite the devastation that surrounds many of our citizens, we are committed to upholding and honoring our nation's ideals and having an open and transparent election."
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Tweet My Street is a cross-disciplinary project exploring the extent to which data derived from Twitter can reveal more about spatial and temporal behaviours and the meanings attached to these locally. This is done with a longer-term view to supporting the coproduction and delivery of local services, complaint mechanisms and horizontal community support networks. The project has involved the development of a web-based software application capable of retrieving, storing and visualising geo-located "tweets" (and associated digital content) from Twitter's Firehose. This has been piloted in Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) and has proven a scalable tool that can aid the analysis of social media data geographically. Beyond explaining efforts to analyse pilot data via this software, this paper elucidates three methodological challenges encountered during early collaboration. These include issues relating to "proximity" with subjects, ethics and critical questions about scholars' digital responsibilities during the neogeographic turn.
The popularity of social media has cemented the World Wide Web (WWW) as
Involving computing scientists and geographers TMS aims to determine the extent to which data derived from Twitter can aid understandings of spatial-temporal behaviours and their meanings at different geographical scales. In part, this has been motivated through recognition that whilst current social media analytics platforms like
As well as describing the TMS framework and discussing the challenges inherent to its development, this paper elucidates three methodological issues confronting the research team in the analysis of social media data locally. It is hoped discussion of these issues can contribute to ongoing dialogue within the emerging field of neogeography as to how best to engage different academic disciplines (and non-scholarly groups) in the field given the potential for divergent methodological, ethical and analytical standpoints and the subsequent challenges these can bring into view. For example, a key challenge for computer scientists has been the ability to provide flexible and low latency queries without losing the benefits of real-time streams. This can be particularly useful for focus on a specific event like a concert or sports fixture. At the same time, social scientists have been concerned with the paradoxical levels of proximity social media enable to research subjects, wherein digital content can reveal uncomfortable amounts about people's activities "at distance" from traditional opt-in and informed consent protocols. Central to both concerns is the need to balance the statistical approaches demanded by the big data movement (which bear similarity to the 1960s quantitative revolution) and the "slower", more discursive techniques typically used to answer subjective questions pertaining to actual lived experiences [
Following a review of literature which synthesises commentary from computing science, sociology and geography, this paper details the software framework and schema design and the technical challenges inherent to its development. We then turn to the methodological issues inherent to testing a first version of the framework with a small sample of pilot data. The issues we focus on include closeness with research subjects, ethics and issues of interdisciplinarity that are crucial if researchers are to benefit from one another's expertise and gain from emerging sources of big data within neogeography. A concluding section offers thought on scholars' digital responsibilities during the current turn towards computational approaches.
Though participation is uneven and there remain infrastructural barriers to internet access, one in four people now use social media, with penetration of platforms like Facebook and Twitter in almost every part of the world [
Twitter is the most prominent source of data in a social media context [
Claims of democratisation via Twitter are also strongest in relation to its political role. Smalls' [
A lot of the excitement around social media rests on the idea that data volume increases rigor but "volume" needs interrogating—for instance, having a large amount of data can mislead people into concluding that it is representative and/or of excellent quality when this isn't always the case [
Twitter is used by a tiny proportion of people globally, is not universally popular, and there are alternatives like China's Weibo. Editorial intent, social and political bias and other cultural, linguistic, gendered and political factors also need to be understood to account for the presences and absences that exist in emerging data sources and how the knowledge(s) they give way to might then influence individual lives. boyd and Crawford [
Furthermore, with the current turn to capturing social data from globally networked sources like Twitter, there has also been a parallel shift from thinking about the local scale, where the implications of such tools are lived and felt. That is, whilst network society scholars like Rainie and Wellman [
A majority of researchers have focused on Twitter as a global communications network [
In this sense, SensePlace2 [
The TMS software provides a mechanism for deriving meaning from locally extracted tweets. During piloting, a small batch of data was collected from Twitter to understand the type of information it is possible to elicit before collecting data at volume. We did not aim for the 1254 tweets that were extracted during this "scoping" period to be representative. However, it is worthwhile pointing out that whilst the pilot dataset was bias towards 16–24 year olds and there was a higher concentration of tweets in parts of the West End that flank Newcastle's central business district, it was relatively even in respects of gender and ethnicity. This is in-line with what we might expect from larger Twitter datasets given the social network's demographics. A higher proportion of Twitter users are young (especially those aged 18–29), above average earners and urban dwellers [
Architecture diagram showing the work flow of the system.
Cassandra is the noSQL "column store" database that is used and this comprises "keyspaces" which are equivalent to a database in SQL. Each keyspace is divided into "column families" that are similar to tables (and in turn, comprise rows and sets of columns). The API used for connections to Cassandra is Hector, a Java library providing mechanisms for data manipulation [
The user interface of the Tweet My Street (TMS) application.
Illustrated in
Twitter data model and flow.
Twitter users follow others and have the ability to post one or more tweets that can also be "retweeted". Hashtags can be employed by users to label groups of topics. This has been used to design and develop the database schema that describes the organising of data and provides a blueprint for database construction. The schema centres around three key questions: what is the frequency of tweets posted a given area; where have tweets been posted; and what topics trended last week? Queries were defined using a language called CQL (continuous query language) [
Example queries and user-defined parameters.
Q1 (startTime, endTime)
SELECT COUNT (tweet)
FROM tweet_time [$startTime-$endTime]
FROM tweet_geo
Q3 (startTime, endTime, threshold)
SELECT hash
FROM hashtag_time [$startTime-$endTime]
HAVING COUNT (hash) > $threshold
Column families: "tweet time" and "tweet geo".
|Row Key = tweeted
|Column Name = Latitude
|Column Name = Longtitude
|Row Key = lower bound 1 day
|Column Name = <minute:hashtag>
|Value = lat
|Value = lon
|Value = counter
Data is represented by a user interface in
Using the software, geo-located Twitter data can be filtered, organised and visualised for analysis spatially and temporally, offering a basis from which researchers can cut through the volume and interrogate more closely tweets from Twitter to help pose more refined research questions on a given topic (for instance, understanding local Twitter user responses to #austerity during an election campaign). Based on the run-up and undertaking of the 28 day pilot, we now turn to discussion of several issues that need to be overcome whilst refining the software.
To further understand how the software might be improved, content and network analysis techniques were employed. At this stage, ascertaining Twitter users' locations was the main challenge. There are two ways location(s) can be shared. Firstly, by manually inputting a city or neighbourhood into a user profile and secondly, by enabling GPS and cellular triangulation of individual tweets, a process known as "geo-tagging". The latter means a Twitter user does not have to manually update their current location (say, during travel) and geo-tags are also language agnostic and so can capture a precise street address. Conversely, the location field of a user profile is static and subject to inaccurate and fabricated locations. Geo-tagging must also be enabled (from a default, non-tracked option) with each tweet. This provides researchers an extra layer of assurance that a person wants their location known. Geo-located tweets are therefore preferred but severely constrained. For example, an average of just 1%–2% of data posted to Twitter is geo-tagged in a typical day [
This is a wider challenge inherent to Twitter's geography. For instance, Leetaru
This works in a similar fashion to the Twitter-based event detection and analysis system (TEDAS) system described by Li
"Clusters" of Twitter activity in the West End as seen through the first iteration of the TMS application.
Furthermore, through closer examination of the user profile data behind this cluster of tweets in Fenham, the TMS application enabled us to gain a snapshot of the connections being made at a neighbourhood level. As made apparent in
Increasing TMS functionality to visualise connections between people and places.
Spotlighting of tweet content via "map page" of the TMS web application.
Sui and Goodchild [
Beyond being a scoping tool to instigate inquiry, we are also looking at increasing the frameworks' capability to provide users with a lens into more subjective dimensions. Chiefly, we are working to understand what textual and audio-visual content (included in tweets) might mean rather than simply teasing out connections between tweets and Twitter users. Building aspects of sentiment analysis into the software is one means we are considering to better understand the affective state of Twitter users and their intended emotional responses. Others have done similar [
However, there are bigger methodological and ethical issues impacting our collaboration. The first of these relates to the paradoxical levels of proximity enabled to research subjects. Each member of the team were shocked by the level and depth of information about individual lives we have been able to elicit from Twitter, including personal photos, videos and details of individual workplaces and commuting habits that are available to anyone with a basic knowledge of Twitter's public timeline. The latter could easily be attained with or without the application created as part of this project, but our role in developing it (and handling the pilot data) has made these issues far clearer. This has given rise to a number of tensions around privacy, security and the public-private dichotomy.
On the one hand, all of the tweets captured via Datasift are available because individual Twitter users have "volunteered" this data by not setting their accounts to a "private mode". But is it expected that researchers check that every user whose tweets are extracted is knowingly aware that their broadcasts are public? When considering mechanisms to scale up the TMS application, we realise that this would be near impossible but an option we are considering is acting overtly in respects of highlighted individuals. That is, in any tweets (or interrelated social media content) intended for publication, we see the need to inform individuals that we have been able to capture a given tweet for the purposes of research and provide them with traditional study information and an "opt out". This is deemed better than stopping social research that harnesses data from sources like Twitter because the data is being made available and sold irrespective of whether or not scholars attempt access and utilise the data with good intent. Arguably, it is an ethical imperative for neogeographers to understand and help inform people about the nature of their data trails rather than leaving these open to businesses and other actors seeking to capitalise through surveillance.
A second issue pertains to epistemological questions regarding neogeographic inquiry. Whilst data volume can affect levels of knowledge attained, TMS has demonstrated that the approaches used to collect Twitter data are crucial to its quality. Often positioned in opposition [
TMS has involved a virtuous circle of collaboration. Geographers involved in the project use the web-based tool to analyse Twitter data and advance a case study that leads to new software requirements addressed by computing colleagues. The tool is then enhanced and passed back to the social scientists in cycle. This way of working has made apparent a third interrelated challenge which stems from the fact that our research is cross-disciplinary and we are confronted with different ways of conceiving and approaching a research problem and different ways of working [
TMS has proven a successful collaboration which has resulted in a cloud-based software architecture for the real-time and historic analysis of content derived from Twitter. This is fully scalable and able to process data at the full rate at which tweets are generated globally. The objective of this paper has not been to describe a concluded project or to present a Twitter-based map of Newcastle upon Tyne. Rather, we sought to annotate key issues pertaining to the use of social media data for neogeographic inquiry with examples of how a multifaceted analytics tool has been piloted in the city's West End. The provided examples indicate the potential of TMS for highlighting patterns of communication via Twitter, uncovering trending topics and deriving user-generated content at a very local level. In the longer-term, we see this as having possible application beyond scholarly inquiry in, for example, the contexts of social housing provision or other public services.
The software architecture is already undergoing enhancement with the addition of sentiment and thematic analysis features that will assist social researchers (and other users) in being able to perform more advanced queries of trends and topics by time and location. Real-time streaming further enhances the frameworks' capabilities. Local or global events will be highlighted to the second, enabling immediate information distribution with the public, whilst the combined historic and real-time querying will allow social researchers greater functionality in respects of interrogating clusters of Twitter activity as has been seen with initial examples in the West End. However, the main features of the current web-based application are driven by geospatial "trace data" (geotags and time stamps attached to tweets). To support the work of geographers, our collaboration has made clear that the real challenge of social media data is perhaps not simply one of volume but of diverse functionality, software that empowers researchers to undertake varied analyses that go beyond visualising connections between users. Central to this is the need to focus on longitudinal activity as well as events and to combine abilities to map user connections with functions that help researchers derive meaning from what users are posting—what users write and say and the imagery and audio-visual aspects they post within tweets.
The research team is now exploring contemporary statistical techniques to help efficiently store and query connection graphs over time, enabling more depth in respects of the flows of tweets, changes to information flow, significance and patterns between senders and recipients. Similarly, a new case study will involve deploying the TMS tool to qualitative inquiry focussed on an international event, allowing us to better determine the relationships between dataset size and the "quality" of information derived. This will involve cross-analysis with existing secondary datasets (LSOA data) and data resulting from semi-structured interviews to determine similarities and discrepancies in conclusions made from social data attained through the TMS application.
However, TMS has also highlighted that whilst Twitter is a valuable new source of data, geospatial content can be particularly intrusive and additional steps are needed to mitigate any possible negative consequences. Safeguarding steps have included password protection of the TMS tool and anonymisation of all highlighted content (including user profile details in a given tweet) and providing Twitter users with a means to opt-out. The latter will involve making "spotlighted" Twitter users aware of the level of personal information they might have unknowingly broadcast publicly (or semi-publicly). As well as bringing light to such issues from within our home disciplines, greater reflection on the "digital responsibilities" inherent to doing neogeography is equally crucial in thinking about how different groups and modes of analysis can come together to compliment the field. This is because thinking about issues such as ethics, privacy, security, the growth of information and in/formal surveillance cultures forces different perspectives to congeal around a fundamental question of neogeography: how might
This work was supported by the Research Councils UK Digital Economy Programme (grant number EP/G066019/1—SiDE: Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy).
Graeme Mearns and Rebecca Simmonds have contributed to all sections of this article. In turn, Rebecca Simmonds led
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John in California noted yesterday that Associated Press reporter Jennifer Loven has found news in the idea that "Bush Uses Straw-Man Arguments In Speeches." (Or as she's known on Power Line, "Jennifer Loven, Democratic Operative." Tom Blumer has pointed out her husband has worked on environmental issues for Bill Clinton and John Kerry.) Loven argues -- not reports, but argues:
When the president starts a sentence with "some say" or offers up what "some in Washington" believe, as he is doing more often these days, a rhetorical retort almost assuredly follows.
The device usually is code for Democrats or other White House opponents. In describing what they advocate, Bush often omits an important nuance or substitutes an extreme stance that bears little resemblance to their actual position.
He typically then says he "strongly disagrees" - conveniently knocking down a straw man of his own making.
Bush routinely is criticized for dressing up events with a too-rosy glow. But experts in political speech say the straw man device, in which the president makes himself appear entirely reasonable by contrast to supposed "critics," is just as problematic.
Our first question: did President Clinton never use a straw-man argument in a speech? How about San Fran Nan or Dingy Harry? Hillary or John Kerry? Loven then predictably finds liberal academics to back her arguments up, starting with the omnipresent Kathleen Hall Jamieson, as well as:
A specialist in presidential rhetoric, Wayne Fields of Washington University in St. Louis, views it as "a bizarre kind of double talk" that abuses the rules of legitimate discussion.
"It's such a phenomenal hole in the national debate that you can have arguments with nonexistent people," Fields said. "All politicians try to get away with this to a certain extent. What's striking here is how much this administration rests on a foundation of this kind of stuff."
Bush has caricatured the other side for years, trying to tilt legislative debates in his favor or score election-season points with voters.
"All politicians try to get away with this" is right. This would be more newsworthy if liberal politicians didn't make it a routine practice to argue that conservatives were opposed to the poor, in favor of dirty air and dirty water, and other routine straw-man arguments.
UPDATE: Power Line arrives on the beat, and really effectively notes how Loven's "straw men" are often the actual arguments liberal have made.


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Daguerreotype of the Old House by early photographer John Adams Whipple, 1849 Charles Francis Adams wrote in his diary, March 19, 1849: "Soon after breakfast M. Whipple, the maker of Daguerrs called to show me the results of his experiment of Saturday. On the Old Mansion he has been remarkably successful."
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Professionalism has long been a dirty word in Australian cricket, and it is high time this changed. Over the years it has been associated with ageing cricketers, cynics and assorted hangers-on. It has been contrasted with the glorious amateurs who supposedly flew the cricket flag for a hundred years. In fact, those players were gritty and committed, just badly paid by a mean-spirited board. The Packer rebellion put an end to that.
Properly understood, professionalism has little to do with money, and a lot to do with accountability. In other walks of life, a professional is part of group presided over by a powerful body intent on upholding its reputation. No earthly reason exists to expect less from paid sportsmen representing the nation. For that matter, Cricket Australia runs the game on behalf of a public entitled to demand high standards
Over the past 20 years, CA has set the mark on and off the field. That no longer applies. Of late, Australian cricket has been alarmingly lax. News that Mike Young, the team's fielding coach, has been crossed out from three of this summer's Tests is another instance of the lack of thought. Poor decisions have been taken at every level, and the results are obvious. Rigour has gone walkabout. By the look of things it ended up in London.
Professionalism is a state of mind, not a pay packet. It's the sort of attitude that allowed Stuart Clark to bowl to his field at North Sydney Oval yesterday, pushing the straight men back to the boundary and keeping a full length. Brett Lee was no less professional as he thundered down a 20th over superbly designed to deny South Australia the lead. Both veterans look streamlined.
Contrastingly, Doug Bollinger ran out of gas in Adelaide, and appears to be carrying excess baggage. How did that happen? By the look of things, Australia's most dangerous bowler last season was allowed to lose condition in the weeks before the start of an Ashes series.
As regards Mitchell Johnson, it does seem bewildering that he can lose so much form so quickly. These fellows are on vast contracts. Did the system pick it up?
Nor is professionalism to be equated with age. Usman Khawaja was professional in the manner he built his innings in North Sydney, driving and pulling impressively to blunt a patchy Croweaters attack. Nic Maddinson was professional in the way he improvised intelligently. Ben Edmondson was admirable in the way he slowed the scoring with a sturdy stint. Dan Christian's blistering innings told of commitment.
Money has nothing to do with it. Professionalism means turning up every day ready to give it everything. Pride is the paymaster. That does not mean sportsmen need to be wowsers. Defending one noted bon vivant, John Arlott asked, "Do you want him to be as sombre as a vegetable?" Joel Garner reckoned six hours' sound sleep was more use to him that nine hours of twisting and turning, and amply proved the point over the years. Every man has his own way.
It's not wise for the entire community to adopt an off-the-cuff approach. Moises Henriques' first over in North Sydney was an unimpressive mix that gave the visitors a chance of pinching the halfway point. David Warner's progress has been limited by his eagerness to lead the hectic life off the field as well as on it - it ill behoves a first-grade captain to tolerate jovial late-night poker sessions before an important match. That is not to besmirch two talented cricketers. Just that the IPL millions can lead anyone astray, let alone hot-blooded youth.
The real problem arises as much off the field as on it. The selection strategies have lacked coherence. If Marcus North and Nathan Hauritz were to be ditched, it had to happen months ago. Although capable cricketers, they might lack the required mongrel. Instead their dumping has disturbed the mood of the team while informing the England side that their opponents are in trouble. It takes years to build a team, and five minutes to destroy it.
If the established players were not good enough beforehand, then the panel who kept picking them ought to have been sacked and the side put in the hands of a new mob charged with taking the team forward. What was the use of removing Merv Hughes? He was only part of the group that took an ageing team to fifth in the rankings. By the look of things, his gruff commonsense is missed.
Now Australia have fallen between two worlds. Last year's team has been gutted, and next year's is not settled. Michael Beer might be a fine bowler but his promotion tells of chaos, not order. Whatever unfolds in Perth, Australian cricket needs to think hard about its position. Nor is it sensible to put an old trooper such as Mark Taylor in charge of any inquiry. He is part of the board that took these decisions, and the John Howard push, in the first place.


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THEY might be sitting undefeated in second spot on the ladder, but while he concedes it's been ''fantastic for AFL in Sydney'', Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy is not yet convinced about the premiership credentials of the Swans.
The Swans have started with five straight wins, but Sheedy - who coached Essendon to an AFL record 20-game winning start to the 2000 season - believes we need to wait another 10 rounds before anyone starts taking TOO much notice of the ladder.
''In the end it's probably something that I wouldn't get over the top about,'' Sheedy said of the Swans' start. ''But they have done well and they have kept their team together - they have only had a very small number of injuries. They have recruited well, and you have to give credit in that area.
''I think you won't be able to gauge [much] on that ladder until about round 15 or 16. Most people would be saying, 'Well, they played us so there's a gimme four points' … and we played West Coast, are they on top?
''If the Swans get a decent run of lady luck they are chance this year, they can get there. It's about winning premierships, and they have a chance to build up for one more look before maybe one or two boys get a little bit older and may not be there. You make your luck, and success is your choice, and in the end that's what they will be looking at, and this year could be the year with the good start.
''But first of all the Swans have got to get over us later in the year, and that's going to be a very, very dangerous match for them. We'll have about 15 games up our sleeves, and that's better than the none we had last time [they played in round one], and we weren't that over-embarrassing last time.
''We'll be getting three-quarters into the season [when they meet in round 14 at ANZ Stadium]. You never know, we just might beat them. By the time we play the Swans next time it will be a little bit different.''
Sheedy's team heads to Melbourne for the first time this week, and they could be without high-profile recruit Israel Folau, who is in doubt for the clash with Carlton.
The former NRL star has been suffering from a virus, and missed training yesterday. Sheedy said Folau was under a cloud this week.
Folau might not be the only big name missing from the match as Carlton expects to rest several players for the clash.
''They make decisions at their risk. They won't want to think they're going to get percentage at the rate they feel they might,'' Sheedy said of the Blues. ''We're bringing our losing margin down [each game], and we played three pretty good quarters last week, and won one of them.''


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