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For the past several weeks, the Young Adult Librarian has looked back at her favorite books from 2010. Here are the runner-ups:
The Duff by Kody Keplinger
Wesley calls Bianca the Duff – Designated Ugly Fat Friend. This does not prevent Bianca from hooking up with him when problems at home become unbearable. It was a decent first novel that could have used a little more editing. For older teens.
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
I wish the story had lived up to the promise of the cover more. I do consider it to have one of the best covers I have seen. Mackie is a changeling, and the human world is slowly poisoning him. Mackie confronts the beings that live beneath the town as he tries to figure out where he fits in.
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
After the death of her brother, Andi faces expulsion from her school. Her father steps in and takes her to Paris to work on an important school assignment. While in France, Andi discovers the lost journal of a girl who knew Louis Charles, the lost prince. I liked Andi's story and the historical background. The book might have moved above honorable mention if it did not include a supernatural twist.
Watch for the Young Adult Librarians blog post of favorite teen books of 2011 coming in December.
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The Group of Seven
Excerpted from The McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinberg, Ontario...
In the early decades of the twentieth century, circumstances brought together several artists who were committed to exploring, through art, the unique character of the Canadian landscape. Collectively they agreed: Canada's rugged wilderness regions needed to be recorded in a distinctive painting style. This style would break from European tradition and reflect an increasingly nationalistic sentiment.
Today, these men are among Canada's most famous artists. For many, their works have come to symbolize what is the distinctly Canadian identity.
The Early Years
In their early careers, many of the artists who would later form the Group of Seven were employed at commercial design firms. It was while working at Grip Ltd. that Tom Thomson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Frank Johnston, and Franklin Carmichael first met, discovering their common artistic interests.
The McMichael Library/Archives contains an extensive collection of commercial works by these artists, including the distinctive commercial art of Franklin Carmichael. They began taking weekend sketching trips together. They would often gather at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, socializing and discussing new directions for Canadian art.
In 1913, Lawren Harris convinced A.Y. Jackson to move to Toronto from Montreal. In that same year, Lawren Harris and J.E.H. MacDonald visited the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York to view an exhibition of Scandinavian paintings. That show was a flashpoint for the creation of the Group. It supported and inspired the artists' vision for a distinctly "Canadian" style.
The Group of Seven is Born
In 1920, seven artists – Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley, Frank Johnston, Franklin Carmichael and A.Y. Jackson – decided, for the first time, to exhibit as the Group of Seven. The Group's first exhibition opened at the Art Gallery of Toronto in May 1920. This marks the founding of the Group – an exceptional moment in Canada's art history for which Lawren Harris is largely credited.
Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson would not live to see the birth of the Group of Seven. Yet, despite his untimely death in 1917, Thomson's name became synonymous with the Group. His sketches and finished canvases created a painting style truly representative of the Canadian landscape and experience.
Seven Makes Ten
Despite its name, the Group of Seven membership eventually grew to include ten artists.
Frank Johnston only exhibited in one of the 1920 exhibitions before resigning from the Group.
Following this, A.J. Casson joined the Group in 1926.
In an effort to widen the geographical base beyond Toronto, Edwin Holgate (of Montreal) was asked to join in 1930.
L.L. FitzGerald (of Winnipeg) joined the Group in 1932.
A Lasting Legacy
From its birth in 1920 to the early 1930s, the Group was immensely influential. The final Group of Seven exhibition was held in 1931. Yet, their legacy resonates to this day.
The Group's Contemporaries
Many artists of the same era as the Group felt that there were concerns that were good alternates to the landscape. The Group's contemporaries included David Milne, Thoreau MacDonald, J.W. Morrice, Clarence Gagnon, Albert H. Robinson, Maurice Cullen and Emily Carr.


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Gladys Berejiklian was riding the train to Penrith on Thursday to make an announcement about station upgrades in western Sydney.
In between reading work emails on her phone – and answering questions from a reporter who inadvertently got on her carriage – the Transport Minister's eyes repeatedly wandered to the belt clip of a woman sitting diagonally across.
The woman had an Opal card fixed to her jeans. She looked across and Berejiklian was happy to explain the curiosity.
''I'm the Transport Minister and I was just saying I like the way you've got the Opal thing there,'' Berejiklian said. ''Do you like using the card?''
The response – instructive, perhaps – was a bit of yes and no.
''It's easy,'' said the woman, Lindy Klein, of Sydney's new public transport smartcard.
The Opal offers discount fares for travelling before 7am. Klein says she liked to take advantage of these, which also helps her to get home earlier to her daughter.
But there were some issues, Klein told the Minister.
''It's linked to my partner's credit card but it keeps losing the link,'' she said. ''That's probably not the Opal's fault. I suspect it's something I've done.''
The next few months pose the biggest test yet for Berejiklian and the Opal smartcard, the public transport ticket that the Minister has taken political ownership of in a way she need not have.
''Look at the Opal ticketing system – we started that project from scratch,'' the Minister said in a promotional video released a couple of months ago.
That is not quite right.
The origins of the Opal card start with the former Labor government's 2008 decision to cancel its disastrous ''T-Card'' contract, which at one stage was to have delivered commuters in Sydney a smartcard in time for the 2000 Olympics.
Instead, Sydney residents have had to wait almost 15 years for an electronic smartcard that they can hold on to and that they can use across all types of public transport.
After a bidding process that started in early 2009, the contract for the Opal card was signed by former transport minister David Campbell in May 2010.
This was almost a year before Berejiklian became the Transport Minister. The Opal system has since been extended across Sydney's transport system under Berejiklian's watch, but largely according to the terms of that 2010 contract.
''We inherited the contract,'' Berejiklian says. ''But in terms of decision-making around the team, the implementation, that was completely from scratch.
''I was not satisfied with the team I inherited. I was not satisfied with the team our private sector partners had. So we started from scratch in terms of recruiting people who had actually done this before.''
Berejiklian and her recruits have set September as a key date for the card.
From that month, many public transport users will need to begin switching to the Opal card to get cheaper fares for off-peak and regular travel. Berejiklian says she is confident the switch will prove popular – though other types of paper tickets, such as the TravelTen for buses, will probably remain for at least another year.
''Certainly in my mind I hadn't anticipated the take-up would be so strong up to this point,'' she says.
''I hadn't assumed that we would nearly get to half a million registered cards already ... even though the rollout on buses is not even a third of the way through.''
Internal reports obtained by Fairfax Media using freedom of information laws also point to the general popularity of the card.
Surveys show a result of eight out of 10 for ''customer satisfaction''.
But there are also a myriad of gripes with the card. Regular correspondence to Fairfax Media reveals multiple causes of dissatisfaction.
Some of the concerns are technical. The opal.com.au website, for instance, is at times intermittently inaccessible. Other commuters say they have been overcharged due to glitches with card readers, and calling up the info line for a refund can be a time-consuming hassle.
And then, if card readers do not work, Sydney Trains staff need to close station gates down to reboot them.
A commuter who witnessed a reboot of barrier gates on Thursday just before 9am at Town Hall said it resulted in a five-minute delay in getting out of the station and chaos among passengers, who could not move.
''The staff at the station yelled out that the Opal readers weren't working and that they needed to reboot them,'' the commuter said.
''It wasn't all of them but two of the Opal readers weren't working, which meant they had to restart about half of them. There was just a sea of people and no room whatsoever to move.''
This problem is compounded by the current inability of employees of the state-run train and bus networks to help commuters with their Opal cards. Instead, Sydney Trains staff are directed to refer concerns to the private operators of the Opal system. (In time, Berejiklian says, government employees will also be trained to deal with Opal issues.)
Other complaints relate to the fare structure.
Berejiklian says that 90 per cent of people should be paying the same or less under the Opal scheme, but scores of commuters have estimated they will be paying more.
This might be because cost-effective quarterly and yearly tickets are being retired. Or it might be because they do not travel regularly enough to hit free trips after eight in a week.
Some complaints concern the way in which Berejiklian is encouraging people to link their accounts to their credit or debit card.
About two-thirds of users have linked the Opal card to their accounts, which the Minister credits as a key achievement. Comparable systems are understood to have less than 20 per cent of travellers signing up to linked accounts.
One concern is that the $40 minimum online automatic top-up for adult Opal cards is too high for irregular users.
Transport for NSW said the $40 top-up reflects a common amount spent on public transport in a week. But Tracy Howe, chief executive of the Council of Social Service of NSW, said the $40 minimum was an ''impractical amount for automatic top-up for people on low incomes''.
''Many households' bank accounts come down to zero between pay days and getting hit with an unexpected $40 top-up fee towards the end of the pay period can cause further financial hardship,'' she said.
The surveys Fairfax Media has seen shows the Opal card remains, overall, a popular initiative for Sydney public transport users who have waited too long for a new ticketing system.
If the complaints stick, Berejiklian may regret not sheeting more of the responsibility for the project back on those who drew up the contract.
Facts and figures
Number of Opal cards issued: 450,000
Types of paper ticket to be retired by September 1: 14
Percentage of users who make at least eight journeys a week: 40
Percentage of users who choose to link Opal to their bank account: 70
Percentage of trips that users forget to tap off: 3
Cost of the Opal card initiative: $1.2 billion


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A FORMER prison officer is going behind bars to raise money for a disabled boy from Bury.
Tracey Snelling, from Outwood, will spend a day in prison in aid of 12-year-old Josh Wilson, a pupil at Elms Bank High School in Whitefield.
He was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2004 and following treatment, he now has severe neuromuscular disabilities that require a fully adapted home.
His family needs £25,000 to pay for a ceiling track hoist, a special bath, building work and other basic equipment Mrs Snelling, aged 50, will be arrested at Whitefield police station next Tuesday morning and taken to the Greater Manchester Police Museum in Newton Street, Manchester.
She will face a trial, accused of always giving the wrong answers to a Whitefield police quiz on Twitter, and be sentenced to a day in a cell at the museum.
The fundraiser has been organised by PC Danny McCondichie, of Whitefield police, and Mrs Snelling has already raised more than £100.
The mother-of-two said: "I saw Josh's story on Twitter and I thought I would like to do something to help.
"I'm looking forward to it. It will be strange on the other side of the bars but at least I know I will be getting out at the end of the day."
To donate to Josh's appeal: go to superjosh.org.uk.


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Fraser Charles Drummond, 21, of Kent House, Old Kent Road, St Albans. On December 31, 2012, stole two DVDs from HMV, St Albans. Discharged conditionally for one year. Compensation, costs: £133.98.
Lee David Ramsey, 31, of Fardell Court, Lemsford Road, St Albans. On and between December 21, 2012, and December 31, 2012, stole gift cards, vouchers and cash worth £480 belonging to Morrisons, St Albans. Community order made with unpaid work (40 hours) requirement. Compensation, costs: £555.
Stephen Iacovone, 48, of Willoughby Court, London Colney. On August 11, 2012, used violence to gain entry to a premises despite knowing someone inside was opposed to that entry; also, on same date, assaulted a police officer in the execution of his duty. Community order made with programme (DrinkWise) and supervision requirements. Compensation, costs: £670.
Muhammad Arifur Rahman, 43, of Lye Lane, Bricket Wood. On and between August 8, 2012, and September 3, 2012, at Radlett, pursued a course of conduct which amounted to harassment. Community order made with supervision and unpaid work (150 hours) requirements. Costs: £240.
Adam Michael Elhamri, 21, of North Cottages, Napsbury, St Albans. On August 5, 2012, drove in Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, at a speed in excess of the 30mph speed limit. Fine, costs: £270. Six penalty points.
Philip James Kirkpatrick, 48, of Alma Cottage, Coursers Road, Colney Heath. On July 2, 2012, drove in Great Cambridge Road, Hertford, at 70mph, the legal limit being 50 mph. Fine, costs: £500. Six penalty points.


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Sample the Shore Tasting
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Celebrate dining at the Jersey Shore and the kick off to the 2014 Spring / Summer season with a glance at signature dishes and new items debuting this season from some of the hottest restaurants in town!
Join 94.3 The Point and Driscoll Foods at "Sample the Shore," Tuesday, April 8th at The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, – 1401 Ocean Ave, Asbury Park from 6 to 9 p.m.
Admission is $15 per person or two for $20 and will include sampling from more than 20 participating restaurants, including:
Neil Michael's Steakhouse – Prime pork chops with grilled peaches and a peach balsamic glaze
Bar Anticipation – House smoked duck breast served over a baby arugula salad, brandied cherries, candied walnuts, crumbled goat cheese and white balsamic vinaigrette.
709 – Open faced Guinness braised short rib slider topped with crispy red onions and a Guinness reduction
Chef Mike's Atlantic Bar & Grill
The Serenity Café – Mezzi Rigatoni, prepared to order in a Romano cheese wheel; short rib sliders with wild mushroom and roasted garlic mayo
Cubacan – Smoked swordfish tostadas
Sirena Ristorante – Wild Mushroom Ravioli in a truffle cream
The Avenue – Lamb Tajine Sliders
Langosta Lounge – Lobster Fried Rice; sweet and sour short ribs served over Diablo mashed potatoes
Tickets can be purchased here:
Sponsors include:
- Driscoll Foods
- E-Cig Outpost – 3107 Bridge Ave, Point Pleasant
Door prizes include:
Driscoll Foods Spring Grilling Kit 4 Mets tickets to any 1 game (except the Yankees)
4 Mets tickets to the April 20th game
2 Kindle Fire HD's
2 50" Flat Screen TV's
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to benefit Autism Speaks. Click on their logo to see how you can donate right now!


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A BUSINESSMAN has seen the best and worst of human nature - with his kind-hearted suppliers coming to the rescue after a £30,000 raid.
Gordon Ainsby, part-owner of Classic Replicas UK, which hand makes sports cars in Wellington Road, Bridgwater, said three welding machines, a plasma cutter and a large tool box full of tools were taken.
The theft was discovered last Monday morning and is believed to have happened a day earlier.
Three of Mr Ainsby's suppliers have since provided replacement tools and Mr Ainsby said: "If it wasn't for my suppliers it could have closed us down.
"This incident has knocked us back a couple of months and we have got to find new tools, but it was really good of our suppliers to rally round us."
Another business in Bridgwater had £15,000 of tools taken days earlier, and again its suppliers came forward to replace some of the stolen items.
The owner of that business, who did not want to be identified, said: "We were quite lucky because we were able to get more tools from our suppliers.
"If that hadn't happened, I could have been looking at having to lay off staff."
Police said a 32-year-old man from the Weston-super-Mare area had been arrested on suspicion of burglary in connection with the theft from Classic Replicas.
He has been released on bail.
Investigations are continuing into the other incident.


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Jason Collins made my heart happy!
In the May issue of Sports Illustrated, a smiling, successful, happy Black man announced that we was gay to the world. Jason Collins is the first openly gay active player on a major American sports team and it makes my little heart brim over with happiness. In interviews shortly after his self-authored story was released Collins discussed his experience as a gay man announcing to the world that he is comfortable in his own skin. Watching him talk about it and reading his words, I can almost feel a sense of relief and release that this person can stop telling himself that the sky is red.
What I find to be so cool about all of this is that it indicates to me that we're in a safer time for people who identify as LGBTQ. Not very long ago, a disclosure like this one would end a person's career, rather than invite supportive phone calls from the President of the United States. Tides are changing and perspectives are shifting. Collins is free to focus on a sport he loves and love the person(s) he wants to. This is a taste of violence-free world I crave.
As someone who spent her whole life playing basketball, I have a deep appreciation for the way that athletics can bring balance, discipline, and connection to one's life. It has always made me sad that dominant sports culture often belittles, degrades, or marginalizes traditionally oppressed groups. I recall being so proud when pro athletes came out in support of marriage equality not too long ago. I think it's little steps like this that make a big difference. It is no coincidence that building public support for the rights of all people created a climate where it is safer and welcomed to come out to the world.


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According to IDC, the big data market will grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion by 2015. This growth represents a massive opportunity for startups and large IT vendors alike. The development of data science, more powerful tools for analysis, virtualization, and evolving cost structures are all changing the face of data.
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11:15am - 12:00pm
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12:00pm - 12:45pm
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Panel Discussion: Beyond Hadoop
Puneet Agarwal, True Ventures
Puneet is a general partner at True Ventures, where he brings a strong mix of both operating and investing experience. He began his career as a product manager at Crossworlds Software, an early integration software startup that was bought by IBM.
Puneet then spent some time in technology investment banking at J.P. Morgan and later in venture capital at the Mayfield Fund, where he invested in early stage technology companies. Starting in 2002, Puneet spent four years at BEA Systems in various product management and marketing roles and also conceived, initiated, and ran BEA's RFID initiative. He then joined Geodesic Information Systems, a mobile messaging company, in 2006 as VP of Product Management where he helped grow the company from $20M to over $80M in revenue. As part of his work, he moved to India for several months. He joined the True team in 2008.
Puneet holds a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, where he was also a Mayfield Fellow.
John Akred, Accenture
John Akred leads Accenture Technology Labs within Accenture's Technology R&D Organization, where he directs Accenture's R&D into Data Management and Emerging Data Platforms. In that role he leads a of a team of 25 researchers and engineers who are building data-driven, analytical solutions based on the next generation of distributed, horizontally-scaling data storage and analysis technologies, using cutting edge data acquisition, integration, quality, analysis, processing and end-to-end enterprise data management technologies.
John has over 15 years of experience in advanced analytical applications and analytical system architecture. He is a recognized expert in the areas of applied business analytics, machine learning, predictive analytics, and operational data mining. He has deep expertise in the application of various architectural approaches such as: distributed non-relational data stores (NoSQL), stream processing, in-database analytics, event-driven architectures and specialized appliances; to real-time scoring, real-time optimization, and similar applications of analytics at scale.
John received a BA with honors in Economics from the University of New Hampshire, and a MS with distinction in Distributed Systems from DePaul University.
Andy Bartley, Algorithms.io
Andy is currently CEO of Algorithms.io where he is focused on helping companies better manage and deploy algorithms. Prior to this he spent two years working in angel investing and early stage venture capital at The Angels' Forum, The Halo Fund, and VoiVoda Ventures. Andy started his career in the medical device industry where he held a number of engineering and operational roles. When he's not working you can find him surfing Ocean Beach or running trails in the Marin Headlands.
Andy has an MBA from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Biological Engineering from Oregon State University.
Christian Beedgen, Sumo Logic
Christian Beedgen, Sumo Logic, Co-Founder & CTO.Christian was at ArcSight from 2001 through January 2010 most recently serving as Chief Architect for the event-based products, both ArcSight ESM and ArcSight Logger. He led development teams that owned and delivered the core of the ArcSight product line across server infrastructure and user interaction.
Christian was the first server-side engineer building the ESM backend and growing the server team. He designed and implemented the core backend event handling framework along with the object-relational mapping framework. He was integral in the design and development of core product features such as a flexible framework for real-time query processing and the initial set of stream processors. Christian also co-designed and implemented a patented approach to display large result sets that change dynamically. Prior to ArcSight, he was co-founder of Gigaton, an infrastructure software company enabling distributed file management solution over IP-enabled networks.
Jai Das, SAP Ventures
Jai Das, Managing Director, SAP Ventures. Jai is looking for the next-generation of iconic start-ups which are focused on Cloud computing, Analytics, Digital Media and Mobility and which are leveraging trends like Big-data, Consumerization of IT and Social-local-mobile Internet. He also leads SAP Ventures' investment activities in India where he is looking for growth stage private companies that are building on the proliferation of mobile-internet savvy Indian consumers and that are building world-class enterprise applications to be delivered globally from India via the cloud. He spent seven years designing and building software applications as a lead architect and as a product manager at Oracle and at several start-ups. He was also an entrepreneur before deciding to focus on investing in high-growth technology start-ups.
Jai received his MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business where he was awarded the George Hay Brown Prize for academic excellence. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.
Justin Erickson, Cloudera
Justin Erickson is a Product Manager at Cloudera working on HDFS, Apache HBase and Cloudera Impala. Prior to Cloudera he worked at Microsoft where he lead the development of the new high availability and disaster recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Justin is a graduate of Stanford University where he earned a B.S. with honors in Computer Science.
Kevin Foster, IBM
Kevin Foster is Implementation Strategist for IBM's Big Data Product Engineering organization. His focus is in helping IBM customers and partners to survive and prosper from the large amounts of "big data" generated by mobile phones, smart grids, city traffic, hospitals and other increasingly computerized aspects of our modern lives.
Kevin has a Bachelors degree in Mathematics from California State University Stanislaus and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Bernard Golden, enStratus
Bernard Golden has vast experience working with CIOs to incorporate new IT technologies and meet their business goals. Prior to joining enStratus, Bernard was CEO of HyperStratus, a Silicon Valley cloud computing consultancy that focuses on application security, system architecture and design, TCO analysis, and project implementation. Bernard is also the Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine and was named a "Top 50 Cloud Computing Blog" by Sys-Con Media. Bernard's writings on cloud computing have been published by The New York Times and the Harvard Business Review and he is the author of Virtualization for Dummies and co-author of Creating the Infrastructure for Cloud Computing.
Bernard has an MBA in Business and Finance from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mike Gualtieri, Forrester
Mike Gualtieri, Principal Analyst, Forrester. Mike's research is focused on software technology, platforms, and practices that enable application development professionals to deliver faster agility, prescient customer experiences, and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology and platform coverage areas are big data predictive analytics, blazing-fast performance best practices, user experience design, and emerging technologies that make software faster and smarter. Mike is also a leading expert on the intersection of business strategy, architecture, design, and creative collaboration. Mike is a recipient of the Forrester Courage Award for making bold calls that inspire leaders and guide great decisions. He is also the record holder of the most-read Forrester blog post.
Joseph H. Hellerstein, Trifacta/UC Berkeley
Joseph M. Hellerstein is a Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, whose work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. He is also Founder and CEO of Trifacta, a venture-backed startup company focused on radically enhancing the productivity of data analysts. Hellerstein is an ACM Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and the recipient of two ACM-SIGMOD "Test of Time" awards for his research. In 2010, Fortune Magazine included him in their list of 50 smartest people in technology , and MIT's Technology Review magazine included his Bloom language for cloud computing on their TR10 list of the 10 technologies "most likely to change our world".
Jeremy Howard, Kaggle
Jeremy is a serial entrepreneur, business strategist, developer, and educator. He is the President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle and is also the youngest faculty member at Singularity University, where he teaches data science. He was the founding CEO of two successful self-funded Australian startups (FastMail, and Optimal Decisions Group), both of which grew internationally and were sold to large international companies. He spent 8 years in management consulting at the world's most exclusive firms, including McKinsey & Co, and AT Kearney. He is also a keen student, for example developing a new system for learning Chinese, which he used to develop strong Chinese language skills in just one year. Jeremy has mentored and advised many startups, and is also an angel investor. He has contributed to a range of open source projects as a developer, and is also in demand as an expert commentator on various TV news programs.
Ju-kay Kwek, Google
Ju-kay is the product management lead for Google's Cloud Big Data initiative. He focuses on creating enterprise-class services that enable businesses to harness Google's unparalleled data processing infrastructure and algorithms to tackle their growing Big Data needs. Prior to Google, Ju-kay led product management for SOA and Application Performance Management at Wily Technology and CA Technologies. Ju-kay holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds patents in the areas of data-centric interfaces and multi-modal sales applications.
Tim Park, Microsoft
Tim is a Director in Microsoft's Platform Strategy team helping planning the direction of Microsoft platforms internally and speaking about Microsoft's solutions externally. He brings many years of experience working with Big Data from depth engagements with companies working on solutions from media to the "internet of things."
T.M. Ravi, The Hive
T. M. Ravi is co-founder of The Hive that works with entrepreneurs to help create businesses and that leverage data. Ravi has a successful track record as a serial entrepreneur and operational executive. Most recently, Ravi was Chief Marketing Officer for Iron Mountain, a provider of information management services. Ravi joined Iron Mountain through the acquisition of Mimosa Systems, the leader in enterprise content archiving, where he was founder and chief executive officer.
Satyen Sangani
Satyen's an entrepreneur focused on data and analytics. Previously, he built and ran the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business @ Oracle where he started as a product manager. Before Oracle, Satyen business development and product management roles in startups. He started his career as a mergers and acquisition investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Company and as an investor at Texas Pacific Group. Satyen as an MS from Oxford and BA from Columbia, both in Economics.
Guido Schroeder, Splunk
Dr. Schroeder has served as our Senior Vice President, Products since April 2012. Prior to joining us, Dr. Schroeder was with SAP Labs, an enterprise application software company, where he served as Senior Vice President Development, Technology Innovation Platform BI from 2008 to 2012, as Vice President Development, SAP NetWeaver BI Client Suite from 2007 to 2008, as Vice President Development Suite Optimization Analytics from 2006 to 2007, as Vice President Development, SAP NetWeaver Imagineering from 2004 to 2006 and as Director Development, BI Advanced Technologies from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Schroeder holds a M.Sc and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Kiel (Germany).
Mark Siegel, Menlo Ventures
Mark Siegel, Menlo Ventures.Mark joined Menlo Ventures in 1996 and focuses on investments in data storage, cloud computing, big data, and digital advertising. Mark's active investments and board seats include Dropcam, eXelate, Invidi, Media6, Voltage Security, Mixr, and Tintri . Some of his previous board seats include 3PAR (acquired by HP), Pliant Technology (acquired by SanDisk), RNA Networks (acquired by Dell), BlueGill Technologies (acquired by Checkfree), and Rubric (acquired by Broadbase).Mark is a graduate of MIT (B.S. in Physics with Electrical Engineering) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At MIT, Mark did computer modeling of dark matter and galaxy formation which eventually landed him as a product manager for Oracle's Massively Parallel Processing Group. In this role, he was part of the original team that developed and deployed one of the first true massively parallel and multi-threaded commercial software offerings – the Oracle Parallel Server. Mark then started and managed a consulting group at Oracle dedicated to serving early customers of this product. In business school, Mark got the startup bug and went on to work in business development for Netscape from the first year of its inception through its IPO in 1996.
Adam Smith, Metamarkets
Adam is the Vice President of Product at Metamarkets. Adam began his career as a toy designer, studied at MIT's Media Lab, then spent seven years at Google in a variety of product roles before becoming a Partner at AOL Ventures. He holds a BA in Physics and Studio Art from Bowdoin College, a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and a MAS from the MIT Media Lab.
David Sonnenschein, SAP
David is the Vice President of Strategic Business Development at SAP.
M.C. Srivas, MapR
Srivas ran one of the major search infrastructure teams at Google where GFS, BigTable and MapReduce were used extensively. He wanted to provide that powerful capability to everyone, and started MapR on his vision to build the next-generation platform for semi-structured big data. His strategy was to evolve Hadoop and bring simplicity of use, extreme speed and complete reliability to Hadoop users everywhere, and make it seamlessly easy for enterprises to use this powerful new way to get deep insights. That vision is shared by all at MapR. Srivas brings to MapR his experiences at Google, Spinnaker Networks, Transarc in building game-changing products that advance the state of the art. Srivas was Chief Architect at Spinnaker Networks (now NTAP) which built the industry's fastest single-box NAS filer, as well as the industry's most scalable clustered filer. Previously, he managed the Andrew File System (AFS) engineering team at Transarc (now IBM). AFS is now standard classroom material in operating systems courses. While not writing code, Srivas enjoys playing tennis, badminton and volleyball. M.C. has an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Delaware, and a B.Tech. in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi.
Brett Uyeshiro, Pandora
Brett Uyeshiro is Director of Software Engineering at Pandora, where he serves as chief architect and leader of the company's big data infrastructure. Since joining Pandora in 2008 as a Senior Software Engineer, he has managed the software development of key analytics, storage and commerce systems. Highlights of his tenure at the company include developing a petabyte scale data warehouse, reporting and ETL system in addition to a high volume stats collection service which handles billions of requests a day. Prior to joining Pandora, Brett worked in various software development roles at Xoom, Invois, Pets.com and Kenamea. Brett received his BA in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Andy focuses on ScaleVP's investments in next-generation enterprise software and new data center technologies – including virtualization and cloud computing. Andy sits on the boards of Arena, Entone, and INNOViON. Prior to joining ScaleVP in 2003, Andy worked as a hardware engineer for Electronics for Imaging, designing embedded print server platforms and video compression circuits. Previously, he was a software engineer for De Beers Research Labs, conducting research on computer vision for both medical and mining applications. Andy earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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The Department of Planning and Development (DPD) has proposed a Pedestrian Zone Mapping Project to create walkable neighborhood business districts. These areas could be subject to pedestrian designation through Neighborhood Commercial Zones.
DPD senior planner Aly Pennucci presented the proposed area for Queen Anne to the neighborhood community council's Land Use Review Committee (LURC) on April 28. The study area encompasses Queen Anne Avenue North from West Lee to Howe streets, the backside of the Safeway lot on Queen Anne Avenue North and West Galer Street from Fourth to Queen Anne avenues West.
The mission is to "encourage new and protect existing compact, pedestrian-oriented,
neighborhood business districts," Pennucci said in an email information sheet that Kaplan sent to the community.
The proposal was prompted by 2006 Neighborhood Business District Strategy that "recognized the importance of Seattle's neighborhood commercial centers and sought to stimulate and enliven them through several changes to the Land Use Code and future recommended actions," Pennucci wrote.
How it would work
The idea is to ensure the area uses a mixture of transportation and encourages more walking, biking and public transportation use. The rules for the pedestrian zones area include:
•Having pedestrian-oriented commercial uses on 80 percent of the ground floor;
•Driveways cannot cross sidewalks;
•Parking must be behind or under the building and not in front or on the side; and
•Waivers are available for street-level parking uses in areas where parking is required.
Some of the additional proposed requirements, which would be imposed on new or highly remodeled buildings:
•Requiring overhead weather protection on new buildings;
•Regulating drive-in businesses on the edges of pedestrian zones;
•Reviewing required ground-floor uses; and
•Establishing minimum floor-area ratio requirements in urban centers or villages and station area overlay districts.
There is already a pedestrian-zone designation in Queen Anne on Queen Anne Avenue from Howe to McGraw streets; the rest of the proposed zones would have those rules extended to them. If there areas aren't designated as pedestrian zones, the requirements will not be imposed on the area.
The plan only affects the proposed area in upper Queen Anne. Plans for Uptown will be part of the current rezoning work, said LURC chair Marty Kaplan.
Coexisting with other plans?
There are certain kinds of businesses that wouldn't be allowed under this new plan, Pennucci said, citing architecture and lawyer businesses as places that wouldn't be allowed. Arts storefronts would only be allowed in the Pike/Pine area under the current rules.
The main difference to the neighborhood would be the parking requirements, but even that wouldn't be a big change, she said. The pedestrian zone doesn't impact on-street parking and doesn't prohibit off-street parking. In this area, there would be a very minor impact on parking, Pennucci said.
Sixth Avenue West and McGraw Street was not included in the area because the area's zoning isn't typically regulated like this, and it wasn't one of the 60 areas identified by the City Council, Pennucci said.
One LURC board member expressed concern that, in areas like Second Avenue West, adding new businesses will distract from the businesses that are already there. And the parking requirements would affect the existing businesses that rely on the parking.
"We're hearing similar concern from others, as well," Pennucci said.
Along Queen Anne Avenue, there are a lot of historic homes that have been converted for commercial use. Those homes could stay but couldn't be torn down and rebuilt, Pennucci said. But there are a lot of exceptions, like remodeling or building after a fire.
The DPD is trying to determine how the rules could integrate the neighborhood's existing landscaping plans, like the streetscape plan for Queen Anne Avenue that Picture Perfect Queen Anne created.
The area on Crocket behind Safeway in Queen Anne is included because that is a large lot that extends backward, Pennucci said.
Public input
One audience member said he thinks if the rules were imposed in areas like Galer and Second Avenue, they would "nudge development in the neighborhood in a certain way."
Another audience member urged the Queen Anne Community Council to lobby for a plan similar to the Pike/Pine overlay.
Kaplan said it seemed like the pedestrian zone along Queen Anne Avenue North wouldn't be much of a change. "Galer deserves a more nuanced approach and study, maybe just to Second Avenue West," he said.
The plan is to evaluate feedback and create revised recommendations in May or June, Pennucci wrote. The goal is to publish those recommendations this summer and present them to Mayor Ed Murray by late summer or early fall.
Pennucci will still accept public comment by email (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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We call it The Grand Tour.
Where everything is Grand. As in monumental. The view. The roads. The food. The lodging. Tall order.
Well then ride along...
We had a special treat on this ride. As in we had Kevin with us who's a videographer and filmmaker. We'd be shooting film all weekend using GoPro HD's and constantly experimenting with angles and shots.
The goal is a new film about the Pashnit Tours and also the capabilities of the GoPro HD.
We should have the film ready by the within 2-3 months and debuted at the International Motorcycle Show.
So a special thanks to 4theRiders.com
First stop...
Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 8,000 pounds. It sits in a lantern room that had been constructed at the Lighthouse Service's general depot in New York before being shipped around the Horn. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using a 24 inch Aero Beacon.
And yes, two different cameras I'm using.
The GoPro HD takes really cool photography.
Yea!!!! What a great weekend!
Thanks again Tim!
Headed down Highway 1
Good as it looks? You bet.
A pleasure having Joe with us again. His 3rd Pashnit Tour already. Hana who came from Canada. Her 2nd already.
And Marco, who is an Italian from Munich, Germany here in the USA working on his post-doctorate if I've got that right.
Astronomy, Particle Physics, you know. Typical stuff.
Mary on her heavily modified SV. Sweet bike. And Kevin, our vidoeographer who works for Apple and was sent to us by 4theRiders.
Anyone like wine?
Spending time along Hwy 1 Big Sur Coastline
Mary & Hana
Never gets old that ocean. Despite the fog, it was a great ride!
The ride up Nacimiento Rd
The view near the top of Nacimiento Rd. The temps climbed 20+ degrees coming out of the fog. Hot.
Climbing up, climbing down. The view of California Big Sur Coastline
Marco on the Ducati
Mary's rocked out Suzuki SV650
Hana rented the same BMW K1200S that she had for our May tour from WeRentMotorcycles.com
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Samsung Infuse 4G 4.5-inch Smartphone Details
Samsung Infuse 4G Goes Big and Slim
Expanding on its lineup of 4G phones, AT&T announced yesterday that it would be carrying the Samsung Infuse 4G starting on May 15 for $200. Quite the contrast to the tiny HP Veer 4G, the Infuse will come with a huge 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen and will run Android 2.2. The screen may be big, but this device is super thin — coming in at just 8.9 mm to 9.24mm thick. Other features coming with the Infuse include two cameras — an 8MP rear-facing camera capable of HD 720p video, and a 1.3MP front facing camera for video chatting — and a virtual QWERTY keyboard.
The best parts may be the included media access, though, as this phone comes stocked with an exclusive hidden-level version of Angry Birds, $25 worth of credits to use in the Samsung Media Hub, as well as access to U-verse Mobile and U-verse Live TV. With a screen that big, watching videos should be pretty enjoyable. Check out more images of the super-sized Infuse 4G in the slideshow!


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Saint Leo, Fla. (May 23, 2008) - The Saint Leo softball program has announced it will restructure its summer camp program, and will not be holding any camps during the summer of 2008. The new camp structure will debut in 2009 with several different options available.
The 2009 camp structure will feature a camp for beginners, which will cover all of the basics for the game of softball. Also featured will be a hitting camp, which will break down the swing through video analysis, and give a complete understanding of weight transfer and bat extension, as well as visual training.
Also returning for 2009 will be the popular pitching camp, which covers all of the fundamentals and will offer new drills.
In addition, a new overnight team camp that will offer defensive work as a group, offensive team strategies and team building activities will be added with the new camp structure. This camp will also give players the opportunity to play at night.
The tentative dates for the new Saint Leo softball camps in 2009 are below. For more information on Saint Leo softball camps, please contact the Saint Leo softball office at (352) 588-8451.
June 8-11 – Beginners & Hitting Camp
June 15-18 – Defensive & Pitching Camp
July 19-23 – Team Camp


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PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) -- A northern Ohio wildlife park says it has been having trouble with all-terrain vehicles scaring its giraffes, camels, zebras and llamas.
Operators of the African Safari Wildlife Park near Port Clinton say the ATV riders have been cutting through the alfalfa fields where food is raised for the collection of exotic animals
A spokeswoman for wildlife park says the noisy machines are upsetting the animals.
The News Herald of Port Clinton (http://ohne.ws/TFTm00) reports that police officers have talked with those who have been on the property and they don't think anyone was trying to bother the animals.
The park is now closed for the winter.
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Control, control, you must learn control!
Adopting a model-based design approach made this integration easy indeed, accessible to all engineers with some education in control fundamentals and their application to real engineering systems. The increase in the power of microelectronics and the decrease in their cost has now made possible, in everyday systems, the application of control approaches found only in research labs a few years ago. Yes, now control is an indispensable technology in modern multidisciplinary engineering practice.
Alas, you would not come to that conclusion reviewing the engineering curricula at universities or speaking with most practicing engineers today who are products of those programs. Modeling and control make physics and mathematics relevant and necessary for the engineering student and this message needs to be delivered on day one. Why is this not so? If you have an answer, please let me know in the comments below.
Classical Control Theory (root-locus and frequency response analysis and design, i.e., transform methods) is applicable to linear, time-invariant, single-input, single-output (SISO) systems. This is a complex frequency-domain approach. The transfer function relates the input to output and does not show internal system behavior.
Modern Control Theory (state-space analysis and design) is applicable to linear or nonlinear, time-varying or time-invariant, multiple-input, multiple-output systems. This is a time-domain approach. This state-space system description provides a complete internal description of the system, including the flow of internal energy.
The aim of both techniques is to find a controller that satisfies the design specifications. Knowledge of both approaches, modern and classical, is essential to produce the best designs.
Even when control is taught, the subject of state variables and state-space control design is rarely covered. While classical control, specifically proportional-integral (PI) control, accounts for about 90% of the industry applications, that is rapidly changing. State-space control is now essential for many applications to just function.
The state-variable equations (see diagram) are a coupled set of first-order ordinary differential equations where the derivative of each state variable is expressed as an algebraic function of state variables, inputs, and possibly time. The state variables are independent variables capable of defining the state from which one can completely describe the system behavior. These variables completely describe the effect of the past history of the system on its response in the future.
Choice of state variables is not unique and they are often, but not necessarily, physical variables of the system. They are usually related to the energy stored in each of the system's energy-storing elements, since any energy initially stored in these elements can affect the response of the system at a later time. The internal energy can always be computed from the state variables. The number of elements in the state vector is unique, and is known as the order of the system.
Advantages of state-space design are especially apparent when the system to be controlled has more than one control input or more than one sensed output, the multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) system case.
Yoda was right and his words need to be heeded today more than ever before.
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Here it is, from NHL.com:
Fahey, 28, recorded 24 points (4g/20a) in 66 games with the Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL) in 2008-09. The 6-foot-1, 215-pound blueliner spent the 2007-08 campaign with the AHL's Chicago Wolves, where he helped lead the club to the Calder Cup title by recording 10 points (2g/8a) in 24 postseason contests.
A native of Glenview, Illinois, Fahey was originally Colorado's seventh selection (119th overall) in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. Fahey played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin, where he was named to the WCHA All-Rookie Team in 1999-2000.
Williams, Colorado's second selection (second round, 51st overall) in the 2006 Entry Draft, totaled 21 points (7g/14a) in 70 games for the Lake Erie Monsters during the 2008-09 campaign.
Your favorite blog is now available on Twitter: You can find it at twitter.com/rangersreport, or, as twitterers know it, @rangersreport.
Here's the Rangers' release on the Williams-Fahey trade (which really probably isn't worth all this space, but, hey, it's the internet):
Acquire Nigel Williams from Avalanche
New York, July 16, 2009 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has acquired defenseman Nigel Williams from the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for defenseman Brian Fahey.
Williams, 21, skated in 70 games with the Lake Erie Monsters of the American Hockey League (AHL) last season, registering seven goals and 14 assists for 21 points, along with 55 penalty minutes. The rookie defenseman ranked seventh on the team overall and second among Lake Erie defensemen in points. He also tied for the team lead among defensemen in goals scored. Williams posted a season-high, three-game point streak from January 10 against Hamilton to January 13 vs. Quad City, collecting three points (one goal and two assists) over the span. He also recorded his first career multi-point performance with two assists on March 28 at Syracuse. Williams notched a goal in his professional debut on October 11 against Grand Rapids.
The 6-4, 226-pounder skated in 113 career regular season contests with the Saginaw Spirit and Belleville Bulls of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) prior to turning pro, registering 32 goals and 50 assists for 82 points, along with 192 penalty minutes. In 2007-08, Williams split the season between Saginaw and Belleville, and established OHL career-highs in games played (67), assists (31) and points (46). As an OHL rookie in 2006-07, he set a career mark with 17 goals. In addition, Williams has collected 21 points (nine goals and 12 assists) in 27 career OHL playoff contests with Saginaw and Belleville. He tied for fourth on the Bulls in playoff assists (11) and points (18), and tied for fifth on the team in goals (seven) during the 2008 OHL Playoffs.
Williams also skated with the U.S. National Under-18 Development Team during the 2005-06 season, registering three goals and four assists for seven points, along with 23 penalty minutes in 19 games.
The Aurora, Illinois native was originally Colorado's second round choice, 51st overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.
Fahey, 28, appeared in 66 games with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League (AHL) last season, collecting four goals and 20 assists for 24 points, along with 67 penalty minutes.


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The man who supplied Robbie Day with the ecstasy which killed him has failed to meet the terms of his suspended sentence.
Tristan Wilcox, 35, was put on the order, with a drug rehabilitation requirement, after he was found with thousands of pounds worth of cannabis.
But despite Wilcox failing to turn up for a number of appointments Judge Douglas Field ruled it was not in the public interest to activate the jail term.
Wilcox, of River Parade, Chippenham, was jailed for four months, suspended for 18 months, at Swindon Crown Court in February. But he missed numerous probation appointments and seemed 'ambivalent' about the order, the court was told.
Speaking in his own defence Wilcox said he had not turned up on the drug rehabilitation requirement because he was depressed.
"I am very sorry for my actions," he said from the dock having been produced in custody after failing to attend an earlier hearing.
"When I got this order it just got me down because I want to work."
Allowing the order to continue, with a three-week night time curfew, the judge said: "I am going to punish you for being in breach but I am going to give you a chance to get back on to the drug rehabilitation requirement because it is that problem that is behind your offending.
"I think it is in the public interest that we have a second go to try and deal with that. If that fails you will be back in front of me because I am going to reserve any future breach to myself and it means you won't get a second chance and you will go in."
Wilcox had almost £2,500 worth of cannabis stashed in his microwave oven when police searched his home early on June 2 last year.
Admitting possession with intent to supply he said he had been selling it to friends to fund his own cocaine addiction.
Police had gone to his home after Mr Day, 35, of The Firs, had collapsed outside Superdrug in Chippenham the day before having taken the drug with Wilcox. He was taken to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon but died from multiple organ failure the following day.
At an inquest into his death a statement from Wilcox was read out in which he said: "It was me who got the drugs for Robbie and I blame myself for his death. I got him the drugs but he took them of his own free will."
Robbie's mum Elaine Barron, who lives in Pewsham, Chippenham, said: "I'm appalled, I can't believe they haven't activated his sentence, I can't understand it. How many more times does he have to break the law?
"It's disgusting. Robbie was vulnerable and he thought Tristan was his friend."


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"Every school in England could be sent free copies of the Qur'an", said Michael Gove, Education Secretary of United Kingdom.
Education secretary Michael Gove said it would be "fantastic" if a rich benefactor would support sending out copies of the Islamic holy text to schools.
Mr. Gove has been an enthusiastic supporter of a current privately funded scheme to send copies of the King James' Bible to every state primary and secondary school in England.Around 24,000 Bibles are being distributed to schools by the Government, with the inscription "Presented by the Secretary of State for Education".
He said he had received "hundreds of letters" from head masters and head mistresses who were "absolutely delighted" to receive the books.
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Rams placed QB Sam Bradford on injured reserve with a torn left ACL, ending his season.
DeShone Kizer completed 8-of-13 passes for 74 yards in the Browns' second preseason game Monday night.
Odell Beckham's X-ray on his injured ankle came back negative.
Brandon Marshall is undergoing an X-ray on his shoulder.
Brock Osweiler completed 6-of-8 passes for 25 yards, no touchdowns, and one interception in the Browns' second preseason game against the Giants.
Leonard Fournette (foot) has been ruled out for the Jaguars' third preseason game.
Seahawks acquired T/G Matt Tobin and a 2018 seventh-round pick from the Eagles in exchange for a 2018 fifth-round pick.
According to NJ.com's Matt Lombardo, LeGarrette Blount has dealt with "weight issues" at Eagles camp, and has "disappointed" in practice.
John Brown (quad) returned to Cardinals practice on Monday.
NFL Network's James Palmer suggests Jamaal Charles' performance in the Broncos' third preseason game could determine whether Charles makes the team.
Speaking Monday after the Texans' second preseason game, coach Bill O'Brien said third-round RB D'Onta Foreman is "a long way off."
Philly Voice's Jimmy Kempski suggests Wendell Smallwood could win the Eagles' starting running back job.


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ICC Intercontinental Cup Day 3 - Canada vs. Afghanistan
esuming at 21-4 over night, Canada would have hoped for a positive start to day 3 after day 2 was washed out. Unfortunately for Canada it was not to be as nightwatchman Harvir Baidwan (8) fell after a 23 run partnership with Zeeshan Siddiqui.
Siddiqui on debut seemed unperturbed by what was happening around him and continued to shine on debut reaching his half century and giving the smattering of Canadian fans around the ground.
While Siddiqui (52) and Henry Osinde (14) were still at the crease there was a chance that Canada could avoid a follow-on but as Siddiqui departed, Osinde soon followed and Canada were all out for 130.
Being asked to follow on did seem to fire up the Canadian batsmen as they came out blazing at almost 6 runs per over, however wickets continued to tumble and Canada were struggling at 52-4. A partnership between Siddiqui (23) and Zubin Surkari (35) seemed to hold off the Afghan assault but both parted in quick succession leaving Canada far adrift of making the Afghans bat again.
Hamza Tariq ensured the Afghan's would bat again as he scored his maiden first class century finally pulling Canada into the lead as he put on 81 runs with Harvir Baidwan (29*). Tariq perished just before close leaving Baidwan and Khurram Chohan with much to do tomorrow.
Hamid Hassan (7-61, and 3-24) was the pick of the Afghan bowlers and seems destined for a man of the match award tomorrow.


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Topic: MRI results...mixed bag
Went in for fluids since I am having bad diarreah again and talked to my doctor about my reccent mri. Results are mixed. The diffused area in my liver that they cant tell if it is cancer or not has grown. There has been no shrinkage in the large grapefruit sized tumor. Good news...the lymph node that was cancerous no longer shows up on the scan. There has been no spread and no new areas of concern. There is no cancer in the blood vessels that feed the large tumor which means there is a bigger chance at surgery. I will find out about surgery possibly next week.
The doctor also ordered an ultra sound with contrast to evaluate the liver again to check on the "diffused area".
My doctor sounded positive about the results and there does seem to be a possibility of another surgery. She said if I had surgery, they would go ahead and remove the Diffused part of the liver.
I am at once hopeful and disappointed. I wanted shrinkage so bad. We discussed changing my chemo from xeloda to gemzar but she doesnt think we should change it yet, she wants to give it more time. But she does seem hopeful about surgery, which makes me happy. I am confused as I thought I needed my tumor to shrink before surgery, but now I dont know. I will go in again on monday for more fluids in an attempt to keep me hydrated enough so I dont have another week long stay in the hospital. Hopefully we will have word about surgery then. Think good thoughts!
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ORLANDO, Fla. - On the second anniversary of their son's death, Robert and Pam Champion were back in Orlando calling for an end to hazing.
The couple released balloons and prayed outside the Rosen Plaza Hotel on International Drive Tuesday night, hoping to raise awareness.
"We are determined to make sure that no other family has to deal with what we have gone through," said Pam Champion, Robert Champion's mom.
Champion died after a hazing ritual following the Florida Classic football game in Orlando in Nov. 2011.
The FAMU drum major had been severely beaten aboard a bus that was parked outside the hotel on International Drive.
The band was suspended for the 2012 season and will return to the Florida Classic for the first time since Champion's death this weekend.
So far, fifteen people have been charged in connection with Champion's death, but most have struck plea deals and were sentenced to probation and community service. Six people are still awaiting trial and some could face prison time.
"There was an opportunity to send a strong message and yet it was not," said Pam Champion.
Pam and Robert Champion Sr. also said they are not convinced that hazing has been eliminated at FAMU.
The Champions are now suing FAMU, the bus company and the bus driver, but have turned down a $300,000 settlement offer from the university saying student safety is their top priority.
"That's the biggest concern, students before money," said Pam Champion.
"We're not going anywhere," said Robert Champion Sr. "This is not going to be swept up under the rug and it be business as usual."
In January, FAMU released a 27-page report saying they were creating an anti-hazing plan, including adding as special assistant to the university's president to oversee the program. The university also set up an anti-hazing website for students.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The National Labor Relations Board has notified the Jacksonville Symphony Association it will investigate the American Federation of Musicians' allegations that management was negotiating in bad faith.
The symphony and its musicians have been at an impasse since September after management broke off months of contract negotiations and said it would implement its final contract offer.
The symphony issued a statement Friday saying, "It is important to understand that this complaint merely makes allegations based on charges filed by the union. It is not a finding by the NLRB that the symphony has violated the law in any respect."
The symphony's concert season is continuing on schedule as management did not lock out the musicians, who agreed to work without a contract while awaiting a ruling from the NLRB on its complaint.
"We felt strongly that a professional orchestra is important to the economic viability of a city this size and believe it's our duty to ensure that the music continues to play, " said Peter Wright, president of union local 444. "Throughout this process we remained sympathetic to their issues, but feel that our issues have fallen on deaf ears. Accepting their cuts would mean each musician would be making less than a 'living wage' with no opportunity for secondary employment to make up the difference. We know there are other, better ways to meet the JSO's financial challenges."
A hearing will be scheduled before an administrative law judge where all parties will have an opportunity to present evidence and make arguments. There was no indication of how soon a hearing would be scheduled.
"We welcome this opportunity to fully present our side of the story," said Richard Pierpont, the Symphony Association's chairman. "We are confident the judge will conclude that the symphony has bargained in completely good faith. Of course, we still want to reach agreement with the musicians and their union and will continue to make every effort to do so."
The union says it offered to accept more than $1.3 million in concessions over 15 bargaining sessions before talks broke off. The musicians say its continued offer of concessions has been met with offers of "draconian cuts to pay and benefits."
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Got this query in from Tracey Lawton this morning –
Hi, I wonder if you can help.My father was adopted in 1947, and I have managed to find out that his father was named Joseph Simmonds born in Staffordshire c.1910? My father seems to think that Joseph had some contact with or was looked after by the Salvation Army in Manchester. I am trying to trace where he died. Can you help
Tracey Lawton
Hi Tracey,
I've checked the FreeBMD indexes on Ancestry.co.uk for a birth for Joseph Simmonds circa 1910 in Staffordshire, but no luck. I then checked the death indexes for a Joseph Simmonds born 2 years either side of 1910, there were several entries and without further evidence it's hard to know which one is yours as this stage. There was also nothing obvious on the 1911 census.
Where did you get the name and birth year from, was it a reliable source?
The Salvation Army have their own archives and may be able to help you http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/HeritageArchives
If your father is alive, he will be able to apply for a copy of his original birth certificate and also the file on his adoption. This website will be able to help him apply https://www.gov.uk/adoption-records/accessing-your-birth-records
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New York Times Invents Differences Between Romney And Ryan On Anti-Women Policies
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A New York Times article suggested that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) favors policies that restrict women's health care such as cutting off funds to Planned Parenthood, but Mitt Romney does not. In fact, Romney supports each of the anti-women policies cited by the Times.
The Times suggested that Ryan has "more conservative views" than Romney because Ryan has cast votes that "would restrict family planning financing overseas, cut off all federal funds to Planned Parenthood and repeal President Obama's health care law." From the Times:
On Tuesday, Republicans approved platform language for next week's nominating convention that calls for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest. That is a view more restrictive than Mr. Romney's, who has said that he supports exceptions to allow abortions in cases of rape.
Mr. Ryan's more conservative views, which have been reflected in votes that would restrict family planning financing overseas, cut off all federal funds to Planned Parenthood and repeal President Obama's health care law, have come into sharp relief as Mr. Akin struggles for his political life. Mr. Akin and Mr. Ryan each have voted in this Congress for 10 abortion-restricting measures as well as those that limited other family planning services.
But Romney has taken identical positions to Ryan on each of the women's health issues mentioned by the Times:
- Ryan voted for an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood. Likewise, Romney has repeatedly said he will "end federal funding for ... Planned Parenthood."
- Ryan has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Likewise, Romney has pledged to "work with Congress to repeal [the Affordable Care Act] as quickly as possible."
- Ryan voted for an amendment to restrict family planning overseas by banning federal funding for any group that supports or performs abortions in foreign country. Likewise, Romney has said that he would defund any family planning organization that supports abortions overseas:
I will reinstate the Mexico City Policy to ensure that nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from America refrain from performing or promoting abortion services as a method of family planning, in other countries. This includes ending American funding for any United Nations or other foreign assistance program that promotes or performs abortions on women around the world.
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Illinois, Cook County Deaths (FamilySearch Historical Records)
|This article describes a collection of historical records available at FamilySearch.org.
Access the records: Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1922 .
- 1 Collection Time Period
- 2 Record Description
- 3 How to Use the Records
- 4 Record History
- 5 Related Web Sites
- 6 Related Wiki Articles
- 7 Contributions to This Article
- 8 Sources of Information for This Collection:
Collection Time Period
Cook County has recorded death records since 1871, the year of the Great Chicago Fire. A few miscellaneous records exist prior to July 1871.
Record Description
Early records were kept in register books beginning in 1877. By the early 1900s most events were recorded on pre-printed forms
Record Content
- Name
- Sex
- Age
- Race
- Occupation
- Marital status
- Date and place of death
- Years resident in the state
- Cause of death and duration of illness
- Place of burial
- Name and address of reporting doctor
After 1916 the following information was added:
- Names of parents
- Birth place of parents
- Date of burial
- Name of informant
- Employer
How to Use the Records
To begin your search, it will be helpful to know the following:
- The place where the marriage occurred.
- The approximate marriage date.
- The names of the bride and groom.
Input the information you have into the appropriate boxes on the search screen. This seach usually returns more than one result. Compare the information in the results to what you already know about your ancestors to determine if this is the correct person. You may need to compare the information of more than one person to make this determination.
When you have located your ancestor's record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. Add this new information to your records of each family. For example:
- Use the birth date or age along with the place of death to find the family in census records.
- Use the residence and names of the parents to locate church and land records.
- Occupations listed can lead you to employment records or other types of records such as military records.
- The name of the undertaker or mortuary could lead you to funeral and cemetery records which often include the names and residences of other family members.
- Compile the entries for every person who has the same surname as the deceased, this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual.
- Continue to search the records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives who may have died in the same place or nearby. This can help you identify other generations of your family or even the second marriage of a parent. Repeat this process for each new generation you identify.
When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.
Keep in mind:
- The information in the records is usually reliable, but depends upon the reliability of the informant.
- Earlier records may not contain as much information as the records created after 1900.
- There is also some variation in the information given from one record to another record.
If you are unable to find the ancestors you are looking for, try the following:
- Check for variant spellings of the surnames.
- Check for a different index. There are often indexes at the beginning of each volume.
- Search the indexes and records of nearby counties.
Record History
Legislation in 1819 required physicians to record births and deaths for their practices. Then, the physicians transmitted the information to their medical society which published the information in the newspapers. In 1843 a law was passed where relatives of a deceased person could appear before the clerk of the county commissioner's court and report information regarding the death. The recording of vital records was voluntary until 1877 so few births and deaths were recorded. A fire in 1871 destroyed the Cook County Courthouse and nearly all previous records housed there. The few existing originals that were created by the county clerk may be found in the county clerk's office or in one of the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories (IRAD).
In 1877 the State Board of Health was created to supervise registration of births and deaths. All births and deaths were to be reported to the county clerk by physicians. However, many were still not registered because the penalties for non-compliance were weak. In 1915 the state of Illinois gave the responsibility of recording births and deaths to local registrars who reported the information to the county clerk and the State Board of Health (now known as the Illinois Department of Public Health). By 1919 it is estimated that 95% of the population was recorded in the vital records.
The Cook County Clerk's Office issues certified copies of Cook County death certificates for events that occurred in Cook County, Illinois.
Why This Collection Was Created?
Deaths were recorded to better serve public health needs. They were used in connection with the probate of wills and the administration of estates.
Record Reliability
Information in these records is usually reliable but is upon reliability of the informant.
Related Web Sites
Genealogy Online: Historical Cook County, Vital Records
llinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900
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Sources of Information for This Collection:
"Illinois, Cook County Deaths 1878-1922," database, FamilySearch, 2010; from Illinois Department of Public Health. "Birth and Death Records, 1916 - present." Division of Vital Records, Springfield. FHL microfilm. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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It's National Soup Month!by Victoria Phillips in Healthy Recipes, January 22, 2012
Celebrate National Soup Month by staying warm (and healthy!) with Food Network chefs' best low-cal soups, from the latest issue of Food Network Magazine.
Guy's carrot, ginger and potato soup (pictured above) has less than 200 calories per serving. Top with low-fat Greek yogurt and pine nuts for a creamy-crunchy combination.
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The value of global carbon market transactions plunged 36 per cent last year as European Union permit prices fell and United Nations emission credits dropped to records, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
The market's value declined to 61 billion euros ($76 billion) from 95 billion euros in 2011, New Energy Finance said in an e-mailed statement. The value of UN offset trading decreased 64 per cent to 6 billion euros. Total trading volume jumped 26 per cent to 10.7 billion metric tons, equivalent to a third of the world's total carbon-dioxide emissions.
The market's worth will be 80 billion euros this year, assuming the EU has some success in fixing a glut of permit supply in the bloc and boosting prices, according to New Energy Finance. While the European Commission proposal to withhold supply may not be implemented this year, agreeing the plan will probably be enough to prompt a recovery in prices, according to Guy Turner, director of commodities at New Energy Finance.
"That will provide confidence in the market that's been lacking," he said today by telephone from London.
The commission in Brussels, the EU market's regulator, proposed in November to temporarily delay the sale of 900 million tons of carbon permits through 2015 in a process known as backloading. The supply would return later in the decade under the plan.
The backloading plan probably won't be agreed by EU nations because it will be seen as a regulatory intervention that reduces investor confidence in the market, Daniel Rossetto, managing director of Climate Mundial Ltd., a London-based consulting company that works in carbon markets, said today by e-mail. That will delay a price rebound, he said.
The value of transactions in the bloc's market dropped 24 per cent last year to 54 billion euros, according to New Energy Finance. Average global prices will jump about 15 per cent to 6.60 euros a ton this year, the researcher said.
A year ago, New Energy Finance predicted the value of the global carbon market would advance 9.8 per cent in 2012.
Global carbon trading volumes shrink
The value of global carbon market transactions plunged 36 per cent last year as European Union permit prices fell and United Nations emission credits dropped to records, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.


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Here in the Western world, Christmas time is the period of the year when we indulge in our modern mythology. When else can we believe that reindeer can fly, or that a fat man in a red suit can visit every home earth in 24 hours ... or even that he can somehow fit down a chimney flue?
At any age, you can believe in that magic of Christmas!
Similarly, this magical time of year enables our political leadership (on both sides of the aisle) to encourage all of us citizens to believe in the magic of fiscal cliff mythology. We are asked to suspend disbelief and ignore many basic tenets of economics. Here are a few of the myths that our leadership is trying, with the help of the media, to make us believe:
The tax impact will only be on the wealthy -- Neither side dare mention that both favor the expiration of the Obama payroll tax cut put in place two years ago. Withholding for social security and the like is set to rise to 6.2% from 4.2% starting Jan. 1. This tax increase hammers the middle and lower classes, since it only applies to wage income below $110,000. (Keep in mind that an increase to 6.2% from 4.2% s not a 2% increase, it is a 50% increase.) While they argue about whether to raise rates on the wealthy, they are in solid agreement to sock it to you now.
Spending cuts "cut" spending: Many average folk by now are figuring out that the spending cut fight is not about cuts, but rather about reducing the rate of growth. No matter what deal is put into place, federal spending next year will be higher than this year. As the Men's Wearhouse guy used to say, "I gah-rantee it." Furthermore, every scenario from both sides envisions growth of spending. If the cliff is actually implemented, the best spending would do is hold flat year over year. The fundamental argument of how big government should be is really being ignored by all involved, under the ruse of baseline budgeting.
GDP targets: In theory, comparing the size of the deficit and our total debt to our GDP makes sense, since the size of our economy defines what we can afford. In practice, we are comparing a very precise and hard number of what we borrow and owe, which can be calculated to the penny, against an estimate that has little hope of ever being calculated effectively. Economists like to believe they practice a hard science and that they can closely estimate economic variables, but the reality is the opposite. The margin of error on the size of our economy is quite large. Do any of you even know how the numbers are calculated? Via IRS data? Via surveys? No one really knows. Economists use plug factors to balance errors that go into the hundreds of billions of dollars. The point is, are we safe when the deficit is at 3% of GDP when we do not really know what GDP is?
The Fed is not monetizing debt: Ben "Arthur Burns" Burn-anke absolutely insists that the Fed is not monetizing the Federal debt. He insisted this again, while announcing that the Fed would buy Treasuries at the rate of around $45 billion per month. This amount is roughly half the projected deficit for 2013, after assuming some fiscal cliff relief is passed. For all the fiscal cliff negotiating pain, when all is done we will still be running massive trillion dollar deficits that are only sustainable by printing money. A rose by any other name. The inevitable result is inflation. Even more troubling, the members of our society least able to protect themselves from inflation are the working poor and middle class. All of us wealthy (or aspiring) Real Money readers can recognize inflation and benefit from our asset allocation. Currency debasement balances the budget on the backs of the unsophisticated and to do this while arguing you aren't, and putting on a sham negotiation about keeping middle class taxes low, is the height of exploitative cynicism.
While I would still like to believe in Santa Claus, I cannot even begin to believe that this humongous fiscal cliff conflagration is anything but cynical politics as usual. The amounts they are fighting over simply don't matter. The so-called solution -- debt monetization -- has already been put in place and even announced. Pundits may argue that you can create trillions in new money every year and not have it be inflationary because they are trapped in reserves at the Fed, but this ignores the fact that the new money flows not to banks but to the federal government, which then spends it. The fact that the stock market is up 15% this year in a punk economy should tell you something. Asset values are being distorted since inflation always shows up first in paper assets.
Whatever strategy you use to protect yourself, just be sure to protect yourself. The fiscal cliff contretemps is a diversion, don't get distracted by it. Focus on hard objective reality. Trillion dollar deficits require monetization, which always and everywhere leads to currency debasement. You are sure to find the consequences in your stocking next Christmas.


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EIGHT people have been charged with trafficking women for sexual exploitation and managing brothels following a police crackdown on organised crime.
Alex Breier, aged 41, Alexne Breier aged 42, Andrea Bakus aged 30 and Krisztian Breier aged 21, all of Wolfenden Street, Bolton, Erica Bogdan aged 40 and Csaba Androvics aged 25, both of Rawsthorne Avenue, Bolton and Katalyn Bogdan aged 38 and Zoltan Karpati aged 31, both of Crosston Street, Bolton were all charged yesterday.
They are due to appear at Bolton Crown Court on April 7.
The charges formed part of a five-day operation called Challenger which began on Monday with the aim of disrupting organised crime in Greater Manchester.


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Home » Art-Historic » SUN RA, EL SATURN and CHICAGO's AFRO-FUTURIST UNDERGROUND 1954-68 BOOK
SUN RA, EL SATURN and CHICAGO's AFRO-FUTURIST UNDERGROUND 1954-68 BOOK
A collection of contemporary materials concerned with the establishment of El Saturn records by Ra and Alton Abraham, and with the early days of the Arkestra in Chicago in the mid '50s. In a 24cm x 16cm 128 pp flat bound paperback on good paper stock, here are collected reminiscences, a lot of colour reproductions of (mostly unused) cover art - much of it by the very interesting Claude Dangerfield -, some by Ra himself; early Arkestra concert tickets, flyers and visiting cards; advertising, touting-for-work letters and flyers for Saturn Records, as well as sketches, ambitious plans for a multi-story Cosmic Research Centre, gig contracts, tracts and some contemporary photographs. Somebody's labour of love and a useful insight into a side of the rise of black consciousness seldom seen. POSTAGE. Add �2 Europe, �3 outside Europe. Sorry - weight.
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DETROIT - You often don't think of the words "free" and "taxes" in the same sentence. But thanks to folks like Marshall Hunt, you can.
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Arizona Business Magazine March/April 2012
The Healthcare Issue
Growing up as the older brother to one sister with mental disabilities and another who passed away far too early, I spent way too much time in hospitals when I would have rather been doing ANYTHING other than waiting for my sisters to see yet another doctor. What I did
accomplish, though, was gaining a tremendous amount of respect for the men and women who devote their lives to making our lives better.
So it's only natural that our healthcare issue, where Arizona Business Magazine honors the
recipients of our Healthcare Leadership Awards, is very dear to my heart. This year, a year in which our state turns 100 and the Maricopa Medical Society turns 120, it's only fitting that the Healthcare Leadership Awards bestows its first Lifetime Achievement Award.
Inside this issue, you can read about David Lincoln — whose family name is synonymous with healthcare and philanthropy in the Valley — and the exceptional men, women and institutions who earned Healthcare Leadership Awards. They lead an amazing field of extraordinary
and accomplished candidates.
The last place most of us want to be is at a hospital. But knowing there are exceptional professionals like our Healthcare Leadership Award winners eases the pain.
Michael Gossie, managing editor
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