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When we announced PCL-TOCS just a few weeks ago, we had no idea about the amazing level of interest that we would get from the community. After much deliberation, we realized that while we would like to accept more than half of the submissions, we would have to make a decision and select two for this first PCL code sprint. It is therefore our pleasure to announce the official start and the candidates that will be working on TOCS for the next 3 months:
- Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, working on surface reconstruction and point cloud smoothing. Alex was one of our best GSOC 2011 students (you can check some of his work at the GSOC blogging web site).
- Maurice Fallon and Hordur Johannsson, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, working on real-time global point cloud localization. You might have seen bits and pieces of their work already in a previous news entry.
We would like to thank all the other candidates for their excellent proposals! We already started following up with each of them individually, as this code sprint is just the beginning, and there's many more exciting sprints and events to come!
[Note: the new blogging page for TOCS will be up within the next few days at http://pointclouds.org/blog/tocs/.]


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Pass the files path to finfo(), can be unix path, dos path, relative or absolute. The file is converted into an absolute nix path, then checked to see if it is in-fact a regular/existing file. Then converted into an absolute windows path and sent to "wmic". Then magic, you have windows file details right in the terminal. Uses: cygwin, cygpath, sed, and awk. Needs Windows WMI "wmic.exe" to be operational. The output is corrected for easy...
finfo notepad.exe
finfo "C:\windows\system32\notepad.exe"
finfo /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/notepad.exe
finfo "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/notepad.exe"
finfo ../notepad.exe
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Using "wmic get * /value" within any Cygwin shell will return lots of Win/Dos newline junk ie "^M$" at the end of found value line, two lines ("$" Unix newline) above, and three below. This makes storing and or evaluating wmic queries as variables a pain. The method i suggest strips the mentioned junk, only returns the value after "OSArchitecture=", and includes only one Unix style newline. Other methods using sed|awk|cut can only handle the output of wmic cleanly when piped or using multiple sed statements.
wmic OS get OSArchitecture /value | sed 's/\r//g;s/^M$//;/^$/d;s/.*=//'
wmic OS get OSArchitecture /value | grep -Eo '[^=]*$'
a much cleaner and slightly less costly alternative.
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This is used during pentest to quickly poll all the processes running on a set of systems you have common credentials for the /FAILFAST:ON speeds up the scans. Show Sample Output
Get windows version with servicepack and hostname Show Sample Output
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Realllllly simple question -> if you create a class the constructor is called. Eventually (unless the program ran forever), when it quits (or similar) the deconstructor would have to be called, right?
The reason I asked is because I wrote a very simple DLL for use in a financial software package - it works perfectly, except for 1 problem - i can log (in an output file) anytime a class is created, but classes are never EVER deconstructed (i know because in the deconstructor i have it logging to an output file, and there's never any reference to the deconstructor).
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TETRIX Samantha Module
From ROBOTC API Guide
TETRIX → TETRIX Samantha Module
Gather the Required Information
| Before you can use your Samantha Module with ROBOTC, you must install the Windows drivers and set the device up for use.
Note: There are many different router configurations, and many different combinations of network type, encryption type, etc. We are using a commonly used network setup (with the router in between the computer and modem with standard encryption). Your particular setup may be different, and may require additional steps to set up properly.
|1. The first thing we will want to do is download and install FTC's Field Control Software package. This can be found on FIRST's site (usfirst.org).
|2. Next, we will need the SSID, encyption type, and password for the network we wish to connect to. For testing purposes, we named our router "SamoTest1" with an encryption type of WPA (TKIP).
|3. You will also need a 4GB or smaller USB flash drive, formatted to FAT32 file format. To format the flash drive, navigate to the Start menu, select Computer, right click on the flash drive's name, then click Format. In the drop down box, select 'FAT32' as the file format, and check the 'Quick Format' box (for a faster format).
|4. Navigate to the Start menu, All Programs, Samantha Field Control System, and start the program called "Samantha Network Config".
|5. Enter all the information for your network and click. Two message boxes will pop up, the first one informing you that the password you entered will be converted to an encrypted key and the second informing you that the config file has been saved to your flash drive.
|6. Close the program and navigate to your ROBOTC installation folder (default location of C:\Program Files(x86)\Robomatter Inc\ROBOTC Developement Environment). Navigate to the Firmware folder and copy the Samantha.hex file into your flash drive. You should also see a folder named "SMRTNTKY" on the flash drive; this is where the Network Config tool saved the config file for your network.
Flash the Samantha Module
|You must now update the Samantha Module's firmware and install the config file you created using the Network Config tool; otherwise the Samantha Module will not recognize your network.
|1. Unplug the USB flash drive from your computer and (making sure the battery is unplugged) plug it into the Samantha Module. Plug in the battery while holding down the red/black button on top of the module. Release the button approximately 3 seconds after the red light appears on the module.
|2. The Samantha Module will flash the red light twice in rapid succession and then flash the white repeatedly. You may also see the flash drive's LED flickering (if applicable). This means the Samantha Module is installing the firmware. When it's done, it will flash the red, white, and blue lights in sequence, then repeat the process. Be patient; this process normally takes 20-30 seconds and as long as 2-3 minutes. When it is done it should have a solid red light and a blinking white light (meaning it is connected to the network).
Installing and Updating the NXT
|1. Like all other Windows devices, the NXT requires a driver in order to work properly. This is normally installed with ROBOTC, but if for any reason it needs reinstalled you can find it here on ROBOTC's website.
|2. Next, download ROBOTC's firmware to the NXT. To do this, connect the NXT to the computer and turn it on. Navigate to the Robot menu in ROBOTC and make sure that 'LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT+TETRIX' is chosen as the Platform Type and that 'Physical Robot' is chosen as the Compiler Target. Then, click Download Firmware->Standard File to download the ROBOTC firmware to the NXT (this should take anywhere from 10 seconds up to a minute).
|3. Navigate to File->Open Sample Program->NXT->Samantha Module->samostat.c. Compile and download this program onto the NXT brick.
|4. Navigate to Robot->NXT Brick->Communication Link Setup and change the 'Search Selection' drop down menu to "USB, Bluetooth, or Wifi". This will enable ROBOTC to search your network for the NXT once it is connected. Click close to save the changes.
Connecting the NXT and Samantha Module
References and Troubleshooting
|Samantha LED Code Guide: Very useful if you have an unknown combination of LED lights.
|FTC Video Tutorial: Updating a Samantha Module Shows how to force the Samantha Module into boot mode and upload files from a flash drive. You can copy the samantha.hex firmware file from the location indicated in the video instead of the ROBOTC folder; they should be the same file.
|USFIRST's FTC Toolbox page: Has various tutorials, guides, and downloads including the Field Control System software package (which contains the Samantha Network Config utility).


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Study Shows Racial Differences in Doctors' Unspoken Language
Jan 18, 2012, 02:38 ET
COLUMBIA, S.C., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When communicating with white patients, black physicians may face greater challenges than their white counterparts, according to a University of South Carolina study.
Irena Stepanikova, an assistant sociology professor, found that nonverbal communication during medical visits is influenced by the race of the physician and the patient. The study, titled "Non-Verbal Communication Between Primary Care Physicians and Older Patients: How Does Race Matter?" is published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM).
"African American physicians face many professional challenges, including discrimination, bias from employers and colleagues and white patients who question their authority," said Stepanikova. "The conflicted pattern of communication evident in this study may reflect these experiences."
Working from videotaped medical visits from 1998 - 2000 from another study, Stepanikova analyzed nonverbal communication between primary care physicians and patients. She studied 30 primary care physicians and 209 patients, age 65 and older. While other studies have addressed the role of verbal communication and race in doctor-patient interaction, Stepanikova's study is the first to look at nonverbal communication and race in older patients.
Her findings are particularly relevant as society and the medical profession become increasingly diverse.
Black physicians outperformed their white colleagues by using more positive nonverbal communication in their interactions with patients in general, she said. She also found black physicians' communication with black patients was overwhelmingly positive, but that their communication with white patients yielded a mix of positive and negative nonverbal behaviors.
"Black physicians used high degrees of smile, touch and open body position with black patients," Stepanikova said. "With white patients
they had a high use of smile and gaze, but a low use of open body position. This conflicted pattern of communication may suggest a lack of social ease that is reminiscent of behavior between female doctors with male patients."
To conduct her study, Stepanikova , with the help of seven graduate students, digitized the videotapes, which were recorded in three
different clinical settings in the Southeast and Midwest, and coded the nonverbal behaviors.
When coding nonverbal behaviors, she looked for specific positive cues, including open body position, eye contact, smile and touch. She said these cues convey involvement, availability, attention, warmth, encouragement, respect, understanding, empathy and affiliation, which she calls the building blocks of physician-patient relationships.
She said the findings underscore the need for further investigation by researchers to determine the impact that nonverbal communication,whether positive or negative, may have on the delivery of patient care and patient health outcomes.
This study, conducted in 2007 - 2011 and funded internally by the university, builds on Stepanikova's research on racial disparities in physician patient communication and in their delivery of health care, which have appeared in numerous sociology and health care journals. This is the first time she specifically has looked at nonverbal behavior of physicians.
"I find nonverbal behavior especially interesting in the context of studies of race since it operates to a large degree non-consciously, and therefore it often reveals feelings and attitudes that people cannot or do not want to express in words," she said. "Because of the sensitive nature of racial attitudes, people may not feel free to fully disclose them verbally but may still reveal them in nonverbal communication."
The study was co-written by Qian Zhang, USC department of sociology, and Darryl Wieland, Paul Eleazer and Thomas Stewart, division of geriatrics, USC School of Medicine. It is available on the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) website (www.springerlink.com/content/d84k724x813755g1/). JGIM is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise. For more information, visit http://newswise.com.
SOURCE University of South Carolina


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Calculated Metabolizable energy 3520 kcal/kg
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Atlantic white fish, ground brown rice, ground whole barley, fish meal, ground oats, canola oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols and rosemary extract), ground whole flaxseed, inulin, yucca schidigera extract, sweet potato, salt, monosodium phosphate, potassium chloride, garlic, taurine, vitamin E supplement, choline chloride, beta-carotene, chondroitin sulphate (shark), glucosamine hydrochloride (shellfish), spinach, dried kelp, broccoli, apples, blueberries, pears, bananas, vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, vitamin B12 supplement, ferrous sulphate, zinc oxide, niacin supplement, calcium pantothenate, copper sulphate, manganous oxide, riboflavin supplement, thiamine mononitrate, calcium iodate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, sodium selenite, natural flavor. (This product may contain trace amounts of peanuts.)
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Crude protein Min. 22.0%
Crude fat Min. 12.0%
Crude fiber Max. 3.5%
Moisture Max. 10.0%
Calcium Min. 2.2%
Phosphorus Min. 1.14%
Potassium Min. 1.08%
Sodium Min. 0.5%
Omega-6 Min. 3.25%
Omega-3 Min. 0.75%
Glucosamine Min. 450 mg/kg
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First and fourth ingredients are named meat products
Insufficient meat content
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product. This is not a meal, but rather inclusive of water content. Once that is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh only around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus questionable that this is the true first ingredient in the food (ingredients are listed in order of weight) and might be more accurately placed much further down the ingredient list. There is a further meat (fish) ingredient fourth on the ingredient list, which is in meal form and is likely to in fact be the major meat ingredient in the food. This is a fish meal, but we find no sign of a guarantee on packaging or the manufacturer website that this ingredient has been purchased free of ethoxyquin (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to ocean fish products destined for meal, but that is banned or heavily regulated in human food products due to the belief that it is carcinogenic).
The second & third ingredients (probably the true first & second ingredients) are grains. rice and barley are good quality grains, but nonetheless grains, and should not be the primary ingredient in a food designed for canines. The remaining major grain ingredients is oats which is also decent quality, but adds further to the grain content of the food. Fat content is provided by oil rather than animal fat, which is generally a good thing but not all commentators agree that canola is good quality.
The food contains fruits and vegetables in very small amounts (less than the amount of salt or vit E supplement, for example).
Overall, this product appears to use generally good quality ingredients, but we are not convinced that the meat content is adequate. Users might consider supplementing this diet with real meat.
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Saving space by installing the microwave over the range has been standard kitchen protocol for years. But that practice is on its way out. As home buyers begin to favor universal design principles, keeping necessities accessible for the entire family becomes ever more important. Consider moving the microwave to under-the-counter nooks and drawers instead.
Related: Spreading Out—14 Ways to Get More Counter Space
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Little Azio (Smyrna)
Traditional Italian food might often be equated with heavy-duty dishes (and empty wallets), but Little Azio's menu has plenty of lighter options for the warmer months."Let's go out for Italian!" All too often, these five seemingly innocuous words result in an evening spent shelling out for pricy pastas and snooty service (not to mention the very high possibility of slipping into a serious carb-coma shortly thereafter). Which is precisely why we're smitten with Little Azio and their family of casual eateries, where one can nosh on crispy margherita slices or homemade bolognese in a cheery, neighborhood atmosphere. Here, "fresh" takes precedence over "fancy"—and simply going out for a nice meal doesn't have to be such an ordeal.
In this bustling kitchen, nothing ever feels too fussy or fancypants—just tasty Italian fare made from scratch and served up in a jiffy. But just because Little Azio doesn't have starched white tablecloths or a resident accordionist doesn't mean they're just sticking with cheese slices and spaghetti bowls. In addition to crowd-pleasers like fettucini alfredo and pepperoni pizza, the kitchen also whips up some rather creative concoctions one certainly won't find in just any old fast-casual Italian joint, from a shrimp and four-cheese pizza to a vibrant, wholesome fall salad packed with oranges, dried cranberries and gorgonzola. And, thanks to a chef who's been at the wheel since the day they opened their doors back in '05, the dishes coming out of this Little Azio's kitchen aren't just simple, fresh and tasty: they're also consistent. That creamy pomodoro alfredo you're ogling? Go ahead and order it next time; it'll taste just as delicious. (Because, let's be honest: once you take a bite, there will be a next time. Probably tomorrow.)
Menu Highlights:
Insalata Tricolore, $7.95
Caprese Salad, $7.50
Margarita Pizza, $7.95
Napoletana Pizza, $9.50
Turkey Ragu, $8.50
Cannoli, $2.95
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text: In case you're looking for some Fashion Week eye candy that's not another pair of stilettos, may we offer you a peek at Ford model Patrick Clark? Spotted at yesterday's Billy Reid presentation, the ruggedly handsome former investment banker puts another nail in the coffin of the waifish Eastern European stereotype. Billy Reid's collection may have been inspired by Louisiana, but Patrick's Midwestern good looks (he was discovered shopping at Nordstrom outside his hometown of Glenwood, Illinois) complement the Southern sensibility just fine. Designers, take note: To paraphrase a favorite commercial, this is the man we want our man to dress like.


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Two Little Words
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
I find it odd that two little words changed my life forever. Oh there were more words spoken at that meeting, but none as powerful as those words consisting of just 15 letters. They were about to impact my life in ways I could have never imagined.
As I sat in the doctor's waiting room I surveyed the photographs she had chosen for her walls. They were black and white photographs of people of all ages. Some were happy, some were not. Some were on the beach and some lying in the grass. If you've ever watched the Sopranos you know what I'm about to say. Just as Tony did, I looked at each picture carefully trying to find the hidden meaning the psychiatrist was trying to convey with each choice. Were there hidden meanings, or was I just being paranoid from sitting in this office?
I flipped through magazines while wondering whether to stay or to run. I knew that this meeting could provide me with life changing information and I wasn't sure I was ready to deal with it. On the other hand I was curious. Was I my own enemy? Did I have an enemy? Did it have a name?
My life has been anything but calm. From my early days I remember the turmoil as it sometimes surrounded me, pulling into its depths. At the time I wondered why these tumultuous times wouldn't release their grips on me, now I wonder if I was I that couldn't release my grip on them. It's strangely funny how introspective I became waiting for the verdict.
In my primary care doctor's office, I chat with the staff, look at magazines, play Sudoku on my iPhone and look forward to seeing the doctor that we have become friends with. This time was different. I was nervous. I was a little bit afraid and I was certain. I was certain of the verdict she would issue and it would be a life sentence.
Within minutes, that seemed like hours, the door opened and the doctor appeared. She was about my age, 45 or so, attractive, tall and thin. Her blonde hair fell to her shoulders and flipped up slightly on the ends. She was casually dressed in black pants and a red long sleeve shirt. She didn't wear much makeup, but she didn't need it, her big blue eyes captured my attention at once as I'm sure they did with everyone that saw her. She most definitely didn't fit my stereotypical image of a psychiatrist.
Her voice was soft and calm as she called me into her office and introduced herself. Her name was Linda and she had been referred by my regular therapist, another Linda. Her office was done in neutral colors, but stylish with its classic furniture. Though not small, it was cozy and comfortable. There was no couch, no butterfly net and no straight jackets. There were shelves filled with books, kids' toys and boxes of tissues.
I looked at the chairs trying to decide which one to choose and if that might mean anything in the evaluation. I mean, if chose the chair on the left am I psychotic, if I chose the chair on the right was I a hypochondriac? I decided to choose paranoid and took the chair in the middle.
I sat down scrutinizing my posture. How were my hands? Was I sending off uncooperative body language, or was I too eager for a diagnosis, making it invalid? I thought I'd better calm down before she called in the men with the nets, who I was sure were in the other room. I could feel anxiety-induced beads of sweat forming at my hairline. They were beginning to drip down my neck and to the small of my back. I needed to calm down before I sealed my own fate, a fate worse than death, the fate of being admitted to the Adventist "Behavioral Center" otherwise known as the Cuckoo's Nest.
She began with asking me the usual questions about childhood, parents, siblings and then the more difficult ones regarding present experiences and traumas. The entire meeting took almost three hours. As she spoke, I became much more comfortable with her. I calmed considerably and stopped looking for hidden syringes and various other torture devices.
She focused on my shopping, my forgetfulness, irritability, depression and mood related issues over all. In the third hour of the evaluation she turned at her waist, put her notepad down on her walnut desk. She then turned back toward me, leaned forward, folded her hands and uttered the life changing words: Bipolar Disorder. I believe her exact words were "I feel comfortable with the diagnosis of bipolar disorder II."
Well I'm glad someone's comfortable, but it certainly wasn't me. I was thinking of that nice big check I had just written her and thinking "No, shit you're comfortable!"
Bipolar Disorder II, not the classic disorder everyone associates with manic-depression. There are no delusions, no psychotic behavior, none of the serious things usually associated with the condition. But there is shopping, irritability, severe depression, mood swings and all that shit. Wow, I'm feeling more comfortable every second.
However the more I think about it, the more I agree with the diagnosis. When you know your enemy, you can fight them offensively. I like that my enemy has a name and it's not Diva. It's going to be a challenge, but really I'm the same person I've always been, just now I know why things get so skewed sometimes and why my moods can fall so quickly. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I am the same person, I'll keep the good and work on the bad. And now you'll know when I disappear for awhile or am quiet, it's not you, it's me and I will be ok. Yeah, I think I'm getting more comfortable every day.


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Enable Small Businesses to Bid on Larger Contracts and Grow
A major revision in the U.S. Small Business Administration's Surety Bond Guarantee (SBG) Program more than triples the eligible contract amount, from $2 million to $6.5 million, the Agency will guarantee on surety bonds for both public and private contracts.
What does this mean for small businesses trying to grow?
A Los Angeles subcontractor for example, was looking to take on bigger jobs and grow its business, but needed a much larger bond to bid on and get a contract that was larger than past work it had performed.
As a direct result of higher SBA guaranteed bond limits, companies like that California contractor can now experience continued growth in bonding capacity, employ more employees and improve revenue streams. And with that kind of growth and resulting experience on bigger jobs, such companies can bid on more federal construction contracts, build an even stronger management team, and set strategic plans for bigger contracts and expansion into larger markets.
Contractors purchase surety bonds to guarantee that they will complete contracts. If the contractor fails to complete the contracted work, the surety bond is used to pay for completion. The SBA offers a guarantee of up to 90% on three types of surety bonds: bid bonds, which ensure that if a bidder wins a procurement competition the bidder will sign the contract; performance bonds, which ensure the contractor will complete the work as contracted; and payment bonds, which ensure that the contractor will pay its supplier and subcontractors.
These increases in bond capacity result from provisions in the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act and are expected to bolster participation by surety bond agents and brokers and their surety companies in SBA's SBG Program.
The changes also allow SBA to guarantee bonds for government contracts valued at up to $10 million if a contracting officer of a federal agency certifies that the guarantee is necessary for the small business to obtain bonding, and it is in the best interests of the government.
SBA partners with the surety industry to help small businesses that would otherwise be unable to obtain bonding in the traditional commercial marketplace; and now, with the increased capacity, that public/private cooperation helps these small businesses grow as well.
If your small business needs SBA assistance in locating a participating surety company or agent, and completing application forms, simply go online to http://www.sba.gov/osg/, or call 1-800-U-ASK-SBA.
Frank J. Lalumiere is Director of the Surety Bond Guarantee Program for the U.S. Small Business Administration
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We are an IT consultancy focusing our attention on building smart add-ons for a couple of Microsoft's products.
We create and sell products and will require these to be branded with logos/icons for the new corporate design we're launching.
We target most markets where the IT-departments are mainly the purchasers of our products.
The end-users/audience can be anyone from an accountant to the most techy developer wizard.
We need these icons to be in our new corporate colors
(Please see the attached PDF for a Branding guide with color codes and the attached logo to be able to match the aestethics).
We will need products for the following titles:
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An icon for a product that handles and manages surveys
We're generally looking for some new ideas for product icons to make them stand out a bit more and look professional. We've got a line of about 10 products to be launched rather soon - so these are a start.
We require them to be delivered in PSD format (Photoshop CS5)
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Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit
Despite popularity, Wikimedia Foundation ties its value to education, not advertising
Google has its Googleplex, Craigslist has a Victorian flat, and the seventh-most-popular Web site in the world has this: a 3,000-square-foot nondescript loft situated in San Francisco's South Park below Interstate 80.
In many ways, the rented office befits the Wikimedia Foundation, the 5-year-old nonprofit group that runs Wikipedia, and an organization rich in dichotomies.
Until its headquarters were moved to San Francisco in January, the foundation worked in obscurity in St. Petersburg, Fla., while its crown jewel, Wikipedia, the "encyclopedia anyone can edit," flourished. The English-language version of the encyclopedia boasts about 300 million page views a day, making it so popular that if the site were to seek advertising, it would attract record profit.
Analysts have pegged Wikipedia's value between several hundred million dollars and $7 billion, the latter by Silicon Alley Insider, a technology blog known for its list of the World's Most Valuable Digital Startups. But its keepers have thus far refused to sell ad space. They are adamant that the encyclopedia's value is tied up not in potential advertising revenue but in something much loftier - its ability to positively affect the news industry, educational publishing and the nature of open-source knowledge creation and dissemination.
"When we got (to San Francisco), I was totally surprised by the misconceptions that people had about Wikimedia," said Sue Gardner, Wikimedia's recently appointed executive director. "It's a charity. Nobody is making any money from the organization. Nobody has made any money, and nobody will ever get rich from it because we're never going to sell it. We're not open for business; we're not looking for investment."
Before joining Wikimedia, Gardner, 41, was senior director of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s news Web site, where she supervised the implementation of blogs, podcasts and advertisements.
'Now we are competent'
Gardner said she selected San Francisco as the place to further the mission of Wikipedia - and its lesser known sister sites Wikiquote, an online quote depository; Wiktionary, a multilingual dictionary; Wikiversity, a project to create educational materials; and Wikinews, a news site - for its tech talent, not its IPO wizards and venture capitalists. Hired in July 2007 as a management consultant and named executive director in December, she was brought in to restructure and expand an organization that had just nine employees but millions of readers and contributors.
"I remember saying in November, before coming to San Francisco, that we were as unsophisticated as possible," Gardner said on a recent afternoon at the foundation's headquarters. "Now we are competent. We have a basic idea of what we are doing and a team coming together to get things done."
In the past nine months, Wikimedia's core staff has grown to 21 and includes six programmers, an in-house general counsel, heads of communications, accounting and business development, and three fundraisers to meet its projected budget of $2.9 million for 2007-08.
So far, so good. Gardner and her team have secured an average of $35 from about 45,000 online contributors for a total of $1.5 million through a Web-based pledge drive, along with an annual donation of $1 million for the next three years from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Other donors include Vinod and Neeru Khosla, Sun Microsystems' founding chief executive officer and his wife, who gave $500,000, and the Stanton Foundation, which gave $262,000.
Gardner also has instituted a code of conduct for employees of the foundation, outlined a travel and reimbursement policy - Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales was accused this spring of improperly handling foundation funds, though he and the foundation categorically denied the claims - and introduced criminal background checks for prospective employees. The foundation made headlines last year after news broke that Carolyn Bothwell Doran, its former chief operating officer, was convicted of theft, drunken driving and fleeing the scene of an automobile accident before she was hired.
"Sue Gardner has really been key in professionalizing the Wikimedia Foundation," Wales told The Chronicle. "Before Sue, we operated as a community club. Now we operate as a community club with sound management."
Open-source strategies
Though she finds herself at the top of one of the world's most popular Web sites and thus the de facto leader of a huge community, the 17-year journalist remains keenly interested in newsgathering.
"Everybody is grappling with what to do about the decline in the newspaper industry," she said. "When I was in the conventional media, we all spent a lot of time wondering what we were doing wrong. I don't see it that way at all. There's amazing journalism going on at newspapers and at NPR. To me, it's a market shakeout or a market correction."
Because Wikipedia in all of its 200 languages is open source - meaning the sites rely on the skills of hundreds of computer programmers to improve the free, adaptable software and about 100,000 content providers to edit the 2.5 million articles - the foundation is committed to giving back to its contributors. Gardner envisions a community-administered grant process to bolster the depth and quality of the encyclopedia and news entries and to enable the foundation to pay volunteers for projects ranging from community outreach, such as group lectures and tutoring, to investigative reporting. But such plans, she said, are still rough.
Wikipedia articles are sometimes known to the non-tech public as the Internet incarnation of the wisdom of crowds. But the editing system, made up of about 7.6 million registered users and countless more who are unregistered, has become quite structured.
Contributors range from volunteer editors, who create and proofread articles, to elected administrators with the power to block users, lock articles (mostly because of tampering or disagreement within the community) and cancel entries altogether. To help smooth the process and ensure quality, the foundation is exploring a feature on the English-language Wikipedia called "flagged revisions," which allows trusted editors to affix quality labels to articles that are true and vandalism free.
Ed Chi of the Palo Alto Research Center is the creator of WikiDashboard, a social dynamic analysis tool created independently of the foundation that allows readers to analyze all of the edits made by their peers. In October, Chi discovered a huge drop-off in the number of edits, to the point that 1 percent of editors were editing 50 percent of the content. While Wikipedia remains strong in page views and overall ranking, Chi said the waning interest among editors does not bode well for the site or community.
"The edits have leveled off and remained steady," Chi said. "We don't yet know a reason for the decline, but we suspect it is due not to the wisdom of crowds but to the increased level of conflict among community members. Often it is not the one with the right answer who has their say, but the one who sticks around the longest and is best able to argue his case."
Seeking a new model
For the immediate future, Gardner is focused on three goals: increasing participation; improving quality; and making much of Wikipedia's content available in the form of DVDs, and a new portable data file feature that will allow users to compile articles as a single file, export them as a PDF, and send them to a printer. Wikipedia also plans to offer video-editing capabilities, so that users can combine sound and image.
Like most tech organizations, Wikipedia now faces competition from Google, which in July launched Knol, a compilation of user-written articles. But unlike Wikipedia, the articles on Knol include bylines and must be written by experts. MediaWiki, offered by Wikimedia as free, open-source software, also powers Citizendium, an online encyclopedia spearheaded by former Wikipedian Larry Sanger.
"I don't see any competition, direct or indirect, that will significantly change Wikipedia," said John Broughton, a registered editor of the site and the author of "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual." Broughton said he believes the foundation must continue to expand Wikipedia beyond its core of smart, geeky and mostly male contributors to become a fully representative, mainstream encyclopedia.
To address this, Wikipedia has arranged for a survey of its editors.
"I think our next challenge is figuring out how to really support and facilitate their work," said Gardner, referring to the projects' contributors. "The bills are getting paid, the servers are running, there's stationery, people have business cards. This is a really new model, something the world has never seen. It deserves new approaches."
Wikipedia by the numbers
Wikipedia constantly updates these statistics, for the encyclopedia's English-language version. For the latest figures, go to www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics.
total articles
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average number of edits per page (since July 2002)
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"Merciful God, merciful God, powerful God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth. Preserver of kindness for thousands of generations, forgiver of iniquity, willful sin and error, and Who cleanses." — Exodus 34:6-7
Rabbi Shimon taught: There are three crowns: The crown of Torah, the crown of Priesthood, and the crown of Royalty. The crown of a good name surpasses them all." — Avot 4:17
Shammai taught: "Say little and do much." — Avot 1:15 Rabbi Natan said, "What does this mean? It teaches that the righteous say little and do much, whereas the wicked say much and do not even a little." — Avot 13:3
"Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give." —Proverbs 25:14
Nittai, of Arbel, taught: "Keep far from an evil neighbor, be not a partner with an evil person..." — Avot 1:7
"The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be—and when they're not, we cry." — Jewish proverb
"Trust, but verify." — Russian proverb
"It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?" — C.S. Lewis
"The wild things of this earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generation which will come after us and audit our accounts." — William T. Hornaday
"Trust is the feeling that makes one man believe in another." — Henry Louis Menchen
"Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." --Devarim 6:4-9
"And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life." — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
"Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart." — Patanjali
"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested." — Tom Kite
"By practicing concentration the mind can be made stable. A stable mind helps in taking right decisions and achieving the desired result." — Rig Veda
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.' "— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." — E. Joseph Cossman
"All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas, layin' in the sun talkin' 'bout the things they Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done… But all those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas all ran away and hid from One Little Did." — Shel Silverstein
Rav Yisrael Salanter zt"l was once invited by one of his talmidim (disciples) to the Friday night Shabbat meal. He told his talmid that he does not eat out without first knowing how the meal is going to be run.
"All of Israel is responsible for one another." —Shavuot 39a
Rabbi Eliezer says: "Let other peoples dignity be as precious to you as
your own." —Pirkei Avot 2:15
Rabbi Akiva would say, "Human beings are beloved because they were created in the image of God. It is an even greater love that this was made know to humanity, as it says, 'and in the image of God were people created.'" -Pirkei Avot 3:14
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" — Rumi
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." — Albert Einstein
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." — Leo Tolstoy
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." — Andy Rooney
"Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others." — Susan Sontag
"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." — Charles Chaplin
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." — John Wooden
"Who is rich? He who is happy with what he has." -- Avot 4:1, Ben Zoma
"Happy are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." --Matthew 5:8
"As the wallet grows, so do the needs." — Yiddish proverb
"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.'" --Hebrews 13:5
"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one
garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for..." "They don't find it," I answered. "And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." — Albert Einstein
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." — Lou Holtz
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." — Leonardo da Vinci
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." — Leo Tolstoy
"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires." — Lao Tzu
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." — Kahlil Gibran
Use these questions to evaluate your day:
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"Give, and it will be given to you; they will return to your lap a beautiful measure pressed, crammed full and overflowing. For with the measure that you use to measure, it will be measured to you."-- Mashiach Yeshua, Luke 6:38, DHE
Hillel stated: "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah. The rest is the explanation; go and learn."
"Therefore, a man should take care to be generous according to his means, to be magnanimous where magnanimity is called for…weighing all in the scales of Torah." -- The Ways of the Tzaddikim, The Gate of Miserliness, page 323
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar, it comes to see that
an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness." — Mother Theresa
"Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."
— Frederick Buechner
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." — Morrie Schwartz
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." — Dalai Lama XIV
"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty." — Albert Einstein


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YOU should try typing a keyword in the search engine Novie Amelia now. In a split second, comes news and images about it. Yes, in the virtual world very popular figure and imaged as The Hottest Bikini Models. Pose the most challenging and teasing is taken from your favorite magazines this documentation.
Now POPULAR serve and perpetuate the portrait of a sweet-faced woman tergress origin of this North Sumatra with a two piece lingerie plus chasing his new body that has been prepared just for you.
Welcome home Novi, was the second time, so the cover after the year 2005?
August 2005 moments that I will not forget, it was the first time I wear a bikini photo and the first time in an adult men's magazines. POPULAR gratitude for all who helped my career in the entertainment world.
Looks like a lot of changes, is it not?
Yeah, I was still chubby, a little plump. Dada I was also greater than now, he .. he .. he .. But I feel more sexy with a tight body like this. Thanks sit ups every morning.
They say you have time to vacuum from the world of photo model?
Yes, since two years ago, so I miss being photographed. Only now I could bring myself again for the photos.
If I may know what the reason?
At that time I was angry when I paired the photo section, but now I try to struggle, if indeed he love me, you should thank me as I am. Albumku also broken in the middle of the road because of courtship.
Oooh yes, tell dong about the album!
In 2008 I was offered the management to make a pop album Dangdut, by chance I also like to Dangdut, so I accept. Her album titled 'Rump Semok'. NSP, video clips, tv and radio campaigns all have lived, but not the spirit in the middle of the road for dating, hi .. hi .. hi ..
Oh yeah? Too bad ..
At that time I did not focus on so mind branched. Honestly, when I was less confident, because I never knew vocal technique. After that the management team to bring the three teachers assigned to teach singing for me. After all that time I was a child, not to think so singer truth.
Since when has love dangdut music?
Since childhood I often heard dangdut music, so it's fusion. Dangdut's cool for me.
This music's got a lot of twisted complained difficult by the singer, if you?
Incidentally if you can not sing pop, but if instead I could cengkoknya dangdut.
Jago twisted, rocking rooster dangdut too?
It has no talent, so just follow the music groove. But it fits the process of this album, I taught dance teacher for three months. Enak's finally become flexible.
Dangdut dancing often not for the spouse?
Boyfriend does not ever told, but I did it in front of her coquettish. Up and go to bed and dancing-dancing.
Continue what his comments?
No comments, may make a horny time yes, he .. he .. he ..
If given the chance the concert, which wants to perform?
I definitely want to pound the field, my hometown.
How many men with a statement that said the model only unsightly, but not fun when in bed?
No ah, depending on the opponent to play dong. If aggressive must be served. Or maybe the face of a mediocre man.
If you like what type?
Fishing really deh. I'm wild, romantic type. So if you want to play should be in-treat first, kissing, talking and jamming wine.
The sensation was like what?
More aggressive in any position, meaning better. Hard, can not dijelasin with words.
Examples of what?
Hmmm, do not ever have to nge's wine. I never again fight at that time, my boyfriend continued to chase and pulled me out of the car. I was brought into the room, all lights dimatiin, I just stayed in bed. She immediately opened her clothes, turn off the lights, turn on the flashlight and mobile phone. After that knows dong, not really forgotten, even without wine.
Besides wine, what could make you turn on?
I like men who smell and fragrant, let alone the smell I like, instantly makes skin crawl.
Never a one night stand when I meet an interesting man scent?
That's the humane thing, can directly ripple, but never have. If the boyfriend does not own anything.


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Designed primarily for military use, these LightSpeed binoculars are capable of transmitting "untappable" voice and video signals to another set of binoculars using infrared.
The LightSpeed system exploits free-space optics—the ability to pass data between two points via an optical beam. The method usually involves lasers, but this system uses eye-safe infrared LEDs, similar to those used in TV remotes, says Leo Volfson, president of Torrey Pines Logic, which created LightSpeed. "The binocular has an attachment that fits over the ocular side," Volfson says. "It produces a beam that comes out of the right eye of the binocular. On the left side is a receiver. If you look at me and I look at you, we'll be able to talk or send information." Range is determined by the strength of the optics. Unlike radio-wave transmissions, data transfer through the LED beam is undetectable.
There is no word on how much these things might cost, but the Volfson believes that his product has potential outside of the defense industry. That's right—bird watcher's worlds are about to get rocked by technology. [Popular Mechanics]


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First Baptist Church has been bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Richmond, Virginia, for more than 20 years through its Divorce Recovery Workshop. As I have said on more than one occasion, "It's one of the best things we do."
Take five minutes (and fifteen seconds) and watch this video, produced by Allen Cumbia and featuring some of our most committed and faithful DRW volunteers, Lynn and Andy Hamilton.
I think you'll catch a glimpse of heaven on earth.


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On Tuesday, Ray told us the BMW X6 M defies its weight and size by performing like the last generation M3. Just in case you didn't believe him, here's video proof.
Note the near complete absence of brake dive, bodyroll, acceleration squat or drama as the 5,247 Lbs truck puts down 555 HP and 501 Lb-Ft of torque. That's thanks to the Adaptive Drive with active anti-roll stabilization, anti-dive and anti-squat.


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Latest news of births, marriages and deaths in the Peerage,Baronetage and landed gentry families.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Louis Hugh Lupus van Cutsem
.The Lady Tamara Katherine van Cutsem (nee Grosvenor, b 20 Dec 1979), scion of the Dukes of Westminster and wife since 2004 of Edward Bernard Charles van Cutsem (b 6 June, 1973), gave birth to a second son, Louis Hugh Lupus, 17 April, 2012, a brother for Jake Louis Hannibal, who was b 21 May, 2009. Lady Tamara is the eldest child of the 6th Duke of Westminster (b 22 Dec 1951), by his wife the former Natalia Ayesha Phillips (b 8 May, 1959).
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When I reviewed BBC's Sherlock last year, I noted that CBS was planning its own rip-off version of the Sherlock Holmes character, seemingly to ride on the success of the BBC version. After watching the first season of Elementary, which concluded with a two hour season finale last week, I'm glad I waited to do a review of the show, since my conclusions now are vastly different from the ones that I would have drawn when the show was just a few episodes into its freshman season.
The set up of the show is that Sherlock Holmes lives in New York City (yes he's still British), while recovering from a stint in rehab after crashing from a serious heroin addiction problem. Dr Joan Watson is hired by Holmes's off screen aloof and distant father to be his sober companion, to assist in Holmes's recovery. As part of her job she moves in with Holmes and follows him around to make sure he doesn't relapse. From that starting point, Holmes resumes his relationship with the NYPD as "consulting detective;" similar to the position he held in London with Scotland Yard.
After watching the first couple of episodes, my feelings toward the show was that it was a well crafted TV show, well done in the sense that CBS has long experience with putting together solid television programming, with solid leads in the roles, but that it wasn't Sherlock Holmes. Although the Holmes stories are the template of the eccentric detective and side kick, which have proliferated on television since the beginning of the TV era, those shows were not Sherlock Holmes stories. Psych is a good solid show with witty wordplay and a humorous bent about an eccentric genius detective and his down to earth side kick that helps keep him grounded. Monk was a good solid show with light fun stories about an eccentric detective and a down to earth side kick… well, you get the idea. It's a common TV template that's been replicated over and over for years; with various degrees of success.
That was my initial conclusion. Elementary was a good solid show, but there was no need for the characters to be named Holmes and Watson. They could have any names and it wouldn't have mattered to the show.
Until it mattered.
The last half of the season very slowly began to explore the reasons for Holmes's spiraling drug abuse, the murder of his one true love, Irene Adler, and Holmes inability to solve her murder. In the episode, "M" Holmes confronts murders done in almost identical matter to the one that killed Irene Adler and revealing whom may be ultimately responsible, Moriarty. From this point, the shows seem a bit less stand alone adventures and more interlinked stories that eventually form a story arc leading to a fantastic and fulfilling season finale. All of the pieces finally fit.
So that's why I'm glad I waited to review the show. It turned out to be much more than I initially thought, and even if CBS is trying to ride the coattails of Sherlock, since it leads to a quality show that deserves to be Holmes in its own right, who cares?


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The Holiday Helping Hands program, which was started more than 20 years ago by the Oakdale Business and Professional Association (OBPA), now serves more than 80 North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District 622 families each year.
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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
Many readers don't need statistics to know that bike theft is a big problem in cities, but the numbers do testify to the anecdotes. Streetsblog recently reported that bike theft is up 25 percent in New York. Transportation Alternatives has estimated that upwards of a million bikes get lifted annually (most aren't reported). The F.B.I. values stolen bicycles and their parts at $350 million a year. That's a lot of handlebar bells.
A couple weeks ago Rohin Dhar of the Priceonomics blog wondered just what happens to all these stolen bikes. After consulting news reports and talking with bike shop owners, Dhar concluded that, broadly speaking, there are two types of bike thieves. Many are amateurs who turn them quickly on the street for dimes and nickels on the dollar. Some are professionals who target better bikes, wield effective lock-breaking tools, and resell the goods near market price — often online in other cities.
The big problem, writes Dhar, is that bike thieves essentially get a free pass. (Unless you stole this guy's bike.) Whether you're just trying to make a few bucks on the street, or piling dozens of bikes into a van to drive hundreds of miles to sell them, there's little chance you'll get caught in the act. You can even try to get caught stealing your own bike in front of a police station and not get caught. "For all practical purposes, stealing a bike is risk-free crime," he writes.
A major reason there's no risk is that most city police don't have much incentive to chase bike thieves. Earlier this year Patrick Symmes wrote about his obsession with the world of stolen bikes in Outside magazine. He concluded that the only cops who help riders track down stolen bikes are those who are riders themselves. Symmes says the N.Y.P.D. actually discouraged him from reporting one theft — likely because they wanted to keep their crime figures low:
… [P]olice departments are reluctant to pull officers from robberies or murder investigations to hunt bike thieves. Even when they do, DAs rarely prosecute the thieves the police bring in.
"It's just a low priority, to be honest with you," says Sergeant Joe McCloskey, a bike-theft specialist with the San Francisco police department who estimates that, of the scores of bicycle thieves he has caught, not one did jail time for the crime.
Even when police do care, there's often not much they can do. A recent Department of Justice report on bike theft [PDF] offers two main reasons why. First, identifying suspects is tough because there's usually no relationship between victim and perpetrator. Second, proof of ownership is often lacking, which means that even if you report your stolen bike to the police, and even if the police recover it, and even if they find the person who stole it, the suspect will be released if you didn't register the bike or keep your receipt.
Another reason theft is so prevalent is that locks haven't kept pace with the times. The ones that do work can be so expensive or so heavy that they actually deter people from riding in the first place. GPS trackers can locate a stolen bike, but do nothing to stop thieves who only want to strip its parts. (According to one study from the early 1990s, in about 1 in 5 bike thefts, only the lock and locked part of the bike remained at a crime scene.) You might even argue the most indestructible lock on the market today is the folding bike you take with you.
That's not to say the situation can't improve. The D.O.J. recommends that city police departments do a better job educating the public about safer locks (and, as importantly, locking methods). Cities can help themselves by installing more bike racks and choosing safer rack designs — or at least expanding surveillance. Meanwhile owners can help themselves by registering their bikes and, if possible, applying electronic tags.
But it's also not a bad idea to remember that it takes two to tandem. Many bike thieves bank on the fact that they can sell a stolen bike to someone who knows — or at least strongly suspects — that the bike is stolen. Certainly the thief deserves more of the legal fault here, but a recent study suggests we may go a bit too easy on those who knowingly receive stolen property.
A few years ago Stuart Green, now author of Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bike, and Matthew Kugler teamed up to present a series of 12 theft scenarios involving a $350 bicycle. The scenarios ranged in severity from armed robbery to failure to return lost property. The researchers gathered 172 study participants to rank the situations by blame and issue imaginary sentences to the perpetrators.
In a 2010 issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Green and Kugler reported that "receiving stolen property" was seen as the least "blameworthy" crime of the dozen. Beyond that, study participants gave the hypothetical guilty party "no punishment at all" (far left):
It goes without saying that bike thieves should not get a risk-free ride. But until cities are better equipped to catch them, riders might do well to ask themselves what part they can play in deterring the behavior. Sometimes the handlebar bell tolls for thee.
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We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what's next.
Some renters and homeowners are getting financial assistance during the economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. What about landlords?
Former HUD secretary and presidential candidate Julián Castro has ideas for state and federal leaders on protecting vulnerable renters from a housing disaster.
The latest U.S. coronavirus aid package promises a partial and uneven economic recovery that leaves behind the African American community.
During a plague outbreak in 1899, officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city's Chinatown. Some Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric.


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You might remember the photo below appropriately captioned, "Tea and Magnum." It's the last photo of one of my eating trips, a 3-part series on Singapore. So satiated am I on the flight home that I – lover of airplane food (yes, believe it) – forgo the meal but gladly accept the Magnum ice cream bar that I wash down with hot black tea.
Magnum officially launched and went on sale in the Philippines this past Tuesday, February 27. It's a very familiar product to me; my trips to Singapore, Bangkok, London , and Switzerland among others are highlighted by this very special ice cream bar. I never thought it would land here at home, having resigned myself to the fact that this treat would always be overseas and out of reach.
The heart is so apropos: I heart Magnum.
There are ice cream bars and then there's Magnum. Satin-smooth and seductively sweet, it is cool creaminess cloaked in chocolate of the very best kind, Belgian chocolate. Considered by connoisseurs as the most premium, Belgian chocolate is noted for its light texture and a sweetness that flits and flirts instead of frank and in-my-face.
Magnum, super chilled still.
When word gets out that Magnum has hit the stores, I rush out to horde my own stash. The encroaching heat only serves to spike my craving and unfortunately, my self-control. I'm about to deplete the stock of Magnum at my local 7-11, when a girl enters the store and walks resolutely to the chillers. Clearly, she's come here with a purpose, and its name is Magnum. Spying my arms laden with the golden, foil-wrapped treasure, her jaw drops open and in the span of a few seconds, I see a constellation of expressions on her face: shock, anger, contemplation, steely determination. We have the briefest of conversations, somewhere along the lines of "I'll trade you two Almonds for that Chocolate Truffle." Catfight averted.
Look at them chocolate cracks clinging for dear life…
When I get home, the Magnum has softened slightly which is really the way to eat it, I believe. Straight from the freezer, it's hard and the ice cream is spongy. Allowed to "chill out", beads of condensation form on its sleek surface and my first bite yields that crrraaccckkk! That brittle snap, so crisp and clear is an indicator of quality chocolate correctly tempered (a process where chocolate is melted, cooled, and re-warmed in order to make it glossy and "snappy.")
My ears perk up at the snap, a signal that salivation starts now. My tongue is littered with shards of cracked chocolate, they melt instantly in notes of smoke and sweet as ice cream spreads and sweeps in; it's sublime and sublimely rich. Within half an hour, I've eaten each of the three variants: Classic (vanilla ice cream, milk chocolate coating); Chocolate Truffle (chocolate ice cream, dark chocolate coating); and my favorite, Almond: vanilla ice cream and slivered almonds clutched in the cool caress of milk chocolate – at least until my mouth liberates it.
Ohhh, how quickly it melts!
Crack, crisp, chocolate, cream: cool indulgence is mine.
Magnum is available at all leading supermarkets for P50; P60 at 7-11 and other convenience stores.


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EBAY SAYS IT is monitoring listings to ensure nobody uses the auction website to profit from the Boston Marathon bombings.
Jonathan Resnick's medal is for sale on the site and proceeds will go directly to charity.
He said he read on a runners' discussion board that medals were being sold and realised "it was the least I could do to make something good from something bad."
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planeboy747 precisava de um novo design de logo e criou um concurso na 99designs.
Um vencedor foi selecionado entre 63 designs enviados por 29 designers freelancers.
SkyMingle (or skymingle) is a social networking site designed for airline employees. We are in need of an original logo for our website.
SkyMingle OR skymingle (if skymingle lowercase is used in design, then sky and mingle should be two different shades or colors)
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maximum 2 colors (leaning towards two shades of blue or blue/gray, but open to other good color schemes)
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layered PSD and vector
SkyMingle (or skymingle) is a social networking site designed for airline employees.
We are in need of a logo for our website and some print advertising (full color and black & white).
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Our website is in development and will be revitalized once a logo and color palette has been created. The web address is http://www.skymingle.com.
We will be building a website around the color scheme of this logo and intend to launch a design contest for some of the graphic components needed to complete the web design.
Work must be all 100% original and winner will give us full rights over brand and all materials. Winner could use this brand in their portfolio.
Logo and color palette need to be provided in layered PSD and vector format.
Will be in touch and give feedback almost daily. We reserve right to not pick a winner based on quality of entries.
Winner can be paid via PayPal, iKobo, Escrow.com, or Check.
Some designs we like:
misipile.com (we like this designers style a lot)
css tinderbox
Saiba como um concurso de design funciona ou leia mais sobre nossos serviços de design de logo.


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Several emergent themes in software design and development are converging into a new way of working:
- Entrepreneurs understand the strategic value of user experience design in the guise of Steve Blank's customer development and Eric Ries' lean startup
- Management are entrusting designers with product management responsibilities as frustrated designers are seeking them out
- Agile teams are coming to recognize the contribution of UX as designers learn to function in agile environments
Each of these ideas have significant impact on the way user experience designers approach their work and how businesses structure their design and development efforts. Together, Lean UX, Product Stewardship, and Integrated Teams define a cross-functional, balanced approach to delivering software and services.
Lean UX
Traditional User Experience (UX) design techniques were developed in waterfall environments. Designers conduct research, develop models, derive frameworks, and specify detail with the understanding that they have to get it "right," because once the product enters development, changes are difficult and costly.
Lean UX leverages the highly fluid nature of modern lean and agile development practices. It focuses design and development effort on high value users, features, activities, and experiences, and in so doing, reduces the wasted effort and cost of spending time on issues that don't really matter (or don't matter right now). Teams work to shorten the time between forming design hypotheses, testing them, and learning from the results, accelerating delivery while improving quality. Designing and building from the core out helps tune your product vision in response to stakeholder, market, and user feedback.
Lean UX is not interaction design shoehorned into agile frameworks. Product vision, user research and modeling, and truly evolutionary iteration are central to this approach. It stresses lightweight, collaborative, right-fidelity UX techniques to generate, test, and evolve the design of your product.
Product Stewardship
The responsibilities of an agile product owner are vast, difficult, and conflicted. Typically a role derived from product management, product owners are tasked with fulfilling business objectives; they're expected to identify and represent user needs; they must define and drive the product vision; they need to understand and prioritize development efforts and represent the team to business stakeholders. This is not a job one person can do effectively.
Product stewardship relieves pressure on the product owner bottleneck. A UX strategist assumes the role of Product Steward, pairing with a Product Manager to share the mantle of product ownership. The product manager has a bias towards representing the business, the product steward towards satisfying the user, with a recognition that an interplay of these forces drives prioritization of the team's activities.
Integrated Teams
UX has had difficulty finding its footing in agile development. Design work doesn't always fit the cadence of weekly sprints; designers can feel their job becomes a perpetual state of reactive, tactical design; iterations designers thought meant cycles of improvement turn out to mean a progression of micro-deadlines where "done" means "good enough to move on."
Integrated teams extend full membership to interaction designers, visual designers, content strategists, and anyone else who contributes to shaping the product. Most importantly, these cross-functional teams work in pairs: often as like-disciplined partners, but also as designer/developer pairs. This format reduces communication issues and documentation overhead, develops cross-functional empathy, and gives the whole team increased understanding of product vision.
What you can do
I'm terribly excited to be part of this movement to bringing balance to software development teams. You can get involved as well and, in fact, we need you to drive this change in your organizations. I've posted a deck to slideshare.net of a talk I gave at a side event of IxDA11 in Boulder, CO on Feb 8. Feel free to use it to help start conversations at your office and in your communities about how to improve your ways of working. Join a local meetup to talk with others about the integration of design into lean and agile development. Read blogs and follow the emerging voices in the community of lean user experience and balanced teams. Most of all, trust In the power of user-centered design to inspire, delight, and guide your teams forward.
Other resources
- Balanced Team blog (http://www.balancedteam.org)
- Janice Fraser's luxr: the lean user experience residency (http://luxr.posterous.com/blog)
- Eric Ries' Startup Lessons Learned blog (http://www.startuplessonslearned.com)
- Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits' Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development (http://www.custdev.com)
- Andrew Chen's Lean Startup blog (http://andrewchenblog.co)
- Steve Blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany (http://steveblank.com)
- Startup Monthly Idea Accelerator (http://www.meetup.com/StartupMonthly)
- Twitter hashtags: \#leanux #aux #leanstartup


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Affair, insurance policy cited in homicide case
MERRILL, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors say a life insurance policy and an extramarital affair, as well as other evidence, led to charges against a central Wisconsin man in the slaying of his wife.
Forty-nine-year-old Mark Bucki is charged in Lincoln County with first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse and strangulation and suffocation in the death of his 48-year-old wife, Anita Bucki.
Lincoln County District Attorney Don Dunphy tells the Wausau Daily Herald that Bucki admitted his wife had asked him to split the proceeds of a $150,000 life insurance policy with their son if anything happened to her. Dunphy says Bucki also admitted he was having an affair.
Bucki reported his wife missing April 26. Her body was found last Friday in Taylor County.
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President Obama pledged to reform the struggling American job market in his weekly address yesterday, telling citizens the September job loss report was a "sobering reminder" that recovery is necessary to fix the ailing U.S. economy.
"Employment is often the last thing to come back after a recession," said Obama, who reinforced the idea that pending health care legislation would help stimulate small businesses, enabling them to spend funds they'd otherwise dole out for expensive insurance on other methods of growth.
"Yesterday's report on September job losses was a sobering reminder...that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step," Obama said in the address. "I won't let up until those who seek jobs can find them, until businesses receive capital and credit and thrive and until all responsible homeowners can stay in their homes."
The president again spoke about his vision for a health care "marketplace," where potential insurance buyers could shop around for an option that fit them -- and their budget. This week in the Senate, two health care bills containing a public option for insurance were shot down, paving the way for a more moderate bill proposed by Montana Sen. Max Baucus.