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Cyrve acquired by Acquia
Today, I'd like to share some big news. Mike Ryan and I have joined Acquia. Acquia is building a new migration practice within its Professional Services team. Acquia thought we'd be great people to kick-start that effort, and I agree! Look for exciting news from Acquia about data migration in the near future.
I announced Cyrve's birth during Drupalcon Boston, 3.5 years ago. Since then, Cyrve has migrated some of the highest profile web properties to Drupal. We migrated over 3 million user accounts to Economist.com (case study) from Cold Fusion and Oracle into Drupal. We migrated millions of comments and millions of images from a custom MSSQL database into Drupal 7's first big site, Examiner.com (case study). We migrated marthastewart.com from Vignette using Web Services.
Over the years, Cyrve has kept on building and improving the Migrate module. Migrate is Cyrve's methodology and toolkit for pulling data from many different sources and importing quickly and accurately into Drupal. Its highwater and update-in-place features keep content synced between live sources and the not-yet-live Drupal site. Migrate has established itself as the solution for importing into Drupal.
Mike and I have always embraced Drupal's open source ethos. Migrate module is free and open source, and always will be. Migrate is available for any organization to use, and many of you are doing just that. Thanks for bringing your sites to Drupal! Mike Ryan will continue to actively maintain migrate module.
I have joined the Office of the CTO at Acquia as Director, Research and Development. This reads like a dream job to me. I'll focus less on data migration, and more on researching and prototyping new products and features for Drupal and Acquia. I'll be writing reports about 'Drupal and Mobile', and publishing research about commercial CMS systems. I report to Dries and work alongside Angie Byron (webchick). I'll continue to hack on Drupal core and maintain my contrib projects, drush and devel.
I've thoroughly enjoyed building Cyrve over the past three years. Cyrve's revenue and reputation have steadily risen over the years. Lots of its success is due to the awesome platform that the Drupal community is building. The same holds true for Acquia. Acquia's success depends on the success of Drupal as a whole. This alignment of goals was one more smart idea by Dries and Jay when founding the company.
The Drupal ecosystem is thriving these days. I encourage all the Drupalpreneurs out there to scratch your own niche. It worked for me, and it can work for you too.
Drush Code Sprint, June 27+28 2011
The first ever Drush code sprint takes place on Monday and Tuesday of next week at MIT in Cambridge, MA USA. The Drush maintainers are flying in from all over the USA and Canada to focus on Drush core, and readying for a release of Drush 5. See http://piratepad.net/CzHfSVWAzX for a list of projects that we hope to undertake.
We've added some interesting new features and capabilities since Drush 4. Here are some already committed features. Some of these have also been backported to recent releases of Drush4.
- Unit test suite. Powered by phpunit, our new test suite keeps the bugs away, and encourages sweeping, aggressive refactoring.
- Windows compatibility has been vastly improved. If you use Drush on Windows, we already recommend using a HEAD development snapshot over Drush 4.
- archive-dump command. Creates a tarball from any existing Drupal site. The tarball contains the code, files, and database dump for that site. These contents are organized into a standard called the Site Archive format. This format is already accepted for import into Acquia hosting, Pantheon hosting, and more to come.
- New cache-* commands exercise Drupal's cache API for setting and getting values.
- Commands executed on remote sites now show feedback in real time, instead of waiting until completion.
- Drush shell aliases are analogous to [alias] in .gitconfig file. That is, one can specify an associative array of "personal" aliases in a drushrc.php file. Those personal (or organizational) aliases are like mini scripts that can call bash commands along with drush commands including hard coded options and arguments. For example:
$options['shell-aliases'] = array(
'pull' => '!git pull', // we've all done it.
'pulldb' => '!git pull && drush updatedb',
'newdb' => drush sql-sync @prod @self
'noncore' => 'pm-list --no-core',
'wipe' => 'cache-clear all',
Thanks to Acquia and Microsoft for sponsoring the sprint. Your generosity is appreciated by all.
Scratch your own niche
I'm sometimes asked about how newcomers should integrate themselves into the Drupal ecosystem. Here's my current answer, published for the world.
Unless you have venture capital sized dreams, your best bet is to focus on a Drupal niche. The good news is that plenty of niches are still wide open for the filling. Contact Moshe if you seriously pursue one of these. I'd like to participate.
Wide open niches
- Drupal load testing. Generic load testing firms have little insight into typical failure modes and weak points for Drupal sites. This domain specific knowledge is huge when developing load test plans. After a while, your reusable test plan library saves a lot of cost. Drupal performance firms like Tag1, 2Bits and Four Kitchens touch on this but I think a focused firm would do well here.
- Drupal User Experience (UX). Drupal UX experts who understand Drupalisms such as local tasks, page regions, and pathauto rules are far more likely to produce a sustainable, cost effective design. It would be so nice to have a One Page Redesign or 37 Signals Express that's focused on Drupal.
- Drupal Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Drupal is really well suited to apps like this that need lots of standard and custom fields and relationships between entities. CiviCRM plays here but there is lots of room still.
- Drupal Quality Assurance (QA). Once you have developed test plans for Drupal Commons, Open Atrium, or Open Publish, you can pretty quickly deliver plans to subsequent clients. Since the plans are the real company treasure, you might consider delegating test running to 3rd parties like Sauce Labs.
- Drupal Analytics. Again, knowledge about Drupal URLs and form submissions and user Fields is critical to mining user behavior on your site. The same knowledge is key when setting up and evaluating advertising campaigns with Adwords and similar ad networks.
- Drupal Workflow. Editorial workflows for media companies can be cumbersome to design and implement. Reusable expertise here is a big win. Implementing workflows in Drupal requires knowledge of some special modules (Views Bulk Operations, Rules, Workflow, ...).
Niche providers - great examples
- Cyrve. Cyrve offers just one service: data migration into Drupal from another system. We don't build web sites, or deliver training. We do perform a dozen large migrations a year which is much more than anyone else in the world. Many Drupal shops partner with Cyrve for the migration part of their engagements.
- Drupal Scout. Security review for your site or security training for your development team. Greg Knaddison and Ben Jeavons have established expertise here, and are now reaping the rewards.
- Emma Jane Hogbin. She's a goddess of Drupal training. Emma entertains as she enlightens. Emma is also a master of the Drupal niche. My jaw fell to the floor when she announced her innovative Site Building Extravaganza course. Emma announced that the course will run if 100 people sign up at a cost of $500/person. They signed up, and Emmajane is $50,000 richer. Thats a lot of Tim Hortons.
- More niche rock stars: Mollom, Top Notch Themes, Commerce Guys, and Volacci (Drupal SEO).
Notice that these are tiny companies (less than 3 employees). You can build a company that size.
From Zero to Niche
Your goal for the first year is to build your contribution to the community while growing and showing your expertise. You need to Establish Expertise.
- Start posting. Write on your own blog and/or on groups.drupal.org. Just narrate your journey toward expert. Pretty soon, your posts will generate interest among others in the field. Welcome them. Help them, and ask them to refer their friends.
- Increase readership. Once the blog is humming (5 substantial posts), ask to get your blog added to Drupal Planet. That RSS feed (and Twitter feed) has a large readership.
- Market yourself. Your writings do most of your marketing. But it does help to reach out to media folks like Lullabot Podcast and Drupal Watchdog. They need material, so don't be shy.
- Start speaking. Raise your profile by speaking at your local meetup and/or at a DrupalCamp near you. Eventually try to lead a BoF session or a lecture session at Drupalcon.
- Share code or tools. Share your data migration methodology, or load test plans, or QA plans. Share your templates and style guides. One of the most awesome parts of Drupal is the reputation boost you get by sharing. It can be counter-intuitive to share your treasures. But its been proven to work in this community. We reward people who get it.
- Be a good partner. Consulting firms like Acquia, Phase2, Lullabot, etc. are constantly negotiating on new engagments. They are also consistently understaffed or lacking expertise in niche areas. Make sure they know about your business. When they ask you to join their deal, provide a quick quote and delight the customer.
Speed up Drupal 7 - MongoDB Field Storage
This weekend, I started a project to standardize on a LAMP and Drupal stack that migrates data as fast as possible. Cyrve's customers tend to have large data sets (e.g. Examiner.com, The Economist, Martha Stewart, World Economic Forum, ...), so insertion speed is crucial. Early throughput observations ...
|My Laptop. Untuned Mysql.
|900 nodes/minute
|My Laptop. MongoDB field storage.
|4800 nodes/minute
|EC2 with RDS hosted MySQL.
|1900 nodes/minute
|EC2 with RDS hosted MySQL and MongoDB field storage.
|5300 nodes/minute
As you can see, adding mongoDB field storage boosted my laptop by 5x and boosted ECS+RDS by almost 3x. Wow! This is consistent with improvements we experienced with Examiner.com.
The dataset I migrated can be found in the migrate_example_baseball module. Here you will find migrate module classes which import a box score from every Major League Baseball game from 2000-2009. All the little bits of the box score (e.g. attendance, batting orders, winning pitcher, etc.) are saved in Fields so this dataset exercises field storage a lot. I think this is typical of larger D7 sites. This dataset should be useful to lots of Drupal benchmarking projects.
All imports were executed using
migrate-import drush command. Like all drush commands, the web server plays no part at all. This is all CLI PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1, and MongoDB 1.8.
RDS is Amazon's hosted MySQL offerring. I chose a Large instance for all tests. I'm not sure how Amazon configures these, but i would hope that they consider the write-heavy usage scenario is considered.
Caveat: These are not formal benchmarks. I did not try to optimize these environments.
We already know that MongoDB field storage massively speeds up web page views (i.e. reads). I'm seeing here that it massively speeds up writes as well. Please consider using MongoDB for your large Drupal projects. MongoDb compatibility on its own is a compelling reason to choose Drupal 7 over Drupal 6. Learn more about MongoDB and Drupal from this Drupalcon session.
What's new in Drush 4
The Drush project has been on fire in the past year. In January, we released Drush 4. I realize that we never properly introduced it. So, here are the highlights ...
Much more documentation
Like most unix commands, Drush has always had pretty strong command specific help. Just append --help to any command and you learn much of what it can do. In Drush 4, we added 14 topics and examples which are long-form help that's usually not related to a single command. For example, we discuss site aliases and the Drush bootstrap. The new command
topic is your tool for reading these docs. Topics are just text files, and modules/commandfiles can easily ship with them.
User Management
Adrian Rollett (acrollet) contributed 9 handy commands for managing user accounts on your Drupal site. Dealing with spammers or setting up new staff has never been quicker:
- user-add-role. Add a role to the specified user accounts.
- user-block. Block the specified user(s).
- user-cancel. Cancel a user account with the specified name.
- user-create. Create a user account with the specified name.
- user-information. Print information about the specified user(s).
- user-login. Display a one time login link for the given user account
- user-password. Set the password for the user with the specified name.
- user-remove-role. Remove a role from the specified user accounts.
- user-unblock. Unblock the specified user(s).
Field Manager
Moshe Weitzman (that's me) added 5 commands specific to Drupal 7's Field API. In particular, they try to take some drudgery out of populating a content type with a bunch of Fields. These Drush commands get you started quickly. Some GUI work is often needed to configure the instances, formatters and widgets. The commands are:
- field-clone. Clone a field and all its instances.
- field-create. Create fields and instances. Returns urls for field editing.
- field-delete. Delete a field and its instances.
- field-info. View information about fields, field_types, and widgets.
- field-update. Return URL for field editing web page.
Project Manager (pm)
The beloved project manager commands were enriched significantly during this release cycle. I'd like to thank Jonathan Araña Cruz (jonhattan), who did an awesome job as the maintainer of these commands.
pm-download. This command, better known as
dl, quickly downloads projects from drupal.org or feature servers. In Drush 4, we added:
- --notes option shows release notes after downloading projects.
- --select option asks you to choose from a few recent releases or the development snapshot release. --select --all lets you choose from all available releases for a given version of Drupal.
pm-updatecode. This command updates some or all of your projects to their latest recommended release. In Drush 4 we added:
- --lock. Pin a project at its current release such that pm-updatecode will skip pending updates.
- --security-only. Only update projects that have security releases pending.
- --show release notes after updating projects.
- Drush checks for pending releases of itself and asks you to run selfupdate if any are pending.
pm-uninstall. You may now use wildcards when specifying extensions (aka modules/themes). For example,
drush en views* uc*.
The above commands are now integrated with git.drupal.org so that you can optionally use git clones instead of tarballs. Lets all work together at http://groups.drupal.org/node/93449 so that Drush can help bring consistent, deep git.drupal.org integration to our sites.
We tweaked our SQL commands this release cycle. Perhaps you will enjoy …
sql-dumpgets a new --gzip which compresses your DB backup file.
sql-syncis a jaw dropping time saver., It dumps, transfers, and loads your database from one server to another. new in Drush 4 is --sanitize, an optional phase for stripping sensitive information such as passwords and emails from database. Modules and commandfiles can do additional stripping as needed.
sql-drop. A new command to drop all tables in your current database.
Finally, we added support for SQLite and MSSQL, for those awesome Drupal 7 sites that prefer alternative database platforms.
selfupdate. A new command which updates Drush itself when a new release is pending.
core-cli. A custom shell environment thats optimized for Drush.
—pipe. Show all the nifty .bashrc code that this shell uses so that you import it into your usual shell. Very useful.
image-flush. Delete all image styles (D7 only). A companion command to pre-generate image styles would be nice for Drush 5.
php-script. Drush scripts are a lightweight alternative to Drush commands. Drush commands are not heavy weight at all but CLI developers can be extraordinarily lazy :) ... Scripts may now be standalone files that can be directly called from the CLI. That works because of their shebang line (first line). See examples/helloworld.script for an example. These Drush scripts have easy access to any CLI arguments that were used.
site-install. Programmatically install Drupal 6 (new) or Drupal 7 site. Can use any install profile or language.
site-upgrade. Fully automated upgrade script from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Re-run this command over and over as you tweak your update functions and available modules. Saves a lot of time.
test-run. Run some or all of the simpletest tests found in your site.
In addition to those people I've mentioned, thanks to Greg Anderson (greg.1.anderson) for many contributions such as standalone Drush scripts (see
core-cli functionality in your own shell, --sanitize for
sql-sync, and boatloads of documentation. Finally, Mark Sonnabaum (msonnabaum) has accepted my request for him to be the Drush 4 branch maintainer. Thanks for your service, Mark.
Performing a data migration with migrate module
Cyrve developed the Migrate module to support robust, repeatable data migrations into Drupal. There are other solutions to this problem, but I believe none are as robust as migrate. This article focuses on Migrate version 2.
Lets fast forward past the development process and focus on performing the import. Migrate provides Drush commands for performing the import. There is currently no user interface for performing the import. Drush is better suited to that task, since it is not subject to PHP timeout. Even Drupal's batch API is ill suited to import since it has to re-bootstrap Drupal for each batch.
I'm assuming that you are working with a snapshot of your Drupal site and thus it is safe to rollback as needed. On the source side, you can work with your live site or a snapshot. Migrate does not change anything in your source site so feel free to pull from live.
migrate-status command provides an overview of all your migrations. It tells you what migrations are enabled, and how far along they are in their import.
migrate-import command is your workhorse. It is responsible for fetching source records and saving them into Drupal. Further, it maps the ID of each source item to a Drupal ID. So, legacy accountId might be mapped to Drupal's userID. Here is migrate-import in action:
migrate-import supports lots of useful options such as idlist, itemlimit, and more. As with all drush commands, you append --help to see its documentation:
You can rollback a given migration or all migrations at any time with
migrate-rollback. Migrate uses the aforementioned map table to know exactly which items to delete during rollback.
If you get really flumoxxed, you always have the option of discarding your Drupal database and restoring from backup.
Migrate's other commands are more specialized, or useful only to migration developers. For the record, here is the complete list:
Drupal 7 Release Party - Epilogue
Lets talk more about that gigantic global party - #D7RP. On one day, January 7, Drupalers threw 326 parties in 96 countries. These were real world parties - in meatspace. They featured young and old humans, eating and drinking and dancing. In many ways, this was our finest moment as a Drupal community. I just love how we celebrated separately, yet together. That's how we roll.
I'd like to recognize groups.drupal.org as a silent enabler for this wonderful accomplishment. There are 810 regional groups on groups.drupal.org. Have you seen how busy our Event Calendar is?. Every weeknight, there are meetups in multiple cities. Thats where much of the Drupal teaching and learning happens. Screw Facebook Connect, this is Drupal Connect. I started groups.drupal.org in early 2006. I think it is coming along nicely, no?
groups.drupal.org was not in scope for the recent drupal.org redesign. It's age is showing a bit. I hope someone can give it some focused attention soon. Your ideas are welcome in the Maintenance group.
And while we are reminiscing, lets remember that Drupal 1.0 was released on January 15, 2001. Happy 10th birthday, old friend. Don't fret, we'll celebrate in Chicago.
#D7CX pledge fulfilled - Devel
As pledged in the opening post for #D7CX, Devel module has been released.
I'm looking forward to seeing a tsunami of announcement like this one on Drupal Planet and Twitter. Be sure to include the #D7CX tag so we can cheer along.
cvs tag DRUPAL-7--1-0
Start your final releases - #D7CX
The Drupal 7 release is imminent. It looks like the final release will happen before this year's winter solstice (Dec 21/22).
This is the week for D7CX maintainers to fulfill your pledges. Warm up your clipboard and paste the following into your terminal.
cvs tag DRUPAL-7--1-0
Maintainers who didn't pledge are encouraged to release also. We're equal opportunity cheerleaders.
Acquia's latest contribution - a surge for Drupal 7
I'd like to thank Dries and the Acquia management team for their generous contribution today. Dries blogged that they have allocated one full time engineer (Katherine Senzee) to work on Drupal 7 critical issues. Phew. The volunteer fire department that has been slaving away on Drupal 7 criticals was getting exhausted. We really need this.
If we think back to the Drupal 6 release, Acquia contributed the same thing by paying Gabor to work on criticals until the release was ready. Apparently, this is what it takes now in order to get core Drupal out the door.
Acquia has shown a real talent over the past three years in aligning their business goals with those of Drupal. Off the top of my head, they also have:


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Day Tours and Guides
Day Tours and Guides
Given the variety of perspectives available in the city of New Orleans, a package tour can be a good option, especially for first-time visitors. Highlights will likely include the French Quarter and Riverwalk, with daytime visits to spots like Audubon Zoo, the Garden District, and possibly a plantation or swamp tour.
Bus Tours
Several local tour companies give two- to four-hour city bus tours that include the French Quarter, the Garden District, Uptown New Orleans, and the lakefront. Prices range from $30 to $70 per person. Both Gray Line and New Orleans Tours offer a longer tour that combines a two-hour city tour by bus with a two-hour steamboat ride on the Mississippi River.
New Orleans Tours leads city, swamp, and plantation tours and combination city-paddle wheeler outings. Tours by Isabelle (the oldest tour company in New Orleans, operating since 1979) runs city, swamp, plantation, and combination swamp-and-plantation tours.
Gray Line and Tours by Isabelle both offer tours of Hurricane Katrina damage and recovery. For those visitors interested in seeing the scope of the impact of the 2005 storm and keeping the local economy in motion, these tours offer perspective on the area's geography, ecology, and recovery. For the more personal experience, choose Tours by Isabelle.
Plantation Tours
Full-day plantation tours by bus from New Orleans, which include guided tours through two antebellum plantation homes along the Mississippi River, are offered by Gray Line and New Orleans Tours.
Tours by Isabelle includes a stop for lunch (Note: The cost of lunch isn't included) in its full-day plantation package that traces the history of the Cajun people. Also available is the Grand Tour: a full-day minibus tour that includes a visit to one plantation, lunch in a Cajun restaurant, and a 1½-hour boat tour in the swamps with a Cajun trapper.
Riverboat Cruises
The New Orleans Steamboat Company offers narrated riverboat cruises and evening jazz cruises up and down the Mississippi on the steamboat Natchez, an authentic paddle wheeler. Ticket sales and departures for the Natchez are at the Toulouse Street Wharf behind Jackson Brewery.
New Orleans Paddle Wheel has a Mississippi River cruise aboard the Creole Queen, highlighting the port and French Quarter, departing twice daily from the Riverwalk. There is also an evening jazz dinner cruise from 8 to 10 (boarding at 7 pm, which is also when the band starts playing and the cash bar opens); tickets are available for the dinner and cruise, or just the cruise and live music. The company also offers a cruise to Chalmette Battlefield, the site of the Battle of New Orleans, that provides an opportunity to learn about the battle and tour the battle site. The ticket office is at the Poydras Street Wharf near the Riverwalk.
Cruise Operators
New Orleans Paddle Wheels (800/445–4109 or 504/529–4567. www.creolequeen.com.)
New Orleans Steamboat Company (800/365–2628 or 504/586–8777. www.steamboatnatchez.com.)
Special-Interest Tours
For highlights of African American history and culture, contact Le'Ob's Tours. It runs prearranged group tours (20-30 people, with a minimum of 10-12 people) of the city, swamps, and plantations, as well as large-group jazz history tours, complete with club recommendations for the week of your visit. One of our favorites is the Louis Armstrong tour. Based in Houston since Hurricane Katrina, Le'Ob's runs specialty tours primarily during conventions and festivals. Call for reservations.
Macon Riddle's Let's Go Antiquing offers personalized shopping itineraries of the city's antiques stores, galleries, or boutiques based on your interests and preferences (not all tours are about antiques). The number for appointments is her residence; don't be afraid to leave a message.
The New Orleans School of Cooking, in the heart of the French Quarter, offers classes on Cajun and Creole cuisine. Visit the website for details about class schedules and rates.
Limousine services make arrangements for personal interests and private guides; rentals vary. Southern Seaplane will fly you over the city and its surrounding areas.
Cooking Classes
New Orleans School of Cooking (800/237–4841 or 504/525–2665. www.neworleansschoolofcooking.com.)
Let's Go Antiquing (504/899–3027. www.neworleansantiquing.com.)
Swamp Tours
Exploring an exotic Louisiana swamp and traveling into Cajun country is an adventure not to be missed. Dozens of swamp-tour companies are available. You can check at your hotel or the visitor center for a complete listing. Full-day tours often include visiting a plantation home.
Walking Tours
Free one-hour walking tours along the Mississippi River levee, with a discussion of the interaction between the river and the city are given daily at 9:30 am by rangers of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. Tickets are available at the Jean Lafitte Parks French Quarter Visitor Center starting at 9 am on the morning of the tour. Check the National Park Service website for details. Tickets are free, but tours are limited to 25 people. Two-hour general history tours, beginning at the 1850 House on Jackson Square, are given Tuesday through Sunday at 10 and 1:30 by Friends of the Cabildo.
Several specialized walking tours conducted by knowledgeable guides on specific aspects of the French Quarter are also available. Be sure to make advance reservations to confirm the tour is being offered. Heritage Tours leads a general literary tour as well as others focusing on either William Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
The cemeteries of New Orleans fascinate many people because of their unique aboveground tombs. Save Our Cemeteries conducts guided walking tours of St. Louis No. 1 as well as Lafayette No. 1. Reservations are generally required.
Voodoo- and spiritual-themed tours are popular in New Orleans and several companies, including Haunted History Tours, Historic New Orleans Walking Tours, and New Orleans Spirit Tours have spooky options to choose from.
Contact Information
Friends of the Cabildo (504/523–3939. www.friendsofthecabildo.org.)
Gray Line (800/233–2628 or 504/569–1401. www.graylineneworleans.com.)
Haunted History Tours (888/644–6787 or 504/861–2727. www.hauntedhistorytours.com.)
Historic New Orleans Walking Tours (504/947–2120. www.tourneworleans.com.)
Honey Island Swamp Tours (985/641–1769. www.honeyislandswamp.com.)
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve: French Quarter Visitors Center (419 Decatur St., French Quarter, New Orleans, LA. 504/589–3882. www.nps.gov/jela/french-quarter-site.htm. daily 9–5.)
Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tours (800/445–4109 or 504/689–4186. www.jeanlafitteswamptour.com.)
New Orleans Spirit Tours (504/314–0806. www.neworleanstours.net.)
Save Our Cemeteries (504/525–3377. www.saveourcemeteries.org.)
Tours by Isabelle (877/665–8687 or 504/398–0365. www.toursbyisabelle.com.)
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60M Windows 8 Licenses Sold…Time to Buy Wintel
Alvin is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
As of January 8, 2013, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has sold 60 million Windows 8 licenses. Back in November, Microsoft reported it sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in the first month of its release. This puts Windows 8 sales on a similar pace as Windows 7. Having sales similar to Windows 7 is an impressive achievement because Windows 7 is a very successful OS and Windows 8 uses a radically different UI from previous versions of Windows.
In its Windows Blog, Microsoft states, "…Windows 8 has sold 60 million licenses to date. This represents the cumulative sales of Windows 8 including both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new devices. This is a similar sales trajectory that we saw with Windows 7." The inclusion of sales to OEMs should make investors a little cautious. Windows 8 uses a new UI so sales to OEMs might not be completely indicative of consumer adoption. However, the sales number is still impressive because Microsoft's Windows 7 sales also include sales to OEMs.
Also, according to netmarketshare, Windows 8 has captured 1.93% of the Windows OS market. According to eTForecasts, there were 1.6 billion active PCs worldwide at the end of year 2011. Using Windows' 91% PC market share, one can readily approximate 28.1 million Windows 8 PCs in use, which is a respectable number. This is a rough approximation because the number of active PCs also includes tablets. However, this is balanced by the PCs sold during year 2012, which are not included in the 2011 number.
A Unified Approach and Wintel
Overall, 60 million Windows 8 licenses sold is a positive for Microsoft. Microsoft generates revenue regardless of whether the company sells a license to an OEM or directly to a consumer. This news is also a positive for Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). A license sold requires hardware and Intel dominates the CPU market. Similar to Microsoft, Intel generates revenue whether it sells its chips to OEMs or directly to consumers. Currently, Intel is trading at a trailing PE below 10. In addition, Intel has a dividend yield of 4.3%. On the other hand, Microsoft has a trailing PE of 14.4. However, Microsoft's PE is inflated because the company booked a onetime $6.2 billion charge in year 2012 for its acquisition of aQuantive.
While Windows 8 has received a lot criticism, Microsoft's unified OS approach with Windows 8 is a big advantage. Windows 8 is designed to work on both desktop PCs and tablets. This contrasts with the OS's used by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Both Apple and Google use a different OS for tablets and PCs. Apple uses OS X for the Mac and iOS for tablets. Similarly, Google designed Chrome OS for notebooks and Android for mobile devices.
There are numerous advantages to having a single OS powering both PCs and tablets. The most important advantage is probably the compatibility it provides. This is especially true for Windows. There are millions of legacy programs available for Windows that users can install on a Windows 8 tablet. A unified approach also benefits Microsoft and its partners because it alleviates the discrepancy in the number of apps when comparing it to iOS or Android.
Bottom Line
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STEVENSVILLE, MI (WTVB) - The first ever appearance for the Coldwater Cardinals in the MHSAA Football Playoffs came to an end Friday night, but not without a fight, as Coldwater lost on the road at Stevensville Lakeshore 28-21. Coldwater scored first and led 7-0 at the end of the first quarter. The Lancers responded with 21 unanswered through the second and third quarters. The Cardinals scored right at the beginning of the 4th quarter to draw to within 7, but that was as close as they would get the rest of the night. Trailing 28-21 with 3 minutes left, the Cardinals got the ball back after a Lakeshore punt. A Luke Beckhusen pass was intercepted on the Lakeshore 6 yard line, and the Lancers were able to wind down the clock for the win.
On the night, Cooper Murphy led the offense with 137 yards on 22 carries and a touchdown, while Chris VandenHout had 11 carries for 48 yards. Beckhusen had 12 carries for 48 yards and a score; he was also 5 for 10 passing for 62 yards and 2 interceptions. Luke Stempien had 2 receptions for 31 yards and one 2-yard carry for a touchdown. Stempien and Zach DeMeester had 7 tackles apiece to lead the Cardinal defense.
Coldwater finished the season with a 5-5 record under second-year head coach Jeff Schorfhaar. Lakeshore improves to 7-3 and will play St Joseph in the next round of the playoffs. The Bears beat Sturgis Friday night 16-0.
Our McDonald's Players of the Game were Coldwater's seniors, who helped lead the team to the playoffs: Ryan Hadley, Chris VandenHout, Steven Suelzer, Austin Siegel, Cooper Murphy, Bryant Garrett, Tylar Rankin, Joel Jepson, Shawn Reincke, Cody Squier, Randy Brown, Mike Covey, Levi Wilson, Parker Dove, Austin Nichols, Darrien Bradley, Luke Stempien, and Francisco Hernandez.
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"Phobos" is a Russian horror film about a group of partygoers who attend a dangerous shindig inside an abandoned old bomb shelter. You can pretty much figure out what happens next.
The final poster for "Pandorum" is freakin' sweet, and pretty trippy. The film goes wide September 18th.
Carla Gugino joins the cast of Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch". The film follows a young girl in a mental institution in the 1950's who has five days before she's given a lobotomy, so her and her friends enter an alternate reality where they begin planning an escape.
Man fends off would-be robber wearing gorilla suit. Seems oddly appropriate the week we review "Shriek of the Mutilated" on the podcast, no?
This news just made my week... Jesse Ventura is getting his own conspiracy theory show on TruTV. Break out the tin foil hats, yall!
Scientists have created virtual reality for flies. And I still don't have my "Lawnmower Man" program... what gives?
1892: Someone takes an axe and kills Lizzie Borden's millionaire parents. Andrew receives 10 whacks, and Abby 14. Lizzie is later tried for the murders, but acquitted.
Jamie Chung and Jena Malone sign on to Zack Snyder's ("300", "Watchmen") next film "Sucker Punch". The film is set in the 50's, and follows a young woman unfairly thrown into a mental institution by her "wicked step-father", who imagines an alternate reality to hide from the pain. She then plans to escape the imaginary world, but has to steal five objects first, all while avoiding being caught by "a vile man". Whoa, I have no idea what that means but it sounds awesome.
Dimension films picks up "Kristy". The film is being compared to "The Strangers" and "Last House on the Left", and deals with a deserted college campus being besieged by a group of violent intruders.
Finally, after months of hearing about mundane, meaningless scoops from the set of Rob Zombie's "H2", comes word that we'll be seeing a trailer on Youtube this Friday. Rest assured we'll be on it when it lands.
Jonathan Skaech is highly positive about his "From a Buick 8" script, and says that Stephen King (the original author of the book) loves it. Unfortunately because of the economy, financing any film is difficult right now, but he hopes that it will go in front of cameras this fall. As for stars? He claims they "are going after big names right now". Hopefully we'll hear some more news about this adaptation soon.
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Teenager in Arizona was so surprised to find a cop inside the car he was trying to steal recently, that he shat his pants. No idea why today's stories are so scatological, but I guess I'm just going to go with it.
Husband shoots wife in the head, kills himself... she gets up afterward, disoriented, and makes herself a cup of tea. The woman is alive and in stable condition, despite the fact that the bullet went straight through her brain and out the back of her head. Doctors are baffled.
1915: The German Army opens 5,700 canisters of chlorine gas upwind of French soldiers at Ypres. It is the first use of poison gas for military purposes.
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IATA: Demand Decline Slowing, but Outlook 'Bleak'
The latest traffic figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA) show mixed results during June 2009 for the world's airlines, but even the most positive interpretation of them would suggest no more than that the deterioration of market conditions has slowed somewhat. Nonetheless, IATA director general Giovanni Bisignani emphasized that overall demand remains very weak and that revenues were still dropping by as much as 25 to 30 percent at the start of what should be the airlines' busy summer period, spanning the months of June through August. "The outlook remains bleak," he concluded.
In fact, the decline in international passenger demand of 7.2 percent compared with figures for June 2008 represented something of a leveling off when contrasted with the 9.3-percent fall between the May 2008 and May 2009 figures. Also in June, air cargo demand was down by 16.5 percent on the same month in 2008, and average passenger load factors dipped to 75.3 percent from 77.6 percent.
The IATA year-over-year figures for June also show significant variations in airline fortunes around the globe. At one end of the spectrum, carriers in the Asia-Pacific region suffered a 14.5-percent drop in demand (slightly worse than the 14.3-percent decline in May), but over the same period, airlines in the Middle East actually achieved growth in demand of 12.9 percent and expanded their capacity by 15.2 percent at a time when most carriers are cutting back on capacity. In North America, demand levels fell by just 6.7 percent in June, compared with 10.9 percent in May.
Traffic figures for July and August will provide critical readings on the financial health of airlines as they go into what is widely expected to be a lean winter season. Major carriers in most regions of the world are laying plans for further cuts in capacity and cost. A leading airliner charter broker told AIN on condition of anonymity that some carriers will not emerge from the summer season with sufficient cash reserves and that, therefore, there are real prospects for further airliner bankruptcies in the fall and winter months.
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A Collection of Beautifully Handcrafted Film Cameras
Although film photography has all but faded into a niche category of photography in the era of digital cameras and camera phone photography, there's still a vibrant enthusiast community dedicated to the art of capturing images using film. I didn't realize how enthusiastic they were until I saw the array of beautiful homemade cameras, some fashioned with lovely carved pieces of wood...
All these examples were gathered from Large Format Photography Forum, a site for photography enthusiasts who are continuing the tradition of capturing images using film, from small DIY handheld point and shoots to old timey bellows large format cameras. The level of craft and care that goes into these cameras is inspiring. For example, check out this all American Black Walnut encased point and shoot with a cheap-y 65mm ƒ/8 Super Angulon (sort of ironic such a premium looking finish is partnered with such a low end lens).
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Those are some beautiful cameras! I've been thinking of making one myself, though without a decent focusing mechanism it doesn't feel worth it: doubt I'd end up using it much as a result.
PS, a Super Angulon 65mm f/8 lens retails for about $150 used from KEH dot com. I'm not sure any large format lens is exactly "low end", even the 90 year old Zeiss 150mm lens I picked up for $50 once...


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A New York Times Notable 100 Book of the year and Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2013
Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to coast journey included a stop there, and this flow of people and commodities made it America's central clearinghouse, laboratory, and factory. Between the end of World War II and 1960, Mies van der Rohe's glass and steel architecture became the face of corporate America, Ray Kroc's McDonald's changed how we eat, Hugh Hefner unveiled Playboy, and the Chess brothers supercharged rock and roll with Chuck Berry. At the University of Chicago, the atom was split and Western civilization was packaged into the Great Books.
Yet even as Chicago led the way in creating mass-market culture, its artists pushed back in their own distinct voices. In literature, it was the outlaw novels of Nelson Algren (then carrying on a passionate affair with Simone de Beauvoir), the poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, and Studs Terkel's oral histories. In music, it was the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the urban blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and the trippy avant-garde jazz of Sun Ra. In performance, it was the intimacy of Kukla, Fran and Ollie, the Chicago School of Television, and the improvisational Second City whose famous alumni are now everywhere in American entertainment.
Despite this diversity, racial divisions informed virtually every aspect of life in Chicago. The chaos—both constructive and destructive—of this period was set into motion by the second migration north of African Americans during World War Two. As whites either fled to the suburbs or violently opposed integration, urban planners tried to design away "blight" with projects that marred a generation of American cities. The election of Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 launched a frenzy of new building that came at a terrible cost—monolithic housing projects for the black community and a new kind of self-satisfied provincialism that sped the end of Chicago's role as America's meeting place. In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
"The Third Coast is deeply researched, thoroughly thought-out, exquisitely structured and beautifully written — an essential for any lover of Chicago and American history."
Scott Turow, The New York Times:
"An intensely engaging book, notable for its intellectual breadth, arms-wide research and [the] high-octane prose that keeps it riding high…"
New York Times Book Review (cover):
"[A] robust cultural history… Dyja zooms in on the qualities Chicagoans value and does it better than anyone else I've read."
Vanity Fair:
"A rollicking cultural history… What's a given now was often given by Chicago: high-rises, gospel and the blues, TV talk shows, Playboy, McDonalds, sketch comedy…Was it all dazzling coincidence or, as Dyja suggests, something in the water?"
Chicago Tribune:
"The Third Coast… has an elegant, unflinching, non-nostalgic clarity… a new touchstone in Chicago literature… an ambitious history lesson no one had written."
Seattle Times:
"My God, how I enjoyed this book… The Third Coast offers a deeper perspective, detailing Chicago's midcentury contributions to literature, music, theater, photography, television and architecture… The book is an extraordinarily good read, with writing that sparkles."
The Huntington News: "An exceedingly entertaining book…The Third Coast is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand Chicago — and by extension the creation of post WWII urban America. On top of that, it's supremely readable. An unbeatable combination."
Booklist (starred review):
"[A] robust, outspoken, zestfully knowledgeable, and seductively told synthesis of biography, culture, politics, and history…[written] with velocity, wry wit, and tough lyricism… Dyja focuses on the years between the Great Depression and 1960… As vibrant and clarifying as his overarching vision is, what makes this such a thrilling read are Dyja's fresh and dynamic portraits not only of the first Mayor Daley and his machine but also of key artists and innovators who embodied or amplified Chicago's earthiness, grit, audacity, and beauty… from the city's epic political corruption, vicious racism, and ethnic enclaves to the ferment that gave rise to world-changing architecture, urban blues and gospel, McDonald's, improv comedy, and the 'birth of television.' Here is the frenetic simultaneity of an evolving city torn between its tragic crimes and failings and tensile strength and creativity."
Publishers Weekly (starred):
"A magisterial narrative of mid-20th century Chicago… a luminous, empathetic, and engrossing portrait of a city."
Kirkus Reviews:
"A readable, richly detailed history of America's second city-which, laments novelist/historian and Chicagoan Dyja has become a third city, perhaps even less. A valuable contribution to the history of Chicago, worthy of a place alongside William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis."
Kurt Andersen, author of True Believers:
"I am an American, not Chicago-born, but at age nine Chicago was the first big city I visited, and it was love at first sight. I've come to know it deeply, however, only through its writers: Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko—and now Thomas Dyja. The Third Coast is a vivid, fascinating, surprising, altogether masterful chronicle of this quintessentially American city's mid-century cultural heyday."
Anthony Heilbut, author of Exiled in Paradise and The Fan Who Knew Too Much:
"This is a book as startling as the place it celebrates: Chicago, the town where a gay puppeteer transformed children's television and thereby, their imagination; the burg where post-war comedy, cuisine, urban politics, and pre-marital sex were all changed, changed utterly. Dyja gives unforgettable voice to dozens of out-sized personalities, from Sun Ra to Studs Terkel, from Gwendolyn Brooks to Nelson Algren, from Mahalia Jackson to Muddy Waters, from Richard Daley to Adlai Stevenson, a cast worthy of a Tolstoy or Dickens. In his wonderful book, Chicago stands revealed as both America's most corrupt city and its one, true homeland of the soul."
Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City:
"Thomas Dyja has written a wonderful book about the cultural cauldron that seethed in 20th century Chicago. The Third Coast reminds us that New York and Los Angeles hold no monopoly on American artistic genius. From Louis Sullivan to Richard Wright, from Mahalia Jackson to Nelson Algren, Chicago attracted and inspired talent. Dyja's well-crafted exploration of Chicago creativity helps us understand why cities are the wellsprings of culture. American society was molded by its cities, and Chicago has played an outsized role in molding music and literature and architecture. Dyja's engaging writing not only provides an insightful investigation of Chicago's cultural heroes, but also delivers a broader view of how cities shape the sea of civilization."
Michael Kimmelman, author of The Accidental Masterpiece:
"Thomas Dyja's The Third Coast is a wonderful, beautifully-written, eye-opener and genuine page-turner about Chicago, as sweeping and astonishing as the city itself. It does nothing less than help rewrite postwar American history and culture and cure our bi-coastal myopia. It links half-a-century's worth of economic and social changes with cultural revolution, racial strife with sexual upheaval, architecture with politics, literature with gospel music, Hugh Hefner with Tina Fey, Mies van der Rohe with Mayor Daley, Ray Kroc with Katherine Kuh—it's the whole grand, messy American story, lived through bigger-than-life characters in a bigger-than-life city."
Bob Marovich, Host of "Gospel Memories," WLUW Chicago:
"In The Third Coast, Thomas Dyja chronicles Chicago's estimable contributions to American culture with the colorful prose of Nelson Algren and the humanistic wisdom of Studs Terkel. He puts you at street level with the men and women whose talent and entrepreneurial chutzpah combined to give Chicago, and the nation, its postwar swagger."
Douglas Brinkley, author of Cronkite:
"Thomas Dyja's The Third Coast unravels the wondrous history of Chicago with cunning and aplomb. Every aspect of the Windy City is revealed anew from Mies van der Rohe's skyscrapers to Chuck Berry's rock n' roll. A truly gripping narrative. Highly recommended!"


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Their relationship may have been icy when Kevin Garnett asked for a contract extension six years ago and Kevin McHale traded him to the Celtics. Much time has passed, and both now reflect on their years together in Minnesota.
McHale, the former Celtics great who's now coach of the Rockets, shared an emotional hug with Garnett following the Rockets' win over the Celtics Dec. 14 in Houston, a few weeks after the death of McHale's daughter, Alexandra, from complications from lupus.


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This hotel is located in Cherokee (Oconaluftee Visitor Center Great Smoky), close to Oconaluftee Islands Park, Eastern Cherokee Agency, and Oconaluftee Indian Village. Also nearby are Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama and Cherokee Bear Zoo.
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Chestnut Tree Inn Cherokee features a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. A complimentary breakfast is offered.
Event facilities measuring 2500 square feet (232 square meters) include meeting rooms. This Cherokee hotel also offers complimentary newspapers in the lobby, a fireplace in the lobby, and laundry facilities. For a surcharge, the property provides an area shuttle within 5 mi and a casino shuttle. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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- Total number of rooms - 154
- Number of floors - 2
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Chestnut Tree - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
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- Golfing nearby
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Taking the Crown, Then Taking Orders
Former Miss America Kate Shindle's favorite haunts include Artie's Delicatessen, the Glass House Tavern and the Campbell Apartment.
August 29, 2014, Friday
For Wings and a Prayer, and Maybe a Pint
There is a subset of restaurants in New York that cater specifically to people celebrating birth, mourning death and negotiating illness, all because of where they are.
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Mark Rosati, culinary director of Shake Shack, goes on the prowl in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, looking for the next must-have taste.
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Drawn From Life
The cartoonist Roz Chast's graphic memoir is about her parents' final years.
June 1, 2014, Sunday
Exalting the Egg, as Star of the Show or a Sidelight
A selective tasting expedition with Michael Ruhlman, author of "Egg: A Culinary Exploration of the World's Most Versatile Ingredient."
May 30, 2014, Friday
A Ticket to Fame, With Relish
Lloyd Handwerker discusses his documentary "Famous Nathan," about Nathan Handwerker, his grandfather, who started Coney Island's quintessential hot-dog stand.
April 25, 2014, Friday
Grinding Beans Long Before the Baristas Came
Peter Longo shares a cup of espresso and the story of his family's business, the century-old Porto Rico coffee company in Greenwich Village, which has catered to generations of New Yorkers.
March 28, 2014, Friday
Tracy Letts Is Still Haunted by His Past
The Tony-winning playwright and actor on what happens after you write the truth about everyone you know.
March 23, 2014, Sunday
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February 28, 2014, Friday
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The 1988 vintage of this wine was ranked #2 on the Wine Spectator's Top 10 Wines of 1991
The wine has a deep and very dense colour, violet shading almost to black. The nose opens on toast and roasted coffee, then with airing reveals floral aromas of violet and lilac, moving on to blackcurrant, blackberry and black cherry. Very harmonious on the palate, it strikes a perfect balance between well-structured tannins, succulent yet firm, and a rush of flavours in which vanilla, spice and a touch of pepper mingle with blackcurrant and fresh red fruit. The long finish, candid and generous, reveals a powerful, full-bodied and highly expressive Pauillac.
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"Dense purple to the rim, this wine exhibits the classic cassis aroma that is so characteristic of Mouton. Medium to full-bodied, tannic, powerful, and cut somewhat from the 1988 mold, this is a backward, chewy, well-endowed Mouton-Rothschild that will require considerable patience from those who purchase it. A blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 12% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot, the wine needs a good decade of cellaring. Anticipated maturity: 2015-2030+."
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"Complex aromas of tobacco, cedar, berry and currants. Full-bodied, with a solid core of fruit and ripe tannins. Not as good as a barrel sample tasted earlier, but still outstanding for the vintage."
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Chateau Mouton Rothschild, a Premier Cru Classe from the Bordeaux region and one of the world's greatest wines, is owned by Baroness Philippine de Rothschild. The estate includes 205 acres of vines at Pauillac planted with Cabernet Sauvignon (77%), Merlot (11%), Cabernet Franc (10%) and Petit Verdot (2%).
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What if we told you there are people in the valley who are purposely having the bacteria from feces injected into them as a way to get healthier. You might not believe it but this procedure is being performed to battle a growing epidemic. Inside a lab, a white plastic tub contains human feces which is prepared meticulously for a transplant procedure some casually refer to as a poop transplant. It sounds crazy, it sounds gross, but to a Sun City West woman it sounded like a live saver. "And the good news is I'm a new person because of the transplant," said Diane Seeger.At 70, Diane Seeger was living a miserable life due to clostridium difficile infection. Constant diarrhea caused by the infection, made hiking and other activities a challenge. The infection is found among those in healthcare environments, c-diff can be made worse by taking antibiotics. "We don't know why people get it, they might pick it up from environmental surfaces, they could get it from food they could get it from other people involved in healthcare and bring it back into the home environment," said Dr. Robert Orenstein.Initially there was an understandable reluctance to embrace the fecal transplant. "Though people look at it somewhat disgustingly and say you're taking poop from somebody whose well and putting it into someone whose not well, what you're really doing is you're taking bacteria, viruses other micro organisms that normally reside in a healthy gut and transplanting them into the gut of someone whose not healthy and miraculously without having to take medicine to prevent rejection these organisms take effect quite rapidly," explained Dr. Orenstein. Diane Seeger had her fecal microbiota transplant at The Mayo Clinic. It was a 45 minute outpatient procedure much like a colonoscopy. Seeger says she went home to sleep and the next day she woke up a new woman, the diarrhea was gone, her energy was back."She has never been as vivacious, she has never been as she exhausts me within a 48 hour period she became a brand new person," said Ron Seeger , Diane's husband.Which is the most rewarding part of the program says fecal transplant coordinator, Sheryl Griesbach. Sheryl watches people who had been suffering from the c-diff infection improve virtually overnight. Even more profound than their loss of diarrhea is the gain of energy that is the most profound symptom for them Griesbach coordinates donors for the transplant as well. They have to pass health standards, though the stool sample is treated before it is transplanted.Patients like Diane Seeger are an enthusiastic believer. "It's a piece of cake and it's a blessing, I am very fortunate," said Diane.
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MusicMarcia Ball: Big Easy does it
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Rollicking pianist and singer Marcia Ball teams with Terrance Simien Saturday in Poway.
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Rollicking pianist and singer Marcia Ball teams with Terrance Simien Saturday in Poway.
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The San Diego County Office of Education helps close school supplies gap with "Drive for Success."
Sep 18, 2014, 6 a.m.
Aspire Grant Program supports organizations that aid in raising graduation rates, preparing students for success.
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Javious Demetrius Fogle pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit pimping.
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She told a teller she knew their "training rules," the FBI said.
Sep 17, 2014, 5 p.m.
An Oceanside woman has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of her 21-month-old son.
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Volunteer program provides shoes each week to low-income students.
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They used to call it "Cooper's Nut House."
Sep 17, 2014, 3:02 p.m.
The five people seeking the Encinitas mayor's spot and the four folks running for City Council offered some varied viewpoints this week on city policing efforts and the competency of city employees.
Sep 17, 2014, 12:18 p.m.
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Vista-based parent company to consumer electronic brands supports music therapy programs to help children, families heal. Company to be honored at Casa de Amparo's Crystal Ball Gala.
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Nick Stahl Arrested on Lewd Conduct Charge
December 28, 2012 Star Justice
"Terminator 3" star Nick Stahl was arrested Thursday night at an adult movie store in Hollywood and is being investigated on lewd conduct charges.
The troubled star's wife reported him missing in May. After he resurfaced and entered rehab, he again disappeared.
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[QUOTE=John M. Coker (Johnny C.);8992400]Slewo's right.
Oh god, I just typed the words "Slewo's right."
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Don't you people know the gay rule in comics? The longer a character is in constant use, the higher the amount of people that at some point describe them as homosexual :3
I spent some time myself criticizing his use of the word "pervy". But acknowledging that didn't help your desire to zing me.
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That doesn't and shouldn't mean fetish outfits and being portrayed as a slut (I use that word intentionally, because I'm saying her sexuality should not be portrayed as a bad thing--its the very opposite). If that's all he means by marching out "pervy", then there's a problem here. Grant has gotten that part DEAD wrong before.
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