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Dee Dee's "Watermelon Man" is as funky as it oughta be, but Francoise Hardy shifts gears in a big way by joining up with, you guessed it, Iggy Pop for a sly "I'll Be Seeing You" that is a clear highlight of this eclectic disc. The Jazz Passengers take Deborah Harry back into a jazzier (and quirkier) mode for "Il n'y a plus d' apres." Try to find the "Heart of Glass" girl amid all this! Jacky Terrasson's "La Javanaise" is a characteristically high-gloss, dignified performance, bolstered by an uncredited but engaging rhythm section. Patricia Kaas' "Black Coffee" is rescued from anonymousville by her nervy vocals.
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Evelyn Lozada Gets Engaged To Carl CrawfordDecember 26, 2013 11:00:27 by Lisa Princ
Recently, we learned that Evelyn Lozada will be welcoming a new baby in a few short months with Dodgers star Carl Crawford. And now, the Basketball Wives' star has another announcement – Crawford popped the question on Christmas, and Lozada said yes! Details inside.
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Teen Mom's Jenelle Evans And Tyler Baltierra Criticize Farrah Abraham's Couples Therapy AppearanceDecember 10, 2013 05:00:26 by Stephanie Gustafson
Farrah Abraham will be featured front and center on the next season of VH1′s Couples Therapy and, seeing as she failed to convince a 'boyfriend' to join her, she'll be all alone. Fellow Teen Mom and Couples Therapy alum Tyler Baltierra has plenty to say about Farrah's participation — and so does Jenelle Evans!
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Evelyn Lozada Finally Reveals Her Baby's DaddyDecember 7, 2013 09:29:49 by Lisa Princ
Recently, we learned that Evelyn Lozada was not only expecting a new baby, but that she is actually about six months pregnant. Immediately after the news broke, folks began to speculate that the Basketball Wives' star may have hooked back up with her ex-husband, Chad Johnson, with whom she had a domestic dispute with last year that ended their very short marriage. However, Lozada has finally revealed who her baby's daddy really is – and it's not Johnson!
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Mob Wives Come To Blows At Season Premiere PartyDecember 6, 2013 06:00:05 by Suzy Kerr
Is anyone out there really surprised that an event where the entire cast of Mob Wives was present resulted in a huge brawl? Didn't think so. Still, it wasn't your standard melee, with people trash talking and shoving one another, and maybe a few punches being thrown. Rather, the fight that broke out at the reality show's season premiere party involved all that and more, from flying bottles to broken bones.
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Chad Johnson Reacts To Evelyn Lozada's PregnancyDecember 3, 2013 03:30:22 by Lisa Princ
Ever since the news broke that Evelyn Lozada is expecting a baby (and it's not Chad Johnson's), the world has been waiting to hear what the Basketball Wives' star's ex-husband, Chad Johnson had to say about it. Luckily for us, Johnson recently spoke out about Lozada's pregnancy, but what was his reaction? Details inside…
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Evelyn Lozada Confirms Pregnancy, Debuts Baby BumpDecember 1, 2013 12:00:50 by Lisa Princ
A few days ago rumors began to buzz about Evelyn Lozada, claiming that the controversial Basketball Wives' star was very pregnant with her second child. Well, Evelyn confirmed the news herself recently, and she debuted a very big baby bump! Check it out inside…
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Evelyn Lozada Is Pregnant With Second ChildNovember 29, 2013 07:17:46 by Lisa Princ
Just last month we learned that Evelyn Lozada bailed on the Basketball Wives' reunion show, which in turn led to the special getting canceled. At the time, Lozada claimed that she did not want to re-hash her incident with Chad Johnson, thus why she would not be showing up, but now we've learned that Evelyn had another secret reason for bailing! That's right, the former Basketball Wives star is pregnant with her second child!
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Jon Gosselin's Couples Therapy Appearance: Purely Motivated By Money?November 14, 2013 11:30:36 by Stephanie Gustafson
We find it interesting that, just a few months after he claimed to prefer life away from the public eye, Jon Gosselin is back for another shot at reality television. The former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star will work through relationship issues with his current girlfriend, Liz Janetta on VH1′s Couples Therapy. But is he really interested in fixing his relationship — or is it all about the money?
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Farrah Abraham To Join Couples Therapy CastNovember 13, 2013 01:00:39 by Stephanie Gustafson
Looks like Farrah Abraham has decided to abandon her controversial adult entertainment career and return to the humdrum life of a reality star — the Teen Mom alum is slated to join the cast of VH1′s Couples Therapy! Now, the real question is, which publicity stunt boyfriend will play the jilted significant other?
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Evelyn Lozada Bails On Basketball Wives, Reunion Show CanceledOctober 24, 2013 09:00:38 by Lisa Princ
Basketball Wives' star Evelyn Lozada made headlines last year after she married Chad Johnson, only to divorce him a short time later after a domestic violence dispute. And while fans have been waiting to hear what Lozada has to say about it all on the show's reunion special, it's not going to happen. In fact, Lozada bailed on the show, and now there will be no reunion show!
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You know all those crazy people standing in line this morning for the latest edition of the iPhone?
Yeah, well, I was one of them.
You see, I loved the old version of my phone. I called her My Precious. She wasn't everything to me. But she was close. She had stuff to read. Stuff to do. Multiple ways of connecting with other people — some of which involved not actually having to talk to other people!
But over the past few months, My Precious has been getting slower and slower. It was like she was an old American car made in Detroit and all her parts were going kaput at once. She ran like her operating system had been dropped into a vat of goop at a Gummi Bear factory. There was a lot of effffffffort and then crashing. My Precious got to the point where she could only… gasp! … make phone calls and text.
So I'd been eagerly looking forward to the iPhone 4S (or the iPhone 5, as we thought it might be called until last week during most recent Apple's big announcement). Besides having a basic ability to function, the new iPhone sounded really neat. It's even faster than before, has a camera with the ability to capture even more detail, and has a computerized personal assistant named Siri — although I wish my personal assistant were named" Jarvis" or "Alfred" or even "Mr. French."
Apparently you can ask Siri a question or to do something, and she gets it done. She's a smarty. Tech expert Joshua Topolsky, editor-in-chief of "The Verge," tried to trip up Siri with some off-the-wall questions this week. Here are some hidden responses he discovered:
Topolsky: "I need to hide a body."
Siri: "What kind of place are you looking for? Reservoirs; metal foundries; mines; dumps; swamps."
Topolsky: "Who's your daddy?"
Siri: "You are. Can we get back to work now?"
Topolsky: "Open the pod bay doors."
Siri: "I'm sorry Joshua, I'm afraid I can't do that."
If I'd had a Siri, I'd have asked her how to get a new phone — and fast. The trouble was, I didn't immediately pre-order after Apple's announcement, even though my own phone was practically dead in my pocket. I finally stopped by my local AT&T store on Thursday with the intention of pre-ordering. Then, a clever sales person, made a genius suggestion. She said the store would be getting a whole bunch of new iPhones the very next day, not just a few. She said maybe I oughtta stop by. If I happened to not get one, at worst I could pre-order then.
A couple of weeks of waiting for delivery — or immediate gratification?
I choose immediate gratification!
This morning, as I always do, I practically shoved my children onto their school bus. GET. ONTO. THAT. BUS! And then I raced to the AT&T store, where I found myself in line behind about 30 people, some of whom had apparently been there since 4 or 5 a.m. There was evidence of folding chairs at the front of the line. Unfortunately, there was no one dressed as a Jedi or as a boy wizard. No one even performed The Wave. There was just old-fashioned waiting. And it was slightly damp and cold. I've been in longer, earlier-forming lines, though, most notably for Space Mountain and for preschool signups where the parents are competitive but friendly.
A store manager walked out sometimes to keep us informed and to offer us Coca-Cola, which no one wanted because it was, you know, cold and damp and pre-8 a.m. I kept myself busy with my own coffee (which eventually resulted in a race between AT&T service and my bladder) and another piece of marvelous technology, my Kindle reader. And in the back of my head, I wondered slightly about something the manager had said about needing an "authorized account." Did that mean I'm old enough to use a phone and purchase products? I am! Yay me!
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So now I am the proud owner of an iPhone 4S and a grizzled veteran of yet another long retail line. If you want to know more, send me a message on my phone and I'll tell you all about it.
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Imagine an electronic world where information in the physical and financial supply chains is automated and merged into one transparent system. It would lead to shorter trade cycles, faster cash flow, lower operational costs, and higher profitability for everyone involved.
For decades, the industry has recognized the potential benefits this kind of world would bring, but finding the technologies to build it has remained an unmet challenge—until now. To make it a reality, three of Intel's latest processor families are helping merge the physical and financial supply chains:
- Intel® Xeon® processors: Accelerate the performance of physical and financial supply chain applications.
- Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processors1: Reduce total cost of ownership with advanced security and management capabilities.
- Intel® Atom™ processors: Enable a range of mobile devices embedded in the supply chain for logistics and transport.
Understanding today's supply chain
There are far fewer paper-based purchase orders, receipts of shipment, notices, and invoices now that we can automate them electronically using a multitude of devices. From moving goods to financial transactions, online systems can monitor progress and inject a new level of efficiency into slow, centuries-old practices that cost trillions of dollars in world trade each year.
RFID chips and sensor technologies can track goods in transit, creating data that can be matched with trade documentation and streamlining supply-chain functions such as payments, working capital, lending, and certification. At any time in the process, absolutely anyone along the supply chain, from financial service providers to their customers, can immediately and securely see all relevant information—and identify exceptions to avoid costly delays.
Supplying the power behind these innovations is the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors, which provide the energy-efficient, reliable performance the 21st-century supply chain demands.
Intel® Atom™ processors: enabling a mobile fleet
Merging the physical and financial supply chains will be much more efficient with mobile technology that manages and displays data on the move. With a compact design, Intel® Atom™ processors enable a broad range of devices, including netbooks, tablets, handhelds, and smartphones, as well as logistics and transport devices embedded in the supply chain.
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With its many built-in features, the Intel® Xeon® processor family offers the reliability, availability, and serviceability you need to accelerate both performance and throughput.
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- Performance: The entire Intel Xeon processor family offers a host of features that accelerate performance and throughput of financial and physical supply-chain applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Best of all, it does all this while reducing the cost of power and cooling. Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)2 can also enhance the performance of ERP systems to help make the most of widely distributed server resources.
Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processor: advanced security and management
The Intel® Core™ i5 vPro™ processor offers unprecedented protection for your trade clients and business data.1 Its built-in features are specially designed to address key IT security concerns, and include:
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Some of the most successful hotels play against type. Given Bangkok's image as some sort of latter-day Sin City, there's a real shortage of old-fashioned elegance. This is where the Hotel Muse Bangkok comes in. It's a member of Accor's MGallery sub-label, and it inherits some of its French colonial style from its European ownership, but it doesn't stop there: the Muse's lines are clean and contemporary, but its design is full of homages to the Bangkok of a century ago, rendered with a level of detail that's almost baroque in its ornateness.
High marks for personality, then. The appeal, however, is more than skin deep, as the Muse's facilities and comforts place it squarely in luxury-hotel territory. Even the most basic rooms have space for sofas and work desks, and in the bathrooms roll-top tubs and separate showers are standard throughout. Corner rooms make the most of the views, looking out over Bangkok's upscale Langsuan district, and the top six floors are reserved for the Muse Residence King rooms, which are outfitted for long stays but make for perfectly plush short ones as well.
A business center and masses of event space mean the Muse is well suited to business travel, but it's by no means solely a business hotel. The rooftop pool has an impressive view of the skyline, and is accompanied by a spa and fitness center. Meanwhile a Thai restaurant is joined by an Italian kitchen, and the nightlife is headlined by the Speakeasy, which isn't quite what it sounds like — rather than some basement hole-in-the-wall, it's a multi-room bar and lounge spanning two levels at the top of the Muse.
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- 5 Guest Reviews
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- Bangkok, Thailand
- Neighborhood: Pathumwan
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- ogunc
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- Rating: Good
What I liked:
Speakeasy bar and medici restaurant
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Nothing, had a wonderful stay!
- Zaki
- Stayed March 2013
- Rating: Good
What I liked:
Bed and linen. Large shower.
Rooftop bar.
General vibe.
What the hotel could do better:
Ask the concierge to smarten up and be less surly.
Both breakfast orders messed up.
- Ashwin
- Stayed December 2012
- Rating: Good
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The look and feel, location and roof top bar.
Rooms were fantastic
Great location in a high end residential aread next to siam sq shopping and midway between Sukkumvit and Silom entertainment areas
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Worst concierge ever! Extremely lazy and inefficient. His restaurant seggestions included mcDonalds(?! - in the city known for best food) and couldn't gte us a reservation at nahm. We walked over to 4 seasons next door and the concierge there got us a table at nahm for the same time slot he said was not available. Knowledge on shopping options, bars & restaurants was very limited and simply sent us to tourist traps. Gave me incorrect information that provate boat hire companies didn't operate in phuket and touse the ferry because he was lazy to look into it.


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The MLB Schedule Will Be Posted for 2014 around Sept.11/2013/. When it does, we will come out strong with a monthly schedule page for all 6 months next year, a weekly schedule for each week, a master schedule of Doubleheaders (doable as a ball park fan), and also a scheduled home doubleheader master schedule (these often come based on weather cancellations that arise early in the season and then the team puts up 2 games in one day later on.
Each time will also receive a breakdown by month post. We intend to do a power point youtube video for each club. These will include their monthly home and road schedules, days off, and head to head records.
The MLB Reports is coming after the MLB Schedule hard. Listen to our Audio explanation of this I did on our 2 and A Hook Podcast – at about 20 minutes in..
There will be a lot of subpages. This current page will be broken up into 2 separate main pages in Sept. We are going to the #1 Option when it comes to the MLB Schedule.
As the times of all the games listed for the MLB Schedule are posted, we will be updating them on here too. This is extremely vital for planning road trips.
I am also contemplating writing a chart that shows the distances for all of the MLB parks in coordination with all other parks.
I simply hate the way http://www.mlb.com does their schedules – and while I don't like the NHL anymore, I have to give them kudos for the way they do their scheduling.
As a former handicapper, another thing I can't stand is that once the game results are over, the Master Schedule of times for each game disappear with those results.
In MLB Box scores, it doesn't even list if it was a day game or not. Not cool in my opinion.
if that weren't enough, I am really going to start detailing every last trick of the trade I know for Road Travel. I understand the frustration of going on MLB Road Trips – and spending more money than anticipated.
I will work together with my fellow ballpark chasers (a lot of whom have their own websites and can save you massive amounts of knowledge with their tips.
Last year I wrote about 10 blogs for a travel series. Not only that, I am going to list make-able Double Headers Master Schedule list for every single possible scenario in the 2013 MLB Season. I do this every year.
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He also saw her argue with Freebo, and remembers Freebo making a veiled threat when she left, so he assumes (incorrectly, as it turns out) that Freebo killed her.
Q. What is it actually in real life?
A. A strip of grassy lawn, perhaps a small park, next to the harbor - but not in Miami.
Q. Where can I find it in real life?
A. You'll find this grassy strip on the south side of Sampson Way between 5th & 6th Street (just south of Harbor Blvd.), in the Los Angeles harbor at San Pedro, CA.
That's at the far south end of 6th Street, where it ends at the harbor. The park lies between Sampson Way (on the west) and the harbor's water edge (on the east).
The small park is right next door to (north of) the Los Angeles Maritime Museum (that blue/gray building you see behind Dexter when he gets out of his car), and it's just south of the distinctive waterside Fire Station where the city docks its colorful fireboats. (In fact, you can see part of those fireboats at the pier behind Dexter & Debra, as they stand by the fence.)
It's also less than half a mile north of Ports O'Call Village.
That water (which you see behind them when they head down to see the body), is the Main Channel of the Los Angeles harbor - where all the big freighter ships come into the harbor to be unloaded. And on the other side of that water you see piles of cargo containers (on Terminal Island), waiting to be loaded aboard those ships.
you see behind Dexter (in the fourth photo from the top, and
the photo below) is the old San Pedro Municipal Building; it's actually
on the other (west) side of Harbor Blvd, at the southwest corner of
and 6th Street. (It has always reminded me somewhat of the Texas School
Book Depository building from the JFK assassination.)
I shot the photos below in Oct. 2008
The photos above & below are looking south, towards the Maritime Museum, where Dexter parked his car.
The photo below (looking northeast) shows a fuller view of the fireboat pier behind the fence.
The location is just a few blocks away from the housing project (where they filmed a gang murder for the second season), and next to the cargo lot where, in the first season, they filmed Dexter checking a cargo container while searching for his kidnapped sister. It's also not very far from Little Chino's party house, the church where they held Paul's funeral, or the spot where the police found a victim inside a railroad box car.
And from this
third season,
it's right across the channel from the Skinner's
warehouse, about a half mile from Freebo's
house, and only about three miles northeast of the
pier where Dexter and Miguel Prado argue.
photo of the park. And here is a map
Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?
A. This was an easy one for me.
I used
to frequent Ports O'Call Village (my brother worked there), and I've
to both the Maritime Museum and the fireboat station as part of my
book research. So I recognized the area the moment I saw it.
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Arione Wing-Flex - used this before the Zoncolan & I might go back to it
Arione CX Carbon - it's not an Arione Wing-Flex & it didn't work for me
Becker Carbon - very comfortable saddle, but only for a week at a time. After a week my ass would hurt. I think my perfect saddle is a Becker with some padding.
Selle SMP Evolution - actually a very comfortable saddle - I was happy with it & only stopped using it because it was ugly. Loved the cutout.
Aspide Arrowhead - I used this for a year - it was alright.
Specialized Toupe - absolutely hated this saddle. Used for 1 ride & I will never use one again.
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I have never ridden a Aliante, but they are just so freakin' heavy I don't know that I want to just yet.
Checking out the Selle San Marco site the Regale Carbon FX looks sexy, but I can't find any online shops that have it just to find a price.
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The lowest rungs of the microfinance ladder are occupied by the poorest of borrowers in the world's underdeveloped economies — and in many places the great majority of borrowers are women.
There is some difference of opinion on the benefit of this gender bias. One view holds that when men see women successfully turn microloans into income that supports the household (such as spending on education and health), men find their position as primary breadwinner threatened. Consequently, men frequently reduce their contribution to the household because they believe the size of the loans women wield is larger than it in fact is, and more friction ensues. The thinking here is that opening up borrowing opportunities to men would counteract these negative outcomes.
Other observers point to evidence that lending to women is more likely to result in better health and education levels for the household overall than lending to men, as men tend to spend surplus disproportionately on alcohol, tobacco and gambling at the expense of supporting the household. Proponents say that the gender bias produces an empowerment effect: not only is lending to women more likely to result in better health and education levels for the household, but it can be a transformative experience for other members of the household to see a women leading the household, managing a loan, working and bringing home money. There is still little empirical evidence about the consequences of the gender bias or what happens when efforts are made to counteract the bias by extending loans to men.
My colleagues Beatriz Armendariz of Harvard and University College London and Nigel Roome of the Free University of Brussels and Tilberg University have done some excellent preliminary work in Mexico investigating the bias question. Anecdotal evidence suggests that female borrowers do find it more difficult to manage their relationships with their male counterparts over tensions about money and power in the household. One proposed remedy is to involve men in borrowing groups (most microlending depends on a group dynamic to succeed and many groups are open only to women) to foster a sense of participation in lending and some parity in the household. In Mexico, when men were brought into the borrowing group, loan officers reported more investment overall, higher repayment rates, more sharing of both business and household chores and management, and decreases in household tensions.
Studies by others found that, in Africa, the empowerment factor is inconsistent and largely dependent on differences in regions and households; research in Bangladesh suggests that women borrowers frequently cede control to their husbands when choosing how to invest.
This evidence is noteworthy, but I caution against embracing this approach too soon. Until we know more about which practices produce the best outcomes and how they vary by geography and culture, we should view gender bias as a good thing that we should work to keep intact.
My own view is that it is preferable to forgo a certain parity in order that the next generation sees women as the primary breadwinners in households, even if that might extract a psychological cost on the household in the form of marital tensions. Because women are discriminated against in so many cultures it is a transformative experience to grow up with a female head of household. That alone argues for allowing the bias to persist.
Professor Suresh Sundaresan is the editor of Microfinance: Emerging Trends and Challenges. You can read more in a Q&A with Professor Sundaresan in this month's issue of Ideas at Work.
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The Ideal Software Bundle for Scientists?
Software bundles like MacHeist have become a regular feature of the Mac landscape of late. There are plenty of good deals to be had, and plenty of discussion about the ethics of such bundles. But leaving all that aside, what would be your ideal bundle for science?
I was thinking about this the other day. Here's the list I came up with:
That comes to a total price of around $400. Give me that for $50, or even $100, and I would be a very happy — and productive — scientist. (Actually, I already have a lot of this software, so I might not be the target audience. My intention was more to come up with a package that a scientist beginning on the Mac, or with little knowledge of the available software packages, would most benefit from.)
In choosing my bundle I have tried to target a general scientist, and have not included any domain specific products. I have also tried to include a package to target each of the most common activities of a scientist: personal organization, diagramming, data storage, text editing, reading and storing literature, plotting results, digitalizing data, and writing articles.
I'm sure there are lots of programs I have forgotten, or programs listed above that others will disagree on. Post your ideal bundle in the comments, and let the discussion begin.
Ideal software
After using the mac for two years, I have tried to surrender to Apple's philosophy and use their own installed and purchased apps where possible. So my list of additional science software to purchase is small. I also think that science life could be even simpler if all the functions of theses apps were packaged in one streamlined program. If Apple integrated Filemaker into iWork and beefed up the graphing and staTs for filemaker/numbers the needs of most scientists would be covered.
Microsoft Remote Desktop**
Filemaker Pro 9 (lab protocols & records) (Bento doesn't suit me yet as it's not cross platform).
Data analysis: SPSS 16, Igor Pro***
Drew, I'm interested to know what advantages you find Omnigraffle offers over Keynote for producing diagrams? Also you haven't listed a stats package?
After having tried many organisation/GTD software, I also just use Leopards' mail.app, notes (for project planning), todos, and ical for appointments. There are a few bugs that Apple needs to get sorted, but it's still the best. Omnifocus is too much work for me.
*I used to use Scrivener, but recently moved all my documents into Pages. Pages is not quite as good at the raw editing stage, but I got tired of stuffing around with exports from Scrivener, and getting figures out of it. Colleages would ask me for a copy of a document and I just couldn't get it to them quickly. I use Pages Table of Contents coupled with viewing thumbnails instead. Pages is simple and elegant and lures me in to want to use it. Also of late I have also turned to Keynote for making many scientific Illustrations and posters, rather than Adobe Illustrator. Keynote actually has nice bezier curves and faster keyboard navigation. It has some limitations, but does the job most of the time. I've also replaced Acrobat Pro with Preview for most PDF production.
**For when I need to use MS windows via a terminal server.
***I have not done a lot of analysis on the mac, so I'm still subject to influence here. I also get SPSS for free. I like Aabel, but I worry it might be too limited. I wish someone would come out with some powerful science plugin for iwork Numbers, in the meantime I've made reasonable workarounds for making boxplots in Numbers.
Few ideas
I didn't know GraphClick (I previously used the open source g3data), but I like it a lot and just bought it.
I don't know DataGraph well, but I don't think it does much more than the free Plot. I'm amazed, though, that you don't have any software for plotting in 3D, because it is really a common task in both visualising data and communicating your results.
The other thing I would have liked to see is a good, simple vectorial drawing program. It looks like OmniGraffle can be twisted into that, though.
What about drawing?
A vector-drawing application such as Lineform or VectorDesigner for making figures / illustrations / schematics would also be welcome.
few more ideas
To borrow a phrase, I don't know Papers well, but I don't think it does much more than the free BibDesk.
Re: Drawing
I usually use OmniGraffle for basic diagrams, so I don't really need a vector app. But I am familiar with Lineform, and can certainly recommend it.
Drew McCormack
Re: Bibdesk and Plot
I am not too familiar with Plot, so I can't really comment.
I have used Papers, and it is really a fantastic product. Maybe you can do similar things with other programs, but those that use Papers are almost religious about it. It's easily worth the 30 euro price tag.
Drew McCormack
I'm not a scientist myself, but a mere computer science student. My father is a scientist, though...
For simple vector drawings you might want to check out the open source GraphViz Dot; it makes excellent and beautiful arrow charts from a simple, expressive language. I'd be interested to hear what you think of it; for passing the advice on. Thanks.
Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen
software bundle
Yes to Papers and Omnigraffle.
I'd add a couple more:
Appzapper (for removing apps)
iChat (for sharing desktops to demo things with collaborators)
Noteshare (keeping multi-userdocs available across internet)
Snapzpro (screen shots and movies of screen actions)
Netnewswire for RSS feeds
Connotea (for online ref management)
Sente (ref manager)
Chris Upton
University of Victoria
BC Canada
Bundle for science
My ideal bundle will be something like this:
But, I have to agree that most of the time the FREE (i.e. Qtiplot) equivalent software can get the job down as good as the above mentioned. Actually, I already paid for pro FIt and Papers. Pymol I compile from scratch. Then again, maybe it is that I just haven't tried most of the software mentioned above even when included in one of my macs (as has been the case for OmniGraffle).
Maybe this is not the right place for this but I miss Caffeine Software. Their PixelNhance is the best program I have ever used to modify images consistently. And it was free!
Graphing Calculator
Even though I have Mathematica 6, there are things I would still rather do in Graphing Calculator. I haven't used a new version in a while, but it has been a great program.
I'd say if your vector
I'd say if your vector Illustration needs are modest, buy iwork and use Keynote. I've been a power user of Adobe Illustrator for 10+ years and I find Keynote's bezier curves are just fine the majority of the time. Plus Keynote is great for oral and poster presentations and works seemlessly with media on your mac from iphoto, preview and iTunes.
I like Bibdesk a lot, specially how it stores all the data in a bib file that can be used directly from latex. I haven't really used papers, haven't had the need for it. Other software: Textmate, mactex and Omnigraffle.
A great cross-platform stand alone app for those of you who need to make power calculations:
OT rant on problems with Pages
This is off-topic but I feel like making these comments on Pages here anyway.
Pages has two aspects that drive me nuts. First, text characters are rendered incorrectly—the particular rendering algorithm overrides the system-wide selection set in the preference pane called Appearance. The override that Pages uses is an old, out-of-date one that makes most text look too light and thus hard to read. It amazes me that this has persisted in Pages for years. It seems like an obvious bug but my fear is that someone decided to do this on purpose.
Second, there is no way in Pages to get rid of the freaking margins. News flash—the vast majority of documents these days are never printed and screen real estate is still scarce. Note to Apple: make a menu item that gets rid of about 90% of the side and top margins. Every other word processor that can think of for the Mac has this feature. Keeping the margins visible with no option to get rid of them makes it look like the target audience is people making flyers for their garage sale.
What, no LaTeX junkies here?
For writing reports: TextMate + MacTex (light distribution) + BibDesk
For managing papers: Papers
For plotting: Plot
For making diagrams: OmniGraffle
Increasing the page size and
Increasing the page size and margins and changing the view to "Two-up" and possibly changing to two-column view goes some way toward viewing more of your document on the screen.
The Ideal Software Bundle for Scientists?
OmniFocus is one of my favs also!
Some things are free...
And some are not.
R is a great scientific package that's free. It can be a steep learning curve and isn't exactly GUI-driven, but it has an enormous number of packages written for it that probably cover most any scientific task you might have.
Igor Pro is also great and has wonderful graphing capabilities, GUI, and support, for a reasonable price.
OmniGrafffle is great for many diagrams/charts.
Graphviz is free and it's easy to output its DOT language from programs you might write. (The previous version of OmniGraffle reads basic DOT, and the latest version even incorporates several graphviz algorithms, FWIW.)
Weka and FreeMat are free.
OmniOutliner is great for outlining and outline/simple-spreadsheet tasks.
Pages is very useful, as is Preview. Numbers is elegant, but doesn't seem to perform well on anything beyond small datasets.
App Bundle for Scientists
Many applications are the same as in your or commenters' lists with one notable addition being DevonThink Pro.
P.S. I wrote that blog post first as you have to register to post comments here. This site is very interesting and I registered in the end, but what about allowing people to login using OpenID in order to post comments?
Free and Open Source Apps
Some of comments here (e.g., "Some things are free...") talk about open source alternatives which at times can be as good or even better than their commercial analogues. Anyway, they are free. :)
Maybe we need another post for collecting together application names for a "Free and Open Source App Bundle"?
The current topic could also be used, but the initial post talks about collecting together a bundle of apps that you need to pay for.
One of such apps which I've been fascinated with recently is NodeBox - it is an incredible 2D graphics app, scripted with Python. 've got to see it to believe. Now I just need to find some "serious, scientific" application for it.
A few more...
As a chemist, I have my own set of specific apps, so I'll ignore those.
People have already posted many of my favorites: OmniOutliner or DevonThink, OmniGraffle, OmniFocus...
Here are some general ones...
- Adobe Acrobat (which includes OCR for PDF files)
- Keynote. If you're a Mac user and still running PowerPoint, your presentations will improve quickly.
- Grapher. It's incredibly useful for quick mathematical plots.
- Typinator or TypeIt4Me. Save yourself keystrokes and fix typos as you type.
- Quicksilver or Butler or LaunchBar -- so much more efficient.
- SnapzPro or other screencast solution
Two nice (free) TeX programs...
A couple of people have mentioned TeX, but I think they mentioned non-free programs.
I've been using two free programs lately that both work very well:
1. The TeXShop package includes everything, including TeX/LaTeX/etc, and four other programs:
The TeXShop editor, which is a nice, syntax-coloring text editor that includes macros, lots of options, and it will work with TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc, etc. It has synchronization with the previewer (CMD-click on text in one to see it highlighted in the other), and is an all-around nice solution if you're a power user or like to be close to the LaTeX.
Also included is BibDesk, LaTeXiT (a standalone equation editor that includes PDF drag-n-drop to Keynote and other such programs), and Excalibur (spell checker that can work with TeX code).
2. For a more WYSIWYG interface, there's LyX. The output isn't perfectly WYSIWYG, but it's definitely good enough that you don't have to preview very often. I believe it used to require X-windows, but no longer does, which is nice.
It also has other nice features, like Branches, which lets you tag material for optional inclusion in the final document. For example, create an exam by creating the answer key that includes both questions and (in-place) answers. Mark the answers as being in the Answer branch and you can include or exclude all of them in one step.
It also supports change tracking as many wordprocessors have: deleted text shows as strike-through, added text as blue, etc. You can go through a changed document and accept/reject changes. Further, it also supports (RCS-based) versioning that might be useful in a very structured workflow or for group collaboration.
It even does a quite decent job of reading pre-existing LaTeX documents in. And if you find the right article on the web and follow the instructions, it has support for using R's Sweave, which is very, very sweet.
Comparing the two: TeXShop is the more traditional LaTeX tool, while LyX is more for the GUI age. LyX does not include an installation of TeX, so you have to obtain that separately. (I installed TexShop first, so it was all there then I decided to try LyX.) LyX adds several features beyond TeX (branches, etc). Either choice is good, though if you're more oriented to creating technical documents than to getting into the mechanisms by which you create technical documents, I'd say that LyX is a better choice.
(We really need to start a thread on Literate Reporting sometime. I've recently discovered R's Sweave and it's pretty cool. I can see why Literate Programming has never taken off, but Literate Reporting makes a LOT of sense and does not really require anything beyond what you'd do to analyze and make a report anyhow.)
other programs to add to list...
I wold recommend http://www.graphsketcher.com/ because it is so easy to do a graph mock-up, to help designing yout plots.
For real data analysis graphics I use R (and the ggplot package), though I recently got JMP (Mac + Win) which looks pretty promising.
For finding and recalling I use zotero (FireFox plugin for making bibliographies) and TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com) with tiddlysnip and Google bookmarks.
Locally I recently discovered yep (http://www.yepthat.com/ ) and it is brilliant. It finds and catalogs all those PDFs of papers very fast and lets you browse thumbnails of the covers (with a cool magnifier tool). And you can add tags as you wish.
I am also looking at leap, which is similar but for all files.
This is a lifesaver for anyone coming from the Unix world. Macports (or Fink if you swing that way), bring just about all Unix tools you know and love to the tips of your fingers with ease, so you don't have to go compiling things yoursef, figuring out strange dependencies, or downloading separate mac-specific apps for simple command lines utilities.
Additionally, VMWare/Parallels can be lifesavers if you need to run certain applications that don't support OSX.
3D plotting
The best 3D plotting software I have found for the Mac is DataTank. It is starting to get old ( I think the author is focused on DataPlot) and the help is disastrous, but the GUI is so much more nice and intuitive than others (Igor Pro, I'm looking at you) that it is totally worth it.
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Regarding DataTank
I'm very surprised to hear that my help is considered disastrous. I certainly thought I was better than that, and always try to respond to people very quickly. An e-mail might fall through the cracks, and attachments can sometimes be caught by an overly aggressive spam checker, but hopefully not frequently. The discussion board that I set up is another way to communicate.
It is true that DataGraph and the DataGraph framework are getting more attention from me these days than DataTank. I do address requests and bug reports for DataTank however, but I haven't reshuffled the UI recently or made large changes. The LaTeX type parser was however added to DataTank from DataGraph recently.
To sum up what I make
DataTank - focused on analyzing spatial data and algorithm development. Good for 2D, 3D
slicing and dicing and large data sets. Handles time series very well (for example from CFD computations)
DataGraph - Graphing, some standard statistics, but focused on being easy to use
quick, and create clean publication level results. It does scale fairly well, but not as much
as DataTank that uses a hybrid disk/memory approach.
dgraph - a command line utility to create graphs based on DataGraph files and text data files.
Get access to this once you register DataGraph.
DataGraph Framework - A cocoa framework that allows you to use the graphics engine from DataGraph in
your own Cocoa applications. Very quick to incorporate and is basically to graphs what
the Interface Builder is to user interfaces.
David is right, and I want to apologize: I didn't mean his support help, but rather the help files included in the program. And even then I was wrong, since I didn't realize there has been a new version of that help for a while that I didn't know of. My comments pertained some old version of the help files, the new ones are great and so has always been DataTank's email support.
Seriously, I suggest people give it a try. I have tested almost all mac visualization programs (even expensive ones like TecPlot) and DataTank is superior and in a class of its own.
Visualization Shootout Article?
Would you be willing to write a "shootout" or comparison article for MacResearch. I think a lot of people would like to hear opinions on TecPlot vs. DataTank vs. ... I know my old review of Aabel was well-read.
For microscopy, TLC and gel image quantification
I think ImageJ is a very useful tool for those who need to enhance simple images like thin layer chromatograms or electrophoresis gels. It also could be used as a densitometry program. And (perhaps its primary function) it's a perfect software for confocal microscopy data analysis. It's written in Java, is cross-platform, and free.
The software I use (geochemistry)
Well, some of my favourites are already listed (LyX is a must...).... I like JabRef a lot. It's a kind of Papers but from the Bibtex point of view: you can create bibliographic databases importing cite researchs from the main bibligraphic databases and then you can export them to LaTex or LyX, but also you can use it to link to your pdf's. Is not as fancy as papers, but to me is very helpful...and, is Open Source!!!!
Besides LyX, I also use NeoOffice as most of the geological word is controlled by Word documents...
For 2D graphics: Kaleidagraph, Plot (free and powerful) and in the next future SciDavis, when I will be able to run it in a Mac.
SPSS alternative
I always suggest JMP for statistics. My department is almost entirely devoted to SAS. Everyone here insists that the only way to do statistics correctly is with SAS by hand-coding from scratch every time.
JMP is from the same company, has a graphical interface, stores the data inside the same file with the analysis, and I've yet to find something I wanted to do in JMP that I couldn't figure out. Also, after taking the extra time the first try, all subsequent attempts take less time to do than screwing around trying to hand code the analysis.
P.S. I also suggest using Skim in conjunction with Papers. You can edit PDF's in Preview, but their are more options in Skim and is easier to use. (To prevent irrevocable edits, I save 2 copies of each article after editing. One is a PDF bundle (PDFD), and the other is as a regular PDF with imbedded notes)
Pretty much the same here
An example of software bundle from a geoscientist standpoint
- OmniFocus for task management (sync to Palm using the MissingLink although swtiching soon to iPhone + omnifocus)
- GanntProject for project management -- Free and cross platform
- Papers for pdf library and references (switched from JabRef which is a reasonably good free and cross platform app).
- TexShop for LaTeX (sometimes use Texmaker for quick and easy visual debugging (colored text) or line numbers) --Free
- Pages for text processing
- Matlab for mathematical computing
- KomodoEdit (editor for programming) -- Free. TextWrangler or Smultron are another free options, more lightweight than Komodo.
- Fink for all *nix thingy (GMT, wget, rsync, etc) --Free
- Parallel Desktop (for my ONE software that requires Windows XP...).
- Quicksilver for quick access to applications, etc (faster than Spotlight) -- Free
- mucommander for some specific directory operations -- Free
- OmniOutlinerPro for gathering research info, draft ideas, etc. So far so good (almost ready to buy it) but still hesitating with DevonThinkPro.
- OmniGrafflePro (almost ready to buy it). Presently using Inkscape (Free) but it took me 1/10th o the time to make the same illustration with OmnGraffle.
- Scrivener. Great but minor details still prevent me from buying it (When using Edit Scrivenings for several documents, I would like the documents' titles to appear in the next (e.g., Intro...) without manually adding them, which becomes a mess when exporting the doc).
- GraphClick: soon to be convinced!!
Stata and LaTeX
I see a lot of the applications that I use and depend on here, but one I've not seen listed for statistics is Stata. I used to use JMP (and SAS on PCs) and have tried almost everything I could get my hands on. What sold me on Stata is that, unlike SAS, they don't treat the Mac as a bastard child. That is, there is NO lag between the Mac and Windows (or other OS versions) in features, capabilities, etc. I just got sick and tired of having software that was behind the Windows version's capabilities.
Stata isn't cheap, but educators get substantial discounts. They have several versions of it with different capabilities, and unless one works with very, very large datasets, the less expensive versions are more than adequate (not 100% sure but the versions differ in their capabilities as to size of dataset and multiprocessor use). I save several hundred dollars by buying the 'basic' documentation. Basic is about 8 or 9 volumes of documentation, each at several hundred pages! Also, whenever I've had a question, I always get a response (complete with code!) within a day, and the same person will continue to work with you to make sure you have all that you need.
Moving on to LaTeX, I highly recommend downloading the MacTeX package and either using TeXShop or Lyx for writing. Although the learning curve is somewhat daunting,
You can get MacTex here: http://www.tug.org/mactex/
Another excellent tool for
Another excellent tool for volumetric visualisation is ParaView. Unlike DataTank it is free and open-source. Works nicely both on PPC and Intel machines. As the name of the program also suggests, having a multicore/multiprocessor systems helps greatly.
Dr Hüseyin Hacihabiboğlu
CDSPR, King's College London
The Ideal software bundle for scientists... and grad students
I have been on the search for the perfect set of scientific software from the standpoint of a graduate student in solid state chemistry. Because I am a starving grad student I had to be very picky about what I purchased what is free/ open-source. Here is what I'm currently running.
Math and Stats
DataTank: Recent convert (about a week) but this is awesome and the developer is really helpful.
Datagraph: Was my gateway drug to DataTank, I switched to Datagraph when it started to seem that Plot was no longer under active development (David added a support for importing Plot files for those of you still using it). Again the developer is really good about communication and is very willing to add functionality to the software. Well worth the money.
Data Analysis
CrystalMaker suite (site licensed)
Writing and Research
Office 08 (Mostly for paper writing with my PI, but excel is handy every once in a while... I only have it because my PI gave me the funds.)
Project management
Things: come on... we scientists... we need another brain to keep track of the minutia... things is great.
My Stuff
This is what i use right now:
- BibDesk
- Skim
- ipython/numpy/scipy/matplotlib/pytables
- Igor Pro
ToDo List:
- iGTD
- TeXShop + TexLive
- BBedit
- sshfs
- OmniGraffle Pro
- XCode
- Mercurial or Bazaar as version control system (can't decide yet)
- Platypus makes nice dropable apps out of shel/python/whatever scripts
- VMD Molecular Graphics Viewer
- VMWare for virtual Linux installation for one of our lab software
That's all software I need right now and I am happy with it.
Re:My Stuff
I would like to second Skim. That program is amazing. Much better than Preview or the built in reader in Pages. For me, that is primarily because of a great full-screen reader and the ability to take scrollable snapshots of the paper so that you can look at the ToC or a figure while reading the text related to it.
As a grad student working on strict deadlines and having to stay on tasks during huge periods of free time and prevent myself from procrastinating til the last minute but not work so much that I burn out, OmniPlan has helped me space out my tasks, complete with time estimates and amounts of times on specific days that I will work on them.
It is expensive ($90 for educational version) but it has been indispensible for me working on my PhD work. There is just too much free time for me to manage without it. I usually either work too much at the beginning or end and get burned out. This helps me space things out.
The Ideal Software Bundle for Scientists
My list is:
Filemaker Pro
iWork, except PAges
Nisus Writer Pro
I would drop Nisus in favour of Pages, giving better integration between all iWork programmes, if only I figure out how to insert a numbered caption under a table or graph in Pages. Does any one know ?
what about GNUPlot for plotting?
Our whole lab uses gnuplot for a lot of our plotting needs. Anyone else use it?
My software consists of Textmate with FORTRAN plugin, gitHUB for a repository (so using git and utilizing the TEXTMATE project drawer plugin). Then PAPERS for my article management and fianlly OmniFOCUS, with iphone app, to keep track of all I need to do.
From my perspective
(computational math)
* TextMate (coding, TeX:ing)
* gcc + mpicc
* MacPorts (invaluable)
* ParaView (Great visualization software)
* LaTeX (teTeX distribution)
* Beamer (for presentations)
* BibDesk (for reference management)
* Matlab (the Mac version is unfortunately subpar)
* Python (Scipy, numpy a little bit. Transitioning from matlab is cumbersome though)
* MacFuse + MacFusion (a neat way of managing remote directories)
* PsyncX (for backups)
* Mercurial (for revision control)
* Trac (Web based project management which runs on Mac, with wiki, etc. Interfaces with Mercurial via plugin)
All is free, except for TextMate (which is inexpensive) and Matlab.
thanks for such an important
It sounds like you want to
It sounds like you want to hook multiple keyboards, mice and monitors to the mac Pro and then have each student work off of that. I doubt that can be done. But even if it could, I think there would be a performance penalty.


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