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Big data and privacy: an uneasy face-off for government to face
MIT workshop kicks off Obama campaign on privacy
Thrust into controversy by Edward Snowden's first revelations last year, President Obama belatedly welcomed a "conversation" about privacy. As cynical as you may feel about US spying, that conversation with the federal government has now begun. In particular, the first of three public workshops took place Monday at MIT.
Given the locale, a focus on the technical aspects of privacy was appropriate for this discussion. Speakers cheered about the value of data (invoking the "big data" buzzword often), delineated the trade-offs between accumulating useful data and preserving privacy, and introduced technologies that could analyze encrypted data without revealing facts about individuals. Two more workshops will be held in other cities, one focusing on ethics and the other on law.
Machine Data at Strata: "BigData++"
By David Andrzejewski of SumoLogic
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting the machine data track of talks at Strata Santa Clara. Like "big data", the phrase "machine data" is associated with multiple (sometimes conflicting) definitions, two prominent ones come from Curt Monash and Daniel Abadi. The focus of the machine data track is on data which is generated and/or collected automatically by machines. This includes software logs and sensor measurements from systems as varied as mobile phones, airplane engines, and data centers. The concept is closely related to the "internet of things", which refers to the trend of increasing connectivity and instrumentation in existing devices, like home thermostats.
More data, more problems
This data can be useful for the early detection of operational problems or the discovery of opportunities for improved efficiency. However, the decoupling of data generation and collection from human action means that the volume of machine data can grow at machine scales (i.e., Moore's Law), an issue raised by both Monash and Abadi. This explosive growth rate amplifies existing challenges associated with "big data". In particular two common motifs among the talks at Strata were the difficulties around:
- mechanics: the technical details of data collection, storage, and analysis
- semantics: extracting understandable and actionable information from the data deluge
Change is hard. Adherence is harder.
How do we motivate sustained behavior change when the external motivation disappears—like it's supposed to?
If you've ever tried to count calories, go on a diet, start a new exercise program, change your sleep patterns, spend less time sitting, or make any other type of positive health change, then you know how difficult it is to form new habits. New habits usually require a bit of willpower to get going, and we all know that that's a scarce resource. (Or at least, a limited one.)
Change is hard. But the real challenge comes after you've got a new routine going—because now you've got to keep it going, even though your original motivations to change may no longer apply. Why keep dieting when you no longer need to lose weight? We've all had the idea at some point that we really should reward ourselves for that five-pound weight loss with a cupcake, right?
This phenomenon of the disappearing-external-motivation can turn long-term behavior change into a Herculean task. And when it comes to taking medication, such a major obstacle to adherence can become very dangerous.
Taking pills (or injections, or whatever) every day is a pain, sometimes literally. Most of us only do it when the consequences of not taking our medication more painful. But if the medication is doing its job, then the symptoms that motivated adherence in the first place will vanish. The patient will start feeling fine—maybe even fine enough that their biggest problem is now the medication's side effects—and the motivation to stick to the burdensome routine will wane.
If you're on long-term medication for something like diabetes, liver or kidney disease, or mental health disorders, then a slip in adherence—let alone quitting cold turkey, as many people unilaterally decide to do—can spell disaster. The challenge of sustained behavior change is real, and it is significant. And many doctors are still scratching their heads over what to do about it.
While I was in California for the O'Reilly Strata Conference last month, I organized a meetup of healthcare professionals and data geeks to talk about some issues of common interest. This question of adherence came up there, too, and one of the attendees threw out a half-joking suggestion that perhaps long-term medication should come with placebos at random intervals—the idea being that if symptoms occasionally returned, subtly and without warning, then patients would have intermittent "reminders" of why their medication was so vital.
Leaving aside the significant health and ethics concerns about such an approach, the attendee wondered, would that kind of negative reinforcement even work? Our guest speaker, Julia Hu, explained that negative reinforcements of that kind can work well for behavior change in the short to medium term, but are not all that effective over the long term. Adherence is harder than that.
You know who's already very familiar with this challenge? Alcoholics and other addicts. The need to abstain is readily apparent when you're at the bottom of a well of your own making. But after you've climbed out of that abyss and been sober for three, five, ten years, it can be very tempting to "have just one." Successful education programs have taught us all that, for someone with an addiction, there's no such thing as "just one," and that avoiding that temptation requires long-term support.
I think the issue here may be one of comfort. It is discomfort that motivates us to take our medication (or make some other kind of health behavior change), and when that discomfort goes away, our motivation can go away too. We need to be reminded of that discomfort, relieved of the illusion that our current comfort is a given.
I believe in the power of technology to help us with many healthcare challenges. But on the subject of behavior change, the apps I see are all aimed at increasing our comfort: awarding us points, creating mechanisms to help us brag on social media, or even providing financial incentives. Call it "gamification" if you like: there are dozens upon dozens of apps aimed at the kinds of behavior change I mentioned at the top of this post, and most of them are downloaded, eagerly adopted, and then left by the wayside within two weeks.
We need to do better. We need to design better. We need to creatively dig into new ways to rise to this challenge of sustained behavior patterns. Maybe it's time to start experimenting with apps that make us less comfortable.
Change is hard. Adherence is harder. But the most worthwhile challenges always are.
An Invitation to Practical Machine Learning
Does it make sense for me to have a car? If so, which one is the best choice for my needs: a gasoline, hybrid, or electric? And should I buy or lease?
In order to make an effective decision, I need to understand key issues about the design, performance, and cost of cars, regardless of whether or not I actually know how to build one myself. The same is true for people deciding if machine learning is a good choice for their business goals or project. Will the payoff be worth the effort? What machine learning approach is most likely to produce valuable results for your particular situation? What size team with what expertise is necessary to be able to develop, deploy, and maintain your machine learning system?
Given the complex and previously esoteric nature of machine learning as a field – the sometimes daunting array of learning algorithms and the math needed to understand and employ them – many people feel the topic is one best left only to the few.
Interface Languages and Feature Discovery
It's easier to "discover" features with tools that have broad coverage of the data science workflow
Here are a few more observations based on conversations I had during the just concluded Strata Santa Clara conference.
Interface languages: Python, R, SQL (and Scala)
This is a great time to be a data scientist or data engineer who relies on Python or R. For starters there are developer tools that simplify setup, package installation, and provide user interfaces designed to boost productivity (RStudio, Continuum, Enthought, Sense).
Increasingly, Python and R users can write the same code and run it against many different execution1 engines. Over time the interface languages will remain constant but the execution engines will evolve or even get replaced. Specifically there are now many tools that target Python and R users interested in implementations of algorithms that scale to large data sets (e.g., GraphLab, wise.io, Adatao, H20, Skytree, Revolution R). Interfaces for popular engines like Hadoop and Apache Spark are also available – PySpark users can access algorithms in MLlib, SparkR users can use existing R packages.
In addition many of these new frameworks go out of their way to ease the transition for Python and R users. wise.io "… bindings follow the Scikit-Learn conventions", and as I noted in a recent post, with SFrames and Notebooks GraphLab, Inc. built components2 that are easy for Python users to learn.
Healthcare Lessons from the Data Sages at Strata
Other industries can show health care the way
This article was written with Ellen M. Martin.
Most healthcare clinicians don't often think about donating or sharing data. Yet, after hearing Stephen Friend of Sage Bionetworks talk about involving citizens and patients in the field of genetic research at StrataRx 2012, I was curious to learn more.
McKinsey points out the 300 billion dollars in potential savings from using open data in healthcare, while a recent IBM Institute of Business Value study showed the need for corporate data collaboration.
Also, during my own research for Big Data in Healthcare: Hype and Hope, the resounding request from all the participants I interviewed was to "find more data streams to analyze."
Extending GraphLab to tables
The popular graph analytics framework extends its coverage of the data science workflow
GraphLab's SFrame, an interesting and somewhat under-the-radar tool was unveiled1 at Strata Santa Clara. It is a disk-based, flat table representation that extends GraphLab to tabular data. With the addition of SFrame, users can leverage GraphLab's many algorithms on data stored as either graphs or tables. More importantly SFrame increases GraphLab's coverage of the data science workflow: it allows users with terabyte-sized datasets to clean their data and create new features directly within GraphLab (SFrame performance can scale linearly with the number of available cores).
The beta version of SFrame can read data from local disk, HDFS, S3 or a URL, and save to a human-readable .csv or a more efficient native format. Once an SFrame is created and saved to disk no reprocessing of the data is needed. Below is Python code that illustrates how to read a .csv file into SFrame, create a new data feature and save it to disk on S3:
Health hackathon brings to life agile solutions for unmet needs
Winners of the Blue Button Innovation Challenge
I think the main achievement of hackathons can be measured not by what apps are developed–reportedly, few are commercialized and maintained–but by people who find each other. The Blue Button Innovation Challenge brought together a lot of professionals who had never met before, and many formed teams that created really fun and useful apps that make you think, "Why hasn't anyone done this yet?"
Bridging the gap between research and implementation
Hardcore Data Science speakers provided many practical suggestions and tips
One of the most popular offerings at Strata Santa Clara was Hardcore Data Science day. Over the next few weeks we hope to profile some of the speakers who presented, and make the video of the talks available as a bundle. In the meantime here are some notes and highlights from a day packed with great talks.
Data Structures
We've come to think of analytics as being comprised primarily of data and algorithms. Once data has been collected, "wrangled", and stored, algorithms are unleashed to unlock its value. Longtime machine-learning researcher Alice Zheng of GraphLab, reminded attendees that data structures are critical to scaling machine-learning algorithms. Unfortunately there is a disconnect between machine-learning research and implementation (so much so, that some recent advances in large-scale ML are "rediscoveries" of known data structures):
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The White House said Monday that President Obama would sign a bill to give tax breaks to Olympic medalists on their cash awards.
"If it were to get to his desk he would support it," said White House spokesman Jay Carney during the press briefing Monday.
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i see no reason to exempt these young people from the income tax. if anyone should be exempt, it is the young men and women in our armed forces serving in harms way.
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ST. LOUIS, MO, November 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)—Planned Parenthood is suing the state of Missouri in an attempt to keep Missouri's citizens from voting on a pro-life ballot initiative that would define "person," as used in certain sections of the Missouri state constitution, to include every human being "from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."
"Planned Parenthood is again trying to stifle the will of the people by forcing their twisted political and business agenda through court action," said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, in a statement issued Monday. "They know the people are against them."
Planned Parenthood is arguing against the measure on several grounds, including saying that the proposed summary text to be submitted to voters in the ballot "fails to advise voters of the far-reaching legal changes and consequences that would result" from the amendment and "thus is likely to deceive and mislead voters."
Judie Brown responded, however, that the "only legal implication of any personhood proposal, including Missouri's, is equal justice and human rights for all human beings - if Planned Parenthood wants to oppose that, then their true motivation has been exposed and they should have the courage to say so."
Keith Mason of Personhood USA similarly stated that "the legal and constitutional 'fallout' of a Missouri Personhood amendment, is that all humans in the state of Missouri have human rights. ... All humans are people, and must be protected."
Advocates of the measure also say that Planned Parenthood's accusations regarding the alleged lack of clarity of the ballot text are unfounded.
"Our amendment is easy to understand, and simply protects all humans from their biological beginning," stated Dr. Gregory Thompson, chair of Personhood Missouri.
Indeed, an alternate summary text proposed by Planned Parenthood appears less clear in many respects than the text submitted by Personhood Missouri. Their summary devotes over two-thirds of its words to cautioning voters of the supposedly dangerous effects of passing the amendment, warning ominously that it would alter "many laws ... in potentially unforeseen ways," and calls unborn human beings simply "fertilized eggs."
Planned Parenthood does not merely wish to alter the text submitted to voters, however, but to quash the initiative entirely. They argue that because of the many potential effects of the amendment, it violates a requirement that petitions amending the Constitution do not contain more than one subject. However, precedent in this case is not on the side of Planned Parenthood: a similar measure in the state of Colorado was found to be a single-subject measure.
Personhood Missouri's Dr. Thompson pointed out that the Planned Parenthood lawsuit will cost taxpayers additional funds and use valuable government resources: "The very organization that uses tax dollars to cause the deaths of millions of innocent human beings and many mothers, along with years of physical, mental, and spiritual pain, is now using government resources again to keep this issue from going to the voters."
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Kindness: The Ripple Effect
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One person helping another. A daring rooftop rescue. An act of simple charity. What do these good deeds have in common? They inspire our own desire to reach out.
We've all seen how one rotten apple can spoil the barrel. But can one person acting nobly spread goodness in the world?
Absolutely, suggests research by Jonathan Haidt, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Haidt coined the term
to describe the emotion we feel when we encounter evidence of what he calls moral beauty. Seeing—or even just reading about—others' courage, compassion, or generosity can not only make us better people but increase the likelihood we'll do good works of our own.
"Elevation seems to have a ripple effect, triggering cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes," Haidt says. "It makes people more open, more loving, grateful, compassionate, and forgiving."
Goodness is catching, in other words. And it doesn't take extraordinary heroics to trigger it. Simple human kindness—a teen stopping to shovel an elderly woman's walk; someone helping a blind person cross the street; a community rallying behind a family in need—can be enough to open our hearts and inspire us to help others.
"There are many kinds of moral beauty," Haidt points out. "Mother Teresa exemplifies compassion. The firefighters and rescue workers on 9/11 embody courage and heroism. There's also loyalty, kindness, integrity—somebody staying true to their values despite tremendous pressure and threats." Nelson Mandela is an especially powerful trigger, Haidt says, "because he exemplifies forgiveness and vision. To have spent most of his life in prison, then his first words before his release are about working together—I get chills just remembering how I felt when I first heard that."
Chills—and, for some people, tears—are hallmarks of elevation, along with the most common physical sign, a warm, expansive feeling in the chest. New, unpublished research by Haidt and his student Chris Oveis shows that elevation acts on the vagus nerve, which regulates heart rate. When people watching a video of an 11-year-old boy who helps the homeless said they felt a warm glow in the chest, there was a corresponding change in heart rhythms, in a way that has been associated with good health. "When we speak about feelings in our heart, it's not just a metaphor," Haidt says. "Something really is happening."
Haidt's interest in elevation began with research on its opposite, disgust—a common response to behaviors like hypocrisy, racism, and betrayal. Then, five years ago, Haidt had what he calls a positive psychology awakening. He started wondering what emotion we felt when we looked up rather than down the moral scale, at people behaving in virtuous or superhuman ways. Haidt and his colleagues asked students to recall times when they had seen humanity's better nature at work. Most described acts of unexpected kindness or generosity, one stranger helping another. A follow-up study found that people who watched a documentary on Mother Teresa felt more loving afterward and were more likely to volunteer for charitable work than a group that saw clips from
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"All of us have a built-in responsiveness to good or evil," Haidt says. "When we see moral exemplars—moral saints—it affects us emotionally. And that effect is to elevate us, too. Exposure to goodness pulls all of us up a little bit."
Haidt is quick to point out he didn't "discover" elevation—philosophers and theologians have long noted the effects of contemplating virtue. But he is the first to look at the subject empirically. For his research, Haidt received the $100,000 John Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, awarded by the American Psychological Association. The award encourages scientific study of humanity's nobler qualities, such as optimism, courage, compassion, and generosity.
So how can we cultivate more elevation in our lives and pass it on to others? "By seeking out stories of moral beauty and, when you encounter them, noticing any skeptical or cynical reactions you have and challenging them," Haidt suggests. "Notice how people so often go out of their way to help others."
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- Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the onion and garlic; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Add the okra, salt, and pepper. Increase the heat to high; cook and stir until the okra begins to brown, about 10 minutes. Pour the lime juice over the okra and continue cooking for 2 minutes.
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Rate This RecipeVery very good and incredibly easy. It's true okra sliced this way is not gooey. I decreased the amount made and the onions and garlic were near carmelized but it only added to the delicious taste of the dish. I did add more garlic than called for but that was really the only change I made. I will definitely make again!
Great tasting! I did not have that okra mucous nearly as bad by slicing lengthwise as I do when slicing in coin shapes! I did not use the oil, instead, I just sprayed the pan. I loved the taste of the lime in this! I will be making this again!
'Not so happy with this. It took longer than ten minutes for sure. 'Didn't like the lilme flavor. Just a preference. May try without the lime. Maybe some crushed red pepper. 'Not too slimy.
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It has be one of the first questions that every female finds herself asking, what are the most sensitive areas of a man. For those unlucky of you that are over 25 and never thought behind the obvious, there may be a lot your letting your man miss out on! If trying something new for you and your lover to do, then perhaps better communication and more experimentation is just what the doctor called for!
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Dam it has been too cold and windy to enjoy the out of doors much lately so I decided to build another table we don't need. The legs are painted because the only stock I had that was large enough was popular, they are farm house red because that was the color I had. The ash top is a little longer than it is wide because it worked out for the board I wanted to use. The drawer pull is a cherry shaker pull because I had one left from another project.
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I am up in Minnesota, so I can't even begin to count the number of unneeded boredom curing winter tables I've built. They always seem to find a home though. |
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Very nice use of what you have on hand! Great looking project! -- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time. |
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"low budget winter boredom table" Very nicely done. You just happened to have the material on hand to stave off the winter doldrums and your daughter-in-law is the benefactress of a fine handcrafted birthday gift. Looks like a 'Win, Win', twofold solution to me. Work Safely and have Fun. – Grandpa Len. -- Mother Nature should be proud of what you've done with her tree. - Len ...just north of a stone's throw from the oHIo, river that is, in So. Indiana. |
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The Ash top looks very nice : ) -- When you arrive at my front door, please knock softly but firmly. I like soft , firm, knockers : ) |
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This a fine looking table,a very good build. -- http://artisticwoodstudio.com Custom furniture |
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Great use of leftover material and "boredom".... Very nice piece -- Measure "at least" twice and cut once |
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You should be bored more often. That is a nice table (I thought those legs were some exotic red colored wood LOL). -- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm |
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nice and simple… -- scott |
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Our second night at this (resort) I woke @ 4:00 a.m. To find the toilet had been leaking slowly.i stepped out of bed to water on the bedroom floor.my purse,clothing all soaked.had to clean up the water for a while.we were there for bike week.
Needless to say we were not happy with our stay.I called the front desk to inform them of our problem.the staff was not any help, came up to our room,never offered to remove all the wet towels from bathroom.when checking out Sherry offered to pay to dry our wet items.why would I want to just dry toilet soaked clothing? I called the next day & spoke with her again .she was rude & had an attitude with me overall.If going to bike week look elsewhere.check in @ 4:00 check out @ 10 :00 .not for my hard earned money will I ever go back to this property.too many other choices to have to be treated the way we were.Beware...everything was great didnt feel welcome due to mostly condo residents in buildings and amunt of rules. seen a couple of roaches during the stay but the room was great and so was the location
The service was great, rooms clean, nice pool and very convenient to the convention center and boardwalk ....easy walk either via beach or Blvd! Would definitely stay again!
View of the ocean
Staff was rude. Run down with nothing near open
ok if you just want a place to sleep. no place to eat nearThe view is amazing! Our room had a balcony which looks directly at the beautiful beach! Room size was good, and the best thing is the rooms have 2 full bathrooms.
My wife and I booked this hotel for our recent trip to watch the Rolex 24 Hour of Daytona race. We were not sure what to expect since the online reviews of the hotel were mixed. Many people complained about the room size, and cleanliness. When we arrived we were pleasantly surprised that the room was very clean, the view was amazing, and although the walkthrough space in the room is a bit tight, I would have to say the overall size of the rooms are good enough. The room was clean, and bed was nice.When we go back next year, we will be staying here again. For the price, I feel it is a great value! Recommend.


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I love pigs
Don't get me wrong, steak, brisket, chicken and many others are great too but the versatility of a hog I just love.
I've been busy all weekend working on pig stuff and it has been so much fun. I think a hog is just enough meat product for me to handle myself without being overwhelmed with work. Making lard: http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/6e6u2uve.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/y7a4yva5.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/majyge9a.jpg Making cure for bacon: http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/upu7a6uh.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/3amatu4y.jpg And lots of sausage too: http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/dygevyda.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/eqesuhyt.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/zu6ejaqa.jpg I love them so much I even made my table a tribute to them ;) http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/gy5anubu.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/5u9una5e.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/12/09/y9umy4yz.jpg Have a great day all, I know I have already!!! |
I'm with ya on the pig passion!!!
That's awesome, I agree with Homer Simpson, "(Lisa) "I'm going to become a vegetarian" (Homer) "Does that mean you're not going to eat any pork?" "Yes" "Bacon?" "Yes Dad" Ham?" "Dad all those meats come from the same animal" "Right Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal!""
Porky goodness!
I love that your daughter is helping you...awesome table too!!
I'd say you turned that pig inside out!
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nice table and good eats also
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apt-file: Locate Missing Package Files
Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer.
Occasionally, when building a package from source, disaster strikes and the whole process grinds to a halt due to a missing file. Fortunately, this is increasingly uncommon due to the maturity of Linux package management and the ubiquity of Autoconf configuration scripts. However, some software projects don't use Autoconf, either because the maintainers prefer another solution such as CMake or because the program is too small to make setting up a configure script worthwhile.
Fortunately, on the rare occasions when this problem does crop up, there may be a solution in the form of apt-file: a member of the APT family of package management tools. This utility assembles an index of all of the files stored in the online repositories that your distribution is configured to use and allows you to search for individual files.
Case example: recently, I decided to check out KBackup, a KDE backup management utility that isn't currently in the Ubuntu repository. Following the instructions, I ran the CMake build tool, only to be disappointed when the build process stopped with a notice that it couldn't find a file called "FindKDE4Internal.cmake".
To solve the problem, I installed apt-file via the command line:
sudo apt-get install apt-file
After installation, apt-file's internal index needs to be populated with the following command:
apt-file update
This process takes a minute or so to complete, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. Once the index was up to date, I searched for the missing file:
apt-file search FindKDE4Internal.cmake
and apt-file gave me a single line of output that told me everything I needed to know:
kdelibs5-dev: /usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake
In other words, the file I needed was in the package "kdelibs5-dev", which I installed from the command line:
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After this, I was able to continue and complete the normal install procedure.
Note: if you do find an oversight in a source package that necessitates the use of apt-file in this way, even after a successful run of an Autoconf configure script, please consider telling the developers about it.
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Very useful
Thanks for this. I've had to hunt down missing file packages before using the package manager & guesswork. This is much better.
Thanks man, this a problem I run into almost every month, cheers!
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- The definition of affluent is someone who is wealthy with money, property or possessions.
A person who owns a multimillion dollar company and lives in a mansion is an example of an affluent person.
The home of an affluent person.
affluent definition by Webster's New World
- flowing freely
- plentiful; abundant
- wealthy; prosperous; rich: the affluent society
Origin: Middle English ; from Classical Latin affluens, present participle of affluere: see affluence
- a tributary streamopposed to effluent ( specif. )
- an affluent person
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- affluently adverb
affluent definition by American Heritage Dictionary
- Generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich. See Synonyms at rich.
- Plentiful; abundant.
- Flowing freely; copious.
- A stream or river that flows into a larger one; a tributary.
- A person who is well-off financially: "the so-called emerging affluents" (Leslie Tweeton).
Origin: Middle English, abundant, flowing, from Old French, from Latin affluēns, affluent-, present participle of affluere, to abound in : ad-, ad- + fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.
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Lundy says he's in town on a case, but since he's now retired from the Bureau, he needs Miami PD's help tracking down "the one twisted son of a bitch who got away." Sit back while Lundy tells you a story, won't you? "I call him the Trinity Killer," he begins, while Dexter slowly exhales, no doubt relieved Lundy's not after him this time. Trinity kills in threes, Lundy says, and has been doing so all over the country for years. But the cross-country nature of the crimes (too many police departments, none of them talking to each other) mean Lundy can't even prove he exists. Lisa Bell's murder profile fits the previous victims. "Trinity's in Miami, Dexter," Lundy says. "Starting his cycle all over again." Dexter asks how far back Lundy's case files go on this. "Fifteen years." Well as it happens, Dex and Masuka just found an old murder with the same M.O. from thirty years ago. Lundy digs into the case file, now more certain than ever that Trinity's beginning his cycle over again, back where he started. "You know what this means, don't you?" Lundy asks. That the writers allowed themselves one of screenwriting's most venerable clichés for exposition? No, Dexter offers, with a serious tone of admiration, "Trinity's the most successful serial killer to ever...get away with it." Man, once everybody figures out Dexter's a serial killer, they are really gonna kick themselves for never getting suspicious whenever he talked creepy like that.
Interspersed within that last scene were ominous shots of what appeared to be an abandoned gym (you know, between this and the abandoned boxing ring, you have to figure the economy hit Miami's fitness community hardest of all). As anguished moans fill up the empty rows of lockers, we wind into the shower stalls, where John Lithgow, our Trinity, is wailing in his altogether. That's two, show. Don't think I won't be sending y'all a bill when this season's finished. Trinity turns up the hot water and basically scalds himself as he cries. Man, see what happens to children who are denied iPods?
Back at the station, Deb totally bails on a phone call with Anton when she sees Lundy. Sigh. She is going to fuck this one up in every imaginable way, isn't she? That she greets her old boyfriend with a "Motherfucking fuck" only slightly lessens my dread. He opts not to tell her he's in town on a case, interestingly enough; rather, he just says he's retired and that his "natural forward momentum" brings him to Miami. He passive-aggressively motions to the photo of Deb and Anton on the desk, but verbally merely congratulates her for making detective. This whole awkward interaction ends as Lundy takes his leave, and Deb's like, "Maybe I'll see you and maybe I won't, you don't know." The little "really??" head-tilt Jennifer Carpenter gives before Deb walks offscreen is kind of a gem. I promised Jeff if I took this gig I'd continue singing her praises, so here's my weekly "Jennifer Carpenter is awesome" moment. Because she is.
Angel and LaGuerta wait for the elevator and feign professional niceties, practically counting down the seconds until they can talk for real. But of course, the elevator doors can't quite shut before Masuka barges on in. "Drinks?" he asks. LaGuerta doesn't have to scream in frustration, her bright-pink jacket does it for her.
In the lab, Dexter's voice-over grouses that after his cop altercation, he can no longer nab Gomez outside the bar. He's gonna have to snatch him where he lives, in that crowded trailer park. "A higher degree of difficulty," Dex allows, but he'll have to do it, if only for his son's sake. "I'm killing for two now." It's a cute sentiment, but I'm hoping Dexter elaborates on that as the season goes on, because I'm not sure I follow. He's not killing to support his son, of course. You could say he's not getting caught for the sake of his son -- it's not just his life that'd be over now. That makes a kind of twisted sense, I suppose.
Cut to the trailer park that night. No special precautions or elaborate diversions to keep the riff-raff occupied. Just a knock on Gomez's door and a swift syringe to the neck when he answers it. In the plastic boxing tent, Dexter's got everything laid out for the ritual, including Gomez. Photos of Gomez's victims along his eye-line. Tools at the ready. Sleepy Dexter envies his passed-out prey for a moment, before slapping his face and cracking open some poppers (!) to keep himself awake. My stars. Where in Miami did Dexter ever get his hands on poppers? I don't know if they'll make him any more effective a killer tonight, but his asshole's gonna feel amazing!
Anyway, so Dexter looks like a total zombie by the time Gomez comes to. He recognizes Dex from the courtroom, not like that matters. Dexter collects his blood sample, stuffs a rag in his mouth, and then sits down for a Final Thought. "Can I do it?" he asks himself. "Can I have it all?" Can bring home a victim's severed forearm and fry it up in a pan? Before he can actually get the killing finished and have a good night's sleep, at long last, the phone rings. It's Rita. Harrison has an ear infection, and she needs him to go to a 24/7 pharmacy right away. Dexter's kind of in the middle of something, but of course he can't elaborate. "Whatever you're doing can wait," she says, not exactly bitchily, just short and without room for discussion. "Gotta go," Dex tells Gomez. "No time to savor this."
And so Dexter commences in perhaps his quickest killing ever. It is not at all the tidy, meticulous method he generally prefers. Knife to the heart, saw to the limbs, slipping around on the bloody plastic wrap, fumbling with body parts as he tries to bag them. This is undignified. Yet another casualty of our go-go-go culture. Dex hastily wraps everything up, which, not to be that guy, but even rushing through the job it had to have taken some time. Certainly long enough that Rita would wonder what's taking him so long at the pharmacy, right? In that respect, the events of the next five minutes offer Dex one hell of an excuse for tardiness.


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