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recognize comedian David Cross from his work on the sitcom Arrested Development or on HBO's Mr. Show, but he also is a stand-up comic and in his latest such
release Bigger & Blackerer, he
lets loose yet again. For the hour-long
show (which should have been longer), he does offer some bold statements, some
actually funny jokes (versus his contemporaries), a Dane Cook moment and some
material that causes the show to not work and result in an uneven performance
recognized him from some of his character actor work (usually bad) and he does
voices for animation (fares better there), but he also gets political and when
he does, he pulls no punches and I often agreed with him. Still, it was a somewhat stilted show at
times and though he has both talent and comic timing, this cannot be the best
show he is capable of. In the end, he
turned out to still be funnier than expected, so you might want to give this
one a look.
The anamorphically
enhanced 1.78 X 1 image has good color, but can be weak in detail and depth,
plus what looks like a 1080i HD shoot has some other minor flaws. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is just fine for
a stand-up comedy release, but the audio is sufficient at best. Extras include a poster in side the foldout
paperboard case, while the DVD adds six extra routines.
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With only a relatively small team of 80 employees, Jolla proved that as a small startup nothing is impossible when you're staring down the likes of Google and Apple.
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We were having an issue with Single Sign-On and the developer (Shaun) helped us immensely with the troubleshooting and discovered that the issue was actually with a totally unrelated extension. Fantastic support!
But code can only get you so far, especially integration code, because there are so many elements outside of this component to get wrong.
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Friday, November 14, 2014
SS Nostalgia
But what happened to some of the classic ships that used to silhouette against the South Florida skyline?
I wrote an article about these websites and where some of these ships are now.
(Below, that's me aboard the SS Emerald Seas, my first cruise ship adventure. It was a weekend cruise to the Bahamas - my first time out of the country. I was giddy - as you can probably tell - that I got the top bunk here. I also remembered that I kept thinking I would bump into the cast of The Love Boat but to no avail.)
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 6:14 PM
Thursday, November 6, 2014
The Love Boat Reunion
Love....exciting and new....
The cast of the popular 1970s-80s show The Love Boat (you know you know it) reunited Wednesday to christen the new Princess Cruises ship the Regal Princess in Fort Lauderdale.
The gathering also celebrated the cruise line's 50th anniversary. To mark the golden occasion, the company invited more than 24 of the show's well-known guest stars from Mrs. Cuchi Cuchi Charo to the Bradys (Christopher Knight and Florence Henderson. It was my childhood sitcoms on parade.)
They were part of a gold carpet event on Deck 17 aboard the colossal ship. (I say BIG because I was lost for about 20 minutes trying to get off the ship after filing my story of the event.)
Here's a Sun Sentinel photo gallery of all the celebrities. And below are some photos I snapped of the event with my handy dandy smartphone. One thing I didn't capture was that the ship's horn blows to the beat of the show's theme song.
To my right, that's Chris Knight, aka Peter Brady. I couldn't resist a photo in the Green Room.
The pool area looked like a modern version of the one shown on the classic TV series. This was the media swarm.
The whole Love Boat cast was aboard. They were introduced on a jumbo screen with their before and now photo. That's Lauren Tewes, aka Julie the cruise director.
The gold carpet with Jamie Farr of MASH and Charo behind him being interviewed. Both were guest stars on the show.
And that's me with my wind-blown curly hair on Deck 17 overlooking Fort Lauderdale.
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 4:47 PM
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
What I Learned from Oprah's Life You Want Weekend
Life You Want Weekend, a touring event that serves as a giant inspirational retreat for folks looking to figure out what they want from their own lives, a journey of self-transformation. And she brought along some of her friends - Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, spiritual guru Deepak Chopra, OWN host Iyanla Vanzant and pastor Rob Bell to the AmericanAirlines Arena Oct. 24-25.
After writing a preview about the event for my paper, I was curious to experience it myself. What will Lady O say that we don't know already from her magazine, former talk show and OWN network? How many women (and some men) could pack the arena for something other than a Miami Heat game or an Enrique Iglesias concert? A LOT, as it turns out.
Whether we strolled the downtown streets of Miami or rode the centipede-like Metro Mover to the event, we all recognized one another thanks to our rubbery white bracelets, which later glowed like bright fireflies during each speaker's session. On my way to the arena, I couldn't help but eavesdrop on some ladies as they talked about how they traveled from New York and Canada just to see Oprah. I nodded and smiled and they flashed a knowing grin when they spotted my bracelet. It confirmed that I was one of them, one of the gals that weekend, looking for a dose of spirituality and some personal growth.
Friday night, Oprah donning a sunny yellow gown, strutted back and forth on stage where she spoke for about 90 minutes about her journey from a young girl in Mississippi to Chicago where she launched her long-time syndicated daytime show.
With slide shows of her early days in broadcasting, her home, landscapes and nature, it felt like she was taking us on a personal life tour.
"We are all energy. All life is energy. What will you do with the energy that is you?'' Oprah asked the audience.
With slide shows of her early days in broadcasting, her home, landscapes and nature, it felt like she was taking us on a personal life tour.
"We are all energy. All life is energy. What will you do with the energy that is you?'' Oprah asked the audience.
She referenced Maya Angelou who told her, "Your legacy is every life you've ever touched."
Oprah also read from "Invictus", poem that she learned at age 8: "I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.''
She said her show took off when she started using television as a service to help other people. She urged us to do that in our own lives. "Use what you have and begin to share that in service" and how we can all do that in our own jobs whether we're clerks, lawyers or teachers. If we haven't found a job that we are passionate about, find an outlet or something that you enjoy, something that pays you in its own way.
What really caught my attention was when she explained that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction...The energy you put out there, BAM!, it's all coming back.. Haters, BAM! Jealously, BAM! Envy, BAM! Love is the same thing." She was BAM! this and BAM! that so much that you could feel it as if she was pointing at YOU!...BAM! My seat mates uh-huhed along with me.
What really caught my attention was when she explained that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction...The energy you put out there, BAM!, it's all coming back.. Haters, BAM! Jealously, BAM! Envy, BAM! Love is the same thing." She was BAM! this and BAM! that so much that you could feel it as if she was pointing at YOU!...BAM! My seat mates uh-huhed along with me.
"You cocreate your life with the energy of your intention...You are responsible for your intentions...Be responsible for the energy you bring into a room.'' (I also liked this one because how you enter a room or a situation, sets the stage, so to speak.)
"Everything that happened to you has happened for you, to lift you higher, to make you better."
"You begin the life you want by embracing the life you have." Be grateful for the smaller things even the shower pressure or clean crisp bed sheets. One of the smaller things I'm grateful for daily is that my VW starts each morning to get me to work in Fort Lauderdale from Miami.
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 11:56 AM
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
'You are a gift'
Let me begin. Two weeks ago, I was standing at the post office in Fort Lauderdale. I was feeling frustrated and helpless about a family issue. I wasn't feeling like my typical giddy self. My energy was dim.
And then I looked over to my right and a greeting card stared back at me. It read You are a gift with a big heart in the middle.
When I saw it, calmness enveloped me. It was as if a soothing light had come down on me, encircling me with a comforting positive energy. My frustration and helplessness faded away.
I looked down and smiled to myself.
As I left the post office with the new found energy, the following words popped into my head as if someone or some greater power planted them there. A mantra, if you will.
You are a gift,
You bring joy to other people's lives.
You are light,
You are loved,
You are well-loved.
The words replayed in my mind, almost like a verse in a song. Sometimes, it had a beat.
You are a gift (clap-clap!) You bring joy to other people's lives...You are light (quick clap). You are loved (fast clap). You are well-loved. (clap-clap!)
And for some reason, I heard a Gospel-flavored version in my head:
You are a GIFT (mmm hmm) ....You bring joooooy to other people's LIVES....You are light (that's right)...You are loved, you are wellll-loooooooved (d-e-e-p bass voice in this part. I don't know why but it felt good)
No matter which way I recited or mentally heard the words while driving, clapping, mmm hmming in my Volkswagen despite the quizzical stares from other drivers at stop lights and pedestrians, the words have stayed with me since that afternoon.
Again, I don't know where they came from. I shared this with an old friend of mine, a classy sage of a lady who knows a little something about intuition and advice. In her soothing voice, she smiled, leaned forward and told me "Johnny, I think God and your mother were speaking to you, reminding you of something."
Since these words were a gift to me, I am posting them here. A regift.
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 11:25 PM
Monday, October 27, 2014
Richard Blanco's Miami
The Prince of Los Cocuyos that he just published.
It's the latest from the gay, Cuban-American, Miami-raised writer who presented his "One Today'' poem for President Obama's inauguration in Jan. 2013.
The new book chronicles his coming of age (and coming out) while living in Miami's Westchester neighborhood in the 1970s and 80s. (Cocuyos means fireflies in Spanish, in case you were wondering.)
I interviewed Richard for my paper the Sun Sentinel. Here's my story on his book, why he chose to write in more long form than his traditional poetry such as Looking for the Gulf Motel collection and how he hopes his stories may help gay youth know that they're not alone in their struggles. The book is warm and sweet like a Cuban cafecito.
It's the latest from the gay, Cuban-American, Miami-raised writer who presented his "One Today'' poem for President Obama's inauguration in Jan. 2013.
The new book chronicles his coming of age (and coming out) while living in Miami's Westchester neighborhood in the 1970s and 80s. (Cocuyos means fireflies in Spanish, in case you were wondering.)
I interviewed Richard for my paper the Sun Sentinel. Here's my story on his book, why he chose to write in more long form than his traditional poetry such as Looking for the Gulf Motel collection and how he hopes his stories may help gay youth know that they're not alone in their struggles. The book is warm and sweet like a Cuban cafecito.
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 1:02 PM
Labels: Cuban Being, Writer's Corner
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The Latino List in Boston
I'm happy to report that my new novel, Looking for Providence, made the list under fiction this year (page 5 in the guide). Thank you BPL!
To scroll through the guide, check out the digital version here.
Actually, this is just an excuse to post some photos from my recent readings at the Providence Public Library and the South End branch of the Boston Public library. A big thank you to the folks who came out on both nights.
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 5:44 PM
Labels: Cuban Being, Looking for Providence
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The other Jonny Diaz
"I wish I could read all night - seriously one of the best books ever!!" Tweeted one young girl.
"Great show tonight!'' wrote another fan on Facebook.
I wish I could take credit for the compliments but it's not me they're talking about. It's the other Jonny Diaz. Over the years as his star has risen (and mine maybe just a little itty bit), people have confused us.
One commenter on Youtube for one of my readings wrote, "Is this jonny diaz the christian singer? Did he write a gay book? Is he gay?"
I laughed when I saw that because the mix-ups keep happening. Jonny is my digital doppelganger. So much so that Wikipedia emphasizes that he's the American singer and I'm the American writer. I remember one time while leaving the airport in Atlanta after a book reading, the security guy looked at my license, then looked at me and said "You're Jonny Diaz! My girlfriend loves your music." I grinned and responded, "Um, thanks but..."
We're both from Florida. He of Lakeland. Me of Miami.
We went to college in the Sunshine State. Him, Florida State University. Me, Florida International University.
We both share a love of writing (him music, me gay romance novels and news feature stories.)
Most of all, we both enjoy connecting with others. We use our words to uplift people and to get closer to a universal truth.
Jonny broke out with an inspirational song called More Beautiful You which urges people, particularly young girls, that God made us beautiful just as we are and not to give into societal pressures. He also co-wrote a book based on that song.
I broke out with the song More Bootyful You. (Just kidding but that would make a good name for a song). Actually, I came out in the literary world with my debut novel Boston Boys Club, a fun, light-hearted book about three guys looking for love as newcomers to Boston. And I've since written four more books that focus on the power of friendship and love among 20, and 30something guys in Boston, Miami and Providence as they navigate their everyday lives.
Whenever someone has confused me for Jonny, I've smiled and responded to them, "Thank you for reaching out but you might be looking for Jonny Diaz. I'm a writer." I'd like to think that Jonny has done the same for me over the years. Jonny, if you come across this post, I'd love to send you one of my books, maybe Looking for Providence. (The title alone is spiritual beyond the city.) And much continued success with your music!
By the way, heeere's Jonny in his own words!
Posted by Johnny Diaz at 11:15 AM
Monday, October 20, 2014
Eat, Pray, Elizabeth Gilbert!
"Be the hero of your own journey!"
"Go on a min-quest!"
"Ask yourself, what stirs you, what moves you, what interests you?... Point yourself in that direction, curiosity is going to lead you to your very own life."
Those are some of the nuggets from Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert that she shared for a story I wrote about her upcoming appearance. She's one of Oprah Winfrey's featured trailblazers on Oprah's The Life You Want tour which rolls into Miami this weekend.
I had a chance to chat with Elizabeth during a stop in Miami. As expected, she was gregarious and gracious and had always something positive to share as she did in her book which I read mostly on my gym's ellypitcal machine when lived in Boston. I also remember being the only proud (and giddy) dude at the AMC movie theater in Braintree during a Sunday matinee screening of the movie in Aug. 2010. Welcome to Miami, Elizabeth!
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RENO, Nev. (AP) - There's a whole lot of shakin' going on at the University of Nevada, Reno.
UNR's seismic simulation facility became the largest in the United States and second largest in the world this week with an expansion that included moving three new 27-ton shake table tops into the school's new Earthquake Engineering Laboratory.
UNR civil engineering professor David Sanders tells the Reno Gazette-Journal that it will allow them to test things they haven't been able to test before.
The shake table tops, called platens, are very large and strong surfaces onto which structures are attached and then shaken to determine their ability to withstand damage from earthquakes. Among other things, scientists use them to test new techniques for building safer bridges, highways and housing.
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Thanks to everyone who watched today's live streaming episode of Beltway Baseball at 1 p.m. For anyone who missed it, here's the full episode for your viewing pleasure…
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Thanks much – in addition to writing well, you also have a lot of poise in speaking, so it is a pleasure to listen. Glad they worked out the sound thing fairly quickly.
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Nice job Mark. May I suggest a weekly podcast (faster and easier to produce and you won't have to wear the tie) and have that podcast available on Sunday nights as this-past-week-in-NatsTown. Charlie and Dave are great but I don't expect much from 106.7 The Fan in terms of quality non-game Nats programming even if they're promising quantity.-Pedro G.
As ESPN-980 AM's Nats Insider, Mark makes daily appearances on the station's various shows. Here's the 2014 schedule (subject to change)...
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Hey everyone...
Its time for another November and that means we are getting ready for RSD CRPS month...
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We want to hear youre stories my friends... we will be booking shows for this month starting next week... we will also do pre-recorded shows for those of you who do not like big audiences
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Robert Kopecky survived a traumatic childhood, traveled extensively as a young man, and lived a variety of lives as a ski bum, a factory welder, a monumental sculpture fabricator, an underground cartoonist; and finally as an award-winning illustrator, art director, and animation designer for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, PBS Kids, and more.
His journeys - from the remote South Pacific to the capitals of Europe to the deserts of Arizona and the canyons of New York City - were punctuated by three dramatic "Near Death Experiences." Interspersed through a life of professional successes and personal setbacks, and his own "dark nights of the soul," the three NDEs, and the subsequent need for answers, led him to years of study and meditation.
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Making a Living By Sharing Your life's Experiences, Friday's guest griot is announcing the release of his next book. the author of "Black Nancy Book I", Lennox "OX" Nelson & as an extra bonus we have Entrepreneur, Master Trainer, Speaker Rodney Burton, whose specialty is Social media, Skype, Video marketing, Team building, video email marketing & communications. Who is Black Nancy? A PRINCESS. A WARRIOR. A LOVER. A MOTHER. A PRISONER. A CHAMPION. A TEACHER. A FUGITIVE. A FOLK HEROINE. A REVOLUTIONARY. Welcome back Lennox "OX" Nelson a native south Philadelphian and alumnus of Syracuse U. Nelson's vast experiences from his world travels has enriched his life with future stories to be told. "Black Nancy I", his first novel, adapted from his original screenplay of the same title, was written to be shared with today's youth to teach them about African-American history in a way in which they could be. Entrepreneur, Trainer Rodney Burton travels from state to state teaching and training others to go from zero to hero and he enjoys it. There is so much that can be said, however it always best just to talk to him in the flesh. Rodney has studied closely with the "God Father of Speaking" Jim Rohn thru personal classes where he learned the art of communications. He also has worked side by side with motivational speaker Les Brown on his TV program where he was able to learn a number of skills that he still uses to this day. Rodney was also trained by one of the most affluent marketers in offline marketing, Mr. Charles Overton Scott where he learned his remarkable team building skills in the Life Insurance business.
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Nicolas Roland (December 8, 1642 - April 27, 1678) was a French priest, canon and educator. He was a friend, contemporary and spiritual director of Saint John Baptist de La Salle.
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I definitely feel like it's taking FAR too long for themes to move through the queue these days. We all appreciate the process and the points regarding exposure – but 7/8 days before it even gets a look-in? And then another 3 days on top of that when you've got a soft-rejection fix to make? It's just too long.
That's the one. Cheers!
Where are the thumbnails, mate?
Hi all,
Posted over on wp.org but no luck so far. Shouldn't be too difficult but can't seem to get the results with the logic I've tried putting together.
Any help would be appreciated!https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nextprev-post-thumbnails-for-custom-post-type?replies=0
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Hi all,
I know there's a few others using Ticksy to support themes – I was wondering if anybody else was running into issues with purchase codes?
The first complaints I had coming in were that Ticksy was still requiring my buyers to provide their codes after already doing so, so I had to change my settings to make verification optional.. the guys at Ticksy tweeted me back to let me know this was solved a couple of days ago so I made verification a requirement again..
Now I'm being told that Ticksy isn't even providing a field for entering my buyer's code? What is going on with this service?
Anybody else want the old badges back?
Cheers for the replies, guys.
I did intend for some good old WP image cropping – I just can't wrap my head around the auto-height cropping (probably based on the width for best results) while making sure the two together always came to the container's height.
Calling all wizard developers..
I'm wanting to achieve this layout with Masonry..
But after my initial stumbling I haven't quite worked out the fixed-height container with the two vertical images fitting together nicely to make that fixed height..
A nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
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Very handy – cheers!
Wondering if any devs have used this function for serving up mobile-specific code? Will it detect all mobile devices – including tablets – or just phones?


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Album: Counting Sheep Series (Week 10)
Avg Rating: 4.5 ( 23 votes )
Since April 7th, Booth readers have been Counting Sheep in anticipation of Young Son's sophomore album. Looking to end his reader-acclaimed, DJBooth.net-exclusive series on a high note, the Minneapolis emcee has saved one of his most potent and timely jams for last. On the final installment, Hannah returns to his conscious-rap roots to address the social and economic ills that leave him with a Heavy Soul. Flowing over a slow-burning instrumental by Chris Love (his cousin), the rapper explores the root causes of inner-city poverty and crime in two reflective verses, and R&B up-and-comer (and Young Son's high-school classmate) Adrien Lindsey tops the track off with his weathered, emotionally-charged hook vocals. This thought-provoking cut is a fitting denouement to one stellar 10-week run, and a tantalizing appetizer for the late-summer arrival of Dreamer's Poetry. In the meantime, fans can look forward to the June 15th release of Young Son's Booth-sponsored Counting Sheep mixtape, which will include the entire series as well as a few previously-unreleased cuts, an interview with our own DJ Z, and messages of support from listeners (call 763-244-1318 to leave your own, but keep it clean!)
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Sweetwater split against Midland Greenwood in sub-varsity high school football action here Thursday.
Sweetwater JV 28, Greenwood JV 20; GŌĆÖwood freshmen 13, SŌĆÖwater freshmen 8.
Learn more in our weekend edition in Sports.
WINTERS ŌĆö The Winters Blizzards stayed in a first-place tie with Menard after a 32-15 win over Roscoe on Friday in a crucial district matchup for both teams.
Highland was able to keep the Faith in winning its final non-district game, beating Stephenville Faith 60-14 to improve to 3-4 this season.
Shown, the seventh and eighth grade boys top-10 medalists were, from left, Mathew Hernandez, Alex Gallegos, Joshua Camacho and Reese Hayes. Neveah Sarabia (not pictured) placed first in the seventh grade girls division.
Last weekŌĆÖs 26-8 win over Miles in its 6-2A opener was a good first step for RoscoeŌĆÖs football team in its bid to return to prominence.
Read the full story in Friday's edition in Sports.
Sweetwater freshman and JV teams will host Midland Greenwood at 5 and 6:30 p.m., respectively.
Sweetwater 7th and 8th grade teams will play at Midland Greenwood at 5 and 6:30 p.m., respectively.
Sweetwater 7th grade ŌĆśBŌĆÖ and 8th grade ŌĆśAŌĆÖ teams will play at Midland Greenwood, 6:30 p.m..
Roscoe junior high and JV will host Winters at 4:30 and 6 p.m., respectively.
Highland junior high and JV will host Ira (district openers) at 5:30 and 7 p.m., respectively.
Blackwell junior high will play at Trent (district opener), 5:30 p.m.
The Sweetwater football team is becoming road war-riors. The latest example is the MustangsŌĆÖ six-point win at Fort Stockton last week, which came after a 62-48 non-district win at Andrews two weeks earlier ŌĆö with an open date week in between.
Next up is a trip Friday to Midland Greenwood, which like Sweetwater is 1-0 in district play after its 36-14 win last week over Lamesa.
Read the full story in Thursday's print edition in Sports.
8th grade White 34,
Fort Stockton 6
Adam Perez scored five touchdowns, three rushing and two receiving, in Sweetwater WhiteŌĆÖs win as the Colts ran their record to 5-0.
Perez not only ripped off scoring runs of 48, 56 and 96 yards but also caught TD passes of 78 and 92 yards from Jackson Foster.
In addition, Foster threw to Jagger Carter for a two-point conversion and Audy Yarbrough had a two-point run.
See more in the Tuesday edition of the Sweetwater Reporter.
Sweetwater High SchoolŌĆÖs JV volleyball team brings a 5-0 record into its District 2-4A match at Snyder today after a 25-17, 25-11 win at Big Spring on Saturday.
The freshman team fell to 2-3 in district on Saturday after losing to Big Spring 22-25, 25-19, 8-25.
All events are
subject to change
Sweetwater freshman, JV and varsity teams play at Snyder: freshmen and JV at 5 p.m., varsity at 6 p.m.
Cross Country
Roscoe hosts meet at Lake Sweetwater Golf Course.
Sweetwater and Highland runners will compete at Roscoe meet held at Lake Sweetwater Golf Course.
Sweetwater freshman and JV teams will host Midland Greenwood at 5 and 6:30 p.m., respectively.
Sweetwater 7th and 8th grade teams will play at Midland Greenwood at 5 and 6:30 p.m., respectively.


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The ultimate drive for social success should be built on the ability to publish content that connects your brands to the heart of your customer, in a personal and relevant way.
This column was intended to be written to suggest some of the most effective ways publishers can write content to get the biggest impact through social distribution. The story was going to be focused on the need to craft editorial and content (words, images, and video) around the needs of one person (your ultimate target) and then enjoy the viral sharing and global growth by watching a personal message resonate with the masses.
I got a bit sidetracked when I read this article by Chris Jadatz at SumAll, a data visualization company, in a search for some supporting statistics.
This article shares some quick-to-digest but compelling information about the monetary value of a tweet versus an Instagram post. Did you know that by integrating Twitter into your website you will see an increase in revenue by 1 to 2 percent? Or that six tweets is the optimal number of tweets for any brand to send out per day? (Revenue recognition per tweet goes down after that.)
After stopping to think for a minute that maybe it is less about personalization and more about mass appeal, I decided to stick with my gut. This article didn't make me rewrite my column; instead, it confirmed the original thesis: social success is driven from individualized messaging strategies.
In 2011, the average number of tweets per day was a measly 200 million. This is up from zero in 2006 when Twitter was first born. In 2013, the average number of tweets per day is already surpassing 400 million with no signs of slowing down.
Today, over 130 million users are sharing on Instagram Video. Vine is growing as well with 13 million users.
Forget about brands for a moment. These statistics alone show that people are striving to share their personal thoughts and story with others. They want to make an impact and a personal connection. People post on social networks to educate, vent, celebrate, and connect. Brands should be no different. The ultimate drive for social success should be built on the ability to publish content that connects your brands to the heart of your customer, in a personal and relevant way.
As a brand, you already know that when your advertising speaks directly to your target audience you get better results. Why would social be any different? The biggest success for brands will come from publishing content that appears to be personally relevant. The choice to distribute your content through a tweet, Instagram photo, or social video should be an outcome of your analysis of your target consumer.
For more insights on the social video battles, see this CNET article, which compares Instagram Video to Vine. It has some very interesting points.
As we travel on our quest to harness the power of content in effective ways through social networks, distribution choice will be a critical choice that can propel your company forward if selected well. Which route will you venture down?
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State charges Palestinian with stabbing of IDF soldier at Tel Aviv train station
IDF forces arrest 11 Palestinians overnight in West Bank
Barkat: My goal is to be able to respond within one minute to any security incident
Touting the management of Gaza war reporting
Labor MK Shai mocks Israeli threat to Iran
Possible 2016 US presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren to meet Netanyahu
Coalition in turmoil after cabinet approves controversial 'Jewish state bill'
Ministers okay poverty panel's recommendations
Deri: We won't join government until after next elections
Sharp rise in additional, private health insurance costs
Health Scan: BGU course makes med students more empathetic
The toilet taboo
Pro-public health advocates battle against private-medicine lobbying and ad campaign
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'Leviathan gas reservoir to begin flowing by early 2018'
New kid's Israeli archaeology game launched for iPhone
Funeral Monday for Israel Zamir, only son of Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Jerusalem still perfect after tough battle in Rishon
Sakhnin edges Beitar in subdued showdown
Rishon's credentials to come under scrutiny vs J'lem
Vermut clinches dramatic win for Hapoel TA
Ashkelon children to be temporarily relocated from daycares where Arab laborers are working
Vote on Jewish state bill to be delayed until next week
WATCH: Thousands of Chabad rabbis convene for annual gathering in New York
Turkish governor's wish to morph synagogue into museum raises ire
Nazi-looted art collection may find new home in Switzerland
Ukrainian president to mark Auschwitz liberation in Prague
Reform to ease accreditation of immigrant professionals
Netanyahu: Lack of Iran deal gives chance to stiffen economic sanctions
Hungarian porn used in ISIS propaganda?
PA to delay Palestinian statehood bid at UN
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Iran seeks a second political framework as historic nuclear talks stall
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Wishful doing
Cinema of reconciliation
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Knowledge, power and abuse
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European Press: Dividing line
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Book Review: Written from his heart
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Who is your God?
Grapevine: Amazing place
A voice from India
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Recognizing Palestine – anomalies and ambiguities
Dacca fighting New Delhi's war too
A war for the soul of Israel's Arab community
Iran and the West – how big a gap?
A song for Cheshvan: 'The Eucalyptus Grove'
דְיוֹקְנְאוֹת תַרְבּוּת
מָה הַסִיפּוּר?
הָאַרְכִיוֹן שֶל רוֹמַן וִישְנִיָאק
Har Nof in flames
Sail Away with me
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Meet the Ambassador: No longer a conference diplomat
'Post' leads the way with new podcast
Grapevine: The highest accolade of all
Tempête au sein de la coalition
Crise de confiance
Qui prendra la relève de Mahmoud Abbas ?
Arafat, Abbas, même combat ?
Daniel Oren, maestro d'Israël, d'Italie et d'ailleurs !
Nos plus belles années ?
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Le mont du Temple et la guerre sainte de l'islam
Les attentats du lundi 10 novembre vus par la presse française
L'Europe, nouvelle alliée d'Abbas ?
Ces enseignants-éclaireurs
Christians United for Israel Chairman John Hagee says Obama is anti-Semitic
Temple Mount: Common ground between Jews and Christians
Pope Francis condemns Palestinian violence
Last Christian shop-owners in Old City: 'Tourists afraid of the politics'
Kurdish refugees struggle to survive as they outrun Assad's army and ISIS
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International Cleanup Day: Cleaning Together in Northern Israel
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Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Bernard Foccroulle's On the Verge of the Night
are about as liturgical as, say, Bizet's Carmen. Why they were classified as
such, in a concert series entitled "Liturgical" by the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra, remains a mystery.In the song cycle On the Verge of the
Night, Foccroulle (b. 1953) sets poems by Rainer Maria Rilke to music. Each song
highlights diverse solo instruments of the orchestra, cautiously underlining the
text's structure, and sensitively capturing each poem's mood and atmosphere
without gliding into melodious banalities. This inventive interplay of
instrumental sonorities, orchestral tutti and the vocal and the musical
interpretation of the text is what makes the work attractive and appealing.
Anastasia Klevan's bright soprano blended in harmoniously with the
orchestra.Performing Beethoven's Ninth is quite an ambitious undertaking
by the JSO, conducted by Frederic Chaslin. In the opening Allegro, the conductor
blissfully ignored the caption "ma non troppo, un poco maestoso" ("but not too
fast, a little majestic"), making the movement sound hurried, matter-of-fact,
and eliminating its mysterious quality.The Scherzo's haste lacked short
breathing rests between phrases that therefore flowed into each other, diluting
the movement's tremendous energies.The work's great choral climax was
achieved accurately and solemnly, though without much enthusiasm.The
female soli, soprano Edit Zamir and mezzo-soprano Ayala Zimbler, evoked
compassion with the efforts of their weak and lusterless voices.Vladimir
Braun's friendly bass-baritone was appropriately authoritative in the opening
recitative, but tended to vanish on the concluding low notes.It was a
well-meant, competently rehearsed performance – but Beethoven's Ninth deserves
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Following our first drive of the Mercedes-Benz M-Class a couple of years ago, not much has changed in the land of Merc's midsize, two-row crossover. Sure, the high-performance ML63 AMG version followed the standard models, and reports of a BMW X6-fighting, coupe-like variant have surfaced, but aside from that, things have largely been quiet on the M-Class front.
Now, however, we have our first look at the refreshed luxury 'ute, due to arrive later this year as a 2015 model. As you can see in the photos, the M-Class is getting a heavily revised front fascia, likely incorporating the bolder front end design that we've seen on recent products like the C-, E- and S-Class, among others. Not too much seems to be changed 'round back, but we'd expect at least a slight taillamp nip/tuck before the new model hits the streets.
There's more newness inside, where we can clearly see Merc's redesigned center stack, complete with a larger – yet somehow less-nicely integrated – COMAND screen. There's a new steering wheel and new gauges, too. Typical mid-cycle refresh stuff, all around.
Our spies suggest some powertrain changes could be on tap, including a possible plug-in hybrid variant. That said, we won't rule out the normal gasoline and diesel offerings here in the States, in their usual V6 and V8 guises.
We'll know more when the refreshed M-Class sheds its camouflage later this year.


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Sometimes I feel (some) need for speed
I'm the first to acknowledge that most of my code could run faster. The truth of the matter is that, in essence, I write 'quickies': code that will run once or twice, so there is no incentive to spend days or hours in shaving seconds of a computation. Most analyses of research data fall in to this approach: read data-clean data-fit model-check model-be happy-write article-(perhaps) make data and code available-move on with life.
One of the reasons why my code doesn't run faster or uses less memory is the trade-off between the cost of my time (very high) compared to the cost of more memory or faster processors (very cheap) and the gains of shaving a few seconds or minutes of computer time, which tend to be fairly little.
In R vectorization is faster than working with each vector element, although it implies allocating memory for whole vectors and matrices, which for large-enough problems may become prohibitively expensive. On the other hand, not vectorizing some operations may turn your problem into an excruciatingly slow exercise and, for example in large simulations, in practice intractable in a useful timeframe.
John Muschelli wrote an interesting post reimplementing 2×2 frequency tables for a highly specific use, comparing the results of image processing algorithms. In John's case, there are two greater-than-9-million-long-elements logical vectors, and when comparing vectors for many images the process becomes very slow. He explains part of his rationale in his blog (go and read it), but say that his solution can be expressed like this:
# I don't have any image data, but I'll simulate a couple # of 10 million long logical vectors (just to round things) set.seed(2014) manual = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 10E6, replace = TRUE) auto = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 10E6, replace = TRUE) logical.tab = function(x, y) { tt = sum(x & y) tf = sum(x & !y) ft = sum(!x & y) ff = sum(!x & !y) return(matrix(c(ff, tf, ft, tt), 2, 2)) } logical.tab(manual, auto)
which uses 1/4 of the time used by
table(manual, auto). Mission accomplished! However, if I stopped here this blog post would not make much sense, simply rehashing (pun intended) John's code. The point is to explain what is going on and, perhaps, to find even faster ways of performing the calculations. As a start, we have to be aware that the calculations in
logical.tab() rely on logical (boolean) operations and on the coercion of logical vectors to numerical values, as stated in the documentation:
Logical vectors are coerced to integer vectors in contexts where a numerical value is required, with TRUE being mapped to 1L, FALSE to 0L and NA to NA_integer_.
In R Logical operations can be slower than mathematical ones, a consideration that may guide us to think of the problem in a slightly different way. For example, take the difference between the vectors (
dif = x - y), so both
TRUE-TRUE (1-1) and
FALSE-FALSE (0-0) are 0, while
TRUE - FALSE (1-0) is 1 and
FALSE - TRUE (0-1) is -1. Therefore:
- the sum of positive values (
sum(dif > 0)) is the frequency of
- while the sum of negative values (
sum(dif < 0)) is the frequency of
The values for
TRUE & TRUE can be obtained by adding up the element-wise multiplication of the two vectors, as
TRUE*TRUE (1*1) is the only product that's different from zero. A vectorized way of performing this operation would be to use
t(x) %*% y; however, for large vectors the implementation
crossprod(x, y) is faster. The values for
FALSE & FALSE are simply the difference of the length of the vectors and the previously calculated frequencies
length(dif) - tt - tf - ft. Putting it all together:
basic.tab = function(x, y) { dif = x - y tf = sum(dif > 0) ft = sum(dif < 0) tt = crossprod(x, y) ff = length(dif) - tt - tf - ft return(c(tf, ft, tt, ff)) }
This code takes 1/20 of the time taken by
table(x, y). An interesting result is that the crossproduct
crossprod(x, y) can also be expressed as
sum(x * y), which I didn't expect to be faster but, hey, it is. So we can express the code as:
basic.tab2 = function(x, y) { dif = x - y tf = sum(dif > 0) ft = sum(dif < 0) tt = sum(x*y) ff = length(dif) - tt - tf - ft return(c(tf, ft, tt, ff)) }
to get roughly 1/22 of the time. The cost of logical operations is easier to see if we isolate particular calculations in logical.tab and basic.tab; for example,
tf1 = function(x, y) { tf = sum(x & !y) }
is slower than
tf2 = function(x, y) { dif = x - y tf = sum(dif > 0) }
This also got me thinking of the cost of coercion: Would it take long? In fact, coercing logical vectors to numeric has little (at least I couldn't see from a practical viewpoint) if any cost. In some cases relying on logical vectors converted using
as.numeric() seems to be detrimental on terms of speed.
As I mentioned at the beginning, vectorization uses plenty of memory, so if we were constrained in that front and we wanted to do a single pass on the data we could write an explicit loop:
loopy.tab = function(x, y) { tt = 0; tf = 0; ft = 0; ff = 0 for(i in seq_along(x)) { if(x[i] == TRUE & y[i] == TRUE) tt = tt + 1 else if(x[i] == TRUE & y[i] == FALSE) tf = tf + 1 else if(x[i] == FALSE & y[i] == TRUE) ft = ft + 1 else ff = ff + 1 } return(matrix(c(ff, tf, ft, tt), 2, 2)) }
The loopy.tab does only one pass over the vectors and should use less memory as it doesn't need to create those huge 10M elements vectors all the time (at least it would if we used a proper iterator in the loop instead of iterating on a vector of length 10M (that's 40 MB big in this case). The iterators package may help here). We save room/memory at the expense of speed, as
loopy.tab is ten times slower than the original
table() function. Of course one could run it a lot faster if implemented in another language like C++ or Fortran and here Rcpp or Rcpp11 would come handy (updated! See below).
This is only a not-so-short way of reminding myself what's going on when trading-off memory, execution speed and my personal time. Thus, I am not saying that any of these functions is the best possible solution, but playing with ideas and constraints that one often considers when writing code. Incidentally, an easy way to compare the execution time of these functions is using the
microbenchmark library. For example:
library(microbenchmark) microbenchmark(logical.tab(manual, auto), basic.tab2(manual, auto), times = 1000)
will spit numbers when running a couple of functions 1,000 times with results that apply to your specific system.
PS 2014-07-12 11:08 NZST Hadley Wickham suggests using
tabulate(manual + auto * 2 + 1, 4) as a fast alternative. Nevertheless, I would like to point out that i- the initial tabulation problem is only an excuse to discuss a subset of performance issues when working with R and ii- this post is more about the journey than the destination.
PS 2014-07-13 20:32 NZST Links to two posts related to this one:
- Wiekvoet's work which i- relies on marginals and ii- reduces the use of logical operators even more than my
basic.tab2(), simultaneously taking around 1/4 of the time.
- Yin Zhu's post describing vectors is a handy reminder of the basic building blocks used in this post.
Updated with Rcpp goodness!
PS 2014-07-13 21:45 NZST I browsed the Rcpp Gallery and Hadley Wickham's Rcpp tutorial and quickly converted
loopy.tab() to C++. Being a bit of an oldie I've used Fortran (90, not that old) before but never C++, so the following code is probably not very idiomatic.
library(Rcpp) cppFunction('NumericVector loopyCpp(LogicalVector x, LogicalVector y) { int niter = x.size(); int tt = 0, tf = 0, ft = 0, ff = 0; NumericVector tab(4); for(int i = 0; i < niter; i++) { if(x[i] == TRUE && y[i] == TRUE) tt++; else if(x[i] == TRUE && y[i] == FALSE) tf++; else if(x[i] == FALSE && y[i] == TRUE) ft++; else ff++; } tab[0] = ff; tab[1] = tf; tab[2] = ft; tab[3] = tt; return tab; }' ) loopyCpp(manual, auto)
Loops and all it runs roughly twice as fast as
basic.tab2() but it should also use much less memory.
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Less wordy R
The Swarm Lab presents a nice comparison of R and Python code for a simple (read 'one could do it in Excel') problem. The example works, but I was surprised by how wordy the R code was and decided to check if one could easily produce a shorter version.
The beginning is pretty much the same, although I'll use ggplot2 rather than lattice, because it will be a lot easier (and shorter) to get the desired appearance for the plots:
require(Quandl) require(ggplot2) # Load data from Quandl my.data = Quandl("TPC/HIST_RECEIPT", start_date = "1945-12-31", end_date = "2013-12-31")
The whole example relies on only three variables and—as I am not great at typing—I tend to work with shorter variable names. I directly changed the names for variables 1 to 3:
# Display first lines of the data frame # and set short names for first three columns head(my.data) names(my.data)[1:3] = c('year', 'indtax', 'corptax')
It is a lot easier to compare the regression lines if we change the shape of the data set from wide to long, where there is one variable for year, one for tax type, and one for the actual tax rate. It would be possible to use one of Hadley's packages to get a simpler syntax for this, but I decided to stick to the minimum set of requirements:
# Change shape to fit both regressions simultaneously mdlong = reshape(my.data[, 1:3], idvar = 'year', times = c('Individual', 'Corporate'), varying = list(2:3), direction = 'long') mdlong$taxtype = factor(mdlong$time)
And now we are ready to produce the plots. The first one can be a rough cut to see if we get the right elements:
ggplot(mdlong, aes(x = year, y = indtax, color = taxtype)) + geom_point() + geom_line() + geom_smooth(method = 'lm')
Yes, this one has the points, lines, linear regression and 95% confidence intervals for the mean predicted responses, but we still need to get rid of the grey background and get black labels (
theme_bw()), set the right axis labels and ticks (
scale_x... scale_y...) and set the right color palette for points and lines (
scale_colour_manual) and filling the confidence intervals (
scale_colour_fill) like so:
# Plotting the graph (first match color palette) and put the regression # lines as well serious.palette = c('#AD3333', '#00526D') ggplot(mdlong, aes(x = year, y = indtax, color = taxtype)) + geom_point() + geom_line() + geom_smooth(method = 'lm', aes(fill = taxtype)) + theme_bw() + scale_y_continuous('Income taxes (% of GDP)', breaks = seq(0, 12, 2), minor_breaks = NULL) + scale_x_date('Fiscal year', minor_breaks = NULL) + scale_colour_manual(values=serious.palette) + scale_fill_manual(values=serious.palette)
One can still change font sizes to match the original plots, reposition the legend, change the aspect ratio while saving the png graphs (all simple statements) but you get the idea. If now we move to fitting the regression lines:
# Fitting a regression with dummy variables m1 = lm(indtax ~ year*taxtype, data = mdlong) summary(m1) # The regressions have different intercepts and slopes # Call: # lm(formula = indtax ~ year * taxtype, data = mdlong) # # Residuals: # Min 1Q Median 3Q Max # -1.95221 -0.44303 -0.05731 0.35749 2.39415 # # Coefficients: # Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) # (Intercept) 3.435e+00 1.040e-01 33.01 <2e-16 *** # year -1.564e-04 1.278e-05 -12.23 <2e-16 *** # taxtypeIndividual 4.406e+00 1.471e-01 29.94 <2e-16 *** # year:taxtypeIndividual 1.822e-04 1.808e-05 10.08 <2e-16 *** # --- # Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 # # Residual standard error: 0.7724 on 134 degrees of freedom # Multiple R-squared: 0.9245, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9228 # F-statistic: 546.9 on 3 and 134 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
This gives the regression coefficients for Corporate (3.45 – 1.564e-04 year) and Individual ([3.45 + 4.41] + [-1.564e-04 + 1.822e-04] year or 7.84 + 2.58e-05 year). As a bonus you get the comparison between regression lines.
In R as a second language I pointed out that 'brevity reduces the time between thinking and implementation, so we can move on and keep on trying new ideas'. Some times it seriously does.
A couple of thoughts on biotech and food security
"What has {insert biotech here} done for food security?" This question starts at the wrong end of the problem, because food security is much larger than any biotechnology. I would suggest that governance, property rights and education are the fundamental issues for food security, followed by biotechnological options. For example, the best biotechnology is useless if one is trying to do agriculture in a war-ravaged country.
Once we have a relatively stable government and educated people can rely on property rights, the effects of different biotechnologies will be magnified and it will be possible to better assess them. I would say that matching the most appropriate technologies to the local environmental, economic and cultural conditions is a good sign of sustainable agriculture. I would also say that the broader the portfolio of biotechnology and agronomic practices the more likely a good match will be. That is, I would not a priori exclude any biotechnology from the table based on generic considerations.
Should the success of a biotechnology for food security be measured as yield? It could be one of the desired effects but it is not necessarily the most important one. For example, having less fluctuating production (that is reducing the variance rather than increasing the mean) could be more relevant. Or we could be interested in creating combinations of traits that are difficult to achieve by traditional breeding (e.g. biofortification), where yield is still the same but nutritional content differs. Or we would like to have a reduction of inputs (agrochemicals, for example) while maintaining yield. There are many potential answers and—coming back to matching practices to local requirements—using a simple average of all crops in a country (or a continent) is definitely the wrong scale of assessment. We do not want to work with an average farmer or an average consumer but to target specific needs with the best available practices. Some times this will include {insert biotech, agronomical practices here}, other times this will include {insert another biotech and set of agronomical practices here}.
And that is the way I think of improving food security.


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