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A portion of ophthalmology that resists change unlike some other specialties is the consumer reluctance to undertake a procedure that may have side effects associated with vision like refractive laser correction. Any side effects concerning eyes/vision is typically avoided as much as possible especially if there are other options.
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This phenomenon is partly responsible for the trend toward closing solo and small group practices to join vision care networks. Though this experience exists more in general medical practices and some pecialties, ophthalmologists also face the threat of practitioners [osteopathic physicians, doctors of optometry] replacing eye MDs—an intrusion on their medical training, skills, and specialty. However increasing healthcare costs, and economic changes sometimes force shifts in the typical work pattern of healthcare providers. One example is a change that has happened in states across the U.S. allowing optometrists to diagnose and treat glaucoma.

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American urban gardeners are falling afoul of city zoning ordinances against livestock and gardening. Their less prescient neighbours are more interested in not smelling livestock than they are in keeping safe, cheap food on the table.
WHILE THE US federal bureaucrats stick their fingers in a cracking economic dike, many believe that there is something seriously wrong with the nation's economy. So serious, that they are leaving the nation, becoming expatriates, fleeing to more favourable climes.
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Many are trying to outrun what many see as a possible collapse of the economy, an event, which could possibly change the face of the nation, if not the human paradigm. A recent newswire article notes that many Americans are leaving the country, not, as in the past, for "artistic or political" reasons, but because they are tired of what is going in this country, particularly with what is happening in the economy.
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Those who remain, face a changing economic clime, with housing prices falling, banks getting shakier than a drunk coming off a three day binge, and food and fuel prices shooting off the scale. Even worse, while food prices are rising, many say our food safety mechanisms are seriously flawed or over extended.
Recall after recall has made Americans nervous. Millions of pounds of beef have been recalled this year. Vegetables and fruits have been connected with several serious cases of food borne illness.
We are accustomed to watching Third World countries deal with famine, food shortages, food borne illness and death. What we are not accustomed to is the current serial food supply catastrophes which have become routine over the past few months.
Our nation's water supply is in trouble. Infrastructure from bridges to water plants is in need of major repairs and renovation. Water scarce Western states are battling each other for access to rivers and water supplies, as urban water vampires with exploding populations suck aquifers dry. All in all, the way of life that we have become accustomed to for so many decades is in danger of collapsing.
The food supply is seriously impaired, with recall after recall making Americans afraid of putting a fork in their mouths, or filling up a glass with tap water. Agribusinesses and hedge fund operators are now vying for control of "vertical markets" which include everything from purchasing farms, to buying food processing plants and shipping companies.
Some analysts predict that what is currently happening in the mortgage loan industry, the fraud, price manipulation, and insider graft will soon be coming to the food sector as well. Guard your wallet and watch what you put on your fork, because the worse is yet to come.
If we thought the 18th century robber barons were a millstone around the economy's neck, wait until the food supply hedge fund investors get through with us. Pretty soon, if we are not vigilant, we'll "owe our guts to the company store."
As Jim Hightower colourfully put it:
Oh, this is just dandy! Hedge fund schemers and Wall Street manipulators – the very characters who brought us the Great American Housing Collapse – have a new target for their fast-buck profiteering: farming. EIEIO! (Hightower, 6-26-08)
Hightower's analysis shows that he, at least understands the dangers of fast buck farming and profiteering, where many are clueless. Our food supply is slowly being devoured by a coven of fast buck artists who will, if not stopped, have a stranglehold on world food supplies, and will be able to create spot shortages, manipulate markets, and create vast artificial famines—oh, wait a minute: They're already doing that.
By "owning structure," they mean centralising control of food in the hands of financial manipulators who have only one crop in mind: Fat profits. These multi-billion-dollar funds are buying thousands of farms in the US, Brazil, Africa, Britain and elsewhere, turning farmers into corporate labourers and viewing farmland and water as disposable inputs for the huge short-term profits investors demand. (Ibid)
Now, check out this strange twist on food sufficiency. We have the possible collapse of the economy, food prices going through the roof and some of our neighbours are battling each other over the "right" to grow gardens and raise chickens in the city.
We have become so out of touch with reality, that we can't see the forest for the trees. Some people are so worried about "farm smells" coming from the yard next door, that they don't see how unstable our food supply chain has really become. But first, a bit of history, here.
The last wave of urban gardening, beginning in the 1970s was generated by disinvestment in food outlets in the aftermath of the urban unrest, which plagued many of the nation's great cities. One researcher writes:
Although urban gardens had been operated with government assistance in New York during World Wars I and II and the Great Depression, the social setting for the gardens of the 1970s was different from that of earlier gardens, for it was characterised by social unrest and urban disinvestment (Kurtz 2001).
Simply put, when the local grocers were burned out, the neighborhoods had no close source of fresh produce. Hence, the rise in the urban garden movement, which began in the 70s. (Community Gardens and Politics of Scale in New York City, by Christopher M Smith and Hilda E Kurtz)
Now, a similar situation is happening, only this time price, fuel/transportation costs, and food safety, rather than availability of grocery stores is at the root of the new urban garden movement. It's neighbour against neighbour as one side grows gardens, chickens, fowl and feeds itself, while the other protests at the "Green Acreing" of the neighbourhoods.
Much has been written about the Third World, developing countries whose populations are leaving the country and moving to the cities in droves. But the flip side of the coin, developed countries whose tottering economies are driving their citizens to extending their dollars with a move to gardening, urban livestock raising, and green living is a field that hasn't really been greatly explored.
We know what the trends are. Farmers and country people are moving to cities all over the world.
Major population movements and changes in reproduction and mortality rates during the 20th century have dramatically transformed the way we live. Nearly half the world's population is now urban and another 1.5 billion people will be living in cities by 2020 (Figures 1 and 2). This explosive growth of urban settlements, which is occurring in developing countries, brings with it two critical challenges: The migration of peoples towards the urban world has brought with it a migration of poverty that cities are ill-equipped to deal with; and the concern that unplanned urban growth is accompanied by environmental pollution, health risks and a decline in the quality of life. (Urban Harvest: A Challenge Programme on Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture.
And this was before the western bank and mortgage collapse. How much will these figures change, if the world's economy has a major heart attack?
Today, some city dwellers across the nation have taken to growing chickens and raising gardens as a way to extend their dollars, but their neighbours often don't appreciate their efforts. In several cities, urban farmers/gardeners are running afoul of local zoning ordinances. Their less prescient neighbours are more interested in not smelling "livestock" than they are in keeping safe, cheap food on the table, and so the legal/zoning battles over "city farming" begin.
As was noted by a report on urban farming, without supporting infrastructure, the rewards and benefits of urban farming may be lost or diluted by conflicting neighbours and restrictive local ordinances. To wit:
We argue that while urban agriculture can be an important part of the solution, it can also be part of the problem when unsupported by research, extension or an institutional framework. The overall goal of this Challenge Programme therefore is to strengthen the contribution of urban and peri-urban agriculture to food and nutrition security, human and community health and poverty eradication through the safe, efficient and sustainable use of urban resources and opportunities by urban populations in the developing world.(Ibid)
The bottom line is this. Urban gardeners must band together and learn to cooperatively work from a position of strength. Working with local governments is essential, because battles over zoning, livestock raising, when/where/if you can raise your gardens or livestock will seriously impair your ability to become self-sufficient.
Surviving is much more important than playground contests with your clueless neighbours. Get organised. Get together and work from a position of strength. Your life, and your family's survival may depend on it.
Monica Davis is an author, columnist and public speaker, having written hundreds of articles on farming, sustainability, government corruption and ethnic issues.
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King of Suffering composed by Pepper Choplin. Arranged by Stan Pethel. For SAB choir and piano (with optional snare (orchestration)). Sacred Anthem, Good Friday, Holy Week. Octavo. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.10-4351L).
With a dramatic clarity underscored by the unrelenting beat of a drum, this gripping anthem graphically depicts the gravity of the moment that Christ sighed his final mortal breath.
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Had a quick discussion on App.net about studying higher mathematics and what the point was. I got a lot out of studying mathematics. Now, when I talk about higher mathematics I'm talking about things like multi-variable calculus, matrix algebra, and advanced statistics. You real math folks would scoff at those being "advanced" but they are just a bit more than most undergrads study I think. In any case, this is how and why I studied those thing. Oh, and what I got out of them.
I think the first actual mathematics I did was in 9th grade. What I mean is that it was the first time I had to think mathematically instead of just following an algorithm. It was an intro to geometry class. We started with basic logic, truth tables, basic proofs. I loved the entire course. The rest of high school slowly drained me of any interest I had in mathematics. By the time I limped through my analysis class in 11th grade I was done. It had stopped making sense to me. Like most kids my overwhelming question was, "Why in the world do I need to know this stuff? I'll never add an infinite sequence or find out what the limit of something is."
I proceeded to major in film and photogtraphy in college. Was not required to take any mathematics and I didin't take any. Why would I? One thing I did take as part of my religon/philosophy minor was logic. It was an intro to symbolic logic course and it brought back all of the warm feelings I had in my geometry course. I did really well in it and have made good use of it all through the rest of my life. It was there that the then arbitrary sounding rules of association that were covered in 8th grade made sense to me.
I got my BFA in '94 and proceeded to join the working world. The most complicated thing I did mathematically was to calculate sales tax. 4 or 5 years out of school I began to read voraciously again. Mostly nonfiction. Read several books on the history of mathematics. I have no idea what prompted that. There could have been a very good reason for it but it was probably just a whim. In any case, I really enjoyed them. There wasn't actually any mathematics in them, they were really histories of thought. How thinking about things like the Arabic number system, zero, negative numbers, and imaginary numbers came about and how folks tried to make sense of them.
My next purchase was volume 1 of a three volume set entitled Mathematics; Its Form, Content, and Meaning. Why in the world would I buy that? I read the introduction while sitting in Barnes and Nobles. Those 30 pages were able to make sense of my three years of high school math courses. All it took was 30 pages. I'm still a little bitter about this. Who knows what I might have done if I managed to understand and enjoy mathematics in high school… I was never really able to connect the dots between algebra and geometry and into mathematical analysis. 30 pages was all it took.
That was the last thing I did with mathematics for 7 or 8 years. When I decided to go back to grad school for architecture I knew that I would need calculus. When I decided to go for an economics PhD instead I knew that I would need a lot more math than just a calculus course. I took pre calc, calculus 1 and 2 (8 credits worth all told), matrix algerbra, and statistics 1 and 2. I eventually took an intro to econometrics course (basically a little more advanced and applied statistics course) and I learned multi variable calculus on the fly in a graduate econ course.
I did pretty well in all of them. Well, that last course where I had to learn multivariable calculus and the course's content at the same time almost killed me but the rest were fine. I can honestly say that I have never had to use any of the mathematics I learned since I got out of school. I'm still really glad I took those courses though. Why? What changed between high school and grad school?
One of my guiding principles in life is that the more you know, the more you can know. True to form, it really wasn't possible to learn the economics I did without knowing the math as well. So there's that. Mathematics can open up new fields of knowledge for you. On top of that, mathematics can open your mind to things that you wouldn't have thought were related.
For example, studying infinities made some spiritual and philosophical concepts easier to grapple with. Learning that some infinities are constrained while others aren't, learning that there are some infinities larger than others, and learning that anything divided by infinity was equal to zero all blew my mind. More importantly those lessons loosened up some mental blocks I had when it came to understanding eternity, quantum mechanics, and some other tricky philosophical issues.
My econometrics course was the culmination of my statistical studies. We spent a lot of time agonizing over the importance of truly random samples, how safe your assumption over how the underlying data fell across a normal distribution was, and how to minimize likely errors in estimating the central tendency of a data set. All great statistical knowledge to be sure but it also taught me so much about assumptions we make when making decisions, the value of realizing that things may not be the way they look at a casual glance, and the importance of starting with good data.
There are tons more but basically it was very easy for me to generalize the lessons I got from my mathematics courses to many other aspects of life. Usually it wasn't the minutia of the problem solving that were important but rather the underlying principles that made all of the mathematics possible. Turns out they make other kinds of thinking possible too. Mathematics has really enriched my life in ways that nothing else could. While I've never had to find the second derivative of anything in real life, and I doubt I could do it now, I'm so very glad I know what it means.
Wow, my last post was on July 4. Funny how time can get away from you. I've had it in the back of my mind to get back to blogging at least and maybe even audio blogging again. Just have not been in the right frame of mind for it. My creative impulses come and go and they've been gone for a while now. Think I'm getting some sort of impulse. Hopefully I'll follow through with it. Anyway, stay tuned. I hope to get some stuff out sooner than later…
It's the 4th of July again. This time around I want to talk a little about songs that I think are uniquely American. Well, that's "Proud to be American," or maybe something by Sousa right? No, not what I mean. Those types of songs could be written or performed anywhere. Paeans to nationalism are always welcomed by whoever is in power. The 4th of July always reminds me of rebelliousness and I want songs that typify that. I've lived in a country where these sorts of songs would not be allowed to air, but they are considered classics here. Now that's American…
First up is "Fortunate Son" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. This song seems to be misunderstood as often as "Every Breath You Take by The Police and "The One I Love" by R.E.M. I have no idea how though. "Fortunate Son" starts with the line, "Some folks are born, made to wave the flag. Ooh they're red, white, and blue." Seemingly this is as far as most people listen. It was played a lot for the 4th of July and other patriotic holidays. That lone line was also featured in a Wrangler ad complete with a waving American flag. Somehow the meaning of the chorus "It ain't me!" eludes people even though they sing along with it. I'm pretty sure it came out in 68 or 69 and is clearly an anti-war, anti-powers that be song.
I ain't no Senator's son.
I ain't no military son.
I ain't no millionaire's son.
It ain't me…
It's the kind of song that governments everywhere would ban, especially during wartime, but not here! Given the times, it was quite a bit edgier than it sounds now but is still a powerful song. Check out this performance from 1970 at the Royal Albert Hall. Can anything be more American? The look, the sound? The message?
The next song is also a protest one. There's no question that black folks have had a rough time at the hands of the police over the ages. That's the basis of "Sound of Da Police" from KRS-1. He weaves an amazing line between modern police forces and the overseers on southern plantations. He doesn't allude to slavery, he doesn't suggest that there are parallels, he says that the same thing is happening today. Once again, a direct confrontation of authority, all centered around the legacy of American slavery. Now that's American! Can you imagine some of the founding fathers penning something similar? OK, maybe not but the same sentiment was there!
Woop-woop! That's the sound of da police! That's the sound of the beast!
Stand clear! Don man a-talk
You can't stand where I stand, you can't walk where I walk
Watch out! We run New York
Police man come, we bust him out the park
I know this for a fact, you don't like how I act
You claim I'm sellin' crack
But you be doin' that
I'd rather say "see ya"
Cause I would never be ya
Be a officer? You wicked overseer!
Ya hotshot, want to get props and be a savior
First show a little respect, change your behavior
Change your attitude, change your plan
There could never really be justice on stolen land
Are you really for peace and equality?
Or when my car is hooked up, you know you want to follow me
Your laws are minimal
Cause you won't even think about lookin' at the real criminal
This has got to cease
Cause we be getting hyped to the sound of da police!
Woop-woop! That's the sound of da police! That's the sound of the beast!
Now here's a likkle truth
Open up your eye
While you're checking out the boom-bap, check the exercise
Take the word "overseer," like a sample
Repeat it very quickly in a crew for example
Officer, Officer, Officer, Officer!
Yeah, officer from overseer
You need a little clarity?
Check the similarity!
The overseer rode around the plantation
The officer is off patrolling all the nation
The overseer could stop you what you're doing
The officer will pull you over just when he's pursuing
The overseer had the right to get ill
And if you fought back, the overseer had the right to kill
The officer has the right to arrest
And if you fight back they put a hole in your chest!
(Woop!) They both ride horses
After 400 years, I've got no choices!
The police them have a little gun
So when I'm on the streets, I walk around with a bigger one
(Woop-woop!) I hear it all day
Just so they can run the light and be upon their way
Woop-woop! That's the sound of da police! That's the sound of the beast!
Check out the message in a rough stylee
The real criminals are the C-O-P
You check for undercover and the one PD
But just a mere Black man, them want check me
Them check out me car for it shine like the sun
But them jealous or them vexed cause them can't afford one
Black people still slaves up til today
But the Black police officer nah see it that way
Him want a salary
Him want it
So he put on a badge and kill people for it
My grandfather had to deal with the cops
My great-grandfather dealt with the cops
My great grandfather had to deal with the cops
And then my great, great, great, great, when it's gonna stop?!
Woop-woop! That's the sound of da police! That's the sound of the beast!
Both of these songs were made in order to resist overbearing authority, I think that's a fitting legacy. Happy Independence Day everyone!
I hope to do some economics based audioblogs soon. No, they won't be the final word on anything but I hope to spread some ideas about thinking in an economic way. Also, I'm plotting my spending ways. Looking forward to a new audio receiver and possibly a sous vide appliance. Since I recorded this, I have gone ahead and ordered a Digital to Analog Convertor (DAC). No, this will not replace the receiver, don't be silly… With any luck both audio blogs and regular ones will start becoming more regular. Stay tuned…
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Every once in a while I get asked what podcasts I listen to. If you're not familiar with podcasts you should be. There are hundreds of thousands of recorded audio programs available for free covering every topic imaginable. My list has changed a bit over the past year. Here is the current list:
Radiolab. A show that shows up on public radio. Very well done. They pick an interesting story and tell it talking to a variety of people and interviews. Highly recommended.
This American Life. A well known Public radio staple. Ira Glass's show, they pick a topic and tell multiple stories revolving around that topic. They mix in true stories and fiction around the topic. Highly recommended.
The Talk Show. John Gruber talks (at length) with a guest about tech stuff in general and usually revolves around Apple. I do think he has a lot to say about excellent products. I'm only listening once in a while these days but still enjoy it.
The Critical Path. Horace Deidu from Asymco talks disruption, innovation, and competition in the tech and entertainment worlds. A high level view of different industries and how they evolve. Great if you're interested in tech and/or econ.
Stratechery. This one is also a high level tech podcast with an economic bent. He talks about economic issues in the tech world, business models, and choices that need to be made by those companies. A new one, only three episodes old.
Econ Talk. Russ Roberts talks economics with a different guest every week. I don't listen as much as I once did but still a compelling show. Russ is very good at talking to people that he disagrees with so you get a wide variety of guests on the show.
Free Thoughts. This one is put on by the Cato Institute and is part of libertarianism.org. I'm sure you can guess what this is about. Cato tends to be less strident and more scholarly. This is a great show if you are interested in libertarianism of course but also great for anyone interested in politics. There is a lot of discussion about political economy on there.
Discover ADN. This is a show made by Jason Irwin. He interviews people that are using app.net, a social platform that is a little different than the rest of them. What is great about this is that it shows how interesting regular folks can be. Everyone has a story to tell. That thought gives me hope for us all:)
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My first audio post in a long time. Will try to start up again. This is just a quick note to let you know what's been going on with me. My usual service for hosting my audios is down so it will just live here for the time being. Be sure to subscribe with the link below!
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Do we remember this picture I took?
In my last post I kvetched about the endless possibilities making it difficult for me for me to previsualize my picture as I was taking it. There are so many possible changes that can be done that it makes it almost impossible to imagine what you can do beforehand. I'm sticking to that. I am, however, trying to learn what I can do with the tools I have and see if I can keep them in mind as I shoot. I decided to hit the magic monkey button for a while to see what the possibilities were. Actually got some interesting images but once again, they didn't feel like mine. They had been generated from my picture but I wasn't involved in how they ended up looking. I then started to go through the preloaded effects in the plugin called Adjust. Most of them were hokey and I was giving up hope until I clicked on "color negative."
Now usually color negatives are hopeless visually. Skies go orange, white people have a lot of green in them, and everything looks really funky in general. Foliage goes magenta when you reverse it. Once again, that is usually a big problem. This image wasn't so bad though because it was mostly shades of green and yellow originally. That lead to shades of magenta and blue when reversed.
I really liked what I was seeing. The reversed light/dark tones gave it more structure. Now the image was mostly darker with spots of lighter areas inside. That keeps the eye inside the frame. It also helped bring out the complexity of the shapes and patterns of the leaves. I corrected the magenta out and turned it to shades of blue and violet. Darkened the image overall and did a few tweaks to the luminosity to particular colors and came up with this:
I really like this and I feel like it is mine. It doesn't look anything like the original scene but I think I'm OK with that. This is going to sound weird but in some ways this is more how I "saw" the original scene. I loved the density, the shapes, and the variation between light and dark. Doing the extreme adjustments brought out the things I liked.
I think I will put this technique in my tool box whenever I'm faced with a situation where the edges are lighter than I'd like. It's also only going to be useful when dealing with a scene with small variations in color. Still, I'll remember this.
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I had gotten a new lens and was on vacation. That meant that photographs would be taken! It was a really overcast day and I was wandering around in front of mom's house when I saw a bush. I liked what I saw so I snapped a picture.
Doesn't look like much I know but what attracted me to it was the shapes, the contrast inside each leaf, and how visually dense the picture would end up being. If I would have shot this with film, it probably would have been on 4×5 TXP shot at an EI of 200, developed in D-76 1:1 at n+2, printed on my favorite cold tone paper (zone 6 Brilliant) with a highish filter, and then toned with selenium. For those of you not familiar with darkroom talk, all that essentially means I would have shot and processed it to add some contrast. The toning means that I would take the image from a straight B&W to having the image (as opposed to the paper) turn a very slight eggplant color. Anyway, it would have looked something like this:
Truth be told, this is how I "saw" the bush when I brought the camera up. In my mind, this is the essence of modernist "art" photography. The process is there to bring out what the photographer sees in their mind. It is a unique window into how the artist sees the world. With practice, the photographer "sees" the world through his materials and understands what it will look like at the end. For me, this was the appeal of photography. Being able to see things a certain way and bring them into the world was very satisfying.
OK, fine, you were comfortable with the darkroom materials Isaac but it's a brave new world. And yes, I fully admit that I'm not nearly as comfortable with modern photography processes. Photoshop is a world that I don't plan on getting into. I find it to be complete overkill for most photo uses and better suited to graphic artists. I stumbled across Topaz Labs and they make a series of tools that I find more approachable. Mind you, I am still a bit bewildered over the sheer number of options it presents but I at least feel comfortable noodling around with it.
One of the more basic tools in digital photography processing is layers. Essentially, you are able to have different versions of the picture and you can blend them to various degrees. I had an idea of how I could combine the first two versions and get a third that I think would look good. With a little practice I might be able to anticipate this and use it in my previsualization while shooting. Here's how it turned out:
It's a little subtle, but there is a bleached out green undertone to it. There are also some interesting contrast implications to when you combine a lower and higher contrast image like that as well.
So OK, mission accomplished, right? Well… Like I said, I'm still trying to get my head around what is possible with a digital workflow. The Topaz Labs programs (all 13 of them!) have a button that is labeled "I feel lucky." It is a pot luck button, giving you a random batch of settings in their program. Either that or it gives you a random pick from their presets. Either way, it's pretty random. I clicked it a few times in their B&W app and the third time I got this:
This is a pretty straight conversion to B&W but it has really reduced the detail seen in the smallest features while possibly increasing the contrast for the larger details. I think there are also some interesting things going on with the contrast of the middle tones. It is simultaneously flatter and more dynamic (IMO) which is something I didn't think was possible. I saved these settings and may try to use these with future pictures.
OK, so that is broadening my possible tools in my tool kit. I find these things manageable and reasonable to remember. But what about color? I loaded up the original into the color program and hit the "I feel lucky" button. Whoa:
OK, this is nuts, and beautiful. It's darker, higher in contrast and was made two tone somehow. The highlights have gone a sepia color and really stand out from the background. I think there have been things done to the various levels of contrast in the micro and medium levels of detail. I could never have guessed this beforehand, there are just too many moving parts. I saved the settings but I have no idea how I'll be able to imagine this beforehand. Just for kicks, I hit the lucky button again.
This is just getting silly now. I really like how this looks, it's very graphic and it retains the density I was attracted to in the first place. It is also completely unrecognizable as the scene I first shot. Yes, I saved these settings as well.
So what's the problem? Isn't making cool and beautiful images the whole point? Isn't it great that buttons can transform your picture so completely? Um, no and no thank you. Once again, the "point" of my serious photography wasn't to make pretty images (though that happens sometimes) but to bring out the way I was seeing that that scene or maybe even to explore and try to make visual sense of what I was seeing. There was intention to my pictures. Any monkey can punch buttons until they get something they think is cool looking. What I find bewildering is the ability to totally transform your image in every way. Back in the darkroom days there were significant restrictions to what could be done. I'd argue that was good for photographers like myself but bad for graphic artists. Working with constraints of some sort made you channel how you see. Without the constraints, it is much more difficult to "see" what you're working towards when you snap the shutter.
And yes, it is possible to constrain yourself in theory. I think I could even manage to do it in practice for B&W. And yes, some kinds of pictures like people pictures don't lend themselves to crazy adjustments. I continue to find color landscape and general scene photography difficult to do with any sort of forethought and intention. I will also admit to being a little put out by a button completely changing my original picture and doing things that are simultaneously completely unlike what I was originally thinking and cool at the same time. As nice as I think those versions look, they aren't my pictures. Yes, I pressed the shutter button but I had nothing to do with how it ended up looking. Pictures that are unintentionally may be fun to look at but they are unsatisfying to make.
Maybe I should start all over again. Shoot with B&W in mind only for a while and eventually move into color again. I dunno. I do feel as though I'm starting all over again. Maybe that's what is really bothering me…
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Anyone else remember this?
MTV blew me away when I first saw it in 1982. It blew me away again when I heard it attached to a stereo system. I wasn't always able to watch it growing up because we went a long time without cable. I remember staying up late to watch Friday Night Videos on one of the major networks. Started watching it again in high school and tried to catch the show called 120 minutes for newer music. MTV eventually became less and less relevant and now doesn't bother showing videos at all anymore. Youtube is the new MTV but I miss the ability to turn on a channel and have music videos just play. I stumbled across Vevo streaming on my mother's Samsung Blue Ray player. Wow, it's MTV all over again! One video after another. But get this, I can skip videos! It really made me nostalgic. Alas and alack, I do not have access to Vevo streaming on my Apple TV or my iPad. Sigh. Just as well, there's no telling how much time I'd waste sitting in front of it.
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Was originally scheduled to move today. Sure glad I postponed that. Also glad I'm not going to try tomorrow. Even if all the snow miraculously went away, it's supposed to be in the single digits (Fahrenheit of course) tomorrow. No, I'll wait it out. Hopefully by the end of the week the streets will be clear enough and the temperature will be bearable. Then it'll be time to move…
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|April 7, 2014 08:00 AM EDT
Telerik Controls are great for building modern, rich clients, and web applications often seen at the enterprise level. I just worked with a company that uses these controls in their soon-to-be-released customer-facing SharePoint portal. They ran a small load test that showed that the response times were ranging between 150ms and 1.3s for most of their pages - which is acceptable. Still, they wanted my opinion on the data - so they shared a dynaTrace session with me. I observed a number of problems prior to the production deployment:
- "Unbalanced" load balancer will bring a server-cluster down
- Data driven performance problems will kill a database server
- Wasteful database connection handling will impact app server performance
Check out the following screenshots that explain my steps and findings while I analyzed their performance data. I hope this is also a good guide for any of your own work you do on Telerik, SharePoint or any other frameworks. It is important to understand what happens underneath the hood - just because it works on a developer's machine or in a small scale load test, doesn't mean it will scale in production.
Step #1: Analyzing Transaction Flow
The transaction flow visualizes the flow of all requests end-to-end through the system. Not only is it interesting to see where my performance hotspots are but it is also very interesting to see how load is distributed, how these tiers are communicating with each other and how they interact with external systems such as the database.
Transaction Flow highlights load balancing, failures and bad database access patterns
Key Takeaways
- Operations: Make sure your load balancers are correctly configured. You may also want to add a load balancer between your Web Server and App Server as currently there is a 1:1 relationship.
- Developers: Analyze the performance hotspots and the database access pattern of your application. It should not be necessary to execute that many SQL statements per transaction.
- Database Admins: Check with engineering on which database statements they execute a lot and which of them can be optimized on the database server.
Step #2: Analyze Database Access Pattern
The Database view shows me which SQL Statements are executed. It is especially interesting for me to identify SQL Statements that are executed multiple times per single request and whether these statements are then prepared or not. If the same statement is executed more than 5 times I wonder if this access pattern can't be optimized, e.g., through a different SELECT, through a stored procedure or by caching the result in the app.
Database view shows which SQL statements are called up to 90x on average per request. Most of them are not prepared
Key Takeaways
- Operations: A good metric to monitor is the number of SQL Statements executed per transaction as well as the same SQL executed per transaction. As things like this can always slip into production it makes sense to monitor this for every transaction.
- Developers: Optimize your database access. If these statements have to be executed that many times, make sure these statements get prepared. Otherwise think about caching this data in the app instead of requesting it all over again.
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Australia 5 for 274 (Voges 112*) beat West Indies 257 (Charles 100, Johnson 3-50, McKay 3-52) by 17 runs
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Matches: Australia v West Indies at Melbourne
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Johnson Charles was seven years old last time West Indies beat Australia in an ODI in Australia. For much of the second half of this game, it appeared that Charles was going to ride his luck and steer West Indies to victory but not even his maiden century could end 16 years of Australian dominance at home. Under the captaincy of Shane Watson and without several of their best players, Australia completed a 5-0 clean-sweep thanks largely to Adam Voges and his first international hundred.
Voges scored an unbeaten 112 that rescued Australia from a shaky start after they were sent in by Darren Sammy and they were able to post 5 for 274, a very competitive total given the absence of the injured Michael Clarke, David Warner and George Bailey, as well as Matthew Wade and Glenn Maxwell, who have already flown to India for the Test series. In reply, West Indies had their ups and downs but with Charles and Kieron Pollard at the crease they remained firmly in the contest.
Even after Charles' fortune ran out, Pollard and Devon Thomas managed a couple of thumping sixes and brought the equation to a very gettable 48 off six overs, but somehow they just couldn't quite find the intensity to bridge the gap. Thomas was run out for 19, Pollard drove a catch down the throat of long-on for 45 and their hopes fizzled out. By the end 24 were needed off the final over bowled by McKay and West Indies lost their final two wickets.
It meant that Australia extended their record to 17 consecutive victories over West Indies in Australia. Last time West Indies won an ODI against Australia in Australia was in January 1997, when a team led by Courtney Walsh beat Mark Taylor's men in Perth. They began their chase hoping to end that drought but the loss of Kieran Powell, caught at slip off Mitchell Johnson in the second over, was not ideal.
Charles and Darren Bravo put together a 106-run second-wicket stand before Bravo sent a Xavier Doherty ball in the air to mid-off, and Dwayne Bravo followed for 13 when he was bowled by Johnson. That brought Charles and Pollard together.
Charles played some impressive strokes on his way to a century, including a six crunched over long-on against Ben Cutting and a four slashed behind point off the next ball. Those shots came in the same over that Charles survived a caught-behind appeal on 55 when an attempted pull bounced off his arm; Australia's review of the not-out call resulted in a difficult Hot Spot call and in the end the third umpire Nigel Llong felt unsure if the ball had grazed the edge of the bat before hitting Charles.
That over was a microcosm of the way Charles played in this innings: risk and reward. He was dropped twice, at slip by Aaron Finch off McKay on 7, and on 77 at deep cover by the substitute fielder Ryan Carters off James Faulkner. Another perilously close call came next ball on 79 when Charles was given lbw and asked for a review. The ball clearly came off the bat onto the back pad, but it may also have brushed the front pad before the bat. Again, Charles was given the benefit of the doubt.
He made the most of his opportunities, finding the boundary eight times including a dab past the wicketkeeper off McKay to bring up his century from his 120th delivery. Remarkably, it was his first hundred in any form of elite cricket, including first-class, List A and Twenty20. Perhaps the moment got to him, for he was out next ball when he lazily tried to swivel McKay around the corner and lobbed a catch to short fine leg.
The Australians had done well to ensure such a healthy target after Tino Best rattled them with two wickets in the first three overs of the game. That included Watson, who played on to a bouncer first ball of the game. Later, the Australians were wobbling at 4 for 82 but a century partnership between Voges and Brad Haddin launched the recovery before Faulkner joined Voges for some quick late runs. Voges finished unbeaten on 112 and Faulkner on 31 and during their partnership the wheels really fell off for West Indies, who leaked 100 runs in the final ten overs.
Singles and twos were far too easy and Voges was also finding the boundary, including with a crunching six over long-on against Best in the 50th over. Voges had brought up his ton from his 97th delivery with a hastily-run two and he celebrated like a man who thought the moment would never come. That would be understandable, for Voges made his one-day international debut nearly six years ago and since then has been almost permanently on the fringes of the national side, playing 17 ODIs but never more than three in a row.
Like Charles would later, he made the opposition pay for giving him a life on 7 when he was put down at slip by Sammy off the spin of Sunil Narine. His half-century came from 64 balls and he had good support from Haddin during a 111-run fifth-wicket stand that prevented West Indies capitalising on their impressive start. Eventually Haddin was caught at deep midwicket top-edging a swivelled pull off Kemar Roach but by then Australia were well set.
Australia had been in early trouble due to a couple of fine catches which accounted for Phillip Hughes and Shaun Marsh. If only West Indies' sharp catching had extended to Sammy holding Voges on 7, a 16-year drought might have been broken.
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Pakistan should not welcome Amir back
The serene team culture cultivated by Misbah and his men shouldn't be allowed to be disrupted by a player with a tainted past
November games need November prices
An early start to the international season, coupled with costly tickets, have kept the Australian public away from the cricket
The inherent dangers of batting
The sickening blow that struck Phillip Hughes is a reminder of the ever-present dangers associated with facing fast bowlers, even while wearing a helmet
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It is impossible to imagine how Sean Abbott must feel after sending down that bouncer to Phillip Hughes. While the cricket world hopes for Hughes' recovery, it should also ensure Abbott is supported
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November games need November prices (85)
An early start to the international season, coupled with costly tickets, have kept the Australian public away from the cricket
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Likeable, hard-working and skilful, it was a matter of time before Phillip Hughes cemented his spot in the Australian Test team. Then, improbably and inconsolably, his time ran out
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The sickening blow that struck Phillip Hughes is a reminder of the ever-present dangers associated with facing fast bowlers, even while wearing a helmet
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Never mind cricket's absence from free-to-air TV - changes in social attitudes, the demands of work, and an individualistic age are all contributing to a decline in participation
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- Lee Ann Womack has signed with Sugar Hill/Welk Music Group. Her album is slated for release in September, and the record's first single will come this summer.
- The film Glen Campbell…I'll Be Me will make its debut at next week's Nashville Film Festival.
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- Here's a couple of solid new singles worth your attention: Sturgill Simpson's "Turtles All the Way Down" and John Fullbright's "Happy."
- Baseball season is well underway, which means it's time to see what everyone is using for their walk-up music. Well done, Chase Utley. Kyle Kendrick? Not so much.
- Todd Snider's book, I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales, comes out this spring.
- Carlene Carter talked with Jewly Hight about Carter Girl and the moment she realized the impact her famous family had on music.
- Hight also interviewed Dierks Bentley for The Bluegrass Situation.
- Chrissie Dickinson (The Chicago Tribune) reviewed Emmylou Harris' recent Windy City tour stop.
- CMT Edge's Chris Parton chatted with Canadian country singer Del Barber about his new album, Prairieography.
- Robby Hecht's entertaining "Soon I Was Sleeping" video stars Frankenstein's monster.
- American Songwriter published a Q&A with singer-songwriter Emily Kinney, who plays Beth on The Walking Dead.
- Construction of the National Music of African American Music in Nashville is expected to begin next year.
- James Alan Shelton remembers the late George Shuffler in a guest post on Bluegrass Today.
- Rodney Crowell a lifetime of working at his songwriting: To me, the blessing of being an artist is working at it every day, and going to work every day. Maybe taking one day off. When I'm on the road, that's different – that's the work I'm doing. But when I'm home I'm working every day. When I think of Picasso, the man got up and went to work every day. Nabokov, the man got up and went to work every day. I'm not comparing myself to them, but I'm comparing the experience. If you are lucky enough to spend a lifetime as a working artist, the work, the day in and day out rhythm of the work, becomes the most important thing about it. And it just leads to clarity and a deeper focus. And I enjoy and love the work. I do know this: the inspiration that comes to a 25-year-old man or woman is different than the inspiration that comes to a 55-year-old man or woman artist. And the 25-year-old inspiration is more forgiving than the 55-year-old inspiration. When that source of inspiration hands it to you, it expects a better job out of you when you're older.
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I love that news about Lee Ann Womack. Sugar Hill would seem to be a perfect landing spot for her.
I'm with Ken. And will look forward to Don Williams/LeeAnn shows!
Maybe Lee Ann Womack and Don Williams can make a duet of Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good.
That Designated Hits websites is pretty cool. I love to see what songs the players listen to. I'm a huge baseball fan and the personal walk-up music is a cool way to try to get a feel for the players' personalities.
You have to give Kyle Kendrick credit for knowing his place in baseball…he is a #4/5 starting pitcher, with not the greatest stuff. So Jason Aldean's I Use What I Got…probably pretty accurate.
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MONDAY, Oct. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Maternal mood and exposure to serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) in pregnancy affect development of the infant speech perception system, according to a study published online Oct. 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Noting that SRI exposure during pregnancy alters neural plasticity, Whitney M. Weikum, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and colleagues examined their impact on infant language development, compared with exposure to maternal mood disturbances. Infants of depressed and SRI-treated mothers (SRI-exposed), non-SRI treated (depressed only), and non-SRI treated mothers with little or no depression (controls) underwent testing at 36 weeks of gestation while in utero on a consonant and vowel discrimination test. The infants also underwent a nonnative speech and visual language task at age 6 and 10 months.
The researchers found that, as expected, control infants were successful at 6 months and failed to discriminate language differences at 10 months, while SRI-exposed infants failed at 6 and 10 months and depressed-only infants failed at 6 months and performed the task successfully at 10 months. At 36 weeks of gestation, control fetuses responded to vowels but not consonant discrimination. In contrast, accelerated perceptual development was seen in SRI-exposed fetuses, who discriminated both vowels and consonants.
"Thus, prenatal depressed maternal mood and SRI exposure were found to shift developmental milestones bidirectionally on infant speech perception tasks," the authors write. "By providing a deeper mechanistic understanding of how and when developmental trajectories are altered by early exposure to maternal mood disturbances and/or SRI exposure, more optimal outcomes can be realized for infants and their mothers."
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