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Cyber Blue & White Monday
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- Kerry Steele- Design du Monde said...
I am a total online shopping devotee. Throw in free shipping and I get really excited that I did not drive all over the place for the things I wanted.
- November 26, 2012 at 7:53 AM
- Nancy said...
Great line-up over at TPP Linda! Good luck today shopping! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
xo Nancy
- November 26, 2012 at 8:20 AM
- Decora Adora said...
Linda good look today shopping .I love line!!!!!
- November 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM
- Lisa @ Shine Your Light said...
How cute is that guy? He even has eyebrows!
I am searching for a really good deal on a Kitchenaid Mixer for my mom for Christmas - that is the only thing on my Cyber Monday shopping list!
- November 26, 2012 at 8:28 AM
- pam {simple details} said...
Happy shopping! I'm afraid I'll find too many items for myself! :)
- November 26, 2012 at 9:28 AM
- Nicole Scott said...
I have 50 emails form every store I love promising free shipping...if they really mean it I'm in trouble! Gotta Run. Love the Kitty Cat!:)
- November 26, 2012 at 10:47 AM
- Kim@Chattafabulous said...
Where would I be without online shopping? Why does everyone go to that dreadful mall to drive around looking for a parking space, and then fight for picked -over merchandise? Okay, I know it doesn't sound like it, but I really do enjoy the holiday season! Headed over to see your picks. Happy Cyber-Monday!
- November 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Loi Thai, Tone on Tone said...
Hey Linda - Let me know if you see any great blue and white garden seats. I want a pair for outside, and don't want to spend a lot :)
Heading over to TPP!
- November 26, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Albertina M. Cisneros said...
I loved all your finds. Especially the wine tags! and of course The Pink Pagoda's note cards!
- November 26, 2012 at 12:44 PM
- Sandy at You May Be Wandering said...
I loved all your picks - what fun!!! Cyber Monday is a bit overwhelming but not nearly as stressful as Black Friday!
- November 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- Bethany [at] Powell Brower Home said...
hoping over there now!!! i have no plans for cyber monday because im broke from removing my large tree :)
- November 26, 2012 at 4:32 PM
- The Pink Pagoda said...
I loved having you today, Linda! Thank you for being my guest - everyone loves your finds!
- November 26, 2012 at 5:32 PM
- Vel Criste said...
I'm inlove with that Schumacher pillow!!! aaaaagh, have to get rid of some of mine to get this blue one!
- November 26, 2012 at 6:33 PM
- Leslie said...
He is adorable! Heading over .. love blue and whites :)
- November 26, 2012 at 8:14 PM
- jeanine said...
I love blue and white porcelain and your Etsy finds. The guy above would make a really great guard dog.
One example of mannequins I find creepy is here {http://www.flickr.com/photos/fegbm/6830821614/}. There are other, definitely not all of them but enough. :)
- November 26, 2012 at 8:24 PM
- Julie Taylor and Danni Greenwalt said...
OK heading over...
- November 26, 2012 at 9:33 PM
- Tiffany Leigh Interior Design said...
Love foo dogs the moooost!
- November 26, 2012 at 10:05 PM
- Samantha Green said...
I love this! The colours are gorgeous; blue and white is definitely a favourite colour combination of mine :) xx
- November 28, 2012 at 7:47 AM


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Three Photos of Colette
Come over here little girl and let me show you something, wheedles the dirty old world, and sweet ignorant Claudine—well—all tiptoes, she does want to see. Weary of innocence, she does desire to know what the sexual fuss is all about. She is a tight string eager to sound yet fearful of the music; and since she wants to take risks while retaining her safety, she will pass from one school to another, one teacher to another, one parent to another, in every case learning the unforeseen and unexpected, insecure on one leg because, mistrustful of the ground, she cannot chance having both put firmly down together.
So curiosity…not your window-shoppers' sort, those strollers whose eyes in muggy weather light like nervous flies on crumbs and sweets yet leave without lessening their prize or fattening themselves, but the curiosity that bites the peach to the pit and allows the mouth to fill with juice like a basin; that licks hard and listens, that fingers and sniffs and above all looks, regards—watches, stares, peers—that observes, receives, as an infant explores its world, all drool and smear, as if the world were a fistful of thumbs…such curiosity consumes both Colette and Claudine, and unties them from their homes, and lets them for a time believe that certain dashing older gentlemen will open the earth for them, expose life as they expect to be exposed, and give them the only kind of experience that counts: carnal knowledge of all things.
These Claudines, then…they want to know because they believe they already do know, the way one who loves fruit knows, when offered a mango from the moon, what to expect; and they expect the loyal tender teasing affection of the schoolgirl crush to continue: the close and confiding companionship, the pleasure of the undemanding caress, the cuddle which consummates only closeness; yet in addition they want motherly putting right, fatherly forgiveness and almost papal indulgence; they expect that the sights and sounds, the glorious affairs of the world which their husbands will now bring before them gleaming like bolts of silk, will belong to the same happy activities as catching toads, peeling back tree bark, or powdering the cheeks with dandelions and oranging the nose; that music will ravish the ear the way the trill of the blackbird does; that literature will hold the mind in sweet suspense the way fairy tales once did; that paintings will crowd the eye with the delights of a colorful garden, and the city streets will be filled with the same cool dew-moist country morning air they fed on as children. But they shall not receive what they expect; the tongue will be about other business; one will hear in masterpieces only pride and bitter contention; buildings will have grandeur but no flowerpots or chickens; and these Claudines will exchange the flushed cheek for the swollen vein, and instead of companionship, they will get sex and absurd games composed of pinch, leer, and giggle—that's what will happen to "let's pretend."
The great male will disappear into the jungle like the back of an elusive ape, and Claudine shall see little of his strength again, his intelligence or industry, his heroics on the Bourse like Horatio at the bridge (didn't Colette see Henri de Jouvenel, editor and diplomat and duelist and hero of the war, away to work each day, and didn't he often bring his mistress home with him, as Willy had when he was husband number one?); the great affairs of the world will turn into tawdry liaisons, important meetings into assignations, deals into vulgar dealings, and the en famille hero will be weary and whining and weak, reminding her of all those dumb boys she knew as a child, selfish, full of fat and vanity like patrons waiting to be served and humored, admired and not observed.
Is the occasional orgasm sufficient compensation? Is it the prize of pure surrender, what's gained from all that giving up? There'll be silk stockings and velvet sofas maybe, the customary caviar, tasting at first of frog water but later of money and the secretions of sex, then divine champagne, the supreme soda, and rubber-tired rides through the Bois de Boulogne; perhaps there'll be rich ugly friends, ritzy at homes, a few young men with whom one may flirt, a homosexual confidant with long fingers, soft skin, and a beautiful cravat, perfumes and powders of an unimaginable subtlety with which to dust and wet the body, many deep baths, bonbons filled with sweet liqueurs, a procession of mildly salacious and sentimental books by Paul de Kock and company—good heavens, what's the problem?—new uses for the limbs, a tantalizing glimpse of the abyss, the latest sins, envy certainly, a little spite, jealousy like a vaginal itch, and perfect boredom.
And the mirror, like justice, is your aid but never your friend.
Dependent as a young girl is, she has only her body to sustain her. Her body has brought her to Paris. Her body can free her from her husband if she wants to go on the stage or be a whore, but she must possess a pleasant face, a fresh complexion, good limbs, prominent breasts, a narrow waist. She will succeed only so long as she gives pleasure to men. To do that, she must know how to flatter, how to be silent, when to be weak; for women must be weak in public, strong at home, compliant in private.
The prudent woman will not accept gifts from just any body, so frigidity will be the rule. To become dependent there, to allow a male that power over you, to lose the last of your lands without a struggle, the citadel of sensation, is to surrender everything and enjoy even the humiliation of your rape.
The Claudine books do not contain the complete scenario. The independent woman goes to bed with bankers and invests her tips with wisdom on the Bourse, and the time will come when she will keep men as she was kept, requesting their erections, and requiring them to pleasure her as she was once supine and sweetly willing. A woman who has children and who remains married will someday sell her daughters off as she was sold, and by middle age the intelligent, ambitious ones will be so accomplished at managing the world through their husbands—as if soft arms were in those manly sleeves—and so skilled at beating back female competition, so sly with insinuation, clever with wigs and rouge, so unscrupulous about the truth, adept at blackmail and intrigue, hard inside as cinders, that males would fall to their knees in terrified admiration if they believed to their bones what they've hitherto only suspected, and occasionally felt: the scornful condescension which has shivered the small hairs of their skin when they turned away to sleep sometimes in bedrooms shut away from any breeze.
During wars, as it is written in La Fin de Chéri, when the men go off to be brave in front of one another, rump to rump and arm in arm and hand to hand (for that's esprit de corps), the women, as dangerous as the slaves which the Spartan soldiers left behind, take over. They discover, the way Rosie the Riveter did, that women can shape the real world as well as any man; that manipulating men has made them peculiarly fit for politics and administration; and they become men then, improving on the species; for it never occurred to Colette (as it never did to Gertrude Stein) to question the roles, only the assignments of the players.
There is one value in this sort of life, one currency which can be cashed like grapes crushed in the mouth, spent in the released limbs, received from one's surroundings as simply as rain, and that is the quiet ease of soul called contentment, the joyful joining of the body to the world which we vaguely spell as pleasure. The realm of animals and nature, quiet open country, unassuming streams and ponds, flowering plants: these yield that pleasure up with greatest certainty and safety, and young Claudine and the mature Colette are sensualists of a greedy straightforwardness and simplicity supreme enough to put Pierre Louÿs's perversities to rout, and J.-K. Huysmans's hothouse visions and rococo plans, like out-of-fashion paintings, into the museum basement.
But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hair…ah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.
It is the hair we see in the final photographs, after arthritis has marooned her on that pillowed divan she calls her raft. She wears a futile sweater against the chill which swells from within now like a puff of cold breath, and a fur bedspread is draped over her former body. She is looking at us with Claudine's eyes and Colette's mouth. Her alertness is utterly unlike the hopelessness we earlier saw when she sat beside Willy. It is preternaturally intense. Her jaw juts as it always did; her nose has not lost its longish taper either; the brow has risen, lying beneath her frizzy hair like snow beneath a wintering bush; and her hands, thank god, can still form words. A table crosses her body like a bridge, running toward the window which overlooks the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and bearing, like pedestrians trooping over it, a telephone, pen and little pitcher chocked with spares, her spectacles, some papers (what's that, an address book?), a potted plant overbearingly in bloom, and plenty of bleaching sunshine. One of the immortals, she will soon die, and be given a state funeral and denied consecrated ground on the same day.
Claudine never had enough to do. She had no children, few plants, and her husband's servants. She had her husband, too, who kept her at ends as loose as carpet fringe. She gives way to her impulses and encourages her moods. She recoils from imprisonment but plays at being kept. Yet what can a plaything feel but the handling? Love is the great distraction. Romance can fill you better than pasta, and when it's digested it leaves you thin. Love gives you the sense of having been alive, but the life of love is always in the past tense, in that remembered moment when a curl touched your cheek or an amorous glance felt like a warm palm on the belly—there, where the smallest muscles tremble to the touch like an animal. Chéri, too, a male Claudine in many ways, though without her elasticity, can only hunger and fondle, fuck and sleep; find his intermittent being in his mother-mistress, Léa's arms, as Claudine finds hers in Renaud's, her equally fatherly lover. "Devoting oneself to sensual pleasure is not a career for a respectable man," Colette writes in L'Etoile Vesper,5 or for a woman who would live past fifty either, since by that time…time….
Written in her seventies, The Evening Star, translated by David Le Vay (Bobbs-Merrill, 1973), along with The Blue Lantern, translated by Roger Senhouse (Farrar, Straus, 1963), make up the summit of what is an actual mountain of memoirs and reflections (My Mother's House, Sido, Break of Day, The Pure and the Impure, each published here by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) which overshadows, in the pure quality of its literary achievement, even her finest fiction.↩
Written in her seventies, The Evening Star, translated by David Le Vay (Bobbs-Merrill, 1973), along with The Blue Lantern, translated by Roger Senhouse (Farrar, Straus, 1963), make up the summit of what is an actual mountain of memoirs and reflections (My Mother's House, Sido, Break of Day, The Pure and the Impure, each published here by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) which overshadows, in the pure quality of its literary achievement, even her finest fiction.↩

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With less than 100 days left of the Bloomberg administration, the city Health Department has released a progress report on its most recent health agenda, Take Care New York 2012.
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"In my time that I've been here as health commissioner, no one has yet come up to me and said, 'Please put secondhand smoke back into my restaurant,'" Farley said. "No one has yet said to me, 'Please put trans fat back in my food.'"
While a judge ruled that the city could not control portion sizes of sugary drinks, Farley said that even the threat of that policy has reduced consumption by 20 percent, with the hope that adult obesity rates will follow the downward trend of childhood obesity.
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I send my best regards to you and your family for the New Year. The holidays are behind us now, and we strive to get back into our routine with school and work. For me, Jan. 7 convened the 2014 General Assembly, a 60-day legislative session creating the next two year budget for Kentucky. This year is loaded with issues that require legislative action as the Senate Majority strives to make pathways for economic growth and fight for fiscal responsibility.
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In March 2012, a group led by Jane Fonda called "The Woman's Media Center" publically called for the FCC to remove Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves. Their argument was basically that because (as they see it) Mr. Limbaugh belittles and mocks a wide range of groups that he is not acting "in the public interest" whatever that means.
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Mark Raymond Hornak is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 2011 with an appointment from Barack Obama. Prior to appointment, he was a partner at the law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC and has held the position since 1989.
Early life and education
Hornak received a B.S. from University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and a juris doctorate degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1981.[1]
Professional career
- Law clerk, Hon. James M. Sprouse, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1981-1982[2]
- Adjunct professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1989-1993
- Private practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1982-2011
Judicial career
Western District of Pennsylvania
On December 1, 2010 President Obama nominated Hornak to the seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania vacated by Donetta Ambrose.[2] [1]
President Obama had this to say about the nominations made on December 1, 2010, "These outstanding candidates have shown an unwavering commitment to justice throughout their careers. They all have long and distinguished records of service, and I am pleased to nominate them to continue serving the American people on the District Court bench." [1]
Hornak received a rating of "Unanimously Well Qualified" from the American Bar Association. [3]
Judiciary committee hearing
His hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee occurred on June 22, 2011. [3]
Nomination returned to President
Hornak's nomination was returned to the President at the end of the 111th congress.
Nomination resubmitted
President Obama resubmitted the nomination on January 5, 2011.
The Senate Judiciary committee recommended Hornak on July 21, 2011 and he was confirmed by a Senate voice vote on October 19, 2011.
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Ferris to dedicate campus Saturday
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FERRIS – The Yellow Jackets will have a new nest to play and learn in starting Saturday.
All 240,000 square feet of it.
Designed, constructed and this weekend, dedicated, from the 2005 bond election, Ferris ISD officials cut the ribbon on the facility at 1 p.m. at the campus on East 8th St.
The building is designed to accommodate 1,200 students and staff, which will pave the way for Ferris' future entry into Class 4A, the second-to-last student population category (for athletic reasons, Ferris is in Class 3A; classifications are based on student enrollment.)
With 65 classrooms, a vocational agricultural facility and athletic field house, school officials said the new high school was constructed for $149.33 per square foot.
The old Ferris High School, located a block away, will house the junior high.
The cost from the bond package approved three years ago includes the sidewalks and parking, six tennis courts, three practice fields for the football and soccer teams and band, as well as landscaping, furniture and computers and technology.
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Online Education takes off
Udacity is a smaller player but welcome competition to Coursera. I think companies that have on demand learning programs should consider donating a course to these online education players (like SAS Institute for SAS , Revolution Analytics for R, SAP, Oracle for in-memory analytics etc)
Any takers!
Coursera is doing a superb job with huge number of free courses from notable professors. 111 courses!
I am of course partial to the 7 courses that are related to my field-
Open Source Analytics
My guest blog at Allanalytics.com is now up
http://www.allanalytics.com/ is the exciting community which looks at the business aspects to the analytics market with a great lineup of pedigree writers.
It is basically a point/counterpoint for and against open source analytics. I feel there is a scope of lot of improvement before open source dominates the world of analytics software like Android, Linux Web Server do in their markets. Part of this reason is – there needs to be more , much more investment in analytics research, development, easier to use interfaces, Big Data integration and rewarding ALL the writers of code regardless of whether the code is proprietary or open source.
A last word- I think open source analytics AND proprietary analytics software will have to learn to live with one another, with game theory dictating their response and counter-response. More competition is good, and open source is an AND option not an OR option to existing status quo.
You can read the full blog discussion at http://www.allanalytics.com/author.asp?section_id=1408&doc_id=233454&piddl_msgorder=thrd#msgs
Hopefully discussion would be more analytical than passionate :) and greater investments in made in analytics by all sides.
Use R for Business- Competition worth $ 20,000 #rstats
All you contest junkies, R lovers and general change the world people, here's a new contest to use R in a business application
$20,000 in Prizes for Users Solving Business Problems with R
PALO ALTO, Calif. – September 1, 2011 – Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of R software, services and support, today announced the launch of its "Applications of R in Business" contest to demonstrate real-world uses of applying R to business problems. The competition is open to all R users worldwide and submissions will be accepted through October 31. The Grand Prize winner for the best application using R or Revolution R will receive $10,000.
The bonus-prize winner for the best application using features unique to Revolution R Enterprise – such as itsbig-data analytics capabilities or its Web Services API for R – will receive $5,000. A panel of independent judges drawn from the R and business community will select the grand and bonus prize winners. Revolution Analytics will present five honorable mention prize winners each with $1,000.
"We've designed this contest to highlight the most interesting use cases of applying R and Revolution R to solving key business problems, such as Big Data," said Jeff Erhardt, COO of Revolution Analytics. "The ability to process higher-volume datasets will continue to be a critical need and we encourage the submission of applications using large datasets. Our goal is to grow the collection of online materials describing how to use R for business applications so our customers can better leverage Big Analytics to meet their analytical and organizational needs."
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Interview Dan Steinberg Founder Salford Systems
Here is an interview with Dan Steinberg, Founder and President of Salford Systems (http://www.salford-systems.com/ )
Ajay- Describe your journey from academia to technology entrepreneurship. What are the key milestones or turning points that you remember.
Dan- When I was in graduate school studying econometrics at Harvard, a number of distinguished professors at Harvard (and MIT) were actively involved in substantial real world activities. Professors that I interacted with, or studied with, or whose software I used became involved in the creation of such companies as Sun Microsystems, Data Resources, Inc. or were heavily involved in business consulting through their own companies or other influential consultants. Some not involved in private sector consulting took on substantial roles in government such as membership on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. The atmosphere was one that encouraged free movement between academia and the private sector so the idea of forming a consulting and software company was quite natural and did not seem in any way inconsistent with being devoted to the advancement of science.
Ajay- What are the latest products by Salford Systems? Any future product plans or modification to work on Big Data analytics, mobile computing and cloud computing.
Dan- Our central set of data mining technologies are CART, MARS, TreeNet, RandomForests, and PRIM, and we have always maintained feature rich logistic regression and linear regression modules. In our latest release scheduled for January 2012 we will be including a new data mining approach to linear and logistic regression allowing for the rapid processing of massive numbers of predictors (e.g., one million columns), with powerful predictor selection and coefficient shrinkage. The new methods allow not only classic techniques such as ridge and lasso regression, but also sub-lasso model sizes. Clear tradeoff diagrams between model complexity (number of predictors) and predictive accuracy allow the modeler to select an ideal balance suitable for their requirements.
The new version of our data mining suite, Salford Predictive Modeler (SPM), also includes two important extensions to the boosted tree technology at the heart of TreeNet. The first, Importance Sampled learning Ensembles (ISLE), is used for the compression of TreeNet tree ensembles. Starting with, say, a 1,000 tree ensemble, the ISLE compression might well reduce this down to 200 reweighted trees. Such compression will be valuable when models need to be executed in real time. The compression rate is always under the modeler's control, meaning that if a deployed model may only contain, say, 30 trees, then the compression will deliver an optimal 30-tree weighted ensemble. Needless to say, compression of tree ensembles should be expected to be lossy and how much accuracy is lost when extreme compression is desired will vary from case to case. Prior to ISLE, practitioners have simply truncated the ensemble to the maximum allowable size. The new methodology will substantially outperform truncation.
The second major advance is RULEFIT, a rule extraction engine that starts with a TreeNet model and decomposes it into the most interesting and predictive rules. RULEFIT is also a tree ensemble post-processor and offers the possibility of improving on the original TreeNet predictive performance. One can think of the rule extraction as an alternative way to explain and interpret an otherwise complex multi-tree model. The rules extracted are similar conceptually to the terminal nodes of a CART tree but the various rules will not refer to mutually exclusive regions of the data.
Ajay- You have led teams that have won multiple data mining competitions. What are some of your favorite techniques or approaches to a data mining problem.
Dan- We only enter competitions involving problems for which our technology is suitable, generally, classification and regression. In these areas, we are partial to TreeNet because it is such a capable and robust learning machine. However, we always find great value in analyzing many aspects of a data set with CART, especially when we require a compact and easy to understand story about the data. CART is exceptionally well suited to the discovery of errors in data, often revealing errors created by the competition organizers themselves. More than once, our reports of data problems have been responsible for the competition organizer's decision to issue a corrected version of the data and we have been the only group to discover the problem.
In general, tackling a data mining competition is no different than tackling any analytical challenge. You must start with a solid conceptual grasp of the problem and the actual objectives, and the nature and limitations of the data. Following that comes feature extraction, the selection of a modeling strategy (or strategies), and then extensive experimentation to learn what works best.
Ajay- I know you have created your own software. But are there other software that you use or liked to use?
Dan- For analytics we frequently test open source software to make sure that our tools will in fact deliver the superior performance we advertise. In general, if a problem clearly requires technology other than that offered by Salford, we advise clients to seek other consultants expert in that other technology.
Ajay- Your software is installed at 3500 sites including 400 universities as per http://www.salford-systems.com/company/aboutus/index.html What is the key to managing and keeping so many customers happy?
Dan- First, we have taken great pains to make our software reliable and we make every effort to avoid problems related to bugs. Our testing procedures are extensive and we have experts dedicated to stress-testing software . Second, our interface is designed to be natural, intuitive, and easy to use, so the challenges to the new user are minimized. Also, clear documentation, help files, and training videos round out how we allow the user to look after themselves. Should a client need to contact us we try to achieve 24-hour turn around on tech support issues and monitor all tech support activity to ensure timeliness, accuracy, and helpfulness of our responses. WebEx/GotoMeeting and other internet based contact permit real time interaction.
Ajay- What do you do to relax and unwind?
Dan- I am in the gym almost every day combining weight and cardio training. No matter how tired I am before the workout I always come out energized so locating a good gym during my extensive travels is a must. I am also actively learning Portuguese so I look to watch a Brazilian TV show or Portuguese dubbed movie when I have time; I almost never watch any form of video unless it is available in Portuguese.
Dan Steinberg, President and Founder of Salford Systems, is a well-respected member of the statistics and econometrics communities. In 1992, he developed the first PC-based implementation of the original CART procedure, working in concert with Leo Breiman, Richard Olshen, Charles Stone and Jerome Friedman. In addition, he has provided consulting services on a number of biomedical and market research projects, which have sparked further innovations in the CART program and methodology.
Dr. Steinberg received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and has given full day presentations on data mining for the American Marketing Association, the Direct Marketing Association and the American Statistical Association. After earning a PhD in Econometrics at Harvard Steinberg began his professional career as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, and then as Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. A book he co-authored on Classification and Regression Trees was awarded the 1999 Nikkei Quality Control Literature Prize in Japan for excellence in statistical literature promoting the improvement of industrial quality control and management.
His consulting experience at Salford Systems has included complex modeling projects for major banks worldwide, including Citibank, Chase, American Express, Credit Suisse, and has included projects in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Korea, Japan and Brazil. Steinberg led the teams that won first place awards in the KDDCup 2000, and the 2002 Duke/TeraData Churn modeling competition, and the teams that won awards in the PAKDD competitions of 2006 and 2007. He has published papers in economics, econometrics, computer science journals, and contributes actively to the ongoing research and development at Salford.
Ethics and Writing
A particularly prominent technology blogger ( see http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/michael_arrington_the_kingmaker_who_would_be_king.php )has now formalized his status as an investor (which he did even before) while relinquishing his editorial duties (which were not much given the blog's acquisition by AOL and its own formidable line of writers, each one of whom is quite influential). Without going into either sermon mode (thou shall not have conflict of interests) or adulatory mode (wow he sold the blog for 30 mill and now he gets another 20 mill for his funds)- I shall try and present the case for ethics and ethical lapses while as a writer.
Interview Scott Gidley CTO and Founder, DataFlux
Here is an interview with Scott Gidley, CTO and co-founder of leading data quality ccompany DataFlux . DataFlux is a part of SAS Institute and in 2011 acquired Baseline Consulting besides launching the latest version of their Master Data Management product. (more…)


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Where did my week and my day go? I could have sworn it was just Monday, or at least 10:15 a.m. — I'm going to go with the "time flies when you're having fun" explanation. I have had some very productive meetings this week and some new developments as well — which totally energizes me.
We did have a very FUN family reunion that produced roughly 17 loads of very dirty, sandy clothes and about 200 pictures — you know what amazes me? How many pictures we take these days and how I still get the feeling when I review them that I "missed" stuff. I did get these shots, which totally depict "road trip" to me …
… but I missed taking one of Geof driving and me working on my laptop — see what I mean, crazy.
summer is crazy — I'm loving it, the clipboards are still working relatively well and we are finishing projects and enjoying planned activites.
I'm pretty darn excited about stuff I'm working on in my house …
or rather garage! I don't have a mudroom, so I created one in the back half of our garage — Geof and Clark laid the interlocking plastic tiles from Costco and I hung cute frames/pics on the locker doors.
and, check out the adorable red bench that Jenna found and told me about …
it was ingeniously made from the head and foot boards of a twin bed — and I'm so in love with it. It was at one of those adorable stores that a friend has to tell you about, because otherwise you'd never know! We also got the cute days-of-the-week chalkboard — I'm going to hang pics of each person from the hooks (i think)
Jenna gets credit for most of the painting — this wall is a shade
darker than the rest of the kitchen — but I get credit for the light
switch covers!!
and if you are loving my pillows (which, I can't imagine you not loving my pillows) and wondering where to get some, go here. I think I've mentioned that Susan Sargent is my new favorite color expert and guess what? She has a store!
I also ordered two microfiber chairs from Target (only $169 a piece) — which are making my living room look so "real," with somewhere to sit besides the couch and the hearth!!
Ok, back to the grind — I'm writing an introduction to something … and I'm almost ready to tell you what it is!!


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It was J's first full day at school today. When we chatted yesterday about him starting he wasn't keen amongst his excuses for not going was,
J "Mum will you miss me?"
me "Yes ofcourse I will, I'll miss you lots"
J "I better not go then, if you'll miss me!" lol mmmmm sorry little man but it didn't work :)
Anyway this morning he willingly put his shorts on and just when I thought things were going well, he decided that he absolutely couldn't put his socks or his shirt on! A little negotiating later we put everything on just before we left, ofcourse all the messing about meant that we were a little late leaving and so couldn't park at the school and so had quite a way to walk when we'd finally parked the car. Luckily his friend's parents had also parked next to us and J went running off into school with his friend, M.
Unfortunately, despite me talking with him several times he was still under the impression that he would still be in his old classroom with his teachers from last term. When he was told he would be in the other EI classroom with a new teacher, (the one we had been talking about together) he freaked. He quite simply did not want to go into that classroom. One of his teachers, Miss C, came over to us and explained that due to the class sizes J and a couple of his classmates, (including M) , would be in the old classroom with her and Miss S, however it was only temporary. Mini meltdown stopped immediately once he realised that he was going into his classroom.
Once inside, he hung his bag up, got his water bottle and snack out, he spelt his name and then it was time to say goodbye. I gave him a big squeeze and told him I'd be back after lunch to pick him up, he asked how long he would be there for so I told him and he had a minor moan about how that was ages but nothing big. As I said goodbye I saw his lip quiver but no tears so I left while I could, turning back to see him chatting with Miss S.
When I picked him up, he was incredibly happy telling me that he had eaten his raisins, (he NEVER eats them at home), and that he had played outside and made a pattern by hammering nails….. quick quote "and they (the nails) were even real, they were metal and sharp on the end and everything, but the hammer was rubbish so I just pushed them in!" :) ………………………. Then he remembered that Miss S had taken a picture of him with the hammer and nail peg board and
wanted needed to show it to me right there and then! He didn't want to listen to myself, Miss S or Miss C as we tried to explain the picture had to be put onto the computer first and then it would be printed out, maybe I could look at it tomorrow……………… maybe not! Miss S had to get the phone that the picture was on, she had to show me the picture and told J that she would print a copy of it off for me tomorrow. He was still a little cross about it but he was ok, I hope they don't forget tomorrow because he certainly won't! :)
All the way home he told me everything that he had done and more importantly everything that he hadn't done, e.g " And I didn't even punch anyone!" :$
He's done brilliantly well today but I'm not forgetting that he was in his old classroom with his old teachers, whom he adores and some of the children who were in his EI class last term. Thursday will be completely different, a different and bigger room, different teachers, different kids, different furniture, different smells etc etc….. And ofcourse being with Miss S and Miss C in his old classroom is only temporary, it could be for the term or it could only be for a week or 2 and when he does have to go into the other classroom it's going to be really tough on him. I hope they're ready.
As for today, Well done baby, Mummy's very proud of you xxxxxxx


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Gaming Like Its 1999: Building A Legacy Windows Gaming PC
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um just a thought wouldn't it be cheaper to say run win98 in VMware or something? being graphic's being what they were back then it should be more then fast enough.
True. Emulation is sufficient performance wise for such old games, and you don't have to bother with extra junk PC.
I initially went the VMware route. And the VirtualBox route. And the Virtual PC route. While in theory it sure does sound nice, many of these games were created in a chaotic time of hardware and their related drivers. Plus, with virtualization, the graphics and sound hardware that's emulated tends to stress more application compatibility, and aren't exactly optimal for virtualized Windows gaming.
MechWarrior II (at least the Titanium edition) on a very fast PC has weird quirks involving accel/deceleration, weight, and jumpjet capacity.
MechWarrior III in a virtualized environment has a tendency to randomly send vehicles flying several kilometers into the sky at breakneck speeds, eventually throwing them off the map and leaving you unable to complete missions.
Some games just don't want to run due to extensive hardware and DirectX utilization.
There's a substantial difference in classic Windows gaming and classic DOS gaming, with the older DOS gaming ironically far easier as it was far simpler to emulate via DOSBox.
Or VirtualBox. 100% free and supports 3d acceleration on some Guest OSes
Im ashamed to say... "I remember those days".
Why are you ashamed? Those days were awesome! I'm proud that I lived through that golden era of gaming.
Golden era? Try Wolfenstein on a 386. heh
I built my first PC which was a 386-25 that was going to be a screamer playing Doom at net parties. Cost me damn near $2,000. Tired of losing because of lag.
Audigy 1 does work on windows 98, I was dual booting 98 and 2000
The first cards shipped after XP went gold but before general avalibilty,the drivers bundled were for windows 2000(WDM) and 98(VXD) and had compatiblty issues with XP.
They did not support XP or had XP drivers in the box (august 2001, sep 2001 for AUS)
XP formally launched in October. The drivers were buggy on RTM Win XP and later fixed.
Windows 2000 was not too good at multimedia or gaming
Some older games especially if you want to access the native MIDI compatibilty of the game you'll need VXD not WDM drivers as different features are exposed. (For ANY sound card of th era - SB, Yamaha, Aureal, CMedia)
98/ME can use WDM drivers - ie shared drivers witrh 2000/XP but only in certain instances and many features missing
I cant find my Audigy 1 review (long story) but I did find a screenshot showing the driver properties
AIDA32 showing the Audigy 98SE(or did I have ME?) VXD driver
Audigy 2 ZS (2003) launch units came with partial 98 "VXD" drivers
There is a zip on the CD that included the 98_ME VXD driver, however you had to install it yourself manually no installer. Creative Download Packages did allow a choice of VXD or WDM but VXD eventually disapeard.
The situation is much worse with other brand cards especially Yamaha and Aureal as in some cases even SPDIF control or hardware MIDI was not avallible.
Thats not the half of it. NT 4.0 audio drivers. wow. Modern Technology.
I was a mod a popular pc audio forum called 3dsoundsurge, some of you old hats may remeber it.I spent too much time providing tech support in the various audio card sub forums.
Realtek have 95/98/NT drivers for their older chips still for download.
I personally think this system is too new for 'legacy gaming', in fact the hardware is too new for 98SE also.
I'll have to give it another shot when I have time. I really want to get an older sound card working.
The hardware is newer than I intended, but I outlined the reasons for that. If you want to go pure era hardware you by all means can, but you have to spend a lot more time looking for hardware, or you need to expand your budget.
Functionally, I don't think the hardware I picked is at any disadvantage. I mean, I suppose it is true that the video card won't support some older rendering methods, but the system is more than quick enough to go with the software renderer in those cases.
You are right about the Audigy 2 drivers. I used 7Zip to pull out the drivers, then manually updated them with the files I extracted. They work perfectly fine.
I used to have a pc running win 98se just to play combat flight similator and mechwarrior 2 with my sidewinder forcefeed back joystick. Sadly I had to get rid of it due to space constraints.
Yep, space is a problem. I have just enough room. I suspect some people would go DOSBox or virtualization no matter the cost or difficulity of a system like this, just because they don't have enough room for it.
this is an amazingly fun project that I have done myself 2 times, one for a windows 98 pentium 2, and one for a dos 6.2.2 486. I Most of what Matt says is true, correct and good advice...... Except for "As far as I know you could also use Windows ME without compatibility issues"
While compatibility would not be a problem, Windows ME is! It is the worst OS that Microsoft has ever released. Random Degradation starts on day one of install, all of the "New Features" it included, system restore in particular, were not ready for the consumer, and the blue screen of death was almost as common a sight as the desktop.
The legend is that Windows ME was only released due to the fact that Microsoft had promised a "New OS for the new Millennium" but "Whistler" wasn't ready, so they patched together an updated windows 98 that never realy worked properly, so they wouldn't look bad for promising a impossible to achieve release date, and What was supposed to be ME became XP, one of the best operating systems to date.
So the moral of the story is, NO WIN ME!!!!!!
Side note, as of 5 mins ago I now have a full k-6 system to play with. Did somebody say DOOM?
PCPER is a place of facts logic and reason not hate or hearsay which is why I like to frequent here.
Win Me came out because it was time for Windows release cycle. There is no conspiracy.
Roughly without aid of wikipedia
1995 Win 95 Gold/Retail/Upgrade
1996 95A and 95B
1998 Win 98/98SE
1999 Windows 2000
2000 Win ME
2001 Win XP
2002-3 Win MCE, Server 2003/Win X64
2004-5 XP service Packs
2006 vista
2009 7
2012 8
Approx every 3 years = new major OS with minor OS in between and that excludes betas which void this rule.
Have people forgotten how many versions of WIn 3.x/NT there were too? some of these should have been free updates
Win 3.1
Win 3.11
Win 3.12* some claim it exists some dont
Win 3.11 for Workgroups
MSDOS was as much as a clustef!@# too 3.x to 6.x and point releases mattered.
Windows 2000 was NOT a consumer oriented OS.
The only issue with winme for legacy gaming is they removed the exit to dos feature.
It even had USB mass storage support, 98se needs random drivers from random websites for mass storage.
98SE bsods on most systems let alone me. It also had the 'degrading' you speak of after a few hours. It is for this reason that 'professionals' used NT4.0 and later Win2000 for any system that had to be depended on.
There were many known issues for 98SE, such as issues with fast processors, high ram or large disks.
It does not support SMP let alone WinME. But winme has been a scapegoat for years when the finger should have been at the whole win9x family for being too directly dependant on hw/drivers and not being abstracted from a driver sense.
Its funny how many on the internet who criticise ME are obvilious to the fact that MS had to release 98SE to 'improve' 98 and 95a,b and a few more updates, some of which were not avalible as a download/covercd patch.
MS released some kernel updates for 95 (they never have since only full service packs)
And to this day I am still annoyed that MS didnt let 98 GOLD owners patch to 98 SE either free or cheaply
95 gold AKA 95A on CDROM was nasty in terms of its hardware support.
Entire 9x line was BSOD prone, that was inherent architectural fault, that couldn't be fixed with any service pack - that's why MS moved to NT kernel line, which was completely different beast.
I hear ya', brother.
Back in the day, you tended to just by a machine with Windows rather than upgrade. 95 and 98 were interesting and still good OS'es, but they definitely had their share of crashes and BSoDs. I never got to use WinME until a few years ago while playing around with an older machine from 2002, but it was far less of a hassle than people made it out to be. Yeah, it crashed, but not any more than I remember in 95 and 98/98SE.
People tend to forget the days before WinXP and its giant cache of drivers that did its best to make sure your hardware would run.
Ahh, I remember the days when I had a Windows 98 pc. My favorite game was Descent 3. I had even built various levels to play on. It was awesome!
dude, I just tossed out a lot of old hardware that would have made for a good legacy gaming PC. I blame my Wife for this,..... ;-)
I must have tossed out three 17" Viewsonic CRT monitors. A couple of cases with PII / PIII motherboards (I kept the CPUs, HDD and RAM). All sorts of other nick-nacks.
Damn it!
Note that with an old school rig like this, you could install a 'Good Old Game' and copy the files to your rig, playing them 'au naturale'.
Good article! Props!
A couple of things:
The GPU you used is newer than the one in this system (5200FX)
When you partitioned the drive, did you run into the 32GB partition limit? I'm sure I remember this being a problem with FAT 32.
I find that booting into something like Ubuntu is a good way of testing nonfunctioning hardware like your sound card.
Very interesting read.
FAT32 is able to create volumes up to 2TB in size, you go around the 32GB limit during the (in this case) Windows 98 install, it will prompt you early on in the install for something like "enable large disk support" which will allow you to create volumes larger than 32GB. :)
2000/xp/vista, not sure on win7 have a FAT formatting limit (versus volume limit) that is documented as a known issue-nofix by Microsoft. Third party disk/USB formatting tools overcome this issue.
Third party tools are often faster or support boot also
Great article
I have to ask, how is this easier that just running games through DOSBox?
DOSBox is what GoG and Steam use to get these old games to run on modern hardware.
Its easy.
No doubt, DOSBox is easier than this, and cheaper too.
WoW Awesome little Project man !
Seems am one of few lucky ones ! My dad, back in the Pentium III days bought me one as a gift ... I can now safely say he did well preserving it and still using it to this day as his office internet and faxing machine ....
Finally I can ask for it back since he got another machine he can use instead, to use it for this Memory lane project ...
Thanks for this ;)
Would this work for ya?
it costs $99.99
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200 @ 2GHz
1Gb RAM
40GB Hdd
AMD Radeon X200
AC'97 Audio Chipset
Comes with XP Profesional instead of 98SE.
It's also on the first page of the catalog top left.
Gee, I wish I had Total Annihilation 2!:P
You must be a little younger than I; these are games from late high school!
Amiga days were where it was at!
Were a few classics released around the time win95 introduced the directX stranglehold on PC hardware.(quake, duke3d,warcraft,few lucasarts adventure games,etc.) They were, of course, DOS games. Remember how bad 95 made your hardware seem? Why the fuck doesn't the next version of windows run better than the previous? More time to tweak it! I swear Microsoft is the most fucking
*rant detected: ABORTING*
Wow, I was just thinking of doing this very thing with an old Shuttle w/ an AMD XP 2400. I knew there was a reason I didn't throw away my copy of Win 98se. :)
I have a bunch of old games still in their boxes.
I didn't think about having to patch them though.
Good advice of finding them on a separate system and transferring them over.
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I usually don't like people when I first meet them, but not Sam. On the afternoon of Montreal Bar Vs. Chef, us competitors, which included said Sam, took a written test about contest sponsor Appleton rums, then we had a break for dinner. Sam strode up to me and asked in a friendly sort of bellow if I'd like to come have dinner with them. I didn't know who them was but I said sure. Turns out that Sam is one of those folks who can make conversation with a relative stranger quite a pleasant experience, which is probably just one reason why he's so well-suited for what he does.
Did you know you can make a Manhattan* with aged rum instead of bourbon? Because you totally can and it's really pretty good!
I happened upon this discovery of sorts while toying with recipes for that Montreal Bar vs. Chef competition I clearly can't stop talking about. My original idea was to do a flip, but after many, many attempts to make even a halfway-decent one, it was clear that what I had on my hands was actually a flop. (Rim shot!)
When Tao — short for Taoufike Zrafi, bartender extraordinaire at Piano Rouge in Old Montreal — came out from behind the bar after his turn up at bat competing in Montreal Bar vs Chef, I beelined over to him, pat him on the back and bellowed, "Looks like someone really wants to go to Jamaica!" (Because the top prize at our little Appleton-sponsored cocktail competition was a trip to, um, Jamaica.)
What Tao invented ("concocted" is too culinarily namby-pamby a word) sent my lower jaw slamming into the floorboards. When you're at home futzing around with your shaker and your bottles, do you ever play-act mad-scientist-going-MWAH-HA-HA fantasies in your head? Tao's Smoking Kingston is actually that.
As if that is not enough, Tao's presentation included a laminated copy of this flow chart (Tao calls it a "polygramme"; adorbs!):
And now, since you are absolutely as confused/titillated/stunned/feeling stupid as I originally was, I'll let Tao explain (in cutely imperfect English) what's up.
OK, yes, I know Dark and Stormies are so 2009-at-Botanica. Even if I did not know that, it is a fact that the D'nS has jumped the fad shark because by the time the NYT gets around to running a story about something, that something has likely already filtered its way down into a TGI Friday's/Old Navy/insert corporate chain you love to mock here.*
The thing is, Dark and Stormies are good. So good. At our bon voyage boozeefest in July, our lushy-lush friends polished off an entire bottle of Myers's in one night thanks to Dark and Stormies. And they're so goddamned simple it's almost not fair. They're highballs, for Chrissakes. Why bother bashing your skull coming up with the GREATEST COCKTAIL EVER when it's so easy to just fix yourself a Dark and Stormy? Read the rest of this entry »
I am writing to you from on a cocktail high. It's almost noon yet I'm still riding my 3 a.m. buzz. Last night, I competed alongside 11 of the city's best bartenders in the first-ever Montreal Bar vs. Chef competition. It was like PROM FOR COCKTAIL NERDS!!!
The contest was held at Le LAB, my maison away from maison here in Montreal. (The first night Sean and I went there, I got just pickled enough that I started blabbing about my cocktail blog, and next thing I know the LAB staff and the PhoBlograpHusband had conspired against me to sign me up for the contest, despite my being neither a French-fluent nor an actually-employed bartender.) It was sponsored by Appleton Estate and consisted of three parts:
The moral of this week is: Take things literally. Yesterday I blogged about my Breakfast of Champions, an original cocktail o'mine that bears more than a passing resemblance to a Moon Over My Hammy at Denny's – and yes, it's a little embarrassing for a
high-functioning alcoholic mature mixologist to admit to such levels of kitsch. Today's recipe, while not quite so blatant, was likewise created via an over-the-top approach.
The basic premise was to construct a swizzle using the sweetest ingredients we (Sean and I) could think of, but somehow manipulate them into a drink that tasted better than, say, a shot of insulin with a Blow Pop chaser. Our secondary goal was to make a juice-less swizzle — which, according to rather strict definitions I've found and mentioned here before, means it technically wouldn't be a swizzle, but whatevs — as our at-home citrus stock was low.
"A belly laugh is like a cocktail without the hangover."
Nobody said that; I just made it up to justify today's post, which had me LOLing so hard I ran out of time to write!
The following is what my friend P. wrote in a card that arrived in the mail the other day. It included a check as a wedding gift. Our wedding, it is important to note, took place a year and 24 days ago. It's also important to note that Sean and I are moving to Montreal at the end of July, hence the Canada references.
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You are being a whiny little beeyotch this week. After putting up with all your petulant bullshit throughout the entirety of spring (wait, what spring? Exactly), now you are ruining Summer Cocktail Week. I plan a Mai Tai post and you decide that it's a good day for intermittent drizzle and an overcast sky that can only be described as pawn-shop pewter. Do you see a dot-uk at the end of this blog's url? You're just fucking un-American, weather.
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1/2 ounce orange curacao
1 1/4 ounces lime juice
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1/4 ounce simple syrup
Orange peel and cocktail umbrella, for garnish
Combine all liquid ingredients into an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for about 30 seconds. Strain into a Pilsener glass that has been filled with crushed ice, swizzle-style. Garnish.
Dessert cocktails are usually not my thing. Their very etymology is redundant, and quite frankly, any drink sweet enough to merit the extra designation of "dessert" may as well just go by Insulintini as far as I'm concerned.
Dessert wines and dessert beers (the latter not a thing, really, but bear with me) tend to fall under that same philosophy, but in each case, I've got my much-cherished exception. For example, I love Moscato d'Asti, which is a peachy-flavored, pink-tinged, Italian sparkler that has become a hallmark of summer to me. Give me a split of Moscato and a porch on a 90-degree night and I'm completely in my cups (a phrase which, I swear to Bacchus, up until this very second I always thought meant just self-contentedly happy, but apparently it means happy via inebriation, which knowing me I can't argue against).
As both a maker of cocktails and a plier of the written word, I am wholly offended by garish concoctions (cocktastrophes, perhaps?) that look like this and, insult on top of insult, co-opt the nomenclature of "daquiri":
And so, welcome to reason #I-lost-track of why I so thoroughly enjoyed pitching drinks at The Royale, where the Holly Hills daquiri looks like this:


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