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Why do my RAW photos look better in editing?
I've always shot in JPEG but I got a new Nikon D5100 so I decided to shoot in RAW+JPEG to see if I could get better editing results. I noticed right off the bat that the RAW photos look way better, they have much more dynamic range. Even the "neutral" image setting on the camera tends to make it too contrasty.
I tried editing the RAW photos in iPhoto but noticed right off the bat that when I export them as JPEGs they look a lot more flat and desaturated compared to how they look in the software. While I edit them in iPhoto they look rich and colorful (even oversaturated), then I export them and they look terrible.I decided to try the View NX2 software that came with the camera and I got a similar result to iPhoto. I edited a RAW photo, saved it in the software, then exported it and when I opened it the exposure looked right but the colors were very flat.
Just to make sure it wasn't the viewer I'm using (Xee) I compared an edited photo in Xee to Preview and they looked exactly the same.
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I use Aperture and don't use I photo. If it was Aperture I would suggest:
1) Check to confirm what your eyes are telling you, export an image and import it back. Then check your histograms to see the resulting change between the RAW and the JPEG. There should only be a small difference between the two.
2) This may by too obvious but...if you're importing both RAW & JPEG from your camera, double check to make sure that you're converting and exporting the RAW image and not the JPEG.
3) In Aperture you can create "Image Export Presets" that will not only establish JPEG compression quality but other settings as well (gamma adjust, DPI and colour profile). Check these settings.
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Also, don't export as sRGB. That is the lowest common denominator colour space. It is designed to show just the colours that an average monitor can display, and will discard/shift all colours that fall outside of that limited range. If your monitor happens to be average and happens to be smack dab in the middle of this "average" range then in theory you shouldn't see much difference between the RAW and sRGB. However, if you monitor better than average, or if your monitor is calibrated off to one side then you will not be seeing some colours.
Try exporting as aRGB (or AdobeRGB - same thing, really). This is a wider gamut, and suitable for most printing jobs.
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Don't rule out that Samsung monitor. I have a 23in. Samsung and the colors always look much brighter and more vivid than they do on the second display viewed on my '08 MBP. I have to cross check my editing on the built in screen to make sure they will look ok on the web.
My monitor is from the same year as my laptop. Its a technology one notch below IPS. I think it's called PVA or Super-PVA.
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I almost forgot I meant to comment on the in camera settings. Any processing software can interpret these things differently. Typically you have a much better range of options when processing outside the camera. Just realize that the macbook air display may not be able to deliver a perfect match to an "ideal" print.
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I saw the sRGB in the OP and skimmed the rest. I would have been correct, if the OP was using JPGs exported from the camera in the sRGB colour space. Except we are talking about RAW files .... so that is not the issue.
Unless, the OP is exporting from his editing apps in the sRGB space. Then it may still be a problem. The only way to make a RAW file to fit into an sRGB space is to discard information. Depending on the image, perhaps a lot of information.
But I don't believe iPhoto even gives you that option.
@OP: What happens when you export as other formats, other than JPG?
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|Dec 19, 2012, 06:18 PM
There are a few points here. One is that Adobe RGB can't cover the entire gamut of information that is output by a modern digital camera. Photograph something bright red with an ambient metered exposure. You'll see channel clipping in Adobe RGB under many lighting conditions as the saturation will exceed what the gamut can contain. Just processing in Adobe RGB doesn't mean you're not throwing away information. It makes huge curve adjustments to correct gamma, rasterizes the image, and however many other adjustments prior to remapping the values through LAB or whatever reference space into the destination space. This is not at all lossless. As soon as you hit process, you just lost a lot of information as the two are not an exact fit.
I have an Adobe RGB display here. Most real images don't look any different in terms of saturation when compared to the older sRGB display. That one is a little dull, but that is because it's old. It looked a lot better in 2006. The old one is an NEC 2190. If the OP has a number of highly saturated colors, he might notice a difference, but sRGB doesn't automatically equal washed out. Most of what we see on the web is saved as sRGB due to its ubiquity. It's really not a likely cause here, especially when the OP is viewing on a macbook air. The air cannot even cover sRGB. I've seen similar issues before. In my experiences the problems were due to inadequate display profiles, but I'm not sure here.
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First Known Use: before 12th century
verb \ˈlüz\
: to be unable to find (something or someone)
: to fail to win (a game, contest, etc.)
: to fail to keep or hold (something wanted or valued)
lost \ˈlȯst\ los·ing \ˈlü-ziŋ\
Full Definition of LOSE
transitive verb
a : to bring to destruction —used chiefly in passive construction <the ship was lost on the reef>b : damn <if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul — Matthew 16:26(Authorized Version)>
: to miss from one's possession or from a customary or supposed place
: to suffer deprivation of : part with especially in an unforeseen or accidental manner
a : to suffer loss through the death or removal of or final separation from (a person)b : to fail to keep control of or allegiance of <lose votes> <lost his temper>
: to cause the loss of
: to fail to keep, sustain, or maintain <lost my balance>
a : to cause to miss one's way or bearings <lost himself in the maze of streets>b : to make (oneself) withdrawn from immediate reality <lost herself in daydreaming>
a : to wander or go astray from <lost his way>b : to draw away from : outstrip <lost his pursuers>
: to fail to keep in sight or in mind
: to free oneself from : get rid of <dieting to lose weight>
slang : regurgitate, vomit —often used in such phrases as lose one's lunch
intransitive verb
: to undergo deprivation of something of value
: to undergo defeat <lose with good grace>
of a timepiece : to run slow
— los·able \ˈlü-zə-bəl\ adjective
— los·able·ness noun
— lose ground
: to suffer loss or disadvantage : fail to advance or improve
— lose it
: to fail to maintain a hold on reality; also : to go crazy
: to become overwhelmed with strong emotion : lose one's composure <so angry I almost lost it>
— lose one's heart
: to fall in love
See lose defined for English-language learners
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Examples of LOSE
- She's always losing her gloves.
- Hold my hand: I don't want to lose you.
- We lost the game by a score of 4–2.
- He lost his title in the rematch.
- The team lost three games but won the next four.
- The team lost in the finals.
- an athlete known for losing with grace
- He hates to lose when money is involved.
- How could she play that well and still lose?
- The country lost its independence 50 years ago.
Origin of LOSE
Middle English, from Old English losian to perish, lose, from los destruction; akin to Old English lēosan to lose; akin to Old Norse losa to loosen, Latin luere to atone for, Greek lyein to loosen, dissolve, destroy
Related to LOSE
- Antonyms
- nail (down), win
transitive verb \ˈlüz\ (Medical Dictionary)
lost \ˈlȯst\ los·ing
Medical Definition of LOSE
: to become deprived of or lacking in <lose consciousness> <lost her sense of smell>; also : to part with in an unforeseen or accidental manner <lose a leg in an auto crash>
a : to suffer deprivation through the death or removal of or final separation from (a person) <lost a son in the war> b : to fail to keep (a patient) from dying <have lost many fewer pneumonia cases since penicillin came into use>
: to fail to keep, sustain, or maintain <lose one's balance>
: to free oneself from : get rid of <dieting to lose weight>
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DALLAS The winds of change have been blowing strong over the North Texas pro sports landscape.
Rewind just two years ago:
- The region hosted a Super Bowl
- The Mavericks won an NBA title
- The Rangers made back-to-back World Series trips
"We may look back at that period and think that's the golden years in this city for sports," said Norm Hitzges, sports talk host on SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket.
But now, storm clouds are gathering. So with the help of a trio of veteran media members we've put together a forecast for the calendar year.
- A dense pea-soup type fog; a fog so thick, it makes you wonder if you're going in the right direction.
"With Jerry involved there's always a recipe for potential bad weather," said longtime Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Jim Reeves.
The Cowboys have salary cap issues. The power structure at Valley Ranch has come in question (again). And with an aging group of core players, Cowboys Nation can only wonder where their team is headed.
"You know the old Texas line about 'If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it'll change?'" Hitzges asked. "Well if you don't like what's going on at Valley Ranch this season, wait five minutes... it'll change. Who's running this club?"
Dallas Morning News columnist Rick Gosselin is sticking with the weather theme.
"Its been a fairly dense fog for the last 17 years," he said. "You have to draft. In a salary cap world, you have to draft well. You can't have flat tires like the Cowboys have had on draft day."
- There is dark cloud cover for the Rangers, thanks to performance-enhancing drug allegations surrounding Nelson Cruz.
But this team has dealt with off-field issues before, so there's a possibility for a clearing trend.
"I do think we've got some fair weather coming for the Rangers still," Reeves said.
Instead trying to fill the power void after losing Josh Hamilton, the Rangers will have to embrace a different way to win. More pitching and defense will be required.
Even so, with what the Rangers brain trust has built, they provide the area's best chance for post-season success.
"That's what Jon Daniels and Nolan Ryan have been trying to do, is build that farm system so they can bring players in when necessary, and plug 'em into those spots and those roles, and they've got some winning caliber players they can bring up," Reeves said.
- It's stormy weather for the Mavericks.
Channel 8 meteorologist Steve McCauley likes to talk about "breaking through the cap" to allow for rain. Well, the Mavericks' attempt to manage the salary cap has forced them to have to weather the storm.
"This club does not have any basic youth to build on," Hitzges said. "The stars are getting old."
The Mavs are six games below .500 with 30 to go, and it will take a miracle finish to make the post-season.
And as Dirk Nowitzki continues to age, getting a "big fish" free agent will only get tougher.
"If you can't get the home town kid to come home, you're going to have a tough time getting a free agent to come in here with a descending Dirk," Gosselin said. "I just don't see where [Mavericks owner Mark] Cuban's going to go with this blueprint."
- We're forecasting partly cloudy skies for the Stars.
They've got some young talent with vets mixed in, and there's at least some hope here for a warming trend.
"If we can hang on through the winter here, there appear to be enough good kids coming here and new management that's really good, so there could be some sunny days ahead for the Stars," Hitzges said.
That's the hope across the local sportscape, because there's a significant streak in play here: At least one of the the Big Four North Texas pro teams has made the playoffs every year since 1990.
"I wonder if we're not in for a year in which we don't have anybody in the playoffs in this city," Hitzges mused.
So, with that as a backdrop, the silver lining in this mostly cloudy and gloomy forecast is this: The winds of change will blow.
It is North Texas, after all.
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Monday - 6/11/2012, 7:15pm EDT
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There's good news and bad news when it comes to the cybersecurity threats the U.S. faces on a daily basis.
"The good news is that we have a better understanding, perhaps better than ever before, of threats to our systems," said Debora Plunkett, director of the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), in an exclusive interview with Federal News Radio's Agency of the Month program. "We have a better understanding of the capabilities, the motivations and the intentions of adversaries. That's the good news. The not-so-good news is that our nation's systems really are not yet up to par with regards to being properly defended to protect against the myriad of threats and threat actors that we see on a daily basis."
Debora Plunkett, NSA (Full Bio)
Threats that continue to grow in number and sophistication every day, she said.
"If you're like me, there isn't a day that goes by where you're not reading about some malicious activity in the press. In our spaces, we see that from an intelligence perspective. What we see is an increase in the breadth and the depth of the threats against systems, against capabilities, against products. From our view, it's a growing business," Plunkett said.
Getting the nation's networks to that next, higher level of security is multifold, but it starts with "hardening" the systems to make them more defensible.
"We use the term harden' to mean applying all of the necessary measures that we know of in order to provide the best possible security based on the threats and vulnerabilities that we're aware of ... The second part of that is, don't assume that that's going to work. So then, we have to actually be prepared to actually defend those networks and systems," she said.
Plunkett said that means putting a proper infrastructure in place to monitor potential cyber threats and having the proper measures in place to take legal action when necessary.
But, Plunkett said, there are some challenges to this as technology and requirements change constantly.
"Those dynamics create for us the insertion of new opportunities for vulnerabilities that we would not have expected. So, that becomes one of our biggest challenges," she said. "How do we ensure that the product we say is secure today, is secure tomorrow? Well, we can't. But we can do our best to make sure that we are in an eyes-wide-open manner, fully disclosing and understanding the vulnerabilities as they exist. And then we have to be looking constantly. That gets to the defend piece."
When it comes to how cyber legislation may help harden the nation's systems, Plunkett said it's important to remove the barriers that exist to sharing information between industry and government.
"I think that such legislation is really critical to addressing the cyber threat. As I've said before, the U.S. government and industry both have unique insights into the cyber threat. What we need is an ability to be able to enable that sharing in a robust and real-time way. It's important that any legislation establish a clear framework for that sharing with robust and necessary safeguards for the privacy and civil liberties of our citizens."
Four cybersecurity bills already have passed the House, while several have been introduced in the Senate. One of the main ways the bills differ is in the extent they would regulate private industry.
"We really can't rely on voluntary efforts of private companies that own and operate this core critical infrastructure to defend them. The stakes really are just way too high," Plunkett said. "At the same time, it's really important to remember that the requirements have to be collaboratively developed with industry and they can't be too burdensome. We can't create an infrastructure that is so onerous that no one wants to play because we need everybody on the field in order to be able to win."
Existing partnerships with industry also help to make information sharing a bit easier. Through the Defense Industrial Base pilot program launched in August, DoD is now sharing information about potential cyber attacks with 37 private companies. The agency plans to expand that to roughly 200 companies later this year.
The sharing involves both classified and unclassified data and lets information flow in both directions private firms share information about the attacks they're seeing with NSA and the government provides its own information about current threats to the companies in the program.
Mobile Revolution
Cybersecurity is also a concern when it comes to mobile, an area in which NSA is focusing heavily.
"Mobile is, simply, how our constituency wants to operate," Plunkett said. "They want to be able to move around within secure spaces and, as necessary, outside of secure spaces and be able to do so with the right equipment so that they can communicate as needed."
Plunkett said her agency is currently involved in two mobile pilots. Approximately 100 NSA employees are testing the use of a secure, classified smartphone. Plunkett said the group can talk up to the top-secret level on the commercial device. NSA currently is working with the Defense Information Systems Agency on the operational deployment of the phones, which Plunkett believes will happen in the coming months.
"We are tremendously excited about the progress we've seen on it," Plunkett said. "We have been our worst critics, rightfully so, so we've put our best and brightest individuals against determining what vulnerabilities might exist in that infrastructure that we're testing. They've identified problems. We've then identified solutions for them in real time, just as we'd need to have in an operational capability."
NSA also is currently testing the use of secure wireless laptops in some of its conference rooms.
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Mega-Event Entrepreneurship, Chinese Management Practices, Cooperative Strategies in Fragmentented Industries
Dr. Dollinger is a Professor of Business Administration in the Management Department at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from Lehigh University ('78, '82) in Pennsylvania and spent five years at the University of Kentucky before his appointment to Indiana. He has taught entrepreneurship at the International University of Japan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and in the Kelley Direct Online MBA program. Marc is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Asian Business Studies and a former board member of Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice and the Academy of Management Review. His 1990 paper, "The Evolution of Collective Strategies in Fragmented Industries," was awarded the Best Paper Award by the Academy of Management Review.
Selected Publications
- Dollinger, M. (2008), Entrepreneurship: Strategies and Resources (Fourth edition), Lombard, IL: Marsh Publications.
- Saxton, T. and M. Dollinger (2003), "Target reputation and appropriability: Picking and deploying resources in acquisitions," Journal of Management, Vol. 30, pp. 123-147.
- Dollinger, M.J. Hang Cheong Ltd: Entrepreneurship and Diversification in a Chinese Company, Indiana University CIBER, 1999.
- Danis, W. and M. Dollinger (1998), "A provisional comparison of factor structures using English, Japanese, and Chinese versions of the Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory," Psychological Reports, Vol. 83, pp. 1095-1103.
- Dollinger, M. and W. Danis (1998), "Preferred decision-making styles: A cross cultural comparison," Psychological Reports, Vol. 82, pp. 755-761.


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North Dakota Prevention of Animal Cruelty Initiative, Measure 5 (2012)
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The North Dakota Prevention of Animal Cruelty Initiative was on the 2012 ballot in North Dakota as an initiated state statute, where it was defeated. If enacted the measure would have made it a class C felony for an individual to maliciously harm a living dog, cat or horse. The measure also would have created some exemptions from the law, including agricultural workers, veterinarians, scientific researchers, and hunters.[1]
Election results
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|North Dakota Measure 5
Officials results obtained from the North Dakota Secretary of State.
Text of measure
The official ballot text read as follows:[2]
Initiated Statutory Measure No. 5
This initiated statutory measure would create section 36-21.1-02.1 of the North Dakota Century Code. This measure would make it a class C felony for an individual to maliciously and intentionally burn, poison, crush, suffocate, impale, drown, blind, skin, beat to death, drag to death, exsanguinate, disembowel, or dismember any living dog, cat or horse and provide a court with certain sentencing options. The measure would not apply to production agriculture, or to lawful activities of hunters and trappers, licensed veterinarians, scientific researchers, or to individuals engaged in lawful defense of life or property.
YES — means you approve the measure summarized above.NO — means you reject the measure summarized above.
North Dakotans to Stop Animal Cruelty led the campaign to pass the measure. They said that the reason for limiting the initiative to protecting three species was to keep the law specific in aiming to prevent the worst kinds of animal cruelty.[3]
The North Dakota Animal Stewards opposed the measure on the grounds that it did not protect against other common forms of animal abuse, like neglect and malnourishment. They also said that they would have preferred a law that protects all animals, rather than only cats, dogs, and horses.[3]
Path to the ballot
- See also: North Dakota signature requirements
In order to qualify the initiative for the 2012 ballot supporters were required to collect a minimum of 13,452 valid signatures by August 8, 2012.
According to reports, supporters turned in around 25,000 signed petitions on August 7, 2012. The Secretary of State had until September 10 to verify the signatures.[4]
On Tuesday, September 4, 2012, Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced that sufficient signatures had been gathered and that the measure qualified for the ballot.[5]
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External links
- ↑ KQCD-TV "Petition for Animal Cruelty Ballot Measure Approved," March 27, 2012 (dead link)
- ↑ North Dakota Secretary of State, "Ballot measure 5," accessed September 19, 2012
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 WDAY, "North Dakota group urges to vote "No," hoping for more animal rights," October 17, 2012
- ↑ Dickinson Press, "Initiative would make animal cruelty a felony," August 8, 2012
- ↑ Associated Press, "UPDATE Eight NDSU football players charged with petition fraud," September 4, 2012 (dead link)
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Compass Labs, the science behind intelligent social media advertising, announced today that it has secured $6 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Presidio Ventures. Compass Labs will leverage the funding to further invest in the Compass Labs IQ (CLIQ) social media advertising platform, increase sales and marketing efforts and expand into international markets.
Compass Labs recently announced enhanced capabilities to the CLIQ platform that provides agencies and brands a self-service or fully managed advertising platform that makes targeted, scalable social media ad campaigns easy to execute and measure. The first of its kind, CLIQ is an advanced and proprietary platform that helps brands effectively and cost efficiently reach and actively engage users of social media. CLIQ's simple, yet sophisticated ad campaign management tools, analytics and insights, provide advertisers with advanced targeting, unique audience and competitor insights, and a better understanding of customer engagement across social networks.
"NEA is excited to partner with businesses that are leading the transformation in how we connect data and customers," says NEA general partner Kittu Kolluri. "Compass Labs is uniquely poised to take the revolution in social media to its next phase by providing more relevant intelligence from this exploding platform and making it usable for all stakeholders."
"We are convinced that Compass Labs has built the best technology in the industry with CLIQ, its social media advertising platform," says Shun Aramaki of Presidio Ventures. "This investment will help facilitate the development of new technology at Compass Labs and support its expansion into new markets."
Compass Labs continues to see strong growth of the CLIQ platform and resulting adoption from ad agencies and brands. Stemming from its U.S. success, Compass Labs plans to utilize this Series B funding to expand internationally by year-end. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, Compass Labs has achieved significant growth and continued revenue momentum since its launch in 2009.
"This new area of social media intelligence will introduce new players, new data sets and new customer behavior metrics," says Compass Labs co-founder and CEO Dilip Venkatachari. "This funding will help us stay one step ahead of these changes and make Compass Labs the company that provides agencies and brands the right set of tools to maximize advertising effectiveness across social networks. We have the best partners in NEA and Presidio Ventures to help us do that."


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The Lions beat an inconsistent Cheetahs side 33-17 in a pre-season fixture played at Ellis Park on Saturday.
It was an encouraging first-half display by the Cheetahs, but ultimately they will lament their inability to maintain that form over an 80-minute period.
It's clear that there's been a concerted effort to improve their defence in the off-season, as despite missing a host of first-choice players, they were able to produce an aggressive and organised display in the face of a relentless Lions attack.
The Lions dominated territory and possession initially, but were undone by their own handling errors as well as the Cheetahs' smart work at the breakdown. The visitors were especially effective in this department, slowing the Lions' ruck recycle and in several instances making a turnover.
As was to be expected in the first game of the season, the Cheetahs were not absolutely accurate. They conceded a number of penalties at the breakdown, and Raymond Rhule was yellow carded in the 20th minute for a dangerous tackle.
The Cheetahs enjoyed more attacking opportunities as the match progressed, with Rhule scoring on his return from the sin bin and Hennie Daniller rounding off a well-worked move. This good work was undone, however, when their defence lapsed and conceded two quick tries in succession.
As the game entered the final quarter, it was the turn of the Lions to showcase some defensive mettle. They withstood a determined Cheetahs barrage from point blank range, and then eventually secured the turnover that would allow them to clear their lines.
A high hanging kick then went unfielded by the Cheetahs, and Lionel Cronje managed to collect the bouncing ball and extend the hosts' lead. Cronje sparked the decisive try moments later when he intercepted a pass on his own 22m line, and then found Stokkie Hannekom with a clever offload.


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Postby Buona » 27 Jun 2003, 15:00
Postby suanj » 27 Jun 2003, 15:44
Buona wrote:I am looking for help in finding info on my grandfather Fiore Caroccia. I have tried every spelling I can think of when searching the Ellis Island records, but he just isn't anywhere. I think he was born in Naples probably around l890 - l895. I know he died in NY l946-l949. I'm guessing that he came to America around 1910-1915. I would love to know more about this family.
Postby suanj » 27 Jun 2003, 16:51
Buona wrote:Thanks suanj. Looks like this will be quite a job. I guess I should start with Caroccia and work my way back to his first name. Thanks again.
Postby Buona » 27 Jun 2003, 17:54
Postby suanj » 28 Jun 2003, 21:51
Buona wrote:Hi Suanj,
I wish I had the memories. Unfortunately, no one is left of the older generation. And I know so little about him. He died before I was born and I can't recall anyone ever talking about him. But for some reason, he has been on my mind lately. I checked the Jewish record of naturalization petitions for Brooklyn (and I know they lived in Brooklyn at one time because my father was born there) and I came up with 1 Caroccia. The petition was filed in 1907 (which is about the right time) but the first name was not Fiore but ironically the same first name as my Dad. I'm going to send for the hard copy. Maybe it's only a coincidence or maybe he used a different first name. Who knows where this will lead me.
Thanks again and regards,
Postby Buona » 29 Jun 2003, 04:28
Postby suanj » 29 Jun 2003, 07:39
Buona wrote:Hello Suanj,
Your English is wonderful and your kindness in answering these posts is overwhelming. I am so grateful. Unfortunately, there is no paper to trace my grandfather Fiore Caroccia. Anything there was has either been lost or destroyed. He died in 1947 at abt 56 yrs old. He was the father to 9 children but only 2 are still alive. They were very young when he died and they know little. My uncle was able to tell me that Fiore had a brother named Michael, who also died young. And that my grandfather was born 1891-92. We do not know if there were any other brothers or sisters. He also told me that Fiore was from a town in Napoli that starts with the word "monte....". Unfortunately, no one even has a photo of my grandfather. I really don't know where to go from here.
Best regards, Buona
Postby Buona » 29 Jun 2003, 21:20
Postby suanj » 29 Jun 2003, 22:26
Buona wrote:Hello Suanj,
I'm afraid neither name means much to me. But Monteforte seems to be the only place where I can start to look. I cannot expect any help from the 1 uncle I have left over here. He seems to think that I am wasting my time. And I apologize if I am wasting your time. Once again I must ask you to guide me. Where do you suggest I start my search or should I just give up.
Many thanks.
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Do you consider a project of Business Intelligence to be a technical or business project?
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Is B.I. a business or technical project?
There are too many variables to answer this categorically; I'm tempted to VTC the question as it doesn't really have a single correct answer. However, on second thoughts I can say a few reasonably meaningful words on the subject.
Customer Intimacy
Business Intelligence (or more prosaically reporting) is very requirements heavy in comparison to the amount of implementation work involved in the delivery. Getting the requirements right requires nuanced analysis but may not require technically sophisticated solutions - in some cases a spreadsheet is sufficient.
I.T. departments may not have a sufficiently close working relationship with individual consumers within the business to effectively gather the requirements for a B.I. solution, or may simply not be responsive enough. In many cases desktop tools such as Excel and Access are sufficient for the job, so reporting teams are often run directly within the individual business units.
I have seen a number of sites where B.I., reporting or analysis teams were run within the business precisely because of the issues with responsiveness and working relationship. In many cases they even had their own server hardware, ETL processes and development staff.
Strong business sponsorship vs. responsibility without authority
On a larger scale, data warehouse or business intelligence projects are middle men. They do not produce data, but aggregate and present it in a form that is easy to report on. This means they are integration projects and have to interact with many little empires within the business - sometimes called 'gatekeepers' in the literature.
This interaction - and the attendant real or perceived shifts in power - tend to politicise data warehouse projects and make them heavily dependent on the cooperation of many third parties. These third parties will have responsibilities and agendas of their own and no responsibility for the project success, so they can seriously affect the progress of a project and even derail it without necessarily being held responsible.
Building a non-trivial data warehouse system involves putting fingers in a lot of pies, including ones where they may not be particularly welcome. Without a business sponsor who has the political will and the political clout to bang heads together on behalf of the project, this generates a significant risk of failure or limitations on delivery that can't be worked around. Weak business sponsorship is the #1 cause of B.I. project failure.
Getting it right
The flip side of this is that a larger scale project is much more challenging technically and from a 'software engineering' perspective - keeping the code base well organised. This requires technical skills that may or may not be present in a B.A.U. reporting team. Most reports or other dependent feeds from a data warehouse will be tightly coupled to the data model unless care is exercised in interface and data mart design. This means that getting the model wrong can be very expensive or even infeasible to fix.
Failure to build the system properly can also allow a large class of leaky abstraction problems where the underlying data exposed through the system is too dirty or inconsistent to use through an ad-hoc reporting tool. A project where the brief has aspirations to a self-service facility must be built so that the data presented is clean, consistent and presented in a form that works well with the ad-hoc reporting tools.
Leaky abstractions place non-obvious elephant traps in the data and make it easy to report incorrect data from the system. Even if the problem could (in theory) be corrected with user training this can significantly erode end-user confidence in the system. Getting conformed data (where it may behave significantly differently across multiple sources) is a critical success factor for any self-service reporting project and may well be a non-trivial undertaking.
In many cases technology is a non-issue, although I have seen projects switch platforms due to technical limitations of the original choice. In some cases data volumes may require the use of certain technologies; in others a ROLAP tool may lack sophistication necessitating the use of dedicated OLAP software. A server consolidation environment may not be the best choice of platform for a TB range data warehouse system (don't laugh - I've seen someone attempt this).
Platform choice can be politicised and can also have a significant bearing on project success or implementation costs or time scales.
A large B.I. project will need strong sponsorship, priority treatment from the business and good technical leadership to work effectively. In most cases the actual technology used is less of an issue, but an unsuitable platform can impede the delivery of an effective system.
Stating that a B.I. project is a 'Business' initiative is something of a truism. Technically it is correct in that a project of this sort is likely to fail without effective business sponsorship. However, there are also a variety of technical critical success factors whose absence can seriously unseat a project.
In practice, I suggest answering queries about a business intelligence project with something like:
If the business sponsor just briefly considers that - even for a moment - then they have about the right level of motivation and commitment to the project's objectives. If they have the clout to take out a contract on the CFO then they have about the right level of political influence to back a project of this sort to success.2 Anything less than that means your project is at significant risk from weak sponsorship.
1 Obviously if the CFO is the sponsor than you will have to nominate another sacrifical victim of equivalent status.
2 Also, we don't necessarily recommend you hold your sponsor to this price. In practice, it is normally sufficient to demonstrate an appropriate level of commitment to the project.
Like all IT projects it is both. You cannot succeed without a strong business need and support nor can you succeed without people with the techincial skills to put the project together.
I would consider BI a business project, because the outputs are metrics that business is required to use. This is despite the fact that about 80% of the input is technical.
In my experience, if the focus of the project is technical, then alot of time will be spent analyzing the implementation technology, yet if the focus is business them more time will be spent deciding which metrics are to be delivered, how often, how fast etc, and the technology will be selected based on the constraints. Infact most BI project start with database based reporting before outgrowing to full blown BI.
Bottom line, for success focus on business, and bring in tech to deliver "goods" within budget and time constraints.


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