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At last it came into the head of one of them to cry, "Long live the Gueux!"
Immediately they drank to one another under this name, and the cry "long live the Gueux!"
Henceforth those who upheld the rights of the people and resisted the Inquisition were known as Gueux.
C'est l'heure o les hallucins, Les Gueux, et les dracins Dressent leur orgueil dans la vie.
Gueux is a small old-world village, with ancient houses, castle and church.
One of the Gueux was stationed on her broadside, another rather more on her bows, and a third hung on her quarter.
Beyond the village of Gueux the road crosses numerous lines of trenches.
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Rep. Laura Richardson, D-Calif., today said she has been targeted for a House ethics investigation because she's a black woman.
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Richardson, first elected in 2007, said the panel has overlooked the "well-publicized misuse of official House resources for personal purposes" by members of Congress who sleep in their offices "saving tens of thousands of dollars personally at taxpayers' expense."
She charged the panel with "discriminatory conduct" in investigating her while "failing to apply the same standards to, or take the same actions against, other members, of whom the overwhelming majority are white males."
A tally by the Associated Press found that the ethics panel has announced investigations or investigative findings involving 33 House members since Jan. 1, 2010. Twelve of the lawmakers are African-American. A total of 44 African Americans serve in the 435-member House of Representatives, according to the House Clerk's Office.
This is the second ethics inquiry involving Richardson. The committee previously examined whether she received an improper gift from a bank that canceled the sale of a foreclosed home she owned in Sacramento. She was cleared of wrongdoing in that case.
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Hi, On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:11:44PM -0400, Lyle Seaman wrote: > > How does a readonly filesystem become inconsistent? > (esp: "how does ext3 on readonly media" become inconsistent?) > > The obvious answer is "well, it *wasn't* readonly when it > became inconsistent". > > If that's the case, then why do you care? Naively, I wouldn't > think this is a big deal. Why am I wrong? Because (a) existing Linux installations expect to mount the root filesystem readonly until basic consistency checking has been done; and (b) after a cold reboot, the filesystem will need recovery before it can be mounted. In practice there is no problem mounting the root filesystem read-write if you have journaling, with one important exception: if you detect actual errors on the fs such that a constency check is required, mounting the fs read-write is dangerous. (Ext2/ext3 mark an error flag in the superblock if they detect dangerous inconsistencies in the fs so that a subsequent fsck will be forced. I don't know if xfs does this or not.) --Stephen
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Drake: Rihanna Isn't the Devil, She's "A Great Girl"
Speculations of a feud began when fans caught Drizzy using images of RiRi on the screen while performing in "Days of East" in Toronto, in which the songstress' face was shown in between three flashes of the number six. (For anyone who isn't familiar with satanic symbolism or Iron Maiden lyrics, 666 is the number of the beast.)
Taking to Twitter this Wednesday, Drake cleared the air about the mixed up signals his concert footage was apparently sending to some people. He wrote:
My album title is VIEWS FROM THE 6. The 6 is Toronto. Rih is a great girl who I know is about to kill this tour with Eminem. It's all love!!
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From: Bill Whitney <>
Subject: Rachel Whitney
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:22:51 -0500
I sent this several days ago and it bounced.
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Rachel WHITNEY of Newcastle, NB
Rachel Whitney 1860-1907 was the gr.grand daughter of Ebenezer Whitney and
Huldah Mooers of New Brunswick. She was married to Harry Brown as you noted.
As far as I know, no one has been able to link Ebenezer Whitney to either
John or Henry. He was born in 1747, probably in Maine and died in 1810 in
Newcastle, New Brunswick. His wife Huldah was born in Rowley, Massachusetts
in 1751 and died in Miramichi, New Brunswick in 1815. They had 12 children -
Peter, Susannah, Moses, Ebenezer, Huldah, Jane, Daniel, Samuel, Mary,
Oliver, Sarah and Edward. Their son Samuel was born in 1784 in Miramichi,
New Brunswick and died in 1869 in Whitneyville, New Brunswick. His wife
Sarah Young was born in 1786 In Saint John, New Brunswick and died in
Miramichi, New Brunswick in 1868. They had 10 children - Sarah, Moses, James
Edward, John, William Parker, Elizabeth, Peter, Edward, David and Sarah.
John was born in 1814 in Whitneyville, New Brunswick and died in 1882. His
wife Elizabeth Bouchart was born in Neguac, New Brunswick in 1817 and died
in 1906. John and Elizabeth both probably died in Whitney, New Brunswick
where they lived. They had 9 children - Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah, David C.,
Mary Ann, James, John, Rachel and Howard. Rachel was born in 1860 in
Whitney, New Brunswick and died in 1907 in Manchester, New Hampshire. She
married Harry Brown.
These descendants of Ebenezer have, as you can see, formed a large
percentage of the population around the Miramichi region in New Brunswick.
Ebenezer's family links to my Henry line through intermarriages but it would
be great to find his roots before New Brunswick. His wife's line goes back
into Haverhill, Massachusetts so that may hint at John roots.
Bill Whitney
On 11/28/05 11:24 AM, "Robert L. Ward" <> wrote:
> All,
> I ran onto this marriage record while searching for a different Rachel
> Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910
> Vol. 363, p. 156: Boston Marriages, 1885
> Date Name Birthplace Age Occ. Parents
> No.
> Sept 16 Charles C. BRITTEN Boston 36 Salesman Thomas
> and Mary W. 2nd
> Rachel WHITNEY New Castle, N.B. 24 John
> and Eliza 1st
> by H. W. Bolton, Boston, recorded 7 Oct 1885.
> At first I couldn't identify John and Eliza (-----) WHITNEY who lived
> in Newcastle
> (which I think must be meant), NB, in 1861. I did find this, which
> seems to be the
> same family:
> 1881 Census of Canada
> Place: Northesk, Northumberland, New Brunswick
> Family History Library Film: 1375821
> NA Film Number: C-13185
> District: 35
> Sub-district: C
> Division: 1
> Page Number: 48
> Household Number: 198
> John WHITNEY M Male English 67 New Brunswick Farmer Baptist
> Eliza WHITNEY M Female Irish 55 Ireland Baptist
> John WHITNEY Male English 24 New Brunswick Labourer Baptist
> Ratchel WHITNEY Female English 20 New Brunswick Baptist
> Howard WHITNEY Male English 8 New Brunswick Baptist
> I can identify the head of household as John WHITNEY and wife
> Elizabeth BOUCHART,
> son of Samuel and Sarah (YOUNG) WHITNEY, grandson of Ebenezer and
> Huldah (MOOERS)
> WHITNEY. See
> <http://www.whitneygen.org/families/unconnw/ebenezern.html#id164>.
> Of course Ebenezer is one of the unattached ancestors.
> It seems that the daughter Rachel had a first marriage not included
> in the records
> posted there, which say that she married Harry BROWN. Indeed, I found in the
> International Genealogical Index (IGI) their marriage: Harry G.
> BROWN and Rachel
> BRITTON married 26 DEC 1889, extracted from the Index to Marriages,
> Early to 1900,
> New Hampshire. The town of marriage is not given in the IGI.
> I know nothing of any children born to Rachel.
> I hope this information is helpful to someone.
> Regards,
> Robert
> Mr. Robert L. Ward
> rlward AT whitneygen DOT org
> http://www.whitneygen.org/home.html
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I often have thought "nothing would happen" but haven't dared leave her, But today I gave her a bath ( she lays in the bath) I was sitting with her, she got SO (significant other) excited, kicking and waving her arms about that she somehow managed to roll onto her side and take in a huge gulp of water and choke- It happened so fast and I was sitting in the bath tub WITH her, I mean it literally took her 2 seconds, and she was so shocked I don't even want to imagine what would have happened if I hadn't been there to pick her up and pat her back til she spit up all the water.
However she quickly recovered and went STRAIGHT back into the bath to kick and wiggle! keep in mind I only used a tiny bit of water, and it absolutely scared the shiz out of me, I am so glad I have never left lyra, despite thinking nothing would happen - really, something WILL happen, and it will happen fast
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In a pre-release interview with SCMR, Meyers demonstrated the FusionOps interface, while explaining how the "dashboard" is designed to add velocity to business intelligence.
"We are trying to take advantage of the SaaS model to focus on rapid delivery of ready to use intelligence applications," he said. "Ideally, we can provide real-time analytics, and end-user ease of implementation across the supply chain."
Meyers also noted that his company is building its client base across industry verticals, including automotive, pharma, and retail.
FusionOps noted that it represents a trend spotted by Gartner, Inc. recently.
"Gartner analyst, Jamie Popkin, views business users as direct consumers of IT tools and in messaging," said Meyers. "This places the emphasis on the ability to get work done without the complexity of IT."
Gwenda Waldron, project managers for Kimball Electronics, said in a testimonial that FusionOps was a good fit for them:
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Meyers added that "social networking" was a key component of information sharing contained within the offering.
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Slip and fall accidents occur when a person falls and sustains an injury while on premises that are owned by another party. These are common in business establishments such as retail stores, shopping malls, and grocery stores. They may also occur in other settings like at the workplace or while on rented property. Slip and fall injuries are common where the flooring of the area is constantly under slick or slippery conditions.
What Are Slip and Fall Settlements?
A slip and fall settlement is where the injured party attempts to hold the responsible party liable for their losses or expenses caused by the accident. During the settlement negotiations, the parties will determine how much is owed, if anything, and whether further measures need to be taken (such as repairing or cleaning the floors).
Slip and fall settlements may be conducted in connection with a lawsuit based on negligence or premises liability. The settlement may be a result of the natural progression of the case. For example, the parties may decide early on that continuing with litigation would be too costly or too risky. As a result, they may resort to a settlement in order to avoid the costs associated with a lawsuit.
More commonly, slip and fall settlements are negotiated out-of-court even before a lawsuit is filed. For example, the injured party may approach the owner of the premises and inform them of their injury and resulting losses. Out of court settlements are common for minor claims and in instances where the owner of the premises is clearly at fault.
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It is difficult to say how much a person can recover in a slip and fall settlement. The amount of recovery is based on different factors, which may be different for each individual case. Settlements in a slip and fall case will depend on:
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Does anybody else feel a tap tempo function on the upload page would be useful? I don't upload from the same computer I create songs from and rarely do I embed tempo information into the ID3 mp3 file. Regardless, I found a decent metronome online that seems to function properly if anybody finds it useful for tapping tempo!http://www.seventhstring.com/metronome/metronome.html
Oh sweet! I always forget what tempo my tracks are when uploading and had to fire up kontakt to tap tempo. Thanks Joe. And yeah I agree a little tap tempo widget on the upload page would be great
good idea! will be useful!
I use this one if I find myself in a similar situation:
just hit the space bar along with the music and it tells you your average bpm
Here's the one I've been using for years:http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Audio/taptempo/Freeware.htm
Also, check out some of their other free audio/music utilities and plug-ins:http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm
Good resources, thanks for sharing! Not sure we need to add them to the upload page however – either make a note of the BPM in your DAW , or set your preferences so the DAW bounces your .mp3 with the BPM inside the ID3 tags. The BPM will then be visible when you preview your mp3.
I make a point to upload my AJ preview tracks to my SoundCloud page as well, and they have a "Tap Tempo" feature in their player, so if I forget to note the BPM I just pop over and use that. Useful tool and extra marketing!


text: On her new album Céline Bonacina once again shows her open heart for the diversity of jazz. The result is a power of expression that is unique for baritone saxophone. On almost all the compositions on "Open Heart" Bonacina is joined by prominent guests: the metallic timbre of Pascal Schumacher's vibraphone, who was recently awarded the Echo jazz prize, can be heard on several pieces, singer Himiko Paganotti sings in the background and appears as a soloist and co-composer on "So Close So Far" as well as on the funky duet "Snap the Slap" with Bonacina's almost singing baritone saxophone.


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Re: st: auto macro for name of do file?
Paul Burkander <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: auto macro for name of do file?
Wed, 25 May 2011 12:02:17 -0400
Sorry, I must have missed that in your previous email.
I'm working with a team on a large data cleaning project. Right now
I'm writing an ado file that uses stata's merge command, but produces
a series of reports with each merge. I wanted the name of the reports
to use the name of the do file. There are many people working on the
project, with varying experience with Stata, so I'm trying to make
this process as user friendly as possible.
If my above description is not in full, it's because I'm under time
constraints. I'll try to be more specific in the future.
Thanks for your help.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Phil Schumm <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> On May 25, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Paul Burkander wrote:
>> from an ado, I'd like to know the name of the do file that called it. Is
>> there any type of predefined macro that automatically stores the do file
>> name, analogous to S_FN for file names? Or is there any other way to do it
>> that doesn't involve adding a macro to the do file?
> As I noted in my response to your earlier question, you'll get better help
> if you describe what you're trying to do (in full), rather than just asking
> for help piecemeal along the way. For example, it sounds in this case like
> you may be trying to use an idiom from another language that doesn't apply
> in Stata, but there's no way we can tell that (or otherwise determine how
> best to help) if we don't know what you're trying to do.
> -- Phil
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DNA and Genome
The size of a genome may change very rapidly if it fuses with another genome, or accumulates some DNA via a virus, or some other mechanism of horizontal transfer. Acquiring new DNA means acquiring new genes, but genomes do have size limits. Why? Every round of replication extracts a cost for the larger genome, and therefore genomes must balance the expense of replicating redundant DNA with the benefit of having genes that provide a selective advantage only under rare circumstances. Conversely, losing DNA and genes could be advantageous if the cell evolves to fill a new niche, such as inside another species. If genes are no longer advantageous, the DNA can be lost and the more efficient genome provides a selective advantage. From what we can tell so far, genome sizes tend to stay within a fairly narrow size range for a given group of species. For example, K- and O-islands are newly acquired DNA, but all gut bacteria tend to have genomes in the 4 to 5 Mb range. As they acquire new DNA, cells tend to return to a genome home-ostasis with an optimal size and gene count. You might think that 200 sequenced genomes is enough and that we don't need to sequence more, but there is power in numbers for comparative genomics. Consider the analogy of living in a cave all your life and coming out one day and seeing a bluebird and a blue jay. Based on this sampling, you might conclude that all birds are blue. Later in the day, you see a red cardinal and a yellow canary, which leads you to conclude diat all birds must be primary colors. Using a small sample size leads to inaccurate conclusions. Imagine your surprise when you see a hummingbird, an ostrich, and a penguin. Just as we learn more about birds by studying their diversity, we learn more about genomes when we have a larger sample size. However, resources are limited so we must choose wisely which genomes we sequence to maximize our ability to learn from them (see Section 2.1). DNA and Genome
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نوع مقاله :فارسی با ترجمه
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سال انتشار: 2011
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Today was a good, good day.
President Obama was publicly sworn in for his second term. Today is only the second time that Inauguration Day fell on the day that we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (the first was President Clinton's second inauguration in 1997).
A lot has been made of the President's race, particularly during his first inauguration. One of the souvenirs I brought home from that event, in fact, is an image of President Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
There is still so much work to be done (clearly, as some astoundingly racist shit is still happening; a quick check of the internet will show you all kinds of disgusting images and acts – in fact, this just happened four days ago). The fact remains, though, that so much good has happened in the last 50 years. We've seen astounding changes in attitudes and behaviors, laws and traditions, and we're not nearly done. The fact that we elected this man, who spoke today about Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall, speaks to our determination not to be a country mired in its own prejudice and ignorance.
There are a lot of things about the future that scare me, but this isn't one of them. We're figuring this out, and I'm honored, proud, and determined to be a part of it in the way I vote, the way I raise my children, and the way that I live my life.


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: a rectangular metal frame fitted with adjustable straps of canvas or webbing and used to support a patient with disease or fractures of the spine, hip, or pelvis
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Edward Hickling (1848–1926), American orthopedist. The inventor of the Bradford frame, Bradford described the frame in a treatise on orthopedic surgery published in 1890. Originally designed for handling children with tuberculosis of the spine, the frame was later modified for use in other orthopedic conditions.
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel with free breakfast, near Hershey's Chocolate World
Popular property highlights
Located in the heart of Hershey, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Hershey Theatre and Hershey's Chocolate World. Hersheypark Stadium is 1.5 mi (2.4 km) away.
Hotel Features
An indoor pool, a business center, and tour/ticket assistance are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a picnic area.
Room Amenities
All rooms are individually furnished and offer free WiFi and free local calls. For a bit of entertainment, flat-screen TVs come with cable channels, and guests can also appreciate conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Wireless Internet access is complimentary. A business center is on site. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. This Hershey hotel also offers an indoor pool, tour/ticket assistance, and a picnic area. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Rodeway Inn & Suites Hershey is a smoke-free property.
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
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- Total number of rooms - 22
- Number of floors - 2
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning.
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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FORTY years in the making, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and The Winnipeg Singers' combined birthday bash proved well worth the wait.
The two elite musical ensembles are both celebrating their 40th anniversaries all year long -- an impressive accomplishment in a city renowned for its rich culture. To mark the occasion, MCO played host by presenting the vocal ensemble in a celebratory program especially chosen by longtime Winnipeg Singers music director/conductor Yuri Klaz and MCO music director Anne Manson.
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass) is the type of music that audiences adore. Originally composed for SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) soloists with organ, its later reincarnation for chorus and strings premièred in 1992. Although technically a 20th-century work, it evokes the austere beauty of Gregorian chant and early music, with its transparent textures leaving little room to hide.
The 24-voice choir launched into the opening Kyrie with great solemnity, its pungent dissonances melting into consonant harmonies underscored by the strings' glassy overtones. The Gloria offered the first taste of the singers performing in full voice, and by Veni Sancte Spiritus -- the very heart of this expressive piece, including its foreboding string drone -- the crowd of 858 was entranced. Credo, with its quickly shifting meters, provided repose before plunging once again into the sombre depths of Sanctus.
The Singers easily handled the large leaps in Agnus Dei, with the carefully blended a cappella sections a particular highlight.
The concert also included Canadian composer Glenn Buhr's Ritchot Mass. Written during the province's devastating flood of 1997 -- in which Buhr lost his own home in the RM of Ritchot -- the four-part work is a gem. The composer's imaginative craftmanship distinctly flavours each of its varied short movements based on the liturgical Mass: Kyrie; Gloria; Sanctus; and Agnus Dei.
The choir's final, hushed intoning of the phrase "dona nobis pacem" accompanied by their rubbing fingers on tuned crystal goblets filled with water -- thus making art out of potentially destructive forces -- is utter magic.
Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis probably never dreamed his Spem in Alium (I Have Never Placed My Hope) would be enjoying the success it has today. From innovative art installations to racy bestsellers, the impressive, 40-part motet seems to be everywhere these days. Now augmented by 16 additional guest vocalists, the Singers performed the city première with controlled precision, despite several nail-biting moments that risked total derailment. Klaz firmly kept the eight independent choirs together as their voices rose and fell through the piece's polyphonic twists and turns.
The crowd leaped to its feet, clearly appreciative of the work's sheer technical difficulty, as well as all-encompassing sound.
The concert opened with Vivaldi's Credo, performed with crisp attack and clear diction. By contrast, Latvian-born Canadian composer Imant Raminsh's Psalm 121 is a sonorous expression of faith that melds one phrase into another.
Mendelssohn's Jesu, Meine Freude closed the decidedly non-secular concert with a joyful noise, as an example of what this versatile, 40-years-young choir -- not to mention its artistic twin, the fine MCO -- does best.
Concert Review
Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, with The Winnipeg Singers
Westminster United Church
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Attendance: 858
Four stars out of five


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TOP STORY >> State fair can have acreage, city says
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Jacksonville officials hope history will repeat itself.
Theyll give the Arkansas Live-stock Show Association about 400 acres of land worth about $1.2 million if the group moves the state fair to southeast Jacksonville.
Just as Jacksonville leaders did more than 55 years ago, when they raised $1 million to donate land to build Little Rock Air Force Base, city officials says theyll buy or swap the land off Wooten Road and donate it to the state fair board.
They are joining with private individuals to raise the money for the land, but it would mostly come from city coffers.
We have in hand commitments for a large portion of the cost, and we expect city council approval for the remainder,
Jacksonville Mayor Gary Fletcher wrote to the livestock association.
Part of the site, which is off South Hwy. 161 and I-440, is in Jacksonville. The city would annex the remainder if the fair moves there.
The city plans to negotiate with seven landowners, including Entergy, to buy the land or swap some city-owned property for the land.
Jacksonville also has money set aside for economic development. The citys advertising and promotion commission also has funds available raised through the 1-cent hamburger tax.
Several individuals have agreed to give hundreds of thousands of dollars, some anonymously, to buy the land.
The fair board is considering giving up the old fairgrounds on Roosevelt Road in Little Rock and move within 35 miles of the capital city if a suitable site is found.
Several cities, including Carlisle, Conway, North Little Rock and Benton on Tuesday submitted proposals to get the fair from Little Rock.
Cabot had expressed an interest in the state fair, but it lacks suitable land.
The proposed Jacksonville fair site, which is accessible from the Rixie Road exit at the North Belt Freeway and Hwy. 67/167 in south Jacksonville, is six times the size of the current fairgrounds, Fletcher said at a press conference on Monday.
Jim Durham, the citys director of administration, delivered Jacksonvilles proposal to the livestock commission.
I think were going to get it, Durham said. We have water and sewer to the property. Its a great location.
Ours will have to be the best proposal, Fletcher said.
Its almost like this land was created for the fair, Fletcher told The Leader last week. Weve got the premier spot for it. We cant wait to present it.
Its centrally located, its accessible, and theres no congestion.
The fair needs to be relocated, Fletcher said. I feel like we have the best site to offer. He said the site meets all the criteria set by the state fair board:
At least 250 acres with access and visibility from a four-lane highway;
Suitable terrain with minimal disruption to wetlands;
The land is within 35 miles from the old fairgrounds;
Available utilities.
It will be easy for people to access, Fletcher said. That should increase attendance.
The mayor said many people have told him they havent gone to the state fair in recent years because of traffic congestion there.
Were centrally located, Fletcher said. Weve got the perfect land. Its the most logical for the fair to come here.
Fletcher said the city would have the same special relationship with the fair board as with Little Rock Air Force Base.
Col. Gregory Otey, commander of the 314th Airlift Wing, sent a letter to the livestock association, praising Jacksonvilles commitment and spirit . He cited the citys support of the base and donating $5 million to help build a joint-education center with the air base.
Letters of recommendation were also sent by Rep. Mark Perry (D-Jacksonville), Rep. Jane English (R-North Little Rock), former Rep. Mike Wilson of Jacksonville and others.
If a suitable site is found, the new fairgrounds will likely cost $100 to $150 million and could be completed in three to five years. Funding would come from bonds and long-term loans and fundraising by the livestock association.
Ralph Shoptaw, general manager of the fairgrounds, said beer sales are an important part of the income. Alcohol could be served at the Jacksonville site because its not in a dry area.
The commission is working with Thomas Engineering Company of North Little Rock and Mike Berg Company, Buyers Real Estate Agent of Little Rock. Their ideal site would be flat but not in a wetland, accessible and visible from an interstate or four-lane highway with utilities available.
The fairgrounds are 70 years old and it is too small, critics say. There isnt enough room for parking and the 33,000-square foot Hall of Industry needs to be at least 100,000 square feet to accommodate some of the businesses that have been turned away because of lack of space.
Then there is difficulty in getting to the fairgrounds, located in an older, deteriorating part of the capital city.
The 10,000-seat Barton Coliseum at the fairgrounds is considered outdated. A new arena would be built at the new site.
Attendance at the state fair has doubled in recent years from about 200,000 to about 400,000. But Fletcher thinks more people would come to Jacksonville, which has a better location and has less congestion.
Conway, Pine Bluff and Benton are also interested in getting the state fair. The board will also consider proposals submitted by private land owners.
Leader staff writer Joan McCoy contributed to this article.


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A recent post by Russell Turpin at FoRK posed the issue:
For thirty years, someone with the dollars could book a supersonic
flight across the Atlantic.
That stopped, almost a decade ago.
Which would surprise most anyone in 1980, asked how commercial flight
would proceed. The alleged S-shaped curve for technology delivered to
the consumer proved, in this case, to be shaped more like a dromedary.
Maybe it was marketing overshoot. Maybe a bit of regression due to
exogenous constraints. And, yeah, shaving a couple of hours off
crossing the Atlantic matters far less than the other unpleasantness
now associated with flying.
But I'm curious what there are other salient examples there are of
"consumer technology regression."
This reminds me of what I observed in my years as a piano technician. For a decade, I performed all tuning and maintenance for the Kalamazoo College Music Department, Music Center, and Bach Festival Society. I also tuned for a variety of recording studios and concert venues around Kalamazoo — including odd, cool gigs like tuning stage pianos for BB King concerts, and Fender Rhodes pianos for Clare Fischer, perhaps the greatest master of that instrument.
During this time, I was also teaching and performing, so I met other clients of many kinds, and managed pianos of every style and design. These ran from a desperate disaster of a gutted player piano in an American Legion hall (where the upper block of many black keys was simply missing, so most keytops were level) to a magnificent nine-foot Steinway in a private home, barely used in fifty years.
I restored an 1880s Mason & Hamlin piano prototype (with machine heads they called "screw stringers" rather than tuning pins), and hand-matched frame elements (stamped with serial numbers from several different reed organs, apparently never completed). I rebuilt majestic grands of the 1920s — such as a matched pair abandoned after decades of use in the vaudeville-era orchestra pit of the State Theater in Kalamazoo. (I first saw those pianos stacked up as if junk, backstage before a BB King concert.) So, I speak not only from the collective memory of other musicians and technicians, but from direct study of the keyboard industry, of its major players, and of specific innovations and their quality.
These are my generalizations, especially of the timeline. I may return to document dates and models with external links, but the arc of quality and development is valid.
From the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century, most pianos were of very high physical quality, with an absolute minimum tonal quality we might today call "decent." Some grand pianos and the odd vertical piano were magnificent; ALL vertical pianos were at least good.
Through the mid-twentieth century, continually improving automation (or, at least, mechanization) of the creation of parts and materials (from felt to wire) made it possible to build a better piano each year at a cost not much greater than before. Some grand pianos were magnificent; all LARGE vertical pianos were good.
During and after WW II, the spinet piano (smaller, lighter) became more practical (as material costs increased, particularly metals) and more popular (as homes became smaller, and ceilings lower). Some of the earliest were of decent quality, but most, increasingly as time passed, were almost unusable for quality musical purposes. (The scale, or size and layout, of strings was constrained by the size of the soundboard, such that minimal harmonic quality standards could not be met.) Along with that advent of "engineering" to compensate for material limitations, "musically" skilled designers and builders became less common. Some expensive grand pianos remained magnificent, especially where experienced builders were given latitude; most larger vertical pianos were good.
In the 1960s, Japanese manufacturers — most notably Yamaha and Kawai — took a lesson loosely from the auto industry, and began making piano manufacturing processes predictable. Rather than driving tuning pins by hand, or against an alignment template, they created robotic systems to drive all pins at precisely the same angle, with precisely the same force, in every instrument. This did not produce higher quality — it produced the same quality every time. Thus, it became possible to evaluate the quality of the design, rather than of the result. Any experiment or improvement in the design, however minor, would echo uniformly through to the finished product. A very few, very expensive grand pianos remained magnificent, especially where experienced builders survived; most American-made vertical pianos were of unpredictable but marginal quality, and declining; most Japanese pianos were of uniformly good quality, and improving.
In the latter quarter of the twentieth century, it became increasingly obvious that major historical manufacturers had lost their capacity to build a magnificent piano. In one case, the failure was precipitated in the early 1970s when CBS bought Steinway & Sons. Industry lore had it that the few remaining skilled artisans were permitted to work in Steinway factories, though perhaps not doing the fine refinements and regulation they were uniquely suited to perform. According to insiders' reports, the newly jobless in unemployment offices local to Steinway's New York facilities had, as their first assignment, to apply for work building pianos. As assets were sold or exhausted, and as forests across the world fell out of sustainable management for wood quality, it became increasingly difficult to purchase wood of the high quality that would have been standard only fifty years earlier. The ideal material — Sitka spruce grown to full mature size in a dense, sheltered stand — had all been cut years ago. No magnificent grand pianos were being built, though a few Japanese instruments came close, due to irreproducible flukes of soundboard or final finish quality; most American-made vertical pianos were of marginal quality, and in steep decline; Japanese pianos — especially Yamaha — were of uniformly consistent quality, and — especially Kawai — of uniformly high quality.
To learn far more about piano quality — across Kawai, Yamaha, and other brands — study this spectacularly detailed review of recent development of the piano industry. Thanks and Bravo to Kendall Ross Bean for producing that material!
The decades either side of the millenium have seen Korean manufacturers, such as Young Chang, challenge Japanese superiority. As a rule, Koreans have not succeeded. Although they have largely preserved the concept of consistency across pianos, their products likely have lowered the average quality of pianos worldwide. I suspect they will continue as a downward influence on price, and thus on quality, of pianos of every make and model. Today, there are essentially no magnificent new grand pianos; quality of vertical pianos has stagnated, overall, as plastics intrude into realms where wood once ruled, and the quality of irreplaceable wood elements continues to decline.
In 2010, I spent an afternoon playing most of the pianos on the floor at Steinway of Chicago. I visited the Butterfield Road facility in Downers Grove; it's not their most elegant or showy location, but the diversity and selection is great, including many other brands of new and used pianos. The best instrument in the building was a Steinway Model M — not a large instrument at just over five and half feet, but with excellent tone and touch. I believe it was built in the late 1800's, presumably in Hamburg, Germany, and it made the newer, larger grands in the same room sound like factory rejects. Its most recent rebuilding — perhaps its second, or even third — was done expertly, without harming the machine's initial character and prestige. If properly maintained for the next several decades, this 120-year-old piano will remain a far better musical instrument, with far better sound quality, than any new piano.
That is to say: no better acoustic piano will ever be built, at any time, ever again.


text: 2011/11/1 Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>: > On 10/31/2011 18:50, Hakisho Nukama wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've tried building my first PBI-Port, resulting in a 300Mb heavy PBI. >> >> Partly because math/py-numpy with FORTRAN=YES sets RUN_DEPENDS to gcc46. >> And I'm not aware, if a run-time dependency is really needed. >> There might be more unneeded stuff getting packed inside this PBI. >> How to quickly enumerate which files are needed? >> >> Only excluding directories is laborious, why not specify >> single/multiple ports for exclusion? >> PBI_EXCLUDEPORT= (excluding single port) >> PBI_EXCLUDEPORTS= (excluding port and its dependencies) >> >> Or should this be done inside scripts/post-portmake.sh? >> >> Extending PBI_EXCLUDEDIR with the ability to include some files / >> directories could also be practical. >> PBI_INCLUDEDIR= (including files / dir inside EXCLUDEDIR) >> PBI_EXCLUDEDIR= >> >> > > Are you using the "pbi_makeport" command? It should auto-prune the build > dependencies and leave you with only the required stuff. Still the idea > of PBI_EXCLUDEPORT seems interesting, may have to add that in a future > revision. > I'm using pbi_autobuild -c /usr/pbi/modules-devel -o /usr/pbi/pbiout-devel. Which includes pbi_makeport. And it does auto-prune (i.e. "Removing non-required port: autoconf-2.68"). BUILD/EXTRACT/FETCH/PATCH_DEPENDS can be pruned. But if the real dependency hierarchy isn't correctly projected inside FreeBSD-ports it will not prune these unnecessary ports. If there is a unnecessary RUN_DEPENDS, or LIB_DEPENDS it is not covered by your script. Also cherry picking files which are needed from one big port isn't possible with this pbi-system, yet. Maybe we could use some procedure like this: » copy PBI_INCLUDEDIR directories and files to stage dir » run pkg_delete -f on PBI_EXCLUDEPORT » run rm on PBI_EXCLUDEDIR » populate stage dir >> >> Now some issues I encountered with games/anki. >> >> For "Japanese Support" there are no x11-fonts installed, Hiragana, >> Katakana and Kanji needs fonts (maybe x11-fonts/cyberbit-ttfonts & >> japanese/font-kochi )? Or should Base-I18N handle this? >> Furthermore it needs japanse/py-mecab. > The fonts should be installed with Base-I18N. I'll add those to it > though for RC2. the py-mecab should be included with the PBI though. > All these dependencies are included inside the PBI, except for the fonts. >> Pinyin Toolkit displays fonts with x11-fonts/wqy, but needs >> www/py-beautifulsoup and devel/py-dateutil to run. >> >> Audio-support requires multimedia/mplayer to work. >> >> I've also included print/latex, but that wouldn't display all math formulas. >> >> If someone finds another dependency or a fix let me know. >> >> >> Regards, >> Hakisho Nukama >> > > Do you have a module you can attach so we can test this? Most of these > depends should be included with your PBI. Also, if the port uses python > its possible that the scripts have the wrong #!/usr/local/bin/python > line still at the top. > > -- > Kris Moore > PC-BSD Software > iXsystems > > _______________________________________________ > Pbi-dev mailing list > Pbi-dev at lists.pcbsd.org > http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/pbi-dev > Sure, I've attached Anki.tar in the last mail. Here it is: http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/pbi-dev/attachments/20111031/d31d0e6c/attachment-0001.tar tar -xf Anki.tar should extract this module inside ./games/anki. And maybe the problem with {displaymath} is caused by the wrong python-environment. Regards, Hakisho Nukama


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As we have all season, spoilers for the Big Brother week events will be updated here. Keep checking back for the latest updates!
The Houseguests began the 1st of 3 competitions for the final HOH tonight, an endurance competition involving roller skates. Spencer was out first, Andy out second making GinaMarie the winner of the HOH Part One.
UPDATE: The second competition of the final HOH is over with Andy beating out Spencer. The final competition will have GinaMarie facing Andy to see which will be the final HOH of Big Brother 15.
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Late at night last week, at a Bar in Pomona, after a reading at Dim Lights, I bought a local beer, Pomona Queen, for myself and one for the featured poet. A man I've come to know, respect, and admire as a writer and person over the last few months, Michael Torres.
Torres's poetry is published internationally, and writes of the working class, of what he was, what he could have been, of change in himself and in others. His every line crackles with a subtle excitement and trepidation for the future.
He read to a packed house of over seventy people in a room where fifty people makes for standing-room-only. Torres has such a following that the entire main stage was crushed with attendees and still more waited in the hallways. Dim Lights is a reading that leans towards spoken word, and Torres read accordingly. While some of his pieces are written in a more old-school style, last night he read poems that were what Dim Lights likes to hear.
He moved about the stage like a pro and recited his memorized poems with a preternatural sense of timing. At the end of the reading when everyone left, they wasn't a soul that didn't come and offer Torres their congratulations in the form of hugs, words of praise, and offers of beer.
He's had my beer, my hugs, my congratulations, and now he has my praise: Pomona may already have its queen, but now it has it's king — Michael Torres
Review by Michaelsun Knapp
3 Responses to "Mike Don't Need a Mic"
Very well written review, but you forgot to mention the awesome rice krispy treats that were provided.
Love the review (and the pictures, erhem…haha).
Every time I hear Michael read, I get shivers. Good ones.
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By grega Albrechtsen
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This is a fun climb while near the Spiral Staircase. The ice was more prevalent than shown in the above picture, for an ascent up the right side. To lead, it takes only stubbies and maybe a cam or two (read:"low angle" thin ice). As for the left side, it's a great flaring crack with perfect tool placements. Anyone know what the pure left route would be rated, M6-? Seemed pumpy but very secure.
As stated above, be aware of the anchor tree. Looks quite precarious.
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From: Avon, CO
Feb 19, 2009
|Short but exciting. Enough ice to take 3 stubbies. Must like climbing frozen mud!
By jack roberts
Mar 19, 2010
"Log-Jammin'", is the original name given to it by Paul Sibley and Steve Pomerance who did the FA.
Any other name is just make-believe....
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From: Vail
Dec 11, 2011
|Super fun route either way you start. No anchor tree at the top any more so one must do the overhanging dirt finish to a huge tree above. Very cool and fun. Currently (December 2011) three or so very short screws can be placed for pro.


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Before the global financial crisis, hostile takeover deals were common. But they have been few and far between in recent years, which has largely been a function of two factors: boards have lacked confidence to pull the trigger on unwelcoming targets; and lenders have been insisting that due diligence be conducted before providing acquisition finance.
Both boards and financiers have in recent years been fearful of hostile bids because they have been worried about unknown obligations to the debt markets in a time of reduced liquidity.
But SABMiller's decision to go hostile with its $9.5 billion bid for Foster's bid on Wednesday afternoon is but the latest deal where directors and lenders have seemingly got over such concerns.
Hostile Australian mergers and acquistions' volume (for deals above $US1 billion) for the year-to-date is now at $US13.7 billion, according to updated Dealogic data to include the value of the SABMiller bid. A total of 12 deals this year have been hostile. The value of SABMiller's offer for
Increasing numbers of hostile bids generally signals confident, cashed-up boards and financiers. Advisers say hostile bids can overcome the mismatched price expectations of boards and shareholders, by enabling shareholders to vote with their feet.
Earlier this month, Peabody Energy and ArcelorMittal said they would pursue
According to a recent study by law firm Blake Dawson – which predicted the rise of more hostile bids as market confidence was properly restored – there were about $10 billion worth of hostile deals in the 2010-11 financial year, up on the previous two years, but significantly lower than pre-global financial crisis levels.
According to Dealogic, there was just $US1.2 billion of hostile bids in 2009, $US1.4 billion in 2008 and $US8.7 billion in 2007. This compared to $US15.9 billion of hostile deals in 2006, before the GFC.
SABMiller's offer for Foster's has various conditions, including a minimum acceptance level of at least 90 per cent of Foster's shareholders. Lenders often insist on the 90 per cent condition, which forces a mandatory takeover of minority holders to maximise synergies for the acquirer.
But several recent deals, including Macarthur Coal, have included a 50 per cent condition. Support from a small number of large shareholders can then create momentum by forcing a board to recommend a bid once this level is exceeded.
Mergers and acquisitions bankers are excited by the world's second largest brewer SABMiller going hostile on its target, Foster's Group. They are hoping it boost confidence levels and reignite deals.
One banker described the hostile bid, which values the target brewer at $9.5 billion, as being "a very helpful development", noting that it would "get M&A back on the front page and front of mind for boards contemplating bold strategic moves".
"There is no doubt M&A is a hard slog at present… deals are not sticking, means wheel spinning by bankers," the banker said, going on to note that recent stockmarket turbulence has set back dealmaking activities by about six months.
There is some doubt however that Foster's will be able to take its target at $4.90. Foster's board rejected an offer made at the same price on June 21.
Market pundits suggest that SABMiller would have been better of adding a token 10c to 20c to its bid price as a way to get some takeover traction.
"This would have really shaken up [Foster's] defence," a deal maker said.
"A $4.90 they have missed the opening trick and now will probably fail to gather support – momentum counts in hostile bids."
One theory goes that SABMiller is beholden to its shareholders that are keen to ensure it doesn't overpay.
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Re: st: Probit/Logit - implied probability
Maarten Buis <email@example.com>
Re: st: Probit/Logit - implied probability
Tue, 17 May 2011 09:56:29 +0200
--- Ben Hoen asked
> does anyone know how to calculate the "implied probability" after a logit regression, meaning that each independent variable is kept at its mean value? Perhaps there is an after-regression tool like margins?
--- Steven Samuels answered:
> I assume that you don't have Stata 11 and can't use -margins-. Pre-11, -adjust- will do what you ask, but that doesn't mean its answer will be what you would expect. See http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-07/msg01596.html and the following post by Michael Norman Mitchell.
The problem discussed in that post is that there is a subtle
distinction between a typical predicted probability for someone within
group and the predicted probability for someone with typical values on
the explanatory variables for someone within that group. If you
compute what you call "implied probability" than you are computing the
latter and Steve's point is that you often want the former.
I agree, but there is a catch in that the former requires more from
your data than the latter. The latter, predictions at typical values
of the explanatory variables, requires only that the probability of
being in the data does not depend on once value on the
explained/left-hand-side/y-variable (*), while the former, average
predicted values, requires that the probability of being in the data
does not depend on both the explained/left-hand-side/y-variable and
the explanatory/right-hand-side/x-variables. David Drukker pointed
this out at the 2010 Italian Stata Users' meeting: page 20 of
<http://www.stata.com/meeting/italy10/drukker_sug.pdf>. For a proof of
the statement that the probability of being in the data only needs to
be independent with respect to y see footnote 1 in Paul D. Allison
(2002) "Missing Data". Quantitative Applications in the Social
Sciences, 136. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
I gave a more elaborate explanation of the distinction between average
predicted probability and predicted probability at average values of
the explanatory variables and how to compute both in Stata < 11 in:
Buis, M.L. (2007) "predict and adjust with logistic regression" The
Stata Journal, 7(2):221-226.
Hope this helps,
(*) As long as you decide for yourself what typical values for your
explanatory variables are and thus do not take the averages in your
data too strict, which often makes sense, as we often have a fair idea
what those typical values are from other sources.
Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
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* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
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Mark Salling's 'Pipe Dreams': Album Artwork and Preview
Glee heart breaker Mark Salling will be unleashing hi latest album, Pipe Dreams, on the world October 26, and to prepare everyone for the greatness to come Celebuzz has a sneak peek at the artwork for the album, plus a preview of the tracks to tease your ears with.
A follow-up to his 2008 debut album Smoke Signals, Pipe Dreams finds Salling finds the actor and multi-instrumentalist working in a pop-rock vein with an introspective bent. The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Migration
2. Lone Ranger
3. Higher Power
4. Mary Poppins
5. The Descent (Confessions Of A Ghost)
6. Illusions
7. Musical Soulmate
8. Willing and Wonderful
9. Scarlet Glasses
10. Doppelganger
11. Pipe Dreams
12. Fugitive
The actor-singer, who plays Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the series, recently revealed his desire to collaborate with troubled "Rehab" songstress Amy Winehouse, gushing,
"I'd love to perform with Amy Winehouse – she's undeniably amazing. You just can't help watch her and listen to her."
Perhaps a Wine-O inspired Glee episode is in order?
Check out a preview of the songs below. Do you think Salling has a hit on his hands? Share your predictions in the comments section.


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February 2011 More Apple Reviews Other Reviews
OBSOLETE VERSION. See my Apple Aperture 3 review (2011).
Introduction top
Aperture is software to help professional photographers select the very best out of hundreds or thousands of similar images. It also helps find relevant images out of the tens (or hundreds) of thousands of images in our archives. It allows fast and fluid sorting and browsing, even with RAW images. As you know, RAW images are slower to open and browse, so before Aperture it was difficult to flip through hundreds, or even dozens, of RAW images instantly.
Aperture is completely different from Photoshop. It doesn't replace it. Aperture is mostly a sorting, not editing, tool.
Aperture is for professional photographers because it costs a lot of money. Professionals are willing to pay anything to save time doing what's done every day. Mac is also what every full-time career professional photographer I know uses, and it's the only platform on which Aperture runs. If $299 sounds like a lot of money for convenience software then don't fret, it's a convenience for what pros do day in and day out. If you have no idea why you'd need the features of Aperture and why you'd want to spend $299 on it don't worry; it doesn't do anything that you can't pretty much already do with other free software like your camera's supplied RAW software, Google's Picasa and Apple's iPhoto. Aperture just claims to do some of it much better. If Aperture saves time then it makes money for professionals.
If you're still on windows you probably can get a bigger improvement in your workflow spending the same money on a brand new Mac Mini computer which includes the simpler iPhoto for free. Read why I prefer Macs and how they save time and aggravation.
Apple announced Aperture in October of 2005 with shipment to start in November 2005. Apple's information is here. Apple has great demo videos there showing exactly what and how it works.
It came out at $499 and no one bought it. Apple reduced the price to $299 in April, 2006. Apple did the right thing and rebated those who were faithful enough to buy it at $499.
I was going to try it, but honestly decided not to bother. I've been using iView to do the same thing for years. iView lets me catalog my tens of thousands of images fast and easily, end of story.
Aperture has three fatal flaws for me:
1.) Aperture only works once you let it copy every one of your images into its own proprietary file system. That means if you want to keep files organized some other way that you'll need to have two copies of each. I keep about 150 GB of photos spinning on my drives and don't have another 150 GB free for a duplicate, but different, set.
2.) Aperture is a browser, not a cataloger. That means every time you open and look at images Aperture has to look, see and redraw every preview. This means it works as fast looking at a new shoot or old archives. I prefer a program like iView which generates a catalog the first time you open a group of images. iView takes a little bit longer to generate all the previews the first time, and you save that catalog that was generated. The next time you open an iView catalog everything works instantly, because it generated the previews the first time. Instant is better than fast. I prefer a cataloging program like iView to a browsing program like Aperture.
3.) Aperture, like most or all other raw processing software, does not have access to Nikon's trade-secret algorithms and color matrices for converting raw NEF data into colors. Aperture does its best, but its colors do not match the colors I get from JPGs which match raw NEFs opened with Nikon's software. I need the colors to match what I shot. I shoot for keeps, not tweaks. If you prefer to tweak colors later when you open the file you'll not have a problem with this. I set my colors as I shoot.
End of story.
I analyze Aperture below. Most people find this commercial review on another site quite helpful, since that review played with it a lot more than I have.
Raw Images
I'm intrigued that Apple emphasizes that Aperture's speed allows RAW files to be manipulated and sorted as quickly as JPGs. Many of you are familiar with my article explaining why I prefer JPG over RAW, a significant part of which is due to speed. Bravo! to Apple if they really have solved this, since this removes one of the big barriers to using RAW.
Aperture also works with every other reasonable file type. The rest of this section gets technical so feel free to skip ahead if you're not shooting RAW or lack a Ph.D. in image processing. My apologies, and one day I'll write pages explaining the base technology I'm discussing. I rarely shoot RAW.
Apple says Aperture works directly in RAW without needing to convert. If true this sets Aperture apart from other organizational tools.
Your screen needs three gamma-corrected RGB values for each and every pixel location to make a real color. Excluding the forgotten Foveon, image sensors are actually monochromatic (B/W) sensors with each pixel simply covered with a tiny Red or Green or Blue filter. RAW files are simply the linear numeric data collected from each pixel well. (Even Foveon was three B/W sensors laid on top of each other with color filters between the layers.)
In order to see anything one must interpolate each of the three individual Red or Green or Blue values detected at alternate pixel locations into three simultaneous Red and Green and Blue values for each and every pixel location. This is called Bayer interpolation.
Therefore I don't take Apple's claim of native RAW display at face value and presume conversion is happening somewhere, although knowing Apple I'm sure it's done cleverly.
After Bayer interpolation you still can't see the image properly, since it's all linear data. This data needs to be converted into actual color and brightness values. These are created by applying very specific and proprietary conversion matrices (curves or profiles) to the RAW linear data. These matrices are carefully guarded secrets responsible for the look of any particular camera. Camera makers don't share these with anyone unless the camera maker feels like it and you pay them for it. As far as I know Aperture, like a lot of third party software, doesn't use the camera maker profiles.
One of my prime beefs with RAW is most or all third party software uses different conversion matrices than the manufacturer. That means the colors are different on each piece of software! The camera maker's software will open RAW files to match JPGs, but other software, like Adobe Photoshop, opens RAW files to look different. I can't accept this, which is another reason I ignore RAW. JPGs look the same everywhere, and looking the same everywhere is why pros shoot transparency film. RAW looks different everywhere, which is why, just like negative film, the colors are very dependant on who and where the negatives or RAW files are processed.
A virtual loupe lets you mouse across and see sections at 100% in real time. It looks just like dragging a real loupe over the images. This sure beats scrolling around a 100% window! Even better, when you call up a few images at once you can just slide the virtual loupe across them, just like a real light table. That sure beats having to select between images and then scroll around at 100%! The loupe works also with RAW images, works even gliding over thumbnails to enlarge to 100%, and you can change the loupe's magnification.
It even works across two displays.
See Apple's lucid videos here.
Sorting and Lightbox
Apple has a knack for brilliant simplicity, so I'm sure Aperture will greatly simplify sorting.
It has the usual cataloging and organization tools similar to those here. Apple highlights Aperture's ability to:
Rate images from 1-5 to help you sort the good from the bad.
Provides all sorts of ways to sort with metadata, for instance, shots made on a certain date with a certain lens.
It lets you make web galleries. So does PhotoShop and Dreamweaver and iView and Breezebrowser and ...
It provides for semiautomated backups of all your images to external drives, copying only what's been changed. Personally I just drag and copy, which takes much longer, or use SuperDuper! to clone an entire drive.
Ability to compare selected images side-by-side, from two to as many as you'd like. The loupe of course works here, too.
Aperture lets you to drag and drop your selected images to a large work area, then freely move and resize them till the group looks pleasing, and then save and send this arrangement around as a PDF.
This feature is a first. The stacking feature automatically identifies shots made at the same time and groups them together into a stack. This simplifies sorting the best shot from similars. If you blasted off five shots at once it lets you sort among them easily without having to tell the computer which are related. Once you pick your favorite of the group it stacks the others hidden temporarily behind the thumbnail representing your favorite.
It lets you put an image on the left of the screen, and then parade other potentials on the right to compare against your current favorite.
Image Optimization
Aperture highlights its color correction of RAW files without altering the RAW data. Aperture also allows application of the same color corrections to numerous other images. Currently I prefer to adjust these in-camera and shoot JPGs. Nikon's free Picture Project supposedly does the same thing with NEFs, and I do this in Photoshop with adjustment layers.
There's a spot and patch tool that matches color and texture for spotting.
There's a straighten tool for correcting or adding rotations (Dutch tilts as we say in Hollywood).
Apple emphasizes it's Colorsync to keep the colors matching throughout your process.
Aperture has a print preview called soft proofing. So does Photoshop.
Aperture has a slew of slick, modifiable graphic layout templates.
It makes contact sheets. So do most other organizers do.
It's a resource hog, which I presume allows it to crunch RAW files quickly. It requires at least 1GB of RAM, a 15" 1.25 GHz G4 Powerbook, OS 10.4.3 and 5 GB of free disk space, as well as a hot graphics card.
Ideally Apple suggests 2GB of RAM and at least a dual 2 GHz G5 with OS 10.4.3.
I'm unsure just how well it will work on even the hottest laptop.
Designed for dual displays if you have them. The trick setup is to sort on one display and display full size on the other.
Apple has the rest posted here.
The menus are black in the demos, not white like most other software. I don't know if that's a user choice.
I'm unsure how well Aperture emulates the camera makers' proprietary curves when interpreting RAW files. A peeve of mine is that every program opens RAWs differently, so they never look the same. I want my RAWs to open up identical in color to my JPGs as a starting point. Today in Photoshop CS2 they open up very differently than they do in Nikon's software. I believe camera makers keep their curves secret, thus other software does varyingly well at duplicating the look the camera makers get.
For those of you new to Apple you'll be pleased to know that Apple software updates automatically. I hope that as new cameras are introduced every week that these new formats will find their way into your copy of Aperture as soon as they are developed. Today we need to update Photoshop manually to be able to open RAW files from each new camera.
OLDER VERSIONS from February 2006
Aperture v1.0 won't run on Intel-based Macs.
v1.1 was shown in February 2006 and does run on Intel Macs. It became available as a free update in mid-March, 2006.
As of January v1.0.1 runs fine on a Quad. It runs through .crw files at about one per second. Not instant, but faster than I can do it today. Of course I'm on an 800MHz G4 so I can't vouch for how much of the speed comes from the software and how much from the horsepower.
I first tried v1.0 on December 2nd, 2005 on a Quad G5. Whoops! That was a dud and ran s - l - o - w - l - y on the Quad G5 due to some issue with communicating with all the CPUs and graphics cards. Activity Monitor showed it pegging just one CPU while the others sat idle. Later I learned that this issue stems from running two monitors. Aperture is picky about which graphics cards and how many are used, so research this carefully. Aperture uses the processing on the graphics cards to help it run so fast, so graphics cards are important for Aperture in ways they are not for PhotoShop.
In addition to Apple's plentiful information I mentioned earlier here, robgalbraith.com has a ton of more conjecture posted here.
I'll let you know; it hasn't shipped yet. I suspect Apple as usual has done a brilliant job. If you use RAW then this really should be slick if it works as fast as promised.
The printing and cutesy web galleries are nice, but not the reason to buy Aperture. The reason for Aperture is easy, fluid sorting paramount to every professional workflow. If Aperture really removes the speed penalty from shooting RAW they've made a major step forward. Since Aperture requires a hot system to run I'm curious just how fast RAW images would sort on other software on the same hot system.
I use JPG and have been using the somewhat competitive iView Media Pro for years. iView is as slow as everything else for RAW, since it needs to open each RAW from scratch each time you select one. iView Media Pro 3, just introduced in November 2005, now adds full screen comparisons between 2 or 4 images.
Of course Photoshop itself has a file browser, however I find it primitive and don't use it.
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