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Time Doctor is employee time management software for real time tracking of tasks and preventing wasted time. Time Doctor can be used to monitor a remote team. It records employee Internet use and takes screenshots every 3 minutes. Time Doctor also has multiple features for improving employee productivity such as: removing multi-tasking, getting staff to focus on top priorities, and making sure managers are aware of the top priorities of employees.
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May 23, 2010
#23: Unorthodox Packaging
In an age where fewer and fewer people are buying new music, it helps to have your record housed in a distinct package. Everyone can do jewel cases, and frankly, what's the point of them? If you're anything like me, you live in a small apartment in Brooklyn, and if you buy a new compact disc, you disassemble the jewel case and throw it out, first thing. The jewel case is passe, not to mention horrible for the environment.
And it's not like one can't afford to do better these days, either. When I released my first album, Metal and Wood, in 2003, one thousand compact discs, in shrink-wrapped jewel cases, cost around $1,200. In 2009, I released my fourth album, A Brighter Light, in shrink-wrapped, full color eco-wallets (they're the cardboard ones, where the CD slips into it like a record, rather than sit on a plastic tray). Due to increased economic downturn and ever-waning public interest in CDs, this run of a thousand cost pretty much the same as my first album (basically half what they cost in 2003). Today, one can release a CD that sounds good, lasts a long time, and looks cool, for a fraction of what it used to cost.
Some examples, throughout the years:
1. Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space (12×3″ CD "blister pack" edition)
Spritualized's 1997 crowning achievement, the spacey, drone-y Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space, sonically, earns its' place among the canon of psychedelic music. The album was available on traditional compact disc and vinyl, but was also released in an ultra-limited form that included each of the album's twelve songs on a 3″ CD. The mini-CDs were then packed into a "blister pack"-basically the cellophane and plastic contraption that Claritin comes in. Though I hadn't heard the record when I saw it in January 1999-and I have only a passing familiarity with it today-that CD box was the ultimate drool-inducing fetish object for a guy like me. It sat on the shelf of Radio Kilroy-where I was employed and, because my boss thought I was stealing anyway, could easily have stolen it-until it went out of business a few months later. The blister pack edition of Ladies and Gentlemen was the coolest record by far in a store full of cool records-so modern and somehow so reminiscent of Huxley's Brave New World. The boss wanted $180 for his copy at the time; today, the same album goes on eBay for eight times that.
2. The Velvet Underground-Peel Slowly and See (5 CD boxed-set)
The Velvets' four, commercially stillborn but unprecedentedly influential albums were collected (and expanded with dubious bonus tracks) for the first time in 1995. Having all of their classics, many omissions that ranged in quality from essential to horrid, and a pre-Velvet Underground and Nico CD of Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison rehearsing their earliest material was reason enough to shell out forty five bucks for the five CD package. That the package aped the cover of the group's debut album-a banana with the words, "Peel Slowly and See" next to the stem-only with a Colorforms-style banana logo that actually peeled away, once again made the package an absolute necessity for nerds. Nevermind the fact that the CDs don't begin and end one bit like their source material (and indeed the entire third album is presented in a weird alternate mix), the banana on the cover is cool as shit. I already had all the groups albums when my girlfriend's roommate was hard up for cash and offered me the box for thirty bucks. Maybe not the coolest thirty bucks I ever spent, but certainly in the running.

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Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai Meets U.S. Congressmen Matheson and Schrader
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On April 5, 2012, Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai met Jim Matheson, a Chief Deputy Whip of the Democratic Party in Congress, a member of U.S.-China Working Group and a Representative in Congress from the State of Utah, and Kurt Schrader, a U.S. Representative for Oregon from the Democratic Party. The two sides exchanged views on China-U.S. relations and related issues. |


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01 September 2009 17:53pm
Is there a case for having US specific versions of a website or is a global approach better? Is seeing non US information on a website e.g. ROW events really a big turn off to US companies doing business with an organisation?
01 September 2009 22:10pm
In a word, yes. As a U.S. based company we are turned off by websites that display only ROW events.
A properly localised site is likely to perform better than a generic international site. It also sends a powerful message that you value your US customers specifically and provide a "local" service/product tailored for that country.
I always find it useful to look at the sites of big consumer packaged goods brands - these guys are usually pretty good at tuning in to their consumers local tastes, cultures and fashions and are now all tending to produce local sites targeting specific geographies. E.g. take a look at nivea.com - they have dozens of sites that are all the same but have been tailored for each audience.
Also worth noting is that many companies that set up a US site chose to present it in both English and Spanish.
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Dr. Singh is the Chief Resident in Diagnostic Radiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI. He will start a fellowship in July 2003 in Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
Dr. Wang is Chief of the Neuroradiology Division, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI.
Dr. Sanders is a Neuroradiologist, Department of Radiology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI.
In vivo magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy is a noninvasive imaging modality useful for obtaining metabolic information complementary to conventional MR imaging. By studying the biochemical and metabolic changes in brain lesions, it is possible to diagnose a multitude of diseases involving the central nervous system and provide information that can be helpful in clinical decision making. This review focuses on the basic proton MR spectroscopy physics, spectroscopy pulse sequences, and the clinical relevance of this modality in neuroradiology. This report discusses its role in neoplastic and non-neoplastic intracranial lesions.
Imaging is routinely used for the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with brain lesions of indeterminate etiology. The standard imaging modalities, such as magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT), provide excellent spatial and contrast resolution but are frequently unable to distinguish neoplastic from non-neoplastic conditions, such as radiation necrosis and abscess. In vivo proton spectroscopy is a reliable technique that overcomes the problem of tissue characterization of intracranial lesions. 1
Both positron-emission tomography (PET) with 18 fluorodeoxyglucose and hydrogen-1 (H-1) MR spectroscopy provide unique physiologic and metabolic information based on different physical principles. The former is based on the glucose metabolism in the tissue of interest and the latter involves identification of metabolites based on the difference in resonance frequency of protons. 2
The MR spectroscopy technique aims at determining the concentration of certain nuclei in metabolites and is most frequently based on the resonance frequency of hydrogen protons. Because the concentration of tissue, water, and lipids is several times the concentration of other metabolites, the signal from water and lipids is suppressed to uncover signal from low-concentration compounds.
Whereas MR imaging provides morphological information, MR spectroscopy allows quantification of various metabolites and the study of their distribution in different tissues. It opens a new frontier in imaging in which the distribution of various metabolites can be used for tissue characterization.
The different metabolites that can be used with MR spectroscopy include H-1, phosphorus 31, carbon 13, fluorine 19, and sodium 23. The hydrogen and phosphorus concentration in central nervous system tissue is high enough to be useful in clinical MR spectroscopy. At this time, hydrogen is best suited for MR spectroscopy because of its high concentration, favorable relaxation time, and high gyromagnetic ratio.
The relatively lower gyromagnetic ratio and concentration make phosphorus 31 MR spectroscopy less popular than H-1 MR spectroscopy. Using phosphorus 31 on a conventional 1.5 T MR scanner, it is not possible to obtain adequate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on a voxel size routinely used in H-1 MR spectroscopy. The minimal voxel size needed to get adequate SNR for phosphorus 31 MR spectroscopy is 30 mL at 1.5 T magnetic fields.
The spectroscopy technique is based on the principle of chemical shift in which the frequency of precession of a nucleus is directly proportional to the strength of magnetic field experienced by it. The frequency domain spectrum is generated by Fourier transformation of the time domain signal. The resonance frequency of each metabolite is represented on a graph and is expressed as parts per million (ppm). This is because the resonance frequency is in MHz or 10 6 Hz, whereas the difference between various metabolites is only a few Hz. The ratio between the resonance frequency of metabolites is of the order of 10 -6 or ppm.
During MR spectroscopy, as the nuclei are exposed to the 90° radiofrequency pulse, the protons rotate (nutate) from the Z axis to the X axis. When the radiofrequency pulse is discontinued, they return to their equilibrium positions at different rates. The decay rate of different nuclei is dependent on the chemical environments they experience, and it allows the visualization of various metabolites as separate spectroscopy peaks.
Because the brain is composed of a multitude of tissues, MR spectroscopy must be obtained from a localized volume of tissue to be useful clinically. The metabolic information is obtained from a localized volume of tissue known as a voxel. In clinical practice, the voxel size can vary from 1 to 8 mL. The spectrum from smaller voxel sizes has the inherent disadvantage of poorer SNR. In practice, a compromise between voxel size and SNR is reached and is most often 1 to 2 mL.
The normal water concentration is 100,000 times the concentration of other metabolites. To detect these metabolites successfully, the signal from water must be suppressed adequately. The water peak located at 4.7 ppm can be suppressed using chemical shift selective excitation (CHESS) or water elimination Fourier transform technique. 3
At present, CHESS is the most frequently used technique and involves presaturation of water signal using one or more 90° presaturation pulses centered over the water resonance frequency. Using this technique, the water signal can be suppressed by a factor of up to 1000. In contrast, water elimination Fourier transform technique involves a 180° pulse centered over water and is less efficient than CHESS for water suppression.
During MR spectroscopy, lipid signals in neuroimaging can be eliminated by avoiding excitation of lipid-containing regions. Other methods include the use of radiofrequency presaturation pulses and inversion pulses. The shorter T2 relaxation times of water and lipids result in better suppression using long echo time (TE) compared with short TE pulse sequences.
The two most popular localization methods for MR spectroscopy are point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) and stimulated echo acquisition method (STEAM). 4 The STEAM technique provides more effective water suppression and shorter TE, thereby allowing visualization of a greater number of metabolic peaks. The disadvantages of STEAM are poorer SNR and increased sensitivity to motion.
The PRESS technique allows better SNR compared with STEAM but shows only the four major peaks, ie, N-acetylaspartate (NAA), choline (Cho), creatine (Cr), and lactate. For long TEs of >135 ms, PRESS is the localization method of choice. The water suppression using CHESS cannot be used with PRESS. Point-resolved spectroscopy for localization and a TE of 135 ms to obtain brain MR spectroscopy scans are used routinely at the author's institution.
A highly homogeneous magnetic field having width of water peak at half maximal height of <0.2 ppm is required for high-quality spectra. A uniform magnetic field also decreases the acquisition time by increasing the SNR. In practice, either manual or automatic shimming can be used to achieve a uniform magnetic field. Table 1 compares single-voxel technique and chemical-shift imaging for obtaining spectroscopic data.
The number of metabolic peaks seen on MR spectroscopy varies with the TE used. At higher TEs, such as 136 ms or 272 ms, a smaller number of peaks are seen because of the short T2 relaxation times and/or dephasing effects of J-coupling (Figure 1). At shorter TEs, a greater number of metabolites can be seen (Cho, Cr, NAA, myoinositol [mI], gamma-aminobutyric acid [GABA], glutamate/glutamine) and the spectrum has better SNR. It is difficult to calculate the absolute concentration of various metabolites, so the relative concentrations of these metabolites are often used for interpretation. Table 2 summarizes the location of various metabolites seen on MR spectroscopy.
The largest peak seen on MR spectroscopy is due to NAA and occurs at 2.0 ppm. The 2 other minor peaks of NAA are located at 2.5 and 2.6 ppm. In general, NAA is a marker of mature neuronal density and is therefore decreased in many disease states in which neurons are destroyed. 5 These diseases include neoplasm, infarct, demyelinating disease, etc. The only condition where NAA is increased is Canavan's disease. A smaller contribution to the NAA peak is from non-neuronal cell types such as mast cells and oligodendrocytes.
The Cr peak is located at 3.03 ppm and has contributions from Cr, Cr phosphate, GABA, lysine and glutathione. A secondary peak for Cr is at 3.94 ppm. The Cr compounds are involved in energy metabolism via Cr kinase reaction and probably serve as reserves for high-energy phosphates in cell metabolism. 6 Because the Cr peak is relatively resistant to change during disease states when compared with other metabolites, it is usually used in the denominator of Cho/Cr and NAA/Cr ratios. The Cr concentration is increased in hypometabolic disease states and is decreased in hypermetabolic disease states.
The Cho peak is located at 3.2 ppm and contains contributions from glycerophosphocholine, phosphocholine, and free Cho. The molecules are located in the cell membranes and reflect the phospholipid membrane turnover, and the peak is elevated in neoplastic and acute demyelinating diseases. The Cho peak elevation in acute demyelinating diseases is due to rapid cell membrane breakdown, whereas in neoplasms it is caused by rapid cell membrane turnover and increased cellular density.
The lactate peak is located at 1.32 ppm and represents the end product of anaerobic metabolism. Usually, lactate is not detectable on human brain MR spectroscopy. Its concentration is increased in certain neoplasms, radiation necrosis, abscesses, mitochondrial diseases, acute infarcts, and cysts. The lactate peak overlaps with lipid peak on STEAM and can be separated from it at a TE of 135 ms when it inverts. The inverted double peak is due to the J-coupling effect from adjacent protons. A second lactate peak at 4.1 ppm is not well seen because it is close to water and is suppressed by the water suppression pulses.
The mI peak is located at 3.56 ppm and is known to decrease in patients with hepatic encephalopathy. It has been suggested that mI be used as a glial cell marker 7 and is increased in Alzheimer's disease and demyelinating diseases.
The other metabolites identified at low TEs include glutamate, glutamine, alanine, and lipids (Table 2). The cerebral levels of glutamine are increased in patients with hepatic encephalopathy and Reye's syndrome. 8
A newborn shows low NAA, high Cho, and high mI levels on MR spectroscopy. These metabolites gradually approach the adult pattern by 1 to 2 years of age. 6 The Cho and NAA concentrations are higher in white matter than in gray matter. With aging, the Cho concentration in gray matter is significantly increased. The concentration of Cr is much higher in gray matter than in white matter and is significantly higher in older rather than in younger subjects. 9 The cerebellar levels of Cho are higher than the supratentorial levels. 10
Unlike PET, MR spectroscopy does not suffer from the disadvantage of ionizing radiation and, therefore, can be used to perform serial studies to monitor disease progression. By avoiding surgical/ stereotactic biopsy, MR spectroscopy provides a possible noninvasive investigation in the management of neoplastic and non-neoplastic brain lesions. A typical chemical shift imaging sequence takes approximately 12 minutes to complete and can be incorporated with MR examination under the supervision of a neuroradiologist.
The overwhelming number of MR spectroscopy applications in clinical practice is in neuroradiology because of the lack of motion artifacts, absence of free lipids in the brain, and ease of magnetic field shimming. The protean practical and research applications of MR spectroscopy are for neoplasm, radiation necrosis, temporal lobe epilepsy, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, AIDS, and a number of metabolic disorders.
Brain tumors
The MR spectroscopy data are often useful in confirming the diagnosis, grading the malignancy, and distinguishing radiation necrosis from residual/recurrent neoplasm (Figures 2 through 5). The accuracy of MR spectroscopy in distinguishing neoplastic from non-neoplastic lesion is greatest when the spectra are obtained from voxels at the enhancing edge of a lesion. 11 A typical astrocytoma shows decreased NAA, decreased Cr, and increased Cho levels. 12 The degree of elevation of Cho correlates with the histologic grade of malignancy and is helpful in distinguishing tumors from non-neoplastic disease processes. An elevated lactate level is frequently found in high-grade malignancies. 13
In a study of 55 patients with focal brain lesions conducted by the author, MR spectroscopy had an overall accuracy of 90.9% in distinguishing neoplastic from non-neoplastic lesions. 14 The MR spectroscopy spectra of metastases shows increased Cho/Cr and decreased NAA/Cr ratios. The lactate and lipid levels are more likely to be elevated in metastases than in primary brain neoplasms.
The MR spectroscopy of peripherally located neoplasm is more technically difficult to perform because of contamination from fat and susceptibility artifacts. A typical cerebellopontine angle schwannoma will show the absence of NAA along with elevation of phosphoinositide peak at 3.6 ppm. The absence of NAA along with elevation of alanine peak (1.3 to 1.4 ppm) is often seen in meningiomas. 12
The MR spectroscopy detection of a decrease in NAA coupled with an occasional increase in lactate is useful in detection of the seizure focus in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. 15 The decrease in NAA corresponds to neuronal loss on histology in these patients. The localization of the seizure focus is helpful in the surgical planning of temporal lobectomy in patients with intractable seizure disorder.
Radiation necrosis
This condition typically develops in brain neoplasms that have been irradiated with 4000 or more rads. It is often impossible to distinguish it from viable residual/recurrent neoplasm based on MR imaging. In these patients, MR spectroscopy shows promising sensitivity and selectivity for differentiation of radiation necrosis from recurrent/ progressive brain tumor. 16 The MR spectroscopy spectrum of radiation necrosis shows a broad peak because of fatty acids, lactate, and amino acids centered at approximately 1.5 ppm. MR spectroscopy and PET play a complementary role in classifying indeterminate brain lesions into non- neoplastic and neoplastic. 17
Multiple sclerosis
In acute multiple scleroses, there is a decrease in the NAA levels that correlates well with the neurologic impairment. In these patients, there is an increase in the Cho concentration from accelerated myelin destruction. The increase in lactate level seen in these patients is the result of inflammatory infiltrates. In hyperacute demyelinating disease, there is a transient decrease in Cr that returns to normal in subacute and chronic stages.
In chronic multiple sclerosis, there is an irreversible decrease in NAA and inositol levels. 18 The decrease in NAA in the white matter surrounding the demyelinating plaque correlates best with clinical impairment in these patients.
There is potential for detection of a decrease in NAA and an increase in Cho even before the development of abnormalities on MR imaging. The metabolic abnormalities increase as the severity of the disease increases. 19 In immunocompromised patients, MR spectroscopy can often be used to distinguish between neoplasm and opportunistic infection. For example, the spectra of toxoplasmosis show large lipid and lactate peaks with virtual absence of normal metabolites. 20 This can be distinguished from lymphoma, which shows marked elevation of Cho and lipids and significant reduction of NAA. MR spectroscopy may play a future role in monitoring the results of antiretroviral therapy and predicting the usefulness of drug therapy.
In early stages of stroke, lactate elevation can be identified in absence of MR imaging abnormalities. These areas may represent ischemic zones at risk for infarction. 21 In acute infarcts, there is a decrease in NAA and an increase in lactate concentrations. There is a progressive decrease in NAA and lactate up to 1 week after infarct, indicating the reversibility of neuronal damage during this period. In chronic infarcts, there is a decrease in NAA, Cr, and Cho levels.
Other diseases
In patients with Alzheimer's disease, there is a decrease in NAA levels and hippocampus atrophy, which may be useful in distinguishing this disease from normal aging. There are reports of a decrease in NAA levels and an increase in mI in patients with Alzheimer's disease. 22,23 In patients with hepatic encephalopathy, there is an increase in glutamine, a decrease in Cho, and a decrease in mI concentration. 24 In Parkinson's disease, NAA, Cr, and Cho levels are unchanged but lactate levels are elevated. 25
The MR spectroscopy feature of brain abscess includes increased acetate and succinate levels at 1.92 and 2.42 ppm, respectively (Figures 6 and 7). Currently, there are a number of MR spectroscopy research frontiers that include inherited, idiopathic, and metabolic brain disorders.
Hydrogen-1 MR spectroscopy is a technically demanding investigation and produces low SNR. 26 The possible causes of poor spectral quality on MR spectroscopy include hemorrhage, postoperative changes, less than 200 acquisitions, small voxel size, and automatic shimming. These causes either result in poor homogenity of the magnetic field or poor SNR, making the interpretation of spectroscopy data unreliable. The presence of hemorrhage and postoperative changes within the volume of interest often leads to poor-quality measurements due to susceptibility effects caused by hemosiderin. 27 The cortical brain lesions located close to the calvaria are often difficult to image on MR spectroscopy because of susceptibility artifacts and contamination from lipids located outside the dura.
Although MR spectroscopy allows detection of only a few of the cellular metabolites at moderate spatial resolution, it remains a unique modality available to neuroradiologists that provides biochemical information not obtainable with CT or MR imaging. Hydrogen-1 MR spectroscopy can be implemented on the widely available 1.5 T MR scanners. With its recent improvements in techniques, MR spectroscopy is already playing an important role in the management of neurologic diseases.
With the advent of high-field MR imaging scanners, it is possible to improve SNR as well as reduce acquisition time and voxel size. In the future, MR spectroscopy research is likely to result in smaller voxel size and improved acquisition time.
The author wishes to thank Dr. Duane Mezwa for continuous support and guidance.


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The first Ruby on Rails web development contract I ever got, with zero Rails experience whatsoever, was for $85/hour. To get it, I sent out 80 CVs in 2 weeks.
The consulting gig I'm doing right now? I applied for dozens of contracts over a period of months, including even getting flown out to Zappos in Las Vegas recently, going through eight hours of interviews with various engineering teams — and ultimately got rejected.
I've written 80,000 to 100,000 words and over 70 articles on this blog. Not a millionaire yet, apparently. Still going.
Not counting consulting, I'm on my third business idea. If 80% of businesses fail, I'm getting closer and closer to shifting the odds in my favour.
I liked 199 girls on Plenty of Tweeps, before finally meeting the girl I now live with, the girl I will almost certainly marry. And that's not even counting the hundreds and hundreds of people I've met from social skydiving.
No matter how hard you try, you are only going to get a fraction of the results you expect. That may sound discouraging. After all, a five percent return on watching TV with your partner at night, complaining about everything that's wrong with your job — about how your whole department is just fucked — will not grow into an asset you can retire on.
But a five percent return on hitting up literally every single opportunity you can think of — five percent of 1 Yes, in spite of 200 Noes — five percent of using every second you are not working for someone else to build something that just might allow you to work for yourself — that, in my experience at least, is a gamble worthy of your entire force.
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The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say "no" – they may not be smart enough to say "yes". – Keith Olbermann
The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say "no" – they may not be smart enough to say "yes".
– Keith Olbermann
Personal development books are full of recipes for goal achievement. You've got to get clear about what you want, become a "vibrational match" for the financial success you desire, make the decision that you will attain your goal at any cost, and by the way, here's an anecdote about some guy you've never heard of, who followed every step of my Unlock Your Inner Genius Master Course (TM), and is now, like, super happy to have traded his $300,000/year job on Wall Street for the simple, hunter-gatherer life of a fisherman on a remote island in the South Pacific.
Okay, okay, I am being a bit harsh. The goal of this post is not to rant against personal development books. Rather, I intend to talk about the actual process of achieving personal goals, using a recent example from my own life. And the first point I want to make is this: There is no secret and no system. There is no frequency that needs tuning into, and no visualization clear enough to guarantee that things will happen.
There is only hard work and hustle, uncertainty and despair, pressing forward when you have no clue where to start, and the inevitable criticism put forth by a seething, vocal minority of non-doers.
Of course, there are also all the upsides that come from giving everything you've got to hopefully, maybe, at least give yourself the chance to get exactly what you want. But I'll talk about those more later.
The recipe for achieving personal goals that I am about to offer you is, in fact, not a recipe at all. It is just a story about one fairly major attempt I made at doing things on my own terms. In some ways it was amazingly successfully. In other ways, things didn't go as expected. But either way, I'd do it all over again.
In fact, I am doing it all over again. More on that later too.
In the spring and summer of 2009 I was shopping around for a new place to live. Not just a new house, but a new city — maybe even a new country. I'd been living in Montreal for the last five years, and absolutely loved it, but I didn't want to let that blind me to exploring other parts of the country and/or the world. In the worst case, if things really didn't work out, I could always just move back.
After spending a few months in Europe, I ultimately decided — for reasons that would be too off-topic to get into just now — to return to Canada. I was itching to start a new project, wanted a place that would present as few obstacles as possible to building new things, and eventually selling said things, and ultimately decided to move to the West Coast. I ended up in Vancouver.
I touched down in Vancouver on August 15, 2009. Before I'd even moved into my own place (I was still crashing on my buddy's couch), I immediately set to work on coming up with a new project. Carpe diem, etc.
For me, there is a fine line between business and self-actualization. I see the former as a vehicle for the latter. I don't tend to think of business ideas in terms of what's hot and what's trendy. Instead, I tend to think in terms of what's missing. In the summer of last year, after a few months of being single, the biggest thing that was missing for me was a quality relationship.
Of course, I had no idea at first that the goal of finding a quality long-term relationship would result in an idea for a business. That's where Twitter came in.
By last summer, I'd been using Twitter for a couple years. Indeed, I have a link to my Twitter account in the sidebar of this blog, since I think it offers a great way to interact with readers. I also use it to follow people who interest and inspire me.
As I used Twitter more and more, I started to see its potential in helping me achieve the goal of finding a mate. I say this even as someone who swore off dating sites, and for that matter, still does.
As a potential platform for online dating, I saw that Twitter provided a unique window into someone's life. Unlike typical online dating profiles which are easy to fake, a user's Twitter stream tells you a lot about who they really are: what kind of work they do, what their social life is like, whether they actually are into all kinds of sports, how influential they are, etc. Sure, you could make up everything about yourself in your tweets, but I personally have yet to see that happen with anyone I come into even vague contact with on Twitter.
As I thought more about the things Twitter is good at, I saw an opportunity to combine a personal goal with the itch I had to build something shiny and new. Since Twitter itself is really bad at being a dating service (and so it should be), why not build something for people who are interested in connecting with Twitter peeps beyond their 140 character limits?
People like, erm, me.
After running the idea by a few friends, there was no doubt that I had to get started on it as soon as possible. My personal goal of finding a great relationship had merged with my interest in the world of followers, at-messages, and tweets. I was going to build a platform on which Twitter users could take their interactions beyond single sentence exchanges and into feature-length conversations. I was going to build a Twitter dating website.
The distance between when I started thinking about this idea and when I started implementing it could be measured in hours. I knew that inspiration is perishable, and that if I didn't act immediately, it just wouldn't happen.
Because of the sale of my house earlier in the year, I had the bankroll to allow me to focus on building the site full-time, at least for a little while. From the moment I started working on it, I devoted every second of every day to it, seven days a week. I had no idea what the hell I was doing, no grand vision of the business model or the marketing strategy, so I just barfed out my ideas in code and gradually massaged them into something that sort of worked.
Within a couple weeks of starting, I convinced a buddy of mine to quit his job and join me on the project full-time. He'd previously founded and sold a network of Canadian classified ad sites, and I thought his experience would be a great asset moving forward.
In the mad rush of August and September 2009, we ate slept and breathed this project. We were maniacs on a mission and were fairly confident that world domination was imminent. Even though it wasn't quite ready — hell, we weren't quite ready — we launched the site on October 1st. We called it Plenty of Tweeps.
Our initial version was pretty crappy. It was fairly stable and bug-free, but it was also somewhat feature-free too. And the user interface, while easy to use, was a little too Twittery in its look and feel.
But here's the really cool thing about actually doing stuff, even when you have no clue what you're doing or if it'll work: people notice. People start talking about you. And people started talking about Plenty of Tweeps. I got interviewed by a popular local newspaper, Mark caught the eye of some of his investor friends, and even one of the founders of Twitter tweeted about us!
More recently, Plenty of Tweeps got mentioned on CNN and on one of the most popular social media blogs in the world, Mashable.
Even as I reflect on this now, I have no idea how this happened. I'm a decent programmer, but I'm no rock star. And while I have a keen interest in user interface design, I learned probably half of what I know from the building of Plenty of Tweeps itself.
And I haven't even gotten to the really cool part yet.
There is another highly useful side effect of scratching your own itch: You get to actually use the thing when it's done. And use it I did.
The product worked exactly like I hoped it would. Reading a person's tweets gave me about as good a sense of them as you can get without actually meeting them in person. So I just went ahead and liked some profiles to see what would happen.
Surprisingly, people started joining. I exchanged messages with various girls on the site, and went on a couple dates. Going on a date with a girl you met from a dating site you built is a pretty trippy experience, to say the least.
A couple months after we launched, I met someone off the site that I really clicked with, @alicia_CHt. That's her on the Plenty of Tweeps homepage. ;)
When I say Alicia and I really hit it off, I mean it. She's Australian and also lives in Vancouver. Just weeks after we met, she flew back to Australia for a month to spend the Christmas holidays with her family.
A few days after she left, we were chatting on Skype, and she was joking about how I should come over, "you'd have free accommodation!", etc. I knew she was teasing, but I also knew that a month apart was a long time for two people that had just met. Not one to waste time, the next morning I booked a ticket, and a couple days later, I met her at the airport in Sydney.
Fast forward to today: We recently celebrated our nine month anniversary, six of which we've been living together. Building a dating site that I personally wanted to use turned out to be a pretty good idea after all.
Plenty of Tweeps continues to move forward, and while it hasn't yet been a runaway commercial success, it continues to attract new signups every day. It's obviously been a huge personal success, and a great addition to my consulting portfolio.
In the past several weeks, I've started doing the whole thing all over again with a new project called Quitfest, dedicated to the thousands of people who have commented on my post on quitting drinking. For the past few years, that community has been using a blog post to communicate with each other, and I think I can build something much easier and more fun to use for that purpose.
I spent all of this past weekend working on it, I'll be on it all day today the second after I hit Publish on this post, and I've shifted back to an early riser schedule to help me finish my billable consulting hours early enough to allocate a few hours each day to Quitfest.
In the same way that I had no idea what I was doing with Plenty of Tweeps, I'm fumbling my way forward with Quitfest too. I can't tell you if I've picked the right feature set, the right pricing model, or the right marketing strategy, or even the right idea for that matter, but I'll find out soon enough.
But here's what matters most, and here's the entire reason why I wanted to share this story with you: I haven't succeeded yet. I haven't yet reached that glorious point where I can claim to support myself entirely from my own projects. Every fucking time I do anything, I get criticized for it. If you read the CNN link, you'll see what I mean. Hell, I've gotten severely flamed on this blog for some of the things I've written. I've even gotten severely flamed for not writing for a while.
And that bit about meeting Alicia? Here's one thing I left out: I liked 199 girls on Plenty of Tweeps. That is not a typo. One. Hundred. Ninety. Nine. While I exchanged messages with quite a few after that, I only actually went on two dates, the second of which was Alicia.
(I left that detail out because Alicia wanted me to. Sorry, baby! I love you. ;)
But one thing I can say for sure is this: I am trying my friggin' heart out. I can't think or do any harder. I can't fall back on that whole well-I-know-if-I-really-put-my-mind-to-it crap. I have no excuses and no rationalizations. This is me running at full power.
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As an alternative to wood for rib material in skin-on-frame canoe/kayak construction, some builders have been using bamboo. The 'bamboo' that is often talked about is a manufactured bamboo product referred to as carbonized vertical bamboo. So far I have not managed to find out any details of what specific bamboo product (there are various thicknesses and types) is actually being used or how it is cut into ribs.
What I'd like to know is:
- what bamboo species would be suitable for steam bending
- what is the original thickness of the laminated bamboo product (they come in various thicknesses depending on planned usage e.g. 0.6mm, 5mm, 20-50mm) before ripping into strips?
- what should the orientation of the bamboo layer(s) be in the cut rib strips?
- are ribs which include glue lines acceptable?
An Australian builder of the Cape Falcon F1 kayak has sourced material from Bamboo Australia. The rib size for this kayak is 1/4'' (4mm) x 7/8'' (22mm)
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Earlier today, in an interview with German newsweekly Stern, Klaus Kinskis eldest daughter, Pola Kinski, now 60, accused the late film icon of sexually abusing her.
Kinski told the magazine, which hits the stands tomorrow, that her father, who died in 1991, molested her from the age of five until she turned 19. He raped her, she claims, and would then buy her expensive gifts to assuage his guilt.
Ms. Kinski is about to publish a tell-all book she has written about her father, and said she wished to put an end to the cult of personality surrounding the wildly bi-polar cult thespian, best known for his roles in Werner Herzogs Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God:
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When my nephew was three years old, I remember him picking up handfuls of gravel in the driveway, dropping the rocks back on the ground and exclaiming in a celebratory manner "MONEY, MONEY". My sister-in-law looked at me and said "I wish I could see what he is seeing, he does this all of the time".
In my typical over-think everything fashion, I thought about this for years. If gravel was money, quarries would be the new banks. This would be no different from the gold claims of the 1800′s.
Nowadays, we have been led to believe that money is pieces of paper or coins or digits on a computer screen. All of that is a great way to keep score and does fall into the definition of money but there is more to it. In fact, all 'money' in the bank is measured in inter-national digital units and is therefore less than $0. The reason is because it has to be borrowed into existence, it is therefore debt and less than $0. The actual money or asset is held by the banks in the form of a securities that we as creditors sign and authorize.
The Uniform Commercial Code (the global commerce game's rule book) defines money as "anything of material substance". While this includes securities, pledges, bonds, dollars and coins, it also includes the body, this chair I sit in and these words that I write. I say this because most people feel broke these days and that is because they have been lied to about their actual wealth, it is because they feel more secure in their insecurity. They choose to believe it. Go figure.
I'm looking around the room at the obvious: Table, chairs, floor, the entire house, the television, trinkets on the piano and so on and so forth are plain to see. There is money everywhere and there is no shortage. What really strikes me is that the UCC's definition of money also includes my physical body and any outputs arising from my bodily activity (labor). In fact, this is so valuable that the governments of the world pledge it in the form of bonds to the IMF in order to secure fiat credit. The people are the ipso-facto creditors of the system, the government knows it and the only reason that any of us are paying for things is because we've been lied to.
Anyway, back to the gravel. Imagine for a moment what it would feel like to suddenly realize that have an infinite supply of "money" all around you. You'd probably celebrate like my nephew. The one thing that he didn't do with it however is stuff his pockets with it. He just chucked it back on the ground and went on with his day.


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Legal Immigration Reform Plan Discussed on Libertarian Attorney for Freedom Radio Show
Friday, May 3rd, 2013I was invited to discuss the legal immigration plan supported by the Gang of 8 on the Attorney For Freedom Show a couple of days ago, and you can listen to the recording here.
Marc Victor is a high profile attorney in Arizona who realizes immigration ought to be fixed, and while I don't agree with all of his ideas — I felt it was important to address what I do and do not support with regard to immigration reform since Victor has several Libertarian and Republican listeners.
I did take the opportunity to nail the Texas U.S. Senators who are missing in action — from the state that shares 64% of the entire southern border length with Mexico. Where are they? Texas John Cornyn is on the Finance committee that oversees ports of entry, trade and tariffs — yet he is nowhere to be found on the push for legal immigration.
We also spoke about Cuban immigrants receive government benefits once their wet foot touches dry land because Libertarians do not like any hints of welfare programs/government benefits. I reminded Victor that most immigrants do not receive the government benefits that are afforded to Cuban immigrants. Indeed Texas U.S. Senator and Cuban-American Ted Cruz has had family that benefited from Cuban privileged amnesty via the Cuban Adjustment Act, and it is unfortunate that the freshman will not follow the steps of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. At least Rubio is working towards legal immigration — and Ted Cruz is not.
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The Hereford Arms is cited as Newport's premier biker pub!
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Children of Earth - Day Two
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Clem wonders what has just happened.
Children of Earth - Day Three
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Clem buys a drink with stolen money.
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The police are called to arrest Clem.
Children of Earth - Day Two
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Children of Earth - Day Two
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Sorry World. We messed up. An open letter from Canada
Sorry World.
We messed up.
We know you look to us as one of the last great strongholds of common sense in a swirling sea of crazy on this big ol' crazy planet of ours.
Decriminalized marijuana, same-sex marriage, our peace keeping force, universal health care, education, our stance on environment, human rights, and religious freedom made us look pretty darn awesome.
Now we're realizing that those things that made us awesome are being taken away from us, and it's not just us Canadians who are paying the price.
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What is non-small cell lung cancer?
What are the key statistics about lung cancer?
Most lung cancer statistics include both small cell and non-small cell lung cancers.
Lung cancer (both small cell and non-small cell) is the second most common cancer in both men and women (not counting skin cancer). In men, prostate cancer is more common, while in women breast cancer is more common. Lung cancer accounts for about 14% of all new cancers.
The American Cancer Society's estimates for lung cancer in the United States for 2013 are:
- About 228,190 new cases of lung cancer (118,080 in men and 110,110 in women)
- An estimated 159,480 deaths from lung cancer (87,260 in men and 72,220 among women), accounting for about 27% of all cancer deaths
Lung cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.
Lung cancer mainly occurs in older people. About 2 out of 3 people diagnosed with lung cancer are 65 or older; fewer than 2% of all cases are found in people younger than 45. The average age at the time of diagnosis is about 70.
Overall, the chance that a man will develop lung cancer in his lifetime is about 1 in 13; for a woman, the risk is about 1 in 16. These numbers include both smokers and non-smokers. For smokers the risk is much higher, while for non-smokers the risk is lower.
Black men are about 20% more likely to develop lung cancer than white men. The rate is about 10% lower in black women than in white women. Both black and white women have lower rates than men, but the gap is closing. The lung cancer rate has been dropping among men over the past 2 decades and has just recently begun to drop in women.
Statistics on survival in people with lung cancer vary depending on the stage (extent) of the cancer when it is diagnosed. Survival statistics based on the stage of the cancer are discussed in the section "Non-small cell lung cancer survival rates by stage."
Despite the very serious prognosis (outlook) of lung cancer, some people with earlier stage cancers are cured. More than 380,000 people alive today have been diagnosed with lung cancer at some point.
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What is the best C IDE on Linux?
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Actually Xemacs is pretty good: it interfaces with make and the gnu debuggger very nicely (not that you'd need to debug anything ofcourse *grin*). http://www.xemacs.org/ should have the latest binaries and sources. Also if you are used to vi, you may consider vim. It has syntax high-lighting and is fairly lean (xemacs tends to be a memory pig). Good luck, Ahmed On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Chris Richard Adams wrote: > Hi.. > > What is the best C development environment on Linux? I am so used to > great Java IDE's on windows and I want to write a bunch of c programs on > Linux - redhat - now...but its terrible to go back to plain vi and > telnet sessions to my server. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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- Learn about different tree species and critters on your vacation. Record location, name of species, and type of climate
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- Compare the costs and benefits of renewable energy sources
- Learn how to set up an apiary
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- Conduct a forestry quiz bowl for your community
- Organize a community service learning project to weatherize homes of needy families
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- Study an area of environmental science and enter the State Science and Technology Fair of Iowa.
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- Create a video on how to weatherize your home.
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- Reuse your family's food scraps by building a composting bin.
- Create a survey on what other youth think and feel about today's environmental issues. Tweet your friends and keep a tally. Report out through a poster, video, etc.
- Develop a workshop that shows others how to be good environmental stewards.
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- For more ideas, visit the Forestry page.
- What attracts butterflies to your garden? Find out and share your findings in a video.
- Do an insect collection or a plant collection.
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- Create a timeline with visuals of significant events and how Iowa's wildlife has changed through the years.
- Build a bat house.
4-H Resources
4-H Environment & Sustainabiliy Manuals
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- Forestry Helper's Guide
- Teaming with Insects
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What are your best tips for debugging Python?
Please don't just list a particular debugger without saying what it can actually do.
- What are good ways to make my Python code run first time? - This discusses minimizing errors
What are your best tips for debugging Python? Please don't just list a particular debugger without saying what it can actually do. Related
You can use the pdb module, insert
To continue execution use It is possible to execute arbitrary Python expressions using pdb. For example, if you find a mistake, you can correct the code, then type a type expression to have the same effect in the running code ipdb is a version of pdb for IPython. It allows the use of pdb with all the IPython features including tab completion. It is also possible to set pdb to automatically run on an uncaught exception. Pydb was written to be an enhanced version of Pdb. Benefits? | |||||||||||||
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Logging Python already has an excellent built-in logging module. You may want to use the logging template here. The logging module lets you specify a level of importance; during debugging you can log everything, while during normal operation you might only log critical things. You can switch things off and on. Most people just use basic print statements to debug, and then remove the print statements. It's better to leave them in, but disable them; then, when you have another bug, you can just re-enable everything and look your logs over. This can be the best possible way to debug programs that need to do things quickly, such as networking programs that need to respond before the other end of the network connection times out and goes away. You might not have much time to single-step a debugger; but you can just let your code run, and log everything, then pore over the logs and figure out what's really happening. EDIT: The original URL for the templates was: http://aymanh.com/python-debugging-techniques This page is missing so I replaced it with a reference to the snapshot saved at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20120819135307/http://aymanh.com/python-debugging-techniques In case it disappears again, here are the templates I mentioned. This is code taken from the blog; I didn't write it.
And here is his explanation of how to use the above. Again, I don't get the credit for this: By default, the logging module prints critical, error and warning messages. To change this so that all levels are printed, use:
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Clay Shirky's lucid and penetrating analysis will steer us through the online social explosion and ask what happens when people are given the tools to do things together, without needing traditional organisational structures.
Clay Shirky is one of the new culture's wisest observers. He will argue that the dramatic improvement in our social tools makes our control over them much like steering a kayak; we are being pushed rapidly down a route largely determined by the technological environment.
We have a small degree of control over the spread of these tools, but that control does not extend to being able to reverse, stop, or even radically alter the direction we're moving in.
The question now is therefore not whether the spread of these social tools is good or bad, but rather what the impact will be, for better or for worse.


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