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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Proven players that have joined forces after starting several top revenue generating divisions in the staffing industry. Will provide IT staffing (contract, contract to hire) and direct hire (permanent placement) services to Atlanta and SE clients. Provide turn key strategic talent solutions for companies looking to hire top talent. Offer project based and IT outsourcing solutions. Focus on quality deliverables for infrastructure, development and executive staffing needs.
Any company looking to hire information technology professionals in various industries in Atlanta and Southeast. Majority of target audience is males ages 38-55. Any IT decision maker who has hiring authority and is looking to hire top talent on a project or direct hire basis. IT decision makers are most concerned about quality, a culture fit for their company and someone who can carry out the company goals and objectives.
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(CNN) – Lighting up a cigarette after too many drinks could make your hangover a lot worse. That's according to a new study form researchers at Brown University.
They followed the smoking and drinking habits of more than a hundred college students.
Researchers found if the students drank heavily and smoked during the same day…
the were more likely to have a hangover the next morning. And the symptoms were even worse if the students smoked that morning too.
How exactly tobacco affects hangovers isn't fully clear. The study suggests nicotine interacts with receptors in the brain that can slow a person's response to alcohol.
The study appears the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

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All busy moms know that when we're more organized we feel more in control. OK, more sane. So we thought we'd pull together some great ideas from Work It, Mom! members to help you get organized.
1.) Get a great planner to help organize your schedule. Put your PDA to good use, try managing your time online with Google Calendar, or go with the tried-and-true -- an old-school day planner. Even a basic, notebook-style planner with plenty of room for you to jot down notes -- the Mom Agendas at See Jane Work are great -- will help you manage your time more efficiently.
2.) Get a great tool to organize your stuff. Lara Gallagher calls herself The Lazy Organizer but, really, there doesn't seem to be anything lazy about her. She makes some great points and has real-life tips on her blog, but we just love her organization bags. They come in several different sizes and are made of sturdy nylon and transparent vinyl, so you can see what you're keeping inside each one.
3.) Talk to an expert. Professional organizer Christine Rice offers 10 great tips to help you get organized at Organize It Today, but if you need even more, you should subscribe to her free e-zine, Organi-zine, and check out Organizing U, her six-month-long online school.
4.) Cut out the clutter. One of the biggest obstacles to overcome when organizing is cutting back on clutter. Life Organizers offers several clutter-reduction strategies, including tips on how to recognize different kinds of clutter, and how to drastically change the way you accumulate stuff.
5.) Try a timer. Multitasking doesn't always work when it comes to keeping yourself organized. Sometimes, you need to be able to focus on a single task in order to really get it out of the way. Using a timer can help. Try the FlyLady principal and set it for 15 minutes -- it's amazing how much you can get done if you're trying to beat the clock!
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Disability is a subject you may read about in the newspaper, but not think of as something that might actually happen to you. But your chances of becoming disabled are probably greater than you realize.
Studies show that just over one in four of today's 20-year-olds will become disabled before reaching age 67.
While we spend a lot of time working to succeed in our jobs and careers, few of us think about ensuring that we have a safety net to fall back on should we become disabled. This is an area where Social Security can provide valuable help to you.
This disability planner helps you find out:
- how you can qualify and apply for benefits;
- what happens if your application is approved;
- who can receive benefits on your earnings record;
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- what happens if you go back to work.
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We pay disability benefits under two programs:
- The Social Security disability insurance program pays benefits to you and certain family members if you worked long enough and paid Social Security taxes. (Your adult child also may qualify for benefits on your earnings record if he or she has a disability that started before age 22.)
- The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program pays benefits to disabled adults and children who have limited income and resources.
For most people, the medical requirements are the same under both programs and disability is determined by the same process.
Whether you apply for Social Security disability or SSI, we ask you for information about your medical condition, work, and education history to help us decide if you are disabled under our rules.
Additional information about SSI can be found at "What Is Supplemental Security Income?"
Information for Advocates, Attorneys, and Third Parties
If you are an Advocate, Attorney, or Third Party Representative and you are helping someone prepare an online Social Security benefit application, there are some things you should know.


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Bills would go after delinquent feds and contractors.
A House oversight committee passed two bills Wednesday targeting federal employees and contractors who are delinquent on their taxes, sending both pieces of legislation to the House floor for a full vote.
The 2013 Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act would allow the government to fire federal employees who fail to pay their taxes. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, revived the bill, which he shepherded thorough the House in the previous session of Congress. Last session's legislation died in the Senate.
Nearly 312,000 federal workers and retirees owed more than $3.5 billion in back taxes in 2011, marking a 12 percent jump in delinquent feds from 2010. Overall, 3.2 percent of federal workers owed back taxes, 5 percent lower than the general population.
Chaffetz also co-sponsored a bill with Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., that would prohibit the government from awarding a contract to any individual who has significant outstanding tax debt. The bill authorizes the Treasury Department to disclose tax information on a prospective contract recipient.
An identical bill made it out of committee in the 112th Congress, but was never taken up on the House floor. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sponsored a similar bill in 2007.
President Obama signed an executive order in 2010 to block contracts to tax-delinquent individuals.
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text: The new VW Tiguan crossover's based on the A5 platform, the same platform that allows Vee-dub to bring us the Golf, the new Audi TT and the Jetta. More importantly It's also the same platform that V-Double-U used to bring us the Skoda Octavia II. OK, we're not really sure why that's important at the moment, but it gives this new Car-UV a level of respekt it'd usually not be getting — mostly because, you know, it's the brother of a Skoda! But we digress, now the automaker for the people of the Deutschland have a new video out telling all about its story. The clip's got all the excitement, action and intrigue you'd expect in a movie about a crossover built by a German automaker. But, it's interesting to see which vehicles designers used as their "inspiration" for this new V-Dub. At least we think they used them as their inspiration, as there's no talking whatsoever in the video. There were some words on the screen and stuff, but who can bother with reading, right?


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- +2 Constitution, -2 Charisma: Dwarves are stout and tough, but tend to be gruff and reserved.
- +2 bonus on Search checks: The Stonecunning ability gives a dwarf a sixth sense about stonework.
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- +2 bonus to saves against poison: Dwarves are hardy and resistant to toxins.
- +2 bonus to saves against spells: Dwarves have an innate resistance to magic spells.
- Dwarven Waraxes: Dwarves that have martial weapon proficiency receive proficiency in the dwarven waraxe, an exotic weapon, for free.
Dwarves are known for their skill in warfare, their ability to withstand physical and magical punishment, their knowledge of the earth's secrets, their hard work, and their capacity for drinking ale.
A dwarf adventurer may be motivated by crusading zeal, a love of excitement, or simple greed. As long as his accomplishments bring honor to his clan, his deeds earn him respect and status. Defeating giants and claiming powerful magic weapons are sure ways for a dwarf to earn the adulation of other dwarves.
The dwarven homeland in Eberron is the Mror Holds, a loose-knit federation of dwarf clans in the mountainous terrain in the east of Khorvaire. The dwarves have never had a unified empire and thus have never risen to the prominence of the elves or humans, though their control of mineral wealth has always made them important allies of the greater powers. Their mysterious kingdoms, carved out from the insides of mountains, are renowned for the marvelous treasures that they produce as gifts or for trade. Dwarves are affiliated with the House Kundarak in Stormreach.


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Learn how to hide where photos or videos were taken using the new Google Photos. This article is for photos posted to Google+.
Show people who can see your photos where your pictures were taken by choosing to show location information.You can add locations to a photo manually or automatically, by turning on location services.
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"There will be only one tax measure" facing voters in November, Glazer asserted.
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The governor has raised more than $2 million dollars so far to gather signatures for his measure, which would boost the income tax on California's wealthiest residents and hike the sales tax by a half cent for everybody else. Much of that support has come from Indian gaming tribes and health care.
In fact, the latest reports show Kaiser Permanente chipped in $250,000, while the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians contributed $100,000.
There's little doubt that Brown will successfully gather the half-million valid voter signatures he needs to put his tax measure on the fall ballot.
It would raise an estimated $7 billion a year and is designed to prevent deep cuts to popular programs like public education.
But that measure is only half of a two-front war that the governor's team needs to fight.
While Brown was successful in convincing billionaire Nicholas Berggruen to temporarily shelve his Think Long Committee's tax proposal, others appear determined to move forward.
The California Federation of Teachers is pushing a so-called Millionaire's Tax to benefit public schools.
Its backers know that taxing the rich is, politically speaking, an easy sell. In fact, the group's web site says, "polling shows this initiative by far has the best chance with the electorate."
And then there's wealthy civil rights attorney Molly Munger, who told the California State PTA Monday in Sacramento that funding for California's schools is "a disaster."
Munger is bankrolling a measure that would raise $10 billion a year for schools by raising income taxes on most Californians.
She describes the current system of funding schools as a tragedy, and said personal passion is behind her efforts.
If Munger and the California Federation of Teachers don't back down, the state's voters will face a multiple choice test. And that doesn't bode well for Gov. Brown's plan.
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Negotiations with world powers over how to curb Iran's nuclear program have reached a "turning point" for the better after nearly breaking down last year, the Islamic republic's top official at diplomatic talks said Wednesday at the close of two days of delicate discussions aimed at preventing Tehran from building an atomic arsenal.
While still guardedly optimistic, the comments by Saeed Jalili, the secretary for Iran's Supreme National Security Council, marked a significant step forward in a years-long process that has been rife with suspicions and, if it fails, could lead to a new Mideast war. The Obama administration is pushing for diplomacy to solve the impasse but has not ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Iran to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Jalili said a new offer this week by the world powers to compromise is more realistic than what has been offered in the past. He described the new offer "including some relief from international sanctions" as a step to build confidence between the two sides after similar negotiations in Moscow were nearly derailed last June.
"In this round of talks we have witnessed that despite all the attitudes during the last eight months, they tried to get closer to our viewpoints," Jalili told reporters at the close of two days of talks in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, speaking through an interpreter. "We believe this is a turning point."
Jalili did not detail what the sanctions relief might include, or what Iran was willing to do to in exchange.
If they offer steps aimed at strengthening trust, this is important, he said. One important step is dealing with a series of crippling sanctions that the U.S., E.U. and U.N Security Council have imposed on Iran to try to force it to bend on its nuclear program. The sanctions have caused unemployment and inflation in Iran to skyrocket, while depressing its daily oil output and value of its currency, the rial.
A senior U.S. official at the talks said the offer included some sanctions relief - but not on Iran's oil and financial industries, where the measures have hit the hardest. The official declined to characterize what sanctions might be lifted, but said a number of the restrictions imposed by the U.S and E.U. would be suspended. Additionally, the U.N. Security Council and E.U. would impose no new sanctions against Iran.
In exchange, the U.S. official said, Iran would have to end any uranium enrichment that nears or reaches 20 percent. The official added that Iran would be required to restrict its current stockpile of enriched uranium to that level, which is just a few steps away from being ready for use as a nuclear warhead.
Tehran would also have to suspend enrichment at its underground Fordo facility and prevent it from being able to re-start that process quickly. U.N. inspectors also would also be given greater room to monitor Iran's nuclear program, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks more candidly.
The Iranian negotiators "appeared to listen carefully to the offer," the U.S. official said. There was no deadline on when the offer might expire, but the official warned that time is already running out for Tehran to accept it.
Jalili said the Iranian people remained defiant despite the punitive sanctions leveled against it.
Even in the economic area, the pressure they have talked about could not bring the results they were wishing, he said, speaking through an interpreter.
He would not budge on Iran's longtime insistence, and a main sticking point in the talks, that it has the right to enrich uranium to 20 percent.
"Whatever we need, we will of course pursue that - whether it is 5 percent or 20 percent," Jalili said. "It is important to us to have the 20 percent."
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is leading the negotiations, urged Iran to quickly respond to the offer because "we need to see the progress necessary for the confidence the international community needs."
"I hope the Iranians are looking positively on the proposals we put forward," Ashton said. "I believe in looking at what the results are."
Technical experts for each side will meet in Istanbul in mid-March to discuss the world powers' offer and the high-level diplomats will re-convene again April 5 in Almaty.
Senior U.S. diplomats have described technical expert negotiations as an especially useful and practical forum in which to clarify some of the more complex sticking points.
Off-and-on talks between Iran and the world powers - the United States, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany - began after the six offered Tehran a series of incentives in 2006 exchange for a commitment from Tehran to stop enrichment and other activities that could be used to develop weapons.
Tehran maintains it is enriching uranium only to make reactor fuel and medical isotopes, and insists it has a right to do so under international law. It has signaled it does not intend to stop, and U.N. nuclear inspectors last week confirmed Iran has begun a major upgrade of its program at the country's main uranium enrichment site.
Iran insists, as a starting point, that world powers must recognize the republic's right to enrich uranium. Tehran also has said shuttering Fordo is out of the question and that Iran first wants the U.N. Security Council to withdraw all of the sanctions it has heaped on the nation.
Iran has been unimpressed with earlier offers by the powers to provide it with medical isotopes and lift sanctions on spare parts for civilian airliners, and new bargaining chips that Tehran sees as minor are likely to be snubbed as well.
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Coding broadens the mind… and our future
But in the meantime, we don't have to forget how these technologies are promising and bring huge opportunities. It's going to shift jobs and emphasize added value of the human worker. Strenuous and hard works, risky jobs or degrading activities could be kicked out of the list of job offers. And of course social understanding, empathy or persuasion techniques are going to become relevant differentiators. Surveys and articles from famous instutitions like Harvard already inforce this view. Robotics companies like ours didn't wait this very « in the wind debate » to consider the importance of adopting rules and a code of conduct. Improve daily life of human is our first concern and still will be.
That said, we should really take time (and money of course) to build up a real politic of education and training plan in AI/Robotics. All around the world, but especially in USA, schools are trying to empower STEM learning for the young generations. After schools sessions, coding tournaments or local clubs are growing up and defend one simple idea : « you don't have to wait high school, and most of the time we're talking about expensive high schools and universities, to learn how to design and program a robot ». You'd be surprised to see what we can teach in robotics simply using bricks of Lego. You'd be surprised too seeing the infinite skills and passion we can showcase in 9-14 years old kids's hands.
We're going to need both teachers and students to follow the growth of AI and robotics in our society. If we're able to understand how the job market will change tomorrow, we also have to catch up with disruptive companies in robotics developing a training programm. Why should we keep teaching millions of people how to perform a job that we all know will disapear ? Private companies have no monopoly on anticipation and technology foresight. Authorities, public politics, industry and entrepreneurs can step along that road side by side. In education and on-job training, we have to go further.
That's why we've planned at Zora Bots to build up a robot academy in Europe (Oostende, BELGIUM). To gather under the same roof all the skills and support we may need tomorrow and already today to keep our economy powerfull and competitive. We'll soon have the opportunity to detail this project, but we have the inner kwowledge and the strong conviction that a part of the future depends of our capacity to align R&D and dissemination of knowledge.


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Images often account for most of the downloaded bytes on a web page and also often occupy a significant amount of visual space. As a result, optimizing images can often yield some of the largest byte savings and performance improvements for your website: the fewer bytes the browser has to download, the less competition there is for the client's bandwidth and the faster the browser can download and render useful content on the screen.
Image optimization is both an art and science: an art because there is no one definitive answer for how best to compress an individual image, and a science because there are many well developed techniques and algorithms that can significantly reduce the size of an image. Finding the optimal settings for your image requires careful analysis along many dimensions: format capabilities, content of encoded data, quality, pixel dimensions, and more.
Eliminating and replacing images
- Eliminate unnecessary image resources
- Leverage CSS3 effects where possible
- Use web fonts instead of encoding text in images
Next, you should consider if there is an alternative technology that could deliver the desired results, but in a more efficient manner:
- CSS effects (gradients, shadows, etc.) and CSS animations can be used to produce resolution-independent assets that always look sharp at every resolution and zoom level, often at a fraction of the bytes required by an image file.
- Web fonts enable use of beautiful typefaces while preserving the ability to select, search, and resize text - a significant improvement in usability.
If you ever find yourself encoding text in an image asset, stop and reconsider. Great typography is critical to good design, branding, and readability, but text-in-images delivers a poor user experience: the text is not selectable, not searchable, not zoomable, not accessible, and not friendly for high-DPI devices. The use of web fonts requires its own set of optimizations, but it addresses all of these concerns and is always a better choice for displaying text.
Vector vs. Raster images
- Vector images are ideal for images that consist of geometric shapes
- Vector images are zoom and resolution-independent
- Raster images should be used for complex scenes with lots of irregular shapes and details
Once you've determined that an image is, in fact, the optimal format to achieve the desired effect, the next critical choice is to select the appropriate format:
- Vector graphics use lines, points, and polygons to represent an image.
- Raster graphics represent an image by encoding the individual values of each pixel within a rectangular grid.
Each format has its own set of pros and cons. Vector formats are ideally suited for images that consist of simple geometric shapes (for example, logos, text, icons, and so on), and deliver sharp results at every resolution and zoom setting, which makes them an ideal format for high-resolution screens and assets that need to be displayed at varying sizes.
However, vector formats fall short when the scene is complicated (for example, a photo): the amount of SVG markup to describe all the shapes can be prohibitively high and the output may still not look "photorealistic". When that's the case, that's when you should be using a raster image format such as GIF, PNG, JPEG, or one of the newer formats such as JPEG-XR and WebP.
Raster images do not have the same nice properties of being resolution or zoom independent - when you scale up a raster image you'll see jagged and blurry graphics. As a result, you may need to save multiple versions of a raster image at various resolutions to deliver the optimal experience to your users.
Implications of high-resolution screens
- High resolution screens have multiple device pixels per CSS pixel
- High resolution images require significantly higher number of pixels and bytes
- Image optimization techniques are the same regardless of resolution
When we talk about image pixels, we need to distinguish between different kinds of pixels: CSS pixels and device pixels. A single CSS pixel may contain multiple device pixels - for example, a single CSS pixel may correspond directly to a single device pixel, or may be backed by multiple device pixels. What's the point? Well, the more device pixels there are, the finer the detail of the displayed content on the screen.
High DPI (HiDPI) screens produce beautiful results, but there is one obvious tradeoff: our image assets require more detail in order to take advantage of the higher device pixel counts. The good news is, vector images are ideally suited for this task, as they can be rendered at any resolution with sharp results - we might incur a higher processing cost to render the finer detail, but the underlying asset is the same and is resolution independent.
On the other hand, raster images pose a much larger challenge because they encode image data on a per-pixel basis. Hence, the larger the number of pixels, the larger the filesize of a raster image. As an example, let's consider the difference between a photo asset displayed at 100x100 (CSS) pixels:
|Screen resolution
|Total pixels
|Uncompressed filesize (4 bytes per pixel)
|100 x 100 = 10,000
|40,000 bytes
|100 x 100 x 4 = 40,000
|160,000 bytes
|100 x 100 x 9 = 90,000
|360,000 bytes
When we double the resolution of the physical screen, the total number of pixels increases by a factor of four: double the number of horizontal pixels, times double the number of vertical pixels. Hence, a "2x" screen not just doubles, but quadruples the number of required pixels!
So, what does this mean in practice? High resolution screens enable us to deliver beautiful images, which can be a great product feature. However, high resolution screens also require high-resolution images: prefer vector images whenever possible as they are resolution independent and always deliver sharp results, and if a raster image is required, deliver and optimize multiple variants of each image with the help of
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Optimizing vector images
- SVG is an XML-based image format
- SVG files should be minified to reduce their size
- SVG files should be compressed with GZIP
All modern browsers support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), which is an XML-based image format for two-dimensional graphics: we can embed the SVG markup directly on the page, or as an external resource. In turn, an SVG file can be created by most vector-based drawing software, or by hand and directly in your favorite text editor.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 17.1.0, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0) -->
<svg version="1.2" baseProfile="tiny" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 612 792" xml:space="preserve">
<g id="XMLID_1_">
<circle fill="red" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" stroke-miterlimit="10" cx="50" cy="50" r="40"/>
The above example renders a simple circle shape with a black outline and red background and was exported from Adobe Illustrator. As you can tell, it contains a lot of metadata, such as layer information, comments, and XML namespaces that are often unnecessary to render the asset in the browser. As a result, it is always a good idea to minify your SVG files by running through a tool like svgo.
Case in point, svgo reduces the size of the above SVG file generated by Illustrator by 58%, taking it from 470 to 199 bytes. Further, because SVG is an XML-based format, we can also apply GZIP compression to reduce its transfer size - make sure your server is configured to compress SVG assets!
Optimizing raster images
- A raster image is a grid of pixels
- Each pixel encodes color and transparency information
- Image compressors use a variety of techniques to reduce the number of required bits per pixel to reduce file size of the image
A raster image is simply a 2-dimensional grid of individual "pixels" - for example, a 100x100 pixel image is a sequence of 10,000 pixels. In turn, each pixel stores the "RGBA" values: (R) red channel, (G) green channel, (B) blue channel, and (A) alpha (transparency) channel.
Internally, the browser allocates 256 values (shades) for each channel, which translates to 8 bits per channel (2 ^ 8 = 256), and 4 bytes per pixel (4 channels x 8 bits = 32 bits = 4 bytes). As a result, if we know the dimensions of the grid we can easily calculate the filesize:
- 100 x 100px image is composed of 10,000 pixels
- 10,000 pixels x 4 bytes = 40,000 bytes
- 40,000 bytes / 1024 = 39 KB
|File size
|100 x 100
|200 x 200
|300 x 300
|500 x 500
|800 x 800
39KB for a 100x100 pixel image may not seem like a big deal, but the filesize quickly explodes for larger images and makes image assets both slow and expensive to download. Thankfully, what we've described so far is the "uncompressed" image format. What could we do to reduce the image file size?
One simple strategy is to reduce the "bit-depth" of the image from 8 bits per channel to a smaller color palette: 8 bits per channel gives us 256 values per channel and 16,777,216 (256 ^ 3) colors in total. What if we reduced the palette to 256 colors? Then we would only need 8 bits in total for the RGB channels and immediately save two bytes per pixel -- that's 50% compression savings over our original 4 bytes per pixel format!
Next, once we've optimized the data stored in individual pixels we could get more clever and look at nearby pixels as well: turns out, many images, and especially photos, have many nearby pixels with similar colors - for example, the sky, repeating textures, and so on. Using this information to our advantage the compressor can apply "delta encoding" where instead of storing the individual values for each pixel, we can store the difference between nearby pixels: if the adjacent pixels are the same, then the delta is "zero" and we only need to store a single bit! But why stop there...
The human eye has different level of sensitivity to different colors: we can optimize our color encoding to account for this by reducing or increasing the palette for those colors. "Nearby" pixels form a two dimensional grid, which means that each pixel has multiple neighbors: we can use this fact to further improve delta encoding. Instead of looking at just the immediate neighbors for each pixel, we can look at larger blocks of nearby pixels and encode different blocks with different settings. And so on...
As you can tell, image optimization gets complicated quickly (or fun, depending on your perspective), and is an active area of academic and commercial research. Images occupy a lot of bytes and there is a lot of value in developing better image compression techniques! If you're curious to learn more, head to the Wikipedia page, or check out the WebP compression techniques whitepaper for a hands-on example.
So, once again, this is all great, but also very academic: how does it help us optimize images on our pages? Well, we are definitely not in a position to invent new compression techniques, but it's important to understand the shape of the problem: RGBA pixels, bit-depth, and various optimization techniques. All of these concepts are critical to understand and keep in mind before we dive into the discussions of various raster image formats.
Lossless vs lossy image compression
- Due to how our eyes work, images are great candidates for lossy compression
- Image optimization is a function of lossy and lossless compression
- Differences in image formats are due to the difference in how and which lossy and lossless algorithms are used to optimize the image
- There is no single best format or "quality setting" for all images: each combination of particular compressor and image contents produce a unique output
For certain types of data, such as source code for a page, or an executable file, it is critical that a compressor does not alter or lose any of the original information: a single missing or wrong bit of data could completely change the meaning of the contents of the file, or worse, break it entirely. For some other types of data, such as images, audio, and video, it may be perfectly acceptable to deliver an "approximate" representation of the original data.
In fact, due to how the eye works, we can often get away with discarding some information about each pixel in order to reduce the filesize of an image - for example, our eyes have different sensitivity to different colors, which means that we can use fewer bits to encode some colors. As a result, a typical image optimization pipeline consists of two high level steps:
- Image is processed with a "lossy" filter that eliminates some pixel data
- Image is processed with a "lossless" filter that compresses the pixel data
The first step is optional, and the exact algorithm will depend on the particular image format, but it is important to understand that any image can undergo a lossy compression step to reduce its size. In fact, the difference between various image formats, such as GIF, PNG, JPEG, and others, is in the combination of the specific algorithms they use (or omit) when applying the lossy and lossless steps.
So, what is the "optimal" configuration of lossy and lossless optimization? The answer depends on the image contents and your own criteria such as the tradeoff between filesize and artifacts introduced by lossy compression: in some cases you may want to skip lossy optimization to communicate intricate detail in its full fidelity, and in others you may be able to apply aggressive lossy optimization to reduce the filesize of the image asset. This is where your own judgment and context need to come into play - there is no one universal setting.
As a hands-on example, when using a lossy format such as JPEG, the compressor will typically expose a customizable "quality" setting (for example, the quality slider provided by the "Save for Web" functionality in Adobe Photoshop), which is typically a number between 1 and 100 that controls the inner workings of the specific collection of lossy and lossless algorithms. For best results, experiment with various quality settings for your images, and don't be afraid to dial down the quality - the visual results are often very good and the filesize savings can be quite large.
Selecting the right image format
- Start by selecting the right universal format: GIF, PNG, JPEG
- Experiment and select the best settings for each format: quality, palette size, etc.
- Consider adding WebP and JPEG XR assets for modern clients
In addition to different lossy and lossless compression algorithms, different image formats support different features such as animation and transparency (alpha) channels. As a result, the choice of the "right format" for a particular image is a combination of desired visual results and functional requirements.
|Chrome, Opera, Android
There are three universally supported image formats: GIF, PNG, and JPEG. In addition to these formats, some browsers also support newer formats such as WebP and JPEG XR, which offer better overall compression and more features. So, which format should you use?
- Do you need animation? If so, GIF is the only universal choice.
- GIF limits the color palette to at most 256 colors, which makes it a poor choice for most images. Further, PNG-8 delivers better compression for images with a small palette. As a result, GIF is the right answer only when animation is required.
- Do you need to preserve fine detail with highest resolution? Use PNG.
- PNG does not apply any lossy compression algorithms beyond the choice of the size of the color palette. As a result, it will produce the highest quality image, but at a cost of significantly higher filesize than other formats. Use judiciously.
- If the image asset contains imagery composed of geometric shapes, consider converting it to a vector (SVG) format!
- If the image asset contains text, stop and reconsider. Text in images is not selectable, searchable, or "zoomable". If you need to convey a custom look (for branding or other reasons), use a web font instead.
- Are you optimizing a photo, screenshot, or a similar image asset? Use JPEG.
- JPEG uses a combination of lossy and lossless optimization to reduce filesize of the image asset. Try several JPEG quality levels to find the best quality vs. filesize tradeoff for your asset.
Finally, once you've determined the optimal image format and its settings for each of your assets, consider adding an additional variant encoded in WebP and JPEG XR. Both of these formats are new, and unfortunately are not (yet) universally supported by all browsers, but they can nonetheless provide significant savings for newer clients - for example, on average, WebP delivers a 30% filesize decrease over a comparable JPEG image.
Since neither WebP and JPEG XR are universally supported, you will need to add additional logic to your application or servers to serve the appropriate resource:
- Some CDNs provide image optimization as a service, including JPEG XR and WebP delivery.
- Some open-source tools (for example, PageSpeed for Apache or Nginx) automate the optimization, conversion, and serving of appropriate assets.
- You can add additional application logic to detect the client, check which formats they support, and serve the best available image format.
Finally, note that if you are using a Webview to render content in your native application, then you have full control of the client and can use WebP exclusively! Facebook, Google+ and many others use WebP to deliver all of their images within their applications - the savings are definitely worth it. To learn more about WebP, checkout the WebP: Deploying Faster, Smaller, and More Beautiful Images presentation from Google I/O 2013.
Tools and parameter tuning
There is no one perfect image format, tool, or a set of optimization parameters that apply to all images. For best results you will have to pick the format and its settings depending on the contents of the image, and its visual and other technical requirements.
|create and optimize GIF images
|optimize JPEG images
|lossless PNG optimization
|lossy PNG optimization
Don't be afraid to experiment with parameters of each compressor. Dial down the quality, see how it looks, then rinse, lather and repeat. Once you've found a good set of settings, you can apply them to other similar images on your site, but don't assume that all images must be compressed with the same settings.
Delivering scaled image assets
- Delivering scaled assets is one of the simplest and most effective optimizations
- Pay close attention to large assets as they result in high overhead
- Reduce the number of unnecessary pixels by scaling your images to their display size
Image optimization boils down to two criteria: optimizing the number of bytes used to encode each image pixel, and optimizing the total number of pixels: the filesize of the image is simply the total number of pixels times the number of bytes used to encode each pixel. Nothing more, nothing less.
As a result, one of the simplest and most effective image optimization techniques is to ensure that we are not shipping any more pixels than needed to display the asset at its intended size in the browser. Sounds simple, right? Unfortunately, most pages fail this test for many of their image assets: typically, they ship larger assets and rely on the browser to rescale them - which also consumes extra CPU resources - and display them at a lower resolution.
The overhead of shipping unnecessary pixels, only to have the browser rescale the image on our behalf, is a big missed opportunity to reduce and optimize the total number of bytes required to render the page. Further, note that resizing is not simply a function of the number of pixels by which the image is reduced by, but also of its natural size.
|Screen resolution
|Natural size
|Display size (CSS px)
|Unnecessary pixels
|110 x 110
|100 x 100
|110 x 110 - 100 x 100 = 2100
|410 x 410
|400 x 400
|410 x 410 - 400 x 400 = 8100
|810 x 810
|800 x 800
|810 x 810 - 800 x 800 = 16100
|220 x 220
|100 x 100
|220 x 220 - (2 x 100) x (2 x 100) = 8400
|820 x 820
|400 x 400
|820 x 820 - (2 x 400) x (2 x 400) = 32400
|1620 x 1620
|800 x 800
|1620 x 1620 - (2 x 800) x (2 x 800) = 64400
Note that in all of the cases above the display size is "only 10 CSS pixels smaller" than the required asset for each screen resolution. However, the number of extra pixels, and their associated overhead, rises rapidly as the display dimensions of the image increase! As a result, while you may not be able to guarantee that every single asset is delivered at the exact display size, you should ensure that the number of unnecessary pixels is minimal, and that your large assets in particular are delivered as close as possible to their display size.
Image optimization checklist
Image optimization is both an art and a science: an art because there is no one definitive answer for how to best compress an individual image, and a science because there are well-developed techniques and algorithms that can help significantly reduce the size of an image.
Some tips and techniques to keep in mind as you work on optimizing your images:
- Prefer vector formats: vector images are resolution and scale independent, which makes them a perfect fit for the multi-device and high-resolution world.
- Minify and compress SVG assets: XML markup produced by most drawing applications often contains unnecessary metadata which can be removed; ensure that your servers are configured to apply GZIP compression for SVG assets.
- Pick best raster image format: determine your functional requirements and select the one that suits each particular asset.
- Experiment with optimal quality settings for raster formats: don't be afraid to dial down the "quality" settings, the results are often very good and byte savings are significant.
- Remove unnecessary image metadata: many raster images contain unnecessary metadata about the asset: geo information, camera information, and so on. Use appropriate tools to strip this data.
- Serve scaled images: resize images on the server and ensure that the "display" size is as close as possible to the "natural" size of the image. Pay close attention to large images in particular, as they account for largest overhead when resized!
- Automate, automate, automate: invest into automated tools and infrastructure that will ensure that all of your image assets are always optimized.


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Duncan McDonell, a son of Alexander John and Ellen (McPherson) McDonell, was born about 1842 in Lower Canada which refers to Quebec. He married Elizabeth Sauve on the 27th of February 1865 at the St. Alphonsus Church. Elizabeth was born about 1846/47 per census information. (#M6, FHL#1029798)
Her parents were probably Clement Sauve and Marie Blandon but this is not for certain because the marriage record of Duncan and Elizabeth housed at the St. Alphonsus church does not list the couples' parents like the majority of the records of that church.
Duncan McDonell died the 6th of May 1910 and was buried in the St. Alphonsus Cemetery on 8 May 1910 (Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial Records #1311). Elizabeth died about 1924.
There are descendants who are living and the compiler has had the honor of visiting with them and getting to know them. They are my father Keith's cousins. A family tree was supplied by one of the living cousin's so some of the following information came from her and I do not know where she obtained her information. The compiler of this post and blog has done some research on the Duncan McDonell family but not in-depth, so it is strongly advised that you use the information descendant chart as a guide only.
According to my cousin, Duncan and Elizabeth (Bettsie) McDonell had 15 children?
(1) Mary Elizabeth McDonell born 29 July 1865, baptized the 30th of July 1865. (#B66, FHL#1029798). Mary Elizabeth did not marry. She does appear in the 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 census (See census below).
(2) John McDonell born 25 July 1866, baptized the 29th of July 1866. (#B82, FHL#1029798). John appears in the 1871 census as 4 years old. A John M. is found in the 1881 census also 4 years old? This means the 2nd John may have been born in 1877?
(3) Rose Ann Ellen McDonell born 12 May 1868, baptized 9 June 1868. (#B51, FHL#1029798). She may have married a Thomas William Leahey and had at least one child: Willietta Leahy. She appears in the 1871, 1881 and 1891 census.
(4) Alexander Clement McDonell born 1870 and died 28 March 1892 and was buried 30 March 1892. He may have had a nickname of "Clemo." (#1332. pg. 90, #1332 Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial Registrations)
(5) Robert Roland McDonell born the 14th of January, 1872, baptized on the 26th of March 1872 (#B34, FHL#1029798) and died the 30th of January 1965 in California. He married a Celina Catherine Gray on 4 April 1910 (#M3, pg. 67 FHL#2030662) and they migrated to Minnesota. Robert and Catherine will be further discussed in a future post. Catherine's parents were Alexander Francis Gray and Catherine Alponsine Maloney. There is some confusion about Ronald's name. He may have been called "Donald." He appears in the 1881 and 1891 census.
(6) Euralia McDonell born in December of 1873, baptized 22 December 1873. (#B73, FHL#1029798). She appears in the 1881 and 1891 census but her name is spelled very oddly.
(7) Anonymous McDonell died 15 Sep 1875, buried 16 Sep, 1875 (#1307, pg. 89 Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial Records).
(8) Theresa Jane McDonell born 1 January 1876, baptized 16 January 1876. (#B6, FHL#1304675). It is said she never married. She appears in the 1881 and 1891 census.
(9) Ambrose McDonell born about 1877 in Quebec. UPDATE 6/29/2016
Might have married Gray Annie. Ambrose married Mary Jane McCarthy on 18 August, 1902 in Assumption, North Bay, Nipissing, Ontario. They had eleven children. He does not appear in the 1881 census but he does in the 1891. Ambrose appears in the 1891 census for Duncan and Elizabeth. He appears again in the 1901 census. According to descendants who found this blog, he migrated to Saskatchewan and settled there. He appears in the 1916 census with his family near the Hugh & Theresa Downey family in Humbolt, Saskatchewan. He migrates again and is in Ayr, SK in the 1921 census. Ambrose and Mary are buried in the St. Patrick Cemetery in Leroy, SK near Hugh and Theresa Downey and other family members. Descendants live in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
(10) James McDonell born 3 August 1879 (#B51, FHL#1304675). James appears in the 1881 and 1891 census.
(11) Aimee McDonell born after 1879 and may have married a man by the name of Cecil. This child does not appear in any census with the family or does any record of marriage or death appear?
(12) George Eugene McDonell born 8 May 1881, baptized 26 May 1881 (#B44, FHL#1304675) and died 1 December 1909 and was buried on 3 December 1909. (#1314, Pg. 89 Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial Records.) George appears in the 1891 and 1901 census with the family.
(13) Marcella McDonell born 26 April 1883. (#B13, FHL#1304675). Marcella appears in the 1891 and 1901 census.
(14) Susan Mary Harriett McDonell born 16 August 1887, baptized 20 September 1887 (#B67, FHL#1304675). She was buried 23 March 1914. (#1319, pg. 89, Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial Records ). Elizabeth, her mother, was 40 years old at this child's birth?
(15) Steven/Stephen McDonell born about 1890 and died 18 May 1955. (#A430, pg. 19 Cemetery Inscriptions and Burial Records) He married a Mary Lepine on the 25th of April 1917. She was the daughter of Oliver Lepine and Helene Ranger. (#M7, pg. 52, FHL#2030662). Also listed in the book: Marriages Du Comte De Pontiac 1836-1973. Elizabeth, his mother, would have been 43 years old by the time Steven was born, so this might be stretching things; however, the census for 1891 has a Steven listed with the family.
Stephen and Mary (Lepine) McDonald had 11 children. Some of these children may still be living so I have edited the information and since I cannot compare to the census realize this is very rough:
(1) Mary E. M. McDonald born 17 September 1918 and died about 1920. (#B53 FHL#2030662, pg. 47).
(2) Mary S.C. McDonald baptized 16 February 1920. Mary may have married a Winkle.
(3) Jean McDonald born May 1922 and died in the summer of 1998. She may have married a Peaver.
(4) Twin – Cecil McDonald b. unknown, died March 1945.
(5) Twin – Lorina McDonald b. unknown, died March 1945.
(6) Irene McDonald b. unknown, died 1923. May have married a Heatherington
(7) Wilbert McDonald born 1925, died 1989. He may have married a Fleury.
(8) Kempton G. McDonald born 1928. Married a Todd and have five children.
(9) Helen birth unknown, may have married a Chase/Caisgrain.
(10) Renia born 1931 may have married a Calhoun.
(11) Shirley born 14 March 1934 and may have married a Balinger and had one daughter.
UPDATE 6/20/2013 – I did not include Joseph McDonald who appears in the 1901 Census about 3 years old.
(16) Joseph M. McDonell born 3 April 1898 (suspect date) , Quebec, he married Clara Alphonse Laplante daughter of John and Alphonsine Lecuyer, on 9 Aug. 1924 at the Immaculate Conception, Massey, Sudbury, Ontario (provided by cousins June 2013).
Duncan appears in the 1861 census with his family and sister Mary, Keith's grandmother. That census has been featured in the post dated: November 11, 2010 "Mary McDonell, Archie's Future Bride – 1861!
Please consult the census pages for more details on the family for the following is just a short summary.
The 1871 Canadian Census has Duncan and Elizabeth building a family:
Duncan McDonell is 28 years old, Scotch background, a laborer, and married. Dwelling location 76, house #15/16. Next is Elizabeth, 26 years old, French, married. Mary Elizabeth 5 yrs., John 4 yrs., Rose Ellen, 2 yrs., Alexander 1 yr. All Scottish. All born in Quebec and all Catholic. Source: 1871 Canadian Census, Chichester Twp., district 91, So. Pontiac, Film #0493443, pg. 22″
The 1881 Canadian Census reveals more of the Duncan and Elizabeth McDonell family:
Line 9, 98, 101, McDonell, Duncan, M. age 39, Catholic, Scottish, laborer, Elizabeth, F, age 25, Catholic, French. Mary, F, age 15. Rose Ellen, F, age 12. Alexander, M, age 11. Ronald, M, age 9. [Nanania], F, age 7. Teresa, F, age 5, John, M, age 4. James, M, age 2. All Catholic, and all born in Quebec. Source: 1881 Canadian Census, Pontiac Co., District 98, pg. 27, Ancestry.com.
The 1891 Canadian Census gives the following information:
McDonald, Duncan, M, 49 yrs, Married, Quebec?, parents born in Ont. both, farm, labourer. Elizabeth, F, 46 years, Married, wife, born in Ont, French Canadian, parents both born in Ont.. Elizabeth, 26, daughter, born in Quebec, parents born in Quebec. Rosa, 23 yrs old, daughter, born in Quebec, parents born in Quebec. Clement, male, 21 yrs old, son born in Quebec, laborer. Ronald, male, 19 yrs old, son, born in Quebec, laborer. [Vrnia], female, 17 years old, daughter, born in Quebec. Teresa, female, 16 yrs. old, daughter born in Quebec. Ambrose, male, 14 yrs old, son born in Quebec. James, male, 12 yrs. old, son, born in Quebec. George, male, 10 yrs. old, son, born in Quebec. 2nd pg. McDonald, Marcia, Female, 8 yrs. old, daughter born in Quebec. R.C. (Roman Catholic). Susan, female, 3 yrs old., daughter born in Quebec. Steven, male, one yr. old, son born in Quebec. Source: 1891 Canadian Census, Chichester, Pontiac Co., Quebec, Canadian Film #T6413 pg. 1-30.
The 1901 Canadian Census gives more detail but is very hard to read, here is a summary.
Line 4, 05, [92], McDonald, Duncan, M, Head, [10 Mois 1862] age 58, married, laborer, Elizabeth F, wife, M, 14 Sept. 1845, age 55. Elizabeth F, daughter, S, 27 July 1866 age 34. Ambrose, M, son, S, 28 Jany 1876, age 24, laborer. James, M, son, S, 4 May 1878, age 22. George, M, son, S, 8 April 1880, age 20, Marcellan F, daughter, S, 24 April 1882, age 18. Susan, F, daughter, S, 15 Aug 1886, age 14. Stephen, M, son, S, 29 Jan 1889, age 11. Joseph M, son, S, 3 April 1898. All born in Quebec, all Scottish. Source: 1901 Canadian Census, Quebec, Pontiac Co., Chichester Twp. pg. 12, District 2, S. District 180? Reading Duncan's birth information was very difficult. I do not think he was born in 1862 more like 1842 since he appears in the 1861 census.
By 1911 Duncan has died and Elizabeth is alone with one of her son's and a grandson and they are listed as Irish?
Line 23, 62, 64, McDonald, Elizabeth, Chichester, F, Head, W, Sept, 1846, age 65, Irish, no occupation, Stephen, M, Son, Jan 1890, age 21, laborer. Joseph, M, grandson, April 1899, age 12, no occupation. Source: 1911 Canadian Census, Quebec, Pontiac Co., Chichester Twp., pg. 8, 185 Pontiac, S. Dist. No. 6, ED #1. I do not know who Joseph's parents are!
Based on the information presented it becomes apparent that Duncan and Elizabeth may have a lot of children but there really wasn't that many descendants. Eight of the children did not have children. There are three of the children that are questionable and more research is needed, so that leaves 4 children that had descendants: Robert, Rose, Ambrose and Steven. Now the estate file for Duncan has not been consulted and that might reveal more of the family relationships. Land records have also not been consulted at this time.
Update 6/20/2013: I am not happy with the list of Duncan's children. Elizabeth is too old to have some of them. So I need to revisit this and confirm my findings
Note: Please note that the name Sauve may have an accent over the last letter: Sauve´. There are other possible spellings of the name like "Sauvier" and/or "Thauvier."


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Washington D.C., Apr 11, 2012 / 04:13 am MT ().- A recent study of men and women who professed perpetual vows in 2011 shows that new members of religious orders are younger and more educated than those in the past.
"We are encouraged by the report's findings that men and women are considering a vocation at a younger age," said Mercy Sister Mary Joanna Ruhland, associate director of the U.S. bishops' secretariat of vocations and consecrated life.
"As the Catholics recognize their responsibility to build a vocation culture in its parishes, schools and families, children and youth are being introduced to the various vocations in the Church," she said in an April 5 statement.
"This helps them respond to God's love and will generously and willingly."
A recently-released study, conducted by Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, surveyed men and women religious who were incorporated into religious communities in 2011.
The survey, commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, found that the average age of women professing perpetual vows in 2011 was 39. This is four years younger than those from the previous year.
Men entering religious orders, who were included for the first time on the 2011 study, averaged 42 years in age.
In addition, respondents reported that they first thought about a religious vocation at a younger age than last year's class. On average, survey participants first considered a vocation to religious life when they were 19 years old, although half did so at age 17 or younger.
Those entering religious orders in 2011 were also highly educated. Almost 60 percent had earned at least a bachelor's degree, and 16 percent had earned a graduate degree as well.
Sixty-five percent of survey respondents identified themselves as white, while 19 percent identified as Asian and nine percent identified as Hispanic. The U.S. bishops have recently commissioned a survey on Hispanic vocations, to determine why the group is under-represented.
Ninety-four percent of respondents said that they have been Catholic since birth, and almost 80 percent come from families in which both parents are Catholic. Almost half of those surveyed attended a Catholic elementary school, and nearly all said that they regularly participated in some kind of private prayer activity before entering their religious institute.
Members of the Class of 2011 come from a variety of backgrounds and have overcome various challenges to make their perpetual vows.
Sr. Emma Calvo, OP, said that she "felt the desire to belong totally to God" since she was eight years old, while Sr. Wanda Szymanko was engaged to be married when she "re-experienced the call to religious life."
Sr. Roseli Oliveira overcame the challenge of initially lacking the support of some her family members in her vocation, while Br. Damien Evangelista experienced a "crisis of faith" and stopped practicing his faith for several years in his mid-20s before finding his way back to Christ.
The newly-professed men and women will now use their diverse talents to serve God and his people in a variety of ways.
"Religious sisters, priests and brothers are treasured by the Church, and we support their sacred commitment to be poor, chaste and obedient in imitation of Christ and at his service," said Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis.
The archbishop, who chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, explained that the religious help us "set our heart's goal not on this life, but on eternal life."
"In a world where human frailty is acutely felt, they remind us of God and bring Christ's redemptive love to all they meet," he said.
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Just six games to go and so few points separate those towards the foot of the table. Little wonder Coaches, players and fans alike will endure sleepless nights in the upcoming weeks. Of the three relegation spots, two look finalised. Cesena's fate could be sealed next time out and Novara are not too far off. On 21 and 25 points respectively, their Serie A stints are all but over. Yet for a number of teams just above, that one remaining spot is the poison chalice.
Lecce (34 points) currently lie in the final relegation spot. Their revival under the cap-wearing master motivator Serse Cosmi has dragged the Salentini nearly clear of the mire and offered a chance at safety. That looked to dissipate with a run of five matches without a win, but Lecce showed their willingness to fight with successive victories versus Roma and – quite dramatically – Catania.
David Di Michele and Luis Muriel form a dangerous attacking partnership and have netted just under half of Lecce's 37 season goals, whilst Cosmi can rely on a settled line-up which has remained relatively injury-free. Their run home includes a potential decider with Fiorentina, but also trips to Lazio and the Juventus Stadium.
Genoa (36) appear in freefall and President Enrico Preziosi is hoping Alberto Malesani – the man he lost faith in last December – can lead the Grifoni to safety. The President claims he sacked Pasquale Marino because "the team had totally lost confidence" but having called it one of the best squads ever assembled under his reign in September, Genoa have not won in nine matches. The last of which, a home draw with Cesena, caused 300 fans to protest outside the stadium. Preziosi wants the club to remain united as they end with a run which includes trips to Milan and Udinese. Only the two bottom clubs have lost more times on the road.
Fiorentina (37) – to the surprise of many – ended a four-match winless streak away at Milan to boost their survival bid. That win was followed by a draw against Palermo and has given added confidence to a flagging team. In the run home they face Champions League-chasing Inter and Roma, with Delio Rossi conceding they will need more perfect games to take the points. Rossi also notes their ultimate destiny could rest in the final fortnight when Fiorentina travel to Lecce before hosting Cagliari. The tactician does not believe numerous fan protests in Florence is a huge worry for the team.
"I don't see this issue and I'd always want to play at home. There are a few players who perhaps suffer the pressure of the home fans, but we are talking about stupid excuses."
Hoping to avoid leaving their fate until the final rounds are Parma, Cagliari (both 38) and Siena (39). Parma have been inconsistent of late but have won two of their past three, with crucial upcoming battles against Cagliari and Lecce looming. The Sardinians relinquished home ground advantage and must negotiate the season conclusion far from home and with three relegation rivals on the horizon. Finally, Siena will look to secure their Serie A status before taking on Milan, Lazio and Napoli.
The Scudetto pursuit may take most of the headlines but for some fans the fight to finish 17th is a lot more valuable. With a number of direct showdowns to take place in the remaining six rounds, the struggle to avoid Serie B will provide plenty of anxiety as one club must join Cesena and Novara in waving goodbye.


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Updated: Post-Election Vote Count: Berkeley's Measure T Is Losing by More Than 400 Votes; Measure S is Firmly Defeated
Tuesday update: Measure T still lags; has little chance of passing
About 2400-2500 more votes were counted today by the Registrar in Oakland. Measure T picked up only 5 votes, reducing its vote deficit from 472 to 467. But with the count expected to be largely over tomorrow, there is little likelihood that the measure will pass.
Measure T is the only undecided race in Berkeley. Measure S, the anti-sitting measure, is now losing by over 2000 votes, a 52% to 48% margin. Measure N, the pools bond measure, has 62.3%, well short of the required two-thirds. Rent board candidates Judy Shelton, Asa Dodsworth and Alejandro Soto-Vigil from the Progressive Affordable Housing slate, and Judy Hunt from the landlord-financed TUFF slate appear to have been elected. There is a small chance that Igor Tregub, the fourth member of the progressive slate will catch up with Soto-Vigil, who leads him by 155 votes for fourth place. At one point in the count, Tregub was only 13 votes behind Soto-Vigil.
About 21,000 ballots of Berkeley voters have been counted since Election Day. For the first time in a presidential election, a majority of ballots cast in Berkeley were vote by mail ballots.
Measure B1, the county transportation sales tax measure, inched closer to the required two-thirds, It now has 66.19%. It's uncertain if enough votes remain to be counted in transit-supportive areas of Berkeley and Oakland to reach two-thirds.
Monday afternoon update: Measure T continues to fall behind
The Registrar of Voters continued counting votes despite the holiday.
Measure T, the West Berkeley upzoning measure, is now behind by 472 votes, up from yesterday's 440 vote deficit.
Something over 1600 votes were counted today.
At the end of election night, T was behind by only 123 votes (50.19% to 49.18%). T was briefly ahead, by 5 votes, after the the first three days of post-election counting, but its lead disappeared with Friday's count of a huge batch of absentee votes, and the measure has fallen further behind in the last two days counting of smaller batches of votes.
If turnout this year was as high as in 2008, there could be another 6,000 or 7,000 votes on T to count, including provisionals. Provisionals have typically been similar to votes cast at the polls, which this year favored the No on T position 52% to 48%. The remaining absentees, if there are any, would have to break very strongly for T for it to pass, and that has not happened in any of the batches of votes counted to date.
No: 23,728 (50.50%)
Yes: 23,256 (49.50%)
Today's margin: 472
Yesterday's margin 440
SUNDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Measures S and T still losing after Sunday count
Probably not more than 1000 more Berkeley absentees were counted today; 10,000 were counted yesterday. The goal was to finish the count today. Citywide turnout and totals for Mayoral and District 5 Council contests are still well below 2008. There are a reported 40,000 provisionals still to count countywide. Roughly 10% of total votes in the county came from Berkeley in 2008 and 2010. Provisional ballots are typically similar to votes cast at the polls.
Measure T margin: 440 votes ; up from 426 yesterday
No: 23,131 (50.48%)
Yes: 22,691 (49.52%)
Measure S margin: 1583 votes; up from 1407 yesterday
No: 25,191 (51.62%)
Yes: 23,608 (48.38%)
Rent Board:
Soto-Vigil is now ahead of Tregub by 13 votes (was 15). He is now ahead of Drake by 1102 votes (was 978).
SATURDAY UPDATE: Measure T is 426 votes behind, Measure S defeated
With Saturday's update to the vote count, Measure T is now losing 22,692 (50.47%) to 22,266 (49.53%). At the end of election night, it was losing 50.19% to 49.81%. Absentee votes counted after the election to date are less supportive of T than the election night count, though more supportive than the votes cast at the polls on Election Day.
About 10,000 more absentee ballots were counted on Saturday and it is now clear that Measure S, the anti-sitting measure, has been defeated. No: 24,618 (51.47); Yes: 23,211 (48.53%). Votes remaining to be counted, including provisionals, are not going to erase a 1400 vote deficit.
Saturday's large update had a smaller percentage of votes from the hills and a higher percentage from the flats, the reverse of Friday's count. About 16,000 absentees have now been counted; there may be several thousand left, but they are not likely to change the outcome. Remaining absentee ballots should be counted Sunday, and an update would presumably be posted on the county Registrar of Voter's Web site by the end of the day. The Registrar had said that the absentee count would be completed by Sunday.
Incumbent rent board commissioner Nicole Drake, who ran for re-election on the landlord-financed TUFF slate, is still in sixth place, 978 votes behind Alejandro Soto-Vigil and has no realistic chance of picking up enough votes to come in fourth. Incumbent Igor Tregub, like Soto-Vigil a member of the Progressive Affordable Housing Slate, in fifth place, is now only 15 votes behind Soto-Vigil and might overtake him in the remaining count.
Measure N, the pools bond, while it gained in Saturday's count, is still well short of the required two-thirds, with 62.33% yes. It also doesn't look good for county measure B1, the half cent sales tax increase to fund transportation projects, It now has 65.31%, but also needs two-thirds. Berkeley voters supported the measure but it had less support in the southern and eastern parts of Alameda County. There are, however, 40,000 provisional votes still to be counted countywide, in addition to the remaining absentees.
UPDATE, Friday afternoon: Measure T now up by 5 votes; Measure S losing by 759 votes
More than more 2500 absentee ballots were counted today. The large majority came from Districts 5 and 6. Measure S is still losing, but the margin is 759 votes today; it was 981 yesterday. Odds that Measure S will pass did not improve as many of these votes come from the part of the City where support for Measure S was almost certainly greatest. Berkeleyside reports that the Registrar expects to complete the absentee count by Sunday which suggests that there are probably not a huge number of absentee ballots remaining. Provisional ballots, which will be counted next week, are likely to increase the margin for No on S. No on T is also likely to benefit from provisionals since they typically are similar to votes cast at the polls. But the margin for Yes on T may increase when the remaining absentees are counted. It's likely to be close.
The Yes on Measure S campaign raised over $100,000. most of it in large donations, based on filings that can be viewed online. No on Measure S raised less than $20,000.
About 2200 absentee ballots cast by Berkeley voters were counted on Wednesday and Thursday. Measure T, the West Berkeley upzoning measure, now is leading by a single vote, 16640 to 16639. It had been behind by 123 votes when Election Day counting of votes ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Votes counted on Election Day include initial absentees received before election day and votes cast at the polls. Still to be counted are many absentee ballots turned in at polling places and provisional ballots.
How many Berkeley ballots remain? Unfortunately the County has only said that, countywide, as of Wednesday, 85,000 vote by mail ballots and 40,000 provisional ballots remained to be counted.
In the 2008 presidential election, 66,703 votes were cast in Berkeley, up from 60,818 in 2004 and 54,684 in 2000.
In 2008, 56,270 votes were cast for mayoral candidates. This year, to date, only 34,689 votes have been counted for the six mayoral candidates whose names appeared on the ballot. So it's possible that 15,000 to 20,000 votes have yet to be counted. Even if turnout was below that of 2004, there would still be thousands more votes to count.
Measure S
(as of 4:24 p.m. Nov 8)
Yes: 17,273 (48.62%)
No: 18, 254 (51.38%)
Measure S is still losing; the margin at the end of Thursday's counting was 981 votes down from a margin of 1055 votes at the end of Election Day.
Initial absentee votes, released within an hour after the polls closed, favored Measure S by a 58% to 42% margin. Votes cast at the polls, however, favored the NO position by a 57% to 43% margin.
The votes counted since Election Day favor Measure S by a 52% to 48% margin. If this margin persists with the remaining absentee ballots, then Measure S will certainly fail. Measure S picked up only 74 votes from the count of over 2000. In addition, provisional ballots, which have yet to be counted, have in previous elections, been similar to other votes cast at the polls, and should add to Measure S's shortfall.
Measure S was clearly the hottest local issue on this year's ballot. Of the votes counted to date, 35,527 votes were cast pro or con Measure S. The next most voted-on measure, Measure M, the Streets and Watershed Bond, now has a total of 34,482. Measure V, The Facts Ordinance, at the tail end of one of the ballot cards, attracted only 29,891 voters. In the votes counted to date, more people voted on S than voted for a mayoral candidate. Mayoral votes total 34,768 so far with write-ins included.
Measure T
(as of 4:24 p.m. Nov 8)
Yes: 16640 (50.00%)
No: 16639 (50.00%)
Absentees counted since Election Day are favoring Measure T by a 53.7% to 46.3% margin, a bit higher than the margin found in the initial absentees reported on election night. If this margin continues, Measure T is likely to pass.
Provisional ballots remain to be counted and they are likely to reduce the margin of Yes votes, since voters who voted at their polling place opposed Measure T by a 52% to 48% margin. However, there are certainly more absentees than provisional votes yet to be counted.
Rent Board – 4 seats
(as of 4:24 p.m. Nov 8)
Judy Shelton 13009
Judy Hunt 12165
Asa Dodsworth 11449
Alejandro Soto-Vigil 10893
Igor Tregub 10787
Nicole Drake 10380
Kiran Shenoy 8849
Jay James 7533
Nicole Drake of the landlord-financed TUFF slate, is behind Alejandro Soto-Vigil of the Progressive Affordable Housing slate, currently in fourth place, by 513 votes. Drake narrowed the margin between her and Soto-Vigil by only 58 votes in counting on Wednesday and Thursday. Soto-Vigil is likely to do better than Drake among provisional voters, so Drake is unlikely to overtake Soto-Vigil unless the remaining absentees are a lot more favorable to her. She was in the top four in the initial absentees, but slid to sixth place when votes cast at the polls were counted.
Measures N and O – Pools
There is little chance that either the bond measure or the parcel tax for the pools will achieve the required a two-thirds vote. At the end of election night, Measure N had 62.1% but, with the latest count, the measure is slightly further behind, at 62.0%. Measure O is even further behind with 59.5%.
Alameda County Measure B1 –Transportation Sales Tax
With the latest count, the measure now has 65.38% but needs two-thirds. This measure received the required two-thirds in all but one precinct in Berkeley (a District 6 hills precinct), and did well in most of Oakland so the more Berkeley and Oakland votes that remain to be counted, the better its chances.


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Riesling Report: Stein Blauschiefer Riesling Trocken 2009
July is riesling month! We're drinking it all month long...and maybe longer. Got a favorite riesling? Recommend it in the comments!
Importer Dan Melia showed up at SEHQ with an open bottle of this lovely Mosel wine. But this is a bottle that says drink me now even if the cork isn't yet popped.
Blauschiefer means blue slate, and this is one of those wines that's equal parts gossamer oyster-shell minerality and zingy tart fruit—it's all about the acidity, but the wine is still somehow soft.
It's only 11% ABV, and so refreshing, gulpable, all crystallized lemon and chalk, just a whiff of peach and super-delicate herbs. The floral notes are powdery, and though the wine is precise and acidity-driven, it's not aggressive.
There's a salinity to this wine—not like seawater but like the salty wind on the beach. Drink it with clams, barely-cooked or cured salmon, arctic char, or prosciutto. You might need two bottles.
Around $18, sample provided for review.
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Friday, April 6, 2012
It Was a Big, Long Game for J.P.
You could ask Shin Soo Choo about it, given the diving tag that J.P. made on his spikes to end the third, followed by the low throw on the first base side of second that caught Choo stealing to end the sixth.
And when a Luis Perez pitch buzzed Choo in the 15th, Arencibia got between the disgruntled hitter and the pitcher quickly enough to help defuse the situation. It looked to us as though Perez was ready to throw down, too. But the Jays needed his arm on the mound, because who the heck knows how long that game was going to go.
Finally, it bears noting that after a four-run outburst in the second, Arencibia spent a lot of time talking Ricky Romero through his last three innings of work, and helped guide him and seven more pitchers -- yes, the entirety of the Blue Jays bullpen -- through a total of 14 straight scoreless innings. All in a long day's work.
A few other impressions: It was a long day at the plate for Colby Rasmus, though he did hit the ball hard a few times for outs. Hopefully, that diving catch (which might have been a game changer in retrospect) is what sticks in the minds of most fans...Edwin Encarnacion crushed that ball in what turned out to be a game-tying double. We can't really hate on him for admiring his shot and his bat flip, nor getting caught off base on a sharp grounder in that same inning...Speaking of admiration of one's work, what was Rajai Davis doing watching that ugly bunt? We shouldn't need to reiterate our feelings on small ball to you all, but suffice to say, it sucks...It also looks like it might be a long few months in the field for Eric Thames. For all of the talk about his improvement in the field, he did not look sharp at all yesterday...José Bautista at first base? The late inning shift foreshadows a move that we suspect he'll make in the next few years.
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Not to be accused of being a Colby Rasmus apologist, but I recall he squared up a couple balls off Masterson, being one of the few Jays to actualy drive the ball in the air. Just got BABIP'd.
- April 6, 2012 at 12:35 PM
I'd say the guy who had the worst day at the plate was Brett Lawrie. I don't think he hit anything as hard as Rasmus did.
- April 6, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- MaskedApe said...
Besides Bautista, everyone was just free swinging a la Kirby Puckett.
Escobar may have looked the worst...
- April 6, 2012 at 2:10 PM
If this is what we have to look forward to from Thames in the field, I think a lot of people are going to be calling for Snider to replace him! Thames looked pretty awful in the field yesterday
- April 6, 2012 at 2:30 PM
It was far from a masterpiece, what with the numerous brain farts already mentioned, but hats off to the bullpen, 1 thru' 7, for a real ballsy effort. It was a sweet first victory, a new MLB record, and Farrell made some very proactive and most un-Cito-like moves that paid off big time.
- April 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM
Nothing wrong with small ball if executed correctly. As for Lawrie, the book is circulating on him.
- April 7, 2012 at 12:02 PM


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It seems Kim Zolciak is simply refusing to give up on attacking our eardrums her music "career."
Following the slight to moderate success of her first single, "Tardy For The Party," the one hit wig wonder has released a new single titled, "Google Me."
"I am so happy to be sharing this song with my fans, and letting everyone get ready for my new music," the Real Housewives of Atlanta star tells In Touch Weekly.
A 1 minute sneak peek of the new song, which was not produced by Kim's co-star Kandi Burruss, is below. The full version of the song will be available on iTunes on October 5.


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