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The troubled actress was spotted sporting a huge smile as she climbed into a vehicle to depart the Cliffside drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Malibu, California, on Tuesday afternoon following a 90-day court-ordered spell.
Sources close to the 27-year-old actress - who has battled alcohol and drug abuse in the past – told gossip website TMZ the flame-haired beauty will stay with a sober coach in Los Angeles for the next few days before she enters the real world again.
Lindsay will head straight back to work on Monday when she hosts an episode of chat show 'Chelsea Lately', taking over presenting duties from Chelsea Handler.
The 'Canyons' star's mother Dina Lohan recently confirmed her daughter will be moving to New York City when she leaves rehab, rather than return to live with her at the family home in Long Island, New York.
She said: "Lindsay is 27, my kids all have their own places. She's not going to move back home. She'll be getting an apartment in New York. She'll be in New York. It's great because [her sister Ali] is in New York with Wilhelmina models.
"[My son] Michael is in New York. My other little guy [Dakota] is 17 and he's still at home and going to St. Anthony's. The rest may come home to mom, but they don't want to live with me."
Lindsay was sentenced to 90 days treatment for substance abuse issues after pleading no contest to charges for lying to police about driving during a car crash last June.

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It is 10:30 the day of Prom and I'm exhausted! You see, there are days "when a teacher's gotta preach" as I tell my students.
The day before Winter break. The day before Spring Break. The day of Prom. The last day of school. When difficulty hits a class. When there are struggles.
So, today, although we have classes until noon, I've had my three classes and three speeches. Here is a copy of some of what I told them.
1) Sometimes the only choice you can make in a night is to take the first drink or not.
When you get on a slide, once you're moving you're not stopping. When you drive on a muddy rode and start to skid, you just hope the car comes to a stop in a good place and not in the ditch.
When you choose to take that first sip, you do not know nor do you understand what you are saying yes too.
You may be saying "Yes, I'm going to kill my best friend tonight," or "Yes, I'm going to be raped tonight" or "Yes, I'm going to die tonight." You do not know what you are saying yes to.
I hear so many people complain about the war in Iraq. Many more teenagers die from drunk driving than died in Iraq last year. That is the waste.
You have one choice. One choice that you must make. One choice to decide.
The choice to stay away from alcohol and drugs will make sure that you can stay up till dawn and have fun with your friends and not be stuck in an emergency room on what is supposed to be one of the best nights of your life.
2) Sometimes your only choice may be to fix your own drink or not.
There are many people who never choose to drink but receive a spiked drink from "a friend" or "a date."
Since the beginning of time when cavemen whacked cavewomen on the head so they could drag them in the cave, people have tried to exert influence over other people to take advantage of them.
We laugh about the caveman but it is not funny when you lose your virginity through no choice of your own. This is the worst form of robbery and thievery that has ever existed.
Under no circumstances should anyone let another person fix them a drink. Period. End of story.
Choose to be wise and protect your decision to stay away from alcohol. There are people out there who are going to drink who think it would be funny to trick you in to drinking. Then, you'll drink to forget the embarrassment of your first night drinking and who knows where that road will lead.
Be wise.
3) There are some things you can't take back.
There was a guy I knew in college who chose to take that first drink. He was "elevator surfing" at his college spring break and bashed his head in. Now, he's thirty six and sits in a nursing home. He didn't graduate from college. He never got married. He didn't have children. He can't even feed himself. He stares blankly into space. He can't go back and refuse that first drink.
After a test is graded, sometimes a teacher may let you have a retest. But in life, there are things that you cannot get back. Your virginity. Your innocence. A life that is gone. It's not worth it.
If a person gambles, the rule is "never bet something you can't afford to lose." When you drink you are gambling. Don't bet your life. It is foolish.
You'd never dream of watching a poker game on TV where a person bets their life and if they lose, they are killed right there on TV. We'd never dream of that.
And yet, we encourage and watch people play drinking games and sit back and laugh. It is a poker game where every participant is betting their life. Stupid.
4) You become like your friends.
I love mud fights. There is no such thing as a spectator in a mud fight, however. Yesterday I was in the yard with the kids and they had one. After they finished, they were soaked in mud. I also had it on me. In my hair. On my clothes. On my face.
I never threw mud. No one ever threw it at me. But by being close to the mudfight I got muddy.
You may never drink. You may never do drugs. You may not have premarital sex. But when you are around those who do, it affects you. It affects your reputation. It affects how others view you. It affects what you think about those things and how likely you are to try them in the future.
If your friends start doing things you don't agree with, you can either get new friends or become like them. Get new friends.
5) Popularity isn't worth sacrificing "who you are"
Five years a go, Brittney Spears was every little girls object of worship. Brittney this and Brittney that. Now, well, the kids tell me she's a joke.
What did being the most popular girl in America get her? Nothing permanent. You can never have enough shoes. Enough clothes. Enough A's to fill the hole in your heart. These things are passing.
Many of those who were popular in my class in high school are now the joke. (Some aren't.) There is more to life than being popular.
6) Don't believe the lie that this is the greatest night of your life.
I've had many "greatest nights" and most of them happened by accident and didn't coincide with some great event. If you build it up to be something it is not, then when you wake up in the morning you have nothing to live for.
Yes, it is a great night! Yes, it is going to be fun! But Life goes on tomorrow. So have fun tonight but don't do things that you'll regret the rest of your life.
Prom night isn't the night to do something you'd never do any other night. Prom is perfect without sex, without drinking. Just being with your friends and laughing and having a good time.
Prom night can turn into the worst night of your life if you gamble with something you can't afford to lose…your life, your virginity, and that of your friends. It is not worth it.
7) When you have questions ask someone who cares about you.
This morning I read in Reader's Digest about kids who are struggling with things and go on the Internet to figure out what to do about them.
I thought of "Rhonetta Johnson."
"Rhonetta" was a girl that was on one of the tryout episodes of "American Idol." She talked a big talk. You would have thought she was an Aretha of Beyonce. But she got in the room and she choked. She whispered her song and giggled and couldn't hardly get a word out. When Paula Abdul asked her that she learn her song next time, she left in a huff.
When she left Rhonetta began talking "trash." Every other word was a "Bleep" and she was talking about how she would make Paula Abdul become a no name know nothing. It was embarrassing. She talked a big game but she didnt' know much.
The Internet is full of them. People who want to tell you that if you cut yourself or if you throw up or if you have sex or get a certain score on a video game or whatever that you'll feel better about yourself. These are lies.
I believe that nothing can fill the God sized hole in your heart but God and He shows us that there is a plan and a purpose for our lives.
If you have a question, I care about you and love you as do many other teachers here. Please ask us when you have struggles. You know who we are and that we care. When you go to a strange Internet website it would be like me going and asking Rhonetta to tell me how to sing!
None of these destructive behaviors are going to make you happy. That is why meth and drug addictions are so dangerous…the only answer is to do it again…and again…and again.
Doing drugs is like having that Alien that lived inside Sigourney Weaver in the last Alien movie. (Alien 3 I think) You may think you can coexist but one day that Alien is going to hideously burst out, take over your life, and make a bloody mess. That is what drugs do to you.
To conclude, I asked them to bow their heads and I prayed for them. I know that is something that cannot be done in most classrooms and it saddens me. I always preface my thoughts with "I believe." They need to know that a whole part of me is a spiritual side that cannot be divorced from my intellectual or physical. It is important for students to know that there are beliefs worth living for. I think those that tend to force it upon others have ruined it for a lot of good people. I focus on trying to live it but sometimes I need to say it.
I pray that all of my students make wise choices. Unfortunately I know that some will not. I pray that they will all make it back in one piece.
I also know that I will sleep better and be able to live with myself because I gave my "teacher speech."
So what if they roll their eyes. So what if they groan. So what if they make fun of me.
Don't think you have to pray or talk about God to give them "the speech" either. Kids know you love them whether you can talk about those things or not. Kids know what you believe by how you act.
What is important is that some adults in these kids lives have got to stand up and speak out for the truth and what's right amidst a generation of kids hearing lies on TV in magazines and from their peers.
Sometimes, the teacher's gotta preach.
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Weekend Project – Playing With Food Colors
Nov 15, 2010
Weekend Project – Playing With Food Colors
Last weekend was kinda slow at work. No shoots, no planned meetings, no post work to do, No open bids. So what do you do? shoot!
I've seen plenty of food color in glass shots and wanted to make one of my own. I did.
In this post I'll share the process of making the photographs.
What You Need
You will need glasses and of course some coloring food. I was naive and went to a specialty store to get coloring food. It was darn expensive. (around $5 a bottle). When the nice lady at the store heard what I was planning to do with it, she sent me right off to the nearest supermarket. Their stuff was not as good but it only cost 75 cents a bottle.
I used a piece of tile board, the same kind from Zack Arias's seamless white tut – if it is good enough for people, it will be good enough for glasses.
Lastly you will need glasses. They need to shine. Shine, I say! Any speck of dust here will cost you precious time in post. You know how when you walk into a slow bar the bartender will breathe on the glasses and wipe them off? They do it because it is the best way to polish a glass. And that is a proven fact – I know, I was tending bar during my college years.
Setup, Light & Pictures
I know it looks like you are photographing the glass. You are not. You are actually photographing the wall behind the glass. The light only passes through those improvised gels on its way to the lens. So you want to make sure the wall is well lit. The light to the back was provided via a small Nikon SB that was placed on the floor. I experimented with several snoots and grids and finally settled for a piece of black foamy to restrict some of the light.
This is how the image looks like with flash pointing the wall behind the glasses
This is not bad, but I lack two things from this picture: The first is that is has some dark moo to it, where I was aiming to a joyous picture. The second one is the reflections of the glass. The "natural" reflections simply fall off the table.
I could go up high (which I did for one image) and got this where the reflections are within the frame, but the look of the glasses feel weird.
Or I could use the fact that those glasses are actually transparent and I can project them back to the table – that will also take care of lightening the bottom half of the picture and will give some pop to the surface of the water.
An extra strobe was placed coming from top and behind to project the content of the glass downwards
And two more glasses added
As for setup, I used two sticks-in-a-can with a bar and a nasty clamp as an improvised boom.
The other shot was more complex, getting five glasses in a row while keeping the pop on the upper part of the glass required a bigger light source. in comes the DIY lightstrip gafferred to the cross bar.
and the resulting image. this time the projection is cast downwards
Now, looking back at this, it bits watching fringe as an afternoon activity.
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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The Aero Theatre is located at 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica.
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- Take a piece of tape and blot the sticky side on your fingers and on the palm of your hand. When you do that, the oils from your hands stick to the tape making it significantly less sticky and easier to peel off the base coat.
- Paint your nail, wait about one minute and then peel. Personally I don't like the polish to dry too much before I peel because it gets "stringy" when you peel it. On the other hand, you don't want to do it right away because if it's too fresh, it can run.
Another option is to use painter's tape. It's designed to be less stick and to not peel off the paint that you stick it to. This is just a DIY option! Good luck ladybugs!
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If the video doesn't load, Breitbart TV pulled the relevant quote:
"My plan says we're going to put teachers back in the classrooms, construction workers back to work… Tax cuts for small businesses, tax cuts for hiring veterans, tax cuts if you give your worker a raise. That's my plan. Then you got [the Republican's] plan which is 'let's have dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance'… So far I'm feeling better about my plan."
Now, of course, President Obama is trying to upset the GOP with silly little statements like that. He's trying to get our goats. Because if he gets our goats, maybe we won't respond with things like this:
You see that dark blue line? The one that promised us that we'd be at 6.5% unemployment and dropping right now? Yeah, that represents Obama's "plan" for unemployment.
Or how about this?
See those very, very, very long lines? The ones representing our insanely burgeoning yearly budget deficits? Funny thing: that represents Obama's 'plan' for fiscal responsibility.
And then there's this epic, almost impossible-to-excerpt graphic of how the poverty rate, unemployment rate, average weeks unemployed, median income, health insurance premiums, number of jobs, inflation rate, food stamp usage, average gasoline price, average SFR home value, national debt, and of course deficit have all gotten worse since January 20, 2009. Guess what? That was the fallout from Barack Obama's "plan" to run the country. But to be fair, he's certainly running the country.
Right into the ground.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: For those wondering why I'm not bothering to answer the President's allegations re Republican motivations and plans, well, my response is as follows: given President Obama's staggeringly incompetent track record, why should any sane man or woman take those allegations seriously in the first place? Did American politics suddenly adopt the mercy rule?


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The Left's Escalating War on Military Recruiters
By Michelle Malkin
Ideas have consequences. Inaction has consequences. For the past several years, I've chronicled the left's escalating war on military recruiters -- and the apathetic, weak-kneed response to it. The anti-recruiter thugs on college campuses and in liberal enclaves have thrived thanks to a combination of public indifference, law enforcement fecklessness and left-wing ideological apologism.
It has now been a week since the Times Square military recruitment center bombing. The investigation continues -- and so does the left's denial of the ongoing campaign against military recruiters. At a national conference of anarchists in Washington, D.C., last weekend, a "solidarity sticker" glorifying the biker bomber made the rounds. On the Internet, "peace" activists threatened the Gathering of Eagles, a national military support group that organized a rally at Times Square last weekend. From Pittsburgh to Berkeley, anti-war extremists have smeared recruiters as "death pimps" and "child predators." The militant Code Pink group continues to organize in-your-face protests to drive recruiters from major metropolitan areas.
The Times Square bombing was not an isolated incident, but an all-too-predictable symptom of reckless tolerance for dangerous "peace" peddlers skating on the edge of sedition. Lone nuts? Here is a brief history of the anti-military recruitment movement's mounting acts of vandalism and violence. I'll list, you decide:
March 2003: Anti-war zealots in Ithaca, N.Y., target a recruitment center that had been hit before with Molotov cocktails. On St. Patrick's Day, wielding cups of their own blood, they entered a Lansing military recruitment office and splashed their blood over recruiter posters, military cutouts and the American flag. Daniel Burns, Peter De Mott, Clare Grady and Teresa Grady were convicted in 2005 on two misdemeanor counts of trespassing and damaging federal property. All but Burns have been released from prison.
January 20, 2005: At Seattle Central Community College, Army recruiter Sgt. Jeff Due and his colleague Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Washington were hounded by an angry mob of 500 anti-war students. The recruiters' table was destroyed; their handouts, torn apart. Protesters threw water bottles and newspapers at the soldiers. The far-left Students Against War had been agitating to kick the recruiters off campus. The college administration refused to punish the radicals.
Jan. 31, 2005: Recruiters in Manhattan reported that a door to their office had been beaten in. Anarchist symbols were scrawled in red paint on the building. On the same day, New York police collared a young Manhattan College junior and charged him with throwing a burning rag into an Army recruiting station and ruining the door locks with super glue.
Feb. 1, 2005: At a South Toledo, Ohio, recruitment center, unhinged protesters hurled manure all over the building. They broke windows and sprayed vulgar graffiti -- "War is Sh*t" -- on office property.
Mid-Feb. 2005: Twenty-year-old anti-war goon Brendan Walsh is sentenced to five years in federal prison for hurling a Molotov cocktail through the window of a Vestal, N.Y., military recruitment office in 2003.
March 2005: In East Orange, N.J., young anti-military protesters shattered the windows of an Army recruitment station and a neighboring Navy office. At City College in New York, a campus secretary protesting recruiters was charged with second-degree assault, disorderly conduct and obstructing governmental administration. Police also arrested students Justin Rodriguez and Nicholas Bergreen for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and assaulting a police officer.
March/April 2005: Anti-war extremists at New York's Bronx Community College shut down several military recruitment sessions. At UC Santa Cruz, "peace" thugs drove recruiters off campus after an hour-long demonstration of shouting and window banging.
May 2005: Anti-military students swarmed the booths of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the USAF at a San Francisco State University career fair. In Wisconsin, an Air Force ROTC information day was canceled due to threats by the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Stop the War.
April 2006: UC Santa Cruz students ambushed military recruiters. Vandals at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tossed cans of red paint in front of an ROTC office and spray-painted vulgarities all over its doors. University of Minnesota students splattered red paint all over an Army recruiting station.
December 2006: Anarchists in Lawrence, Kan., crippled business at an Army/Navy recruitment center, where workers' car tires were slashed and bomb-proof glass had to be installed.
Jan. 2007: Anti-war radicals laid siege to the U.S. Capitol and smashed windows at a downtown Washington recruitment center. Pittsburgh radicals shut down a recruitment station for a day, wielding signs calling recruiters "child predators."
March 2007: Vandals broke into a Milwaukee recruitment station wielding crowbars.
July 2007: A teenager in Bremerton, Wash., was charged with a felony for slashing 42 government tires of Army recruiting vehicles to protest the Iraq war and because he "hated the military." In Maryland, anti-recruiter vandals smashed a Rockville Air Force career center. In Lufkin, Texas, Navy recruiters were the targets of vandals who keyed their cars, smashed their windows and shot at their vehicles with "with what appeared to be a high-powered pellet gun."
August 2007: In Stamford, Conn., Francis Monaghan is arrested on charges that he twice left a fake bomb package at a military recruitment office.
September 2007: The far-left group Iraq Veterans Against the War calls on followers to commit fraud to interfere with military recruiters. Anti-war punks shut down the Times Square recruitment station.
October 2007: Code Pink defaces the Berkeley recruitment office, branding our troops as assassins.
Jan. 2008: The Code Pink/city council siege at the Berkeley recruiting center reaches a boiling point. Protesters chain themselves to the station to shut it down, and vandalize the windows with bloody handprints and signs branding recruiters "death pimps."
Feb. 2008: Anarchists trash the recruiting station at 14th and L Streets in Washington, D.C., which has been subjected to multiple attacks.
March 2008: The bomb goes off at the Times Square recruitment station.
When will this escalating war end? There will be no end in sight until lawmakers, law enforcement, the media and the public open their eyes to the hate, connect the dots, and stop coddling the increasingly crazed and emboldened anti-military militants before more bombs go off -- and innocents get harmed -- in the name of "peace."
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text: People with earlier, less severe diabetes benefit more in HMO Research Network study After gastric bypass surgery, diabetes goes away for some people - often even before they lose much weight. So does that mean gastric surgery "cures" diabetes? Not necessarily, according to the largest community-based study of long-term diabetes outcomes after bariatric surgery. For most people in the study, e-published in advance of print in Obesity Surgery, diabetes either never remitted after gastric surgery or relapsed within five years. Among the two thirds of the study's patients whose diabetes at first went away, more than a third re-developed diabetes again within five years after gastric surgery. After adding in the one quarter of patients whose diabetes never remitted after surgery, most (56 percent) of the study's patients had no long-lasting remission of their diabetes following gastric surgery. However, when diabetes did go away, the research team extrapolated, it stayed away for a median of eight years. Which kinds of obese people with type 2 diabetes are likely to get the most benefit from gastric surgery? "Our results suggest that, after gastric surgery, diabetes stays away for longer in those people whose diabetes was less severe and at an earlier stage at the time of surgery," said principal investigator David E. Arterburn, MD, MPH, a general internist and associate investigator at Group Health Research Institute. "Gastric surgery isn't for everyone," he said. "But this evidence suggests that, once you have diabetes and are severely obese, you should strongly consider it, even though it doesn't seem to be a cure for most patients." The multi-site study tracked 4,434 adults at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, and HealthPartners for 14 years: from 1995 to 2008. The research arms of all three of these integrated health care delivery systems - and Group Health Research Institute, where the study's results were analyzed - belong to the HMO Research Network. The patients had type 2 diabetes that was either controlled with medication or else uncontrolled, and they were also obese enough to be candidates for gastric bypass surgery. "Diabetes is an increasingly common disease that tends to keep getting worse relentlessly," Dr. Arterburn said. More than 25 million American adults have diabetes - and as populations age and keep gaining weight, 50 million are predicted to have it by 2050. Already, diabetes accounts for 5 percent of all U.S. health care spending. And it raises the risk of blindness, kidney disease, heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. "Prevention is by far the best medicine for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Once you have diabetes, it's really hard to get rid of. Attempts to treat it with intensive lifestyle changes and medical management have been disappointing." For instance, the National Institutes of Health recently halted the Look AHEAD study of intensive lifestyle changes for people with diabetes. Despite improvements in risk factors like body weight, fitness, and blood pressure, sugar, and lipids, that study showed lifestyle changes did not lower the outcomes that matter most: heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. "No wonder so many were excited to learn that diabetes can remit after gastric surgery - even, in some cases, before any significant weight loss - and many were hoping that gastric surgery might be a 'cure' for diabetes," Dr. Arterburn said. "Our study is the first major evidence that diabetes often recurs after gastric bypass surgery." Still, he added, even after diabetes comes back, having had a long period of post-surgery remission is likely to have many positive effects, such as fewer complications of diabetes: less damage to eyes and kidneys, and fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. The researchers are now funded by the National Institutes of Health to study that possibility in this same population. Dr. Arterburn is also leading a randomized controlled pilot trial of intensive behavioral treatment vs. gastric surgery at Group Health with colleagues from the University of Washington. It's still not clear whether diabetes relapse happens because of gaining weight back or because of underlying the progression of diabetes. But patients' weight - before and after surgery - was not strongly correlated with remission or relapse of diabetes in this population. As part of the Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness (DEcIDE) program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded this project under contract HHSA290-2005-0033-I-TO10-WA1, led by Dr. Arterburn. Drs. Arterburn's co-authors were: Andy Bogart, MS, and Mary Kay Theis, MA, MS, of Group Health Research Institute; David McCulloch, MD, of Group Health Cooperative; Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD, and Patrick J. O'Connor, MD, MPH, of HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH, of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, in Oakland; Karen J. Coleman, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, in Pasadena; Guilherme M. Campos, MD, of the University of Wisconsin, in Madison; Sebastien Haneuse, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston; and Joe Selby, MD, MPH, of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), in Washington, DC. Dr. Arterburn is also an affiliate associate professor of medicine and Dr. McCulloch is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.


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Ext4 is part of the Linux 2.6.28 kernel, read the previous link to know more details about that release.
1. Introduction
Ext4 is the evolution of the most used Linux filesystem, Ext3. In many ways, Ext4 is a deeper improvement over Ext3 than Ext3 was over Ext2. Ext3 was mostly about adding journaling to Ext2, but Ext4 modifies important data structures of the filesystem such as the ones destined to store the file data. The result is a filesystem with an improved design, better performance, reliability and features.
2. EXT4 features
2.1. Compatibility
Any existing Ext3 filesystem can be migrated to Ext4 with an easy procedure which consists in running a couple of commands in read-only mode (described in the next section). This means that you can improve the performance, storage limits and features of your current filesystems without reformatting and/or reinstalling your OS and software environment. If you need the advantages of Ext4 on a production system, you can upgrade the filesystem. The procedure is safe and doesn't risk your data (obviously, backup of critical data is recommended, even if you aren't updating your filesystem :). Ext4 will use the new data structures only on new data, the old structures will remain untouched and it will be possible to read/modify them when needed. This means, of course, that once you convert your filesystem to Ext4 you won't be able to go back to Ext3 again (although there's a possibility, described in the next section, of mounting an Ext3 filesystem with Ext4 without using the new disk format and you'll be able to mount it with Ext3 again, but you lose many of the advantages of Ext4).
2.2. Bigger filesystem/file sizes
Currently, Ext3 support 16 TB of maximum filesystem size, and 2 TB of maximum file size. Ext4 adds 48-bit block addressing, so it will have 1 EB of maximum filesystem size and 16 TB of maximum file size. 1 EB = 1,048,576 TB (1 EB = 1024 PB, 1 PB = 1024 TB, 1 TB = 1024 GB). Why 48-bit and not 64-bit? There are some limitations that would need to be fixed before making Ext4 fully 64-bit capable, which have not been addressed in Ext4. The Ext4 data structures have been designed keeping this in mind, so a future update to Ext4 will implement full 64-bit support at some point. 1 EB will be enough (really until that happens. (Note: The code to create filesystems bigger than 16 TB is -at the time of writing this article- not in any stable release of e2fsprogs. It will be in future releases.)
2.3. Sub directory scalability
Right now the maximum possible number of sub directories contained in a single directory in Ext3 is 32000. Ext4 breaks that limit and allows an unlimited number of sub directories.
2.4. Extents
The traditionally Unix-derived filesystems like Ext3 use an indirect block mapping scheme to keep track of each block used for the blocks corresponding to the data of a file. This is inefficient for large files, specially on large file delete and truncate operations, because the mapping keeps a entry for every single block, and big files have many blocks -> huge mappings, slow to handle. Modern filesystems use a different approach called "extents". An extent is basically a bunch of contiguous physical blocks. It basically says "The data is in the next n blocks". For example, a 100 MB file can be allocated into a single extent of that size, instead of needing to create the indirect mapping for 25600 blocks (4 KB per block). Huge files are split in several extents. Extents improve the performance and also help to reduce the fragmentation, since an extent encourages continuous layouts on the disk.
2.5. Multiblock allocation
When Ext3 needs to write new data to the disk, there's a block allocator that decides which free blocks will be used to write the data. But the Ext3 block allocator only allocates one block (4KB) at a time. That means that if the system needs to write the 100 MB data mentioned in the previous point, it will need to call the block allocator 25600 times (and it was just 100 MB!). Not only this is inefficient, it doesn't allow the block allocator to optimize the allocation policy because it doesn't knows how many total data is being allocated, it only knows about a single block. Ext4 uses a "multiblock allocator" (mballoc) which allocates many blocks in a single call, instead of a single block per call, avoiding a lot of overhead. This improves the performance, and it's particularly useful with delayed allocation and extents. This feature doesn't affect the disk format. Also, note that the Ext4 block/inode allocator has other improvements, described in detail in this paper.
2.6. Delayed allocation
Delayed allocation is a performance feature (it doesn't change the disk format) found in a few modern filesystems such as XFS, ZFS, btrfs or Reiser 4, and it consists in delaying the allocation of blocks as much as possible, contrary to what traditionally filesystems (such as Ext3, reiser3, etc) do: allocate the blocks as soon as possible. For example, if a process write()s, the filesystem code will allocate immediately the blocks where the data will be placed - even if the data is not being written right now to the disk and it's going to be kept in the cache for some time. This approach has disadvantages. For example when a process is writing continually to a file that grows, successive write()s allocate blocks for the data, but they don't know if the file will keep growing. Delayed allocation, on the other hand, does not allocate the blocks immediately when the process write()s, rather, it delays the allocation of the blocks while the file is kept in cache, until it is really going to be written to the disk. This gives the block allocator the opportunity to optimize the allocation in situations where the old system couldn't. Delayed allocation plays very nicely with the two previous features mentioned, extents and multiblock allocation, because in many workloads when the file is written finally to the disk it will be allocated in extents whose block allocation is done with the mballoc allocator. The performance is much better, and the fragmentation is much improved in some workloads.
2.7. Fast fsck
Fsck is a very slow operation, especially the first step: checking all the inodes in the file system. In Ext4, at the end of each group's inode table will be stored a list of unused inodes (with a checksum, for safety), so fsck will not check those inodes. The result is that total fsck time improves from 2 to 20 times, depending on the number of used inodes (http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Improving_fsck_Speeds_in_Ext4). It must be noticed that it's fsck, and not Ext4, who will build the list of unused inodes. This means that you must run fsck to get the list of unused inodes built, and only the next fsck run will be faster (you need to pass a fsck in order to convert an Ext3 filesystem to Ext4 anyway). There's also a feature that takes part in this fsck speed up - "flexible block groups" - that also speeds up filesystem operations.
2.8. Journal checksumming
The journal is the most used part of the disk, making the blocks that form part of it more prone to hardware failure. And recovering from a corrupted journal can lead to massive corruption. Ext4 checksums the journal data to know if the journal blocks are failing or corrupted. But journal checksumming has a bonus: it allows one to convert the two-phase commit system of Ext3's journaling to a single phase, speeding the filesystem operation up to 20% in some cases - so reliability and performance are improved at the same time. (Note: the part of the feature that improves the performance, the asynchronous logging, is turned off by default for now, and will be enabled in future releases, when its reliability improves)
2.9. "No Journaling" mode
Journaling ensures the integrity of the filesystem by keeping a log of the ongoing disk changes. However, it is known to have a small overhead. Some people with special requirements and workloads can run without a journal and its integrity advantages. In Ext4 the journaling feature can be disabled, which provides a small performance improvement.
2.10. Online defragmentation
While delayed allocation, extents and multiblock allocation help to reduce the fragmentation, with usage filesystems can still fragment. For example: You write three files in a directory and continually on the disk. Some day you need to update the file of the middle, but the updated file has grown a bit, so there's not enough room for it. You have no option but fragment the excess of data to another place of the disk, which will cause a seek, or allocate the updated file continually in another place, far from the other two files, resulting in seeks if an application needs to read all the files on a directory (say, a file manager doing thumbnails on a directory full of images). Besides, the filesystem can only care about certain types of fragmentation, it can't know, for example, that it must keep all the boot-related files contiguous, because it doesn't know which files are boot-related. To solve this issue, Ext4 will support online fragmentation, and there's a e4defrag tool which can defragment individual files or the whole filesystem.
2.11. Inode-related features
Larger inodes, nanosecond timestamps, fast extended attributes, inodes reservation...
- Larger inodes: Ext3 supports configurable inode sizes (via the -I mkfs parameter), but the default inode size is 128 bytes. Ext4 will default to 256 bytes. This is needed to accommodate some extra fields (like nanosecond timestamps or inode versioning), and the remaining space of the inode will be used to store extend attributes that are small enough to fit it that space. This will make the access to those attributes much faster, and improves the performance of applications that use extend attributes by a factor of 3-7 times.
- Inode reservation consists in reserving several inodes when a directory is created, expecting that they will be used in the future. This improves the performance, because when new files are created in that directory they'll be able to use the reserved inodes. File creation and deletion is hence more efficient.
- Nanoseconds timestamps means that inode fields like "modified time" will be able to use nanosecond resolution instead of the second resolution of Ext3.
2.12. Persistent preallocation
This feature, available in Ext3 in the latest kernel versions, and emulated by glibc in the filesystems that don't support it, allows applications to preallocate disk space: Applications tell the filesystem to preallocate the space, and the filesystem preallocates the necessary blocks and data structures, but there's no data on it until the application really needs to write the data in the future. This is what P2P applications do in their own when they "preallocate" the necessary space for a download that will last hours or days, but implemented much more efficiently by the filesystem and with a generic API. This has several uses: first, to avoid applications (like P2P apps) doing it themselves inefficiently by filling a file with zeros. Second, to improve fragmentation, since the blocks will be allocated at one time, as contiguously as possible. Third, to ensure that applications always have the space they know they will need, which is important for RT-ish applications, since without preallocation the filesystem could get full in the middle of an important operation. The feature is available via the libc posix_fallocate() interface.
2.13. Barriers on by default
This is an option that improves the integrity of the filesystem at the cost of some performance (you can disable it with "mount -o barrier=0", recommended trying it if you're benchmarking). From this LWN article: "The filesystem code must, before writing the [journaling] commit record, be absolutely sure that all of the transaction's information has made it to the journal. Just doing the writes in the proper order is insufficient; contemporary drives maintain large internal caches and will reorder operations for better performance. So the filesystem must explicitly instruct the disk to get all of the journal data onto the media before writing the commit record; if the commit record gets written first, the journal may be corrupted. The kernel's block I/O subsystem makes this capability available through the use of barriers; in essence, a barrier forbids the writing of any blocks after the barrier until all blocks written before the barrier are committed to the media. By using barriers, filesystems can make sure that their on-disk structures remain consistent at all times."
3. How to use Ext4
At this time, all relevant distros support it. GRUB also supports Ext4. Just use it.
Switching to Ext4 is very easy. There are three different ways to switch:
3.1. Creating a new Ext4 filesystem from the scratch
- The easiest one, recommended for new installations. Just update your e2fsprogs package to Ext4, and create the filesystem with mkfs.ext4.
3.2. Migrate existing Ext3 filesystems to Ext4
You need to use the tune2fs and fsck tools in the filesystem, and that filesystem needs to be unmounted. Run:
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/yourfilesystem
After running this command you MUST run fsck. If you don't do it, Ext4 WILL NOT MOUNT your filesystem. This fsck run is needed to return the filesystem to a consistent state. It WILL tell you that it finds checksum errors in the group descriptors - it's expected, and it's exactly what it needs to be rebuilt to be able to mount it as Ext4, so don't get surprised by them. Since each time it finds one of those errors it asks you what to do, always say YES. If you don't want to be asked, add the "-p" parameter to the fsck command, it means "automatic repair":
fsck -pDf /dev/yourfilesystem
There's another thing that must be mentioned. All your existing files will continue using the old indirect mapping to map all the blocks of data. The online defrag tool will be able to migrate each one of those files to an extent format (using an ioctl that tells the filesystem to rewrite the file with the extent format; you can use it safely while you're using the filesystem normally)
3.3. Mount an existing Ext3 filesystem with Ext4 without changing the format
You can mount an existing Ext3 filesystem with Ext4 but without using features that change the disk format. This means you will be able to mount your filesystem with Ext3 again. You can mount an existing Ext3 filesystem with "mount -t ext4 /dev/yourpartition /mnt". Doing this without having done the conversion process described in the previous point will force Ext4 to not use the features that change the disk format, such as extents, it will use only the features that don't change the file format, such as mballoc or delayed allocation. You'll be able to mount your filesystem as Ext3 again. But obviously you'll be losing the advantages of the Ext4 features that don't get used...


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With more than a decade of experience in Atlanta, FOX 5 Storm Team meteorologist Jeff Hill has the answers to your weather questions. Whether you're trying to plan your weekend or need to know the latest on severe storms, depend on Jeff's accurate forecasts to keep you one step ahead.
Following graduation from Penn State, Jeff's meteorological career began at KCAU in Sioux City, Iowa. From there he ventured to WWBT in Richmond, Virginia then to WTAE in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Jeff returned to the south making a stop at WTVD in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina before reaching Atlanta.
Jeff is a member of the American Meteorological Society and was awarded the AMS Seal in 1988. He is a native of Hartford, Connecticut.
Jeff enjoys golf, tennis, fishing and anything outdoors, as well as spending as much time as he can with his wife Tracey and their two daughters.


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Man whose info found on Jersey City shooter nabbed on gun charge
KEYPORT, N.J - A New Jersey man whose number was found in the back pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week's fatal attack on a Jewish market has been arrested for illegally possessing a weapon, federal authorities said.
Ahmed A-Hady, of Keyport, 35, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, the U.S. attorney's office said late Saturday. A-Hady hasn't been charged with providing any of the weapons used in Tuesday's bloody rampage in Jersey City.
David Anderson and Francine Graham killed Jersey City Police Det. Joseph Seals in a cemetery and then stormed a kosher supermarket, killing three people before being killed themselves after a lengthy shootout with police, authorities have said. Afterward, a note was found in Anderson's pocket containing a telephone number and a Keyport address, according to authorities.
The number belonged to A-Hady, and the address was for a storefront for a pawnshop, officials said. Records indicated that A-Hady had bought two handguns in 2007 before being convicted of a felony in 2012 that made him ineligible to own firearms.
- Official: Deadly Jersey City attack was 'fueled' by anti-Semitism
- Timeline of events that left 5 victims, 2 attackers dead in Jersey City shooting
- Authorities tie killers in New Jersey attack to fringe group with Philadelphia ties
- 6 killed in Jersey City gun battle, including police officer
When authorities went to the pawnshop and interviewed A-Hady, he acknowledged still owning the weapons but denied that they were on the premises. But after receiving a tip about a safe, investigators searched the business and A-Hady's home and found weapons including three AR-15-style assault rifles, three handguns and one shotgun as well as more than 400 rounds of ammunition, "including a large number of hollow point bullets."
Anderson and Graham were armed with multiple weapons including an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun, and a pipe bomb was also found in the stolen U-Haul van they drove to the market. Two of the weapons used by Anderson and Graham were bought by Graham in Ohio last year, police have said. It's not known where they got the three other guns.
Left to right: David N. Anderson and Francine Graham (New Jersey Office of the Attorney General)
No information was provided about any possible relationship between A-Hady and the attackers. A-Hady is expected to appear Monday before a federal magistrate; it's unclear whether he has an attorney, and a message could not be left at a number listed in his name.
CBS2NY reported that A-Hady's brother said the family had never heard of the suspects and the pawnshop didn't sell firearms. "We don't sell weapons," Adhem A-Hady told the station. "We never sold weapons. The only thing that we have in the store is, like, nunchucks."
Authorities on Saturday announced the recovery of a white van they said may be connected to the shootings, which are being investigated as domestic terrorism. Authorities have said Anderson, 47, and Graham, 50, had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe religious group whose members often rail against Jews and whites, but that there was no evidence so far that they were members and they are believed to have acted alone.
Det. Joseph Seals was shot and killed in a cemetery in Jersey City. (Jersey City Police Department)
In addition to Seals, the attackers killed Mindel Ferencz, 31, who co-owned the grocery; 24-year-old Moshe Deutsch, a rabbinical student from Brooklyn who was shopping there; and store employee Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, 49, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said last week.
A fourth person in the store was shot and wounded but managed to escape, authorities said.
Anderson and Graham are also prime suspects in the slaying of a livery driver found dead in a car trunk in nearby Bayonne the previous weekend, authorities have said.
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Sundays are rest days in our world. Instead of getting up and running I stay in bed and Brooke is my alarm clock, we eat breakfast (Honey Bunches of Oats was the choice yesterday) and then we do the church thing.
I am a huge fan of taking 1-2 rest days a week. All of my other workouts feel a million times better when I throw in rest day(s) each week. I also get injured way less often when I take time off each week.
Another storm rolled in after lunch so we did the best thing possible…
Naps and some reading in bed. So far I am hooked on this book (I am easily pleased though so don't take my book recommendations too seriously). I stayed up way too late last night reading too…
Once the sun came out again we went to Pioneer Park to go explore.
These red rocks though.
Being down here is getting me extra excited to run the St. George Marathon again in October. This place is so beautiful.
Brooke kept telling me she was rock climbing.
We somehow all fit into a group selfie.
We were pretty ready for dinner after all of our rock climbing and Texas Roadhouse called our names. I wish every restaurant had a big barrel of peanuts to eat while you wait for your table. It prevents me from experiencing hanger.
I will probably be adding marshmallows to all of my sweet potatoes from this point forward. I don't think I'll be able to go back to non-marshmallows after eating one this way.
And in the car on the way back we had these. How have I not tried these before? Seriously. So good.
Some fun things for your Monday to check out:
–THE BOSTON OF HALF MARATHONS—> November 21st in San Diego!
–Spotify Announces New Feature for Runners—> 'The streaming music app will match music to running pace… Using the hardware in smartphones-like the accelerometer and GPS capability-to determine pace, Spotify Running can create customized soundtracks to match a runner's tempo." Ummm awesome. I will be using this.
-It's the Nordstrom 1/2 Yearly Sale…. These shoes, this shirt, and this watch are calling my name.
–How to Recover after a Marathon. Loved reading the science behind marathon recovery. Sometimes being patient and letting ourselves truly recover is harder than the actual training:)
-I don't know how I came across these Hate Running but Do It Anyway Quotes but this one made me laugh pretty hard:
Peanuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews, walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts… what are your favorites to snack on?
How many rest days a week work best for you and your body?
Favorite type of M&M's?


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Dec 10, 2023Cracking the AI Open-Source Code: Part III — Eniac's Investment FrameworkPart 3 of a 3 Part Series: Eniac's Blueprint for Investing in Open-Source AI Startups by Vic Singh and James Barone tl;dr: The open-source AI landscape represents an exciting frontier brimming with potential, yet navigating this complex ecosystem requires a thoughtful and nuanced strategy. In Part 1 of this 3-part series, we illustrated the Eniac market map and open-source AI tooling stack. In Part 2…AI12 min readAI12 min read
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Nov 14, 2023Full-Stack AI Application Startups: An approach to durability?By Vic Singh With OpenAI's recent announcements, investors and startup founders alike are rightfully getting paranoid about application layer AI startups being killed. Much like Facebook and Apple killed many startups — during the mobile era — by building native functionality into their products and ecosystems, the same is happening…AI6 min readAI6 min read
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Luxury Staunton Chess Sets
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The history of chess
The roots of modern day Chess have risen from a bed of luxury and high intelligence in the ancient world. The nobility of Persia, for example, dressed in fine linen and gold, were educated on the game from an early age. Respected elders believed that the game was tantamount with logical thought and development of the brain, while the high society of this early empire considered chess expertise a motif of excellence.
To have the game played with anything else than the finest materials was, subsequently, unthinkable. This opulent game would spread to the masses through the Islamic conquerors of Persia. From here the game, with pieces made of clay and stone, gained popularity further north through Spain and into the rest of Europe.
Roots in the 17th Century
The idea of luxury chess sets surfaced again in the 17th century, when Philip II of Spain would handsomely reward travelling masters for winning exhibition games. The luxury chess pieces here would be made from Incan Silver, Gold, Ebony and Ivory.
Of these exotic materials, we only use Ebony when creating the Regency luxury chess sets, as well as other luxury materials such as Red Sandalwood, Zinc, Brass and Briarwood.
In the case of Red Sandalwood and Ebony, especially, the cost of production is constantly on the rise because of their increasing rarity.
It follows, then, that purchasing one of these luxury chess sets represents a fantastic investment. And, while acknowledging the breathtaking qualities of these woods, at Regency we sell only ethically sourced wood from stockpiles that were felled many years ago.
Where are the Regency Luxury Chess Sets made?
The separate articles of these lavish sets arrive in Somerset from all over the world, before our product team matches them together to create luxurious chess sets defined by beauty, eclecticism and a sprinkle of wanderlust.
It is by no mistake that we source our high-end products from Spain, where luxury chess in Europe was first championed, as well as Italy, where the finest players of that 17th century era hailed from. None of those players would have had the chance to play the game had it not been first invented in India, which is where we import our luxury Ebony and Red Sandalwood pieces from.
When we receive these luxury chess pieces from the Indian Subcontinent, we then match them with a handmade board from either Spain or Italy. The result is a luxury chess set like no other, a compilation of outstanding chess craftsmanship, sourced from around the world and then compiled expertly in the heart of south west England.
A fine example is the Old English Elite Ebony and Briar Luxury Chess Set
Luxury Cast in Metal
Metal Chessmen are another unique feature of the Regency Luxury Chess Set Collection. For the past couple of years we have been working closely with Italfama in Florence, optioning to stock their brilliant brass and nickel Chessmen. Our Italian partners have a set of irreplaceable, 30 year-old moulds that they use to create these amazing pieces.
This unique method has ensured that only Italfama has the means to produce these chessmen, an exclusivity that certainly first attracted us to their work.
With the 4 Inch Maghreb Pieces we put together the aptly named Maghreb Brass and Walnut Traditional Chess Set, which also features a remarkable 20 Inch Walnut and Maple Chess Cabinet. Italfama are always coming up with amazing new products so keep an eye on the luxury metal chessmen here at Regency because the right set for you may well be on its way soon.
Expensive Chess Sets
Our range of exclusive luxury chess sets are reassuringly expensive. We source the finest chess boards from Italy and combine them with chessmen made from the worlds most precious and exotic hard woods. An expensive chess set can be seen as an investment. They will always hold a good portion of their original purchase price and the rare and luxury woods are certain to continue rising in value. We have gone to great lengths to assemble for you a stunning selection of chess sets with all price points in mind. As you get further up the price ladder you can expect a better quality of finish on the chessmen, finer wood selection, fine hand inlays, and unsurpassed Italian Quality. It is often said that you can tell the value of something by how much it weighs and our Luxury chess sets are no exception to this. Very heavily weighted chess pieces adorn substantial lacquered chess boards with sets often weighing in excess of five kilos.


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A fishing charter in New Zealand recently got to experience "Jaws" in real life.
As one of the fishermen reels in his line, he notices the fish is actually half-eaten, and just seconds later, a giant great white shark pops up to finish what he started.
"Did you see that?" he shouts.
The video was uploaded to Captain Bucko's Fishing Charters Facebook page on March 9, and in the comments the company says it's the first great white they've seen in the Bay of Islands, an area off the northern coast of the country.
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A network of South Asian OLPC deployments (including India, Sri Lanka and Nepal) are working together to share knowledge and outreach. Support gang member Shirish Goyal has put together a gorgeous portal covering work in that part of the world, at olpcsouthasia.org
I felt a momentary pang of jealousy, looking at that design. But I satisfied myself with the knowledge that we will have a vibrant new look of our own soon, with the blog integrated into our main site. Here's another sneak peek:


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Despite a lack of policy prescriptions, Occupy Wall Street dramatized the crisis of income inequality in America. Now, Danny Schechter says the challenge for the movement is to expand on that message with outreach to the broader national population.
By Danny Schechter
One of the oldest patterns of media coverage can be summed up this way: First, they ignore you. Then, they ridicule you. Then, they realize you are a story and fall in love. At that point, they build you up, but then — all at once — tear you down
You may not have changed, but they have, addicted as they are to keep coming up with shifting story lines, more to fight their own boredom and fear of tune-out from readers, listeners and viewers, than the validity or importance of the topic.
In the same way, that political sound bites went from nearly 30 seconds to five and that MTV-style editing invaded the newsrooms with quick cutting and razzle-dazzle effects, to "cover news" while making it difficult to concentrate on, much less comprehend the fast-paced presentation techniques. When asked by researchers, audiences could barely tell you what they had just seen, much less what it means.
We saw this in Iraq, when during the invasion, it was war all the time, literally around the clock but when you looked closely, it wasn't really about Iraq or Iraqis; it was a narrative of the U.S. slaying the evil-doers, good guys versus bad guys. There was almost no other perspective. It was AAU, All About Us.
Now, with Occupy Wall Street, the pattern is similar. The underlying issues largely don't exist, if they require explanation or analysis. Knowledge about Wall Street and the economy is assumed. It is conflict that drives the news.
There was little reporting on the occupation when it started. It was only after the cops began pepper-spraying protesters or after mass demonstrations that the media arrived en masse. Finally, they had adversaries, the cops and the protesters. That the media could understand.
Soon, reporters flocked to Zuccotti Park like blue birds. When one landed, they all landed. The TV trucks were everywhere especially at 6 and 11 p.m., so that local reporters could do silly live stand-ups and show off colorful characters to reinforce the narrative that the protesters were just having fun, with no serious ideas.
Many of these frontline reporters couldn't tell you the difference between a derivative and a donut, but that didn't matter because what does matter is face time, airtime, visibility.
First, the international press recognized that this movement was important. The media surrounding Zuccotti became a mini-United Nations with crews from BBC, Al Jazeera, Xinhua News Agency, Russia Today, Press TV, et.al. When they took it seriously, the American press began to do the same, and then network TV got into the act, once it became obvious that the protest was a national, even a global story.
Occupy Wall Street soon had a press desk trying to help reporters who often showed up with preconceived story lines demanded by their editors. Soon the stories about sex, drugs and drumming, no rock and roll yet, were everywhere as reporters turned over rocks and looked for the homeless and the harassers.
When one station framed the story as "the park is now a Wal-mart for rats," City Hall saw an opening and harping on cleanliness (which has always been next to godliness in Manhattan) used hygiene as a pretext for shutting the Occupy Wall Street encampment down.
Most activists were happy to be interviewed, but few ever watched how the stories were edited: what was covered and what was not. That's also because many of the occupiers hate television and what it has become. They don't read ponderous editorials or inflammatory headlines.
They do read and create social media, Twitter, Facebook, You-Tube, etc. The advantage is that they are then exposed to their truths and the news they believe they need to makes a difference. However, it's news for the community, not the country!
The disadvantage is the protesters often aren't reaching out to millions of Americans who won't join the movement just because it's cool. The 99 percent needs to be educated and inspired, but, alas, they rely on the tabloid newspapers and cable news, which are generally the least sympathetic to the movement.
You have to use media if you want to occupy the mainstream, and build a larger movement as opposed to being depicted as a tribal subculture of angry misfits. To avoid that, you need your own mainstream media campaign.
I would suspect that the Occupy Movement has not met with or tried to persuade editorial boards or newsroom execs. The protesters tend to react more to what they are saying than to act more proactively with their own media campaigns to shape a different message that gets disseminated widely.
As the movement moves on, messages have to change and target specific communities. This approach may be coming, but not quickly enough.
Already some big media outlets like The Washington Post, the paper still living off its Watergate reputation even as it finds few wars it won't support, is saying Occupy Wall Street is "over."
You can bet they want it to be over because their focus on politics starts with the top, the White House and specializes on inside-the-Beltway stories. For years, black people in Washington the majority have complained that they are largely ignored by their own hometown newspaper.
Washington Post editors are self-satisfied insiders, cloistered amid the 1 percenters who prefer to cover social movements of the past, not the present.
I once looked at how the Post covered the March on Washington back in l963. The story line was on how violence had been averted. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech was barely news. The march's focus on the need for jobs was downplayed then just as Occupy Wall Street's economic critique is downplayed today.
Today's movement is being challenged by mayors, armed with the latest "non-lethal" toys, and coordinated by the Feds (a story few media outlets have investigated) who want to shut down the encampments.
Yes, it's wrong and unconstitutional and unfair, but is this a battle they can win? Yes, many can go to jail but what message does that send? Occupy Wall Street is not about camping, it's about crusading for justice.
Even Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (Not the Occupied version) is praising the protests, declaring: "This Thanksgiving weekend, Wall Street should say a prayer of gratitude for Occupy Wall Street. While some bankers and brokers have sympathized with or supported this ragtag protest movement, others grouse that they are being demonized.
"But compared with financiers of the past, who faced nasty rhetoric, political hostility and physical danger, today's bankers and brokers seem like a bunch of babies when they whine about being targeted by these dissidents. The 'Occupy' rhetoric might sound overheated, but it is golden praise alongside what bankers used to hear."
Thus, at least some of the l percent are hearing the message, but, apparently, they don't feel its strong enough.
It's the 99 percent that the movement should aim at with actions and media that shows they are on the side of the vast majority. To do that, the protesters need more creative forms of mass outreach and organizing to remake a community of activists as a mass movement with demands that the people can resonate with and find ways of supporting.
What about political infomercials, TV spots and ads? Media hype for activism can help, but it's no substitute for less glamorous organizing. In the end, that will be the test of whether the movement is "over" or goes over the top.
News Dissector Danny Schechter is covering Occupy Wall Street in his Newsdissector.com blog and will soon have a book out collecting his many reports since September. This was his TV report on Occupy Wall Street: http://tinyurl.com/6m53kf9 Comments to [email protected] (This is the first in what we hope will be a series of Mediachannel1 reports exploring the media and the Occupy Movement.)