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Fine vegetarian food is rare in Taipei, but there is artistry at work on the menu at Metro Bodhi. They have fashioned a plant-based menu that is homely yet elegant. The restaurant was started by a Buddhist organization in the belief that Buddhism does not have to be ascetic, but can be about living a full life and enjoying what it has to offer.
The restaurant is rather large with three floors for seating. It's elegant but modestly decorated in a Buddhist fashion. Bronze statues and tea lights adorn the otherwise clean walls, creating a warm atmosphere amid plenty of literature and wines that are available for sale. The tableware is embellished with golden place settings and deep burgundy serviettes, which appear modest but still modern enough to give the restaurant a refined appeal. It resembles an upscale family restaurant.
The spicy tomato chickpea soup (NT$120) doesn't pack much heat, but is well seasoned with herbs that give it an earthier taste than your classic tomato soup. There are three salads to choose from, my favorite being the fresh mozzarella, roasted garlic and red wine onion salad with Modena vinaigrette (NT$160 for a single serving, NT$320 for 2 to 3 people). Modena essentially means balsamic, so this salad has a dominant sweet Italian zing. If you prefer bitter flavors, try the chayote salad with grapefruit, mint olive oil dressing and aged white wine vinaigrette (NT$160 for a serving, NT$320 for 2 to 3 people). Chayote is similar to squash, but is more bland. Together, the components release a pungent yet refreshing burst of flavor on the palette.
From the appetizer menu, the goat cheese with avocado and banana dressing (NT$360) is highly recommended. It's a small serving but worth every dollar. Diced avocado and creamy goat cheese sit atop a bed of sprouts, raisins and nuts, with a dollop of banana puree sweetened with honey, spiced with nutmeg and soured with white wine. The mushrooms with balsamic vinaigrette (NT$160) are nothing more than their description, but are sauteed until perfectly coated in a thick and not-too-sweet reduction.
Address: 200, Daan Road Sec 1, Taipei City (台北市大安路一段200號)
Telephone: (02) 2703-2773
Open: Mondays to Fridays from 11:00am to 10:00pm, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:30am to 10:00pm
Average meal: NT$200 to NT$600
Details: Chinese and English menu, credit cards accepted, 10% service charge
On the Net: www.facebook.com/metrobodhi
The five slices of bread (NT$200) are a unique spin on a restaurant regular, as a variety of thick grains and spreads are served in a range from sweet to savory. The potato wedges (NT$100) are simple but worth ordering for the dip. A seriously strong jalapeno relish-type dip accompanies the spuds, which also comes as a side to the cumin bread sandwich (NT$280), which is topped with a poached egg and generous amounts of mozzarella cheese. The cumin was quite mild and was balanced nicely by a topping of creamed mushrooms.
The restaurant offers three sizzling pans, and both the menu and myself recommend the Ofeakwu (NT$295). In fact, it was my favorite item of the day and I immediately went home and tried to replicate this native Nigerian dish. Wild rice, various beans, seasonal vegetables and a poached egg are covered in a simple tomato sauce that makes it somewhat of a stew. The flavors are so wholesome and robust that even hardcore carnivores won't complain.
Metro Bodhi's interpretation of pizza is more like a flatbread with toppings, which once again gives off more of an earthier taste. The lack of oil makes it drier than what you expect from pizza, but also means you can better taste the toppings like the explosive taste of pesto on the arugula pizza (NT$300). It's perfect for those who enjoy the concept of pizza but usually pass on an oil-drenched deep-dish style.


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"This one goes out to all the lovers," Pharrell Williams croons on his new single "Marilyn Monroe," a bodacious R&B song from his latest G I R L album. Featuring women of different sizes, shapes and shades, the "Happy" hit-maker celebrates the beauty of the female form, including such goddesses as Joan Of Arc and Marilyn Monroe.
The clip rises on Williams in a dream-like state, as he runs to the top of a magical, moon-lit hill. He comes upon the ideal woman, but he soon realizes that it was all make-believe. He soon awakens and makes his way to a dance hall on his too-small bike. The cameras pan on various dancers stretching and getting ready for a big musical number. Curves, curves and more curves!
Williams finds it hard to describe his perfect girl. "Why, why do I have to lie? Pretend, make believe or hide her when I love what I've described? But then again, I don't need no adjectives for this girl," he sings on the second verse as colorfully bedazzled women (either in red, blue or white outfits) groove around him.
In the end, it's Kelly Osbourne who snaps him out of his fantasy and sends him back to his dream-like state. "In honor of the groove and all who's surrendered to it, we say thank you, and we take it back," she guides. Williams is subsequently zapped back in time before all the dancing occurred.
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This is actually a more difficult calculation (or I forgot too much probability). Luckily a bit of brute force comes in handy. To reiterate, in general simulated data shows 0.54 redraws because of the first person etc.
[1] 0.54276 0.40735 0.31383 0.24834 0.20415
In this last week I figured out how to finish this more elegantly/without too much brute force.
To reiterate, the chance within a particular round of drawing names are:
(p.onedraw <- c(colSums(redraw)/nrow(redraw),p.succes) )
[1] 0.200 0.150 0.117 0.0917 0.075 0.367
This means that a 'round' of secret santa with 5 persons can have 6 outcomes: The first person draws self, the second draws self, same for person three , four and five. Sixth outcome: a valid drawing of names. If a person self draws, a next round occurs. This means an infinite number of rounds and drawings may occur. The brute force solution was to follow a lot of solutions and do this again and again. But, we can calculate the probability of of a finish after twice a fail at person 1 and three times fail at person 3. It is the chance of this happening: 0.22*0.1173*0.367 times the number of ways this can happen: (2+3)!/(2!*3!). Obviously, this is a generalization of some of the formulas for binomial.
Now, to do this for all reasonable possibilities of results. The latter may be obtained e.g. byncalc <- 8 xx <- expand.grid(0:ncalc,0:ncalc,0:ncalc,0:ncalc,0:ncalc)
[1] 59049
Implementation phase 1
There are quite a number of probabilities to calculate, and as this will be wholesale, every shortcut is welcome. The main approach is to do the whole calculation on a logarithmic scale and transform back at the end.
With a bit of preparation log(factorial) is just getting a number out of a vector.
lnumb <- c(0,log(1:40))
clnumb <- cumsum(lnumb)
lfac <- function(x) clnumb[x+1]
[1] 24
to store logs for chances:
lp1d <- log(p.onedraw)
Combine it all into functions
lpoccur <- function(x,lpvals) {
x <- as.numeric(x)
crossprod(c(x,1),lpvals) + lfac(sum(x))-sum(sapply(x,lfac))
poccur <- function(x,lpvals) exp(lpoccur(x,lpvals))
And call it over the matrix xx
chances <- sapply(1:nrow(xx),function(x) poccur(xx[x,],lp1d))
newcalc.res <- as.data.frame(cbind(xx,chances))
newcalc.res <- newcalc.res[order(-newcalc.res$chances),]
Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4 Var5 chances
1 0 0 0 0 0 0.36666667
2 1 0 0 0 0 0.07333333
10 0 1 0 0 0 0.05500000
82 0 0 1 0 0 0.04277778
730 0 0 0 1 0 0.03361111
6562 0 0 0 0 1 0.02750000
Implementation phase 2
The idea was to not store matrix xx, but rather generate the rows on the fly, because I thought xx would be too large. But is seems that is not needed and a suitable xx fits into memory.
[1] 0.9998979
Hence the calculation can be vectorised a bit more, reducing calculation time again:
ntrial <- rowSums(xx)
accu <- lfac(ntrial) + crossprod(t(as.matrix(xx)),lp1d[1:(length(lp1d)-1)])
for (i in 1:ncol(xx) ) accu <- accu-lfac(xx[,i])
accu <- accu+lp1d[length(lp1d)]
chance2 <- exp(accu)
newcalc2.res <- cbind(xx,chance2)
newcalc2.res <- newcalc2.res[order(-newcalc2.res$chance2),]
So, the values from simulation are recreated
[1] 0.5445788
[1] 0.2044005
Calculation done! In the end it was not so much a difficult or long calculation. However, a simulation is much easy to construct and clearly pointed out directions.


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Demand for U.S. durable goods likely surged 2.3% in December, propelled by a huge bundle of orders for Boeing aircraft, according to economists surveyed by MarketWatch. The report will be released Monday at 8:30 a.m. eastern by the Commerce Department.
Orders probably rose around 1% stripping out transport goods, suggesting a continued expansion in the U.S. industrial sector during the last month of the year.
Boeing received orders for more than 180 aircraft in December. Each jet is hugely expensive and airline orders can give a temporary jolt to the durables report. So can military spending, which is often lumpy.
Investors will scour so-called core capital orders – transportation and defense are omitted – for a better idea of underlying strength in the manufacturing sector. Core orders climbed 2.6% in November and 3.0% in October. Another number like that would please investors and give financial markets a lift.
Orders for durable goods is not a sexy category, but it's a critical component of U.S. growth. Rising sales of autos, planes, computers, furniture and the like signals an improving economy.
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Baylie Brown Does Not 'Amaze' On 'American Idol'
When 'American Idol' contestant Baylie Brown came out looking like Miss America, we wanted her to then open her mouth and bestow upon us the brawn to go with the beauty. However, when she began her rendition of Lonestar's 'Amazed,' we were anything but.
While nerves can certainly get the best of any performer, she was never able to pull it together. She started off pitchy and carried this throughout the duration of her performance. At the end of the song, the judges noticeably struggled to give Brown positive feedback.
Jennifer Lopez started by telling the 22-year-old Texan that although she was beautiful she never seized control of the song and it was shaky all the way through. "It's got to be solid" Lopez continued, "I felt like you could have had a moment but we'll see what happens." If Brown was feeling a slight blow to her confidence, Randy Jackson's commentary wouldn't help. After using "shaky" and "pitchy" to describe her vocal performance he added: "You look amazing but it wasn't great." Steven Tyler questioned Brown's song choice but said he found her "very pretty."
Perhaps the aspiring songstress was just having an off night, but it's really to bad it wasn't a beauty pageant because in that case – we would be reporting that she nailed it.
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A simplicial complex is said to be flag if it is the clique complex of its underlying graph. In other words, one starts with the graph and add all simplices of all dimensions that are compatible with this -skeleton. A subcomplex of a flag complex is said to be induced if it is flag, and if whenever vertices and is an edge of , we also have that is an edge of .
Does there exist a flag simplicial complex with countably many vertices, such that the following extension property holds?
[Extension property] For every finite or countably infinite flag simplicial complex and vertex , and for every embedding of as an induced subcomplex , can be extended to an embedding of as an induced subcomplex.
It turns out that such a does exist, and it is unique up to isomorphism (both combinatorially and topologically). Other interesting properties of immediately follow.
– contains homoemorphic copies of every finite and countably infinite simplicial complex as induced subcomplexes.
– The link of every face is homeomorphic to itself.
– The automorphism group of acts transitively on -dimensional faces for every .
– Deleting any finite number of vertices or edges of and the accompanying faces does not change its homeomorphism type.
Here is an easy way to describe . Take countably many vertices, say labeled by the positive integers. Choose a probability such that , and for each pair of integers , connect to by an edge with probability . Do this independently for every edge.
This is sometimes called the Rado graph, and because it is unique up to isomorphism (and in particular because it does not depend on ) it is sometimes also called the random graph. It is also possible to construct the Rado graph purely combinatorially, without resorting to probability. The I have in mind is of course just the clique complex of the Rado graph.
We can filter the complex by setting to be the induced subcomplex on all vertices with labels , and this allows us to ask more refined questions. (Now the choice of affects the asymptotics, so we assume .) From the perspective of homotopy theory, is not a particularly interesting complex; it is contractible. (This is an exercise, one should check this if it is not obvious!) However, has interesting topology.
As , the probability that is contractible is going to . It was recently shown that has asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.) at least nontrivial homology groups, concentrated around dimension . For comparison, the dimension of is .
I think one can probably show using the techniques from this paper that there is a.a.s. no nontrivial homology above dimension or below dimension . It is still not clear (at least to me) what happens between dimensions and . It seems that a naive Morse theory argument can give that the expected dimension of homology is small in this range, but to show that it is zero would take a more refined Morse function. Perhaps a good topic for another post would be "Morse theory in probability."
Another question: given a non-contractible induced subcomplex (say an embedded -dimensional sphere) on a set of vertices, how many vertices should one expect to add to before becomes contractible in the larger induced subcomplex? For example, it seems that once you have added about vertices, it is reasonably likely that one of these vertices induces a cone over , but is it possible that the subcomplex becomes contractible with far fewer vertices added?


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Based on the popular novel by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. When their father is killed, teenagers Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams), together with their preteen siblings Cory (Ben Ganger) and Carrie (Lindsay Parker), are put in the care of their religious-zealot grandmother (Louise Fletcher). Grandma has never approved of the wanton lifestyle of the kids' mother Corinne (Victoria Tennant), and she has no intention of extending her love to the children. Even worse, Corinne is anxious to win back the love of her estranged father, who, knowing that Corinne and her late husband were cousins and thus incestuously linked, would never approve of any children from this union. Thus, the four children are locked in their grandmother's attic, far from the view of their unforgiving grandfather. How the kids cope with their imprisonment is the heart of the film. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Cast & Crew
- Louise Fletcher - Grandmother
- Victoria Tennant - Corinne
- Kristy Swanson - Cathy
- Jeb Stuart Adams - Chris
- Ben Ganger - Cory


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Do you think in pictures? These TED fans do — and they capture their thoughts in an idiosyncratic mix of words and text that parallels the way their thoughts flow.
Sharon Hwang posted this adorable video on Instagram, showing her thumbing through her notes from TED2014. She writes, "What an amazing week at TED! Leaving completely inspired, with a pile of notes scribbled."
A group of "citizen journalists" jotted down their thoughts on the conference using OneNote Online, Microsoft's group note-taking system. Below, Sheryl Connelly's interpretation of Larry Page's talk.
Also via OneNote, Grace Rodriguez remembers Ray Kurzweil's talk.
In her talk from TED2011, Sunni Brown made the plea: "Doodlers, unite!" This year, she shared her visual recordings of TED2014 talks with LinkedIn. Below, see her capturing of a talk from Amanda Burden, New York City's former director of city planning.
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Distributing Digital Libraries on the Web,
CD-ROMs, and Intranets:
Same information, same look-and-feel, different media
Ian Witten, Sally Jo Cunningham, Bill Rogers, Rodger McNab,Stefan Boddie
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
The Greenstone system from the New Zealand Digital Library provides a
new way of making collections of information available in the same form over
the World-Wide Web, on CD-ROM, or on local Intranets. Exactly the same
information is available in each case, and exactly the same interface is used to access it.
The New Zealand Digital Library is accessible over the Web and offers a wide variety
of information collections. Sub-collections can be written to a CD-ROM, which can be
used on a standalone PC by a single user. A local Web browser suffices to access the
information on the disk just as though the PC were connected to the Internet.
Simultaneously, if there is a network connection, the same disk acts as a network server
to make exactly the same information available to others who need only use their
standard Internet browser software. This technology has great appeal for many users,
particularly those in developing nations where non-local Internet access can be
precarious or prohibitively expensive.
1. Introduction
The emerging digital library movement is a child of the Internet and the World-Wide
Web. Spurred on by visions of an "information superhighway," current digital library
projects invariably concentrate on providing access to document collections over the
Internet, where documents, users, and catalog may all be distributed widely. Often the
search interface is WWW-based, in contrast to the telnet or phone-in access required by
library OPACS and earlier commercial "online" bibliographic databases such as Dialog.
Web-based digital libraries have significant advantages over their online predecessors.
Users need not obtain and install search software on their own sites. In many areas
Internet access incurs minimal charges, or at any rate is significantly cheaper than a
direct telephone connection with the retrieval system. Finally, Web browsers provide a
simple, standard means of access to a variety of digital library systems.
However, practical experience in digital library development indicates that in many
situations, universal access via the Internet is neither possible nor desirable. A
business, for example, might desire a digital library to make its proprietary documents
available to its employees, but only if the company's security could be ensured by
restricting access with an intranet. CD-ROM has been identified as the implementation
platform of choice for collections targeted at large portions of the Third World; for
many developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, Internet connections are
still either non-existent, undependable, or prohibitively expensive to use. Despite its
lowly status, the CD-ROM has many advantages. Relatively durable in the face of harsh
environmental conditions, it incurs known, fixed costs for purchase and supporting
hardware (White, 1992). It makes information accessible on a tangible medium that is
under the user's control and is not subject to capricious decisions by others. A CD-
ROM based digital library carries the further advantage of providing full document
contents—a significant drawback to bibliographic systems being that their users in
developing countries could locate descriptions of relevant documents, but were then
often unable to obtain the documents themselves (El-Hadidy, 1994; Chowdhury,
1996). Finally, while a CD-ROM holds a reasonable amount of material in textual form,
digital videodisk technology is already available which can store 12 Gb on a single
disk—far larger than most extant textual digital libraries.
For this reason the Greenstone digital library software developed by the New Zealand
Digital Library project allows a collection developer to create a digital library that is
WWW-based, intranet-based, or available on a standalone or networked CD-ROM. All
platforms support exactly the same interface, and the same search and retrieval
methods. This standardization reduces the system learning curve for intranet or CD-
ROM users who have previous experience with WWW browsers, and conversely
allows those users currently without Internet access to more easily progress to Web
searching and browsing when it becomes available to them.
An earlier version of this software has been used in a university-level distance learning
course on computer literacy, where selected portions of various WWW sites were
stored on CD-ROM for students to surf (Holmes and Rogers, 1997). Here, the primary
advantages of avoiding an Internet connection were to smooth out variable page
retrieval times, to avoid problems with off-site servers going down or being temporarily
unavailable, and to eliminate communication costs. In secondary or primary school
settings, this technique for capturing known portions of the WWW can be used to
prevent students wasting lab time exploring sites that irrelevant to the task at hand, or
that are inappropriate for their age groups.
The digital library collection described in this paper is comprised of a set of documents
provided by the United Nations University, focusing primarily on food and nutrition.
The goal of the United Nations University Press is to disseminate knowledge in the
field of the global problems of human survival, development and welfare, in order to
increase dynamic interaction in the world-wide community of learning and research.
By making their documents available in a variety of formats—print, CD-ROM, WWW
pages—this research and human development information can be distributed more
widely, and in a form appropriate to the conditions required by information users.
Section 2 describes the software architecture. Multimedia collections are supported, and
a single collection may include text, images, audio, and even video clips. Compression
technology is used to ensure that the greatest possible volume of information is packed
into a limited storage space. The interface software combines easy-to-use browsing
with powerful search facilities. As discussed in Section 3, several ways are provided to
find information in a collection; a user can conduct keyword searches, access known
documents by title, or browse subject "bookshelves".
2 . System architecture
A great advantage of the WWW as a means of presenting and using information is that
very little direct user interface programming is required. A system can generate simple
text documents in HTML notation, and leave the task of display, printing, screen
navigation, and so forth to a Web browser. As a result, the browser writer takes most
of the burden of system dependence away from the application programmer. The CD
version of the Greenstone library follows this structure: our software takes the form of
a WWW server, communicating with an unmodified browser using IP networking
software. While the primary goal is to have a system running on a stand-alone
machine, the use of IP networking does also mean that the software will function as a
WWW server over an external network. Figure 1 shows the general software
organization. The gray box encloses the software components running on one
Ideally, the WWW server would be a standard piece of software, and a digital library
would take exactly the same form on a single machine as it does on our larger WWW
serving equipment. This did not prove possible for a number of reasons—most
significant of which was the amount of memory expected to be available on our target
machines, which for this project include the older and smaller workstations commonly
in use in the Third World. The full digital library system on our WWW servers does
make use of standard Internet server software. In the WWW version of our digital
library architecture, pre and post processing of queries on the library are handled in
tasks run via the CGI mechanism, and communicate via request queues with tasks
running the MG document indexing and compression software (Witten et al, 1994).
Much of the 'glue' software is written in Perl (Wall et al, 1996) and requires the large
Perl interpreter and software library to be in memory.
In contrast, the CD-ROM version of the software is a single integrated piece of software
incorporating the Web server, digital library pre/post processing, and MG. Only a
single index need be in memory at any one time, as a CD-ROM usually only holds a
single collection. All of the software is coded in C and C++ to avoid the significant
overhead involved in using a Perl interpreter. The result is a system which will work
satisfactorily on a workstation with 8 or 16 MB of main memory (depending on the
memory requirements of the workstation's operating system).
A browser is directed to access the server in one of two ways. The simplest is to use
the URL http://127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1 means ' local machine'). Once the first page is
loaded, further pages are referenced relative to the starting page, and so are also
obtained from the server. This is convenient in that it requires no set-up on the
browser. The alternative is to set the browser to use 127.0.0.1 as its 'proxy'. This
means that all page requests are routed to the server. It functions like a fixed cache,
satisfying requests when it can and passing demands that it cannot handle on to an
external network (if available).
Figure 1: Browser-Server Interface
The server handles incoming page/file retrieval requests according to the requested
item's availability and form of storage. If a page is not available locally, the request
may be passed on to an external network. If each page or document in a collection is
stored in a separate file, then a local file request can access the item on the CD-ROM.
However, in general we avoid storing a collection's documents in separate files,
because large numbers of files use CD-ROM space inefficiently. Instead, document
files containing text are stored (and the extracted text is indexed) in an MG database,
and non-text files are stored in a special repository file. The server has an index of the
documents held in the MG database and the file repository. Incoming requests are
checked against this index and may be retrieved from MG or the repository as
appropriate. Major savings in collection storage requirements are possible by taking
advantage of MG for text storage: typically text compresses to 25% of its original size,
and the compressed index occupies around 7% of the size of the original text. This
leads to a total storage requirement for the indexed collection of approximately one-third
of the size of the original text alone. The system can also support a variety of types of
Local File Retrieve
Local Text Database (MG)
Local Non-Text Repository
Remote (WWW) access
Special Processing
external network
internal network software
non-text items in the collection—audio, images, video clips—simply by including
appropriate viewing utilities on the CD-ROM. For searching, the non-text items are
represented by textual descriptions in the MG index.
A request which requires some computation on the server, such as the submission of a
query from a user, would normally be handled with CGI requests. On our system,
such requests are invoked by URL's starting
. These are
internally routed to handler routines within the server itself – particularly to MG
The major implementation difficulty experienced was with the IP network software, on
machines which did not have network cards or modem software. To avoid installation
complexity we chose to implement our own network layer to be used on such
machines. In the absence of networking software the server loads our internal network
software and communicates using that.
3 . Searching and navigating a collection
The primary access method for documents in the United Nations University collection
is keyword search (Figure 2a). The system supports searching over the
text of the
document—not merely a document surrogate as is common in many commercial
retrieval systems. While other collections we have built support a syntax for full
Boolean searching, early user feedback from a similar document set (the Humanitarian
Development collection, put together by the Global Help Project) indicated that Boolean
searching was more confusing than helpful for the targeted users. Previous research
suggests that difficulties with Boolean syntax and semantics are common, and are
observed in diverse user groups (Borgman, 1996; Greene et al, 1990). Transaction log
analysis over a number of library retrieval systems indicates that the most popular
Boolean operator by far is the AND, with the Boolean OR and NOT rarely present in
queries (Peters, 1993); we have confirmed this result in another New Zealand Digital
Library collection (Jones et al, 1998). For all these reasons, the United Nations
University interface default is ranked retrieval. However, to enable users to construct
high-precision Boolean AND searches where necessary, selecting "search…for ALL
the words" in the querying string produces the syntax-free equivalent of an AND query.
Figure 2: (a) Initial search screen for the UNU collection and (b) search preferences
By default, search terms are stemmed and case differences are ignored. Most
transaction log analysis from library online catalogs, digital libraries, and WWW search
engines indicates that users tend to submit extremely brief queries. For example, the
average query length for the New Zealand Digital Library's
Computer Science
Technical Report
collection is only 2.5 words (Jones et al, 1998), a typical figure
mirrored in retrieval studies conducted over two decades (Sandore, 1993). With such
brief queries the major difficulty encountered with search results is low search
recall—hence the system automatically expands the query through stemming and case
folding. These defaults can be modified by
The initial search screen (Figure 2a) also permits users to specify the "granularity" at
which their search is done (that is, the size of the text against which the query is
matched). Choices include
same chapter or section
, and
. By
selecting the smaller passage sizes, users can achieve a greater search precision, while
selecting the larger ones tends to give a higher recall. Regardless of granularity, the
results are always displayed in terms of a complete book, opened at the appropriate
Figure 3: Query results page
We support browsing by taking advantage of the fact that the hierarchical structure of
United Nations University Press documents is marked up in the document files. When
an item in the "query results" list is selected (Figure 3), the user is presented with a
photograph of the document's front cover and a table of contents with an arrow
marking the item's position in the contents (Figure 4). Folders can be clicked open or
closed, allowing the user to travel up and down the document's structure (in Figure 5,
moving from a report up to the section headings for that issue of the bulletin). Clicking
on "expand contents" will expand out the whole table of contents so that the user can
browse the titles of all chapters and subsections to get a detailed view of the entire
contents. "Expand text" displays the whole text of the current section or book, which is
particularly useful when printing a complete work.
Figure 4: Viewing a selected item in the query results list
Figure 5: Moving up the document structure hierarchy
Browsing or searching by subject is supported by clicking the "subjects" button on the
menu options bar of any search or results page . This brings up a list of subjects,
represented by bookshelves (Figure 6). Users can click on any bookshelf to look at
books on that subject, and click on a book to read it. Similarly, clicking on the "titles"
button allows the user to browse through an alphabetized list of titles. If the user is
currently viewing a document when the "subjects" or "titles" button is clicked, s/he will
be taken to the place in the subjects or titles list that corresponds to that book. This
supports the user in browsing for books on the same subject, or for books with similar
Figure 6: Browsing by subject
4 . Conclusions
Despite near-universal current practice, the World-Wide Web is by no means the only
way to deliver digital library services. Local networks and CD-ROM disks can be a
viable alternative—and a necessary one in many operating environments. The humble
CD-ROM can hold a lot of text, and DVD disks will enable easy distribution of very
substantial collections
The challenge is to produce a scheme which can be used for distribution over each of
these media, and look just the same to the user. The Greenstone software allows
information to be made available in precisely the same form, using precisely the same
interface, on a single-user (PC) computer, a local intranet, or the World-Wide Web.
One reason for developing this technology was to permit access to important
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remote site availability, and suffer from highly variable and unpredictable network
delays, will appreciate the advantages of having digital library information on
site—whether in single-user or shared mode.
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Learning Acem Meditation at a weeklong retreat ensures that you get a good start. Deep layers of mental stress and muscular tension give way to a calmer and more receptive frame of mind.
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Daily sessions of basic Acem Yoga have a refreshing effect and facilitate the meditation practice.
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The Acem International Retreat Centre at Halvorsbøle is situated outside Oslo in beautiful and peaceful surroundings. Most rooms have a direct view of the Randsfjord lake.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech Athletics has put together a special ticket package for youth teams in the region, but they will need to act quickly to take advantage of the offer.
The first 20 youth teams to purchase tickets at a special group rate for the May 9 WNBA exhibition game between the Atlanta Dream and Washington Mystics will receive a commemorative WNBA basketball in a pregame presentation.
"This is a first-come, first-served offer for the first 20 teams, so we're really encouraging them to call as soon as possible," said Misty Pearson, TTU director of corporate sales and marketing.
The tickets are just $5 each when purchased as a group, Pearson explained.
Former Tech head coach Marynell Meadors is the head coach and general manager of the Atlanta Dream, whose roster includes former Tennessee All-American Chamique Holdsclaw. The Dream also recently added former Georgia stars Kelly and Coco Miller to their roster.
The game is slated for a 3 p.m. tipoff in Eblen Center, the first professional game in the venue. The team will also be available to sign autographs following the contest.
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Former Senator Lloyd Bentsen died last week. His obituary in the New York Times was written by Times reporter David Rosenbaum. What's a bit spooky about this is that Rosenbaum himself died five months before Bentsen.
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Washoe County Programs
Green Industry Training Programs of Northern Nevada
Green Industry Training (GIT) and Green Industry Continuing Education Series (GICES) are cost- and time-efficient approaches to serving the Green Industries of northern Nevada, including nursery workers, landscapers, arborists, irrigation and lawn care professionals. The Green Industry Training program begins in late winter with eight three-hour sessions of entry-level training for new industry workers, for those desiring to work in the industry and for existing industry professionals desiring a skills "tune-up." After "basic training," industry members are invited to monthly continuing education opportunities — one hour per month over the noon hour — to hone and improve their skills.
With budget cuts occurring across all levels of state and local government, opportunities for Green Industry professional continuing education are becoming scarce. Green Industry members require continuing education to keep up their professional licenses and certifications.
Trained industry members receive continuing education credits for nursery worker certification, pesticide applicator, ISA-certified arborist and certified landscape technician. Over the past year, the program has trained almost 300 Green Industry members and provided them with continuing education that benefits their career and the community in which they are employed.
Contact: Heidi Kratsch, Area Horticulture Specialist, 775-784-4848
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4-H Afterschool
All children face risks as they grow and develop, but children who live in low-income housing or are homeless may be at higher risk for participating in risky behaviors. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) developed the 4-H After School Club (ASC) to teach children basic life skills including math, reading, science, positive communication, goal setting, self-responsibility, decision-making and good nutrition. Youth who have these life skills are less likely to participate in risky behaviors.
Calming the Waters: Learning to Manage Western Water Conflict
Conflict has surrounded the Truckee, Carson and Walker River Basins for decades. Key issues include historical use on tribal lands, historical and current water rights, threats to water quality, and wildlife habitat protection. This program teaches youth about Nevada's water issues and helps them develop the skills needed to address future water conflicts.
Commercial Landscape Horticulture
Engaged Leadership Program
Washoe County, Nevada, needed advanced training and skill building for the county's Community Advisory Board (CAB) members to help them to participate effectively in local government issues that impact their communities. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension developed and implemented an Engaged Leadership program to assist chairpersons and CAB members in their efforts to create and sustain effective boards.
Family Storyteller Literacy Program
National award-winning Family Storyteller is a literacy program aimed at encouraging and training parents to play a vital role in the literacy development of their children. Developed by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE), KNPB-TV, the Washoe County libraries and Washoe County School District, the statewide program creates an opportunity for parents and young children to interact around literacy and language activities. Family Storyteller is designed especially for families that may have limited language skills and few children's books at home.
Fun To Play
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Fun To Play program targets families where, due to the young age, inexperience or limited resources of the parents, young children are placed at-risk for developmental delays and later school difficulties. Fun To Play is a series of weekly infant/child sessions aimed at improving the parenting skills of young parents by increasing the amount of learning activities and interaction they provide their children.
Green Industry Training Programs of Northern Nevada
Green Industry Training (GIT) and Green Industry Continuing Education Series (GICES) are cost- and time-efficient approaches to serving the Green Industries of northern Nevada, including nursery workers, landscapers, arborists, irrigation and lawn care professionals. The Green Industry Training program begins in late winter with eight three-hour sessions of entry-level training for new industry workers, for those desiring to work in the industry and for existing industry professionals desiring a skills "tune-up." After "basic training," industry members are invited to monthly continuing education opportunities — one hour per month over the noon hour — to hone and improve their skills.
Grow Your Own, Nevada
Grow Yourself Healthy
Integrated Pest Management
Nevada Department of Agriculture's records show the use of traditional pesticides continues to increase in the state. Nevada's Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program helps agricultural producers, land managers; pest control operators, homeowners and other pest managers learn about and use alternative pest management strategies in a variety of environments and settings.
Little Books and Little Cooks
Living on the Land: Stewardship for Small Acreages
Living With Fire
Master Gardeners in Nevada
NEMO Nevada, Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials
The NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials) program was originated in Connecticut and has spread nationwide. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension offers the NEMO program in Washoe County. The premise is that improvements in land-use planning can result in protection of water resources, which can negate the need to fix problems after the fact by applying best management practices. The program will help land-use decision-makers understand the nature of the nonpoint source pollution problem and its impact on their lives, towns and natural resource base. This enables them to plan for growth and development while addressing water quality issues through educated land use decisions.
Noxious Weed Control and Awareness Education
Noxious and invasive weeds are widespread throughout Nevada. They threaten agricultural and rangeland productivity. Rural counties are susceptible to significant adverse economic damage. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension education programs help individuals and weed control organization reduce the abundance of noxious weeds.
Pick a better snack™ (formerly Chefs for Kids)
This evidence-based campaign focuses on building fruit and vegetable consumption in children through healthy snacking. Pick a better snack™ is a monthly, in-school nutrition education program for primary grade children in at-risk elementary schools in Clark and Washoe counties in Nevada. In addition to direct instruction, staff works with school wellness coordinators to build meaningful and sustainable programming to create a well environment in every school.
Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper (QWEL)
Small Steps 4 Big Changes
Parent involvement is recognized as a key factor in making wise food selections and shaping food and health behavior attitudes that affect the child's habits and food preferences. Conducted in partnership with the 4-H Youth Development Program, a series of ten nutrition lessons incorporate recipe preparation, food sampling and physical activity segments, with additional nutrition education content for the parent or adult caregiver. All lesson segments are focused on thriving within a limited budget, as well as increasing fruit and vegetable intake. This program has been successfully offered to five Reno Housing Authority (RHA) and other 4-H After School Program sites since the initial launch of the pilot program. The program fosters behavior changes identified by the Centers for Disease Control as being linked to childhood obesity prevention.
Team Nutrition "Smart Choices"
This program strives to address the public health issue of childhood obesity through building basic skills related to food selection and promoting an increased variety of nutritious foods consumed especially vegetables and fruits.
Water Wise
Water Wise is a new, online educational program that complements University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's local watershed protection, storm water protection and land-use decision-maker education projects (NEMO-Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials).
Weed Warriors Invasive Weed Training
The Weed Warriors Invasive Weed Training Program is held several times a year, usually in late winter or spring. This eight-hour, two-day introductory-level training introduces participants to the principles of Integrated Weed Management and focuses on improving ability to identify noxious weeds of local importance. A small fee is charged for program materials, and the class can be videoconferenced to other locations upon request. Each year, several dozen people go through the training and become certified Weed Warriors. Pesticide applicators receive six Continuing Education Credits for attending this course. Each year in May during a community event in the Truckee Meadows, Weed Warrior volunteers help rid parks and riverfront areas of invasive thistles.
Statewide Programs *Statewide programs may not be available in all counties
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|4-H Youth Development
|Cattlemen's Update
|Food Safety Project
|Herds and Harvest
|Integrated Riparian Management/Creeks and Communities
|Invasive Species (Weeds)
|Nevada Radon Education Program
|Nevada State GEAR UP
|Nevada Youth Range Camp
|People of the Land
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Paradise in St. Lucia at The Sandals Regency La Toc [PHOTOS]
If you are looking for total luxury in paradise then Sandals Resorts is where you want to go! I just got back from broadcasting at the Sandals Regency La Toc Resort and Spa on the beautiful Caribbean Island of St. Lucia!
At Sandals Resorts they know how to make you feel special from the moment you get there. Heck even before then! The Sandals experience actually starts at the airport!
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Zoo director turns passion into life's adventure
Director turns passion into life's adventure
Gregg Dancho seems to be living the life he was meant to live.
From catching frogs, snakes and turtles as a youngster on his family's Stratford farm, to mopping the floors of the "monkey house" at the Bridgeport zoo as a teen volunteer, to becoming a full-time animal keeper there in 1980, and subsequently director, Gregg Dancho has turned his passion for wildlife into a lifelong adventure.
Dancho, celebrating his 30th anniversary as director of the now-named Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, has seen -- and shepherded -- enormous growth and numerous improvements over the years at the zoo.
Consider this:
When Dancho joined the zoo, it attracted about 75,000 visitors a year. Now, it's up around 300,000 and new improvements by next spring should spur that figure to about 350,000, he says.
Visitors then typically spent about 45 minutes wandering the property. Now it's about two hours. The annual budget was then about $800,000. Now it's about $3.5 million.
More InformationIf you go
Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo is at 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport. Open year-round from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; last visitors admitted at noon. Closed on Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission $12; $10 for children and seniors. Visit www.beardsleyzoo.org.
Formerly owned by the city of Bridgeport, the zoo ownership was transferred to the Connecticut Zoological Society, a private nonprofit organization, with financial support from the city and state.
When he began his commitment to the zoo, it was "primarily a recreational facility, where you came with the family and had some cotton candy," he said.
But that is no longer the case and he views that move as one of the greatest achievements in the zoo's 91-year-history.
"Probably the biggest turning point in the zoo's history was that for the first time ever we received accreditation as a fully professional facility from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in 1987. We worked very hard to raise our standards and gain accreditation. It was essential for our long-term development," he explained. Gaining accreditation "put us in an entirely new category."
And with membership, comes responsibility, he noted. As the state's only accredited zoo, it was incumbent upon Dancho and Beardsley's staff to commit themselves to the (renamed) Association of Zoos and Aquariums' standards: The establishment and growth of educational and volunteer programs, providing new and ongoing recreational opportunities, participating in national and international research projects and participation in global conservation projects (working in cooperation with other American zoos).
Dancho points out that the zoo has been involved in "ground-breaking animal conservation efforts," including being home to the first Brazilian ocelot ever to have multiple pregnancies and kittens produced by artificial insemination.
Early years
Dancho's first "memories of the zoo go back to my childhood, when my parents, Al and Louise, took me and my six siblings here every Sunday after church. I find it amazing that my connection with the zoo spans about two-thirds of its existence," he said, laughing.
A 1976 graduate of Stratford's Bunnell High School, Dancho would go on to receive an associate's degree from Housatonic Community College in 1978 and a bachelor of science degree in zoology from Southern Connecticut State College in 1980. By 1982, he completed all the course requirements for a master's degree from Southern Connecticut State University. (With marriage, a new job and a family on the way, Dancho said he simply did not have the time to complete his master's thesis.)
Dancho, who lives with his wife, Laura, and three children in Stratford, says he knew early on that he wanted to make a difference in Bridgeport, but never set about to make Beardsley his life's work.
"I knew that I wanted to make this a career and not just a case of `working at the zoo.' And apparently, working here is not a short-term proposition," he said, laughing, pointing out other employees at lunch in the cafe with decades of service. ``It's a real testament to the people who work here. They're here because they love their jobs. Of course, there are ups and downs -- animals are born, live, have offspring and pass away," all of which affects the staff.
But for Dancho, the hard work and continual upgrading made him want to stick around.
"It was just a lot of things that fell in place at the right time," he said.
State of the zoo
Medium-size zoos like Bridgeport's need to focus on specific areas of the world in order to give their collections a sense of cohesion. With that in mind, Dancho says the zoo has shaped its collection to include 300 animals representing North and South America. It's prized elephant was sent to a more appropriate and larger home a number of years ago, he said. Features include an indoor Tropical Rainforest, New England Farmyard, a walk-through aviary with bald eagle exhibit, a wolf observation learning facility, Amur tigers and Amur leopard exhibits.
And there's so much more growth to come, he says.
If he were a different person, Dancho -- with countless community and professional honors and awards to his credit -- might be tempted to rest on his laurels.
"There's never been a moment when I've said to myself, `I'm content and happy' " with the state of the zoo, Dancho said. "It's always a work in progress," which he says keeps his life exciting.
In the next six to 18 months, the zoo, with city and state support, is scheduled to devote millions of dollars to make several more improvements, including a new Pampas Plains exhibit and an exhibit for two endangered South American Andean bears.
Dancho says that high on his list of personal favorites is giving the tiger exhibit a facelift, increasing its size and adding a glass viewing area so that visitors can go "nose to nose" with these beautiful animals.
Bitten many times (by snakes, lizards and even a pig), Dancho says it's hardly worth a mention -- just an occupational hazard.
What's important are the precious, fulfilling moments that make all the dedication worthwhile, he said.
"Many years ago -- I was a keeper at that point -- we had a tiger, Betty, who was pregnant. I set up propane heaters in her holding area and slept with her for several nights. We did all we could for the animal -- and she rewarded us with the live birth of Kimbee, a tiger cub. ... Kimbee's birth was probably one of the greatest moments for me at the zoo."
Today, with new animal husbandry techniques, Dancho would not be allowed to sleep with a tiger, but he's grateful for having had the opportunity and looks forward to having many more special moments at the zoo he helped to shape.
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1. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverMurraySummers Apr 29, 2009 1:49 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
Why not keep using GL if it's working for you?
2. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverAlleyCatSmith Apr 29, 2009 1:53 PM (in response to MurraySummers)
Oh, I'll be using GoLive as long as possible. I have it on my 3 computers and I'll use it as long as they have breath in their bodies.
3. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaversamovermars Apr 29, 2009 1:55 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
So you just wanted to post a forum to let people know how you feel????
4. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverastaab Apr 29, 2009 1:56 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
Wow, I hope you simply downloaded the 30-day trial of DW and discovered it wasn't for you rather than buying it and having that realization. Always test-drive software first...
5. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverMurraySummers Apr 29, 2009 1:57 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
There's nothing that would prevent you from continuing with GL. However, I'll try to make the transition over a bit easier by alerting you to this 'unspoken' truth:
If you want to use Dreamweaver, you will have to learn HTML and CSS. Period.
GoLive tolerated the 'no code view' approach. DW will not. However, your pages will be cleaner and will be MUCH easier to troubleshoot once you make the transition.
6. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverAlleyCatSmith Apr 29, 2009 2:00 PM (in response to MurraySummers)
I will stick with it because I do need to learn how to use it.
7. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverastaab Apr 29, 2009 2:02 PM (in response to samovermars)
I guess she/he just wanted to vent... Not sure if there is a GoLive Forum, but if so, that would probably have been a more productive/sympathetic place to vent. Seems typical that people get used to one way of doing things (or one tool in this case) and when forced to consider alternatives, their minds close down and emotions rule. Learning something new is good for the brain. Isn't that what this business is all about... learning and evolving?
8. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverMurraySummers Apr 29, 2009 2:02 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
Then you will have to begin by learning HTML and CSS.
9. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverjon@cmiwebstudio Apr 29, 2009 2:11 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
I think sometimes people think using dreamweaver is like using iWeb or frontpage or similar. As pointed out, you have to have an understanding of html to use this app. If you don't know how to dig into the code in code view, then you need to either educate yourself or find a non developer program. I've been using dreamweaver since ultradev days, and it's the best app out there for novice to expert developers. If Adobe really thought GoLive was superior, they wouldn't have bought Macromedia. Dreamweaver is a better product overall for professional development.
10. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverastaab Apr 29, 2009 2:16 PM (in response to jon@cmiwebstudio)
jon@cmiwebstudio wrote:
... Dreamweaver is a better product overall for professional development.
Well said! And "better" by a very long shot.
11. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverMark A. Boyd Apr 29, 2009 5:35 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
diloretta wrote:
I will stick with it because I do need to learn how to use it.
That is a really good attitude. Just remember that (as mentioned) it is HTML and CSS you need to learn. DW will become a breeze once you understand that, as a tool, it helps you to write the code for Web pages while providing some visual feedback.
And once you know HTML and CSS, you will not be locked into any IDE (GL, DW, Kompozer, etc...)
You would probably hate my workflow .
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :-)
12. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverthe_missing_link Apr 30, 2009 10:32 PM (in response to Mark A. Boyd)
This is almost universal in software and basically all of technology. What was great in the past is awful in the present. If you stay with Golive for ever you will be living in archaic history and you most likely will recieve complaints from your customers about glitches due to your program is so old it hasn't had a new update longer than my dogs gone without a bath. If you want to continue with life you will have to continue with the new technology. Sure it may feel hard at first HECK it may feel impossible but it's not. Just go to www.w3schools.com and read the HTML and CSS sections like your life depended on it 24/7 a month or so and you should be good to go. Let's hope your an insomiac that makes learning so much easier because you have more time to study!!
To conclude my rambling I would like to say that Golive will Godead in the near future. Why do I say that? No nothing has been said by adobe about it. I am talking hardware and OS's baby! Windows 7 is coming out soon and I am guessing a lot of publishers will require everything to be vista in the near future (more than they are already... kinda like how they phased out 2000 or ME.) What will happen is you'll be forced to upgrade to something newer cause your old computer won't support the new software and golive won't work.
13. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweavermoongod80 Jun 26, 2009 9:08 AM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
After a year of using Dreamweaver, I still hate it.
granted some things look better in DW, but the humble and easy functionality of golive is priceless.
none of my golive CS sites ever converted right to dreamweaver CS3, and I never have wanted to recreate everything just to appease a software program. As a photoshop/illustrator/indesign user, i work manily in print and video, I hate dealing with all the html garbage that is asociated with DW. Adobe seemed to be fully integrated with golive in ways that dreamweaver can never match.
14. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverDavid_Powers Jun 26, 2009 9:47 AM (in response to moongod80)
moongod80 wrote:
I hate dealing with all the html garbage that is asociated with DW.
That "garbage", as you call it, is the basic technology of web design. Understanding it is just as vital as knowing what a baseline grid is in InDesign, or selecting the correct colour space in Photoshop.
15. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverNancy OShea Jun 26, 2009 2:39 PM (in response to moongod80)
none of my golive CS sites ever converted right to dreamweaver CS3, and I never have wanted to recreate everything just to appease a software program.
It's not the software you need to appease, it's the site visitor's web browser. Malformed code accounts for most browser and DW rendering problems.
I hate dealing with all the html garbage that is asociated with DW.
Clearly, Dreamweaver isn't the right tool for you. If you don't build web sites for a living, you would be much happier switching to a consumer-level product like SiteGrinder, Xara Web Designer or NetObjects Fusion.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
16. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverthe_missing_link Jun 26, 2009 2:53 PM (in response to moongod80)
I agree with david but I'm going to take it even further. Think of DW
as your eyes, well without being able to understand what you read even
a smidgen your basically blind in our world.
17. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverthe_missing_link Jun 26, 2009 5:10 PM (in response to Nancy OShea)
Nancy and david are both totally correct! I'd like to see one of your sites
that pleases "the site vistors web browser" that you made in golive. HTML is
the rudimentary skill of Web Design. You need to learn it, go to
http://www.w3schools.com maybe after some simple studying you'll change your
opinion on what you consider "garbage" in DW.
18. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverSUCH Jun 28, 2009 12:05 AM (in response to astaab)
I come from a CAD background and use several CAD programs autrocad, micostation, 3dstudio max etc . I use dreamweaver for building my own websites while I am getting my new business going. When I was reseaching for a programme to build web pages Dreamweaver was miles out in front because of it versatility.I still have problems but that is because I am not a power user. If you are using products professionally you can not get stuck and not use the lattest technology. History is littered with people and companies not adapting to what is new.
Ian Cleland
The walking man
19. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverPaevo Kelley Jun 28, 2009 8:28 AM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
"Intuition" plus CSS, HTML, JS, etc. invariably leads to disaster... Incidentally do you create a mockup before launching DW?
20. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweavertheartguy4-fV5AeW Mar 5, 2010 1:43 PM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
I am also a long time user of GL having a lot of trouble migrating to DW. I cannot make the argument that you can do things in GL that you cannot do in DWL, or that GL is not dead and you need to move on. All that is true. I just don't understand why the interface and manner of working has to be so complex and obtuse. This is the equivalent of trying to using Illustrator or Photoshop by writing code instead drawing with a pen tool and scaling and coloring items. I do not understand why the same type of visual WYSIWYG approach cannot be applied to DW when it already worked to a large extent with GL.
21. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverbregent Mar 5, 2010 2:41 PM (in response to theartguy4-fV5AeW)
>I do not understand why the same type of visual
>WYSIWYG approach cannot be applied to DW
>when it already worked to a large extent with GL.
Until the most recent version, DW did have a layout tool similar to GL. These were called Layout Tables, and they were removed from CS4 because they produced results that were not worthy of a profession web design tool. It worked by creating tables with lots of row and column spans which were fragile and broke under many circumstances, the same way that GL sites did. It also made a mess which was impossible to troubleshoot. I guess Adobe decided they wanted to focus on professional quality tools which is why they dropped layout tables and GL. I would be great if you could draw your layout and have DW create robust code, but the technology just isn't there yet. Probably some day.
22. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverNancy OShea Mar 5, 2010 2:59 PM (in response to theartguy4-fV5AeW)
There are other web authoring tools you can use. DW is pro-level software, so the learning curve for first time users is a little steep. GoLive was pretty much aimed at designers and consumer level users (non-coders), similar in many ways to FrontPage.
I do not understand why the same type of visual WYSIWYG approach cannot be applied to DW when it already worked to a large extent with GL.
The trade-off for all that ease of use was really crappy code. If code doesn't matter to you, maybe you would be happier with a different app that puts less emphasis on code on more on Visual representation.
BTW: there's no such thing as WYSIWYG in web design. No matter which product you use, close approximation is as good as it gets. Final results may vary quite a bit in different browsers and platforms.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
23. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweavermoongod80 Mar 8, 2010 7:16 AM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
I think its been summed up that Golive was perfectly designed to do anything an artist or designer wanted to do for building a website. anything else is for techno geeks or old ladies making websites of their cats.
Its a shame that adobe let it fade away and didn't incorporate a better transistioning into macromedia dreamweaver. I still use the old Golive interface for layout, but use the dreamweaver for the dirty work. maybe someday Adobe will sell off golive or let it live on as open source software.
24. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweavercheris12345 Mar 8, 2010 8:05 AM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
I used to hate photoshop and now it is my everything software including my first
choice to use for web design.
Anything is hard at first, and remember, if it weren't hard to learn, no one would even need a web site designer.
What works for me when I get a new software program is to take a full week and do nothing but click and try. I become "one" with it. Every program has it's own way of thinking.
My first dreamweaver was years ago, I have upgraded about every second or third time and was delighted to see it become part of the full Adobe Creative Suilte. CS4 Dreamweaver is very intuitive and easy to learn.
Start off by not even looking at the code (sorry guys, but code is there only when you need something big,) Dreamweaver is still a wysiwyg type program for those that hate code.
Once you get confortable just with the design view, then you can explore the code portions and what is crazy easy is it does the code thing for you, so if you want to know what code to use, you design it first, then view it in the code.
Of course there is so much more... I recommend buying this series of books for all the Creative Suite CS4's
Dreamweaver CS4 Creative Classroom by Jeremy Osborn and the AGI Creative Team. (includes dvd)
Get all of them and keep them nearby to learn things as you want to.
Adobe Rocks!
Cheri LaVelle
25. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverSynterX Mar 8, 2010 8:57 AM (in response to cheris12345)
I started using PageMill, then found GoLive Cyberstudio. That was incredible...then Adobe bought cyberstudio and called it GoLive. We all know the history I guess...my point being I've been using DW and GoLive for a long, long time. I agree with the original poster on many levels. What Adobe failed to do, and failed miserably in my opinion, is to blend the functional aspect of Dreamweaver with the well-thought out interface of GoLive. I really expected the Macromedia buy out to turn out the ultimate web program - a combination of both GoLive and DW. Instead, they dropped GL and kept Dreamweaver as is. The interface is awful on DW in so many ways. It really is, you all may be used to it that way, but if you used GoLive at all, there is no way DW is nearly as well done as it could be.
Adobe has taken the easy way out in my mind. They should have been re-writing DW to act, look, and behave like a true Adobe product. I keep hoping each revision of CS will bring more than just a few new features tacked on to the same interface from years ago.
Any word on what CS5 will bring? My guess is the exact same thing as CS4 with a couple of new things stuck in there.
I want a whole new program that acts like the other Adobe programs.
26. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweavertheartguy4-fV5AeW Mar 8, 2010 9:46 AM (in response to SynterX)
"Adobe has taken the easy way out in my mind. They should have been re-writing DW to act, look, and behave like a true Adobe product. I keep hoping each revision of CS will bring more than just a few new features tacked on to the same interface from years ago."
I think that's it in a nutshell. I am not a software engineer and I have no idea what is involved in re-writing software. Maybe there is just no money in it for Adobe. I was an Adode Certified Expert in Photoshop and Illustrator and a long time user of GL, but I can't crack any of the logic behind DW. It just seems overly confusing for an process that is suppose to be mostly a visual exercise (at least as far as the design is concerned). Can you imagine if Illustrator required you to do this to draw a red circle:
<rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
If I don't have to do this in Illustrator or Photoshop or Indesign why would I have to do this in DW?
27. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverosgood_ Mar 8, 2010 10:24 AM (in response to theartguy4-fV5AeW)
I hate Dreamweaver too, but I hate Adobe even more and InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop................. Quark Xpress rocks!
Microsoft Publisher is by far the best though if you want to become a true professional.
28. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverNancy OShea Mar 8, 2010 11:10 AM (in response to osgood_)
Microsoft Publisher is by far the best though if you want to become a true professional.
ROFLMAO! Good one os.
Nancy O.
29. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweavercheris12345 Mar 8, 2010 11:32 AM (in response to Nancy OShea)
Well, I knew I paid too much for InDesign CS4, I could have just used Publisher and not
tried so hard. <g>
Cheri LaVelle
30. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverthe_missing_link Mar 8, 2010 8:34 PM (in response to moongod80)
Dreamweaver is an easy to use HTML and CSS tool. You may also use it for
dynamic languages but that's a little bit more complicated and let's be
honest when your writing dynamic code you can't rely on any WYSIWYG
generator, not even one as good as Dreamweaver.
People who are griping about missing Golive need to get a life. Yeah I said
it, go get a life. GoLive is dead and if you honestly think that Dreamweaver
isn't a good program than you don't have to use it. I'm sure the whole world
would appreciate it if you stopped making webpages in GL and frontpage
though because there hideous. I hope this will make people stop bumping up
this thread. .
31. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverSynterX Mar 8, 2010 8:44 PM (in response to the_missing_link)
That's a lame response. I'm saying the interface and overall workflow needs much work. For example, in the Properties panel, let's say I'm working on something and the line of code in the little box is long. Guess what? You can't expand the stupid thing wide enough to actually see all the text. You can't grab the Properties window and make it the width of your monitor and see more text. You can widen the thing 14", and still have a 2" wide text box to edit from. Why? GoLive had the ability to make the equivalent window go as wide as your monitor. Common sense interface element stuff.
It's pretty obvious most people here have not used GoLive for any length of time. So, it's pretty easy to blow us old GoLive lovers off as losers, who "need to get a life". How mature of you to insult us. Maybe the original poster is talking about more than interface and workflow, but I don't care what anyone says, GoLive had a much simpler, cleaner system for essentially the same exact features. I have to use Dreamweaver now, have been for 4 years, but there isn't a day goes by that I shake my head at DW. It's just clunky and needs some new work. It just doesn't match the other Creative Suite programs in it's interface, not even close.
I hope, really hope, Adobe takes CS5 seriously and does more than make a few tweaks and calls it an upgrade.
32. Re: No offense but omg do I hate Dreamweaverthe_missing_link Mar 8, 2010 8:55 PM (in response to SynterX)
The only thing I would point out about Dreamweaver that I find humorous but
at the same time not very professional is that every website is off by one
pixel. You will notice that any Webpage you make with DW will be a pixel off
in the left corner. You can fix this easily, so it's not an issue, it's just
funny. When I say get a life, I mean stop thinking that GoLive will come
back. There are tens of thousands of DW fans and about IDK 20 people who
want GL back?
I'll be honest, I've never used the program because I started using Adobe
software in 2007.
I'm not fully understanding your complaint about the properties panel. You
can expand almost anything as much as you want in DW. This is my last
message to this thread because I find this conversation to be utterly
33. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverSynterX Mar 8, 2010 9:02 PM (in response to the_missing_link)
AAGGHHH. My last post as well. But just to be clear, I'm not saying I want GoLive back! I simply want Dreamweaver to be updated properly to give the interface a makeover. It hasn't changed hardly at all in a decade. It doesn't fit with all the other original-Adobe programs, and really has the feeling of being slightly abandoned in that department. CSS is very confusing for many of us Designers-turned-web-guys. We really, really don't want to become full-time code experts if we don't have to. We have a ton of other programs and workflows to keep track of. We need Dreamweaver to help us do what we need, not fight us. I know Adobe could make it easier to deal with all the CSS options. Just give it a little effort to improve it in that area. Don't bring back GoLive, just have them get the original designers of GoLive and have them take what DW has and "massage" it back into a true Adobe product, not the forgotten stepchild of Macromedia.
Back to work now.
34. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverGoRamblers Mar 9, 2010 6:32 AM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
I was a long time GL user and did not go lightly into the switch to DW, which seemed to be foretold by the impending switch at Adobe. I can tell you that DW seems a lot cleaner to me. I now more fully realize that it's better to know the code than have a program write proprietary stuff in for you. In that regard, the DW shift has made me a better web designer.
35. Re: No offense but omg do I hate DreamweaverKevinSFreeman Mar 9, 2010 8:32 AM (in response to AlleyCatSmith)
I made the switch from Go Live to Dreamweaver last summer. There was a very steep learning curve for me. I bought David Powers Book, Dreamweaver CS4(...) and it was a great help. But it was like learning a different language or atleast dialect. I still maintain many sites that were built with GoLive and really enjoy updating the sites with the old software. Each time I go back to use GoLive I am always surprised at how much easier it really is to use.
I should say that I am a developer who is much more interested in the front end / visual side of things and dealing with any code is cumbersome, though I really do enjoy the way CSS works, I think it is brilliant. I also think many of the ajax widgets that are easily embeded into a dreamweaver page (or any other html page) are totally fantastic.
I think the intuitive aspect of GoLive should be considered for Dreamweaver developers. I understand that Dreamweaver is for pros and you need to know CSS and HTML to use it, but really, does that mean that it shouldn't be intuitive and much easier to use for all levels?
I am happy to say that when I do use GoLive now I am looking at the code much more and have a way better understanging of what is beneath the hood of a page and for that I am grateful.
All new sites I create will be created with Dreamweaver as I got through the learning curve and won't look back. For all it's shortcomings Dreamweaver is the app for me.


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Early this summer I published our list of goals for the summer and number nine was "build a soapbox racer" (otherwise known as a go cart). Well we can check that one off the list because last week we fulfilled our Nascar dreams by hosting the first ever Go Cart Grand Prix and fun was had by all.
So I've got pictures and instructions should you have the inclination to try it yourself. It was an easy project and the kids and I had lots of fun planning and building our sweet ride.
We called our creation "The Wind Scorpion" (which you might remember is another name for the camel spider). There were some issues about whether a "Ninja Wind Scorpion" were more fearsome than a mere "Wind Scorpion" but in the end we figured the simplicity and elegance of "The Wind Scorpion" would promote a general fear among our competition. The kids were even cocky enough to stick a sign on the back reading, "If you can read this you're losing."
Of course that was all a bit premature and our competition had a ringer in the pit crew. Apparently the other driver's grandfather is an Air Force mechanic who works on the F-15s so I guess if anyone knows anything about building machines for speed it would be him and we lost miserably. No worries, just wait until we build the next one, it's going to rule the pavement.
Here's what you'll need:
- Some friends who have as much time on their hands as you do. Unless you want to race by yourself. Of course you may not want to invite friends who have much MORE time than you because ten-to-one they'll build a machine guaranteed to leave you in the dust.
- 1 1-inch by 10-inch main board five feet long. This will be the main board for the chassis.
- 2 cross pieces to support the axles. We used cross pieces that were 2-inches by 3-inches--one 3-feet long for the back axle and one 2-feet long for the front.
- A Lazy Susan swivel for the front steering joint.
- 2 1/2-inch diameter, 3-foot long steel rods for the axles. Don't let the guy at Lowe's tell you that you need threaded rods, ignore him, you'll definitely need smooth rods for speed. Take it from us who learned the hard way.
- 4 wagon wheels to fit on the 1/2-inch rods, the ones with ball bearings in them are probably best and this will be the most expensive part of the project, running about $8 a piece.
- 2 small eye bolts for attaching the steering rope to the front cross piece plus two yards of steering rope.
- 4 1/2-inch cap nuts plus washers for securing the wheels on the axles.
- Wood screws of various sizes to hold it all together--plan for plenty of them because they'll get dropped and lost along the way.
- A trash can for the body--and some 1/4-inch stove bolts with washers to secure it to the chassis without tearing the plastic.
- I also used white Contact paper for decals that the kids designed with permanent markers.
- A 1-inch by 2-inch board for a pivot break fixed to the chassis with a 3-inch lag bolt.
- Metal plumber's tape to secure the axles to the cross pieces (and metal snippers to snip it).
- And finally you'll need a street where you can race. Preferably one that's a dead end, paved, gently sloped and without pot holes. I'd give you the name of the street we used but I'm guessing the people who live there might not appreciate me turning their street into The Fast and the Furious.
1. Screw the Lazy Susan swivel to the front of the long board then screw the cross piece on top of that. Your front board should swivel and steer quite nicely now.
2. Screw the back cross piece onto the main board.
3. Using strips of plumber's tape and wood screws, secure the axles to the undersides of the cross pieces.
4. Put the wheels on with the washers and cap nuts--you might also want to get some lubricant in there while you're at it.
5. We used an extra board as a back rest though this is optional, ditto on the rubber dish rack mat we used as a seat. If you want these now's the time to screw them in place.
6. Attach the break to the side with a pivot joint. You might have to experiment with this because we all felt that after our race the side break wasn't as effective as foot pedal breaks would be. Not sure how they'd be designed but you might give this some thought and come up with your own ideas.
7. Screw the body (trash can) in place. Our friends even had a grill and headlights on their car. I had the boys put decals made from white Contact paper they'd decorated with permanent markers and self-adhesive reflectors on the back. Be creative--our friends went to an auto parts store and asked for automotive parts stickers and the store gave them out for free.
8. Attach the eye bolts to the front cross piece near where the feet will rest. String the rope through the eye bolts and tie it so you have a loop of rope to steer with--if it's nylon rope you can burn the ends to melt it and make it more secure. When riding, keep this rope taut.
And finally, if you'd like to see video of the race here's the clip I put together to capture the experience. It was wise to require the kids to wear helmets and pads because the steering rope had to be held taut or they'd flip. The cars had a hand break on the side but the kids found it more effective to drag their heels off the front cross piece where they rested their feet.
Thinking about entering this month's Write-Away Contest? Prize is a Zune MP3 player and the theme is "Wonder Woman" but the deadline is this week so you'll have to hurry!
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Chris Brown investigated for possible assault
This Oct. 20, 2011 file photo shows Chris Brown performs live as part of the F.A.M.E Tour at The Staples Center in Los Angeles. Brown is under investigation for an alleged assault in a West Hollywood parking lot, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said early Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. Deputies responding to a report of six men fighting Sunday night found the scene clear, but were told by witnesses that there had been a brief fight over a parking space. (AP Photo/Katy Winn, file)


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Interview with Matt Lipps
Today from our friends at Kadist Art Foundation we bring you part one of a two-part video interview with artist Matt Lipps. Lipps has a solo show, The Populist Camera, at Jessica Silverman Gallery, now on view in San Francisco. In his talk with Kadist's Director of Collections, Devon Bella, Lipps explains, "I effectively broke every rule of Photoshop that I have my students not do." […..]