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At first glance, Jurassic Park is an adventure movie about dinosaurs. A dinosaur expert gets to do what most paleontologists only dream of – walking with living fossils. Add a little romance and adventure into the script and "Hey Presto!" you have the kids hooked. Dinosaur figurine sales go up and you need to queue to get into your local museum. All a perfect recipe for promoting paleontology and getting the message that what paleontologist do is 'cool'. Think again: "What is Jurassic Park actually about?"
The answer, quite rightly is genetics, more accurately genetic engineering. Jurassic Park may show off some stunning (albeit incorrect) CGI reconstructions of dinosaurs, but mostly it is about how modern technology can progress science to unbelievable heights. What most people remember from the script is how dinosaur DNA can be extracted from fossil blood-sucking insects trapped in amber. Jurassic Park did more for genetics than it did for paleontology. For example, the "National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and by the Ben F. Love Endowment, the ARC Federation Fellowship and the NHMRC C.J. Martin and R. Douglas Wright Research Fellowships" (Choi, 2008) supported a project to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian Tiger from DNA retrieved from a preserved fetus. Paleontology got peanuts.
Before I continue with more examples, I want to quickly explain what I mean by paleontological research. The majority of paleontologists are taxonomists and systematists. Many expand their research to include stratigraphy, paleoecology, taphonomy and functional morphology. Taxonomy however is essential in paleontology. Without it we are describing bits of shell and pieces of bones. Taxonomy gives us a name a diagnosis and most importantly a classification. Systematics helps us to establish evolutionary relationships. Equally important are the circumstances in which the fossil was preserved (taphonomy), it age (stratigraphy), the depositional environment (paleoecology) and what sort of life the organism led (functional morphology). Together they form a well rounded paleontologist and a paleontological project. For the media, paleontology as a scholarly endeavor, sells few magazines and doesn't cover the cost for airtime. Many people share a passion for paleontology, but what sells tons of plastic stegosaurus in museums could never satisfy the public's hunger for sensationalism.
In the same way that Jurassic Park appeals to our belief in modern technology, the hype around Tiktaalik roseaeand Ida ( Darwinius masillae) is our human desire to find out who we are and where we come from. The desire to know our own family genealogies is transposed onto evolutionary biology as the search for ancestors and origins – different concepts all together.
Ancestors and centers of origins are only place-holders to make statements about ancestor-descendants and dispersal. In order to propose evolutionary scenarios about individual taxa, say hominids or just humans, we need the evolutionary equivalent of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. As systematists, however, we don't need either. Taxa are related in some way based on their 'derived' characters so too are biotic areas. Stating a new discovery, such as Harpetidae are more closely related to Harpididae than they are to Entomaspidae, require no ancestors, only homologies. Therefore, homologies are necessary evidence in discovering evolution, where ancestors may be used in explaining evolutionary scenarios – they are not essential. The aim of any field, be it paleontology or entomology, is to find homologies and natural classifications first before we can even entertain the idea of ancestors and their centers of origin. Hence systematics lies outside evolutionary biology or, in other words, evolutionary biology depends on systematics.
The media however are unaware of this process of discovery and explanation. We have no way of knowing whether Tiktaalik roseaeand Ida are our ancestors or not. All we can discover are their systematic relationships. Anything beyond that is simply speculation and lies outside the realm of empiricism. The media's hidden agenda feeds off the latter.
If paleontology were to be promoted responsibly by the popular media, more is to be done about reporting about systematic relationships. The media's hidden agenda however is to personify these discoveries in the context of human genealogy. For example:
- "Scientists have discovered fossils of a 375-million-year-old fish, a large scaly creature not seen before, that they say is a long-sought missing link in the evolution of some fishes from water to a life walking on four limbs on land" (Wilford, 2006: Online).
- "Meet your ancestor – the fish that crawled" (Holmes, 2006: Online).
- "In the PLoS paper itself, the scientists do not actually claim the specimen represents a direct ancestor to us. But Dr Hurum believes that is exactly what Ida is" (BBC Online 19 May, 2009).
- "Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is 'missing link' in human evolution" (Randerson 2009: Online).
What then, reading these media reports, do we know about either of these fossils from a systematic or classificatory stand-point? Not much, other than what they represent within an evolutionary scenario – a 'missing link', a transition from sea to land or a potential ancestor. In effect, the media has used the discoveries of fossils, and not classifications, to push evolutionary scenarios. The discoveries that were made are not reported or at best briefly covered. Tiktaalik roseae and is closely related to Acanthostega and Ichthyostega and belongs in the family Elpistostegidae. Ida, or Darwinius masillae belongs to the subfamily Cercamoniinae; however, their systematic relationship within that group is currently unknown. These two taxonomic and systematic discoveries represent scholarship within paleontology, a field that is slowly declining in importance and prominence. The evolutionary scenarios are merely speculations, guess-work based on little empirical evidence. The media, as well as the science community, need to decide which deserves greater recognition. The future of paleontology is at stake.


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Bethenny Frankel, one of the stars on Bravo's guilty-pleasure hit "Real Housewives of New York City," is expecting her first child with soon-to-be husband Jason Hoppy, the reality star revealed Tuesday.
Frankel had initially hoped to keep mum about her pregnancy, but when rumors began to circulate online that the "housewife" was expecting, Frankel said she had to speak out to get the story straight.
"It's premature to be telling people this," a teary-eyed Frankel told People magazine.
"It's not like, 'did I get Botox?' It's not the way I wanted it to get out," Frankel said. "I haven't even gone through my first trimester. My [fiance's] parents didn't even know."
Frankel, an organic-foods chef who said earlier this month she wasn't leaving the Bravo program, got engaged to boyfriend Jason Hoppy in early October.
She and Hoppy are "both so excited," Frankel said about the birth, which she called a "miracle."
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 08:21 AM
I will also upload the non-tweaked version once I get home so you can compare.
_MG_0162-Edit-5 by I(heart)Fish, on Flickr
_MG_0162-Edit-5-2 by I(heart)Fish, on Flickr
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 09:55 AM
I'm liking the bluer version of the -2 version but I've never seen this beautiful fish in the wild so I'm not sure what the "real" colors are. I'm also wondering if you tried the adjustment brush on the black of the fin shadow and thought about pulling it the other way. (Trying to lighten it just a touch with local exposure control)
I think you'll find that you'll want to tweak the colors and especially brightness again when you go to print it.
Beautiful image!
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:42 AM
I understand your opinion on the sliver of fish that is lit. I would lighten the fin shadow to bring it closer to the overall fish exposure and see how it looks. The black and white one looks a bit like someone took a bite out of the fish to me. But I am certainly no expert.
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 05:09 PM
i don't see quite how to post it here to compare-
so, my question is: are all nap wrasses of similar tones? my guy is very different from your image --yours has much more green and is darker--i would really like your edit 2 if it was brightened-i remember this fish as very energetic and bright --yours has a different feel, rather large, slow perhaps, and subdued
-it is a lovely image-majestic animal
my post does not relate to how to tweak in lightroom but rather when tweaking one must remember the true colors and that's something i oft question myself about--how is it possible to recall exactness following the dive/shot unless same species are all documented to have the same color values?
when it gets to be contest time or to print for a friend or a gallery shouldn't the colors reflect the animal in best exposed circumstances? how do we know when we are giving the best representation?
this is a topic that film with proper lighting gave me a definite--i felt more sure that i wasn't enhancing an image-i struggle with software adjustments
i will follow comments directed to your inquiry
2 hr later EDIT: pls edit my entry as i just noticed my monitor was turned all the way down-oops-one of my cat's fav thing to do-step on strategic keys--edit 2 is still my choice and much brighter and closer in tone to my nap wrasse face now!
Edited by flotsam2, 17 January 2012 - 07:08 PM.
Posted 17 January 2012 - 06:36 PM
I struggle with color correction and exposure correction all the time, so I hope the above helps.
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Posted 17 January 2012 - 07:42 PM
And I was happy to get the response that I did. I do like the -2 image but I don't like his lips so much. And the pattern going down his face is has become so sharp that it is confusing.
Steve - good idea about lightening the shadow. I am afraid that some parts are so darkened that the resolution is not the best. Also, it is hard with that brush to get the light even. I will do some work and see what I come up with. I normally like directional lighting but if that shadow weren't there then the photo would be much* better.
Here is what the original (with a little added saturation but no other color manipulation) looks like:
_MG_0162-Edit-5.jpg by I(heart)Fish, on Flickr
Posted 17 January 2012 - 08:13 PM
There is still quite a bit of detail left in the shadow behind the fin even on the jpeg file you have up on Flickr. I bet if you go back to the raw file you could pull some of that out.
A 20 sec rough attempt using the adjustment brush with the auto mask turned on. Exposure +1 in the fin area
Have fun with it.
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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:34 PM
Lovely angle in the photo!
I like the top image. The blue cast is interesting as it emphasises the markings: Napoleon wrasse are not so blue in real life:
The colours of any fish look different in the night.
Living here in S/E Queensland and having seen them regularly(one I see is approx. 1.8m long ), here they do have blue heads (the larger fish) and in certain light conditions the whole body looks blue almost- I can never get close enough to them for a good photo as they used to be hunted by spear-fishermen where I dive and are extremely fearful of divers(maybe if the area gets better policing it might change in the future as they have become a protected species-humphead wrasse). I don't chase them when I see them, I am trying to see if I can get closer then 15m which is my PB so far- up further in the large protection zones you can pat them, they have memories like an elephant and life span too!
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This scrap of paper was sent to Deerfield, Massachusetts, resident John Sheldon at Quebec City, Canada. It was March 1705, and he had made a long journey in the dead of winter in an effort to redeem, or return, the members of his family who had been taken captive by Indians during the Deerfield Raid of 1704. They were his daughter-in-law Hannah Chapin Sheldon (23 years old when captured), his daughter Mary (16), and his sons Ebenezer (12) and Rememberance (11). Sheldon's youngest child, Mercy, was killed in the raid, as was his wife. The survivors were taken to Canada, and during Sheldon's mission they all were living in Indian villages near Montreal. The letter may have been written by James Adams, a Welles, Maine, resident who had been captured during a raid on that town in 1703. The letter itself offers good news: it was the first direct news he'd heard that his children had survived. Sheldon, who was seeking a general exchange of prisoners from the raid, was partially successful. During this visit, Sheldon was able to purchase the freedom of his daughter-in-law, Hannah, and another captive, Esther Williams, the daughter of Reverend John Williams. They all returned to Boston in early June, and Deerfield soon after. Sheldon tirelessly sought the return of all the captives and travelled several more times to Canada. By 1706 he was able to free the remaining two captives from his family, along with others from Deerfield; some of the children taken in the raid, though, would never return.
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NEW YORK – NBA commissioner David Stern said Thursday that he plans to step down on Feb. 1, 2014, on what would be the 30th anniversary of the date he assumed the league's top executive position.
Stern's exit strategy and the announcement of deputy commissioner Adam Silver as his likely successor was the surprise news from the two-day Board of Governors meetings in Manhattan. Stern, 70, had announced last winter that the current collective bargaining agreement with the players would be his last. But that deal runs at least until 2016. This puts Stern's departure less than 15 months away.
"It's been a great run," Stern said at a news conference. "It will continue another 15 months. The league is in, I think, terrific condition.
"Even at this board meeting, we reviewed finances. We approved new ownership for Memphis [the Grizzles' sale to investor Robert Pera's group]. I like to think I did an adequate job, but one of the things I did best was to provide a successor who would be able to take the kind of things we look at as growth opportunities … to take us even to the next level."
Silver, 50, has been an NBA executive for 20 years and deputy commissioner since July 2006. After a few weeks of negotiations, the Board of Governors is expected to hold a vote in April that will result in Silver becoming just the fifth commissioner in league history, succeeding Maurice Podoloff (1947-63), J. Walter Kennedy (1963-75), Larry O'Brien (1975-84) and Stern.
Thirty years is a nice round number, during which the NBA has experienced exponential growth in revenues and global popularity. Stern has led the league through both its highest highs — from the era of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan to stars of the current millennium such as LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Dwight Howard and others – and some of its lowest lows, including a referee gambling scandal and two rancorous labor lockouts (1998, 2011) that cost the league and fans both games and revenue.
Was 30 anything other than a round number as Stern made his decision to exit? "I thought one year for each of the 30 teams," he said, joking.
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That's one thing I wasn't sure of - whether their attacks were capped.
Also, I just had a VT Vamp run that I had to abandon because floor before the last one was bloodless and it stopped me dead. And I've done in the lizard and the statue and everything else, had platemail, halpmeh, RBS, 9 lvl of bloodsucking, 4 blood cows - ideal setup and everything, but it still killed me. Patches turned out maybe 2 resist hits.
Veto slots - Battlemage Ring, Spoon, Blue Bead, Whurlgarble, Crytal Ball, Heroe's Helm and Mage Plate.
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The '04-'06 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, commonly known as the LJ, brought a fresh audience to the Jeep brand. With its extended wheelbase and increased interior room, the LJ converted many would-be Jeepers who had previously shied away from the Wrangler models due to their limited cargo space and quirks associated with the shorter wheelbase. Similar to the traditional Wrangler, it didn't take long before these limited-production Jeeps were transformed into over-the-top unique creations.
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With the help of his friend and Mopar guru Keith Marsh, Jake gifted the Daimler-Chrysler monster with a 5.7L Hemi and a set of 14-inch Sway-A-Way coilover shocks.
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The Mission, the Model, the Method and the Message
Here's a riddle for you: What do you get when you cross Demi Moore's iconic nude pregnancy photo, with the Nike Swoosh™ (and Michael Jordan in a pair of Air Jordan's™), the Pink Ribbon™, and breastfeeding? Answer: A mainstream, consumer-driven, celebrity and corporate-backed nonprofit whose mission is to change the culture from breastfeeding-averse to breastfeeding-friendly! In other words, you get the The Best for Babes® Foundation a/k/a the Mother of All Causes.
It's a massive goal and we are often asked: "What is Best for Babes exactly?" So we thought it important to explain ourselves — break down the mission, model, message and method — and why we built this Mother Ship to transport breastfeeding from a movement to a true Cause embraced by popular culture.
First, what fuels us is the harm done to millions of U.S. moms annually who are prevented from achieving their personal breastfeeding goals by the cultural and institutional barriers they are unfairly forced to face – the Booby Traps™. That's right. Harm done. The Booby Traps cause real harm to moms and babies who experience unnecessary physical and emotional struggles trying to breastfeed; real harm when moms and babies miss out on the lifetime of health benefits for themselves and their babies; real harm when they then blame themselves and feel guilt, regret, anguish, grief.
It's in the name of moms and babies who were too upset and too exhausted to raise their voice or write a letter when they were being actively Booby Trapped, that we founded Best for Babes –an independent 501©(3)nonprofit, to be the first Mainstream Cause for Breastfeeding.
The Mission
Our mission is not only to serve as a resource for breastfeeding moms or to provide a breastfeeding community, but to be a catalyst for change in the culture-at-large: to transform the mainstream so that community and breastfeeding are synonymous. Taking aim at and conquering Booby Traps™ that foil and dupe millions of moms annually is the way we will get there. Well, how are we going to pull that Herculean feat off? We believe it's by taking breastfeeding from a largely marginalized "movement", to a bona fide Cause, replete with star-power and corporate clout and commandeered by an army of the millions of moms–those who set out to breastfeed and were booby-trapped along the way, and who now say, enough is enough!
The Model
We founded the Best for Babes Foundation in the form of an independent, mainstream nonprofit to give us the most flexible and potent vehicle to carry our giant mission and strategy forward. We chose to follow in the line of the great charities (e.g., The March of Dimes) and social marketing campaigns (e.g., Nike and fitness) to put the power and tools of social marketing to work for breastfeeding –to spur culture-wide change and build infrastructure to solve public health problems.
As an independ ent nonprofit, we intend BFB to be a vehicle to be used by all stakeholders –for profit businesses (both breastfeeding industry and non-breastfeeding industry), government agencies, other nonprofits, the media, celebrities. By using this model, we are unbiased conglomerate that serves the social good – breastfeeding — not one entity in particular and we have greater latitude to be the unorthodox voice for change that is often needed. The formula industry has the International Formula Council, shouldn't we have a trade group/alliance equally as strong?
For moms, we aim to be a gateway to resources, relying on individual, corporate and grant sources to stake projects that make vital evidence-based information directly available to the mainstream – not just the lucky few who are fortunate enough to have an expert LC care for them — so that they are no longer sitting ducks for the Booby Traps, statistical casualties.
At the same time, under our Corporate Alliance umbrella, we work collaboratively with celebrities, the media, the medical community and the healthy parenting advocacy community to raise awareness of the barriers and to demand and facilitate cultural and institutional change on behalf of moms. In this way, we go far beyond mother-to-mother support or helping one woman at a time to succeed at breastfeeding: we are building the infrastructure so that MORE women can be helped, FASTER, without having to overcome tremendous obstacles!
The Message
We chose our message and our brand very carefully with a deep understanding that every great cause with broad-based popular support is fighting against an inarguable big bad wolf that needs to be felled! And so we began our Campaign to Beat the Booby Traps – changing the core message about breastfeeding from "benefits" –which equals pressure on moms and has been cast as an invasion of privacy, to "Booby Traps"– which equals pressure on the barriers that PREVENT the 75% of moms who try breastfeeding from achieving their personal breastfeeding goals. We changed the message to reflect the grim reality: moms don't need more pressure about the benefits, they need help beating the Booby Traps. They don't need more science, they need solutions and for the suffering to end.
The Method
We are doing for breastfeeding what Demi Moore's cover for Vanity Fair did for pregnancy, what Nike and Michael Jordan did for fitness and working out, what the March of Dimes and (Red) and others have successfully done for similar causes focused on countering public health crises: change cultural norms through positive social pressure (marketing) and build systems — the infrastructure — to support them.
In our consumer-driven consumption culture, using marketing to drive behavior change works. Michael Jordan and Nike did more to launch a "fitness" revolution than knowing the health benefits of exercise alone ever did. In other words, creating the WANT –the desire for change– is more effective than TELLING people what to do because it gets people off the couch and initiating change for themselves.
And what about our image — our gorgeous, scantily-clad cover girls? Well, sometimes you gotta get a little extreme to bring things back to the main- or mid-stream mark. Take the bikini, for example. When it made its debut in 1946 it was scandalous! But it did the trick: one salacious image started a buzz and a trend that turned convention on its head and reset a social norm. Almost half a century later, the iconic Vanity Fair cover photo of a very-pregnant and nude Demi Moore taken by celeb-photographer Annie Liebovitz liberated another facet of the female form and experience – pregnancy. That photo launched a cultural acceptance, celebration and an entirely new maternity industry –The picture embodied not only liberation from hiding behind "moo-moos" while pregnant, but it sent a strong message that it was empowering to be both nurturing and glamorous at the same time — flaunt those robust figures babes, you're hot and you're pregnant!
It's a tall order, we know. And one that many esteemed breastfeeding advocates, supporters and professionals have been slugging away at for years. But ambition is our middle name and we think we've got an angle here – an approach – that hasn't been tried before in the breastfeeding arena – though it has been tried and proven to work in others.
There is room and need for everyone at this table –when breastfeeding rates climb, we all win – mom, baby, families, our collective health, the economy, businesses, and the environment. Our nonprofit table has room for all stakeholders to take a seat, get involved, and help lead moms out of the murky waters of the booby traps and into the larger ocean of success!


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Today, we want to point you to one of this year's top resources about the state of media (and one you should bookmark) – Nielsen's State of Media: The Social Media Report 2012. There's no need for us to peel back the layers and outline every piece of it, but we do want to point out a few key findings before you guys spend some quality time with the report itself.
1. Compare the amount of time spent on social media by device category: PC vs. mobile/tablet. On average, mobile web & apps win out over PC. That is pretty significant when you consider where web development, advertising dollars and marketing campaigns will go in 2013 and beyond. We have passed the tipping point: the PC is now the "old" interface. Mobile devices have overtaken the PC when it comes to digital social usage.
2. Year over year, unique users of the mobile web has almost doubled in the US. (82% increase.) Mobile app users have also increased by 85%. PC web users, however, have gone down a bit (4%). Something about these numbers remind us of other media tipping points we've seen in the last few years.
To make this data relevant to you, let's focus on a few quick questions: where are your customers? How are they accessing the web? How much time are they spending there? (How much time are they spending there compared to "traditional" media, and how will this impact where you focus your resources and budgets?) What kinds of experiences are they expecting? What are they talking about? What does this all mean to your business?
3. Year over year, US web users spent 120% more time accessing digital content through apps than a year ago vs. +4% via the good old PC. But wait… when you look at net numbers, the lion's share of minutes spent accessing web content the PC still dominates: 363 billion minutes (PC) vs. 158 billion minutes on mobile web and mobile apps combined.
So here, think trends vs. volume. Be aware of the shift, but be also be aware that the good old PC-based web is far from dead. Plan for mobile, plan for apps, invest your money there, but don't abandon the non-mobile web just yet. Think "and" rather than "or." Think combination rather than replacement.
4. Social TV: look into it. How this ties into advertising, reach, WOM, net promoter score and customer acquisition isn't super complicated.
Also, from January to June 2012, active Twitter users discussing or sharing updates about TV content grew from 26% to 33%. Whether you are a media buyer or a social media director looking to justify your budget, this trend is worth keeping an eye on. If it inspires you to use social media to drive the reach of your television content (including advertising), you're on the right track.
How can social channels and social sharing increase reach and amplify the reach of your content? How can these same mechanisms help customers discover your products or move them up into their hierarchy of planned purchases? How might you leverage monitoring platforms to better understand these mechanisms and tie them into customer acquisition, development and retention strategies?
(If you weren't yet asking these questions, you should be.)
5. "Second-screen" is actually a little more complex than what has been presented to your team, but that's a good thing. Here is a quick breakdown of what people actually do on the web while they are watching television content (and how they do it):
- Shopping (45% on tablets)
- Looking up product or special promotion information (TV ad related; 50% on tablets)
- Visiting social networks (44% on tablets)
- Doing research on the show they are watching (35% on tablets).
Takeway 1: Immediate calls to action work. If you are buying ads on TV (or working with product placement strategies), make sure that your digital storefront and/or digital springboard towards an offline purchase is a) easy to find, b) easy to share, and c) built to drive the user behaviors you expect it to drive.
Takeway 2: Tablets trump phones when it comes to second screen experiences. Design your digital marketing platforms accordingly:
1. Build deliberate second screen experiences.
2. Design one-click tie-ins to product pages, social channels and other relevant content.
Takeaway 3: If you plan on paying for TV content in 2013 (advertising or actual programming), you're going to need to include a second-screen plan to go along with it. Not doing this is basically the equivalent of posting a phone number in an ad but not having someone to answer the phone if someone tries to call. Relying on people to Google your product, your TV program or your company worked great in 2010. You can't really just rely on that anymore.
Note: Your second screen experience should include a) social components (sharing, #hashtags, links to Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and b) transaction driver components (links to product feature pages, customer reviews, online stores, and brick & mortar store websites).
Okay, that's it for us. Big thanks to Nielsen and NM Insights for putting this together. Reports like this one tend to help companies make better digital spend decisions, so that's a huge + in our book. For that, it goes at the top of our 2012 studies bookmarks. Great stuff. We hope it will help you with 2013 planning.
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Prosecutors say Chaney tried to cover up his girlfriend's meth use by hiding her used needles in his office. He has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to report a crime.
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2007, 05:28
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a year of grafpup news (in brief) work in progress
Subject description: best derivative ever?
grafpup is (imo) the greatest puppy there is. for puppy 1, grafpup 104 is nothing short of the most amazing thing i've ever seen. if you ever thought puppy is the greatest os ever (and it is...) and you ever wished (man, i wish it was a little more tweaked and a little better looking...) grafpup is the ultimate in
(at least of what i've seen.)
i rely on puppy 2.11, for a number of reasons including some hardware support, but i wish grafpup 104 worked in the few cases where i need puppy 2. grafpup 104 is only 80 mb, the only apps i miss are abiword and mp, (sadly mu's dosemu doesn't work in 104 but dosbox does) and the deluxe version (less than 400mb and all .sfs modular addons to standard version) has a fully working (but only includes some of) kde. (optional.) grafpup has icewm by default and opera.
grafpup 2 will be mutiluser capable
(for those that always wanted the option) and will be based on puppy 2. so far it is buggy but in alpha (testing only.) i've tried it. (it really had some bugs in the alpha i got, no kidding.) i just hope standard will be less than 100mb (about 100 now) and deluxe will stay under 400- i have no idea (actually i asked in another thread and i should go check the reply, i don't remember.)
grafpup's repository is larger than puppy's (new data notwithstanding the repo is maybe twice as big) and if you like puppy you REALLY should try grafpup. my own preferences aside, i have nothing against any other puppy derivatives, i'm also eager to try puppy 2.15 (can't today, but eager) and meanpuppy (50mb, can today, still haven't yet)
this post is actually an INCREDIBLY BRIEF version of: http://www.grafpup.com/news/
...note that each line here represents almost an entire news entry (most of which are multi-paragraphs long.)
march 2007 (which is already in progress):
151 grafpup 2 will have abiword instead of ted (AND) it will have english spellchecking (yes!)
150 grafpup 2 will have nfts3g 1.0, lucent winmodems are no longer supported ("martian" series is.)
149 nathan is experimenting with aufs and hoping to make grafpup more modular
148 squashfs code isn't quite read for lzma, better with gzip, wireless and winmodem support may lack vs. puppy
147 alpha iso is uploaded and should NOT be considered stable... run with pfix=ram suggested
146 404 not found (don't look at me...)
145 menu and mime cleanup (contral panel is "system", setup is "settings") some command line tools removed from menu
144 new wine binary uploaded, user management tools expanded well beyond "new user"
february 2007:
143 blender package is back in the repository
142 following puppy, grafpup has latest gtkdialog, gins, gnocle, and glade- also an increasing number of bash and tcl/tk apps
141 lxpanel has issues with plugins, grafpup may return for now to fbpanel
140 bugs "should" now be gone from the pkgtool dependency parser, gui frontend improved, can handle dotpup, dotpet, and tar.gz
139 404 not found
138 init nearly allows login mgr from 1st boot/will aim for more modularity, xvesa wont run as user more puppy vs server issue
137 kde3.5.6 split pkgs via pkgtool;still offering small .sfs version; now recompiled/about everything avail; netrik + snownews
136 user mgr script&run actions for dotpup/dotpet pkgs fixed; adding gksu to cfg scripts if not root; added sshserver/sftp xfer
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I still want to take things slow, make sure the bugs all get found and eradicated, so I'll stick to the plan and go for at least two more alpha snapshots, probably one beta, and then straight to the final release.
135 patch for gxine in the last two opera builds uploaded and will install needed mozilla libraries
134 404 not found
133 fatal gxine bug found in opera version of grafpup, will be patched shortly
132 second development snapshot/release notes at: http://grafpup.com/news/release-notes-grafpup-development-snapshot-20070219/
131 404 not found
130 404 not found
129 easytag editor/audacious player compiled, jack-rack, qjackctl, many ladspa audio plugins added to repo, 4 games rebuilt
128 404 not found
127 apache/php/mod_perl/mysql compiled+uploaded;lampp pkg should be up soon,unlikely usable til next snapsh due to puppy bug
126 flac dngraded 1.1.3 to 1.1.2 due to errors compiling against headers / hydrogen dngraded->0.99.2 newer ver's stay in repo
125 petget had more broken parts, left in iso, next snapshot will introduce first rough ver. of gpkgtool encouraged instead.
124 menus/pkgtool/pbcdripper upgraded;everything <->python will be running against 2.5;rm about 50-60 legacy pkgs <- database
123 1st alpha had nonworking petget;patch posted;not an indication of finished version;"i hate hacking at [ this ] script"
122 1stalpha bugs:gui ver. of package manager,may remove petget;menu probs&xorgwiz tweak+mp(fixed);system installer not ready
121 pending forum accounts activated (sorry!)
120 1st grafpup-2.xx dev snapshot avail.(beware testing only!) binary upgrade/system architechture+init overhaul / multiuser
119 404 not found
118 working iso based on puppy 2.xx;runs fast+looks great;not ready for general consumption;init scripts from puppy tweaked
117 trimming fat(inkview slide/gimp-console) fixing packages.txt;puppy =+-450 unleashed pkgs grafpup now +-800, +-1000 by 2.0
116 knocked together a new gtk setting manager can set the widget theme, icon theme, and default font for gtk2 applications
115 compiled some wm related packages for grafpup-2.0:flux, blackbox, windowmaker, ice, working on xfce-4.4 (recommended)
114 404 not found
113 gksu upgrade from 0.3 to 1.2.6;last version that doesn't depend on too many gnome libs;nicer looking+more reliable
112 graveman semifixed in svn/wont be in iso/will offer snapshot in repo;cdrecord for non-root,w/ security hole-user's choice
111 404 not found
january 2007 <- april 2006 (not summarized yet... coming soon)
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2007, 09:01
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Well that's all well and good, but will the spellchecking be American English, Canadian English, Australian English or English English?
Grey-coloured pyjamas rule!
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2007, 16:14
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American English, but other dictionaries are quite easy to install if you need more "proper" English...
Bring on the locusts ...
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Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2007, 22:28
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[quite]Grey-coloured pyjamas rule![/quite]
i actually prefer "grey" and "colour," but wasn't there a time when english-english spelled them as we do, and aren't the "u" and maybe the "e" french at all? as for "pyjamas," god forbid, (that sounds gruesome.) but al-yoo-min-ee-um and tamahto are fine by me, and i hope you get your dictionary file sorted. if it was plaintext it would be easier to repair with a script, (and much larger...) cheers.
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Posted: Mon 19 Mar 2007, 15:32
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Sorry, guys. I really shouldn't have derailed this thread with a facetious comment.
Spelling is really just a social convention enforced by printers and lexicographers. Mr Webster just simplified a few words, but let's face it, English spelling (of whatever variety) is broken beyond repair. See Spanish, Italian or German for sensible spelling.
I'm looking forward to the new GrafPup and CE pup immensely. You guys have something very special here.
Next year all the *buntus will be totally forgotten and Distrowatch will be full of complaints about all of the Puppies cluttering up the Page Hit Rankings. At least we can "root" whenever we like! (Joke for the Aussies.)
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Posted: Mon 19 Mar 2007, 15:56
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Nathan produces a polished puplet, have to agree. It needs a strong advocate AND IF Barry does move on from Puppy (end of this year is it?), then someone like Nathan will have to take over. One of Puppys strenghts is his pyramid structure. It can also work as a community project but for example with Viz, most of the co-ordination work is done (and very well I might add) by Warren.
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Posted: Mon 19 Mar 2007, 20:36
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drongo wrote:
Spelling is really just a social convention enforced by printers and lexicographers.
That's an over used and bogus excuse of people too lazy to learn the correct spelling of words. Try applying that excuse to some code you write and see how well your program runs. Or is spelling and programming syntax just social conventions enforced by digital equipment manufacturers?
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Posted: Tue 20 Mar 2007, 02:52
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At least we can "root" whenever we like! (Joke for the Aussies.)
ah, i know that one
thank hugh jackman for telling a joke on our late show
bogus excuse of people too lazy to learn the correct spelling of words.
there i have to disagree, the bottom line is that in different environments you find different syntactic (and other) conventions, and you have to learn three versions of everything just to make it work. it's not because our "pyramid" is weak, it's because if you have enough people, one solution (or preference) is never going to suit everyone.
that goes without saying. what you *can* do is try a lot to do things in the way that is the most "intelligent,"
bridging some gaps:
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Posted: Tue 20 Mar 2007, 06:05
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I'm not afraid of trolls, I work for a Norwegian company! (Yes, I know it doesn't refer to that sort of troll.)
That being said, if I am presenting a training course in the UK to American engineers and they complain about my spelling of "colour television", who is wrong, me or them? If I present the same course in the US to American engineers and they complain about my spelling, who is wrong, them or me? (This is not hypothetical, I used to be a technical trainer and I have experienced both of these situations in the classroom.)
If the switches I used to use in Solaris don't work in Linux is that because the switches are wrong, or are they just wrong for that version of Linux? Yes, programming syntax is just a social convention enforced by manufacturers, or I'd be using VisualBasic in Linux!
Tell me, alienjeff, if you go to Canada, are you a traveller or a traveler? Does it depend on which country you are in or what kind of passport you have? If a Canadian goes to the US is he a traveler or a traveller?
How do you spell pyjamas? Is your spelling correct? If you put it on the internet where foreigners can see it, is it still correct?
If you want to nit-pick anything in this post, please be aware that our punctuation guidelines in the UK are different too.
Please define "the correct spelling of words".
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Posted: Tue 20 Mar 2007, 08:10
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Aha! A nerve! And a tender on at that.
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Don't mind Alienjeff, Drongo, he's a milliounaire who loves to visit the forum now and then to kill time.
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son of a puppy, it's a real word... http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=millioun
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So Chaucer died in 1400 and Caxton introduced mechanised printing to England in 1476?
Good gracious, not only is spelling not globally scoped, but it changes with time.
How are we going to enforce "correct spelling" on the Internet if it's protean and localised? (Or should that be localized?)
How are we going to get the thread back on-topic?
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How are we going to get the thread back on-topic?
i'm glad you asked. of course i didn't create this thread to be a chat thread, NOR to practice being dictatorial about the topic, so i've simply played along with whatever is posted here and i was hoping to steer it back to grafpup news. you just saved me the trouble
the latest is another thread on this subforum, grafpup 2 now moves to 2.6.20.something (newer kernel than puppy i think) and there will be a 60-something mb barebones that makes it easier to remaster, 20mb of which is drivers.
plus other little things that show as usual just how much thought and care nathan puts into his hard work, like renaming the save file something less than 8 letters so that it works with win98. these are the sort of things that make puppy reliable and a joy to use, much like i think of puppy 1.07 and 2.11 and with luck, 2.15.
but grafpup is the best i've seen, i wish 104 supported my cardreader... that's part of the reason i'm interested in grafpup 2 and puppy 2- i can't find a cardreader that works with puppy 1. there are many, many other reasons to watch grafpup 2, i plan to add to the news at the top, i may bump it at that point, depending on if it's needed. the barebones idea is right in line with grand-unified-puppy (a hypothetical puplet, or "vaporware" If You Must...) and it's wonderful to see puppy growing without losing anything that makes it great, like a small size that goes fast (on more machines.)
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You'll Never Guess Who The New Face of Marc Jacobs Beauty Is, Plus More Beauty News
The Academy Awards are coming up, so you can't blame us if we're a little Oscars obsessed this week. What our man hair obsession Jared Leto will be rocking, a look back at the worst red carpet missteps, and all the rest of the beauty news you missed this week.
Anjelica Huston tells Violet Grey what it's like to be Jack Nicholson's date to the 47th Academy Awards. You'll never believe how long it took to put together one of her most iconic looks! {Violet Grey}
The Olympics may be over, but that doesn't mean we're done obsessing over the games' standout stars, like 18-year-old figure skater Gracie Gold. The Olympian dishes on where she found the inspiration for her signature red lip and why you can always pick out a figure skater from a crowd. {Allure}
Sephora unveils its first movie makeup collaboration—a mix of kits and multi-purpose palettes inspired by the upcoming Divergent starring Shailene Woodley. {Huffington Post}
A step-by-step guide to Lady Edith's (Laura Carmichael) finger waves on Downton Abbey (and here's the scoop on Lady Mary's beauty routine, in case you missed it). {The Cut}
Jared Leto's hairstylist hints at the Oscar-nominated actor's potential hair for the big night. {People}
Sometimes it's more fun to look back on the Oscar looks that made us cringe. {BellaSugar}
Heavy lashes are all over the fall runways. Makeup artist Lucia Pieroni gives a few tips on how to achieve the look without the three sets of false lashes she used at Alessandro Dell'Acqua. {Vogue}
Even First Lady Michelle Obama is embracing bold brows! {Huffington Post}
The influence of Frozen on YouTube goes way beyond thousands of covers of "Let it Go," it's also the inspiration for more makeup and hair tutorials than American Hustle and Catching Fire combined! {Fashionista}
Marc Jacobs used Jessica Lange's voice as narration for his runway show last month. Now the iconic actress is the first celebrity face of Marc Jacobs Beauty. {Vogue UK}
In other wonderful news: NARS tapped legendary British beauty Charlotte Rampling to be the face of their twentieth anniversary campaign. {Elle}


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Artist Kiki Giet began work today to repair the damage to "Quinceañera" about two weeks after a section of the Echo Park mural that was was scraped away by workers preparing the building for a new Señor Fish restaurant. Giet told photographer Jesse Saucedo that the restoration of the mural near the corner of Logan Street and Sunset Boulevard would begin on Friday after preparing the surface today with a coat of primer. Theresa Powers, who painted the mural in 1996, arranged the repair after the owners of Señor Fish agreed to retain the mural.
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Dead Snake Road Live At Fat Jack's Thursday Night [VIDEO]
The Southeast Oklahoma Dirt Road Country Dead Sanke Road formerly know as Chalkline 259 will be playing live at Fat Jack's Thursday night.Dead Snake Road is an up-and-coming band from Southeast Oklahoma with a Red Dirt Country sound coupled with the Blues, something they like to call the "dirty blues." The band members include singer/songwriter/guitarist Matt Ash, vocalist Hope Ash, drummer Mitch Green, and bass player Jimmy George.
Dead Snake Road got their start in June of 2010, with the kismet meeting of Matt and Hope, who are now married. The couple began playing local venues throughout McCurtain Co. Killing their selves driving up and down Hwy 259. They then recorded a six-song EP, and hit the road touring in Indiana and Virginia.
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Very productive week, and, overall, quite a bit more satisfying than last week. The week was split straight down the middle, 50/50, as I will explain.
The first few days were dedicated, as expected, to continuing my analysis of LuaJIT performance, getting profiling tools in place, and performing profile-guided optimization to get a better feel for where the milliseconds were going. I'm pleased to report that this all went quite well!
LuaJIT's built-in profiler is indeed really nice. It didn't take much effort at all to set up, and the results helped me get a much better perspective on the existing code's performance. Unfortunately, the results of several profiling runs of the PAX demo weren't exactly what we like to see in performance optimization. Frequently, something like the '80/20' rule will apply in profiling and optimization: it's common to find that a small minority of the code is consuming a majority of the CPU time (hence the oft-abused quote "premature optimization is the root of all evil"). This is actually what we want to see, since it means concentrating effort on that small minority can yield big gains. Alas, it wasn't the case with the demo. The profiler reported a lot of very small percentages accross the entirety of the code, with the best 'bottlenecks' peaking at maybe ~5%. The meaning of such a result is basically: there's not much we can do to reap big performance gains, at least, not much we can do easily.
Still, the profiling was helpful enough for me to weed out the peaks that did exist (mostly by transferring them to the C library), resulting in a decent gain of somewhere between 25% and 40% perf. At the end of it all, my heavy-duty machine was able to run a 1000-ship battle at 60 fps with a millisecond or so to spare. Remember, of course, that not all logic is implemented, so this isn't representative of what you'll be able to do in LT, although it's encouraging. The goal for me has always been to allow ~100-ship-battles at decent framerates, and at this rate, I believe we'll be able to do that.
That result, among others, has convinced me that we're safe to move forward with LJ. I'm not able to hop off the fence and plant my feet as firmly as I'd like to in the "this will work" grass, but for now, what I've seen has allowed practical me to conclude that, with continued profiling and keeping a careful eye on the milliseconds, we will be able to proceed with LJ. This is also taking into consideration that, if things do start to get too heavy, I'll likely be able to make enough little scale cuts here and there to push out a still-high-quality LT 1.0. In other words, I really just wanted to remind you all that I'm keeping practicality in mind and am open to, for example, having to slightly lower the scale of system economies or out-of-system simulations, etc, if it means the difference between 60 and 10 fps
Quite exciting I'd be using more smileys and squirrels if I weren't so scared of being excited about solutions
Now, in complete contrast to the first half, the latter half of my week was spent hedging my bets. Several people have asked the question "what happens if LuaJIT falls through"? The answer is that I do have quite a few options remaining in my mental priority queue. I explained in my 'State of Limit Theory' post that, at that point, I was splitting my effort roughly 50/50 between LJ and a different solution involving code generation from script. Since then, the prior has escalated to taking most of my time, what with PAX and the excitement thereafter of having something I can play and iterate on. Now that I've decided to move forward cautiously with LuaJIT, I do intend to resume my 'hedging' efforts. Although I'll continue allocating the majority of my time to 'LT in LJ' in hopes that it'll pull through for us, I'll still be giving ~20-30% to R&D for the next potential solution in the priority queue. This week, in an attempt to spin up that next solution and give it some momentum, I gave it a one-time boost of about half my time.
So, currently sitting at second place in the queue is what I think of as a 'nuclear' option -- a sort of fail-safe, brute-force option. Indeed, it may be a bit scary that a nuclear option is next in line behind LJ, but Practical Josh is thinking of it this way: "I'm getting really tired of solutions failing; had I gone with a nuclear option in the first place, I'd be done by now." Flawed logic, because I didn't have the know-how to pursue this two years ago (again, the knowledge gained from those failed attempts is nontrivial!) But, now that the option is accessible to me, I intend to give it a low-priority JoshOS thread as my hedge against LJ failing, at least until something really promising displaces it in the queue.
Over the past few days I've worked hard to spin up this solution, and have already got quite some results to show for it. I built a working x86 assembler/linker (of course, not full-featured yet, but working as in 'capable of generating in-memory programs & functions using a restricted instruction set.' Just a few hours ago I had my first successful test run in which I used it to create some simple math functions at run-time. They worked! It was an intense few days of reading hundreds of pages of Intel's software developer guide to better understand CPU architecture and, more importantly, to understand enough to translate assembly to machine code (that's what an assembler does, among other things). Let me re-iterate since some of you are probably scared that I've lost my mind now: this is for plan Z, in the event that LJ fails (and fails hard enough for me to walk away from that substantial time investment) and no other solution manifests in the mean time. We should hope that it ends up being nothing more than a nice learning experience for me. Which, by the way, is very refreshing to have every now and then. My brain feels like it got to go on vacation during the second half of the week thanks to this work (yes, I love learning enough that reading Intel manuals and looking at opcodes in hex feels like a vacation). I was surprised at the relative ease of doing it -- I initially assumed we were looking at months until any results at all; turned out to be a few days.
This so-called nuclear option allows something along the lines of 'compiled LTSL,' i.e. LTSL running at nearly the same speed as the pre-compiled code. Some people have asked about the feasibility of such a solution before, since it seems like a somewhat-straightforward way of solving the original problem of having run into one kind of limit with C++ and another kind of limit with LTSL. I honestly didn't have the knowledge to do that kind of thing before. But, having spent so much time with intermediate representations (thanks, failed Python solution), JITs & asm (thanks LJ + failed Python solution), codegen (thanks, C++ codegen along with the 32 other metacompilers I've written in my life..), I now do. Best of all, I have a number of attack vectors for doing so (TCC, LLVM's IR/code generator), but the most appealing to me (for plan Z) is the solution involving the minimal number of intermediate pieces that could fail: my own direct-to-machine-code, in-memory compiler/assembler/linker. I already wrote an LTSL 'compiler' that takes it as far as an expression tree (essentially an executable AST), and now I've got the humble yet promising beginnings of the latter parts. It might sound like a monumental task, but the reality is that I only have to implement a tiny fraction of what 'general-purpose' tools do. In other words, when I first created LTSL and the compiler for it, I didn't worry about making it a feature-complete language, I worried about making it super easy to write ship generation algorithms, UI, gameplay code in. Similarly, for assembler/linker, I am not concerned with outputting executables, nor shared libs, I'm not concerned with PLTs and GOTs, nor many of the other complexities. I'm concerned with writing a relatively-small subset of ops to memory and executing them from a program that's already running (the LT core) in order to quickly evaluate things (like LTSL expression trees). When you cut the problem down to the core, it's a lot less scary. Still not easy, of course, but totally within the realm of feasibility.
(I know that I'll still catch flak from some people on this, despite stressing that it's plan Z and not by any means the focus of the coming weeks / months of development...but hey, I said I was going to be honest about the good, bad, and ugly )
Finally, the other 10% ( ) of my week was spent creating the beginnings of a benchmarking script utility to help me be more precise about my observations and decisions when it comes to all these different solutions and their respective performances. This was, in part, motivated by a simple test that I performed pitting C, unoptimized C (i.e. no compiler optimization), D, Lua (the standard interpreter), LuaJIT, and Python against one another in a small bit of code. In doing so (and finding a few interesting oddities along the way), I realized that, for someone who spends so much time thinking about a very hard problem related to perf, I've got a startling deficit of objective, quantitative data to back me on my calls. It's been a good week for quantitative measurement, what with the profiling runs and all. I decided that I need more of that in my life
It's a very simple little utility (written in Python!), but with a few more hours of work it'll help me record concrete information about relative performances in the face of many variables (language/solution, piece of code, machine, OS, CPU architecture, GPU, etc.) As I continue development, I plan to toss new benchmarking tests into the mix to help me stay abreast of FPLT in a precise way. Hopefully I'll be able to quote precise figures in the future instead of just "too slow, close but not quite, good enough, really fast." I'll also have a way to be less on-the-fence about things like LJ since I'll have hard data to say what is and what isn't working.
This coming week, I'm excited to say that we resume 'development as usual,' at least in some sense. The majority of time is to be devoted to implementing more LT in LJ rather than scrutinizing the existing code for performance, which should really prove to be a relief from walking on eggshells with a profiler in-hand! Of course, the minority is to be devoted to 'assembling' ( ) a nuclear warhead, so that's a rather fun contrast.
In all, I'd estimate a 100% chance of fun!
PS ~ I'm still working on the whole brevity thing when it comes to my logs. They look a lot smaller in full-screen vim and somehow become startlingly-long when I paste them into the forum's post editor
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Discover the best of Venetian craftsmanship on our Artisan Shopping Tour in Venice. Venice is home to marvelous glass blowers, jewelers, ceramicists, leather workers, sculptors, clothing designers and many more highly-skilled craftsmen. Nevertheless, because the city is laid out as a maze, their shops and workshops can be quite difficult for visitors to find. If you're looking for the best of shopping in Venice, you genuinely need a friend to guide you.
Your host for this 2.5 hour walk will meet you at the very central location of the Arsenale boat stop and guide you from there through the backstreets of Castello and San Marco where you will discover jewelers, sculptors, cobblers, mask makers and many more of the best artisans in Venice. Your host will invite you to enjoy a cocktail and some chiccetti before parting ways.
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This excursion leaves from the "Arsenale" vaporetto dock, 5 minutes walk from Piazza San Marco. From there, you walk on foot through some of the back streets and small alleyways of Castello and San Marco visiting artisan workshops along the way. The excursion ends near San Marco in Campo Santo Stefano.
Please note: This is a walking tour. Please wear comfortable shoes.
- Leaves at: 4:00 PM
- Lasts: 2.5 hours
- Available: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday
- English; Italian for shopping.
- Credit card required for booking.
- Refundable 2 weeks prior to departure with notice of cancelation.
- Guests responsible for own costs of transportation if needed.
- Accompaniment through the streets of Castello and San Marco.
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Christmas is synonymous with 'cappelletti' in Le Marche. The postage stamp sized squares homemade pasta are filled with veal, pork & chicken, nutmeg, lemon zest & grated parmesan then folded into "tiny hats" or cappelletti and added to a rich broth, served on Christmas Day!
Not only did we make kilos & kilos of cappelletti with friends but to get a little extra festive, we headed into the woods to cut down our own tree! Ok, technically it's a really big branch for juniper, and a total 'Charlie Brown' tree but a string of lights a few ornaments made during our childhood and we're ready to Jingle Bell Rock the night away!
As local tradition dictates, we dutifully & very happily make our cappelletti like good Marchigianni (wannabees). Christmas celebrated in Le Marche, Italy is not complete without a heart-warming bowl of cappelletti in brodo or little stuffed hats in broth. I was once told is a dish served for only those you love because it takes so much time & patience to make!
With our stockings hung, the 'tree' trimmed, the dough made and fire ablaze we invited friends to help in the merriment: we share the work and reward.
With our hens still producing eggs, our dough is rich in color!!
|A few crates of cappelletti and our juniper berry Christmas tree!
Take the time and make it from scratch, buy the freshest eggs (it will make the color of the dough nice & golden) and enjoy this homemade pasta the way it was meant to be eaten - surrounded by family. (Plus they freeze well so you can have them on-hand, at the ready all winter long!)
I've posted it in years past - but here you go: Cappelletti in Brodo Recipe


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Comscore has released its latest search share data reports and while Google is still tops, they lost a little ground while Bing experienced slight gains.
For the calendar year, Google's market share has hovered around 66% but from July 2011 to August 2011, the share fell 3%. Bing on the other hand peaked in February at 16.1% and experienced a 3% bump between July and August.
Other key points from the Comscore report includes:
- Month of August 2011: U.S. explicit core search was up 9% y/y for the month of August a deceleration from +10% y/y in July. Google search was up 8.1%, Yahoo! up 2% and Microsoft up 44%.
- September Quarter (Quarter over Quarter) Pacing: We examine how the search quarter is pacing after the second month of the quarter. We define pacing as taking the reported period (month of July and August) and dividing it by the monthly average of the previous quarter. To that end, U.S. explicit core search is pacing up 2.7% q/q for 3QTD (vs. +2.8% as of July), with Google up 1.9%, Yahoo! up 4.7% and Microsoft up 5.2%.
While there is definitely room for improvement, the one positive Microsoft can take away from these reports is that there is some growth and Google's share for the market appears to be stalled. I'd be curious to see how much influence our Windows Phones have on Bing's numbers? As Windows Phones starts to muster larger market shares, could Bing see similar increases?
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T-Mobile seems to be stoking the fires of their Windows Phone fans as the Lumia 521, their "custom" variant of the entry-level Lumia 520, is evidently nearing release.
In a tersely worded press release, T-Mobile announced that the phone will be coming in May and it will be available at Walmart, Microsoft Stores and of course T-Mobile locations for purchase. No pricing nor exact release date was given, but they will be forthcoming soon.
Announced in February, he Lumia 521 sports a 4" IPS LCD, 512MB of RAM and a 1GHz dual-core CPU with Windows Phone 8. Its sibling, the Lumia 520, runs for less than $200 off contract meaning we can't imagine this phone will be price too much higher. While not the power phone that some Windows Phone users want, it should go a long way in helping to gain market share for Microsoft.
See our unboxing and first impressions with the Lumia 520 to get an idea of what the 521 will be like.
Later this summer, T-Mobile is expected to get the Nokia 'Catwalk', their first high-end Nokia Windows Phone featuring new, lighter and thinner construction.


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The families of two Chinese girls killed in Saturday's crash at San Francisco International Airport arrived in the Bay Area Monday night with questions about which of the two girls was potentially hit by a fire truck responding to the crash site, San Mateo County Coroner San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said Tuesday.
A representative from the coroner's office met with the two families today and revealed that authorities are trying to determine whether 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan was struck and possibly killed by an emergency vehicle, Foucrault said. She is on the left in the above photo.
However, Foucrault said that the coroner's office has not yet determined Ye's cause of death or whether an emergency vehicle struck her at all. He said the families knew that one of the girls' deaths was being investigated for that possibility but did not know which of the two.
The incident is also being investigated by San Francisco police and the National Transportation Safety Board while the fire department is conducting its own internal investigation, San Francisco Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Dale Carnes said Monday.
NTSB officials said Monday that video of the incident was inconclusive.
Ye and the other girl killed, 16-year-old Wang Lin Jia, were part of a group of Chinese students slated to attend a Southern California school with a group of 35 students in an exchange program.
The program was cancelled following the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, which in addition to killing the two girls sent 180 of the plane's passengers to Bay Area hospitals.
- Full Coverage: Asiana Airlines Crash
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I have always been a huge lover of books. I blew through the children's section before I hit my 10th birthday and was given parental permission to borrow any book in the library. I discovered horror, mystery, and eventually romance novels. I could easily read 20 to 30 books a week during the summers, consuming entire series. In my teens I wrote poetry for fun, and I read a romance novel when I was 22 that totally upset me. The main characters made me angry, and the woman chased after this total jerk I hated. I thought I could write a better story.
It took a year, but I wrote my first book. I loved it! The characters came alive in my imagination and my ability to daydream finally had a purpose. I was hooked and completely in love with the hours I spent at a keyboard. It was the perfect escape from reality, a vacation for my mind, and I continued to write, 54 books over the next 16 years. I dreamed about becoming published, but I had dropped out of high school, and to be honest, my bio wasn't impressive. I didn't think anyone would really want to read my books. I couldn't afford to take any writing classes.
I sent inquiries to a few agents over the years and was promptly rejected. E-books became popular and I did research. Writing had become a daily part of my life, an addiction, and my dream of being published came true after I submitted to Ellora's Cave. It changed my entire life. I get to do what makes me happy and my characters now exist for others, for every person who reads one of the books. It's magic to create worlds and people, and to breathe life into them through words. Reality can be tough at times but fiction is wide open to happy possibilities. The good guys win, true love not only exists but it's found, and there's always a happy ending in the books I write. It doesn't get any better than that.
I especially love writing series books. I enjoy following the characters and seeing their progression beyond their original stories as I write about their family, their friends, and in some cases, the children they created with their love. I feel as though they are people I really know. I am deeply tied to them emotionally, and writing about them is a pure privilege. I do it because I love it; it's fun, and I feel excitement every time I turn on my computer to delve into a new story. It helps that I have a very supportive husband who has always been very understanding about the extreme hours I spend working on books. He's very proud that I've hit the bestseller lists. I'm shocked but thrilled that so many people seem to enjoy the books. I'm a firm believer in never giving up on your dreams. They can come true!
Laurann Dohner has published 24 erotic romance novels. Her three most recent titles have made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists.


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