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It was hot so I lingered under the bridge for a few moments.
When I walked out the other side I found rocks stacked like skinny pyramids.
Organic Eiffel Towers.
Millions of years of erosion.
And I could swear they were multiplying before my eyes.
I looked around and there was a field of carefully stacked rocks.
It was a total denial of entropy.
Or a nod to the notion that there are patterns within chaos.
I walked back to my car. No rocks followed me.


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Barbra Lee in Fishnet Lingerie
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Cybergirl Barbra Lee makes black stockings look so, so good in this erotic set from photographer Joel Alvarez. A platinum blonde with blue eyes, Barbra was just about made to be a Playboy model, and in a full-length body stocking and sparkling heels, she'll make your heart skip a beat. "Right now, I'm single, but I like to be in a relationship," she says. "Let's just say I'm a very affectionate partner." We don't doubt her for a second. "One time, I had sex in the ocean," she admits, blushing. "I think everyone on the beach knew what was going on, but it was great." Do one better with the beautiful Barbra Lee, right here on Playboy Plus.


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Here we are, with our first recipe for 2013 with Baking with Julia/Tuesdays with Dorie: Pizza with Onion Confit. Delving into making pizza probably wouldn't have been a personal choice to make, especially so close after the holidays. But upon closer examination of the recipe, it turned out to be a much lighter version as far as calories are concerned and minus the excessive cheese. The type of pizza crust in this recipe reminded me of my travels through Northern Italy. Just out of college, and traveling with several American students, we stopped by some local restaurants in the Northern Italian Alps, and all of them served pizza with a rather crispy crust, topped with delicious herbs, fresh tomatoes and very small amounts of locally made cheese – mostly goat cheese, or some type of mozzarella. That was my first introduction to Italian food and I loved it and from then on expected all pizzas to turn out just like the ones I was introduced to in these quaint mountain villages of Northern Italy. Yet, most of my American friends expected a slightly different version, and some probably felt disappointed, because these locally made dishes lacked the familiar touch of what they had been introduced to at home. Isn't it interesting how our expectations, especially when it comes to food, rest on what we are familiar with. When many years later, I got my first taste of an American pizza (i.e., soft crust, dripping with cheese and loaded with meat), it was disappointing because I had identified with a much simpler, yet delicious type of pizza back in Italy. I realize, of course, that each region in Italy is known for its own specialties, and my own introduction so long ago, represented just one of many. Even here in the US, over the years, most American pizzas have changed so much and not always for the better. We now have double crusts, and double the amount of cheese and meat. Eating gluten free is actually a blessing in most situations, since very few restaurants are able to guarantee a gluten free pizza – free of cross-contamination. A true celiac, and even a very sensitive gluten intolerant individual could never risk eating anything that has been prepared, or baked alongside gluten rich foods. Especially in a pizzeria, with flour literally floating in the air and coating the typical pizza oven.
Over the years, we have experimented with several gf pizza crusts. Most commercially prepared varieties, or mixes, nearly always contain corn, another allergen for us and therefore out of the question. Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Pizza mix has always worked out well, but it does not lend itself to be handled like a typical pizza dough. It produces a rather soft, more 'liquidy' dough that has to be spread out onto the pizza pan and it also calls for the use of eggs. For all of the above reasons, this particular recipe intrigued us and we looked forward to creating a new gluten free crust, free of eggs and dairy.
By the way, you can find the original recipe (using gluten) for this pizza at Paul's beautiful site The Boy Can Bake. You can also check out the exquisite entries by all the TWD bakers at Tuesdays with Dorie.
This recipe will make two pizzas. Allow at least three hours of prep. time for this recipe. There are two rising times of 1-1/2 hours each. Steve Sullivan, the contributing baker for this recipe calls for the preparation of a sponge, made of yeast, tepid water, olive oil and flour. For our gluten free version we used a combination of sorghum, brown rice, tapioca and sweet rice flour. The sponge is allowed to rest in a warm place (80-85°F), covered, and needs to fully develop for about 1-1/2 hours. Our sponge more than doubled in size during that time and we then added the remaining flour (made up of the same flour combination with the addition of 1-1/2 tsp. of guar gum and 1 Tbsp. of rice bran) and an additional 1/4 cup of water and 1 tsp. of oil. Again, we let the dough rest, covered, in a warm place for another 1-1/2 hours. It again doubled in size, which surprised us, since most gluten free pizza dough doesn't easily accomplish that without the addition of at least one egg, or an egg substitute.
While the second rising took place, I prepared the onion confit, over low heat, following the directions in the recipe, but without the addition of creme de cassis – just didn't feel like purchasing an item we probably wouldn't use again anytime soon.
The aroma of the onions, prepared with red wine, vinegar and thyme permeated our house. The onion mixture cooked for almost an hour, allowing all the moisture to be absorbed. We let it cool while preparing the actual crust. First I cut the dough in half, tightly wrapping one half of the dough, and refrigerating it for another pizza in a couple of days. I dusted a baking board lightly with a little sweet rice flour and rolled out the dough to the recommended 1/4-inch thickness. Since we don't currently own a pizza stone, we used our regular perforated pizza pan, greasing it with a little butter. I then transferred the rolled out dough onto the pizza pan. The dough was very pliable and easy to handle. A very pleasant and welcome surprise.
I topped the dough with half of the onion confit mixture (reserving the other half for the next pizza), about 3 Tbsp. of sliced black olives, some marinated green olives, organic cherry tomatoes cut in half, sliced shitake mushrooms and a some goat cheese with tomato and basil, and baked it in the preheated oven (450°F) for about 15 minutes. While the dough did not continue to expand while baking, the pizza smelled delicious and we couldn't wait to try it.
Once removed from the oven, we garnished the pizza with some fresh water cress. It was easy to slice, and tasted absolutely delicious, crispy, yet tender and chewy. It is definitely a keeper, and we will be making it again in the future, experimenting with different toppings.


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Training employees and managers is essential at any company but particularly for startups. Yet many avoid it because it seems too hard or expensive.
"A lot of companies think their employees are so smart that they require no training," Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz writes in his recent book. "That's silly."
Horowitz told Quartz that two companies that do some of the best training are, Facebook, on the engineering side, and Twitter for management. (Andreessen Horowitz has invested in both companies)
As of 2007, the company didn't really train people, Horowitz says.
"It caused a lot of misunderstandings in the product architecture, which caused performance issues, which caused a pretty large crisis in the company," Horowitz says.
The following year, Facebook began a program led by engineer Andrew Bosworth called Facebook Bootcamp. It's a seven week on-boarding program for new engineers and project managers. They're immersed in the company's code, and start working on projects that end up live on the site within a week of their start date.
But it's not just about getting people up to speed, Bosworth wrote in 2009—the training emphasizes maintaining high standards, identifying internal leaders that are good at teaching, making sure people have mentors, and letting engineers learn by fixing real problems.
Uniquely, engineers aren't hired for particular teams at Facebook. Bootcamp connects engineers with teams by exposing them to different parts of the organization. That way they can find a problem or project they like working on that also needs them.
"It's amazing how productive new people are at that company very quickly," Horowitz says.
Horowitz had a direct hand in the beginning of Twitter's management training program. It began with a conversation between Horowitz and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo in Sun Valley, Idaho shortly after he got the top job in 2010. Here's how Horowitz remembers it:
When Dick Costolo took over, he took over from Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams. They're both better managers now, but neither of them really knew anything about it then. They're both, if you talk to them, fairly embarrassed about how they ran the company. You had a culture of management that was really dysfunctional.
I had a conversation with Dick and he said: "You know what really annoys me? We'll sit in a meeting and all agree on something, then some managers will walk out and say to their people, 'Well, here's what got decided, but I don't agree with it.'"
I said, "Yeah, that would annoy me. Have you trained them not to do that?"
And he said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "What is your management training like?"
"We don't have management training."
Well there's only one way to fix that, you've got to tell managers what you want. Then, you've got to enforce it. Performance management without training isn't worth anything. If you're not training people, what benchmark are they performing against?
The management training program that resulted, taught by Costolo himself, is considered the best in Silicon Valley, Horowitz says. Costolo consulted with Horowitz on the curriculum, which was based on a similar class he taught at his company, Opsware.
The program teaches managers to set clear expectations for their employees, prevents them from "managing by trying to be liked," and trains them to take an approach that's uniquely suited to Twitter rather than transplanted from companies like Google.
Costolo's leadership and the program have helped professionalize a somewhat chaotic company, Horowitz says, and were instrumental in helping Twitter transition from an interesting social network to a legitimate business.


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A candle is lit and my thoughts go out to Grandmother Whitedeer who posted a few of my posts from Insectamonarca to the Sisterhood of Planetary Water Rites, of which I am a council member.
This is my alter with candle, fossils, driftwood, Worth Cooley-Prost's beautiful handmade glass looking like raindrops, a feather and cedar. May our hearts always lift to the Faraway Vision. May we always honor our sisters who were part of the Sisterhood of Planetary Water Rites. May we always remember to do Ceremony for the Highest Good.
I am so happy we are reuniting again, The Sisterhood of Planetary Water Rites, to protect water and other gifts of Mother Earth. The hour is upon us as Climate Change is affecting so much. Waiting for monarch butterflies to appear in central Massachusetts. Today we saw a fritillary butterfly but couldn't get close enough to photograph. This photo is copyright Cindy Dyer.


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Tomorrow, the Library of Congress kicks off a celebration to mark the launch of the "Library of Congress Experience," an interactive exhibit with an online component that lets Internet users interact with primary sources from American history. On interactive display via touchscreen kiosks are books from Thomas Jefferson's library, which have been captured in high resolution and will be available for page-by-page browsing, annotated maps from the Age of Discovery, and objects from the Americas before Columbus.
Some of these digitized objects will make their way online at a companion site, MyLOC.gov. There isn't actually much there, yet, but clicking on the (hard-to-find) Digital Collections button at the top of the page will bring you a number of online exhibits. Many of these exhibits let you interact with the digital objects by zooming, flipping pages, reading annotations, and listening to audio. The more recent exhibits also use Microsoft's Silverlight, and I have to admit that after downloading the plug-in for Mac OS X browsers I didn't get very good results with some of them. Silverlight on OS X still has a ways to go, apparently.
You're probably wondering why the LOC is using Silverlight instead of something more widely supported, like Adobe's Flash. The answer is, of course, money. As we reported back in February, Microsoft gave the LOC $3 million to put exhibits online using Silverlight, a move that caused quite a bit of knee-jerk consternation among folks that are prone to such reactions. The accusations that the LOC is "selling out" our heritage were particularly over the top and short-sighted. Here's why:
Expect more like this, proprietary formats and all. And get over it.
Back in October of 2007, I gave a talk at the University of Illinois' Reflections|Projections conference on "digital humanities" projects like the one that the LOC is launching. (You can find the video here.) This is an area that I've had a serious academic interest in, and I've spent quite a bit of time doing specific research in the area of the history of academic attempts to use computers in New Testament-related projects.
One of the things that I found in talking to librarians, like those behind the University of Chicago's Goodspeed Manuscript Collection project, is that special collections departments in libraries all over the country are undertaking massive and relatively expensive digitization projects. These projects typically involve custom hardware and software, are funded by grants, and generate terabytes of data. They're also expected to take years to complete, and insofar as they're a modern manifestation of special collections' core mission of preservation and restoration, they're ends in themselves.
What I mean by calling these digitization projects "ends in themselves" is that many, or perhaps most, of the folks behind them have no idea how they're going to put the resulting data in the hands of the public. Right now, they're focused on generating the source data, and at some point in the future they'll think about how and where to make it available. Ultimately, libraries are thinking long-term with these projects, and not "long-term" in tech industry time but "long term" in library time—in other words, decades and perhaps even centuries.
The libraries' long-term approach to these digitization projects has two important implications. First, it means that if a private entity like Microsoft shows up with a few million dollars and says, "We'll pay for you to make this data available online if you'll agree to use or proprietary technology," the libraries are inclined to say yes. In the case of the LOC's $3 million agreement with Microsoft to use Silverlight, this is exactly what happened.
However, the open-source and open-standards advocates who were all exercised over the LOC's decision to use Silverlight need to chill out. The LOC still retains all of those terabytes of source data, and, though I haven't talked to any librarians there, my knowledge of similar projects—combined with the fact that exhibits are also available in HTML versions—suggests to me the Silverlight-based exhibit that will launch tomorrow is only the first of many efforts to expose that data to the public over the coming decades. In other words, Microsoft doesn't own the source data that was captured on the public's dime, and the LOC can republish it however and whenever they like, using whatever formats and/or technologies it deems appropriate.
The future will see the launch of many, many more such online exhibits from libraries all over the world, many of them sponsored by private companies and using proprietary display technologies. So go and check out the LOC's exhibits tomorrow, and if you're a programmer who has critical feedback for the exhibitors then get in touch with them and let them know how they can do it better next time. Because there definitely will be a next time, and another, and then another.


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Osama won't live onAndrew Brown, editor of the Guardian's Comment is free Belief section, says Osama bin Laden 'will live on.' It's not surprising really. I mean his comparison of the vile Osama with the abolitionist John Brown and wonderful labour activist Joe Hill says more about him than anything else.
But of course nothing could be further from the truth.
Yes, even the vilest people may live on in some minds. There are still people celebrating Hitler and Stalin but that does not a Joe Hill make. Unfortunately for Andrew Brown (and thankfully for the rest of us), Osama won't live on just because he and his pro-Islamist cohorts at the Guardian wish it to be so.
Brown rightly quotes a folk song sung for Joe Hill: "And standing there, as big as life, and smiling with his eyes, said Joe what they could never kill went on to organise."
What Brown doesn't realise though is that the song is not about the likes of Osama but about the many rising up against oppression, including today against the Islamism Osama personifies in Iran and across the Middle East and North Africa.
No, Osama won't live on, particularly not when this masss movement of humanity - a third force against both Islamic terrorism and US-led state terrorism - brings Islamism to its knees.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I dreamed I saw Osama bin Laden last night. He was still fucking dead.
The following is a blog post from Maryam Namazie, a prominent leader of the "One Law For All" campaign based in London. It is from her blog. She is referring to a piece by Guardian writer Andrew Brown, linked to here.
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July 24th, 2012
9 religious companies (besides Chick-fil-A)
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
As the controversy over Chick-fil-A's founder publicly opposing same-sex marriage continues - Mike Huckabee is pushing for a Chick-fil-A day, while the Jim Henson Co. is cutting ties to the chain - we're republishing our list of 10 other religious companies.
Our initial list was provoked by an earlier Chick-fil-A/same-sex marriage controversy. Is our list missing any names? Tweet us at @CNNBelief to let us know.
Here are 10 well-known companies that don't make religious products - we're not talking kosher foods manufacturer Manischewitz here - but that nonetheless take their religious sides seriously (listed in no particular order).
1. Forever 21. The young women's clothing company may be best known for its skimpier and saucier offerings, but it also exudes subtle piety. The words John 3:16 – a citation of a biblical verse popular among evangelical Christians - appears at the bottom of its stores' shopping bags. A spokeswoman for the company told The New York Sun that the message is a "demonstration of the owners' faith."
2. Tom's of Maine. After launching the natural home products company in 1970 with his wife Kate, CEO Tom Chappell nearly left it to pursue full-time Christian ministry. While receiving a master's at Harvard Divinity School, however, a professor advised him to just treat his business as ministry. "He began bringing in different spiritual leaders to talk to the board about how they could use spiritual principles to run the company," says the Tyson Center's Neal. Beyond environmentalism, the company seeks to "create a better world by exchanging our faith, experience, and hope."
3. Tyson Foods, Inc. The world's largest chicken company employs a team of chaplains who minister to employees at production facilities and corporate offices. Other corporations contract out such services, but it's rare for a company to keep chaplains on the payroll.
"The chaplains provide compassionate pastoral care and ministry to team members and their families," according to Tyson's website, "regardless of their religious or spiritual affiliation or beliefs."
Tyson recently gave money to launch the Tyson Center for Faith and Spirituality in the Workplace at the University of Arkansas, one of the first academic centers of its kind.
4. Hobby Lobby. The privately held chain of more than 450 arts and crafts stories isn't shy about its Christian orientation. "Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles," reads the company's mission statement. "We believe that it is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured."
The company supports a slate of Christian interests, from Oral Roberts University to the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, and is known for taking out overtly religious newspaper ads around the holidays.
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5. ServiceMaster. Never heard of this corporation? Perhaps some of the residential services companies it owns, like Terminix and American Home Shield, will ring a bell.
The company was founded in 1929 by Marion E. Wade, who "had a strong personal faith and a desire to honor God in all he did," according to ServiceMaster's website. "Translating this into the marketplace, he viewed each individual employee and customer as being made in God's image - worthy of dignity and respect."
The company, formerly public but recently taken over by a private equity firm, still consciously tries to "do the right thing in the way that employees treat customers," says Theodore Malloch, who leads Yale University's Spiritual Capital Initiative. "It's a theological statement about servant leadership - think of the picture of Christ washing the feet of his disciples."
6. Herman Miller. The Michigan-based furniture manufacturer's founders were steeped in the Reformed Protestant tradition. "It retains a lot of that in practices that revolve around a notion of respecting the dignity of the human person and a strong environmental ethic that grew out of the religious responsibility," says Yale's Malloch. Indeed, Herman Miller - perhaps most famous for its Aeron chair - prides itself on environmental philanthropy and on regularly appearing on Fortune's annual list of best companies to work for.
7. Interstate Batteries. The car battery giant has a "self-avowed religious identity and is very open in their God talk" in internal training and communication, says Lake Lambert III, author of Spirituality, Inc. Former company president Norm Miller moved to the role of chairman to allow more time to address Christian audiences. Miller talks to those "interested in how he found the truth of Christianity," the company's website says, "and how he learned to effectively apply biblical principles to create a more successful business." Interstate employs its own chaplain.
8. In-N-Out Burger. Chick-fil-A is hardly the only fast-food outfit to make its founders' religious leanings part of its recipe. Western U.S. burger chain In-N-Out has printed citations of Bible passages on cups, wrappers and other pieces of packaging since at least the late 1980s. For instance, "John 3:16" appears on the bottom of soft drink cups, a reference to the Bible passage, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Read more on In-N-Out's religious side at Eatocracy, CNN's food blog.
9. Walmart. Treat this one as an honorable mention. Lambert says the Walton family, which founded the company and still own a major stake in it, has used Christian servant leadership models in building the world's largest retailer. And the company's Arkansas roots helped sensitize it to the shopping habits of churchgoers. It helps explain why Walmart long carries the kind of Christian books that were once the exclusive province of Christian bookstores. "You don't find those kinds of things in J.C. Penney," Lambert says. But Walmart has been so successful with such material that it's now become a business threat to Christian booksellers.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey is a Buddhist. Whole Foods Global Public Relations Director Kate Lowery says that Mackey has never been a Buddhist. "John does not fit into any traditional religious category," she said in an e-mail message.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
A tour of Thomas Edison's Winter Home in Ft. Myers, Florida on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River
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I absolutely loved this post! I love learning about inventors, and such. If I am ever down that way, I will check it out. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Hi Sam...enjoyed your article and was fortunate to visit the facilities just this past February.ReplyDelete
This was a wonderful post, Sam. Thanks for sharing your tour with us. Our family home was not far from Edison Park in New Jersey, so I found this most interesting. I hope you are having a wonderful day...MaryReplyDelete
Sam, thanks for taking me in the house. We've been by it several times when my husband used to race jet skis. We were in that area for many races. On my other blog I have a few places around Sarasota, and John Ringling Mansion, but they wouldn't let us take photos inside. You have to take the virtual on-line tour.ReplyDelete
I just love the verandas, and the French doors. The kitchen seems so simple! I'd love to see that in person.
Interesting that he didn't believe in exercise, maybe that is why he had a seperate bedroom:)
Don't you wonder just what he was working on last in that lab?
oh i adore visiting places like this what fun, must come to this part of FL nextReplyDelete
Sam the Good Cooker!
Thanks for the tour, Sam! It looks like a very comfortable home. I love all the porches!ReplyDelete
What a great post. I love touring historic homes!ReplyDelete
Oh what a nice tour... I live three years in Orlando and never heard about this Tour...ReplyDelete
I love places where you can just feel the history like walking through a thick misty fog.ReplyDelete
One of my favorite things about Edison was a quote attributed to him about failure during his attempt to perfect the light bulb, "I haven't failed, I've invented 1,000 ways NOT to make a light bulb."
(Yes the quote is disputed and the number changes drastically but it works for me.)
I love this post Sam! I never knew Edison, Ford and Firestone were such friends. Edison's home is gorgeous. Sounds like a very fun way to spend the day.ReplyDelete
Fascinating - love the history - another love of mine. I have an aunt in Ft. Myers - you are tempting me to visit.ReplyDelete
I have been to Fort Myers and Thomas Edison's home many years ago. What sticks out in my memory for me are the banyon trees, the lightbulbs that still burn and the fact that he made a fuel for cars from goldenrod. We also went to the barnum and Bailey Museum which I beleive is in Sarasota..very interesting and beautiful and well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM
What a fun tour! If we are ever in the area, we will definitely visit this house!ReplyDelete
What fun! I can't believe I've never seen this house!ReplyDelete
First of all, don't you love the names of rivers in the south??
Second: don't you adore the old white wicker furniture? My MIL had a huge porchful of it. And she had a gorgeous wicker bassinet, which I repaired and used for all my kids.
Third: Can't you just picture those three in the early evening out on the veranda?
Great post, Sam!
what a great post..I love all the pics of the house..the kitchen is my fav, also the bedrooms and so much light...lovely postReplyDelete
What a great informative article! Thank you for writing it.ReplyDelete
As always, a beautiful post. I love taking your virtual tours. Always so informative and always beautiful pictures. I felt like I was actually there.ReplyDelete
What an interesting post, Sam!ReplyDelete
I love visiting houses that belonged to famous, or important characters of history, artists...Seems like we can imagine what their real life was like...I see you are reading the book about Monet's cooking...not that he actually cooked, but at least he loved giving receptions in his home of Giverny..have you seen that yellow kitchen? Lovely!
Thanks for sharing!
Un beso,
I've enjoyed my "arm chair travel" with you this morning. Thanks so much! Now, could we stop for a glass of wine?ReplyDelete
I love this post, so full of historic information of the life and times of Thomas Edison. I don't think I've ever seen an ice box - that's quite interesting!ReplyDelete
Sam, I have been past the Edison Estate, but never visited. We used to frequent Sanibel beach before we got the NC property.ReplyDelete
He was an amazing man. I can't imagine that he didn't believe in exercise!
You know, who needs to travel when we have your gorgeous posts often? I love this one...how absolutely stunning of a place.ReplyDelete
Isn't it amazing that some of the most brilliant people in history didn't even have a formal education! I found it quite incredible that the original bulbs are still up and running in the home. What a terrific place! Thanks so much for the tour.ReplyDelete
Sam, Edison is one of my heroes. Thanks for the tour of his house!ReplyDelete
Sam, this is a great post. I remember being very intriqued with Edison when I first learned about him in elementary school. I even made a psuedo model of a phonograph out of cardboard and foil, which I kept for some time. I've often thought about visiting his home in New Jersey, but still have not gotten there. Perhaps this is the summer to make the trip. Thanks for this look inside his "vacation home" although I suspect someone like Edison was always in creative mode!ReplyDelete
Edison's Florida home is one place I've always wanted to visit. Thanks so much for the tour!ReplyDelete
I enjoyed reading this post! Learned a lot too.ReplyDelete
Enjoyed the tour! I think the servants room was my favorite-or the lab with all the bottles.ReplyDelete
We did vacation in Ft. Myers, but never made it to Edison's home! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to virtually experience a visit there, very interesting! I love the image you took of the pool, it looks like an Impressionist painting.ReplyDelete
Saw your profile on another page. Glad I read your informative and well-written blog. Look forward to following you here. Have a great night. Cheers!ReplyDelete
Loved the tour of Edison's home. Thank you for taking my along! :)ReplyDelete
Hello Sam!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tour in Edison's fabulously & lovely home!
I am always on a trip at your blog!
Beautiful pictures too!
This brought back memories! I grew up in a small town just east of Ft. Myers and have been to the Edison Home several times. It really is a fascinating place that people of all ages will enjoy. Glad you got a chance to visit :)ReplyDelete
That was such an interesting post. I enjoy so much visiting old historical places like this. Your post was so informative and the pictures very good. Loved it.ReplyDelete
We have been to Edison's and Ford's home, and they are wonderful. I love Fort Myers.ReplyDelete
These were three brilliant men, and I have always been fascinated by their friendship.
Such an interesting post, Sam. I love seeing places like this; your photos are great. It reminds me a little of Ernest Hemingway's home in Key West - not necessarily as a carbon copy but more that it seems to have the same type of vibe. Have you ever visited his home? It's wonderful, too.ReplyDelete
What awesome tour! If in the area, we will definitely visit this house beautiful ~ReplyDelete
thanks so much for the tour~has been a while since I have been down that way. Need to visit his home, so interesting.ReplyDelete
This was an interesting tour, Sam. Thanks so much! If I am ever in Fort Meyers area I'll be sure to visit Edison's beautiful summer home.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Thank you for this amazing tour!ReplyDelete
What a delightful travel this evening. I loved this story. So thankful you shared with us. xo marlisReplyDelete
This was such a fun "trip" to take...thanks very much for all the information and the great photos. I saw your post over at The Tablescaper blog.ReplyDelete
I was just there last month and I almost posted the poics today too. Glad I decided on another trip. I love that place, we bought a vacation house not too far from it. I love the grounds!....ChristineReplyDelete
I love this post and for many reasons beyond it's beauty and wealth of information. My parents had a home in Florida for quite some time. One day while I was visiting with my children we decided to go and visit, but got totally lost and never made it. My Dad is no longer with us, but this sure brings back the memories of our time with him.ReplyDelete
- Alma, The Tablescaper
Such a lovely vacation home. My favorite actually is the laboratory-that would be fascinating room to see. I learn so much from seeing where everyone gets to travel too.ReplyDelete
This was so interesting, Sam! Your photos are wonderful. I regret not visiting Edison's home and laboratory in New Jersey when I lived in NYC. I never knew he had a winter home and lab in Fort Meyers, FL.ReplyDelete
Looks like a fantastic place to see. Blessings, DebbieReplyDelete
I have not been there. Will have to plan a trip. I was so pleased that your interests included history. Hope you post pictures of your new kitchen as it develops. Have you noticed the posts by Bob Toler's daughter about the house? The Blue Dolphin is being readied for sale by the Toler children (now adults). They are renovating and living there and the pics look very nice. Hope you are well.ReplyDelete
I have not been there. Will have to plan a trip. I was so pleased that your interests included history. Hope you post pictures of your new kitchen as it develops. Have you noticed the posts by Bob Toler's daughter about the house? The Blue Dolphin is being readied for sale by the Toler children (now adults). They are renovating and living there and the pics look very nice. Hope you are well.ReplyDelete


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Professor Mike Parker Pearson and his team have been awarded a further £800,000 grant to discover exactly how the people who built Stonehenge lived, what they ate and where they came from.
The research team from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield will study how at the time of the Winter Solstice, Stone Age people would have needed to have brought livestock with them to Stonehenge to feed on. Initial research suggests the animals were brought considerable distances to this ceremonial site at this time of year.
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of their annual large grants research scheme, this new project, entitled `Feeding Stonehenge´, will allow the team to answer some key questions about Stonehenge over the next three years.
The team will develop their research further by analysing the bones of the cows slaughtered in the area 4,500 years ago to calculate where the cattle had been moved from to give a better guide of where the people had travelled from to visit the site. In addition, the archaeologists will aim to gain a better understanding of the dressing of the sarsen stones, study how the public and private spaces at Durrington Walls differ from each other and establish in which season animals were culled at Stonehenge and Durrington Walls.
The grant forms one of 34 major research grants made by the AHRC in 2009 to projects that will help further our understanding of human culture and creativity. It was awarded following the already revolutionary Stonehenge Riverside project, also led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson, which strengthened the idea that nearby Durrington Walls was part of the Stonehenge complex. The large collection of cattle jaws collected during the last few years of excavations will now undergo strontium and sulphur isotope analysis to establish where they came from.
The newest project will now see the archaeologists study the material resources required for building Stonehenge and the other henge complexes of Wessex. In addition, the team will try and ascertain whether Britain´s Copper Age started 50 years earlier than first thought. Circumstantial evidence points to copper tools being in use at Durrington Walls earlier than previously calculated. Cut-marks on animal bones should reveal whether they were made by copper daggers as opposed to flint tools.
Professor Mike Parker Pearson from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffied, said: "The Stonehenge Riverside Project's results were well beyond anyone's expectations – archaeologists and general public alike. It has allowed us to completely re-write the story of Stonehenge. One of the unforseen outcomes is the vast quantity of new material – flint tools, animal bones, pottery, plant remains, survey data, and chemical samples – which now needs analysing.
"The new grant from the AHRC for the 'Feeding Stonehenge' project allows us to get the maximum information out of this unexpected wealth of remains. We are going to know so much about the lives of the people who built Stonehenge – how they lived, what they ate, where they came from. The AHRC's grants have been crucial for helping us find out more about one of the world's most important prehistoric monuments. They have enabled the project to develop in directions which could not possibly be predicted when we started digging."
In early September the AHRC spent a day visiting the 2009 excavation near Stonehenge and interviewing the research team. A short video podcast is now online that offers viewers an insight in to the scale of the excavations undertaken during 2009.


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About the Data Model and Pivot Tutorial
This tutorial guides you through adding data to your Splunk deployment, building simple data models from this tutorial data, and creating new pivots from the data models.
Prerequisites for this tutorial
This tutorial assumes that you have access to a Splunk deployment.
If you do not have access to a Splunk deployment, you can use a trial version of the Splunk software. For instructions on downloading a trial version, installing, and starting the software, see the following topics in the Search Tutorial.
- What you need for this tutorial
- Install Splunk Enterprise on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X
- Start Splunk Enterprise and launch Splunk Web
What's covered in this tutorial?
A breakdown of what you will find in each of the sections of this tutorial follows.
- Introduction describes the pre-requisites and system requirements for completing this tutorial. It also describes Splunk Web, which is the interface for using Splunk Enterprise and Pivot.
- Part 1: Getting data into Splunk Enterprise walks you through adding the tutorial data into Splunk Enterprise. The tutorial data, which is a sample data set composed of web server and MySQL logs for a fictional online game store, is included for download in this chapter.
- Part 2: Building a data model walks you through creating a new data model, defining the root dataset, editing dataset fields, defining child fields.
- Part 3: Designing a Pivot report walks you through creating and saving Pivot tables and charts.
- Part 4: Creating dashboards walks you through creating new dashboards and adding Pivots to new and existing dashboards.
Using a PDF of the tutorial
Do not copy and paste searches or regular expressions directly from the PDF into Splunk Web. In some cases, doing so causes errors because of hidden characters that are included in the PDF formatting.
What you need for this tutorial
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.5.7, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13


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Members of the Class of 2012,
As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today.
You're f*cked.
Well, not exactly. But you won't have it easy.
First, you're going to have a hell of a hard time finding a job. The job market you're heading into is still bad. Fewer than half of the graduates from last year's class have as yet found full-time jobs. Most are still looking.
That's been the pattern over the last three graduating classes: It's been taking them more than a year to land the first job. And those who still haven't found a job will be competing with you, making your job search even harder.
Contrast this with the class of 2008, whose members were lucky enough to get out of here and into the job market before the Great Recession really hit. Almost three-quarters of them found jobs within the year.
You're still better off than your friends who didn't graduate. Overall, the unemployment rate among young people (21 to 24 years old) with four-year college degrees is now 6.4 percent. With just a high school degree, the rate is double that.
But even when you get a job, it's likely to pay peanuts.
Last year's young college graduates lucky enough to land jobs had an average hourly wage of only $16.81, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute. That's about $35,000 a year -- lower than the yearly earnings of young college graduates in 2007, before the Great Recession. The typical wage of young college graduates dropped 4.6 percent between 2007 and 2011, adjusted for inflation.
Presumably this means that when we come out of the gravitational pull of the recession your wages will improve. But there's a longer-term trend that should concern you.
The decline in the earnings of college grads really began more than a decade ago. Young college grads with jobs are earnings 5.4 percent less than they did in the year 2000, adjusted for inflation.
Don't get me wrong. A four-year college degree is still valuable. Over your lifetimes, you'll earn about 70 percent more than people who don't have the pieces of parchment you're picking up today.
But this parchment isn't as valuable as it once was. So much of what was once considered "knowledge work" -- the kind that college graduates specialize in -- can now be done more cheaply by software. Or by workers with college degrees in India or East Asia, linked up by Internet.
For many of you, your immediate problem is that pile of debt on your shoulders. In a few moments, when you march out of here, those of you who have taken out college loans will owe more than $25,000 on average. Last year, ten percent of college grads with loans owed more than $54,000. Your parents have also taken out loans to help you. Loans to parents for the college educations of their children have soared 75 percent since the academic year 2005-2006.
Outstanding student debt now totals over $1 trillion. That's more than the nation's total credit-card debt.
The extraordinary rise in student debt is due to two related facts: the cost of a college education continues to increase faster than inflation, and state and local spending per college student continues to drop -- this year reaching a 25-year low.
But this can't go on. If unemployment stays high for many years, if the wages of young college grads continue to fall, if the costs of college continue to rise and state and local spending per college student continues to drop, and if the college debt burden therefore continues to explode -- well, you do the math.
At some point in the not-too-distant future these lines cross. College is no longer a good investment.
That's a problem for you and for those who will follow you into these hallowed halls, but it's also a problem for America as a whole.
You see, a college education isn't just a private investment. It's also a public good. This nation can't be competitive globally, nor can we have a vibrant and responsible democracy, without a large number of well-educated people.
So it's not just you who are burdened by these trends. If they continue, we're all f*cked.
Robert Reich is the author of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future, now in bookstores. This post originally appeared at RobertReich.org.


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North Korea: What happens if Kim Jong-un acts on his threats?
In the event that the 'bellicose rhetoric' of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un turns into something more serious, the opening hours of conflict could be 'pretty ugly,' defense analysts warn.
| Washington
Veteran North Korea watchers, citing what they see as increasingly troubling signs coming from the dictatorial regime, are voicing concerns that its new young leader, Kim Jong-un, could do something ill-advised, even start a war.
On Friday North Korea renewed what the U.S. has condemned as its "bellicose rhetoric," saying Kim had ordered the nation's missile forces to prepare to strike the United States and South Korea.
In response to the prospect of North Korea following through on this and other marginally less dire threats, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that the US military "will unequivocally defend, and [is] unequivocally committed to the alliance with, South Korea."
But if hostilities were in fact to erupt, how might they play out?
Some former US Special Operations Forces and longtime Korea defense analysts have their own thoughts on what an "unequivocal" US military response could look like, including how US troops would be deployed in the event of a lethal first strike on US and allied military forces by North Korea – precisely the sort of move Mr. Kim has been threatening to make.
What would such a first North Korean move resemble? It might involve small-scale infiltrations using mini-submarines, assassination attempts, "maybe shooting someone on the DMZ [demilitarized zone] or missile tests that fly too close over Japan," says Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.
This might be done "to show he's in charge, he won't be intimidated, or because he's truly desperate," Dr. Cronin says.
In the past, most such provocations generally have been met with international condemnation and strengthened sanctions.
Should Kim choose to do "something even more outlandish," the US military and South Korean response would be more dire, he adds.
One of the scenarios that most concerns US defense analysts, for example, involves North Korea's estimated 500,000 to 700,000 rounds of artillery aimed at Seoul, says retired Brig. Gen. Russell Howard, former commander of the 1st Special Forces Group, which has an Asia focus.
Should Kim decide to begin firing them, he says, "in the first few hours of the conflict, it would be pretty ugly."
At the same time, North Korea could begin "swarming" its sizable contingent of 600,000 Special Operations commandos, adds Mr. Howard, now the director of the Terrorism, Research, and Education Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
The "sole purpose" of this group, he adds "is to infiltrate the South and create havoc."
The realistic goal of the North Korean military would likely be to get some 150,000 of them over the border, where they would "go for infrastructure," such as communications and transportation systems.
Complicating efforts to find these infiltrators would be a massive influx of North Korean refugees, in the neighborhood of 3.5 to 4 million into China and another 2.5 million likely moving south into South Korea.
"It's going to be a human disaster that we've never experienced – there are going to be so many refugees," Howard says. "It would just be a nightmare to try to separate civilians from the battlefield."
Regular North Korea units might attempt to come across the border "with a huge burst of energy in the very beginning," he says.
"But as the ammunition starts to run low, as food is low, with counterattacks, I have my own personal view that they would probably start to disintegrate within the first week," Howard adds. "I'm not being flip when I say this, but it really depends on how hungry they are."
Analysts suspect that the North Korean military is not particularly well-fed. Even though humanitarian rations meant for the North Korean population were once diverted to feed them, there are growing indications that this is no longer happening under Kim, Howard says.
The US military would immediately respond to the initial barrage of artillery with air power, using B-52s and highly-accurate B-2 stealth bombers to take them out, along with other key command-and-control targets.
But while the US would no doubt disable these systems, "the artillery or chemical weapons that North Korea is capable of firing into Seoul – a city of some 20 million – would still have a devastating impact," says Victor Cha, the Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
"We would counter, but they could fire thousands of rounds of artillery first, before we could neutralize it. That has always been one of the problems," he adds: While the North Korean military may not be particularly well-rounded or strong, it "can still do a terrible amount of damage."
One key focus for the US and South Korean militaries would be psychological operations, which would be focused on trying "to dissuade the North Korean public from believing all this propaganda they've been hearing their whole lives."
This, too, would be no small feat. This is true, for example, even among North Korean defectors.
"Even though they know they're starving and it takes a lot of courage to defect, they are still hesitant to blame North Korean leadership," Howard notes. "Often they are still more inclined to blame the West. North Korea is so isolated, the US is viewed as 'the great Satan' on steroids."
Most difficult of all, perhaps, would be the mission that US Special Operations Forces would be given: There is little doubt that they would be deployed with an urgent order to secure North Korean weapons of mass destruction.
Accomplishing that "would be tough," Howard says. "It would be very tough."


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AMP Supremacy | Accelerated Mobile Pages – By the makers of Project Supremacy.
AMP Supremacy is a highly configurable one click install plugin to easily add AMP functionality to your websites pages, posts, categories and even tags!
Custom design features include header logo, favicon and color styling for your page titles and articles.
Easy to set up, easy to configure. We've even built in a mobile friendly test just because we can!
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/amp-supremacydirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress
- Click on 'AMP Supremacy' menu item at your WP Dashboard to play with settings
- What does AMP stand for and why should I use it?
AMP is Accelerated Mobile Pages. AMP will render your current posts & pages into a text and image only style in which page load times drop drastically. Google displays AMP related pages in an AMP carousel at the top of their pages increasing your sites traffic.
- How will I be able to see the AMP version of my page?
After installing and configuring the plugin hit save. Then just add /amp at end of any page URL on your site and you will see a nice AMPd version of your page.
- Where do I get additional support on this plugin?
Ask us your query at AMP Support and we will get back to you.
- I have cloudflare working behind my pages, is that fine with AMP?
No, AMP do not support cloudflare yet so you will need to stop Rocket Loader in your cloud flare to inject scripts on AMP Pages. So that cloudflare is restricted for AMP Pages only with URL ending with
- I have AMP Supremacy installed but unable to find AMP Sitemap. Is there something I am missing?
You are so close to AMP Sitemap. Go to your AMP Settings in dashboard and register for AMP Sitemap Add-on. You will find the instructions to use this add-on while registering. You can got to Register for AMP Supremacy Sitemap to get a copy of AMP Sitemap Addon as well.
- What is AMP Sitemap. Why do I need it?
Sitemap carries the list of AMP Pages operating on your website. They must follow the Google Sitemap validation schema. Submission of your sitemap to Google will add to your website's SEO and Google will be able to know what are the links to your AMP Pages so that it can index those pages in Google Search Results.
- How I can display my AMP Sitemap in posts / pages?
Just add a shortcode
[amp-supremacy-sitemap]in your posts / pages to display AMP Sitemap.
Contributors & Developers
"AMP Supremacy" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.Contributors
Translate "AMP Supremacy" into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
- Tested the plugin compatibility with WordPress 4.8 and fixed the incompatibility issues which surfaced.
- Made UI modifications and improvements in AMP Page UI.
- Bug Fix: The image light box for images was distorted for some websites.
- Bug Fix: For many HTTPS websites, the mobile screen did not render the AMP page correctly.
- New: Users can now add custom Meta description through AMP Settings page to reflect upon AMP Page.
- Bug Fix: For some websites, the Home Page is loading some other Post page content.
- New: Users can now add custom CSS through AMP Settings page to reflect upon AMP Page.
- Bug Fix: On AMP Supremacy settings page, when trying to switch AMP On/Off for some page object a window opens up asking for file upload.
- New: Users can now share the settings from one website to other(s), search for a option on 'Settings' Tab
- Bug Fix: In an unordered list the list icon is distorted.
- Bug Fix: For few websites, the content of paragraph tag got overlapped.
- Bug Fix: For few websites, The related posts section got 'category' relevant posts when 'tag' is selected.
- Bug Fix: The audio file when added with custom HTML gets broken on AMP Page for few sites.
- Bug Fix: Worked and resolved certain GWT critical errors based upon some HTML tags
- Feature: HTML Audio objects must be converted into AMP compatible audio objects.
- Bug Fix: The tag 'map' is disallowed.
- Bug Fix: The tag 'area' is disallowed.
- Bug Fix: The tag 'spandroid' is disallowed
- Bug Fix: The tag 'proboto',' is disallowed
- Bug Fix: AMP Template shortcut icon of structured data image/Favicon Image show AMP Logo, even when changed in AMP Supremacy Settings.
- Bug Fix: The links in header of the AMP page on small mobile devices should respond to header link and menu link seperatly (not overlapped).
- Bug Fix: The list of posts in 'Recent Posts' section are having wrong post title for few websites.
- Bug Fix: The heading of the page when points to some other website, should not be converted to AMP
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'alt' may not appear in tag 'div'
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'href' may not appear in tag 'button'.
- Bug Fix: Text files must not be converted to AMP when are appearing as internal link in some AMP Page
- Bug Fix: Category/Tag description not showing up for few websites
- Bug Fix: Category/Tag description must be validated on AMP rules before loading it up on AMP Page
- Bug Fix: Made changes so that the internal links must not be converted into AMP links for pages/posts for which AMP is disabled either individually or globally
- Feature: users can opt for displaying Category or Tag description in their category or tags AMP pages respectively.
- Bug Fix: The large resolution image's height needs to be in ratio with its width – this showed up images as stretched
- Bug Fix: Home, normal page, category pages are not working for few websites when custom permalink is used
- Bug Fix: Images are distorted for very small resolution on mobile devices.
- Bug Fix: For custom permalinks the post, pages, categories and tags AMP pages redirects to wrong content.
- Bug Fix: The category page bears wrong posts for some websites.
- Bug Fix: The amp-form extension is loading up for few cases contributing to a non-critical error
- Bug Fix: The form action must load the current page URL is action attribute is missing.
- Bug Fix: Text was getting compressed for few websites when viewed in Mobile emulator
- Bug Fix: AMP Page has got few PHP errors showing up after upgrade to 2.0.0
- Added a option which will let users to opt out of invalid AMP elements to load on AMP Pages
- The whole new user interface.
- Mobile Emulator to experience instant change.
- Bug Fix: Hotlinked images are squished and distorted. They should appear fine and follow aspect ratio.
- Bug Fix: Resolution of couple of non-critical issues related to loading AMP resources.
- Bug Fix: form action attribute is invalid for method=POST
- Bug Fix: Google Verification code is not appearing in AMP Page
- Bug Fix: Language Attributes in HTML tag on AMP page are not loading for some websites.
- Bug Fix: The page links in AMP pages are not responding on some iOS devices.
- Bug Fix: The heading of the post is distorted and overlaps with other text, for very small devices.
- Bug Fix: Few posts are missing in category AMP pages for some users' website(s).
- Code optimizations and changes to remove repetitive code.
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'href' may not appear in tag 'button'
- Bug Fix: Made changes so that image URLs are not converted into AMP URLs. This lead to creation of AMP '/amp' URL for images which then resulted in 404 error generation through Google Crawl.
- Added a favicon at AMP Supremacy Settings page
- Bug Fix: Fixed the wrong generation of closing 'amp-img' tag.
- Bug Fix: Made fixes in related posts display on AMP Pages.
- Bug Fix: Logo size of logo image in structured data got distorted, its fixed now.
- Bug Fix: Made improvements in typography of post content displayed in AMP Pages.
- Bug Fix: For many users, there was an error with images, this did not let the load images on AMP Pages for them. Made the required fix.
- Bug Fix: Their were few issues with page responsiveness for the devices less than 320px resolution.
- Bug Fix: Images are not aligned properly at very small screen resolution.
- Bug Fix: The icons of menu, tags, category were not aligned properly at smaller screens
- Bug Fix: Iframes on AMP Pages were distorted in some cases.
- Bug Fix: The relevancy for recent posts did not follow the selection for some websites.
- Improvements in AMP Supremacy settings page UI.
- Bug Fix: The amp-youtube extension is not loading for few webistes when the post contains youtube content.
- Bug Fix: For some, websites the Home Page did not load the right content.
- Bug Fix: The text for the post content text is in blue color for first time users, changed this to black.
- Bug Fix: Many users are getting a PHP error logged in their server log file through plugin.
- Bug Fix: 'Hide Site Name in Header' is not working for few websites
- Bug Fix: The logo size mentioned through settings is not matching to logo dimensions at AMP Page.
- Bug Fix: Yoast is not supplying a canonical URL for few websites. Added a filter to load canonical URL if yoast does not.
- Bug Fix: The sidebar extension must not load when 'menu' is disabled in AMP Settings.
- Bug Fix: The lightbox is not working for some websites.
- Bug Fix: Title picked up in structured data is wrong for few websites.
- Bug Fix: From recent release, default menu show up instead of selected AMP menu.
- Bug Fix: Fixed color picker issue in AMP Supremacy settings.
- Bug Fix: Style improvements in AMP Page.
- New Feature: Enable/Disable AMP for some post / page via post/page listing.
- Bug Fix: Fixed AMP Page style after RTL support is enabled.
- Bug Fix: Issue with image upload for header logo.
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'clear' may not appear in tag 'br' and…
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'action' may not appear in tag 'FORM [method=POST]'.
- Minor instruction modifications at settings page.
- The page is loading 'amphtml' URL at home page when custom page is set to home page even when home page is dropped in settings
- Bug Fix: The home page loads wrong content for some websites.
- WMT Error Fix: The tag 'spanhelvetica' is disallowed.
- Added lang attribute in HTML tag of AMP page
- Added a SEO pointer for language in HEAD of AMP Page
- Bug Fix: The 'amp-lightbox' not loaded but required for some websites.
- Bug Fix: Few PHP methods which took longer execution time and sometimes not allowed by user's server configurations and environment.
- Minor design and performance improvements.
- Bug Fix: Image width bug with structured data.
- Bug Fix: Lightbox on Images is not working for few websites.
- Bug Fix: The menu being displayed in sidebar loads distorted.
- Bug Fix: Post/Page settings not overwriting the global settings for some websites.
- Bug Fix: AMP Page is not loading up for some websites.
- Bug Fix: Add/Edit of Post/Page is erroneous when plugin is active for some websites.
- Change: Changes the URL for AMP Supremacy Banner Image
- Bug Fix: Canonical URL appears more than once for Project Supremacy Users (in case user still find this error, please upgrade to latest version of 'Project Supremacy').
- Bug Fix: The target attribute in anchor tag has got invalid value ".
- Bug Fix: Unwanted PHP Notice showing up
- Update: Endpoint to know if AMP page is loaded is renamed from 'is_amp_endpoint' to 'is_amp_supremacy_endpoint'.
- New: Users will be able to set post / page specific settings, search for 'AMP Supremacy Options' in sidebar of your post's / page's edit page.
- New: Ability to disable or enable AMP for some particular post or page.
- Bug Fix: Few AMP external resources did not load when required on Tags / Categories AMP Page.
- Major code optimizations and improvements
- Bug Fix: The tag 'spantimes' is disallowed.
- Code optimizations and performance monitored / improved.
- Bug Fix: URL construction showed up issues for some websites in AMP Page
- Bug Fix: Fixed several GWT Non-Critical Errors.
- Bug Fix: Fixed AMP Warnings based upon library inclusion.
- Added a 'Scroll to Top' link in the footer of the AMP Page
- Bug Fix: Division by Zero warning showing up.
- Several GWT Validation issue fixes.
- Unwanted PHP notices displayed for some specific settings
- Resolution to issue that registered users are able to see the message saying tha you are unregistered for AMP Supremacy Lite.
- New: Added a section for 'Related Posts' and these can be controlled through AMP Settings.
- Minor Style improvements.
- Bug Fix: The capability for users to hide the site name did not work for some website.
- Bug Fix: Couple of PHP Notices showed up through menu on AMP Pages for a non conventional case.
- Bug Fix: Structured Data improvements and modifications.
- There were couple of PHP7 compatibility issues and they are resolved.
- Code Optimizations and improvements so that plugin runs faster.
- Bug Fix: Yoast Plugin and Project Supremacy SEO data fetching on AMP Pages had few issues.
- Few AMP validation issues surfaced through some recent releases were resolved.
- Bug Fix: The amp-image-lightbox> must not be a decendent of element.
- Bug Fix: Lightbox effect is not working for featured images at many sites.
- Minor bug fixes
- For some websites the AMP Supremacy Lite settings on AMP Settings Page is showing non-authorized message.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements
- Bug Fix: The high resolution images with greater width are exceeding the parent container.
- Bug Fix: For some websites the pages are not loading the AMP version of the page.
- Bug Fix: For some websites the intended page redirects to some other page.
- The structured data should carry the site image if supplied through AMP Supremacy Settings.
- Bug Fix: The color pickers on AMP Settings Page are not opening up for few users due to JS confliction through other plugin.
- A hook signalling that AMP Page is being loading will now consider the protected posts and pages while giving the response.
- Bug Fix: The AMP is not working for custom permalinks
- Other minor style related improvements.
- Bug Fix: The menu links in AMP Page are not rendering with a trailing slash for some websites.
- Bug Fix: The menu for some websites is loading with non-AMP Links
- Minor bug fixes and style improvements
- Bug Fix: Some users facing error with SEO data load on AMP Pages.
- Other Design related minor fixes.
- Bug Fix: The AMP Pages are not loading up for some websites and going to original post page instead.
- Bug Fix: Tags like p, a, etc are loading up non required attributes.
- New: The canonical URL must not load on post / page which is password protected untill user supplies a valid password for the post.
- New: In the tags and categories page(s), if the any of the listed post(s) is password protected then it should not be displayed.
- New: The featured image appearing in the AMP Page must be lightbox featured.
- New: If the post / page is password protected, its AMP version will not be loaded and the user will be redirected to original page instead.
- New: User can now switch the AMP Menu on/off through AMP Supremacy Settings
- New: Added a capability for user to select the menu which he want to be displayed on AMP Page.
- Bug Fix: Clicking on Title of the post through AMP reports as a unexpected redirect.
- Bug Fix: Canonical URL trimming of hyper referance is erroneous for some link texts.
- New: User can add/edit a logo to be displayed through Structured Data on AMP Google Search Results through AMP Supremacy Settings Page.
- Bug Fix: Sometimes the logo image in structured data do not gets its dimensions
- New: Added a hook 'is_amp_endpoint' so themes and plugins can check if AMP Page is being served or not.
- Bug Fix: The footer content control and the additional text displayed in footer contains backslashes.
- Bug Fix: For RTL supporting websites, the page's meta information is distorted.
- Bug Fix: The youtube videos are not loading fine for some websites as video ID extraction was broken for few cases.
- Bug Fix: Forms on AMP pages are contributing to Google AMP Errors.
- New: The lightbox for images has got some styling improvements.
- Bug Fix: AMP pages are not loading for some users or some users are able to see blank screen instead of AMP Page.
- New Feature: The images in post content will be showed up in lightbox when clicked.
- New Feature: User can switch Lightbox on/off for his AMP Pages.
- Bug Fix: For some users (especially the ones having older version of PHP) the 'AMP Settings' are not loading up.
- Bug Fix: For some users the AMP settings are showing up couple of PHP warnings.
- Addition: Added a link to AMP Settings under 'AMP Supremacy' bar in Plugins Page.
- New: User can now add text to his AMP Page Footer through AMP Supremacy Settings Page.
- New: If plugin finds youtube video link in post/page content, it will now render through
amp-youtubeinstead of
- Bug Fix: The Form action URL should not point to AMP Pages but to real pages.
- Bug Fix: The menu is not opening up for some websites when menu button is clicked through header.
- User can switch whether to convert internal links to AMP or not.
- Bug Fix: Some customers are facing PHP Warnings through RTL support.
- Bug Fix: The author name, categories and tags is displaced in RTL Page.
- RTL compatibility.
- Bug Fix: The issue with forms been loading wrongly when 'action' is empty.
- Bug Fix: The text formatting issue.
- Bug Fix: The images with width less than 500px is not responsive or device friendly.
- Bug Fix: Structured Data is broken for some websites.
- Bug Fix: The author image is overlapping with text coming after it.
- Bug Fix: Tags count differs from the original count for some pages.
- Bug Fix: For some websites the plugin is picking up wrong menu for navigation bar.
- Bug Fix: The text indentation is appearing to be wrong for the text loaded through Thrive Content Builder.
- Bug Fix: The images being loaded through Thrive Content Builder are displaced and their aspect ratio is disturbed.
- Bug Fix: In some cases Thrive Content Builder content is still bearing shortcodes.
- Bug Fix: The featured image is not aligned in center of the page for users.
- The users will be able to avail Google Analytics service through AMP Supremacy Lite
- Added capability to switch visibility of featured image on AMP Page
- Bug Fix: In case some link inside the post content is some download link then it must not be AMP'd.
- Bug Fix: The text for some websites distored due to wrong image placements.
- Bug Fix: Some website's internal links got '/amp' when there is already '/' at the end of the URL.
- Bug Fix: Add Logo Image and favicon image functionality was broken for some websites because of some recent changes.
- Bug Fix: The header logo image and site name must redirect to AMP version instead of non-AMP version
- Added a capability for user to hide the site name to be displayed through header.
- Bug Fix: The menu for some websites is loading AMP link source as extended with /ampamp instead of /amp
- Modifications made to the tags and category pages' styles – changes 'Written By' to 'Author', the post seperator style changes.
- If the post is not having the title a placeholder 'Untitled' will appear in place of it.
- Bug Fix: Sometimes the child cat and tag page redirects back to non-AMP page OR do not loads the AMP page.
- Bug Fix: The video tag is not allowed and it should be 'amp-video' instead of it.
- Bug Fix: The 'source' under 'amp-video' tag must not be HTTP sourced – AMP Settings will reach this including form, iframes and videos.
- Bug Fix: The Category and Tags pages got some distorted styles as the images and text appeared to be out of parent container.
- Bug Fix: The link to AMP version of some page is showing up as META in the pages where AMP is made off through AMP Settings.
- Bug Fix: Child Categories and tags are not loading up the right content but the parent objects are loading the pages right.
- Bug Fix: Smaller images in the content of page are bouncing up and getting very enlarged.
- The links which appear in page content of AMP Pages and are pointing to same website's some other page, should be AMP links.
- User will be now able to deal with forms as like other secure content (iframe & img) through AMP Settings.
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'type' in tag 'input' is set to the invalid value 'file'.
- Bug Fix: Invalid URL protocol 'http:' for attribute 'action' in tag 'form'.
- Dealt with the issue that content is not being loaded for the pages contructed via Live Composer.
- UI and AMP Page Style Improvements based on the data being loaded through Live Composer Posts/Pages.
- Bug Fix: The attributes like 'onclick', 'onfocus', 'onsubmit' etc should not appear in any tag.
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'onclick' may not appear in tag 'textarea'.
- Bug Fix: The attribute 'onclick' may not appear in tag 'input'.
- Bug Fix: The featured image sometimes is detected but the source URL for the same is not found – this results in GWT Error.
- Bug Fix: The AMP Page title (when longer title) is exceeding its container.
- Bug Fix: The AMP Pages are appearing broken for devices with 4 inch screen/display.
- Compatibility with
Beaver Builder Plugin– AMP Supremacy will now render the pages constructed with Beaver Page Builder fine.
- Amazon Affiliate Links – The plugin shows up some errors for Amazon affiliate links being used as Image source.
- Bug Fix: Missing URL for attribute 'src' in tag 'amp-img'.
- Bug Fix: Issue with Publisher Name in Structured Data.
- Bug Fix: The tag 'amp-iframe' may not appear as a descendant of tag 'amp-sidebar'.
- Bug Fix: The Navbar for some websites is broken and redirects to a page saying 'Page not found'.
- Bug Fix: The tables being loaded at AMP pages are not loading data for some websites
- The images being loaded on AMP pages will now be following aspect ratio of their actual size.
- User can now switch on/off the AMP for Home Page of their website.
- Bug Fix: The Logo Image in header, when size is increased the image alignment is disturbed and it exceeds header container.
- Bug Fix: The height/width of the logo is not pre-loaded in AMP settings when once provided.
- Bug Fix: Visual Editor users didn't get their post content showing up in AMP Pages.
- Bug Fix: The content and title on AMP pages is not matching the actual one for some websites.
- Bug Fix: The number categories and tags being displayed under title are not matching the exact/expected number for some websites.
- Added a menu on AMP page which will allow users to go to various AMP pages on their website.
- Added a footer on AMP pages which will bear the Website name and tagline.
- Bug Fix: The input tags must not bear JS event attributes.
- Bug Fix: 'src' attribute must not be empty for 'iframe'.
- Feature Added: User can now adjust height and width of the logo image being displayed on AMP Page.
- Feature Added: User can input the color code and adjust the darkness of the color being selected in AMP Settings for header, article text color.
- Minor Bug Fix: AMP pages are not loading for some websites.
- Bug Fix : Invalid URL protocol 'javascript:' for attribute 'href' in tag 'a'.
- Bug Fix : Invalid URL protocol '<amp-img alt=" src='https:" for attribute 'src' in tag 'amp-img'.
- Bug Fix : The tag 'font' is disallowed.
- Bug Fix : The attribute 'nowrap' may not appear in tag 'td'.
- Bug Fix : Errors with structured data, some users have author and publisher name as " " (space) which is not validated form
- Bug Fix : The text is exceeding the container. This fix will not let the text to exceed the container boundary and it (text) will be justified now.
- Bug Fix : Cannot redeclare plugin_get_version()…
- Added theme color for the users opening AMP pages in Chrome browser / Google App. This color will match to header color of the page.
- Bug Fix : The attribute 'style' may not appear in tag 'article'.
- Bug Fix : The attribute 'type' in tag 'a' is set to the invalid value 'button'.
- Bug Fix : The attribute 'rel' in tag 'a' is set to the invalid value ".
- Bug Fix : The thrive content editor users are able to see no content is loading for AMP pages.
- All new design of AMP page to appear more decent and more device friendly.
- Resolution to error : The attribute 'width' in tag 'amp-iframe' is set to the invalid value '100%'.
- Now AMP will run for category and tags pages which do not carry phrase
/tag/in it.
- Bug Fix: The AMP page is loading some unwanted scripts.
- Bug Fix: Author name, post tags and post categories are breaking.
- Resolved the following issue from GWT
The attribute 'target' in tag 'a' is set to the invalid value '_top'.
- If the content for some post is empty the it should not display a message saying 'http://www.example.com/amp' could not be found.
- Added changes to deal with the content loading issue with the posts/pages loaded through 'Thrive Content Builder'.
- Minor Bug Fixes.
- Added a option so that user can opt to display author name, date of post, post tags or post categories.
- Bug Fix: Many HTML Errors reported by Google Webmaster Tool
- Bug Fix: Many HTML Errors reported by Google Webmaster Tool
- Bug Fix: User is unable to edit, add or remove the feature image in posts and pages when AMP Supremacy is active.
- Bug Fix: Plugin Activation Error appears (saying unexpected '[') while activating the plugin and plugin activation fails.
- Bug Fix: When using the shortcodes in posts and pages, Google reporting AMP HTML Validation Errors.
- Addon Plugin will create sitemap file for user.
- Added instructions for user to add their sitemap to Google.
- Changes related to Register for Advanced Supremacy Sitemap.
- Minor HTML AMP Validation Error fixing
- Register for Advanced Supremacy Sitemap.
- Minor HTML AMP Validation Error fixing
- Minor HTML AMP Validation Error fixing
- Fixes to the issue with selecting the image for favicon and logo to be displayed on AMP Pages.
- Fixes an issue with the
Manage Non-Secure Contentcontrol panel .
- Improvement to the responsiveness of the pages.
- Fixes to many errors through Google AMP.
- Fixed a issue with AMP Page Responsiveness for some mobile devices.
- Added a functionality that users can manage loading of images and iframes coming through non-secure sources (http).
- Improvements to the post content which is removing AMP violating content while parsing.
- Improvement to display of tags and categories in post body
- Fixed a issue that AMP is not loading for some blogs and websites.
- Fixed issue that plugin is not getting activated in some cases.
- Bug fixes to switch between different locations where AMP should apply
- Added helping window for users to obtain Google Site Verification Code.
- Parse user's content of post and correct the violations that can be corrected
- Support to the images, iframes and form coming up through posts / user content.
- Resolution to the issue that AMP Pages are not loading up at Home Pages of websites.
- Resolution to issue with structured data coming up on tags and category pages
- Added up a Facebook Feed from AMP Supremacy Page and 'Ask for Support' button on AMP Settings Page
- Resolution to the issue with images through post content which led post not to load
- Minor improvement fixes
- Adjustments and distribution of AMP Supremacy Logo through the plugin.
- The first stable version
- Allows you to tweak the settings from above to set up how the AMP will be used on your website.
- Lets you validate your AMP powered pages


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Seven years on, and Sonia's silver shines
A national athletic hero, Sonia O'Sullivan's career has had plenty of heartaches, as well as triumphs
Sonia celebrates silver in the 5000m final at 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Photograph: Stu Forster /Allsport
Photograph: Stu Forster /Allsport
For those of us of a certain age, drawn to moments of high sporting drama, there was one person who gave us more to shout about, more moments of nail-biting tension and, alas, more nights of gut-wrenching disappointment than anyone else.
Emotionally, we invested more in the rollercoaster of her fortunes than we did in those of Eamonn or Stephen or Seán or Pádraig. Maybe Roy came close, but then he had team-mates, and as many detractors as supporters.
Still instantly recognisable by her first name alone, Sonia O'Sullivan is probably the finest woman athlete Ireland has produced. An Olympic silver medallist, a world champion and twice a world cross-country champion, the gangly Cork woman with the devastating finishing kick was also no stranger to defeat. Twice, when fancied to win, she finished fourth in the Olympics and the World Championships, to the dismay of an expectant public at home.
The strong taint of suspicious drug use attaches itself to some of those who pushed the Irishwoman out of the medal positions on those far-off race days. Other Irish runners, such as Derval O'Rourke, have been awarded championship medals later after drug cheats were disqualified and placings changed.
Sonia is from an earlier era, before the technology was to test for drugs retrospectively, but she is relaxed about the issue. "I don't dwell on it. So much time has gone by. It wouldn't change anything if the placings were changed. You'd just get a medal in the post and put it in the drawer."
She always knew there was something "not quite right" about some of her opponents, but nothing she could prove. "I think the drug-testing technology around the world has improved. There are fewer people cheating now. You can see it in the times and the performances; there's no one doing ridiculous things, the way it used to be."
More at homeShe has lived in Australia for years now but still flinches when asked if it is her home. "Kinda, but I've always felt more at home here in Ireland," she says when asked. She says her daughters, Ciara and Sophie, feel the same way, but admits this might change now they have started secondary school.
Despite having been retired for about seven years, she remains a familiar face through her work in promoting running and healthy living, and commenting on athletics for RTÉ. When the Olympic flame passed through Ireland on its way to the London games in 2012, it was Sonia who was chosen to carry it into St Stephen's Green and light the cauldron.
Injury, most notably a recurrent problem with her Achilles tendon, has forced her running to take a back seat in recent years but she still keeps active by walking, cycling and swimming.
"I reached such heights in running; you can't match that as you get older. So you have to go to other events and set new goals. I get a great sense of achievement from cycling 160km in a day."
British runner Jo Pavey's recent 10,000-metre win in the European Championships at the age of 40 and only 11 months after having her second child captured the headlines, but Sonia was doing something similar back in the 1990s. She won her Olympic silver medal in 2000, just 15 months after giving birth to her first daughter, Ciara. There wasn't any great plan at the time, she recalls. "I ran for as long as I could during the pregnancy, then switched in the last weeks to the bike.
"After the birth, I'd go for long walks, then after a few weeks, I started training again with the slowest group at first. The rate of improvement each week was amazing."
Having children should be no bar to the maintenance of fitness, she believes. "Keeping up your fitness before and after a birth should be normal.
"The important thing is to find your right level, to be aware of what your body is telling you."
Coping with injury is another challenge for runners that Sonia is only too painfully aware of these days. "It's a lot easier to accept injury now than when I competed in the Olympics. I'm less likely to go to extremes to fix things than I was. I'm quite happy to jump on the bike, go for a long walk or hit the gym if I'm unable to run."
Fitness levelsCurrently, Sonia is helping promote Athletics Ireland's Fit4Life programme, which is aimed at recreational runners seeking to increase their level of fitness and achieve personal goals. In the programme, sponsored by GloHealth, runners are grouped by ability for training sessions and coached towards specific race challenges, such as a first 5k or 10-miler.
"The great thing about running as part of a group is that there is a lot of energy in mass participation that drives the adrenalin in each person. People push themselves and, hopefully, are surprised by what they achieve."
Sonia's second daughter, Sophie, has taken up where her mother left off by making it to the state cross-country team in Australia, while Ciara has no interest in running. As a parent, Sonia says she wants her children to be happy whatever they do. "I wouldn't have any expectations, and I would never put any pressure on them to do something. But it can be harder for them; they might think I have an expectation.
"Basically, I think if you find something you enjoy doing, you have to do it. Like I did."


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Newton girls' soccer coach Nilesh Patel has plenty of teaching to do in his third season as the Rams coach.
With just five seniors on a roster of 20, there are plenty of players breaking into the varsity lineup for the first time. And in Newton's first two games, it has shown.
The Rams have been outscored a combined 17-0 in games at Dacula and against Eastside.
Beginning in net, the Rams feature Anna Grace Ellis, in her first year as the starting keeper.
"Everybody is learning everything," Patel said.
That extends to right in front of Ellis, where freshmen Precious Buddington and Abigail Bugg are two of the Rams four defenders.
"We were making some errors (against Eastside on Wednesday), and in first game against Dacula. But you have to remember this is a young defense."
Senior Monica Nga Nga and junior Shantel Stenett fill out the rest of the defense in Patel's 4-3-3 formation.
The midfield is the most established of areas for a team that finished 3-4 in Region 2-AAAAA a year ago. Two seniors anchor the middle of the field in Tiana Payne and Jennifer Tran. Teaming with them is junior Toni Barrett.
Up front is a completely new lineup of forwards Lacy Bracket (10th grade), Danielle Stabile (11th) and Sophie Boschan (10th). The trio has yet to find its grove,
getting shut out in its previous two games.
"We've had a couple of good shots hit the goal post but we couldn't score," Patel said. "Hopefully we can get it together by our first region game."
That game will come at Luella on March 6. Patel is hoping that the Rams can reach the 2-AAAAA playoffs, and at least get back to the 4-3 region mark of two years ago.
"We're hoping to at least go 4-3 again, and make the playoffs," Patel.


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In October 2007, Microsoft unveiled a free web-based service called Office Live Workspace. Offered initially as a private beta, Office Live Workspace is Microsoft's approach to online collaboration that still keeps its cash cow Office product in the driver's seat. The web site acts as a central hub for home users and teams to upload and share documents, without the need for costly servers or group software, but requires Office's desktop software components to be installed in order to perform any substantial editing. Microsoft is removing the lock from Office Live Workspace, opening the service up to any user with a Windows Live ID, and introducing a few major new features. We spoke with Eric Gilmore, one of Microsoft's Office product managers, and spent some quality time with the service; what follows are our initial thoughts on Microsoft's first foray into the consumer-centric online office collaboration market.
Getting ready to get things done
Getting started with Office Live Workspace is a simple signup process. The online service requires Internet Explorer 6 or later or Firefox 2.0 (Safari support is in the works). Microsoft also provides a plug-in for Office 2003 and 2007 on Windows (more on that later) that allows for interaction with workspaces and files, and Gilmore told Ars that an Office 2008 for Mac plug-in is on its way and will be released sometime this year.
After you sign up for the web service you're presented with Microsoft's paradigm of "workspaces," which are organized in the sidebar on the left. These can be thought of as separate folders for storing documents, and the New Workspace button provides a number of workspace templates such as the one you see above containing pre-formatted documents to help get you started. This "Meeting" workspace includes a PowerPoint presentation, a Meeting Minutes Word document, a contact list of attendees, and a todo list. Office Live Workspace also features simple notes and lists users can actually create and edit online (this Meeting workspace includes a "Meeting Notes" note), but these items are inaccessible anywhere else. They also aren't able to be exported and saved to a local file format.
Getting things done
Clicking any of the Office documents enables you to look, but not touch. You can preview Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations online, but users must either download them or use the Office plug-in to access and make any edits. This limitation is obviously part of Microsoft's strategy of keeping Office front and center. But Gilmore told Ars that company research showed that users just aren't interested in performing office tasks inside a browser.
Indeed, an NPD Group study corroborates Microsoft's findings, stating that nearly three quarters of US citizens have never even heard of online office suites like Google Docs and Zoho. Only 20 percent have heard of them, but only three percent actually use one with any frequency. Microsoft may be right—at least for now—in its belief that the power of desktop software is still where it's at for office suites.
One of the major new features Microsoft is introducing to the online component of Office Live Workspace is permalinks for documents. If you've granted sharing access to a workspace with other Office Live Workspace users (more on that in a minute), they can sign into their account and access the space, or you can now e-mail them a direct link to the space. Microsoft has raised the amount of storage space available to 500MB from the 250MB of the private beta, enough to store more than 1,000 average sized Office documents.
The most significant and powerful feature of Office Live Workspace is arguably the Office plug-in that allows users to access and edit documents right from within their desktop software. Once installed, a new "Open from Office Live" entry in the File/Office menu (depending on whether you're using Office 2003 or 2007) provides one-click access for signing in and accessing documents according to workspace. Saved changes to a document get sent back to the Office Live Workspace servers right away and are immediately reflected online. In fact, we were surprised to see a document we previewed online automatically refresh itself right after changes were saved to the copy we had downloaded. Speaking of changes, Office Live Workspaces (yes, we're getting tired of writing it) keeps track of every version of a document, allowing you to use the Web UI to roll back to a previous copy. Certainly, this is a powerful component to a free service that will turn some heads all by itself.
Sharing is... working
Another compelling aspect to Office Live Workspace is the ability to share workspaces with other users. A simple click in the toolbar presents a straightforward sharing form for giving users either editor or viewer access to a workspace, but not individual documents. Users receive an e-mail with an invitation to the workspace, but a simple refresh when signed in will pull down the new entry under the "Shared With Me" section in the left sidebar.
If one user is editing a document offline in Word, Office Live Workspace will inform others who try to download it with Office that the file is "checked out." There's no collaborative offline editing here, and we don't blame Microsoft for not tackling that one. Closing a document checks the file back in and opens it up for others to edit, though users are always free to download the file manually from the browser. While this pseudo-loophole in collaborative editing may lead to a few duplicate versions, we don't see it as a problem as we expect most users to go with the Office plug-in out of convenience and tighter collaborative integration.
Office Live Workspace does integrate with Microsoft's SharedView (beta) for sharing one's screen and document with another SharedView user in real time. But this doesn't seem to have much of a benefit aside from inviting others to help edit the notes and lists that are constrained to the Office Live Workspace environment.
Sharing is definitely one of Office Live Workspace's killer features, though we would like to see finer control over sharing documents. Sharing an entire workspace is nice, but having the choice of sharing specific documents would be a lot nicer.
Where the web and Microsoft's desktop meet
All things considered, Office Live Workspace is a well-rounded tool that removes a lot of the complicated and expensive overhead of collaboration. Though Web 2.0-obsessed early adopters will likely scoff at Microsoft's reliance on its desktop software, most users who depend on even some of the most basic of features not found in online office suites or are wedded to Microsoft's Office suite will find this service to offer a solid balance between desktop power and the collaborative advantages of the Web.