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Monday, August 13, 2012
Your Bottleneck is Dead. Long Live Your Bottleneck.
Two hikers are walking through the woods when they come face-to-face with a pack of wolves. One of the hikers immediately drops to the ground and hastily changes from his hiking boots to the running shoes he had in his backpack.
The 2nd hiker says, "What are you doing ! You can't outrun those wolves!"
The 1st replies, "I don't have to outrun those wolves. I just have to outrun you."
Web developers tend to know their system's biggest bottleneck, but how often do you know the 2nd biggest one? Right, in one sense it doesn't matter - because the 2nd bottleneck doesn't get to become a bottleneck unless it's the biggest one.
There is an economic model hidden within every complex system. This includes something as mundane as web system performance. Knuth famously said (or re-said) that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" which could be restated as - if you optimize before you know what needs it, you're optimizing (and probably breaking) the wrong thing.
Hence we don't (or aren't supposed to) optimize what doesn't need it. Seems obvious - but it has interesting ramifications.
When something doesn't need optimizing, we can afford to be (and often tend to be) lazy with it when it comes to performance. Concretely, if your code's database access is going to take a 15 milliseconds, worrying that processing that data will take 20 microseconds because of your sloppy n^2 algorithm probably isn't worth much thought.
If that statement raises your ire, feel free to sit in your chair and pout - because there are thousands of websites that were happily coded using notepad with interpreted and dynamic scripting languages that flagrantly use gotos and lists as if they were hashmaps. I've seen it. It's enough to turn your stomach. It's not pretty.
For the average, everyday web hardware ecosystem - we have CPU power to spare. And in the bigger business sense, if I can save time developing a website cutting performance-concerned corners with no ramifications, all the better.
Web development largely started in scripting languages (i.e. perl-cgi, php). Again for the same reason - CPU to spare as compared to other bottlenecks.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that the popularity of scripting language web frameworks required the condition that disks be some order of magnitude slower than CPUs. That's right - I'm looking at you Rails, Grails, Nails, and Jails.. (ok, not Jails, it's a Java web framework but it rhymed).
Java web frameworks added a lot of structure, verbosity, and performance that simply wasn't needed (and eventually, amazing bloat). If your bottleneck was the database/disk - your web processing simply had to not add significantly to that - and regardless of the language, that wasn't hard.
A simple definition of latency is the time it takes to get data back after requesting it. Similarly to an program anyway, bandwidth could be viewed as how long it takes us to get all the data requested (once you start getting any).
Think of how that relates to code performance. If your latency is 3ms (a reasonable server harddisk seek time) - it doesn't matter if your code is hand-loved machine language or interpreted COBOL - it does nothing for that 3ms. In CPU time, 3ms is an eternity.
As a general tendency however, the more data you receive, the more processing that likely goes around it. Consider a few megabyte JSON message - at a minimum it will likely be parsed. Possibly shoved into a map or an object.
Said another way - lowering latency and increasing bandwidth will tend to put more pressure on processing data (i.e. requiring more CPU/code performance)
So all this time we're happily and harshly slowed down by slow things like spindly harddisk drives and networks. Then, in walk Solid State Drives. Prices and capacities are both heading in the normal directions for new technology (down and up, respectively).
Latency goes from standard spindle drive 3ms seeks to (varying reports) 100microsecond seeks.
Argue the specifics if you will, but for some number of existing systems, installing an SSD will remove the database as the primary bottleneck. In fact, this is probably the cheapest way to improve your system's performance today.
What happens to the bottleneck in those systems? It will shift somewhere else (i.e. the SSD put on its running shoes). In many cases, it will shift to the CPU (CPU in this case is a polite way of saying "your code").
Everyday across the world, there are meetings at companies complaining about the performance of their website. Today, many of those say "get the DBA in here".
In some of those meetings soon, the shift will be away from blaming the database. Some will push for code optimization (postmature), some for bigger hardware, and some for faster languages.
Keep in mind, this is a subtle, slow moving effect. Having your CPUs pegged all the time might not make you change anything today but may make you reconsider your architecture next time you build something.
Of course the network is a bottleneck too - at least for now. In places like Korea and Kansas City that's not so true. If you haven't heard, if you live in Kansas City you can get Google Fiber to your home. In other words, your internet speed will be 100 times faster than the average internet in the US. (In fact, if your machine has the common SATA2 disk drive interface, sending a file to your neighbor across town in Kansas City will only take about 3 times as long as storing it on your own disk just a few inches away).
Here's another prediction - in 5 years the phrase "downloading a movie" won't exist. (We used to say we were "downloading an image" which was preceded by us saying we were just "downloading").
If bandwidth drastically increases, it will change how we write code. We think nothing of loading a 1M webpage now which 10 years ago was offensive. In the future, we may think the same thing about a 100M webpage.
Given that data expands to fill available bandwidth (modified Parkinson's Law) our programs will tend to process much more data. Processing speed will matter more and more.
And the more often code becomes the bottleneck, the more often solutions to fix that will be considered.
Simply - your favorite bottlenecks might be changing. And for that to happen, your disk doesn't necessarily need to be able outrun your CPU - it just has to be able to outrun your code. (And it wouldn't hurt if it could also outrun, you know, wolves too).
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I think that statement from Knuth is the root of so much evil in the software industry, largely as a result of what you allude to. It makes people lazy, and then that laziness begets a million other woes. I would not suggest that people should break their abstractions to gain good performance, but I think a good coder should always try to write clean, performant code within the confines of the abstractions they are coding with. Instead, people do all sorts of lazy, expensive things saying, "Eh, but it doesn't really matter." And then, when the biggest bottleneck is removed, there's all this other utter crap that is revealed, and it's so much more difficult to go back and clean that up than to have just written clean, simple, performant code from the get-go.
The lesson, I believe, that you should take from Knuth is not to only care about performance if you're working on the choke-point, but rather to care about performance, outside the choke-point, unless it would impact the legibility of the code or the abstraction. In other terms: define the interfaces, code to them (in a disciplined, non-lazy fashion), optimize performance while keeping the abstractions, if possible, and then if the abstraction is the bottleneck, break the abstraction (coming up with an improved one if possible). If people coded like that, I think the general quality of software would be so much better.
- August 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- Paddy3118 said...
You seem to be falling into the trap of premature optimization yourself in this post, in that you immediately think that dynamic languages will be the next bottleneck because you intimate that all Perl and all PHP is written badly and is slow; and that all Ruby-on-Rails code is slow.
You fail to mention that a lot of people overcame their inertia of using Java-based frameworks that they were already using and switched to tools built in dynamic languages such tools as Django and Rails, because development and maintenance time was key. When they actually *measured* where their time and money was spent, they had a better understanding of what needed optimizing first and junked their web development framework.
Yes faster secondary storage and smaller network latencies might well change what needs optimizing, but again; you need to mix-n-match, consider your options, and *measure* before blaming any particular part of your stack.
For example, there are companies working on tech that could give you an order of magnitude more cpu cores in a "box". They may individually be less powerful than a modern Xeon core but they could give more bang-per-watt of waste heat which is becoming more important. Will that favour your existing DB? WHo knows? Best to do some research and *measure*!
- August 16, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- Max5684 said...
I just wanted to comment to say that this is an excellent post which has now been posted to Reddit. All of the upvotes that it is receiving there should be passed on to you, good sir.
- August 16, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- Alex Karaman said...
Very interesting read and some great predictions about the future. Made me think about how I write my code, and the big O, man I haven't thought about it since college.
- August 16, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Hello, thanks for writing this. There may be opportunities to write faster code in faster languages, opening up sooner or later, due to the need to make programs work faster. Interesting that Java is too bloated for its own good. I like things to be nimble and quick. But the final paragraph of the article connected enough with the parable at the top sufficiently for me to see the argument.
- August 18, 2012 at 5:55 AM
I dunno.. I still find 1Meg webpages fairly offensive especially when there's no real justification.
- August 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM
- Jason said...
Client-side databases and javascript multi-threading will be the next step that will make websites appear to load instantaneous! Even with ssd caching (or an SSD database) the latency of the request and sending the information combined with the database access time is still a bottleneck. Why do we send a request to a site, then send the same request for the next page, then change the sort order of the same request and send it again?!
By loading information once, sorting on the client side, and loading subsequent requests in the background with a javascript worker thread, websites can appear to be nearly instantaneous!
This approach can delay re-engineering an existing database & will put network latency to the background. Unlike bandwidth, latency will almost always exist, but by putting requests in the background, it can be hidden.
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Many of the products presented at the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association trade show last month in San Francisco were upgrades of existing products, but some new products were introduced. That may have surprised some people, considering the state of the economy during the past few years and speculation that manufacturers had cut back on research and development. However, it didn't surprise manufacturers, many of whom deny that they decreased R&D spending.
"The rumor mill is that all these other companies are cutting back on R&D," says Tim Porth, executive vice president of product development and marketing at Octane Fitness, Brooklyn Park, MN. "We didn't want to cut back. We wanted to be more efficient. We kept every project going that was on the list, even through the economic downturn. We knew it was one thing that could help us come out of the recession with a bang."
Some manufacturers—Octane, Technogym and Precor—even say that they increased spending on R&D during the recession.
Flavio Venturi, group product manager for Technogym, Gambettola, Italy, says the company's R&D grew although the rate of that growth did slow a bit—although not enough to stop the company from introducing several products in the past two years, including the Crossover, Group Cycle and Visio entertainment.
Bob Baumgartner, product manager at SportsArt Fitness, Woodinville, WA, says: "SportsArt isn't the biggest company in the business, but we decided focus [on new products] was more important and that we shouldn't cut back. We want to continue to have innovation and have something different from what everyone else offers. That's how we were able to come up with the Green System."
The Green System, which SportsArt introduced last month, is a group of eight fitness products attached to an inverter that harnesses human-generated power from exercisers and feeds it back into the power grid as usable energy.
And yet some fitness equipment manufacturers did cut back on R&D. At the end of 2008, Brunswick Corp., the parent company of Life Fitness, Schiller Park, IL, concentrated on controlling costs, says Chris Clawson, president of Life Fitness. But moving into 2009 and 2010, Brunswick began to "loosen the purse strings," meaning Life Fitness could step up product creation. In 2010, the company brought to market products that were in development in 2009, he says.
"Some companies just stopped doing R&D, which is bad, because even though you are conserving cash at the moment, you don't have anything in the pipeline, so when they get on the other side...they don't have anything on the other side of the pipeline," Clawson says.
Kevin Corbalis, executive vice president of marketing and product development for Star Trac, Irvine, CA, says his company, which last year filed an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, slowed R&D a bit during the recession, but after being acquired last year by Michael Bruno, who also owns Land America Health and Fitness Co., Xiamen, China, Star Trac gained the benefit of the additional engineering resources of Land America.
Star Trac's R&D cuts were based on the return on investment.
"Whenever we look at opportunities, we want to provide the best fit for a value stream that our customers will want and desire," Corbalis says. "Those are the areas we invest in. Through the recession, a lot of companies pulled back on their research and development, but a lot of businesses still view their product development engine as their future revenue, and their investments have to have positive payback. In some cases, it's making modifications to current lines, and sometimes it's putting new technologies and new platforms into play.
"The recession didn't change our dynamic on how we look at development," Corbalis adds. "It's an investment that needs to have a payback for the business."
Cybex International, Medway, MA, also did not spend as much on R&D during the recession.
"Our R&D is a percentage of sales, and sales is not what it was in 2008, but it is higher than it was last year, so we are always running at a fairly constant percentage," says Ray Giannelli, senior vice president of R&D, Cybex. Still, even as R&D expenditures dropped, Cybex hired R&D people in-house, making this budget line a fixed expense.
"What happens is the longer [that in-house people] are here, the more valuable they are because the more in-tune they are with the product and the process," Giannelli says. "We figured out a way to have in-house people for the same money that we are spending outside, and we can have more things done. It's a way to get more things done for the same money."
Adam Hubbard, director of product management at Precor, Woodinville, WA, agrees that in-house R&D can be a major advantage for a company.
"It allows us to deliver the best final product," Hubbard says. "It gives us better control of the final product. We want to have a competency and an intimate knowledge of everything that we are building. Sometimes when you outsource, you are also outsourcing those 'learnings' and that knowledge. Where we've found that valuable is when we set out to develop the next generation product, we don't have to start from scratch—we have the people and the learnings that worked on that product's predecessor from six years ago and all of the lessons learned and all of the things we want to do better. And if those learnings have been outsourced, then you are kind of starting from scratch again, so you are only as good as your outsource partner."
All the manufacturers contacted for this story do most of their R&D in-house, but each outsources certain areas. On the development side, the majority of manufacturers develop the equipment internally but get many components from outside companies that specialize in making the components, such as tread belts or the motor drive for the treadmills. Many also get the software and entertainment systems from partner companies.
"The things we outsource are the things we don't do or the things we don't do well," Clawson says, adding that keeping R&D basically in-house helps a company get products to market faster.
But in-house R&D has its disadvantages, in particular that companies may not release as many products, Hubbard says, adding, though, that the number of products released may not be that important.
"The club owner is saying, 'I don't need 30 new products every year, but everything you deliver has to be well thought out, it has to be highly reliable, members have to like it,'" Hubbard says. "So we focus on quality, not quantity."
Keeping that expertise in-house has become even more important as R&D has become more expensive.
"Our cost of R&D is significantly more expensive," Hubbard says. "What we believe will be a result is that the barrier of entry into premium commercial fitness equipment will be raised. It's going to quickly evolve into a world where it's much less about the steel and plastic and more about the user experience and software capability. The manufacturers that you see that were able to sustain business 10 years ago, that barrier of entry will be significantly raised, so it will be harder for smaller manufacturers to survive."
R&D costs are higher because of the software and electronics involved in equipment today, Giannelli says.
"You are not looking at something mostly mechanical, but mostly software now," Giannelli says. "Our industry is small and the amount of technology required to do this is large, so it's becoming increasingly expensive to do this. It's the price of business these days."
Some manufacturers may cut back on hardware R&D because they think further innovation in this area is limited and that innovation and differentiation are now more on the software side, Baumgartner says.
Clawson says the slowdown in R&D by some companies hasn't affected the number of new products released. Life Fitness introduced about a dozen products in the past few years, Clawson says, including plate-loaded equipment, new console technologies and a new mobile application for its Virtual Trainer program.
Matrix Fitness, Cottage Grove, WI, which also does most of its R&D in-house while partnering with technology companies for software and other programs, launched 19 new commercial strength products last year, says Mark Zabel, vice president of global marketing for Matrix.
However, some manufacturers say that product launches in the industry have slowed.
"We already saw fewer new product innovations in [this year's] IHRSA show," Baumgartner says. "It may impact the future. I think, though, that people are going to have to show that they have something different. So companies are going to have to focus properly and draw their resources to what helps the person who wants to get fit."
Corbalis adds that club operators are staying with their portfolios longer. Whether this slowdown in purchasing will have a lasting effect, Corbalis won't speculate, saying it depends on the club and what the owners are trying to accomplish.
"We are seeing some movement and more purchasing activity," Corbalis says. "It seems the market is at a more stable point than it had been. We're seeing that the overall market business available dropped, but it certainly has been stable over this past year. The clubs need to be profitable, and they are going to do what is right in their micro economy. They will make decisions that are appropriate for their venue."


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Randy Seaver has set a new challenge this week -
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Go to the Wordle site - www.wordle.net and create your own unique Wordle - it's a word cloud. You can use either a clump of text, enter your own words (say, surnames, or given names), use a blog page address, or something else. Your choice! Be creative with the fonts, colors, backgrounds, and layout.
2) Save it as an image (I used Print Screen, pasted it to a Word document, used the Windows snipping tool to edit it, and saved it to a file). Tell us how you did it.
3) Show us your handiwork! Add the image to a blog post of your own or on a web page of your own. Tell me in a comment here where it is.
Well, here's mine. I used the Wordle facility to enter the URL of my blog and it produced the following image, after I'd played around with fonts and colour schemes.
I saved the image by taking a screen shot and pasting it into Paint. I then cut out the image, and pasted it into a new file which I saved as a jpeg.
It looks like the Wordle search picks up on the latest posts - I don't think I've written about very many Davids but the last posting was about David and Mary Pugh and those words are prominent in the Wordle.
I've been researching my family history for 8 years now and it's about time I shared some of my findings. My father's family come mostly from the North East of England (surnames Hudson, Lamb, Kerss, Pattison, Todner). Mum's father's family come from Birmingham, England (Darby, Pugh, Read) and Mum's mother's from mid-Wales (Pugh, Hughes, Jones).
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I hadn't used Wordle before but used the same technique (paste into paint and save as a JPG) as you. Great fun! Jo :-)ReplyDelete
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Last week I had the pleasure of traveling to Ohio to take part in the taping of the upcoming new season of Scrapbook Soup that starts airing in July on PBS stations around the country.
Prepping for a tv segment is nerve wracking and time consuming, but ultimately a lot of fun! (Although I did look a little ridiculous with two suitcases for a one-night hotel stay….)
Here's a peek inside the studio at what goes on!
The set looks like a small intimate space on TV…but it's in the middle of a huge studio!
This is a view from a similar angle to what the host and guest see. The lights in your face make it easy to forget you're in a huge studio since they blind you and you can't see past them really. Here, Rachel Carlson (left) is working with host Julie McGuffee and producer Kathie Stull to set up one of her segments for the taping.
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- Ed Hardy, the tattoo artist behind popular clothing line of the same name, released memoir in June
- Hardy signed a deal giving Christian Audigier rights to produce products with his art
- Once the height of popularity, the Hardy empire fell from favor due to overexposure
- Hardy is still making art and wants the public to know he is more than the clothing brand
The name Ed Hardy conjures visions of rhinestone-studded trucker hats, colorful cartoon skulls, dragons and koi fish, and reality stars like Jon Gosselin and the cast of Jersey Shore.
A profitable licensing deal with French businessman Christian Audigier put Hardy's work on clothing, energy drinks, fragrances and even tanning lotions. It seemed like the deal of a lifetime, but in hindsight, Hardy said, the agreement made his name synonymous with the "douches" of pop culture and ultimately cheapened his personal brand.
Now, he is stepping out from behind the large shadow of the Ed Hardy brand to set the record straight in "Wear Your Dreams: My Life in Tattoos," a memoir released in June. Co-written with biographer Joel Selvin, the book shares how Hardy went from college-educated fine artist to tattoo pioneer to one of the most polarizing brands in recent memory.
"People began globally to know my images, my name and my signature, but they didn't know there was a real person behind it," Hardy told CNN.
From skin to canvas
Donald Edward Hardy was born in Newport Beach, California, and his mother began to encourage him to draw when he was 3. As a preteen, he took pens and colored pencils to the skin of neighborhood friends and became an amateur tattoo artist in his neighborhood.
He had his first exhibition at the Laguna Beach Art Festival after graduating high school and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. After turning down a graduate position at the Yale School of Art, according to his memoir, he met and began a correspondence with famed tattoo artist "Sailor Jerry" Collins in 1969. He went on to study in Japan with legendary tattoo artist Horihide, working with clients from the infamous yakuza, or Japanese mafia. Both men influenced the heraldic aesthetic that defines Hardy's signature ornate images today.
He opened his San Francisco tattoo shop, Tattoo City, in 1977 and is credited with helping transform tattooing from a mark of sailors and prisoners to a mainstream option for self-expression. His 1995 gallery show, "Pierced Hearts and True Love: A Century of Drawings in Tattoos," prompted a New York Times article that asked whether tattooing could be fine art.
Hardy's forays into clothing started with silkscreen shirts bearing his artwork for sale in his shop. In 2003, the artist was approached by two men who saw his work in Juxtapoz art magazine. The two ran Ku USA, an Asian-influenced casual wear brand, and they became the first to put Hardy's images on clothing.
French fashion businessman Christian Audigier came across the shirts and approached Hardy to do a licensing deal that would make him "a global phenomenon," Hardy wrote in the book.
Hardy said he and an associate met Audigier and signed over the master license to much of his artwork, allowing Audigier to produce items featuring the images. This deal turned out to be enormously profitable. By 2009, sales exceeded $700 million for the brand, according to the book, and Hardy's work could soon be seen everywhere.
The brand's omnipresence was enhanced by famous fans. At its height, Ed Hardy clothing could be seen on celebrities from Madonna and Catherine Zeta Jones to cast members of "Jersey Shore" and Jon Gosselin of the "Jon and Kate Plus 8" reality show. Gosselin infamously donned Ed Hardy-printed shirts in public appearances with alleged mistress Hailey Glassman, and visited France to meet with Audigier. Hardy said the character associations ruined the brand's reputation, and even wrote in the book that a Macy's buyer mentioned Gosselin when the line was dropped from Macy's stores.
Hardy had no problem saying, "Morons dehumanized it," when asked about his views on public distaste of the Ed Hardy brand. He maintained that the clothes and imagery were not to blame for the brand's downfall, but pointed to Audigier's aggressive love of celebrities, which Hardy said tainted his image and his name.
According to the book, Audigier pocketed a lot of the profits that came from sub-licensing Hardy's images to several companies that produced lifestyle-related products, and even began altering the images. The two soon landed in court, and the tattoo artist found himself spending time perusing legal documents instead of creating art until an undisclosed settlement was reached in 2009.
Attempts to reach Christian Audigier were unsuccessful.
From must-have to must-hate
Simon Doonan, creative ambassador-at-large for Barney's New York, surprised many by praising the Ed Hardy line in the New York Observer in 2009.
"Criticizing Ed Hardy for being cheesy is like saying that Elvis was 'flashy' or that Liberace was 'tacky,' " Doonan wrote. "It's a giant case of DUH! Of course it's cheesy! That's the whole point, you doo-doo heads. Ed Hardy is fromage-y and hedonistic and naughty and badass and—the ultimate crime in the world of haute fashion—Ed Hardy is FUN!"
Doonan compared the rise of Hardy clothing to "the gaudy heyday of Gianni Versace."
So why would people buy something "fromage-y" like Ed Hardy apparel?
"It gave regular people Hollywood edge, and gave Hollywood people street edge," celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch said.
Today, however, the brand "represents bad taste," he said. "It went too far and all over the place at once."
This could explain why there's a "Hating people who wear Ed Hardy" Facebook group with more than 1,800 members, and a Funnyordie.com sketch titled "The Ed Hardy Boyz" with less-than-likeable characters who go on misadventures to protect the Ed Hardy brand name from rival clothing lines.
The blog Stuff White People Like lists "Hating people who wear Ed Hardy" as item 124. A New Orleans nightclub even banned the line, with a sign on its door that read "If it's on Jersey Shore it's not coming through the door: No Affliction, No Ed Hardy, No Christian Audigier, No Exceptions."
Hardy said he thought partnering with Audigier would give him time to work on his art. He didn't expect success and the infamy it eventually created.
"Oversaturation and overexposure" can kill a brand, said Tom Julian, director at The Doneger Group, a fashion retail and consulting company.
Popular brands can quickly fall from grace if their public exposure isn't strategically managed. Answering the "many entities that knock on the door" can be bad for business, Julian said, noting that designers may choose to wait five or more years before signing licensing deals, because it allows them to be strategic with market penetration.
Hardy said Audigier's widespread licensing aspired to make the brand more accessible to people at every price point. That strategy backfired, as the brand became what Bloch described as "very trailer park."
"They made it too unexclusive," he said. "No one wants to be in something that everyone has."
Both Bloch and Julian said the brand would have to wait several years before a successful comeback is tangible. Hardy noted that the master license was taken on by Iconix Brand Group in 2011, which also represents the London Fog brand and Madonna's Material Girl line. The group has plans to develop the label, which Hardy said is still popular in Asia and other countries.
Back to the drawing board
Though he completed his last tattoo in 2008, Hardy is still an active artist who splits his time between San Francisco and Honolulu and mentors artists of Tattoo City, now run by his son, Doug. This month, he'll travel to Beijing to show a 30-painting exhibition of his original artwork.
Although Hardy said he might have done things differently if given the chance, he also admitted that it was surreal to see his name and art become so well-known. With this memoir, Hardy aims to convince the public that despite the infamy of his eponymous brand, he is and has always been an artist.


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Internet connections are valuable, and really should be shared, but making this happen can be very complicated. If your desktop has a wired connection to the web, for instance, and a friend passes by with an iTouch, would you know how to get them online?
Fortunately Windows 7 includes a new feature called Virtual Wifi that makes this very much easier. Enable this on any Windows 7 or 8 computer with a wireless adapter, and it'll instantly become a wifi hotspot, a software router that's visible to any other wireless-enabled device within range. Whether they have an iTouch, iPhone, laptop or PC, they'll see your hotspot in exactly the same way as any other, and if you give them the password, will be able to access it and share your internet connection.
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University of Nebraska celebrates record 11 Fulbright Scholars in 2011
The University of Nebraska is home to a record 11 Fulbright Scholarship winners in 2011 – an especially significant accomplishment considering applications for the prestigious award were up more than 40 percent nationally this year.
Of NU's 11 academically diverse winners, nine were from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (an individual record for that campus), one was from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and one was from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The students will travel to nine different countries – including Brazil, Turkey, Germany and South Korea – to conduct research in critical fields such as public health, political science and biomechanics and serve in other scholarly capacities in the coming year.
Tom Farrell, vice provost for global engagement, said NU students' success is a result of a concerted university-wide effort to draw more attention to the awards and encourage more outstanding students to apply. Under Farrell's leadership, the university has brought Fulbright officials from around the world – including those from the U.S. Department of State, the Institute of International Education and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars – to NU campuses so students could have important opportunities to network, learn about different countries and receive valuable advice on the Fulbright program and application process. The university also has established counseling sessions to help students plan and refine their Fulbright proposals, and enhanced campus and faculty advising services so students are more educated about how to compete in certain countries.
"Growing the number of Fulbright winners is prestigious internationally for the University of Nebraska," Farrell said. "It says to audiences in the U.S. and abroad that we can compete on a global stage in a very strong way."
The Fulbright Scholarship – considered the flagship award for international education sponsored by the U.S. government – is highly prestigious and competitive. It was established in 1946 and is funded by the U.S. Department of State with a mission of fostering understanding between the United States and other countries.
Fulbright awards help students build their careers and engage internationally, which is key to NU's mission, Farrell said. The awards also give students a chance to discover new areas of interest, develop their skills, and engage with experts overseas – all of which will help them succeed in graduate school and later on in their careers. Ultimately, these students are positioned to contribute greatly to economic and research success both in Nebraska and internationally, Farrell said.
Farrell added, "By advising students to consider studying areas of focus that are important to the University and to Nebraska – areas such as energy, food security, education, public health, transportation, engineering, global services, technology and others – and to focus on countries like Brazil where we want to build partnerships, we can build appreciation and credibility for the University of Nebraska around the world."
Farrell said Fulbright applications from American college graduates, graduate students and young artists totaled 9,398 for 2010-11 – almost 3,000 more than the previous year, an increase of more than 40 percent. About 1,700 Fulbright Scholarships will be awarded to U.S. students this year, a figure which has held steady for the past several years.
University of Nebraska winners are:
Jennifer Birdsall, a UNL graduate student who teaches K-5 students with behavioral disorders for Lincoln Public Schools. Birdsall will use her Fulbright to teach English in Macedonia.
Alyx Dodds Garner, who graduated from UNL in May with majors in German and economics. Garner will travel to Germany to teach English at a middle school and lead an economics club.
Jenna Gibson, who graduated from UNL in May with majors in news-editorial journalism, French and international studies and a minor in Japanese. Gibson will travel to South Korea to work as an English teaching assistant and write for an English-language newspaper.
Laura Roost, a UNL political science doctoral candidate. Roost will use her Fulbright to travel to Rwanda to research the role of women's non-governmental organizations in the country's post-genocide recovery.
Carrie Walker, a UNL English doctoral candidate. Walker will travel to Jamaica to research how Jamaican women address the status of women through letter-writing since Independence in 1962.
Alexandria Knipe, a UNL master of fine arts student with an emphasis in ceramics. Knipe will travel to Turkey to conduct research on Islamic pots and teach ceramics at a university.
Sarah Lee, who graduated from UNL in May with majors in Spanish and chemistry and a minor in mathematics. Lee will travel to South Korea to serve as an English teaching assistant.
Cori Curtis, who graduated from UNL in May with majors in international studies and political science and minors in communication studies and human rights and humanitarian affairs. Curtis will use his Fulbright to serve as an English teaching assistant in Turkey.
Anita Middleton, who graduated from UNL in December 2010 with a major in Russian and minors in Czech and international studies. Middleton will travel to Russia to be an English teaching assistant and volunteer in a child care center or an orphanage.
Neil Huben, a May graduate of UNO. Huben will travel to Greece to conduct research on the effects of visual and auditory stimulation on postural sway and balance.
Chris Danford, a rising fourth-year medical student at UNMC. Danford will travel to Brazil to explore the barriers to health care that exist in that country.


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State health officials now say 16 people are likely infected with E. coli � seven in Cleveland County, five in Gaston County, three in Lincoln County and one case in York County, S.C.
State health officials now say 16 people are likely infected with E. coli � seven in Cleveland County, five in Gaston County, three in Lincoln County and one case in York County, S.C.
The patients have one thing in common � all went to the Cleveland County Fair between Sept. 26 and Oct. 7.
Health officials say food and petting zoo animals were the two most likely causes of the outbreak.
Cause of outbreak
The state health department hasn�t pinpointed the cause of each of the infections. In two confirmed cases, the strain of bacteria came from animal feces.
The Cleveland County Fair had five vendors permitted to have animals � ranging from ducks and hogs to cows and goats.
The identified strain of the bacteria typically comes from cattle and goats, according to Cleveland County Health Director Dorothea Wyant.
Wyant said her employees have conducted numerous interviews of patients and their families.
�They all went to the fair, but we still can�t find anything in common that they did,� said Wyant. �I hate to say that it was the fair for sure, but the only thing we have to go on is that they all did go to the fair.�
The annual fair, which sees more than 100,000 visitors, had 55 food vendors this year.
Though none of the cases have yet to be traced back to improperly prepared food, Wyant said perhaps it�s time to put more consideration on all components within the fair gates.
Food vendors and animal vendors are overseen by different entities.
The fair was equipped with several hand-washing stations, but maybe there should be more separation between the food area and the petting zoos, Wyant said.
�Whatever we can do to be partners and collaborate with each other can only make the fair better,� she said. ��I can guarantee you that public health will be more on site and more involved.�
Sickness from E. coli
Tracking down which animal might have caused the outbreak would be pointless, according to Wyant.
Many healthy animals carry the bacteria. It�s when a person ingests it that problems arise.
E. coli can be spread by people touching contaminated material, food or animals and then touching their mouths.
Most carriers don�t show symptoms for a few days. Those symptoms can be as mild as diarrhea but can become life-threatening.
Most people get better within five to seven days.
The ages of those infected range from 2 to 51.
Since the outbreak, four patients have been admitted to the children�s hospital in Charlotte.
Young patients
Five-year-old Hannah Roberts has been at Levine Children�s Hospital in Charlotte since Tuesday. She and her family went to the Cleveland County Fair on Oct. 4.
She�s the only one in the Gastonia family who got sick in the following days.
Her parents, Mike and Tracy Roberts, are both mystified and devastated by what�s happened.
According to Tracy Roberts, her daughter didn�t eat any food or touch any animals at the fair.
Yet, by Sunday night the little girl�s stomach was upset.
By Monday she screamed in pain. And by Tuesday she was admitted to the hospital.
�She�s just pitiful. I�ve never seen her so sick,� Tracy Roberts said.
Medical staff has tried to keep the girl comfortable, treat her symptoms and keep her hydrated and fed.
The Roberts family doesn�t know how long their little girl will be cooped up in the hospital room.
On Thursday night, the Gastonia couple met the parents of a Bessemer City boy who�s also being treated for an E. coli infection.
Jordan McNair, 12, has needed medical assistance to help him breathe and to keep his kidneys functioning since he was admitted to the hospital Oct. 3.
His prognosis has improved, but the John Chavis Middle School student has a long road ahead, according to his family.
Waiting it out
The Roberts family praised the staff at Levine�s for impeccable care for their daughter.
Still, they say no day at the fair is worth what they�ve gone through this week.
�No amount of fun is worth watching your child fight for her life,� Tracy Roberts said.
Both are ready for their daughter to be home, happy and healthy. And Hannah wants to get back to pre-K at First Wesleyan Christian School.
Children at the school paused to pray for Hannah earlier this week.
�That to me meant the whole world,� Tracy Roberts said.
While the Roberts family describes the ordeal as horrific, they realize other children have been even more severely injured than Hannah from the E. coli outbreak.
They said they use antibacterial soap often and despise germs. They�re baffled as to how this happened.
Regardless, their days of going to the fair are over, Tracy Roberts said. And Hannah agreed.
�She says, �I�m never going to the fair again, right Mommy?��
Reach Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.


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Welcome to the KDE community and to the UserBase wiki. Whether you are completely new to KDE software, a previous user or a current fan, these pages will help you learn more about both the KDE community and its software, as well as assist you in getting started. But first, something to whet your appetite!
Here's an example of a KDE desktop. Please take note that it may look differently depending on your version of the software, and distribution. As an example, here is a screenshot of a Plasma Desktop and the latest version of KDE Frameworks 5:
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Every great city has a signature place that serves as a destination, an icon for the city, and a catalyst for economic growth. The Downtown Park will be Redmond's signature park, and will create a place for community members to gather and celebrate. It will be a vibrant community space that encourages special events, arts, music and fun. The enhanced pedestrian environment in and around the park will stimulate economic activity in the neighborhood.
Redmond Downtown Park is a memorable and extraordinary gathering place where art and park are indistinguishable. It is a destination for creative energy and exploration where the entire community can:
An extensive and creative public engagement process for the Downtown Park Master Plan involved more than 2,000 kids and adults. Visitors to the site were invited to "Claim a Stake" in Downtown Park. More than 1,000 suggestions were written onto tags and staked within the park in a colorful art installation.


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The median household income in Carson City, Michigan is $27,946. The median household income for the surrounding county is $40,739 compared to the national median of $53,482. The median age of people living in Carson City is 44.6 years.
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Listen to Richard describe his first school trip to the Museum.More about Childhood
As a young boy, Richard was fascinated by animal bones and would enjoy undertaking mini-expeditions to find them (and sometimes bury them!) in his back garden. This interest led him to the Museum, where he recalls the awe-struck manner in which he beheld the great Whale Hall and the Museum's intricate mosaics depicting natural life.
This excitement in making new discoveries fed into his career at the Museum. Richard has a particular passion for the mammal collections at the Museum, with a specific interest in disease abnormalities found in animals. Having worked on various exhibitions around the Museum, Richard is dedicated to seeking new ways for exhibition design to excite and engage the public.
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Find out about Richard's favourite specimens.
Explore the different ways the Museum's collections are used.
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Afr. nat. history (Online) vol.4 Cape Town Jan. 2008
Aragonitic-walled benthic foraminifera (Epistomina) in the Cretaceous 'mudbelt' off southern Africa, and postmortem cross-shelf transport of tests
Ian K. McMillan
Natural History Collections Department, Iziko South African Museum, P.O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000 South Africa. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Throughout the Early Albian to Maastrichtian period there was a widespread dominance of aragonitic-walled tests in inner neritic benthic foraminifera assemblages, of which species of the genus Epistomina predominate. Fifty years ago Smitter first recognized Epistomina-dominated assemblages from outcrops at Mzamba and in the KwaZulu Basin, and realized their stratigraphic potential. These aragonitic-walled species are believed to have inhabited the palaeo-mudbelt. The changing ornamentation characteristics of both highly ornamented and smooth-walled Epistomina evolving through time led Smitter to recognize their value as marker species. They are found throughout the inner neritic region in basins experiencing slow siliciclastic sedimentation in normal marine, clay-dominated environments where fluvial input is limited (Pletmos, Gamtoos, Algoa, Thekwini and KwaZulu). Epistomina species, and aragonitic genera in general are absent in inner neritic regions of basins experiencing hyposalinity and rapid sedimentation, where fluvial input is abundant (Bredasdorp and Orange). However, although Epistomina-dominated assemblages are missing in the inner neritic (partly equivalent to the mudbelt) domains of the Orange and Bredasdorp Basins, transported tests of Epistomina are preserved in abundance in upper bathyal claystones in the two basins. The enigma of a complete absence of in situ aragonitic-shelled tests in the inner neritic domain, yet an abundance of obviously allochthonous tests, transported via debris flows to upper bathyal environments, is discussed with regard to the development of unconformities within the stratigraphic successions of southern African Cretaceous basins.
Key words: foraminifera, benthic, test, Cretaceous, assemblage, aragonite, mudbelt.
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Deep thanks for further samples from Mzamba Cliff outcrop, for discussions, and for facilities at the Ikizo South African Museum, Cape Town, are due to Herbert Klinger. The re-examination of the Makrides samples was undertaken late in 1993 while the author was employed by Soekor, and their permission to use facilities and permission to publish are acknowledged. Additional samples were kindly provided by David Broad, Petroleum Agency of South Africa. This article was carefully reviewed by John Compton (University of Cape Town) and Richard Dingle (Cambridge, England), and their comments are gratefully acknowledged. However, it should be noted that the author did not agree with all their comments. Bruce Rubidge of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg kindly gave permission to use Makrides' Plate 10 from her 1979 M.Sc. thesis.
CHAPMAN, F. 1904. Foraminifera and Ostracoda from the Cretaceous of East Pondoland, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 4(5): 221-237. [ Links ]
CHAPMAN, F. 1923. On some foraminifera and Ostracoda from the Cretaceous of Umzamba River, Pondoland. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 26: 1-6. [ Links ]
COOPER, M.R. & GREYLING, E.H. 1996. Stratigraphy and palaeontology of a temporary exposure of the Mzamba Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Lower Campanian) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 21: 11-24. [ Links ]
DALE, D.C. & McMILLAN, I.K. 1998. Mud belt and middle shelf benthonic and planktonic foraminiferal assemblages compared through the Holocene successions at two tropical African (Sierra Leone) and two temperate African (western offshore, South Africa) sites. South African Journal of Science 94(7): 319-340. [ Links ]
DALE, D.C. & McMILLAN, I.K. 1999. On the Beach. A Field Guide to the Late Cainozoic Micropalaeontological History, Saldanha Region, South Africa. 127 pp. Cape Town: Cameron Design Publishers/Hirt & Carter Printers: 1-127. [ Links ]
DALE, D.C. & McMILLAN, I.K. 2000. Micropalaeontological results from deep boreholes drilled by the 'Bavenit' (Shell contract vessel), Region B, Atlantic 1 and EPL OSJ, Namdeb. De Beers Marine, Cape Town, Project Report No. 440: 1-49. [ Links ]
GREYLING, E.H. 1992. TheMzambaFormation (Cretaceous)of the Transkei - Stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology. UnpublishedM.Sc. thesis, University of Durban-Westville, Durban. [ Links ]
HART, M.B., BAILEY, H.W., FLETCHER, B.N., PRICE, R.J. & SWIECICKI, A. 1989. Cretaceous. In: JENKINS, D.G. & MURRAY, J.W. (eds) Stratigraphical Atlas of Fossil Foraminifera, 2nd. edn, pp. 273-371. New York: Halsted Press (John Wiley). [ Links ]
LAMBERT, G. & SCHEIBNEROVÁ, V. 1974. Albian foraminifera of Zululand (South Africa) and Great Artesian Basin (Australia). Micropaleontology 20(1): 76-96. [ Links ]
KENNEDY, W.J. & KLINGER, H.C. 1975. Cretaceous faunas from Natal and Zululand, South Africa. Introduction, stratigraphy. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 25: 263-315. [ Links ]
KLINGER, H.C. & KENNEDY, W.J. 1980. The Umzamba Formation at its type section, Umzamba Estuary (Pondoland, Transkei), the ammonite content and palaeogeographical distribution. Annals of the South African Museum 81(6): 207-222. [ Links ]
KRASSILOV, V.A., MAKULBEKOV, N.M., LIU, K.W. & GREYLING, E.H. 1996. Grain size distribution and cementation of the Cretaceous Mzamba Formation of the Eastern Cape, South Africa: a case study of a storm-influenced offshore sequence. Sedimentary Geology 107(1): 83-97. [ Links ]
MAKRIDES, M. 1979. Foraminifera of the Upper Cretaceous Mzamba Formation, Transkei, southern Africa. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. [ Links ]
McMILLAN, I.K. 1974. Recent and relict Foraminifera from the Agulhas Bank, South African continental margin. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. [ Links ]
McMILLAN, I.K. 1987. Late Quaternary Foraminifera from the southern part of offshore South West Africa/Namibia. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. [ Links ]
McMILLAN, I.K. 2003. Foraminiferally defined biostratigraphic episodes and sedimentation pattern of the Cretaceous drift succession (Early Barremian to Late Maastrichtian) in seven basins on the South African and southern Namibian continental margin. South African Journal of Science 99: 537-576. [ Links ]
McMILLAN, I.K., BRINK, G.J., BROAD, D.S. & MAIER, J.J. 1997. Late Mesozoic sedimentary basins off the south coast of South Africa. In: SELLEY, R.C. (ed.) Sedimentary Basins of the World 3: African Basins, pp. 319-376. Amsterdam: Elsevier. [ Links ]
O'SHEA, D.O'C. 1971. An outline of the inshore submarine geology of South West Africa and Namaqualand. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of Cape Town. [ Links ]
SINGANO, J.M. & KAREGA, A.I.S. 2000. An Atlas of the Carboniferous to Tertiary Micropalaeontology of the SADC Region of Southern Africa. Volume 1: Foraminifera. (Part 1: Pindiro Shales (Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian); Part 2: Mostly Late Aptian to Late Cenomanian; Part 3: Turonian to Maastrichtian; Part 4: Palaeocene, Eocene and Late Miocene), 230 pp. Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania: Southern African Development Community/Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation. [ Links ]
SMITTER, Y.H. 1955. Foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous beds occurring near the Itongazi River, Natal. Palaeontologia africana 3: 103-107. [ Links ]
SMITTER, Y.H. 1957. The species relationships and stratigraphic distribution of southern African Upper Cretaceous Epistomina. Palaeontologia africana 5: 83-85. [ Links ]
ZOUTENDYK, P. & DUVENAGE, I.R. 1989. Composition and biological implications of a nepheloid layer over the inner Agulhas Bank near Mossel Bay, South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 47(2): 187-197. [ Links ]
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Q. Why is this called a Meeting and not a Conference?
A. By policy, the Midwinter Meeting is a working meeting, with opportunity for the many committees of ALA, its divisions, and its round tables to meet--to do planning, hammer out policy statements, draft guidelines, and do all of the other work committees have been established to accomplish. There are also meetings of discussion groups and interest groups where there may be sessions facilitated by a single presenter. In recent years, a few special events have been added to the Midwinter Meeting: the ALA President's Program, the Arthur Curley Lecture, and the Sunrise Speaker Series. In general, however, the divisions, round tables and committees do not present programming--that is reserved for the Annual Conference.


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Sometimes special plants are passed down from one generation to the next.
This fall is a great time to pass along some of your special plants to neighbors, friends and family. Sharing favorite plants with friends and family is an old practice. Plants that are tough, durable and easy to propagate are frequently shared among friends and neighbors.
Sometimes special plants are passed down from one generation to the next. Commonly shared plants are not often found for sale and are called �pass-along plants.� I have found that gardeners have their own ideas of just which plants are classified as �pass-alongs.� One gardener calls them a �growing gift.�
Perennial plants can be propagated by division in the fall. A good rule of thumb to determine the best time to divide perennials is to do so in the season opposite of when they flower. For example, fall is a great time to divide and share spring and summer blooming perennials. Some of the easiest perennials to divide are plants that grow in clumps, like garden phlox, hosta, daylilies and cannas.
To divide these plants, simply dig up the whole clump and then use a sharp tool to cut the clump into smaller pieces. Make sure each piece has at least a few stems and leaves attached to the roots. Do not allow the roots to dry out, and replant as soon as possible. Water new transplants thoroughly, but wait until spring to fertilize.
Bulbs are a favorite type of �pass-along� plant because they are so easy to share. Consider digging rain lilies, crinums and amaryllis, as well as spring favorites such as daffodils and Spanish bluebells. All of these plants grow from clusters of bulbs that can be easily dug and separated into smaller clusters or even individual bulbs.
Annual flowers are easier to share by seeds. To collect seeds, first allow the flowers to completely fade and the seed pods to ripen on the plant. If seed pods are still green, leave them on the plant until they turn brown, then collect and store them in a paper bag in a cool, dry location. If seed bugs are a problem, store the seed in the freezer for a few weeks. Old fashion annuals are the easiest to collect seed from and include celosia, cleome, zinnias, sunflowers and marigolds.
Other plants are best shared with cuttings. This is particularly true for shrubs, most of which root best from cuttings taken in the summer.
Plants that can be rooted from cuttings taken in the fall include many houseplants and tropical plants commonly grown as summer annuals. These include sweet potato vines, coleus, alternanthera, begonias, impatiens and Persian shield. They can be easily rooted in a cup of water and potted once roots have formed. Overwinter these plants in a location that receives bright light and stays higher than 40 degrees.
Enjoy passing along your garden plants while cool temperatures make gardening especially nice.
Peg Godwin is horticulture agent, Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Center. Reach her at email@example.com or 252-527-2191.


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Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customers
After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta."
Google Inc. says its e-mail service and three other applications in the Google Apps suite for businesses are now finished products in name as well as function.
But that doesn't mean Google is finished improving upon them. Nor were the extra features announced Tuesday cause for dropping the label.
In fact, getting rid of beta doesn't mean a whole lot.
So why drop it?
Google concedes the move is aimed more at wooing business customers than marking any real developmental milestone.
The premier edition Apps suite sells for $50 per user to business customers, who get added features including offline access and 24/7 customer support. The "beta" label was scaring businesses off.
"Many of the companies that have looked in depth at the apps have seen that they are feature complete," Rajen Sheth, a Google senior product manager, said in an interview. "But there is a kind of perception thing, and in many cases that stops companies in their tracks from even looking at it."
Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk are now out of beta mode. Google Sites and Google Video have already dropped the label.
Other Google applications not included in Apps suite _ such as Google Scholars _ will still carry the tag.
Nostalgic Gmail users will even have the option to restore the "beta" tag on their own screens.
The Mountain View, Calif. company announced two new Gmail features it will roll out to premier business customers over the next few weeks. One allows administrative assistants to send e-mail on others' behalf, while the other lets companies automatically purge old e-mails after a certain period of time.
Google also said it will begin storing business-grade e-mails at two data centers simultaneously, reducing the likelihood of downtime.
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Jury trials are slow, expensive and don't necessarily produce the 'right' verdict -- so why do we still use them?
Our legal system – note I do not call it our justice system – deserves to come in for criticism. Not everything is bad, but there are elements that need to be reformed.
Basic things don't look right to me – for starters, it costs way too much and is way too slow. But there is more.


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How about Ikea?
What is a trip to the coast without a stop at Ikea? My dad loves Ikea, particularly their food section. He loves their coffee and he stocked up big time. He also likes their bread mixes, and so do I, so he bought a few of those, too. Dad really likes the Ikea cafeteria, for reasons I just don't get. Yeah, it's inexpensive, but I was at the coast - I wanted to have lunch somewhere more "coasty". We compromised by having a snack at the cafeteria (which is oddly very similar to the BC Ferries cafeterias) and going somewhere else for lunch.
So, here is what we had.
My SIL had this chocolate torte thingy that you can buy whole in the frozen section of the food part of the store. She said it was pretty good. She downed it with a lingonberry juice.
My dad had this bran muffin that had an odd shape. He downed it with some of his favourite Ikea coffee. I have been advised that when I go to Van in June (which is in the works) that should I pass by Ikea, I am go to in and buy Dad a huge stockpile of coffee and bread mixes.
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At first glance people might suspect that you're not properly dressed for Halloween, but the joke will be on them once you reveal the hidden surprise on the underside of this clever tee from DeezTeez. Instantly turn yourself into a zombie by flipping the bottom portion of the T-Shirt on to your head. And booom, you've instantly been transformed into a flesh craving zombie. Poke some holes into the eyeball portion of the design and you can walk around all night as a zombie while you trick or treat. Though, your arms may get a little tired. Unless of course, you're one of those super zombies from 28 Days Later.
The Flip-Up Zombie T-Shirt Costume is available now from DeezTeez for $15.99.
Though, I have to admit that these tees from the recent Resident Evil: Afterlife premier looks much better! [Thanks to David Seibei for the tip!]
The promotional Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles shirts Capcom printed up for Comic-Con (which takes place from July 23-26) have their own dark side: specifically, the inside. The shirts look nice enough when worn normally: a "let your darkside out" slogan adorns the front amid zombie silhouettes, and the game's logo occupies the back. [via Joystiq]


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Keep loads, big and small, securely strapped with Hi-Lift's new Slide-N-Lock bed rail system.
The system consists of two aluminum rails, four self-locking slides and stainless steel mounting hardware. Simply fasten rails along the top of the sides of your pickup bed and slide in the locking pin.
Each locking pin has a 1,000-lb. tie-down capacity. Pin holes are located at 5-in. intervals. Retail price: $120. Contact Hi-Lift Jack Co., Dept. FIN, 46 W. Spring St., Bloomfield, IN 47424, 800/233-2051.
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A difference in the family: life with a disabled child
Basic Books, 1980 - Family & Relationships - 262 pages
Uses interviews with parents and professionals to show families how they can cope with the fear, anger, guilt, self-doubt, loneliness, and stress that can result from living with a seriously disabled child
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SIOUX FALLS - Police are searching for Albert Wayne Armentrout, 60, in connection with the rape of an 8-year-old child.
According to the Argus Leader, "Armentrout is 6-feet-1-inch tall and weighs about 200 pounds. He has brown eyes and gray hair."
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One day an entrepreneur ... gets an idea ... and starts coding. A few weeks or possibly days, a beta -- increasingly a euphemism for a not-fully-thought-out-product -- emerges.I am embarrassed to say, Findory had a beta, widgets, an open API, and a failed attempt in online advertising. No Red Bull though.
The buzz builds ... the entrepreneur rejoices. The VCs ... do a fly-by ... Eight weeks later reality sets in. The traffic stops growing or -- worse yet -- dives ... But as an ever-optimistic entrepreneur it's time to regroup, gather your programmers, toss back some Red Bull and ... launch a social network widget.
[Then] it's time for the big guns ... the open API. Now you're a platform! The startup ... founder rejoices again ... The money men get serious because ... [now] you have a Facebook strategy.
[Twelve] months later ... it's time for advertising .... But selling online advertising is hard ... It's time to consider reality. You could always try your hand as an ad network or merge with a competitor, but more than likely it's time to sell that domain name and user base on eBay or quietly shut your doors. Better luck next time.
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Through Her Eyes (Hardcover)
Harper Teen, 9780061834585, 377pp.
Publication Date: April 5, 2011
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Every ghost has a story to tell.
The last place Tansy Piper wants to be is stuck in Cedar Canyon, Texas, in the middle of nowhere, with a bunch of small-town kids. But when her mother decides to move to the desolate West Texas town, Tansy has no choice but to go along. Once there, Tansy is immediately drawn to the turret of their rickety old house, a place she soon learns has a disturbing history. But it's the strange artifacts she finds in the cellar--a pocket watch, a journal of poetry, and a tiny crystal--that have the most chilling impact on her.
Tansy soon finds that through the lens of her camera, she can become part of a surreal black-and-white world where her life is intertwined with that of mysterious, troubled Henry, who lived in the same house and died decades earlier. It seems their lives are linked by fate and the artifacts she found, but as Tansy begins spending more and more time in the past, her present world starts to fade away. Tansy must untangle herself from Henry's dangerous reality--before she loses touch with her own life forever.
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"Haunting and mysterious. Jennifer Archer delivers a supernatural read unlike any other! Spooky in the best way!"
-Sophie Jordan, author of Firelight
"A tightly written time-travel fantasy. The quirky characters; romantic triangles; and ghosts and haunted houses make for a winning, mixed-genre offering that's sure to attract a wide audience of teen readers."
"An inventive ghost story. Archer writes distinctive characters and paces the story well, producing a supernatural tale with depth and originality."
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So I'm sure we all have Facebook friends that post crazy, amusing, disturbing things about god. So what are the worst or most amusing things that you have seen? That and do you ever respond to these posts or just ignore them or even just delete people from your friends list? Furthermore how have other people reacted to your own posts about Atheism or subjects that might go against the faith of friends or family?
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Yes Raptor Jesus is a classic that is for sure!
I've seen a photo similar to that said something about "Islam is a Religion of Peace...Right" Followed by something talking about how accepting Jesus will save us from the "Evil Muslims" Another case of someone that has not bothered to read their own book of faith before making statement about how much more violent another's faith is.
I'd like to find a picture of Crusaders sacking cities of the "Holy Land", with depictions of rape and murder of the civilians. Just to point out the hypocrisy in that kind of thinking.
I hadn't really thought about it before, but does anyone know of some kind of depiction of the sort? Not necessarily the rape scene, but definitely along those lines?
You could have posted something about her god killing all the firstborns of Egypt or any of his other murderous rampages
How about murders in the bible, Devil 10, god 6,000,000.
Loving God for sure...
You could post the famous photo of the vulture standing behind a starved child just waiting to take a piece out of it. This makes god happy as it allows Christians to provide assistance for these children, in between finding the car keys in answer to their prayers.
Yeah that's one of those photos where you can ask sooo is this part of god's plan? Perhaps we need a new planer eh?
That poor child. I hate this circumstance. Never knew the photographer died from depression but he had to have seen a lot of this type of tragedy.
There are some family members where I just had to hide their status updates from my feed because they were posting non stop Jesus non-sense. I couldn't take it anymore I kept finding myself starting some page long responses that I ended up just saying to myself nevermind and not posting them.


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PSE&G To Install 105 Pole Mounted Solar Panels in the Borough of Magnolia
March 6, 2010
Public Service Electric and Gas announced to Borough Council at the March 3, 2010 Work Session that they plan to install 105 pole mounted solar panels throughout the Borough of Magnolia. Installation of the panels will begin immediately. Questions about the Solar for All program should be directed to Public Service Electric & Gas.
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PSE&G Installing Pole-Attached Solar Energy Units
As part of its Solar 4 All program, PSE&G has begun installing 200,000 pole-attached solar energy units in its service territory. The solar panels will be installed in New Jersey's six largest cities and in approximately 300 rural and suburban communities.
PSE&G contractors, Riggs Distler & Company, will install solar panels on utility poles and street lights along main streets near area businesses and in residential neighborhoods. When the project is complete, it will be the largest pole-attached solar installation in the world.
"The solar panels bring the benefit of clean, renewable energy to all our customers, and the electricity generated from them helps us combat climate change," said Al Matos, vice president for renewables and energy solutions for PSE&G. "The units are being installed in a safe, reliable manner consistent with our normal practices."
In July 2009, PSE&G received regulatory approval from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities to invest $515 million in solar projects. In addition to the 40-megawatt pole-attached segment, a second segment will provide centralized solar, with PSE&G developing solar gardens and roof-top installations on facilities it owns and also at third-party-owned sites. The utility expects to complete the installations by the end of 2013.
"This new initiative will effectively double the size of New Jersey's installed solar capacity," said Ralph LaRossa, president and COO of PSE&G. "That is more solar capacity than exists in any state other than California. This latest program is an important step in PSE&G's commitment to promote energy efficiency, develop renewables, reduce greenhouse gases and create new green jobs."
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University of Colorado, Boulder, 1983, PhD (Biochemistry)
The focus of research in the Overbaugh lab is on mechanisms of viral pathogenesis. Her lab studies several retroviruses, with a particular focus on those that lead to a prolonged chronic asymptomatic infection followed by eventual development of immunodeficiency disease (FeLV, SIV and HIV). Studies of her group focus on how the properties of the virus itself influence the eventual outcome of infection. These studies include a detailed analysis of the sequence and biological characteristics of viruses that spread from host to host. Her group studies process that contribute to persistence of these viruses once infection is established, and the processes of evolution and adaptation that result from selective pressures in the host, such as changes in cell tropism/receptor specificity and immune escape. Trainees in her lab engage in studies of viral evolution, virus-host cell interactions, and viral immunology.