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Three years ago, I wrote a blog post on being hyper-efficient on a computer -- or to put it another way, being so good on a computer that you play it like a virtuoso on a musical instrument. So much has changed in my daily workflow that I realized it was time for me to update that post.
The first order of business is that you can't improve what you can't measure. So if you're serious about being able to use a computer with the speed and zeal of Dash outrunning a flying saucer, first you need to find out how fast (or slow) you are today. Go over and take my GeekSpeed challenge. See if you can break the 1 minute mark.
If you can't, then here are some of the things to focus on to make the 8+ hours per day you spend in front of your computer much, much more productive:
Honorable Mentions: Here are som other tools I love: PDF Pen, a way better pdf manipulation tool, Highrise and Basecamp by 37 Signals, Pivotal Tracker for life project management, 1Password for password management, WhatSize for freeing space up on a computer, JoinMe for screen sharing & support, and Carbon Copy Cloner to make exact clones of your hard drive, which are bootable. Even if you back up using TimeMachine or similar, I'd still highly recommend cloning your drive once a month as a failsafe (and then use something like CrashPlan for cloud-based backups).
Whew! Hope that helps. What do you use to enable you to play your computer like an instrument? I'd love to know in the comments below.
HelloSign looks great! DocuSign is another good alternative that a lot of bigger companies use, but the UI isn't nearly as good.
IFTTT is pretty good, but Zapier is incredible for doing anything related to business. You do have to pay for it to get the most functionality (fast updates, more 'zaps', etc), but the free version works pretty well also. I use it mainly to sync all of the different apps I use together, and it's been a lifesaver on more than one occasion.
My best lifesavers have always been apps that take potential distractions away. I use iA Writer to do all my writing on iOS or my Macbook and a combination of Self Control and RescueTime to keep myself on track and focused.
Also if you're trying to learn something, I highly recommend using spaced-repetition flashcards. Anki (ankisrs.net) is a good cross-platform solution.
Oh yeah, and also #GiveMeSETT
Henry, Zapier looks AWESOME. I'll definitely check that out.
It looks like Anki is an interval-based flashcard system? Is that right? I read a WIRED article awhile back about Piotr Wozniak's SuperMemo learning philosophy and I've been really curious about it ever since. It's hard to tell from Anki's website if it's along those lines. What deal can you provide?
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Hey Daniel,
As I was saying on IM earlier, I bet you know all of these already ;)
Wow this is a great and very comprehensive list! The gmail shortcuts are a LIVESAVER; I don't know how anyone can use Gmail w/o them. And the Mac shortcuts are good; there's an add-on called Witch for Mac that helps you go between open windows in the same program; I use that all the time. And Alfred is great too for launching programs.
How many of these shortcuts do YOU use? :)
I also highly recommend EverContact to automatically update your address book based on people's sig lines (it used to be called WriteThatName).
Julia over at Hackpad just asked me:
"Can I ask what software you use to create these videos? They're quite impressive!"
Yep! I use iShowU to take them. (There's also an HD version of iShowU but I like this one better; it's simpler to use). Then, I just upload the videos to Vimeo.
In fact, here's a video showing how I make these videos. The video also describes how I use Skitch and CloudApp to do quick edits. Enjoy!
Hackpad is a new tool that I'm absolutely loving. Here's a blog post I wrote about it: http://go.DanielOdio.com/hackpad
Seconding Cinch, Xtrafinder, Alfred, and Textexpander
Four apps to add to the list here:
Vitamin R, a very powerful task and time tracking tool. Helps me focus and eliminate distractions, log my progress on projects, and provide audio and visual cues to stay on task. Great for those days where you need someone looking over your shoulder.
JiTouch, create trackpad gestures and assign them functions. I currently use it for basic things like tab switching and text selection, but it can do more advanced things like run applescripts as well.
Clipmenu, another clipboard manager. I prefer it because it is relatively simple, can be called up with a kb shortcut, and shows previews of copied images in the queue.
Flexiglass, similar to Cinch is a more powerful resizing tool. It can snap windows to certain parts of the screen (top left quarter, bottom half, etc) and sets kb shortcuts for each "layout".
These are great, man. I totally buy into this text on the Vitamin R page:
"How can you work effectively if you are not sure what you are trying to achieve?
You can't. Obviously.
Why then do we waste so much of our time working towards vague goals and deadlines in the distant future?
Getting things done begins with setting immediate, specific andactionable objectives.
Keeping these objectives reachable ensures optimal performance and high motivation."
Breaking big projects up into small slices is critical. So that's super cool I'll give it a shot.
RE: ClipMenu -- have you ever tried iCopy? I'd be curious to know how they compare. The thing I love about iCopy is that I have a shortcut key assigned to it, CMD+J, which brings up a running list of all my past 100+ copy & paste items, and then I can use the arrow keys to pick the one I want. When I press enter, that one gets copied to my clipboard and I can then paste it in. So totally mouse-free, which I love.
Thanks for the great tips -- keep 'em coming!
Yep, Vitamin R is great - basically sits in the background and keeps you in the mindset of setting objectives, dedicating chunks of time, and then looking back to see how effective you were. I need a digital babysitter sometimes.
Re: iCopy, I haven't tried it but imagine it's as effective if not more effective than clipmenu, which is free. Because we're putting together a lot of pitch decks and using the mouse a lot, I have the copy/paste board mapped to a certain mouse click (check out the MX revolution from Logitech - great device) which is an amazing time saver.
I've had lots of people asking me about TextExpander recently. Here's an example of how I use it effectively:
I recently attended a tech retreat, and I want to email some of the people I met there. TextExpander pops in block of text based on trigger words you type. Since I'll be sending a very similar email to a bunch of people individually, it's a great opportunity for me to use TextExpander.
The first thing I do is compose the email I'm going to use as a template. For example, here's what it looks like:
Next, I fire up TextExpander and cut the email up into two pieces. The first is a subject line:
And I do the same for the body:
Now I'm ready to rock & roll. I can send a bunch of emails quickly by typing my two short codes -- one into the subj line of the email, and the next into the body, like this:
I enter the name "Jeremy" and hit "enter" and I get this:
I do the same thing for the body by typing ".mpb"
Bam, easy peasy to send a bunch of emails out with relevant text. This is a great tool for anyone who has to send out substantially-similar emails to people on a regular basis.
CloudApp, here I come! I've used a lot of the apps recommended on this page and I must agree, all of them improve efficiency tremendously.
I've only used Echosign and Docusign (no HelloSign) but both have helped expedite getting legal docs signed off and saved my butt a few times as a sales rep. Nothing worse than having a PO sit out there and not faxed back because there is no scanner available!
Here's a great pro-tip on how to use TextExpander-like shortcuts on an iPhone: http://danielodio.com/community/is-there-a-textexpander-for-iphone
Most everyone uses a computer. But a few of us, well, we play a computer like an instrument.
If you're on a computer for 10+ hours per day, this blog is for you.
By "instrument" I mean we know the in's & out's of the device. We know how to eek out maximum performance from it. We're the people who others just look at in wonder when our keys fly across the keyboard.
If you've ever found it excruciatingly painful watching others use a computer because of how slow the person is, then you know what I'm talking about.
These are just my tips, but really, I'm writing this because I want to know about your tips. I want to know what saves you time and makes you more productive. So please post comments below.
First of all, I'm finally over 1000 readers on Feedburner. That's in addition to the 500-700 readers that just check the site every day.
The "missing area" is when I stopped using Feedburner for around a year. I didn't really have a complete grasp on how RSS worked back then. The second tiny gap was when I made some changes to the site (linking words in my bio and putting summaries on the front page). I forgot to put the Feedburner stuff back on for a few days, but notice how after that the slope increased? Pretty cool.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — Europe's benchmark stock index closed at the lowest level in a week on Monday after surprisingly weak Chinese export data spurred concerns about the global economy and weighed especially on the mining sector.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.29% dropped 0.5% to close at 331.40, building on a 1.3% loss from Friday.
Among notable movers in Monday's trade, shares of Iliad SA ILD, +2.82% rallied 11% after the French telecom firm said over the weekend it was in exclusive talks to buy Bouygues SA's EN, +0.73% mobile-network infrastructure if Bouygues's proposed bid to take over mobile operator SFR gets through. Iliad also posted a 40% rise in profit for last year. Shares of Bouygues rose 8.7%.
The moves boosted the French CAC 40 index PX1, +0.56%, which gained 0.1% to 4,370.84. Other major national indexes, however, closed lower, with Germany's DAX 30 index DAX, +0.08% down 0.9% to 9,265.50 and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.16% off 0.4% at 6,689.45.
The mining sector weighed on the London index after disappointing Chinese trade data. Numbers out over the weekend showed exports unexpectedly fell 18.1% in February from a year earlier, a deterioration after January's 10.6% rise and worse than the 5% expansion forecast by economists. Chinese exports are seen as a gauge of global demand, and the weak data for February signaled a wider slowdown in appetite for goods.
James Ashley, chief European Economist at RBC Capital Markets, explained that the Chinese data also are important to European markets, as during the crisis China remained on the of strongest points and worked as a stimulus to the international economy.
"So if, and it's really if, we see the Chinese economy falter it would not just have implications for Asia, but for the global economy," he said.
He cautioned however, that the export numbers could have been distorted by one-off factors such as the Lunar New Year and the exceptionally cold weather in the U.S., so investors shouldn't over-interpret just one set of data.
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Miners, which tend to be sensitive to growth data from China, as the country is a major user of natural resources, posted some of the biggest losses on Monday. Shares of Antofagasta PLC ANTO, -1.71% dropped 2.1%, Glencore Xstrata PLC GLEN, +0.88% GLCNF, +2.22% gave up 2.4%, BHP Billiton PLC UK:BLT BHP, -0.70% BHP, +0.19% fell 1.4%, and Anglo American PLC AAL, +0.69% shed 2%.
Heavyweight Vodafone Group PLC VOD, -0.55% VOD, -0.55% lost 3.6% after Reuters late Friday reported that the telecom firm has reached a preliminary deal to buy Spanish cable group Ono after raising its initial offer. In February, Ono rejected an earlier bid from Vodafone and decided to continue with a planned initial public offering that would value the company at 7 billion euros ($9.7 billion), including debt. A representative from Vodafone wasn't immediately available to comment.
On a more upbeat note in London, Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC UK:RR picked up 1.7% after Daimler AG DAI, -0.15% said on Friday it plans to sell its 50% stake in Rolls-Royce Power Systems Holding to Rolls-Royce.
Also getting market attention, U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser told a panel in Paris that the U.S. central bank may have to speed up the pace of tapering its bond purchases to take into account the improving economy. Plosser, who is a voting member of the Federal Reserve's policy committee, said that reducing the asset purchases is a step in the right direction, "but the pace may leave us well behind the curve if the economy continues to play out according to the FOMC forecasts".
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On March 1, two students were transported from the school nurse's office to Bon Secours Hospital in Port Jervis, N.Y., after having overdosed on the prescription drug Xanax, which is used to treat panic and anxiety disorders, according to Eastern Pike Regional Police. One student was taken to the hospital by parents; the other was taken by ambulance, police said.
A 15-year old boy from Dingmans Ferry was charged with possessing a controlled substance, possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia, and dispensing a controlled substance. Police were notified of the incident by a school resource officer. The incident is a reminder to keep medicine cabinets locked, said Eastern Pike Regional Police Chief Chad Stewart.
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By Chris Isidore and Rene Marsh, NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Motors agreed to pay a $35 million fine to settle a federal probe into the 10-year delay of its ignition switch recall, federal safety regulators announced Friday.
GM had already admitted that its employees knew of problems with the ignition switch as early as 2004. The flaw caused some cars to shut off while driving, disabling airbags, anti-lock brakes and power steering. It has been tied to at least 13 deaths. But GM did not start recalling the 2.6 million cars with the ignition problems until this February.
The settlement also calls for GM to make internal changes that regulators say will help it do a better job of detect safety problems with its cars
Since the recall problem became public, GM has created a position of vice president for global vehicle safety and hired 35 to 40 more safety investigators.
"We have learned a great deal from this recall. We will now focus on the goal of becoming an industry leader in safety," said GM CEO Mary Barra in a statement. "We will emerge from this situation a stronger company."
The decade-long delay has prompted probes by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, as well as Congressional committees and the Justice Department.
NHTSA itself has faced criticism for why it did not order the recall earlier. NHTSA Acting Administrator David Friedman was called before congressional committees probing the recalls. He testified GM did not give the agency the information it needed to decide to order a recall.
Earlier this year, Toyota Motor agreed to pay a $1.2 billion fine to settle criminal charges over its conduct during its massive unintended acceleration recall four years ago. But that settlement was with the Justice Department, not NHTSA. The safety regulator was only able to impose fines of $48.8 million on the Japanese automaker.
The money from Friday's announced fine goes to the U.S. Treasury, not to compensate crash victims.
So far this year GM has recalled nearly 13 million vehicles. The latest came Friday morning when it recalled another is 8,560 cars due to problems with the brakes. GM has already taken a $1.3 billion charge to deal with the cost of repairing the faulty ignition switches and other recalls it announced in the first quarter. That essentially wiped out the company's profits for the first three months of the year.
Thursday GM announced it was recalling another 3 million vehicles worldwide, and that it would take a $200 million charge for those repairs.
But these charges by GM do not include any fines or penalties it will have to pay federal agencies, or payments it might have to make to crash victims and their families. The company has hired attorney Kenneth Feinberg to help it determine what to pay to the victims.
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(CHARLESTON, S.C.) -- Mark Sanford wants you to know that he has learned from his mistakes and will try to change Washington if he gets there.
That's the message of his first TV ad, now visible on cable airwaves in Charleston, S.C., where the former governor is attempting the political comeback of the decade. With more ads to come, Sanford has reserved $160,000 worth of TV time before the March 19 primary, according to his campaign.
Sanford, who famously resigned the governorship following the revelation of an extra-marital affair with an Argentinian woman, faces 15 other candidates in his race to reclaim the state's First Congressional District, which he represented from 1995 to 2001, before assuming the governorship. Just about every kind of local pol has come out to oppose him: current and former state legislators; a sheriff; a personal-injury lawyer; a former JAG officer; a former Secret Service agent; a school-board trustee; and a local high school teacher, to name a few.
"Our message is simple: I've learned a lot over the past few years about grace and forgiveness, but one thing hasn't changed. And that's my absolute commitment to watching out for taxpayers and getting spending under control," Sanford wrote in an email to supporters announcing the new ad.
Sanford, 52, is the odds-on favorite, according to a Republican source in the state, but he'll need to reach more than 50 percent in the primary to avoid a runoff. With so many other candidates, that could be tough. The runoff would be held April 2.
The former governor wasn't first to launch an air attack, by any means.
One of his more promising opponents seems to be Teddy Turner, son of the media magnate Ted Turner. A high school economics teacher in Charleston, Turner had been running ads before he filed for the race in mid-January, and he ran them during both the AFC and NFC championship NFL games, according to a source in the state.
Turner is relatively unknown as a political presence in the state, and his ads have introduced him to voters. In one that debuted Feb. 12, Turner takes a subtle jab at Sanford: "What I'm not is a career politician," Turner says to the camera.
Another explains that his experience as a CNN news cameraman in the Soviet Union made him into a conservative.
Two other candidates are airing TV ads in Charleston.
Chip Limehouse, running as an economic conservative, bluntly announces he's running for Congress and promotes his conservative views and state-budgeting experience in a 30-second introductory spot.
Another focuses on World War II vets who oppose Obama.
More directly related to Sanford's prospects, former state Sen. John Kuhn is running a 30-second ad that could stand in as a PSA for marital fidelity. In it, Kuhn proclaims his "personal responsibility, faith in God, devotion to my family" and informs viewers that "I married my college sweetheart" while the words "committed to family" flash on screen.
Sanford didn't need to begin airing TV ads before anyone else – voters already know who he is – but he's not the only one who can make a splash on TV or sustain a media campaign in this crowded race.
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United won't find glory in cup pursuits
There were a number of issues surrounding Manchester United's clash with Liverpool on Sunday and most of them don't need highlighting.
Kenny Dalglish's side were eventual winners when Dirk Kuyt made it 2-1 with just a couple of minutes to go at Anfield.
Sir Alex Ferguson is never happy losing to one of his club's fiercest rivals, but this latest loss is not exactly the worst it could have been.
The Old Trafford club have some injury issues at the moment with Wayne Rooney, Tom Cleverley and Phil Jones all missing through some problem or another.
Although United have sufficient numbers to reinforce their defence, they have lost two of their most influential defenders in Jones (or a midfielder, you choose) and club captain Nemanja Vidic.
Tom Cleverley should not really be considered an integral part of the first team as it is his first proper season playing, but his early promise has already led many to consider him a key factor to any United success.
The biggest loss is obviously that of Rooney, but there has been no concrete time frame put on how long he will be missing and is expected to return on Sunday against Chelsea.
With the form of Manchester City putting pressure on the Red Devils, this is set to be one of the toughest second halves to a season Ferguson has had in a while.
One less competition to worry about will be no bad thing, especially when their Europa League campaign kicks off in just over two weeks.
That is an energy sapping competition at the best of times and a weekend break in three weeks may be just what his side need.
Ferguson is never one to give up a fight and you can be sure his United side will be there or thereabouts come the business end of the season, battling to retain their league title.
However, the size and quality of Roberto Mancini's squad means it will be the red side of Manchester who are most likely to struggle with a two-front trophy race.
United are a Champions League side and are regularly champions of the Premier League, they do not need a Europa League campaign.
Ferguson is likely to say that he takes every game seriously and wants to win every competition his side are in, but it will do them no harm to use a few younger and lesser-used members of their squad in the tie with Ajax.
The Dutch side are likely to provide a stern test but not one stern enough to trouble the likes of United – although we did say that about their opponents in Champions League group didn't we?
If there is one competition United need to prioritise at all, it is the league. This is because Mancini has indicated he will do the same, something that should worry the Scot.
Professional pride and a liking for a challenge, especially from such close rivals, will mean Ferguson will do everything possible to overhaul the Citizens but this could prove to be one challenge too far for the 70-year-old.
If he is to do it, he will need to be rid of the pesky Europa League and the fixture strain the Champions League wooden spoon brings with it.News Now - Sport News


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As Democrats try to keep their lock on the Senate next year, some of their most vulnerable incumbents have a problem with President Barack Obama: They can't win with him, but they probably can't win without him, either.
The party desperately needs African-American voters to vote in numbers approaching last year's turnout. Embracing Obama and his divisive health care law would no doubt help — the legislation is popular with the Democratic base, particularly among minorities.
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But get too close to the president and Democrats on the 2014 ballot could alienate white swing voters who hold the key to the midterms, which inherently favor Republicans.
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The problem is most acute for three Southern Democratic senators from states with large black populations that Obama lost in November: Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, North Carolina's Kay Hagan and Arkansas's Mark Pryor. Republicans need to pick up six seats to win the Senate, and the red-state Democrats, who all voted for Obamacare, top the GOP's target list.
This same dynamic worries House Democrats. A case in point is Georgia Rep. John Barrow: He is one of the most endangered Democrats in the country but survived in a district that Mitt Romney carried by double digits. One of the main reasons was high turnout among blacks, who compose about a third of his district's electorate. (Barrow voted against the Democratic health care law but has also opposed repealing it.)
Nationally in 2012, blacks voted at higher rates than whites for the first time. The census reported that about 66.2 percent of eligible black voters cast ballots in 2012, up from 64.7 percent in 2008. Turnout in the 2010 midterms dropped off around 20 percent from 2008, pollsters say.
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A year-and-a-half out from the election, Pryor is already feeling the vise tighten.
Michael Bloomberg's gun control group is airing radio and TV spots attacking the Arkansan for breaking with Obama on background checks for firearms purchases last month; he was one of four Senate Democrats to do so. The group announced it would target the state's African-American community, "without which Mark Pryor doesn't have a prayer of getting reelected," said Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
On the other side, the conservative Club for Growth is already airing ads that describe Pryor as "Obama's best ally in Arkansas." Obama lost the state by 24 points.
"They're going to attach Obama to us as much as humanly possible," said a Democratic strategist involved in the race. "That argument will be made regardless of what we do."
Pryor, who has described himself as "nonpartisan," took pains last year to distance himself from the president during the campaign, at one point saying it was "totally secondary to me" whether Romney or Obama won.
"I'm not there to represent a president," the two-term senator said.
The failure to be vocally supportive of the first African-American president and his agenda on everything from immigration to guns already appears to be dampening enthusiasm among some African-Americans. Fourteen percent of registered Arkansas voters are black.
"There are many African-Americans who are quite bothered by some of the votes that Sen. Pryor has taken," said Joyce Elliott, vice chairwoman of the Arkansas Democratic Party and the former state Senate majority leader. "I've had lots of conversations with African-Americans who just don't want to even talk about it, who say, 'Maybe I just won't vote.'"


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Weis goes on to the beat of his own drum
As jazz legend Duke Ellington said, "Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion."For Andy Weis, a St. Marys native now living in Monterey, Calif., his career as a professional musician and drummer, drum teacher, vintage drum collector, expert, and restorer, is the result of a lifelong compulsion, one which began as a child living on Windfall Road in St. Marys. For Weis, the youngest of five children born to the late Leo "Bunky" and Audrey Weis, his musical evolution began at the age of five years old. Weis' father was a drummer in high school and kept a drum set up in the attic of the home. Weis asked his father if he could play them and was told he could if he was able to get the kit down from the attic and assemble it himself. "The bass drum was darn near taller than I was. That was the beginning of me ruining his jazz collection," Weis said. Weis explained that he would listen to his father's jazz albums and mimic the drum parts, practicing along with the albums of Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington. As scratches appeared in the vinyl, Weis would place a coin on the arm of the turntable which he said then acted like a makeshift lathe, digging literal grooves into the records. After the family relocated from Windfall Road to Lafayette Street in downtown St. Marys, Weis said his practicing was a common sound for passersby in those days. "I just recently learned that people could hear me practice downtown in the late 60s and early 70s. Someone would ask, 'What's that sound?' And someone else would say, 'Oh that's just Andy practicing his drums.' Had I known this, I might have been pretty embarrassed," Weis said. Weis credits his parents with being tolerant of his constant practicing and encouraging his aspirations. He said that after he went away to college, his mother said she found the house "kind of lonely without the drums playing all the time."While in St. Marys, Weis, in an attempt to become as well-versed a player as possible, immersed himself in every genre of music he could, from polka to country to rock and roll. He credits his musical experiences in St. Marys with making him able to play as many styles of music as possible convincingly. "Growing up in St. Marys, I took advantage of as many musical experiences as possible," Weis said. "I performed in SMAHS Band, Community Band, Johnsonburg Diplomats Drum and Bugle Corps, and a variety of local rock, country, and polka bands. A couple of the rock bands included my sister, Lynne who is a very fine singer and performer." Prior to his attending the Berklee College of Music, Weis got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when presented with a chance to sit in with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra when they played the Ridgway Country Club in 1973, the year before Ellington's death. "I knew all of the tunes he called out because I'd been practicing to his records. Even today, it's one of the highlights of my life," Weis said. After graduating from Berklee in 1975, Weis said his formative years as a musician consisted of touring with what he described as a "post-disco band" in chain motels across the country and helped to make him the musician he is today. He described a nomadic lifestyle of touring in the early years as "one band turned into another, then that turned into another and within two years it was all over and I came back to St. Marys."Weis said that while he kept returning to St. Marys, he knew that he wanted to make music his career and in order to do so, he needed to locate himself in an area with a thriving music scene. It was at that point that Weis joined the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Band in 1980. Weis said he was able to essentially choose where he would be stationed and settled on Fort Ord in Monterey, the home of a renowned jazz scene and the Monterey Jazz Festival. "I didn't want to grow old and regret not serving my country, for one, and I knew I could get in the Army band," Weis said of his decision to join the Army. In order to establish himself in Monterey's jazz scene, Weis thought it logical that he take a job at the local music store patronized by the area's musicians. "So I was able to meet all the local musicians pretty fast working in this music store and started working gigs rather quickly," Weis said. A motivating factor for Weis to find an additional source of income as a musician was his being newly married with a newborn child. "It seems like all these different things I've done, it's been for multiple reasons," he said. In his career spanning some 30 years, Weis has worked with many an artist passing through Monterey who has performed concerts backed up by a band of local artists. In doing so, Weis has established himself as a consummate professional, a musician's musician and is considered a "1st call" drummer for these types of concerts. Weis said the essence of being a drummer involves keeping good time, but ultimately making sure everybody in the band sounds good. "The first thing is, it's never about me unless it's about me. It's always about the music until I might be featured in a particular song," Weis said. Weis said when he first arrived on the scene in Monterey and began playing with "first-class musicians," he was taken aback by the lack of compliments shared after the gig. He said he soon discovered that the compliment came instead in the form of a call-back. "But once in a while someone would say, 'You really gave it up.' That meant you gave up your ego and because the music is bigger than you and you let the music dictate what you played rather than what you wanted to play. And to me that's what it's all about, it's about the whole," Weis said. Over the years Weis has backed artists including The Drifters, The Mills Brothers, Guy Lombardo Orchestra, Mary Wilson (from the Supremes), Bill Watrous, Bud Shank, Richie Cole, Plas Johnson, Grammy Award winner Karyn Allison, Mark Murphy, Scott Hamilton, and Bruce Forman.Weis said in playing casually at parties with local Monterey artists, there were instances where well-known musicians like Glen Campbell, George Benson, or The Oak Ridge Boys would "sit in" with the band.In addition to his playing, Weis is also known as an expert on vintage American drums from the 1900s to 1980s, a hobby of his being restoring them to their original condition with the goal of preserving American drum history. "I am in the liner notes and also thanked and quoted in Mike Curotto's book, 'The Curotto Collection, Rare American Snare Drums 1900s to 1940s,'" Weis said. Also a drum teacher, Weis has had students go on to to attain their own accolades, some appearing on late-night and daytime talk shows and others winning national awards. As a child Weis, said Andy Florio, a Big Band drummer, was a long-distance mentor, writing letters and introducing him to the late Louie Bellson, whom Weis called his "best friend." Following Bellson's death, Weis assisted in compiling a tribute issue to Louie Bellson in DRUM! Magazine in which he was interviewed about Bellson, and his interviews of Bellson were also included.In addition, Alan Dawson, Weis' drum teacher at Berklee College of Music was another musical influence. Weis said memorable moments in his career are difficult for him to narrow them down because there are quite a few. Aside from his gig with Ellington and his orchestra, and getting billing at the Monterey Jazz Festival multiple times, Weis recalled being the first jazz drummer to perform in a 2,000-year-old amphitheater in the south of France, a structure originally commissioned by Julius Caesar."I found out later that I was the first jazz drummer to ever play in that place. All of these performers over 2,000 years, there was a vibe going on," Weis said. Weis will be playing next at the Monterey Aquarium with a Big Band on July 29, then the Santa Cruz Wharf with a seven-piece swing band on Aug. 2. While Weis said he has a fondness and affection for the people of St. Marys and the surrounding areas, he doesn't live here because musical outlets are limited and it would mean he couldn't do what it is he truly wants to do. "And it has nothing to do with anything but that. My mother said you have to go out there and do what it is you want to do. Call it following your dream, I've been so fortunate to make a living playing drums or playing and teaching drums," Weis said. Weis said success is a relative term and that he is fortunate to have been able to make a living doing what he loves. While his is a love affair with jazz music, he said there is only one distinction, that of good music and bad music, and added that at this point in his life he is fortunately out there "pretty much always playing good music with good musicians."
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Bob Hope Airport will soon be known as Burbank Bob Hope Airport as part of a new summer ad campaign to drive more passengers to the regional airfield during its peak travel time of the year.
The temporary name change comes as officials respond to airline concerns about the lack of a city identifier in the name of the airport, said John Hatanaka, the airport's senior deputy executive director.
Dan Feger, the airport's executive director, said that, for now, the name change was only for the summer advertising campaign.
"Our airport customers don't know where Bob Hope Airport is," Feger said.
He added that the Hope family recognized back in 2009 that many local residents still called the airfield the Burbank Airport.
"But they understood there should be a linkage between Burbank and the Bob Hope Airport name," Feger said. "We'll continue to have discussions with the Hope family about this notion of marrying the two concepts together and the reasons why we're going to do that."
Feger said an official name change would require a great deal of time, effort and approval by the three respective city councils.
"[It] would far eclipse our ability to do it and still capture the summer traffic," he said.
The airport has had six different names since its opening in 1930: United Airport, United Air Terminal, Lockheed Air Terminal, Hollywood-Burbank Airport, Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport and Bob Hope Airport, which it has been called since 2003.
Airport Commissioner Steve Madison said he doesn't think the airport's brand should just develop itself.
"We should really make the decision to have a brand," he said. "Everyone in my circles, we just call it Burbank. So I agree that perhaps the Bob Hope legacy hasn't taken root."
The authority should choose a name that will attract customers, Madison added.
"Choose the brand that is going to help us pursue the message the best," he said.
Commissioner Chris Holden asked if the ad campaign is being developed too late to capture a large amount of summer travelers.
"[Some families] may have already set their travel plans in motion," Holden said.
The campaign will target three of the airport's top four markets offering direct flights to the airport — the North Bay area, Sacramento and Phoenix, said Steve Forsythe, president and chief executive of Las Vegas-based FFE Group, which is creating the ad campaign. The other top market, Las Vegas, will not be targeted because its travelers to Burbank are made up of mostly local residents who already know about the airport.
Secondary markets to be hit with ads will include Atlanta, Chicago and Houston, Forsythe said during a meeting on Monday of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, the tri-city agency that owns and oversees the airfield.
The $445,200 campaign will consist of a combination of online and print advertising, but the majority — $290,500 — will be directed to online media, including travel sites such as Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz.
Feger agreed the campaign is getting off the ground late, but airport officials had hoped more airlines would add flights or another air carrier might come onboard to offer nonstop service to Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
American Airlines, which has a hub in Dallas-Forth Worth, moved out of Bob Hope Airport in February.
Forsythe said he will return for a meeting scheduled on Monday with more details about the ad campaign so it can launch sometime next month.


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1. to wrap with a binder or bandage.
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1. To confine or encircle with a band or bandage.
2. To join together with a band or ligature.
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The gold rush for medical marijuana
It's Connecticut's new gold rush and prospectors from far and wide have been quietly streaming into the state making a grab for a piece of the potentially lucrative medical marijuana industry.
The state won't even start accepting proposals for marijuana growers or sellers until later this year, but the would-be pot kings are way ahead of the government officials.
There are cultivation plans pending in Bridgeport, West Haven, Watertown and Middletown, to name a few. Entrepreneurs, some with experience in Colorado, where marijuana was legalized for recreational use last year, are lining up to convince Connecticut that they should be the ones chosen to grow the state's newest crop.
"There is a tremendous gamble in this, but if we stick to following the rules, it will be a good business," said Joseph Palmieri Jr., an Easton farmer who is hoping to start growing the crop in an old factory in Bridgeport.
The interest is easy to understand: Pot isn't the outlaw drug of the peace and love movement anymore, it is now big business. Price indexes track the ups and downs of cannabis as if it were a commodity like soybeans. Websites review the quality of designer brands of pot and direct consumers to the nearest sellers, known as dispensaries. Advertising agencies contemplate branding various strains of medical marijuana and marketing them as they would new shampoos.
Then there are the money folks. Venture capitalists are pouring money into research and development. Angel investors are plunking down cash, trying to secure some of the state's empty factories and ready them for massive, indoor hydroponic farming operations.
All this for a weed that, until recently, was completely illegal under Connecticut law. In some places, aggressive business plans are already running up against local zoning regulations.
Legal haze
For some local officials, the concept of legal marijuana -- for medicine or not -- raises anxiety; it is still a federal crime to grow and sell marijuana. In the town of Shelton, officials are considering a moratorium on cannabis-related businesses while they consider the state's soon-to-be adopted regulations.
Earlier this month, the West Haven Planning and Zoning Commission turned down a request by a Fairfield-based company, Advanced Grow Labs LLC, for an expedited vote on a simple revision to a site plan. The would-be marijuana growers want to convert a vacant, $1.3 million, 61,000-square-foot manufacturing building hard by Interstate 95 to an indoor farm.
Their request was routine -- to move a door, reconfigure wheelchair access and add a concrete pad for a trash container -- but Gene Sullivan, chairman of the commission, led an effort to delay action on the proposal.
"Federal law doesn't allow the manufacture or sale of marijuana, but state law is going to," Sullivan said. "I always thought state law superseded city law and federal law superseded state law. I always thought whatever provided greater protection. I'm concerned that we not act hastily."
The delay surprised Diane W. Whitney, the attorney representing Advanced Grow Labs, who was hoping for a same-night approval.
"It's a relatively straight-forward review with certain criteria in the regulations, and if you meet regulations, you're approved," she said. "On the basis of considering those things, it's not complicated at all. But this is a use that is brand-new in Connecticut and has been controversial in the past."
Some municipal officials, however, look at the pot business and see dollar signs. They hope the new industry could shore up declining tax bases and create jobs.
"We treat it like any other economic development," Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch said. "It's highly regulated and the sites have to be very secure. It's potentially a good use for many of the old industrial buildings that are just decaying. We hope that something will come of this."
`Gateway' law
In fact, there is very little wiggle room for local officials to oppose the state's new industry, short of local ordinances banning marijuana-related uses that would be imposed by town or city councils.
State Attorney General George C. Jepsen acknowledged that case law on medical marijuana is "highly unsettled and developing."
William M. Rubenstein, the state's consumer protection commissioner, said that when proposals are solicited, would-be growers and dispensers will have to show they can quickly occupy a location, through either ownership, lease or other options.
As many as 10 growing facilities will be approved following a meeting next month of a legislative panel that will vote on proposed regulations regarding the production, sale and use of the drug. The number of dispensaries is undetermined at this point.
Matt Villmer, a Ridgefield-based attorney licensed in Florida, represents potential growers who would rather stay anonymous at this stage. His clients are concerned that local zoning opposition could make it harder than regulators imagine, he said.
"Our thoughts are that a lot of cities and local governments will pass laws against dispensaries, and the entire point of medical marijuana can be eviscerated," he said. "Whoever operates production facilities or dispensaries will have to buy a building,"
Villmer declined to identify his clients, but said they are well-funded and new to the business.
"They're starting brand new, but they have the cash."
Chris Walsh, editor of the Medical Marijuana Business Daily, a Providence, R.I.-based trade journal that monitors the industry, said "Not in My Back Yard" efforts are not unexpected.
"This is par for the course, especially in areas on the East Coast," he said. "New Jersey is a textbook example of entrepreneurs running into local barriers and the NIMBY mentality."
There is currently only one palliative marijuana dispensary for patients in the entire state, he said.
In Massachusetts, where voters approved medical marijuana in November, at least 10 municipalities have adopted moratoriums against pot businesses.
Walsh estimates the annual sales of medical marijuana in Connecticut could be a relatively small $2 million, depending on how many patients are approved. So far 723 patients, with a variety of specific medical conditions, have been certified by their doctors. Each will be able to obtain up to 2.5 ounces a month of marijuana-based products.
"This is going to be a small market, from a business perspective," he said, but the economic ripple effect will include legal services, consulting and equipment for cultivating marijuana plants.
Of course, if medical marijuana is just the gateway to full-scale legalization, as it was in Washington and Colorado, then the potential market would be much bigger.
High cost
Matt D. Cook, a former Colorado regulator who now works in the industry, said that the price of weed for patients creates another potential pitfall for businesses.
"You have to create accessibility without flooding the market," said Cook, who represents a Colorado growing and dispensing operation that is hoping to do business in Connecticut as CThree. "There will be a heck of a demand, and hopefully the state will find the balance and allow people to build a business."
Cook declined to say where CThree was hoping to settle.
In Connecticut's underground market, high-grade marijuana sells for between $350 and $400 an ounce, industry insiders estimate.
Rubenstein and consumer protection officials have been tracking pot prices on the website cannabispriceindex.com, which lists the price of various strains of marijuana in markets where it is legal. He expects patients will not have to pay more than $180 to $280 per ounce.
"We're hoping to be more competitive," he said.
Palmieri, whose family has farmed in Easton for three generations, said he resents the out-of-state intrusion on the market.
If granted approval, Palmieri plans to use a series of fully contained industrial storage pods to operate a hydroponic growing system that he developed last year in Colorado, where he could experiment legally.
"I went to Colorado for educational purposes," said Palmieri, who also owns Connecticut Tank Removal Inc., an environmental clean-up company in Bridgeport. "I'm not a Colorado company and I'm not tied to one."
He speculated that Colorado's saturated pot market has caused businesses to migrate east from the Rocky Mountain State. Colorado-based businesses are involved in pitching proposals in Watertown, West Haven and Middletown.
"The market's flooded and they're trying to get into the potentially lucrative Connecticut market," he said.
He expects to spend half a million dollars to begin his growing operation, if the state accepts his proposal.
David Kimmel, of Ledyard, founder and president of Vintage Foods Ltd., which is also planning on pitching the state for a license, is working with research and development teams in Israel and Canada that are cultivating various strains of marijuana.
And a glance at websites like Leafly.com show that there are now hundreds of brands of marijuana being marketed to consumers, each with claims to treat specific symptoms and promises of unique results. Sufferers of anxiety and depression, for instance, can choose from 35 brands -- from Acapulco Gold to Wonka's Bubbilicious -- which promise to make them creative, focused and talkative, among other things.
"My goal is to bring it in as inexpensively as possible," said Kimmel, whose company recently won Kosher status for its orally ingested marijuana medicines. "I want this medication to be affordable."
Kimmel wouldn't say where in Connecticut his company is hoping to set up shop. No need to tip off the competition.
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Molasses-Balsamic Syrup Reduction
Add bold flavors to a dish can be especially challenging when you cook for vegetarians. This reduction is an easy way to brighten potatoes, yams or other starches.
Yields: 43 Tbs dark brown molasses
6 Tbs aged balsamic vinegar
1.5 Tbs nutrional yeast, optional
For the molasses-balsamic syrup, pour 3 Tbs of molasses and the balsamic syrup into a heavy-bottomed saucepan at a medium high heat for about 6 minutes. Once the syrup starts to bubble, reduce the heat to a low simmer for another 6 minutes. You'll get a nice thick consistency. Remove from the stove, then let the syrup cool down to room temperature.
Drizzle over your dish or place a small amount in a dipping bowl then fill with a good quality olive oil. Accompanied by a complementary bread, you'll have a perfect appetizer.
I used the "full flavor" Brer Rabbit brand molasses.
The nutrional yeast is optional. I like it because it enhances the flavor of the molasses. Besides, it's a good source of protein for vegetarians.
You can let your imagination run wild and create your own syrup with a personal touch. You can add any spice like cinnamon stick (or powder) or substitute the molasses with a pomogranate paste. Count double of the amount of vinegar for a liquid sweetener or equal amount of sugar. Add 2 tablespoons of water if you're using sugarPublished By: on January 19, 2009.


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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Clickpad kernel bugs in 3.3.x and 3.4
In my last post I talked about Clickpad support in the synaptics driver. Unfortunately, right around the same time a kernel bug surfaced that messed with the events from some clickpads (the Synaptics-branded ones, Apple and others were unaffected). Affected was the 3.3.x series and obviously 3.4. Thanks to +Benjamin Herrenschmidt, that bug was fixed and it is now available in a variety of kernels. The upstream commit is in Linus tree now, still making it into stable (not in 3.3.4 yet). Fedora users can grab Fedora 17 or Fedora 16 kernels that carry this patch.
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Have been trying to write a custom walker class which returns a wp_custom_menu as follows.
Planning to enhance the different states with some scripting. The page at http://www.htmldrive.net/items/demo/169/jQuery-Plugin-xBreadcrumbs-Extended-Breadcrumbs-navigation is a good example of the planned end result.
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Just curious, was mine one of those? It behaved badly at another convention (perhaps at others, as well, but no one's said anything) and I've done my best to warn contest coordinators about the potential for it to act up. In fact, there are issues I've seen that no one else seems to notice as technical problems, mostly the audio and video going slightly in and out of synch, which of course throws everything off. When it played at Anime Boston, I sat there wincing for four minutes straight because the synch was so messed up - I could barely stand to watch. If this happened at AX, too...MisterFurious wrote:
Only two minor technical glitches. One video had the misfortune of overloading the DVD player and stuttered on two occasions. Granted, the show DVD had been tested on another player, and had worked fine, so that was not foreseeable. The second issue was that a few videos had MPEG-2 encoding glitches (you'd recognize them if you saw them - flashes of black blocks or a red screen). The two issues may be related. It's possible that the DVD's were encoded with too high a bit rate, which can overload some DVD players.
(And if it wasn't mine that caused the technical glitches...I'm very sympathetic because I know how it feels. )