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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-134921222018-08-28T00:36:39.500-07:00McCunicationsOn writing, blogging, media and politics...and all the other things that make life interesting.cynfernhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-58089609311766125712012-01-01T00:11:00.000-08:002012-01-01T00:11:43.745-08:00This blog has movedIn case you're wondering ... this blog has moved to http://cynfern.wordpress.com/email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-89972980623957564532010-08-30T14:27:00.000-07:002010-08-30T14:27:23.384-07:00First day of class

Fun with firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-90317654191736895602010-04-23T23:35:00.000-07:002010-04-23T23:43:59.348-07:00Why I love estate salesOnly at an estate sale could you stumble across a treasure trove of department store mannequins in a backyard gazebo. No, I didn't buy any. I am a collector, but sometimes getting pics is enough.

I started going to estate sales in Kansas City with my office pal Pam. She was an old hand at it. She taught me how to do a quick cruise of a full house, how to recycle and reuse.

I still have a couple of nice '50s swing coats that I picked up at KC estate sales. That's also when I developed a fondness for vintage hats and linens.

One of my most treasured finds at a KC estate sale was a collection of three old pattern books (McCalls, Simplicity) at the home of an elderly woman (deceased) who had obviously been an avid seamstress. One of them was from the 1920s; it was filled with flapper dresses, middys and bloomers. Another was from the late '40s, with suits that looked like they came out of a Katherine Hepburn movie. The third one was from the early 1950s; it featured lots of wasp-waisted, full-skirted dresses ... shades of Doris Day.

I still scan the estate sale listings for mentions of "fabric" and "sewing." I've never found any more old pattern books, but I once in a while I find some wonderful vintage patterns. At 10, 25 or 50 cents a pop, they're a cheap to collect and a fun find. I think of them as my "baseball cards."

Tags: estate sale, collectiblesfirstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-89398874032104617282009-03-27T23:08:00.000-07:002009-03-28T00:25:04.835-07:00A stroll through computer historyThe best way to visit the Computer History Museum is with someone who worked on early computers. That's what I did last week when my favorite uncle, Jordan Spofford, and my Aunt Bev were in town for a few days.

I enjoyed seeing the Apple computer prototype, but my uncle (at left) got most excited about seeing the Cray computer and a reproduction of the Babbage Engine, the first automatic computing machine. I'd never heard of the Babbage before, but he knew all about it.

My uncle worked at Western Electric in Massachusetts in the early days of computing. Here's a photo of him testing the wiring in the D2 computer bay at Western Electric. (He said Hughes Aircraft made the test equipment they used back then.)

This pic shows my uncle and me, reflected in the glass covering over the wiring of the Cray computer.

Tags: computers, Cray, Apple, Babbageemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-21583294604568653192009-03-14T09:16:00.000-07:002009-03-14T17:31:46.985-07:00Unexpected guestAlzheimer's came to my door last night, and I let her in.

She was wearing pink flowered pajamas topped by a green V-neck sweater. She was standing at the end of my driveway, after ringing the doorbell at 1:30 a.m. From a distance, her blondish page boy hair reminded me of a friend.

"Pat?" I asked from the doorway.

"No," the woman replied, turning toward me, but remaining at the end of the drive. I walked out to meet her, tugging my bathrobe close against the cold.

She was frail, much shorter than my friend Pat, maybe five-foot-two. She said she'd been driving a friend home and had gotten confused. Her car had run out of gas and she'd been walking for a while around trying to find her way home.

I said we'd figure it out and led her inside. She said her feet were cold. I looked down and saw she was barefoot. I sat her down in the family room and went to get her a pair of socks -- a pair of thick, warm woolen ones. As she slowly tugged them on, I asked if her car was nearby. She didn't know. How about her address? She couldn't tell me. Anyone we could call to help? No answer. Her name? That she could tell me, so I looked her up in the phone book and found she lived just three blocks away.

My husband and I took her out to the car and drove a few blocks, then started looking for her address. She gave no sign of recognition, no "That's my house!" I got out with a flashlight so I could read the house numbers. According to the phone book, this was her house. There was one light on inside. I tried the door. Locked. I rang the bell. No response. A car parked on the street directly in front of the house was also locked.

I went back to the car. She was still sitting quietly in the back seat. What next?

"I think we should take her to the emergency room," my husband said. It was either that or call the police.

The emergency area was quiet. I asked her to take a seat in the waiting area while I talked to the admittance clerk, who had a hard time figuring out our relationship.

"No, I'm not related," I told him. "I think she lives in my neighborhood, but never met her until she rang my doorbell about half an hour ago."

Another young man -- a nurse, a doctor? -- came out and asked her some questions. Did she know what day of the week it was? Could she give him the name of a family member to call? Did she know what year it was? No, no and no.

"How old are you?" the young man asked.

"Umm ... 28?" she responded.

"I don't think so," he said. "I think we need to admit you."

She followed him without protest into the hospital, and my husband and I drove firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-1998906557757546792009-03-12T18:05:00.001-07:002009-03-13T09:21:12.982-07:00Journalism as remix?Is it art ... or appropriation? Creativity or theft?

Take a look at the web's latest phenom, Kutiman, who makes music videos by mashing up and remixing short clips of other people's YouTube videos.

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Daniel Sinker, a member of the journalism faculty at Columbia College in Chicago, comes down on the side of art. So do I.

In a recent Huffington Post piece, Sinker said, "If your reaction to this crate of magic is 'Hm. I wonder how we'd go about suing someone who did this' ... instead of, 'Holy crap, clearly, this is the freaking future of entertainment,' it's probably time to put some ramen on your Visa and start making stuff up for your LinkedIn page."

Perhaps the Associated Press might want to consider taking that advice. Instead of acting like RIAA gestapo and suing Shepard Fairey for "copying" an AP photographer's campaign photo for his now-iconic Obama "Hope" poster, the AP might want to consider adopting similar techniques instead. Instead of regarding Fairey's poster as "a threat to journalism," the AP might want to lighten up and bask in the glow. After all, I doubt anyone would remember that photographer's name, or that photo, if it weren't for Fairey's poster.

I think Kutiman's music ... video ... whatever you want to call it ... is seriously cool and creative. But I also like Sinker's larger point ... that musicians and artists aren't the only ones who can take advantage of the proliferation of raw material on the web. He says journalists should be tapping into that mother lode of material too, instead of viewing the web as a threat.

Sinker advises journalists to "Be like Kutiman: use the millions of blog entries, photos, tweets, and videos that find themselves on the web every day to build something new."

See Daniel Sinker's "Where is Our Orchestra? What Journalism Can Learn From the Mind-Blowing Remixes of Kutiman" on Huffington Post

YouTube remixer Kutiman may be the best mashup artist yet -- on Gawker's Things We Actually Like

AP, artist feud over famous Obama poster, on USA Today

tags: music, web, youtube, mashup, journalism

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-26741494460191154232009-02-26T17:02:00.000-08:002009-02-26T17:18:32.899-08:00iPhone envyJust got a call from my hubby. He's in downtown SF and apparently his car got towed. Bummer!

What next? Is there a BART station nearby? How do you find if your vehicle's been towed ... or stolen? And how do you get it back?

It just took me one Google search and a couple of clicks to find out. Called the SFPD number listed ... yup, it was towed. Got the details, called him back, told him where to go (so to speak).

But I couldn't help thinking ... if he'd had an iPhone, he could have sorted it out without my help.

Yes, I want one! I'll be so glad when my current phone contract expires!

Tags: iPhone, Google, SFPD, towedemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-15639808821002245602009-02-24T23:37:00.001-08:002009-02-25T23:03:32.276-08:00Deck ChairsOh, no ... say it isn't so! My favorite local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, is on the ropes.

According to the Hearst Corporation, the Chron lost $50 million last year, and if the company can't make major cutbacks "within weeks ... it will be forced to sell or close the newspaper."

Of course, I guess I should have seen it coming. After all, plenty of other newspapers are falling by the wayside ... most recently, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Baltimore Register, Journal Register chain and the Tucson Citizen. And then the Chronicle's management appears to have wasted the past 6-12 months fiddling with fonts and negotiating a 15-year contract for a new printing plant ... otherwise known as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Even if the Chronicle survives, it will be in a significantly reduced form with a decimated reporting staff. Either way, I will miss my daily dose of Chron.email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-73985446316132378412009-02-24T11:53:00.000-08:002009-02-24T12:26:59.493-08:00Linking and sharingAs I work on my computer and listen to music on songza.com, I take a moment to read an LA Times article on musician J.J. Cale. Apparently he's been a source of inspiration for a number of well-known rock 'n' rollers, including Eric Clapton ... but here's what I'm wondering: Why doesn't the LA Times include a link to one of his songs along with the article? Seems like a pretty simple and pretty obvious thing to do ... if they want to make their website more useful.

And it's not like there aren't plenty of links available ... they're just a Google search away, after all. Really, would it be that hard to include a link to the guy's web site?

If newspapers want to compete online, they've got to pay attention this kind of stuff. It's not just about "telling" anymore ... it's also about linking and sharing.

P.S. Here's one more link to a 2004 NPR interview with Cale.firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-88034496241321958622009-02-14T11:07:00.000-08:002009-02-14T15:10:35.433-08:00A Grandin supriseReading a Philly Inquirer article about Temple Grandin this morning reminded me of my own favorite Temple Grandin story.

Grandin, who is autistic, is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and noted livestock industry consultant. She is also the author of several books on livestock handling, animal welfare and autism, and an autism advocate. I first met Grandin in the mid-'80s, when she was beginning to become known in the livestock industry.

It was the summer of 1987, as I recall, and I working at the Livestock Industry Congress, an annual conference put on by my employer, Livestock Marketing Association. I'd helped develop the conference program and recruited most of the speakers, including Temple Grandin, who was scheduled to speak on livestock handling, and Ellen Haas, then executive director of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, representing consumer concerns.

It was an ambitious program for its target audience of leaders in the livestock and meat industry, most of whom had little awareness of (or interest in) the budding animal welfare and consumer movements.

The late Orville Sweet, then president of the National Pork Producers Association, opened the program by bringing out two big cartons full of postcards proclaiming bacon and eggs as the "breakfast of cruelty." The postcards, all sent to the NPPA, were part of a campaign against factory farming organized by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). PETA had also helped organize the animal rights protest that was going on outside the conference hall that morning.

Haas and Grandin were up next, with Haas speaking first. She was interrupted almost immediately by an animal rights protester who marched up to the stage, shouting, and took over the microphone. After a couple minutes, someone thought to turn off the microphone, and an security guard asked the protester to leave. She did, and Haas resumed her talk.

Then it was Grandin's turn to speak. Instead of stepping up to the microphone, she strode over to the cartons of postcards, still sitting at the side of the stage, grabbed one and upended it while turning toward the audience. Postcards spewed in an arc across the stage, some showering over the edge to land at the feet of the people in the front row. No one moved. All eyes were on Grandin, astonished, wondering what she'd do next.

What she did was proceed to tell the group, in no uncertain terms, that they needed to clean up their act when it came to livestock handling and production -- or they could expect to see a lot more animal rights protests. I like to think that speech helped launch her career.

Afterewards, some conference attendees told me they thought we'd choreographed the whole thing just to get their attention. I didn't need to choreograph it ... not with Grandin as a speaker.

Now, Grandin's story is headed for a larger stage. HBO is making a movie about her, starring one of my favorite actresses, Claire Danes. I can't wait.

Tags: Temple Grandin, animal welfare, livestock industry, HBO, email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-44079166413169996662009-01-25T07:50:00.000-08:002009-01-25T22:10:46.165-08:00Teacher's nightmareI'm having that dream again, the one where I'm rushing around campus after my morning class, talking to students and colleagues and such, when I realize I've totally forgotten about my second class, the one that's at noon.

Of course, it's mid-afternoon now so it's too late. And I realize I've stood up that whole class of students not just once but twice ... because it's my second day of classes, and I realize I forgot them on the first day of classes too. (What happened to my iCal alarm?)

I look around for a place to set down my bookbag and laptop so I can email my forgotten students to apologize. In this class, we are supposed to produce a play, and I fret that we are now so far behind schedule that we'll never catch up. Worry, worry.

Too many people, no place for me to sit. I wander the halls, wondering if I should fess up to my department head, or just to my students. Wait a minute ... maybe my students have already complained to my department about my absence ... why, of course, they must have! I head back to the office. But why didn't one of them email me? Worry, worry.

Then I wake up. And I realize four things: 1) My second class doesn't start until tomorrow; 2) my first class is fully online and has no on-campus meetings; 3) I do not teach in the theater department or produce plays; and 4) I've had this dream before. Whoa!

Yes, it is the teacher's nightmare ... variation #32, I think ... and I am glad to be awake and over it. Thank goodness tomorrow is another email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-84643961599122525672009-01-21T13:37:00.001-08:002009-01-21T13:44:10.407-08:00We all breathed a sigh of relief when we saw ...

... get on that helicopter and fly away.

He's lucky it was a polite group and he didn't get a more appropriate farewell salute.email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-77238374665535101022009-01-20T12:22:00.000-08:002009-01-21T13:49:45.430-08:00Words failWatching the inauguration with friends, I am ...

Proud

Relieved

Teary-eyed

Heartened

Grinning

Glad

firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-10904067866236633042008-12-21T11:01:00.001-08:002008-12-21T11:14:09.990-08:00It was a very good year...for buzzwords"Picking out political buzzwords from 2008 is like shooting moose in a pigpen," say Mark Leibovich and Grant Barrett, authors of The Buzzwords of 2008.

They note, for example, that "the lifespan of Hillary Clinton's campaign 'meta-narrative' could be charted entirely in buzzwords and catch-phrases — 'inevitability' to 'Clinton fatigue' to 'Obamamania' to 'he can't win' to 'team of rivals.'

What really makes this New York Times piece work are the illustrations -- the font and graphics created by Jessica Hische. They're fabulous.

My favorites: Greyjing, recessionista, edupunk, Plutoid and TBTF ("Too Big To Fail," replete with cracks). Which ones do you like best?

Tags: nytimes, buzzwords, graphics, typeface, design, slang
 Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-42219760946393251082008-12-16T12:20:00.001-08:002008-12-16T12:20:45.676-08:00A new business model?

Detroit's big news as seen from a key design insider - SND Update

"It's official: The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, will become the first major U.S. newspapers to cease seven-day home delivery."

Hello to three-day delivery: The JOA will instead focus on Thursday and Friday delivery of both papers and Sunday delivery of the Free Press only. Those days are the most lucrative for advertising and have often been considered in the newspaper world as the "money" days for both sales and circulation.

Clearly one of the biggest design challenges is to try to continue serving current single copy readers and perhaps even improve their experiences, while also appealing to long-time home delivery customers and trying to serve their needs.

"We'll have to look at ways to maximize reader connections through all existing and newly developing channels (ex: Kindle, iPhone, etc and whatever comes next). That is definitely part of our planning."

Some critics have panned the process with IDEO, worrying that the design firm does not completely understand how to work with the news media.

The influential designer Juan Antonio Giner of Innovation called it "the way to death" in a posting last week, and the Gannett Blog has been buzzing with rumors about IDEO's role. But the leaders of the transformation defend the IDEO process.

tags: future of newspapers, future of news, online
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-57618846036830905922008-12-03T23:00:00.000-08:002008-12-03T23:07:50.298-08:00Prop 8 - the musicalIf you haven't yet seen the video, Prop 8 - the Musical, starring Jack Black as Jesus...well, here's your chance.

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firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-34347810012095151962008-11-14T21:44:00.000-08:002008-11-14T23:16:30.636-08:00What he saidI'd heard about this commentary by Keith Olbermann on the passage of Prop. 8, but hadn't seen it until today. It's heartfelt and worth watching.

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'News websites must embrace video or die' - Press Gazette

tags: video, future of news, business model

"Any idiot can do this, making TV is not hard, it's not complicated, it's not difficult. The technology makes it incredibly simple."

And he said print publications "must have video" on their websites or else go out of business.

"If you only have print or stills and your competitor has video your going to get eaten."

He said print journalists were danger of becoming as obselete as the New England whalers of the 19th century.

"You are not in the newspaper business...When new technology like the internet comes along you can hide from it or you can embrace it."

He said: "Like the oilmen of New England you are already in the business but you have to remember the business you are in.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-20837680265495007252008-11-08T14:44:00.000-08:002008-11-08T16:23:26.168-08:00Stand on the side of loveSince the election, I have done a lot of thinking about the passage of Prop 8. I keep wondering how so many Californians could be more supportive of the rights of farm animals than of the rights of people. I keep wondering how people who have experienced discrimination could vote to inflict it upon others and enshrine discrimination in our constitution. I simply do not understand.

What I do know is that this is the next civil rights struggle. What I do know is that one day we will be as appalled by Prop 8 as we now are by the laws that forbade interracial marriage. I can only hope that day comes soon.

If, like me, you are looking for a way to express your support for the right of all individuals to marry the one they love, please consider attending one of the following Peninsula candlelight vigils on Monday, Nov. 10, from 5-6:30 p.m.:

* San Mateo corner of El Camino Real and Fifth Avenue (I'll be here)
* Belmont at El Camino Real and Ralston Avenue (CalTrain side)
* Redwood City corner of El Camino and Jefferson Ave.
* Palo Alto at the corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero
* San Jose at S. Bascom and Hamilton Ave. (southeast corner, just west of 17)
* San Jose downtown at Metropolitan Community Church, 65 South 7th Street

Click here for the most up-to-date list of venues, and links to maps. Bring candles. Rainbow flags and banners from faith communities are also welcome.

How Unitarian-Universalists view the right to marry
Listen to the UU hymn, Standing on the Side of Loveemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-72839965056340975692008-11-04T21:27:00.000-08:002008-11-04T21:30:27.223-08:00WaitingThe answer to the question we've all been asking: http://isobamapresident.com/firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-23284457037066354982008-11-04T16:01:00.000-08:002008-11-05T20:58:04.687-08:00Election day impressionsI spent most of the day on the front lines of the No on Prop. 8 campaign, greeting voters and handing out hand cards at a San Bruno polling station at a middle school.

(In case you're not a Californian, Prop. 8 would overturn the recent California Supreme Court decision allowing gays to wed.)

Here are my election day impressions:

We Prop. 8 volunteers got lots of "thumbs up" from voters and passing drivers. We could tell they were really glad to see us when they honked their horns or took both hands off the steering wheel to give us two "thumbs up."

We decided to "kill them with kindness." We smiled and wished everyone a wonderful day, even if they told us they were voting "yes" on 8. We even smiled and waved at drivers who stopped to yell abuse at us (yes, there were several of those).

I expected a majority of younger people would support us, but I was pleased to see how many older men and women also told us they were voting no on 8.

About two-thirds of the people we greeted said, "You've got my vote." About 20-25 percent avoided us, ignored us, or waved us off. About 5 percent were rude or abusive.

One man, already in line (and thus out of reach) when we got to the polling station around 7 a.m., stopped on his way out to tell us how happy he was to see us there. I thought he was going to hug me.

One middle-aged woman and her husband stopped to say she's been angry ever since she first heard about Prop. 8. Saying it was "unfair," said she'd been waiting to vote against it.

One guy drove up around noon on a motorcycle, thanked us for being there, and gave us some homemade rice krispie bars. They were good.

I helped several people maneuver into tight parallel parking spaces on the street outside the polling station. One of them, when I handed him the No on 8 hand card, told me he wasn't that thrilled with the idea of gay marriage, but since it was now law, he was going to vote no on Prop. 8.

Big domestic model pick-up trucks and SUVs usually indicated "Yes on 8" voters.

A surprising number of people (8-10) questioned our presence outside the polling place. Several times I had to tell someone that we had indeed checked with the precinct captain and we were well outside the 100-foot limit.

A sizable proportion of Yes on 8 voters seemed angry, some downright nasty.

Many Yes on 8 voters couldn't seem to just pass us by or wave us off; they had to stop and taunt us, saying "you're going to lose because we voted yes" or the like.

Several Yes on 8 voters stopped their vehicles in the middle of the street yell out their windows at us. Some just yelled "Yes on 8" at us. Some yelled, "You're gonna lose; you're going down." One woman told us to repent because we were going to hell. So it goes.

Our "No on 8" stickers were a hot item with middle-school students. We gave out all we had and wished we had more. A good sign for the future.

firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-64306653840363196652008-11-01T15:17:00.000-07:002008-11-01T15:51:36.762-07:00Campaign tinnitus?Here is New York Times columnist Gail Collins' theory about the voters who, at this late date, say they're still "undecided":

My theory is that whenever they hear someone start to discuss the issues, they cover their ears and make humming noises, the way my husband does when I say it is time to take a look at our 401(k)s.
Her Nov. 1 column is called Our Election Whopper.

For another sound of the campaign, check out "Don't Speak for Me, Sarah Palin: The Musical," a hoot of a video posted on the barakoblogger.com.

And if you want to hear a blast from the ugly side of America -- the side I dearly hope doesn't prevail this time around -- read some of the vicious comments appended to this KC Star editorial. In it, Yael T. Abouhalkah (you can imagine how well that name goes over) notes that Obama is "poised to become America's first black president" and suggests his opponents get used to the idea.

From the sound of these so-called "Midwest Voices," I'd say that's gonna take a while. Makes me glad I no longer live in Kansas email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-77051296276521510782008-10-24T09:22:00.000-07:002008-10-24T10:27:20.158-07:00The power of DiigoI've been using Diigo, the online bookmarking tool that's available here as a Firefox extension, for a while now. I've mostly used it to bookmark interesting articles, blog posts and such that I find on the web.

What I like is that Diggo not only lets you easily save items, it lets you highlight the "good parts" so that when you go back to the article you can easily find them. That turned out to be a real asset when I was working on my part of the JACC Norcal keynote a couple weeks ago.

It's been a real pressure cooker of a semester, so I had very little time to put my JACC presentation together. However, I'd been bookmarking, highlighting and saving relevant blog posts and articles into my JACC list on Diigo (yes, you can categorize what you save) for weeks. So when I finally sat down to create a presentation, I had everything I needed at my fingertips. I was able to put it all together in a day. (By the way, you can view that presentation, Journalism in the Starbucks Era, on SlideShare, another great online tool.)

But after downloading a Diigo update this morning, I realized I'm just scratching the surface of what you can do with Diigo. For example, my previous blog post on Greenspan's sudden epiphany...well, I posted it direct from Diigo while reading and bookmarking the article. Pretty cool, huh?

When I ran through Diigo's "how-to" overview this morning, I found several other things I didn't know. In addition to using the one-click "Send to Blog" feature, you can also use Diigo's "send" feature to:

send annotated and highlighted pages by email

post to other websites such as twitter, facebook, delicious, etc.

Cool! I'm using it for a tweet next.

But what really caught my attention was the idea of using Diigo as a hub for group research projects. You can set up a group Diigo account to share bookmarks, and make it public, private or semi-private. This has real potential for students working on group projects, especially since Diigo's "sticky note" feature also lets you add comments to the material you save, in addition to highlighting key passages.

OK, I'm sold! I'm going to start demo-ing Diigo for my email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-39970849582862461192008-10-24T09:14:00.001-07:002008-10-24T09:22:10.132-07:00Greenspan shocked at failure of free marketsAlan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has finally stopped believing in the fiction of a self-correcting free market. In other words, he's realized that Ayn Rand is not only dead, but that she was a novelist.

Greenspan shocked at failure of free markets

It was a remarkable moment: Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, a lifelong champion of free markets, publicly questioning the philosophy that guided him throughout his years as the world's most powerful economic policymaker.

Greenspan said that, in light of a crisis he characterized as "a once-in-a-century financial tsunami," he was wrong to think financial markets could police themselves. He incorrectly had expected the discipline of the market would prevent financial institutions from taking life-threatening risks.

Greenspan replied that indeed he had found a flaw in his ideology, one that left him very distressed. "In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology was not right?" asked Rep. Henry Waxman (chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform).

For his whole adult life, the former Fed chairman has been a devotee of the philosophy of Ayn Rand, who celebrated free-market capitalism as the world's most moral economic order and advocated a strict laissez-faire approach to government regulation of the marketplace.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-13492122.post-92233256434186137632008-10-16T12:49:00.000-07:002008-10-16T14:33:00.321-07:00Starbucks-era journalismYou know you've got their attention when you get heckled during your presentation. At least that's my theory.

It happened at last Saturday's JACC NorCal conference (that's the Journalism Association of Community Colleges of Northern California), held at SJSU. My colleague Steve Sloan and I were the keynoters, addressing an audience of about 250 community college J-students and faculty on "Journalism in the Starbucks Era."

During our talk, we discussed some of the trends and online tools that are shaping journalism, including blogging, YouTube, Twitter and other forms of social media. I am a self-proclaimed blogging evangelist and a fan of Twitter, so my perspective on these tools is largely positive. I see them as tools, not as implements of destruction.

However, one CC faculty member, tucked in the last row, apparently disagreed. He took issue with the idea that bloggers could also be journalists. He interrupted us. Twice.

So here's what I told him: Blogging and journalism are not mutually exclusive. Journalism is what you do, not who you work for. Some journalists are also bloggers, and some bloggers do commit acts of journalism. After all, blogs are just another distribution channel, not the infidel.

Today, for example, some bloggers are doing something that looks a lot like journalism to me. They're digging through public records for background information on "Joe the (soon to be infamous) plumber," who was cited by Sen. John McCain in last night's presidential debate. Turns out that a number of the things McCain said about "Joe" last night are not true: Joe is registered as a Republican, not as an independent; he's a plumber's helper, not a plumbing business owner; and he doesn't make over $250,000 a year. Yes, it appears that Joe was a "plant."

Bloggers helped ferret some of that information out. Instead of looking at them as impediments, perhaps journalists should look at bloggers as potential resources...as people who could be helpful in these times of news organization cutbacks.

As the old saying goes, "Many hands make light work."

P.S. If you'd like to view my segment of our JACC presentation, you can see it on SlideShare at http://www.slideshare.net/camccune. Links to all my resources are included on the final slide. And if you didn't "Hack the Debate," be sure to check out that email@example.com


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Are we even surprised? Shanghai shoppers have outstripped their New York counterparts when it comes to spending on luxury goods, according to a study by digital marketing firm ContactLab.
The survey conducted over the past year revealed that Shanghai residents spent an average of 1000 USD on their last purchase, double that of New York's 500 USD.
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A Morgan Stanley report from last year has also predicted that Chinese travelers will top the list for luxury spending by 2015, partly due to the burgeoning size of China's urban middle class.
Yet, a majority (86 percent) of the clothes and shoes purchased by Shanghai shoppers were intended to be given out as gifts, compared to the 72 percent figure cited by New Yorkers. Which makes sense, given the importance of China's gift-giving culture – though we sure hope that these luxury items do not include novelties like luxury diapers, for instance.
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October 2, 2006
October Spooky-scopes
No, I did not forget about the very important stars and moons and planets and Pluto happening in October! But it's soon to be Halloween, and no time like the present for detailing all the ways in which we, as astrological profiles, kind of bite. We're all vampires in our own ways, sucking the life right out of life and there's no excuse for it. UNLESS you want to blame it all on being born under an unlucky star, or Pluto, which I wholly 100% endorse.
Happy scary Rocktober!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)
Have ya'll heard about this Congressman guy who sent all kinds of salacious emails to underage boys? Mmmm. I love scandals. They're so... scandalous. I half wondered if ole Representative Foley wasn't an Aquarius, because man ya'll can be impulsive. Left alone in a room with a computer and an innernet connection, ya'll will be up to no good in about three seconds flat. Now, this isn't a comment on your goodness, deep down ya'll are good as gold and have a kindness streak a mile wide. But Lord you do some boneheaded things (no pun intended). Most of the zodiac needs a five-second rule: give yourself five seconds before you act on that impulse. Aquarians need a seventeen day rule. And even then sometimes ya'll surprise the pants off me (whoops, with the puns again!)
PISCES (Feb. 19 - March 20)
I know a cute Pisces guy who is so darn adorable you want to just hug him until he needs chiropractic help to disentangle. Problem is, he's a Pisces, so it's real real hard to get close enough to hug, and if hugging were to occur he'd break away before medical intervention were necessary. Not that ya'll aren't warm and affectionate. It's just that once you've been hurt -- and come on, by now if your old enough to be sitting upright and reading words in a sentence, you have been hurt -- you're about as excited to let someone else into your heart as you are to jump headfirst into an empty swimming pool. Unlike us Cancers who just keep volunteering for more heartache and sorrow on our World Quest For Love and Attention, you Pisces folks want the same thing but are most reluctant volunteers. Explain to me how you're going to get the Recommended Daily Allowance Of Lovin' if you're too scared to re-enlist for hugging?
ARIES (March 21- April 19)
Listen, I know we've had a rough year. First, there was all the months I held back on you because my Mr. X was a big ol' Aries. Then there was the whole Jupiter issue which I may or may not have forgotten to mention because people! I do not control the planets! I know you need self-indulgence and attention, and I was all about Me, Me, Me. Fortunately for us we can't get divorced because I'm not even your Legally Wed Astrologer! I'm just the person who needlessly reminds you that you are someone who needs self-indulgence. Which is not an entirely bad quality, I have it myself, but if you could see past that little flaw of mine, you'll see that I'm trying to tell you something valuable here. Aries, you have been maligned, misunderstood, and un-indulged. Oh, haven't we all. Your acting ability is second to none, so you haven't shown how misunderstood you truly are. You've been playing a role, it had nothing at all to do with Jupiter or Planet Mr. X, and now you want to know when we'll get down to the real business of unearthing the Aries Truth. Maybe when you get down to the business of showing your true colors on a more regular basis. People only misunderstand because they don't see the real you. How can they indulge an act?
TAURUS (April 20 - May 20)
According to Love Astrology, Taurus would be an excellent match for me. I've yet to date a Taurus (surprisingly) but I do think I would enjoy your also tenacious character, the way you secretly like to save things, your conflicted relationship with money. I do wonder if we'd be able to move around our house, though, cluttered as it would be with my memories and your stuff. Whoops! I just crossed a Taurus line, calling all that stuff you've been saving "stuff" instead of Treasured Valuable Items. I like the way you rationalize holding on to the weirdest junk, the same way I do. I'm betting that you have a little spreadsheet in your mind of the justification, purpose, and history of each thing/person/piece of paper in your collection. Oh my little Taurus, where are you? You might be the only person in the world who I could help by throwing things away. Your things, of course. Gosh... we're not getting rid of mine!
GEMINI (May 21 - June 21)
My most favorite Gemini recently turned 62, cashed out all his stock in a Big High-Tech Company, and bought himself a brand new Corvette. HE IS SUCH A GEMINI. Hi wife, a darling Cancer, probably had a near heart attack. Geminis are always being characterized as impulsive and selfish. But I'm going to teach ya'll a great Southernism you must embrace: ya'll are just particular. It's not that you fly by the seat of your pants, always running afoul of the boring signs with your hedonism and impracticality. Ya'll are just particular, see? You have needs, and while they may not mesh with anyone else's vision of reality, ya'll just keep on down the path to crazybones because you know, you KNOW, that when you find happiness you better damn well be driving a fun car. Amen.
CANCER (June 22 - July 22)
If you've spent even five minutes ever reading the astrological profile of Cancer, you know what they like to say abut us. If you believe all that crap, we're just a bunch of loveable oafs who want to mother the world and we tentatively watch from the sidelines for stray cats to take in, in between violent mood swings. What they don't tell you is that we are really deep down inside just in search of one thing, pure and simple: adoration. We don't want it the way Leos do (read: obedience) or the way Taurus does (smoochy acquiescence), no, we want -- nay, demand! -- full adoration and we need it ya'll. We NEED it. Which is why we're so damn hard to get to know, really know, Lord can we keep secrets. What we love to do most is think about how sad and maudlin we're going to be around the holidays, since there's no adoration in sight and here it is October and the Halloween candy is in the aisles and we know. We know what's coming. YOU CANNOT FOOL A CANCER. I say, let's make everyone else miserable, too. Let's start telling all the Jolly Hi Ho people of other zodiacal dimensions that, oh yeah, Christmas is just X days away. It will freak them out and make you so, so pleased.
LEO (July 23 - August 22)
Well, Leo, in the words of your arch-nemesis Dr. Phil, let me ask the question of the month: How's THAT workin' for you? You know what I mean. You're very exact these days, very precise, very Leo (which is why the last man I dated for a while was a Leo, I did enjoy his confidence) (until he forgot he needed the audience, needed my attention, and just went out catting off as Leos are prone to do.) It's all fine and good to be the Big Cheese, but no one can eat an entire wheel of cheese. One must break it down into bite size pieces, savory tidbits, sometimes inexactly sliced and yummy. Cheese is always more palatable when mixed in with a nice salty cracker or a glass of wine, mix! Enjoy the other hors d 'oeuvres! You must relax, or the cheese metaphors will continue and you will be constipated, alone in your greatness, alone with no one to admire you, alone with no cracker to complement your cheesy goodness. And how would THAT work for you?
VIRGO (August 23 - Sept. 22)
Virgo is one of my favorite signs on the wheel because, like Cancer, people think they have you pigeonholed into an exact Type, they think you're stuck in this prurient rut of cleanliness and sanctity. OH IF THEY ONLY KNEW. If they only knew you the way I do! I love your icky spots best. How you can be secretly very judgmental of the oddest things. You'll forgive a lot, but with you there are absolute, hidden dealbreakers and I love the way you keep them totally unarticulated so the rest of the world is always running afoul of your little internal barometer. Don't you dare change. Or, if you do change, don't tell anyone. Best to always keep people wondering where they've gone awry.
LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 23)
The scales of justice thing? Total crock of youknowwhat. All that "fair and balanced" stuff applies to you as much as to the network that trademarked it. You're a thinker, that's for sure, but you also get annoyed easily and in fact I am annoying you right this very minute. Hi! Maybe now I'll talk too much, and tell you about this really boring long involved dream I had (you = not a fan) and then by the end of this paragraph you won't even bother to tell me what an idiot I am, you'll just look at me in that Libra way -- ya'll have THE most expressive expressions -- and I Will Know. You're very discerning that way. Weeding out the flotsam. Problem is, we all have our flotsam (what the hell IS flotsam, anyway? Is it green? Like that stuff sitting on top of the swamp in Bayou Lafayette?) and even you, Oh Wise Libra, have flotsam. YES YOU DO. Flotsam. Don't look at me like that! This is your horror-scope, not your fair and balancedscope!
SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 21)
If only I could hold a grudge the way you do. Problem with Cancers is that while we DO hold our grudges, we're just not hard as nails on the follow through. I mean, sure, we can harbor resentment and hurt, but you Scorpios really know how to zing it to 'em. Interestingly enough, fewer Scorpios have road rage than other signs, because ya'll get your issues out in your day-to-day just fine, thankyouverymuch. It's those one or two nagging doubts you have, about the time you got so mad and just gave a big F-you to so-and-so, or said what was REALLY on your mind to you-know-who -- that keep you from being really happy with yourself. Which is good! Trust me, Guilt Cancer, on this one. The guilt of how you behaved that one time keeps you from being the total jerk you aspire to be when jerkiness is called for. I know you may not believe me, but that guilt can keep you happy. In a really roundabout and messed-up way.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21)
The best way to get rid of a Sag is to start telling them exactly what to do. So I won't do that today, seeing as I have already alienated for sure the Libras and Aries and Aquarius folks. Hi ya'll! Don't change a thing! Except... wow, ya'll. Don't you ever WANT to plan obsessively like the Cappies and Cancers and Virgos do? I mean, you don't have to get all Excel spreadsheet on us or anything. But you could try to make a list, maybe, pros and cons of your latest greatest good idea? Actually -- wait -- I have an idea. Just embrace your inner Unplanner, and hook your wagon to one of the more neurotic signs in the zodiac family. We'll do all your planning for you. The downside is that we will nag. A lot. And tell you what to do. So, you must invest in a really good Selective Hearing Aid. Oh hell, there I go again, telling you what to do. Whoops.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)
So, the very last date I went on was with a guy who is a Capricorn through and through. I thought we'd be great together, after all, my dad is a Cap and my best friend is a Cappy, and why did this not work out? Oh, I could blame myself (hey, I am a Cancer, that's what we do) (Until we start blaming you) and then I realized he was TOO Capricorn. You see, I love jokes. I adore goofyass ridiculous jokes, and I often make fun of myself, because in my Cancer mind I'm able to joke about the things that I am most okay with, like, say, calling myself a big nerd or a goobernut. As an ubercapricorn, however, my date was unnerved by my dorkiness, wondering when the spotlight would shine on him and reveal his Inner Flaws. I know ya'll say you don't mind your little quirks, but boy are ya'll sensitive to even implied future criticism. Are you sure you aren't just a bunch of Cancers in disguise? Look, the bottom line is that we are not making fun of you, and even if we are we do it because we're callous dorks who love you. Embrace the love. Embrace the dork inside.
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When you take a photo your camera will normally do a bunch of things to contert the light it gathers into an image..
This'll be along the lines of1) Gathers all the data raw from the CCD.
2) Does white balancing (trying to adjust colours so that you get the right tones under different shades of light, eg sunlight vs incandescent)3) Converts the image into a compressed JPG.
By taking RAW mode images you're saving the data from step 1 to the card directly..
The main advantage of doing this is that the camera is normally in a hurry to convert to JPEG so that it can get back to shooting the next shot rapidly, and JPEG is a lossy conversion, so there's no way to get back all of the original data. If you're taking pictures in low light or high ISO this may lead to all sorts of digital noise in the image..
By shooting in RAW mode you have the option of doing the RAW->JPEG (or RAW->TIFF/PNG etc etc) conversion on a machine with lots of processing power and time where you can fine-tune aspects of how the JPG is encoded and how colour tone/white balancing is done..
The downside of RAW mode is that the raw images themselves are proprietary (so you can't normally share them directly unless other people have a raw image decoder that suits your format) and are also quite huge (fewer per picture card, may take longer to write to the card)..
Hope that helpsFuji S6500fd newbie..
When a RAW image is processed, parameters such as white balance, contrast, tone, saturation, and sharpening are applied to the data to produce the jpeg file. If the camera does this, then it does it according to how you have set the parameters. But what happens if you had one of the parameters, e.g. white balance, set wrong? The image will look bad, and it wil be extremely difficult to correct the jpeg file after the fact. Also, the camera may not process the files to your taste. When you process the RAW files yourself on your computer, you are in full control.
Your camera will allow you to shoot RAW+jpeg. This gives you two files for every image, the RAW file plus the camera-produced jpeg. If the jpeg comes out looking good, then use it. If not, then you've got the RAW file from which to salvage the image (if it's not too bad)..
By the way, I assume you meant the Canon 40D, not the Nikon D40...
Can someone explain why you cannot do the same changes to a jpeg image that you can do to a RAW image? I mean some of the things in post processing you guys are doing to a RAW image can be performed to a JPEG imge in PS. So, why do you guys say that it cannot be changed on a JPEG vs. a RAW file? Can some please explain this. I am having a hard time understanding this. Could it be that it can be done to a JPEG file but at the expense of something else causing the same picture with the same parameters to look different because of it being a JPEG vs. RAW? I am lost...
Niceguymr wrote:.
From what I understand, shooting raw means capturing the data fromthe sensor but not converting it to an image..
Shooting raw means that the sensor data is not converted to a jpeg image in the camera; rather, only the raw data is saved. The camera will still show you the image on the LCD display, but it will not have converted the data to a "finalized" jpeg..
Would you then have to.
Download the files to your computer to convert them?.
Yes, once you transfer the files to your computer, you can edit them, and save as a jpeg or tiff with a raw converter..
What benefits /.
Disadvantages are there from shooting raw?.
You can adjust many more settings and obtain better results by shooting raw. It is a loss-less format, meaning it keeps all the data straight from the sensor, unlike a jpeg conversion, where the image gets compressed by eliminating some of the sensor data to make the file smaller. What this means is that if you have clouds that are blown (too bright, no detail), with raw, all the original data is there to recover most of the details of those clouds (unless you totally overexposed the picture). With a jpeg, most of that original detail data has been eliminated in the jpeg compression, keeping only what was most visible (the white detail-less color), so trying to recover that detail is just not possible because it's no longer there..
You'd be surprised how much detail you can recover from dark and light areas in your pictures with raw. Of course, you wan't to get as close as you can to the right exposure when you shoot your picture, as this will give you the maximum detail..
Jpeg is an 8 bit format, which means it has 256 colors to mix and work with. Raw images are in 12 bit format, which means it has 4096 colors to work with, so colors are richer and color transitions are smoother, and you also edit in 12 bit, this is another reason you can edit more aspects of the picture in raw..
Also, you can change the white balance and even adjust actual exposure to a certain extent. The white balance is how your sensor reacts to the colors in your image composition. This can be changed because you are editing the actual data (what makes the image). It's like changing your white balance in your camera before you took the shot..
Don't be afraid of the raw format. You can view your raw pics even with Windows Explorer with a microsoft plugin. And there are plenty of free raw viewers you can use prior to editing them and saving them as jpegs..
And it is easy to save them as jpegs. Raw editing is not daunting either, some photos won't even need any editing if you think they look fine in your editor. Your raw editor can then batch save all your raw files to great looking jpegs after (or with no) raw editing..
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Can someone explain why you cannot do the same changes to a jpegimage that you can do to a RAW image? I mean some of the things inpost processing you guys are doing to a RAW image can be performed toa JPEG imge in PS. So, why do you guys say that it cannot be changedon a JPEG vs. a RAW file? Can some please explain this. I am having ahard time understanding this. Could it be that it can be done to aJPEG file but at the expense of something else causing the samepicture with the same parameters to look different because of itbeing a JPEG vs. RAW? I am lost..
When the raw sensor data gets converted to a jpeg image, it is compressed. During this compression, certain data gets deleted (this is how it gets compressed). I will use a dark shadow example. If you have a rock with a dark shadow underneath it (let's say... hiding a spider in there somewhere, but the exposure is too dark), a jpeg conversion process will analyze that area of the picture, and think, "OK, it's black, so I will eliminate most of the colors in that area that are not black, or near black. So that other data is gone.
No way to get those original pixels back, because they've been tossed out. So if you lighten up that area in a jpeg editor, you will mostly get... a lighter black color with not much detail in shades or color..
Now, a raw file since it is not compressed will still contain all the other little color and gray shades pixel info in that dark area, so if you want to lighten up that area to reveal those little color pixels (detail), you can still do that, and bring out those details because they are still there, it's just that the exposure is too dark - but you can adjust the exposure, just like in-camera (to a certain extent)..
Also, with jpeg, you are working with 256 colors (8 bit), where as with a raw file, you are working with 4096 colors (12 bit), so more color detail and smooth color transition is possible. Have you ever seen a picture of a sky where the color transitions are not smooth? There are definite lines where the shades of blue change? This is because there is not enough detail data in the image to create a smooth transition. It is either one shade of blue or another, no in-between, because that in-between color data has been lost..
Any pro's out there, please correct any technical information or explanation I may have screwed up .
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Shoot in RAW, and you have all the PP info you can get from the photo..
Shoot in Jpeg, you will not have the same control, in fact much less.
Shot Raw for pro images.
Shoot Jpeg for day to day images.
Shoot me if i'm wrong.
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Mike Rudge..
The comments above pretty much cover the ground.I will point out that there is no pressure to shoot raw..
You've been shooting jpegs up till now and you can continue to shoot jpegs with your new camera. A lot of people shoot mostly jpeg. This is particularly true of sports shooting where you are trying to get off multiple shots per second. Jpegs allow much faster thruput to the card. As long as you are reasonably careful with exposure and white balance the pictures will look great..
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...A lot of people shoot mostly jpeg. Thisis particularly true of sports shooting where you are trying to getoff multiple shots per second. Jpegs allow much faster thruput tothe card....
So when the specs on the 40D says it shoots "6.5fps or 3 fps up to 75 JPEG" images, which number refers to shooting raw? And why are there 3 different numbers instead of 2?..
Think of car seats..
RAW is some twenty-way heated and cooled tilt, twist, lumbar support, front, back, high, low seat..
JPEG is like having a seat you can move forward and back, tilt the back of, tilt the front of the seat up under your knees, and probably lift a bit higher so short people can see out, or lower, so women from beer commercials can wear their cowboy hats..
So, yes, a great deal of change can be done to a JPEG file using Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, etc..
But if you really, really messed up the original shooting, RAW lets you fix it even more. Or, for that matter, lets you skip trying to do it right in the camera, because you know you can repair it later..
With both RAW and JPEG, you do need to get the door open and climb into the car and point it int he right direction, regardless of the seat..
RE>"6.5fps or 3 fps up to 75 JPEG" images,<.
I don't know what you mean by three numbers instead of two, but as for the numbers in quotes....
You can set the camera's "motor drive" so it takes 13 pictures in two seconds that's 6.5 per second or 3 pictures in a second. Depending on what you are shooting, you might want the tiny differentces beftween frames that come with 6.5 fps, or you might be happy with "only" three shots in a second. Among other reasons, how fast can your flash work?.
The 75 is the total images that fill the buffer as you shoot, and is approximate. Depending on how fast your memory card is, more or fewer shots will go into the bffer and then into the cardwhile you hold down the shutter release..
Regardless, Canon seems to think the 75 is a fair number,.
Why anyone would need 75 shots taken over twnety seconds is beyond me, however. This is technology for the sake of technology..
Shutterman wrote:.
Can someone explain why you cannot do the same changes to a jpegimage that you can do to a RAW image?.
There are two issues. First, most jpg processing only uses a portion of the brightness range captured by the camera. In my camera, the brightest jpg is about a stop less bright than the brightest available using raw. For a lot of photography, it is not a big deal but if you have a scene with a large brightness range, the extra stop can sure help get a better image. By shooting to the right an extra stop can provide significant improvements in the shadow areas..
The second issue is that jpg processing converts the number of possible values for each color to 256 rather than whatever the raw data has (up to 4096 on my camera). Thus jpg does not have many tone values in each color channel to work with and the amount of adjustment is limited particularly in the shadow areas. Put another way, raw processing with it much larger number of tone levels per color can take much more adjustment without any unwanted artifacts, banding, etc. showing up. It is fair to say that the main limitation to jpg comes from the truncation to 8 bits per color than from the other features of jpg processing.Leonhttp://homepage.mac.com/leonwittwer/landscapes.htm..
Do most DSLR cameras come with the necessary software to convert raw images to JPEGs?..
I might as well throw in my 2d worth: RAW is very usefull at times but can take a while to post process and learning it can take a long while. JPG's are more than adequate for most people most of the time and so - as I see it - RAW is a tool you use when the scene in front of you is going to be difficult. A good example is an unevenly lit subject with many highlights and deep shadows..
BTW, no one seems to mention this but saying "compressed" covers a multitude of sins. Some cameras compress a lot or else a medium amount and others can be set to compress very little; so you get a decent jpg and wonder why they bother with TIFF's and RAW. F'instance the camera I'm thinking about (5 megapixels) turns out jpg's of about 4,000 KB (called SHQ) and RAW files of 9697 KB. Others compress a lot more and I understand why people ask this question over and over again and complain about jpg quality ..
BTW (2), my jpg's are 16 million colours and have been for the last ten years..
Regards, David..
I believe so but the quality and usefullness of the software varies considerably. A common complaint about camera manufacture supplied software is it is often pretty slow compared to third party alternatives. The quality thing is in the eye of the beholder.Leonhttp://homepage.mac.com/leonwittwer/landscapes.htm..
This thread has a lot of good info - thanks everyone!..
David Hughes wrote:.
BTW (2), my jpg's are 16 million colours and have been for the lastten years..
The references in earlier posts to 256 colours are per channel, so altogether 256 x 256 x 256 = 16.7m...
Steve Balcombe wrote:.
David Hughes wrote:.
BTW (2), my jpg's are 16 million colours and have been for the lastten years..
The references in earlier posts to 256 colours are per channel, soaltogether 256 x 256 x 256 = 16.7m..
What I read was "with jpeg, you are working with 256 colors (8 bit)... " but I won't argue..
Regards, David..
David, you're right; I guess I did word that incorrectly - sometimes the mind jumps ahead, makes assumptions and omits details. I thought I had read that through to make sure it made sense .
It is 256 colors for each channel (Red, Green, Blue) to mix and work with in jpeg..
4096 per channel to work with in raw..
Thanks for pointing that out..
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UAE plans e-gov't overhaul
New portal will provide around 130 services to residents and businesses by end of 2009, minister says.
The UAE plans to launch a new e-portal that will deliver services to residents and businesses as the government looks to harness technology to spur economic growth in the Gulf Arab state, the minister of economy said Sunday.
Speaking at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in Abu Dhabi, Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi said the portal would provide around 130 services to residents and businesses by the end of 2009.
The minister said it was imperative that the region keep pace with the developed world and continue to modernise its communication technologies.
"Information technology is fuelling the growth of the global economy," she told delegates during her keynote speech.
Sheikha Lubna also stressed the importance of creating knowledge-based economies in the wider region, and said the UAE should continue to play a key role in leading this transformation.
The minister said integrated e-governance increased government transparency and facilitated economic growth.
Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Aziz, undersecretary at the ministry of economy, told ArabianBusiness.com on the sidelines of the forum that the new web portal, which the government is working with Microsoft and Etisalat on, would be ready for launch the next couple of weeks.
The site is currently in final testing and is accessible through the government's existing e-portal for users to give feedback and comments, Aziz said.
The new site will initially run alongside the old site, which will phased out over the next couple of months, he said.
"We want it to be as user friendly as possible, so that even somebody using a computer for the first time will be able to understand the functions," he said.
"This new service will save a great deal of time and money for businesses and for people who need to access information efficiently."
The minister said there would be around 70 services available through the new portal by February.
Services include access to information about work permits, licenses, visas and other government information.
The UAE has an internet penetration rate of 31.5%, Sheikha Lubna said in her speech.


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The 3 Day Tour Organising Committee is proud to present the 2018 edition of this four-stage Victorian classic, now proudly in it's 60th annual running (1959-2018). 2018 presents an opportunity for current riders to etch their name alongside greats from the past including Remo Sansonetti, Matt Keenan & Mitch Docker (to name a few). Cadel Evans also rode the 1994 3 Day Tour (3DT) as an U17, achieving best placed young rider and finishing 7th in A grade. (see http://3daytour.org/about.html)
- Saturday-Only Option - Please enter under this race listing
- We are adding a Saturday-only option for riders of all grades. This will include the Newham Road Race plus the Time Trial. (regular tour stage prize money will apply)
- Entries extended to Thursday 26th - Please share with your friends.
Stage 1 – Newham – Snow Munro Heritage ROAD RACE
Date: SATURDAY 28th APRIL, 2018
Venue: Newham Primary School, Newham
Type: Transponder Timed Road Race
Start & Sign on: 9:30am Newham Primary School
Men A, B, C, Women A Grades: 90km (3 laps)
Women B, Men D, Women C: 60km (2 laps)
Start Line: Newham Primary School
KOM/QOM TBA Finish Line: top of hill approx 200m from Primary School
Stage 2 map: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/20878494
The same Newham circuit as raced by the Northern Combine and featured in last years Tour.
STAGE 2: Kyneton Individual Time Trial (6KM)
Date: Saturday 28th APRIL, 2018
Type: Individual Time Trial
Sign on: not required, be at start 10mins before advertised start time.
Start Time: 2pm.
Startling Line: Kyneton Saleyards, Saleyards Road.
KOM/QOM: none
Finish Line: intersection Redesdale, Barkers Rds
The following Grades are on offer;
Note: entrant numbers for all grades will determine the final bunch compositions on the road.
All riders must be race-licensed members of a Cycling Australia affiliated club. PLEASE NOTE YOU CANNOT ENTER ON A 3 RACE LICENSE. International riders can ride on a UCI international license.
The 3DT is a large event requiring many volunteers. Please consider bringing a family member or friend to volunteer as it is a great way to directly involve them in something you love and also is an invaluable help to the event.
Volunteers for the Northern Combine are offered volunteer status for the 3DT (resulting in reduced entry fees and priority entry)
Riders from clubs NOT affiliated with the Northern Combine can also claim volunteer-status for the 3DT if they provide a volunteer for the 3DT. (please note this will also result in volunteer status for Northern Combine events outside of 3DT) Volunteer info here
Payment for the 3 Day Tour is by online payment only. Visa and Mastercard credit & debit cards are accepted. If you currently do not use payment cards, consider a debit card from your bank or those available for purchase from Australia Post for $6.95.
Your race entry is provisional, noting that your requested Grade is reviewed by the Handicapping Committee and is subject to change if it is deemed necessary. Please ensure you enter a realistic grade given your ability.
You are able to scratch with a full refund automatically through EntryBoss up until 6:00pm Thursday 26th April. Scratchings after this may get a refund if a replacement rider can be found, otherwise will be treated as a DNS.
Riders are asked to consider making a small non-compulsory contribution to help the Organising Committee fund improvements - eg Last's year's Traffic Management Costs for Speed Step-downs around Stage Finishes was funded by Rider's Voluntary Contributions. This years donations will go towards the purchasing of timing equipment. $5 or $10 goes a long way and, once accumulated across many riders, is the equivalent of the 3DT signing a sponsor. Donations of $50 and above and get your name/business name listed in the program.
The 3DT is a volunteer-resourced, not-for-profit event and partly relies on sponsors to help keep race fees low and to continue to improve. If you have access to potential sponsors and would like to help then we'd love to talk to you. Sponsorship is a great way to help ensure this historic event remains viable and continues into the future. Please email email@example.com if you are able to help.
The 3 Day Tour is organised by a separate Organising Committee to the Northern Combine. Whilst there is close association, please note that the two Organisations are separate.
Please note that permits are being finalised and Organisers reserve the right to amend the Race Program &/or Stages.
More information please visit Facebook https://www.facebook.com/3daytour/
Online pricing:
Price inclusive of payment card fees
The 3DT is a historic event, now in it's 60th year. It is entirely volunteer resourced and run on a not-for-profit basis.
Riders are asked to consider making a small non-compulsory contribution to help the Organising Committee fund improvements - eg previous year's Traffic Management Costs for Speed Step-downs around Stage Finishes was funded by Rider's Voluntary Contributions. $5 or $10 goes a long way and, once accumulated across many riders, is the equivalent of the 3DT signing a sponsor. Donations of $50 and above and get your name/business name listed in the program.
Alternatively, if you or an organisation you work for would like to sponsor this historic event please contact us.
Regards, 3DT Organising Committee


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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo
Saint Augustine of Hippo,
|Doctor of the Church
|13 November 354
|28 August 430 (age 75)
|Venerated in
|28 August (
15 June (
4 November (
|Virtually all subsequent Western philosophy and theology, including
|Major works
Augustine of Hippo
Main interests
Notable ideas
Saint Augustine of Hippo (
According to his contemporary,
Augustine is recognized as a saint in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Christian Church, and the
In the
Augustine of Hippo (
Augustine was born in the year 354 AD in the
Augustine's family name, Aurelius, suggests that his father's ancestors were
At the age of 11, Augustine was sent to school at Madaurus (now
At the age of 17, through the generosity of his fellow citizen Romanianus,[35] Augustine went to
It was while he was a student in Carthage that he read
At about the age of 17, Augustine began an affair with a young woman in Carthage. Though his mother wanted him to marry a person of his class, the woman remained his lover[40] for over fifteen years[41] and gave birth to his son Adeodatus (372–388),[42] who was viewed as extremely intelligent by his contemporaries. In 385, Augustine ended his relationship with his lover in order to prepare himself to marry a ten-year-old heiress. (He had to wait for two years because the legal age of marriage for women was twelve.) By the time he was able to marry her, however, he instead decided to become a celibate priest.[41][43]
Augustine was from the beginning a brilliant student, with an eager intellectual curiosity, but he never mastered Greek[44]—he tells us that his first Greek teacher was a brutal man who constantly beat his students, and Augustine rebelled and refused to study. By the time he realized that he needed to know Greek, it was too late; and although he acquired a smattering of the language, he was never eloquent with it. However, his mastery of Latin was another matter. He became an expert both in the eloquent use of the language and in the use of clever arguments to make his points.
Augustine taught grammar at Thagaste during 373 and 374. The following year he moved to Carthage to conduct a school of rhetoric and would remain there for the next nine years.[35] Disturbed by unruly students in Carthage, he moved to establish a school in Rome, where he believed the best and brightest rhetoricians practiced, in 383. However, Augustine was disappointed with the apathetic reception. It was the custom for students to pay their fees to the professor on the last day of the term, and many students attended faithfully all term, and then did not pay.
Manichaean friends introduced him to the prefect of the City of Rome,
Although Augustine spent ten years as a Manichaean, he was never an initiate or "elect", but an "auditor", the lowest level in the sect's hierarchy.[45][46] While still at Carthage a disappointing meeting with the Manichaean Bishop,
Augustine arrived in Milan and visited Ambrose in order to see if Ambrose was one of the greatest speakers and rhetoricians in the world. More interested in his speaking skills than the topic of speech, Augustine quickly discovered that Ambrose was a spectacular orator. Like Augustine, Ambrose was a master of rhetoric, but older and more experienced.[48] Soon, their relationship grew, as Augustine wrote, "And I began to love him, of course, not at the first as a teacher of the truth, for I had entirely despaired of finding that in thy Church—but as a friendly man."[49] Eventually, Augustine says that he was spiritually led into the faith of Christianity.[49] Augustine was very much influenced by Ambrose, even more than by his own mother and others he admired. Within his Confessions, Augustine states, "That man of God received me as a father would, and welcomed my coming as a good bishop should."[49] Ambrose adopted Augustine as a spiritual son after the death of Augustine's father.[50]
Augustine's mother had followed him to Milan and arranged an honest marriage for him. Although Augustine accepted this marriage, for which he had to abandon his concubine, he was deeply hurt by the loss of his lover. He wrote, "My mistress being torn from my side as an impediment to my marriage, my heart, which clave to her, was racked, and wounded, and bleeding." Augustine confessed that he was not a lover of wedlock so much as a slave of lust, so he procured another concubine since he had to wait two years until his fiancée came of age. However, his emotional wound was not healed, even began to fester.[51] It was during this period that he uttered his famous prayer, "Grant me
There is evidence that Augustine may have considered this former relationship to be equivalent to marriage.[53] In his Confessions, he admitted that the experience eventually produced a decreased sensitivity to pain. Augustine eventually broke off his engagement to his eleven-year-old fiancée, but never renewed his relationship with either of his concubines.
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In late August of 386,[57] at the age of 31, after having heard and been inspired and moved by the story of Ponticianus's and his friends' first reading of the life of
Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.[58]
He later wrote an account of his conversion – his very transformation, as Paul described – in his
Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold,
Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee.
Thou wast with me when I was not with Thee.
Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness.
Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispel my blindness.
Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace.
For Thyself Thou hast made us,
And restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease.
Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new.[59]
In 391 Augustine was
In 395, he was made
Augustine worked tirelessly in trying to convince the people of Hippo to convert to Christianity. Though he had left his monastery, he continued to lead a monastic life in the episcopal residence. He left a
Much of Augustine's later life was recorded by his friend
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Augustine was
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In October 1695, some workmen in the Church of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia discovered a marble box containing some human bones (including part of a skull). A dispute arose between the Augustinian hermits (Order of Saint Augustine) and the
The Augustinians were expelled from Pavia in 1700, taking refuge in
In 1842, a portion of Augustine's right arm (cubitus) was secured from Pavia and returned to


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April + Matthew's engagement photos are pretty spectacular!! They got access into Sanford Stadium on the University of Georgia's Campus and the amazing Nikki was able to capture some pretty epic shots of them right on the field!! April even had her UGA earrings on for the occasion. We love it!! After the stadium A + M walked around North Campus for some photos with the Arch. North Campus is truly one of the most beautiful places in Athens to go for photos!! And, April + Matthew made it look even better!
April + Matthew, Congratulations and we can't wait for your big day!! xoxo


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5 Pie Recipes (Because the Weather Isn't Great This Weekend)
Though really, who needs an excuse to eat pie?
While pie isn't technically a seasonal dessert, it really feels most at home in the fall. That transitional time between light summer pavlovas and heavy winter puddings belongs to a classic piece of pie, and we've gathered five of our personal favourites from the WL Recipe Finder. Because the weather isn't looking great this weekend—so shouldn't your joy come from a little music, a little baking and a big reward (in the form of a slice of sweetness) at the end of it all?
1. Butterscotch Walnut Pie
Butter Baked Goods' Rosie Daykin is the queen of comfort food—and this sweet pie makes a perfect Sunday dinner treat.
2. Lemon Cream Tart
When Edmonton's Duchess Bake Shop released their cookbook last year, the first run sold out almost immediately. This gorgeous tart is just one reason why.
3. Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Tart
This deceptively simple-to-make tart offers a big pay off in the end.
4. Classic Apple Pie
A perfect crust paired with in-season apples—it's a classic for a reason.
5. Sharileen's Sour Cream Cherry Pie
Thinking about catching up on your Twin Peaks before the reboot is released? Bake up this recipe from Duchess Bake Shop and settle in for the marathon.


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My WAND speaker isn't showing up in my AirPlay settings, how do I fix this?
• Check to make sure that the LED on top of your speaker is pulsing white, and verify that your internet connection is stable. You can visit www.speedtest.net on a device that is on your network to see how fast your internet is currently operating.
• It may also be helpful to power cycle your router by unplugging it for 20 seconds and then plugging it in again.
Note: Your internet connection will be disconnected for a minute or two while the router reboots. If you're trying to use AirPlay in a specific app, try closing and relaunching the app.
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