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text: Liberty X (originally called Liberty) were a Brit Award-winning pop vocal group formed by the five contestants eliminated from the final ten qualifiers from the 2001 ITV show Popstars. The group consisted of Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Michelle Heaton, Kelli Young and Jessica Taylor. The group went on to achieve ten consecutive UK Top 20 singles, and various charting singles worldwide, meaning that these runners-up of Popstars were commercially more successful than the winners, Hear'Say.

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In 1966, this small house built on a 220 square feet land inspired many young Japanese to become architects.
The presenter of children's programs Leon Krijgsman parade through the streets of Amsterdam with a Ferrari made of Lego, to promote the event Lego World in Holland.
grassland 'Pure' is a design object consisting of real dried grass grown on metal using only water & light to be hung like a painting on the wall. Over the months and years as exposed to light the color begins to change and form begins to wilt.
Vividly painted and highly symbolic entrances of the Nubian people houses in Sudan
Sa Dingding is not your average pop star. She sings in several languages including Mandarin, Sanskrit, Tibetan, a near-extinct tongue Laghu, as well an imaginary self created language to evoke the emotions in her songs.
The biggest spaceship structure in a small German city. It includes a laboratory, a 3-D cinema and a medical centre.
Container Color Systems Poster: The colourful big metall box poster. It comes five colour options on the limited canvas print & frameworks.
The San Francisco based design house, Office collaborated with 826 Valencia, a non profit tutoring center for youth, to reinvigorate its pirate supply storefront.
Pirsc has an incredible filigree porcelain skull!
Mini Fridge as booth storage space ~ prague designblok 08: 2GD studio
Incredible pieces of work, made from recycled guitar strings! Unique,eco-friendly and this artist donates 10% of proceeds to local artists.
beautiful spot for mattoni water... created by mpg srl. and produced by cow & boys...
A preview of "Second Nature" opening on Friday at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo. [Editor's Note ~ we got some peeks of it in making in #14877!]
San Francisco artist Gene Guynn's gorgeous new live sketch video on the amazing website Sketch Theatre!
Gatsby's latest hair wax product, Men's Non-no, almost as pretty as Japanese men themselves.
Jaqk Cellars - Great packaging design and when you buy a bottle, you get some wine with it.
Very nice laptop case from Philadelphia based freelance designer Brian Kelly. The laptop case is formed from two bend panels of plywood which slide along one another to encase the laptop computer.
The newest Sony Bravia spot, "Domino City", was shot on location in India and created by Bates Singapore.
Germville: For something as silly as an antibacterial, cleaning campaign, this is an impressive effort. A brilliant way to make a drab subject even MORE drab - but simultaneously enticing.
Drug Automat / Imbue Street Installation
Lovely chair design from French industrial designer Vincent Bobineau.
Loads of reports from DESIGNBLOK'08 PRAGUE which ended last week.
FEATUREDNew Macbook Pro and macbook in person! We tried to resist, but couldn't, so ducked out of an afternoon session and grabbed two! See pics of the details!
Browserbased audio production suite. Like Reason in a browser. In Flash.
New shirt from Ugmonk called "And Then I Woke Up" which plays off the classic ampersand shape with a twist of subliminal text.
12th annual Sculpture by The Sea taking place in Sydney, Australia. 109 sculptures, artists from all around the world till November 2nd.
The designer, Mac Funamizu, drew on the Nokia Aeon to design a phone he would like to have, complete with Apple's standard livery.
35 feet of amazing typographic work called the "Gastrotypographicalassemblage." It was originally created by Lou Dorfsman and is now being restored.
All Day I Dream About Sneakers is a new collaborative project from adidas Originals and Lifelounge. Amazing!
Could it be? Actual art for McCain? From the artist - "-- POLITICAL -- I am registered independent and don't really endorse neither candidate. But you can read below as to why I decided to create this tribute to both McCain and Fairey."
'Typoase' aims to supply a public seating where people can sit and have a short break. Made from wood and stone topped with grass, the benches
spell out the word 'TIME'.
I was scrolling through A Shaded View, Diane Pernet's blog, when I saw some incredible images of the SS09 Mathew Ames Collection shot by Sybille Walter and styled by Samuel Drira...
One single comma changes the whole story. Campaign by the Brazilian Press Association
Artist Julia Kuo illustrates, paints, draws, and designs. She is very talented and her artwork is whimsical and beautiful. Her website holds her portfolio and it has a link to her blog which showcases her newest work.
The Martyr lamp designed by the UK design group The Play Coalition. It is definitely a lamp "that's hanging on for dear life".
A great collaboration between illustrator Zach Johnsen and photographer Don Flood.
EDITT Tower - a paragon of "Ecological Design In The Tropics" by TR Hamzah & Yeang, will boast photovoltaic panels, natural ventilation, and a biogas generation plant inan insulating living wall that covers half of its surface area.
Designed by Mario Weiss and his team, the Dreamdive is a fashionable sleeping aid for commuters. It provides an intimate space in which you could take a catnap in public without embarrassment.
Design collective Krkurvacreated the La.ga bag, a paper thin bag able to carry up to 55kg
Jason Freeny has created the anatomy map of the Lego minifig.
Another Tomas Kral project - Upgrade - which uses traditional decorative techniques on glass
such as cutting, engraving and gilding to "upgrade" an existing industrial bottle such as milk bottles or jars for tomato sauce.
Hot new stop-motion video from Jemapur's "AANATT" created by Max Hattler with W+K TokyoLab.
Gorgeous Garden and Sea House by Takao Shiotsuka.
artwork of brazilian based illustrator julian gallasch, he makes excellent work with only a ballpen.
Gorgeous White light fixture by Winnie Lui for Innermost - "a chandelier in which objets trouvés meet bling and trash is made equal to treasure through the application of uniform colour."
Playful street photography by Matt Stuart (see 6895).
architect Emergent did a great change turning buildings inside-out and designed The Huaxi Urban Center for China. The Huaxi Urban Center externalizes all its "innards" in a morphology of shifting lights racing up and down its glacial-like hull.
Tomiko Konishi was a young girl the day the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima.


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Toddy Palm Seed from Chaokoh. Toddy Palm or 'Look Dtahn' in Thai, is clear and crunchy. Serve with ice and syrup or top your favorite ice cream or even by itself. Ingredients: Toddy palm seed, water, sugar, calcium, chloride, citric acid. Net Weight: 10.00 oz. Product of Thailand.
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Banana Tail now a star on You Tube! Check it out!
Banana Tail has recently been added to youtube. Come on over and
enjoy the world of Banana Tail Online.
here for Banana Tail video
A Recent Testimonial
The draw of this book for me and my kids is its hybrid nature of
traditional children's books and comic books. The mixture of
expository text to explain an illustration and speech balloons/sound
effects works really well. That's what seems to separate this project
from others. The characters are so good, the world Mr. McKenna has
created so vivid and full, that Banana Tail deserves the attention that
other, less attractive, less quality books currently enjoy. I've read
enough children's books to my own kids for the last five years to know
that Banana Tail is so far above the quality of most of them. The
lessons are SO worth teaching over and over again. In only the few
Banana Tail books to hit stores alone, my kids have learned to be happy
with themselves and embrace what makes them different, and to tell the
truth when they make a mistake and deal with the consequences. After
two or three readings, the kids really understood and began applying
these lessons. Every children's library should, nay MUST, include
Banana Tail!
Scott Honig
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Great Neck North High School
Father of two, Raia - age 4 1/2 and Judah - age 2 1/2
Banana Tail's Colorful Adventure
The 3rd book (2nd storybook) in the ongoing series of the little monkey and his friends,
BANANA TAIL'S COLORFUL ADVENTURE is available for the 1st time in GLORIOUS FULL COLOR 3D CGI hard cover edition...
For the 1st 100 books there will be a remarked/signed and numbered edition includes priority shipping for $25.
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A fan letter from a fan of the NEW Banana Tail's Colorful Adventure
Nicolas has sent in a wonderful fan letter and As always, I really do appreciate the letters and comments for the new Banana Tail's book. Please continue to send in your fan letters and comments. Who knows, they might even be published on the home page of the website.
Below you can click to read the latest fan letter from Nicolas that I just received.
Thanks Nicolas!
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Going Bananas: Mark McKenna Discusses Banana Tails
John Hogan of the Graphic Novel Reporter contacted me about doing an interview for the new Banana Tail's Colorful Adventures, which should be shipping very soon. Enjoy!
Check out the interview today!!!
Banana Tail Interview on Crucial Taunt
"I met Mark Allen Haverty on Facebook. I was heading on vacation to Vermont at the end of last Summer and really knew nothing about Vermont. Mark Allen, who writes monthly for Wizard Magazine lives in Vermont and was kind enough to tell me all the points of interest that I should see when visiting. I remembered his kindness and then saw Mark again at a New York Comic Con and reminded him that he was helpful during my Vermont visit. Well, his kindness continues as he now helps me support Banana Tail with an interview for his own Crucial Taunt website. Rock on, Mark Allen!"
Click here to read the interview on crucial taunt today!
Hi BTail fans!
I was fortunate enough to have a long time buddy of mine, Augie DeBlieck, who happens to write for Comic Book Resources do a new interview with me spotlighting, The Return of Banana Tail (to print).
There may be some things that you dont know about our little monkey pal, so brush up...the quiz is coming next!
Click here to read the interview
Banana Tail's Colorful Adventures Interview on Comics Bulletin
"OK, so you know the new Banana Tail's Colorful Adventures is coming, so its time to start reading about the new book came together with a brand new interview for Comics Bulletin..."
Click here to read the interview
AFTER 4 years of waiting....
The ALL NEW BananaTail's Colorful Adventure "Young Readers" story book is REALLY HERE!
Banana Tail's Colorful Adventure has been a year in the making and is finally ready to be ordered through February's Diamond Previews catalogue who stock comic shops around the country and even around the world. Its ships in April but is available for pre-order through Previews right now and also available through Amazon - click here.
In July it will be made available through all the major book store chains, so if you don't see it, can't find it and want it tell your bookstores to order it. You will also be able to purchase the book through the order page on this web site, when it becomes available.
With the release of Banana Tail's Colorful Adventure a new direction in children's books has been developed. A 3D computer generated "young readers" graphic novel. This is not your Mom or Dad's picture book. Think "Finding Nemo" or "Up" with a trio of young animal friends in a jungle.
The art was lovingly created by Steve Akehurst and his 4th Armada crew, all of who are professors/teachers down at Full Sail University. Written by Banana Tail creator Mark McKenna and published in a hard cover format by Image Comic's Silverline Books.
Click here to check out more information on the latest for Banana Tail's Colorful Adventure
Introducing the All New...Banana Tail Fan Club page on Facebook!
If you are on Facebook or were looking to get on Facebook, here is a great reason to get involved!
Have something to say about Banana Tail? Want to read what other fans have to say? Interested in seeing exclusive Banana Tail art and information on the upcoming book? Come join the hundred plus fans(and growing fast!) on the ever popular site. See whats (banana) shaking in the World of Banana Tail!
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Police in rural Ohio are on a big game hunt, after dozens of exotic animals escaped a preserve whose owner was found dead.
Lions, wolves, tigers, giraffes, camels and bears were among the animals kept on the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, in east-central Ohio, where police found owner Terry Thompson dead and all the cages open.
"These are wild animals that you would see on TV in Africa," Sheriff Matt Lutz said at a press conference. "This is a bad situation."
U.S. & World
Authorities in cars were hunting the animals in the area near the 40-acre farm and had killed at least 25, including bears and wolves. There were multiple sightings of exotic animals along I-70, according to The Associated Press.
Lutz said the escaped animals are "mature, very big, aggressive." He was especially concerned about big cats and bears hiding in the dark woods.
"Any kind of cat species or bear species is what we are concerned about," Lutz said. "We don't know how much of a head start these animals have on us."
Neighbor Danielle White told CBS she's always been scared to live near the preserve and said a lion escaped in 2006.
"It's always been a fear of mine knowing (the preserve's owner) had all those animals," she said. "I have kids. I've heard a male lion roar all night."
Lutz said his office started getting phone calls at about 5:30 p.m. that wild animals were loose just west of Zanesville. Four deputies with assault rifles went to the animal farm, where they found Thompson's body. He didn't say how Thompson died.
The deputies saw several animals outside their cages and others that had escaped the fenced property, and began shooting as many as they could. Animal experts from the renowned Columbus Zoo were called in to try to capture animals.
Lutz said he may call for local schools to be closed on Wednesday.


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- Preheat oven to 425˚F.
- Heat oil over medium-high heat in an oven safe skillet. Add pork and sear for 2-3 minutes on both sides, until browned. Top with pesto sauce and pour broth around.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the pork registers 165˚F. While in the oven, add additional broth if necessary. Let rest for 5 minutes before serving.


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Berkeley's collection of past qualifying exam questions contains the following:
''What are possible extensions of degree $3$ of $\mathbb{Q}_2$?''
I'm trying to figure out what the general approach is to attack a question like this. In this particular case, we know that $\mathbb{Q}_2^\times\simeq \mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{Z}_2^\times$, where $\mathbb{Z}_2^\times$ is a pro-$2$ group. It follows that there is only one abelian extension of degree $3$ which would be the unramified one. Hence, all other such extensions are totally ramified.
Thus we are left with enumerating the totally ramified extensions. Here, the only approaches I can come up with is using the idea that such extensions are given by roots of Eisenstein polynomials. The standard proof that $\mathbb{Q}_p$ has a finite number of extensions of a particular degree, then shows that such polynomials are in bijection with a compact space and then uses Krasner's lemma to find a finite cover of this such that all the polynomials in the subsets of the cover have the same splitting fields. However, I can't really get anywhere applying this, as it seems to give duplicates.
I'm wondering if there's any easy ''right'' way to solve problems like this?


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Asus VivoTab Smart ME400 full review
There have been several versions of the VivoTab in its brief lifetime, with different screen sizes, add-on keyboard options and – like Microsoft's Surface tablet – a choice of either Windows RT or Windows 8. However, for the new VivoTab Smart, Asus has settled on a compact 10.1in model that runs Windows 8 (32-bit) but doesn't include a separate keyboard. See also: Microsoft Surface Pro vs Surface RT comparison review
It's a well-designed tablet that competes well with rivals such as Microsoft Surface or the Apple iPad. It weighs just 580g and measures 9.7mm thick so it's very light and easy to carry around.
Asus VivoTab Smart: screen
The 10.1in screen has a resolution of 1366x768 and uses an IPS panel that provides a bright, attractive image with good viewing angle.
Unfortunately, it has the standard glossy finish which makes it reflective to the point where the image is sometimes obscured by glare from bright daylight or office lighting.
And while the new Start screen in Windows 8 works well with the VivoTab's touch-screen controls, dipping into the traditional Windows desktop or using apps like Word does feel very fiddly as this software simply isn't designed for touch operation, especially on such a small screen.
Asus VivoTab Smart: performance
The VivoTab Smart is currently only available in a single configuration with a dual-core Intel Atom Z2760 running at 1.8GHz, and 64GB of storage. Since it runs the full version of Windows 8 (rather than RT), you can run your existing Windows software on the VivoTab.
Running PCMark 7, we recorded a score of 1409. That's obviously a pretty poor result, but the VivoTab still feels snappy and responsive when navigating around the Modern UI. It's also more than fast enough for running business apps such as Word or Excel if you need to catch up on some light work when you're out of the office. The 2GB of memory is stingy, though, and might not be enough if you need to edit large images in Photoshop or like to keep multiple apps running and several tabs open in your web browser.
Asus VivoTab Smart: TranSleeve keyboard
If you're going to spend much time in the Windows desktop, you ought to budget for the £89 TranSleeve. This includes a magnetic cover and a slim Bluetooth keyboard with separate touchpad.
We're not huge fans, though. It's much like keyboard cases designed for the iPad – the keys have hardly any travel and isn't comfortable for anything other than typing a quick email or a few notes. For more strenuous work, look at HP's Envy X2 which has a far better keyboard.
Asus VivoTab Smart: connectivity
Connectivity is something of a mixed bag. The VivoTab uses a micro-USB port for charging but there's no adaptor included that would allow you to connect a memory stick or other devices that have a full-size USB connector.
Your options for quick file transfer are limited to the VivoTab's micro-SD slot or Wi-Fi, but there's NFC (near-field communication) and Bluetooth built-in as well.
Asus VivoTab Smart: cameras and battery life
However, the VivoTab does pick up some extra points for its very good 8MP rear camera, along with the front-facing 2MP camera.
Battery life is impressive, too. We were able to stream full-screen video for just over seven hours using the VivoTab's 802.11n Wi-Fi, so you should be able to get a full day's use out of it without too much trouble at all.
Asus VivoTab Smart ME400: Specs
- 1.8GHz Intel Atom Z2760 (dual-core)
- Windows 8 (32-bit)
- 64GB storage
- 10.1in (1366x768) glossy touchscreen IPS LCD
- Intel GMA graphics
- 802.11a/b/g/n
- Bluetooth 4.0
- micro-HDMI (via adapter - not supplied)
- micro-USB (via adapter - not supplied)
- micro-SDHC card slot
- headphone socket
- built-in microphone
- 25Wh lithium-polymer battery (non-removable)
- 263 x 172 x 9.7mm
- 580g


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Last time I spoke about wrapping hash access I got a bit more than I bargained for. It's still something I'm tempted to do from time to time.
Autovivification by default is very sensible (or perhaps Perl just suits me). When I set a parameter within a structure, I generally want all the ancestors to be created first. That's why I have the following aliases to
jared@localhost $ alias | grep mkdir alias failingmkdir='/bin/mkdir' alias mkdir='mkdir -p'
Autovivification on data retrieval though, can be a bit confusing.
use strict; my $data = {}; print '1:', exists($data->{'key1'}), "\n"; if (! exists($data->{'key1'}{'key2'})) { print '2:', exists($data->{'key1'}), "\n"; }
jared@localhost $ perl5.10 t.pl 1: 2:1
The CPAN Autovivification Module
Fortunately, it's easy enough to disable it with the autovivification module.
no autovivification qw(strict fetch exists delete);
perl t.pl 1: Reference vivification forbidden at t.pl line 7.
Promote Uninitialized Warnings to Fatal
Zoul mentions a way to avoid typical autovivification errors1 on stackoverflow.
use warnings NONFATAL => 'all', FATAL => 'uninitialized';
unlock_keys and
lock_keys_plus from Hash::Util mentioned by Chas. Owens in the comments might be closer to what is needed in some circumstances.
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Over-provisioning a thing of the past
Vendors see thin provisioning catching on as a way to allocate physical capacity on an as-needed basis.
It's an old story: Manual provisioning of storage is a source of tension between storage and application folks, and contributes to the poor capacity utilization that persists in many SANs.
Those on the application side usually ask for more capacity than they need, said Craig Nunes, senior director of marketing at SAN array maker 3PAR of Fremont, Calif.
"The application guy thinks, 'If I get 500 GB, I'll never need to take down my application,'" said Nunes. Storage admins, meanwhile, try to put off unnecessary disk purchases and push to allocate less than they're being asked for. In the end, the application usually wins out. In Nunes' experience, applications typically get 75% more capacity than they use.
To this end, 3PAR users can license Thin Provisioning, which presents an application with a virtual volume of arbitrary size, but only allocates physical capacity to it as data is actually written. LeftHand Networks also supports this concept, said Tom Major, the firm's vice president of marketing, although it doesn't have a name for it.
Last month, DataCore announced an auto-provisioning feature for users of its SANmelody software, which works across DataCore Networked Managed Volumes on heterogeneous Fibre Channel and IP-based SAN arrays.
Network Appliance's new FlexVol feature, part of its new Data Ontap 7G operating system announced in November, is also a thin provisioning product, said Mike Fisch, director of storage and networking at Wellesley, Mass.-based Clipper Group. Thin provisioning, he said, is "anything that presents a volume bigger than the capacity it uses and can then fill that capacity."
For its part, EMC is working on what it calls "oversubscribed volumes." A company spokesperson said customers "are interested in this feature because it has the potential to address two issues: reducing storage costs by increasing storage utilization and minimizing the reprovisioning effort." EMC plans to include the technology across its portfolio, including Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra and Storage Router.


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Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to save money by lifting certain requirements of the California Public Records Act is getting some pushback from at least one corner of the Legislature.
Two years ago, an obscure state commission determined that the state must reimburse local governments if it requires them to assist the public with records requests and respond to them within 10 days.
Brown's spending plan for the fiscal year that will begin July 1 proposes that the state cover no such costs, essentially lifting the legal requirement for local governments to comply with the law.
U-T Watchdog in February featured the proposed budget cut for its possible impact on government transparency.
A Senate budget subcommittee earlier this month agreed with Brown. But this week, an Assembly budget subcommittee rebuffed the governor's idea, in part because it wouldn't save any money in 2013-14.
Many provisions of the open-government law would remain in tact, including the basic right to inspect public records and receive copies on request.
But open-government advocates argue that without requiring assistance from government officials in shaping the request — and a requirement that the government respond within 10 days — many people could be forced to wait indefinitely for an answer or for records.
Transparency advocates cast the proposal as the government further chipping away at the public's right to know.
Last year, lawmakers at the request of the governor effectively suspended parts of the state's open meeting law, including notifying the public about upcoming action items three days before a meeting. That action also came about because the California constitution prevents the state from imposing mandates without funding them.
Brown's planned budget for the coming year continues the open-meetings suspension, for a savings of about $20 million annually.
However, the state is not sure how much it might save by suspending parts of the public records laws. The commission that decides which state mandates are subject to the constitutional provision only recently decided local governments could charge the state for the records requirements, and it's not known the costs they might submit.
Brown's finance officials say they need to take the preventive steps so not to be billed down the road.
The Legislative Analyst's Office has recommended that provisions of the records law that constitute mandates be recast as optional "best practices." The analyst suggests local governments either comply with the "best practices" or declare publicly at their first scheduled meeting of the year that they plan not to do so.
The analyst's office estimates that statewide costs — once they are taken up by the commission — could be in the tens of millions of dollars a year for the public-records provisions in question.
Not so, says Terry Francke, the general counsel of the open government group Californians Aware.
He said the open meetings provisions affect every government meeting in the state, whether the public is interested or not. The public records provisions only apply to situations in which a member of the public actively pursues information, a far more infrequent event, Francke said.
The public-records proposal, which has received far less public attention than last year's cutbacks for open meetings requirements, strikes him as an abstract governmental reaction to a problem that doesn't exist.
"I am glad someone is taking another look at this," he said of the Assembly opposition to Brown's idea.


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I apologise for jumping right into a question, but I ran into the sort of behaviour that just makes no sense to me. It's like looking into the face of Great Cthulu - it's something that should not be, or at least I don't get why it is.
Here's the situation: I've been given what should be an embarrassingly basic task - load two files into memory. My plan was to load them in as ArrayLists, but I started running out of memory for the second file. I was attempting to load tab-delimited rows and split them into arrays, constructing an ArrayList of actual arrays. Probably inefficient, yes, but I didn't expect to run out of a GB of memory for a 100M file. Switching to simply loading the file's rows as basic Strings cut the memory usage down to a mere fraction of what it was before. OK, so lesson learned, I thought. A String split into arrays takes up more memory than a basic array.
Except then I did the same to the first file and that started using MORE memory. For the first file, I was loading two rows from the hard drive at a time and combining them into a single array of two elements, then adding them to the ArrayList. So I changed this to instead concatenate the the two rows into a single String, and that bloated both my memory used and the time taken by almost double. Processing time I get - concatenation messes with Strings, so it presumably takes longer. Fair enough. But why does switching from an array to a String now cost me MORE physical memory?
My actual working code is kind of spaghetti, so I compiled a small example that's actually very telling:
public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { String string1 = "cat"; String string2 = "dog"; String string3 = "rabbit"; String string4 = "mouse"; String string5 = "eagle"; String line = string1 + " " + string2 + " " + string3 + " " + string4 + " " + string5; ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); for(int i = 0; i <= 1000000; i++) { list.add(line); } System.out.println("Total used memory so far:" + (Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory()/1048576) + "MB"); ArrayList<String> list2 = new ArrayList<String>(); for(int i = 0; i <= 1000000; i++) { list2.add(string1 + " " + string2 + " " + string3 + " " + string4 + " " + string5); } System.out.println("Total used memory so far:" + (Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory()/1048576) + "MB"); } }
Run together, this produced the output of:
Total used memory so far:15MB Total used memory so far:155MB
Just the first cycle creates a footprint of 15MB, which I believe is within the footprint of he JVM, while just the second cycle produces a footprint of 137MB.
But why is this happening? Both cycles do the exact same thing, with the only difference being how they do it. The first cycle uses the concatenated variable "line" that's built from the five previous variables while the second cycle uses the five variables directly and concatenates them in the process of creating the list. The result is two identical lists with the same number of elements and the same element contents, yet the second one is ten times as big as the first one, and I do not know why. I don't know enough about Java "under the hood," but I can speculate some kind of garbage builds up as this is happening. I scoured the Web and it seems like I can't call the Garbage Collector. I can suggest it run, and running it through System does take down a good 20MB off the total pile, but it doesn't take down the 100+MB that make up the bulk of the difference.
Why do two ArrayLists with IDENTICAL contents differ in size so massively, and what can I do to avoid it? At this point, I've pieced it together that directly loading strings takes less memory than loading arrays, which takes less memory than loading concatenated strings and this just makes no sense to me. I'm sorry if this doesn't seem to make sense, but I failed my saving throw upon seeing the above example, lost 10 Sanity and now have a phobia of formatted text. I cannot understand why this is happening, and if I can't understand why it's happening, I don't know what I can do to prevent my programme blowing through a GB of memory for something which should not take this much.
I do have a few more tests I can post, but I'd like to wait for a response so I know I'm not just going crazy.


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gsmd is the GSM daemon running in background of the GTA01 phone, managing the actual 'phone' part of the phone :)
gsmd is usually started as a daemon in background, but can be run in foreground mode for debugging.
The options can be queried like:
> src/gsmd/gsmd --help gsmd - (C) 2006 by Harald Welte <firstname.lastname@example.com> This program is FREE SOFTWARE under the terms of GNU GPL Usage: -v --version Display program version -d --daemon Deamonize -h --help Display this help message -p dev --device dev Specify serial device to be used -s spd --speed spd Specify speed in bps (9600,38400,115200,...) -l file --logfile file Specify a logfile to log to
If your GSM modem is attached to ttyUSB3, you can e.g. use:
gsmd -p /dev/ttyUSB3 -s 115200
libgsmd is a library with C language API for application programs. Programs using this library can use the phone, e.g. make phone calls, receive incoming calls, register to the network, etc.
libgsmd-tool is a small demo applicaiton that can be used to demonstrate the usage of the libgsmd API.
libgsmd-tool has multiple modes.
Usage of shell mode
Shell mode provides a simple text-based command interface for making voice calls.
The shell mode can be started using
libgsmd-tool -m shell
It can be used like in the following example:
> src/util/libgsmd-tool -m shell libgsm-tool - (C) 2006 by Harald Welte This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY ? # A Answer incoming call D Dial outgoing number H Hangup call O Power On o Power Off R Register Netowrk O # EVENT: PIN request (type=1) Please enter PIN: 6582 R # EVENT: Netreg searching for network EVENT: Netreg registered (home network) D03024033902 # Dial 03024033902 EVENT: Call Progress: UNKNOWN EVENT: Call Progress: PROCEED EVENT: Call Progress: SYNC EVENT: Call Progress: ALERT H # Hangup EVENT: Call Progress: DISCONNECT EVENT: Call Progress: RELEASE EVENT: Incoming call type=2! EVENT: Incoming call clip=`"03024033902"' EVENT: Incoming call type=2! A # Answer RSTR=`OK' H # Hangup RSTR=`OK'
Usage of atcmd mode
The atcmd mode is a passthrough-mode. Passthrough means that it accepts GSM 07.07 commands, passes them through the daemon to the phone, and returns you the response. this is very useful for debugging.
The atcmd mode can be started using
libgsmd-tool -m atcmd
Usage is like in the following example:
> src/util/libgsmd-tool -m atcmd libgsm-tool - (C) 2006 by Harald Welte This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY AT+CPAS STR=`AT+CPAS' RSTR=`+CPAS: 0' AT+COPS=? STR=`AT+COPS=?' RSTR=`+COPS: (2,"E-Plus","E-Plus","26203"),(3,"o2 - de","o2 - de","26207"),(3,"Vodafone.de","Vodafone","26202"),(3,"T-Mobile D","TMO D","26201")'
Currently missing
(please add items to this list if you're missing more features)
- Phone related functions
- Airplane mode / gsmd stop
- Network related functions
- obtain list of available operators
- select operator out of the list
- obtain list of operator names
- query field strength
- SMS related features
- send SMS
- receive SMS
- SIM related functions
- read phonebook entry
- write phonebook entry
- GPRS related functions
- set up GPRS link, use it via separate DLC of TS07.10 multiplex
- gsmd internal infrastructure
- fine-grained event subscriptions (rather than wildcard-subscribe)
- possibility to specify log-level from command line


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Opposing the demand for death penalty for rapists, Khaps in Haryana on Sunday said no law should be introduced in a hurry which can be misused.
Speaking at a village in Hisar, Khap leader Sube Singh said that the authorities should not be carried away by emotions in the wake of the public protests over the gangrape issue and demand for death penalty for rapists.
"We have seen the anti-dowry Act and the SC/ST Act being misused. Any new law which gives such harsh punishment would also be vulnerable to misuse," Singh said.
The influential Khaps or caste panchayats have in the past drawn flak for opposing marriages in the same sect and their diktats on moral policing.
The statement by the Khap leader raised hackles of activists who said it was an attempt to shield the rapists in Haryana.
"20 gangrapes took place in Haryana in which several people are involved. This is a plot to save them. This atmosphere forces them to...disrespect among women," Jagmati Sangwan, general secretary of the All-India Democratic Women's Association, said.
The controversy comes in the midst of national outrage over the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old in Delhi who died on Friday night.
Haryana Khap Panchayat opposes death penalty for rape convicts, says laws on such crimes can be misused
The statement by Khap leader Sube Singh raised hackles of activists who said it was an attempt to shield the rapists in Haryana.
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The secret to moist, flavorful grilled fish, this multi-functional ceramic tray from France makes it easy to marinate, cook and serve fresh filets or steaks, all in the same vessel. High ridges sear the fish with grill marks, while the flame-safe ceramic gently diffuses heat to keep fish from becoming dry and overcooked. Great for vegetables, too!
- Ideal for cooking fish on the grill or stovetop, in the oven or under the broiler.
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BOLINGBROOK – About 45 Oak View Elementary School students missed the annual Girls on the Run-Chicago 5K on June 1 at Toyota Park because their bus sat in heavily congested traffic just two miles from the starting line.
With the support of Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar, American Girl, Claire's and several coaches and parents, the local girls on the run team ran its own 3.1-mile race after the final full day of class
June 4.
"The events that led to most of our team missing the Girls on the Run 5k is devastating and disheartening," Oak View Elementary Girls on the Run Coach Jamie Crouch said. "I am so proud of the way the girls handled it and unbelievably thankful for the parents, teacher and sponsors who helped us organize our own race."
A half-hour before the start of the Girls on the Run-Chicago 5K, Oak View Elementary Coach Jamie Crouch waited alongside several parents near the Toyota Park entrance, she said.
Crouch drove to Bridgeview, but the bus carrying her team, assistant coaches and several chaperones had yet to arrive.
The bus – which was chartered by the event organizers, but paid for by Oak View – left the Bolingbrook elementary school about 7:30 a.m. However, because of traffic near the intersection of Archer and Harlem Avenues, the bus did not arrive until 10:30 a.m., after the race had ended and when the event staff was breaking down the finish line.
"Weeks before the race, I pleaded with organizers to pick our team up no later 7 a.m.," Crouch said. "They wouldn't budge and assured me that the team would make it on time."
That was not the case, and the Oak View team was part of the about 1,500 children who missed the race due to traffic, Girls on the Run-Chicago Executive Director Kris Smart said.
The problem, Smart said, was a lack of security and police presence.
"We worked very hard with a well-established race company, and the city of Bridgeview and the Bridgeview chief of police," Smart said. "But, on the day of the event, they only sent one police officer to Toyota Park. There was nobody managing traffic. Bridgeview police did not provide the resources promised and gave us no advanced notice."
The Bridgeview Police Department declined comment.
Girls on the Run-Chicago since has issued an apology on its website and is refunding registration fees for those who did not participate. The organization is not refunding the $200 that each school paid in bus transportation fees, Crouch said.
After missing the event they had trained all year for, Crouch felt determined to make it to her team. But, with only three days left of school before summer vacation, she was pressed for time.
With the help of Valley View and Oak View administration, Crouch organized a 5K following the final full day of school June 4.
Several teachers and parents were on hand to cheer the runners. Additionally, Mayor Roger Claar donated pizza, and American Girl and Claire's provided gifts and goody bags to all participants.
"It is very unfortunate that our team had to go through this," Crouch said. "But it is so heartwarming to see how the community rallied around our girls."


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March 24, 2011 — Ecstasy use is rising among teens and young adults, causing a significant increase in emergency room visits by users of the street drug, a new federal study shows.
Hospital emergency department visits involving ecstasy increased from 10,222 in 2004 to 17,865 in 2008, a 74.8% increase.
Most of these emergency room visits (69.3%) involved patients between 18 and 29; 17.9% of those seeking help in ERs were between 12 and 17, according to the report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Negative Reactions to Ecstasy
Ecstasy can produce psychedelic and stimulant side effects, including anxiety attacks, hypertension, hyperthermia and rapid heart beat, called tachycardia. Such adverse reactions can increase when ecstasy is used, as it often is, along with alcohol or other substances of abuse, according to researchers.
SAMHSA says 77.8% of the emergency department visits involving ecstasy also involved the use of at least one other substance of abuse. Among ecstasy-related emergency department visits involving people 21 and older, 39.7% of the patients had used the drug with three or more substances of abuse, most often alcohol.
Among people 20 and older making emergency room visits because of ecstasy, 50.1% also had used alcohol and 43.4% cocaine, according to the SAMHSA's Drug Abuse Warning Network, a public health surveillance system known as DAWN.
Among emergency department patients 20 or younger, 20.4% had also used alcohol and 14.7% cocaine.
"The resurgence of ecstasy use is cause for alarm that demands immediate attention and action," SAMHSA administrator Pamela S. Hyde, JD, says in a news release. "The aggressive prevention efforts being put into place by SAMHSA will help reduce use in states and communities, resulting in less costly emergency department visits related to drug use."
Ecstasy Trends
According to the DAWN report:
- Trend statistics suggest the use of ecstasy is increasing among younger populations.
- Between 2005 and 2008, self-reported use of ecstasy in the past year increased among adolescents from 1% to 1.4%.
- Ecstasy can cause increased blood pressure, dehydration, heat stroke, muscle cramping, blurred vision, heart failure, and kidney failure, in addition to other side effects like recklessness and anxiety.
- In 2008, ecstasy-related visits to emergency departments made up 1.8% of the total caseload for illicit drugs.
- Ecstasy was the seventh most commonly involved illicit drug involved in emergency department visits, behind cocaine, which accounted for 48.5% of the ER visits, marijuana (37.7%), heroin (20.2%), methamphetamine (6.7%), PCP or phencylidine (3.8%), and amphetamines (3.2%).
- 12.8% of emergency department visits involving ecstasy were made by adults 30 and older. Males accounted for 52.8% of the emergency department visits related to ecstasy.
Regional Differences in Ecstasy Use
DAWN researchers also detected regional differences in ecstasy use. Their report says 34% of ecstasy-related emergency department visits were made in the South, 31.4% in the West, 18.5% in the Midwest, and 16.1% in the Northeast.
Other key findings:
- On average, 2.8 drugs were involved in ecstasy-related emergency visits in 2008.
- In 31.3% of ecstasy-related emergency department visits, one other drug was involved, compared to 15% that involved two additional drugs, 14% three other drugs, and 17.5% four or more.
Authors of the DAWN report say ecstasy is a public health concern because of its adverse health consequences, and it is also addictive. It says users of the drug need to be educated about its dangers, especially about what can happen when it's used with other illicit substances.


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Last weekend most of the box office attention was on the gaudy "Iron Man 2" numbers. But the fantastic documentary "Babies" made its mark on audiences as well.
The movie outperformed expectations for Focus Features, pulling in $2.15 million, including an impressive $1.08 million on Mother's Day. For a film of this scope, these are great numbers.
"What can I say? Christmas came on Mother's Day for our million dollar babies!" James Schamus, the CEO of Focus Features tells PopcornBiz. "In my two decades of film business experience, I've never seen anything like it."
For audiences, "Babies" is a rare treat, chronicling the early days of four babies from around the globe with minimal interruption by annoying adult figures. It's pure, uncut, international cute.
And the filmmakers are counting on excellent word-of-mouth to propel the film to even greater heights in the weeks to come. "Babies" will hold steady in about 500 theaters this weekend.
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Jumping back and forth across three decades and differing versions of the truth, "The Debt" follows three Mossad agents sent to Berlin to capture and bring to justice a Nazi war criminal. Featuring an impressive cast led by Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain and Sam Worthington, "The Debt" doesn't quite achieve the heights to which it aspires.
In this remake of the 2007 Israeli thriller "Ha-Hov" adapted by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, three young Mossad agents--Rachel Singer (Mirren/Chastain), Stephan Gold (Tom Wilkinson/Marton Csokas) and David Peretz (Ciaran Hinds/Worthington)--are sent to Berlin to hunt down a Doctor Bernhardt. A seemingly kindly old gynecologist, Bernhardt in another life was known as Dieter Vogel, a monstrous butcher working in the service of the Third Reich.
Thirty years after the mission, Rachel's daughter has written a book chronicling her mother's heroic efforts. But on the same day that Rachel does a reading from the book, she gets word that truth about what she and her comrades did so long ago is in danger of being revealed.
The estranged colleagues are now forced to decide whether to let the truth surface, or go back to Europe and silence things forever. Complicating the negotiations is romantic entanglements that ultimately drove them all apart. Of course, it's decided that one of them must go back—otherwise the film would've been a bout 30 minutes long.
Luckily for director John Madden ("Shakespeare in Love"), he gets his two best performances from Mirren and Chastain, who share the lead role of Rachel, the one who's ultimately sent back to clean up the mess she and her comrades left behind. Chastain's Rachel must confront her prey in the most vulnerable way, posing as a gynecological patient, and later is taunted ruthlessly by her prisoner, who first tries to appeal to their shared humanity before attacking her Jewish-ness, and all the while she's caught between Stephan's attraction to her and her attraction to David. The face of Mirren as the older Rachel bears all the scars, but physical and emotional, of everything her younger self as endured. She's world-weary and tortured by the truth to this day, but unsure she wants it put to bed.
Csokas' Stephan is a spirited and ambitious schemer, brimming with rage and hungry for vengeance—and Rachel, among other women. But Worthington's David is a little too two-dimensional, you don't get the sense that there's an interior life of any complexity.
Unfortunately, Madden can't quite get a handle on the film's tension, the pacing of the film feels uneven, and the final act of "The Debt" grows progressively improbable, before turning flat-out unbelievable, in a manner that doesn't serve the story nearly well enough to justify it.


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To a Caterpillar fan there is only one kind of tractor that matters. It has tracks, is painted yellow, runs forever and has Caterpillar on its nose. The company was and still is a major manufacturer of agricultural, construction and earthmoving equipment, but its earlier products are keenly sought after by enthusiasts, many of whom still use their machines for work as well as pleasure.
The Long Sutton Agricultural Society, UK, with the Antique Caterpillar Owners Club of Great Britain, brought a collection of tractors to South Lincolnshire for a working day on 34 acres of land. This official dvd is a record of that day, covering machines from little D2s to massive D8s at work ploughing, cultivating and mole draining, as well as five static machines from the earliest days of the company.
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SANFORD, Fla. – Rookie Kyle Brenner (Brookfield, Mass./St. Peter-Marian) pitched at least seven innings for the third time this season, but the Brandeis University bats couldn't quite overcome the University of Rochester Yellowjackets in a 6-4 University Athletic Association loss at Historic Sanford Stadium today. The Judges fall to 5-9 overall, 1-6 in the UAA, while UR improves to 2-5 overall and in the conference.
Brenner, who has a seven- and nine-inning complete game on his resume already this season, gave an eight-inning performance today. He gave up 11 hits and six earned runs. He walked one and struck out one to fall to 2-2 on the season. Junior Dylan Britton (Poughquag, N.Y./Arlington) gave up one hit in retiring the side in the ninth inning.
Offensively, the Judges were never quite able to overcome Rochester. The Yellowjackets scored once in the first inning, when the Judges traded a run for two outs. Rochester CF Alex Caghan was hit by a pitch to lead off the game and stole second. After 2B Ethan Sander singled to put runners on the corners, Brenner induced the twin-killing to help minimize the damage. The 'Jackets added two more runs in the fourth on an RBI double by 1B Nick Carlson and a sacrifice fly by LF Dominic Caruso.
Brandeis answered the two-spot in the bottom of the fifth inning. After sophomore 3B Brian Ing (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) walked to lead off the frame, he scored all the way from first on senior CF Zach Malis's (Merrick, N.Y./Bellmore JFK) double to left. Malis scored on an error at shortstop after Britton – who started the game in left field - bunted him to third.
UR extended the lead back to three runs in the top of the seventh. After Carlson and Caruso singled to lead off the inning, a balk by Brenner moved both players into scoring position. A sacrifice fly by SS Marlin Myers scored the first run, while Caghan's single made it a 5-2 game before another double play closed out the inning.
The Judges got those two runs back in the bottom of the seventh, but had a chance for more. Ing led off the inning with a single. Two batters later, sophomore SS Dom Schwartz (San Francisco, Calif./Lowell) singled to left. O'Hare followed with a double to left center to cut the lead to 5-3 with two runners in scoring position. Senior catcher Kenny Destremps (Mashpee, Mass./Mashpee) hit a ball to short that was booted, allowing Schwartz to score, but O'Hare tried to score from second and got cut down at the plate to end the inning the Brandeis trailing, 5-4. UR tacked on another run on a bases-loaded sac fly by 1B Brian Bezek in the eighth. Brandeis put two runners on in the ninth when Malis reached on a dropped third strike and Britton walked, but the Judges weren't able to push them any further.
Brandeis, which had only five hits for the game, didn't have any multiple hitters, though Ing crossed the plate twice thanks to a single and a walk. O'Hare and Malis each had a double for the Judges.
Every UR starter had a hit, Caghan, Tim LSeur, Josh Ludwig and Carlson each having two. Carlson's double was the 'Jackets' only extra-base hit. Rochester's Jon Menke improved to 1-1 on the season with six innings of two-hit ball, walking two and striking out two. Adam Sullivan tossed two hitless innings with three Ks and a walk for his second save of the season.
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BALTIMORE -- The Orioles opened their home slate against the Twins on Friday with a long pregame ceremony that honored their three Gold Glove winners from last year and others, such as the late Earl Weaver.
The Hall of Fame manager, who died during the winter, was honored with no first pitch being thrown before the game. Instead, the ball was left on the mound while the crowd observed a moment of silence. There also was a video tribute to Weaver shown on the video board in center field, one that drew a large ovation from the crowd.
As usual, the Orioles players and coaches were introduced to the crowd. Manager Buck Showalter received a loud ovation when he ran out of the dugout and several players got plenty of cheers, most notably first baseman Chris Davis.
Davis, like the others in the starting lineup, ran from the gate in center and down the orange carpet to the infield behind second base. He had three homers and 11 RBIs as the Orioles took two of three from the Rays in St. Petersburg during the season-opening series.
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J.J. Hardy (shortstop), Adam Jones (center field) and Matt Wieters (catcher) were then presented with American League Gold Glove Awards for fielding excellence in 2012. This was the first one for Hardy and the second for Jones and Wieters.
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Is Jail Time Good for Anyone's Health?By Lewis Koch | Posted 2001-12-10 Print
The medical community is supposed to safeguard patient records. It's doing a sickly job of it
The rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), set to take effect in the spring of 2003, dramatically raise the stakes for violating medical privacy, proscribing huge fines and prison terms for those who breach information security.
Question: Is the health care industry going to be ready?
Gartner is definite about the forecast. "The health care industry is not going to make the current HIPAA transactions deadlines. . .the fact that 85% of [health care] providers have yet to complete transaction assessments indicates that the industry is unlikely to be ready for compliance in one year."
Health care organizations and their trusted partners—"partners" used as a catchall covering almost every conceivable permutation of health care providers—aren't coming to grips with the new rules intended to curtail the massive distribution of personal, private medical information.
At present, any interested individual or industry can pry, copy, analyze and sell medical information without the consent of the individual—all for profit.
The University of Washington Medical Center's computer security was so lax that the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 4,000 patients—along with the medical procedures each patient underwent, were compromised by a hacker. Hospital officials denied the event occurred until the hacker sent the records to a journalist.
Unauthorized disclosure of personal, private medical information, the direct targeting by name—for example, lists of elderly incontinent women, or middle-aged impotent men—these and other unnerving examples have led to federal constraints.
The federal rules crisscross and govern the entire health care field, including trusted partners. Health care centers will be required to appoint a "privacy officer" to inform patients of their privacy rights. This officer also is responsible for monitoring compliance with the federal privacy regulations. It's quite a change from the "good old days" when physicians and hospitals would preclude patients from reading their own medical records.
Medical associations, hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, insurance companies and human resources departments that monitor employees' health-care expenditures will come under scrutiny. Of all these groups, the insurance industry seems most prepared for HIPAA. The rest seem to be praying for postponement.
Ask the American Medical Association what concrete steps they have taken to protect data that they have on their 800,000 physician-members, information they've sold and profited from in the past. The group won't tell you, and had an in-house attorney, Thomas Healy, remind a journalist that to test their computer security without permission might be a federal offense.
The AMA and 25 other medical associations have written a "beggar's letter" to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., pleading for more time to meet the HIPAA rules. Contrast this to the California Medical Association, the largest state medical association in the nation. It exceeds the HIPAA standards and is ready to share the techniques with anyone who asks.
Computer security companies claim they can make a health care company "HIPAA compliant." Many can, but at a price that includes purchasing the company's expensive, proprietary software. A better approach is to find someone like Kate Borten of the Marblehead Group in Boston with hands-on experience in the computer room and in the hospital boardroom to get the job done on time and on budget.
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I'm a 6th level Perlic User. I'm quite capable of constructing my own objects1 thanks very much.
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Okay you got me. I'm quoting out of context. Here's chromatic again:
I don't know what these 18 items actually indicate, how well integrated you are with the perlective perhaps or how much you code like chromatic, but for sure only 6 or 7 at best are decent indicators of ability to write Perl well. I answered 9 of them in the wrong way and I'm certainly not rushing to correct the deficiency.
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TwitterJournoBlogoSphere: The Art of Media Punditry
The news media's changing audience demographics, legacy economics and digital future are fodder for a plethora of journalists, bloggers, researchers and news groups. Today, they incorporate Twitter as a lead platform to disseminate their views as well as industry news, research and analyses. Twitter posts are de rigueur, adding social "cred" to their ability to not only share breaking reports but to also provide context and opinion. The degree to which the news trade ecosystem is exploiting Twitter is impressive. See the infographic here with interactive Twitter stats and Klout Scores that illuminate the numbers for our sample of 22 industry cognoscenti.
Collectively, the TwitterJournoBlogoSphere cross-section represented here has posted nearly a quarter of a million tweets to date (1). Posting frequency and the total number of tweets span the gamut from relatively modest and selective to bot, machine-like abundance. Five of our 22 tweeters, Jeff Jarvis, Steve Buttry, Jay Rosen, The Poynter Institute and Jim Romenesko, have generated close to a 60% share of the total tweets noted.
Engagement on Twitter and Social Media
Klout assigns a numerical value as a proxy for social connectivity, content and influence. The average Klout Score is 40, taken from measures across Twitter as well as Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Klout, Wikipedia and Foursquare. Our TwitterJournoBlogoSphere constituents are rated from average to well-above average. Higher scores imply they are receiving deeper engagement on their posted content.
Sources: Twitter and Klout Score data as of Friday, January 25, 2013 5-6PM EST (1) Tweets 245,117; Following 38,354; Followers 628,479
33% of U.S. Adults Now Get News on a Mobile Device
New research indicates that accessing news content on mobile devices is on a sharp incline, spurred on by consumer excitement over and embracement of mobile platforms and apps. According to Magid's Mobile Content Study 2012, by 2013 smartphone ownership will increase 53%, from 99 million to 151 million, and tablets will more than double, from 51 million to 106 million. Tom Godfrey, Magid's Executive Director of Mobile Strategy observes, "what publishers and advertisers have to realize is that most content going forward will be consumed on a mobile device and that it must be accessible and optimized for that platform."
For newspaper publishers, smartphones and tablets offer news organizations a new way to reinvent themselves yet again. Pew Research's newly released Future of Mobile News 2012 finds that "fully a third of all U.S. adults now get news on a mobile device at least once a week", up 6 percentage points from 27% in March. In addition, user engagement with mobile news on smartphones or tablets averages 50+ minutes a day.
1 in 5 Newspapers Now Behind a Paywall
As greater numbers of information seekers turn to mobile, tablets and the internet for news, newspaper's digital editions have emerged as a revenue strategy. News organizations are ramping up paywalls or rolling out "all digital access" subscriptions bundled with traditional print. As well, Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC is now Alliance for Audited Media) rule changes allowing publishers to better reflect digital acquisitions are helping publishers boost overall circulation.
Over at the New York Times, its success in paywall sign-ups has gotten the industry's attention. How well its meter strategy helps transition the Times from "print to screen" and positions it for longer term financial health is being watched closely by the industry. With just over 50% of its average daily circulation now a result of digital subscriptions, it's a benchmark with lots financial implications.
A look at the top 10 newspaper publishers by the number of paywalls they've implemented illustrates the ranges at which paywalls have taken hold.
News & Tech's frequently updated paywall list also indicates that at 293 papers and counting, 21% of all U.S. dailies now expect some level of payment for access to articles or premium content. At this pace, a likely scenario is for paywall expansion to touch at least 25% of local dailies by year-end 2012.
Below is my infographic with more stats, including digital circ growth and the top 10 daily newspapers by % digital circ.