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Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal blogs to big newspapers to hear what they are hearing from local merchants. We're wrapping up our research for the New Business Models for News Project — indeed, it was Alberto Ibargüen, head of the Knight Foundation that funded this work, who said he really wanted to hear sales people's perspective — and beginning research for Carnegie-funded work on new ad models, products, service, and sales methods, working with The New York Times on The Local. Some of what we learned; the first four are the most important to me:
* Most important, I think, is that we won't be selling media to merchants — banners 'n' buttons — so much as we will be selling service: helping them with all their digital needs, including optimizing them in Google and Yelp and social media and mobile. I'll write a post with more thoughts on this shortly.
* Voice matters. Local bloggers said they are must-reads because of their voice in the community (the human voice of the neighbor over the cold voice of the institution) and that — along with a constant flow of posts and news and the audience and conversation that attracts — makes them must-buys for advertisers. One blogger made the newspapers visibly jealous reporting that advertisers are coming to the blog asking to advertise because they had to be there. Another way to look at this: The service must be part of the community. One of the bloggers covers new businesses in town because that's news; ads may follow but even if they don't, the site will cover commerce in the community.
* There is interest in network sales. One newspaper exec in the room said she's jealous of the new advertisers smaller bloggers get and would be interesting in having those bloggers sell into her site. The blogger is also interested in getting revenue from larger advertisers via the newspaper's sales. That networked approach is key to the optimization of value we projected in our new business models for the local news ecosystem: the advertiser can be better served by appearing in more services with easier purchase; the large site can get new customers it could not otherwise afford to sell; the small site can get large advertisers it could not otherwise attract; all ships rise on this tide. (However, we must find a new word instead of "network," as it has low-value cooties associated with it. Alliance? Ecosystem? Suggestions?)
* We at CUNY are going to be investigating the possibilities for citizen sales — new sales forces and new sales businesses that can sprout up alongside and help support the new news businesses. The group saw potential here but also saw the need for training and quality control.
* It's clear that local merchants still need education. In the early days of the web, we had to sell advertisers not just on the value of our sites but on the value of the internet itself. That effort continues with smaller advertisers. That means that there's a greater cost of sales. It also means that this is a means of sales — come to our internet seminar (a technique that is working for various of the participants). And I see a role here for organizations such as universities (not to mention chambers of commerce) to help local merchants understand the value of the internet.
* Local ad agencies also need education still.
* There was some debate about the sophistication of local advertisers and their need for data, but it's clear that in many cases, media have to collect, analyze, and present data on performance and return on investment. One of the more established companies said all that matters to small advertisers is ROI (return on investment: feet to the door and ringing cash registers). One of the newer companies said more data is needed to prove performance and value. In some cases, we will measure will be attention, in others leads produced, in others sales, and in others more intangible measurements about community and relationships. At our conference on new business models for news in the fall, Gannett talked about research it did with Ideo that found that very local merchants need discovery (read: search) but in many cases, their customers already now they're there; so what they seek is better relationships with their communities; how do we deliver and measure that?
* The simpler the better. Local merchants are not buying CPM-based advertising. They're buying timed sponsorships. They want to see the ad they bought on the site.
* Google is playing a bigger and bigger role in local (via the web and now mobile). Some local merchants don't bother having a site; their ads link to their Google place page.
* One old law of sales is still true: get one butcher advertising and that helps force the next one to join in.
* Self-serve platforms for buying advertising are not the answer. Sales is still needed. I've heard that in more than one horror story about low revenue from build-it-and-they-will-come efforts. Once an advertiser is sold, I've also heard of success in enabling them to update their ads (e.g., providing them with advertiser blogs).
* Replicating print ads online doesn't work for advertisers or readers. No surprise there; the only surprise is that publications and merchants still try.
* There are other products besides advertising to sell: email, events, coupons (which work well for many local sites). There was some debate in the group about the value of video as a vehicle for advertising and as a form of advertising itself. More experimentation is needed.
At CUNY, our next step will be performing research with local advertisers/merchants. Then we'll work on R&D on new ad forms. Then we'll try to train citizen sales forces. This is the next step in our work on new business models and sustainability for news. Stay tuned.
: LATER: In the comments, Dave Chase of SunValleyOnline adds great notes:
Great observations and consistent with what I have heard/seen from working with lots of local advertisers at SunValleyOnline which is one of the sites talked about in the CUNY "census" you guys did that has managed to build a reasonable (and profitable business). I generally agree with what you've laid out but will amplify or differ with a few items.
1. Education: Hands down the biggest need I've seen. Sales people need it. Merchants need it. Local agencies/marketing consultants need it. Citizen ad sales will really need it. It's the reason I collaborated with a former colleague to create a how-to resource for local merchants on marketing in the digital age that I'm making available to the ventures I'm involved with. I believe there's scalable ways for local sites to tap into this without having to do all the training themselves that can also serve as lead generation.
2. Tools for advertisers to manage their own ads: Despite having two tools (Impact Engine and Mixpo) that have very easy interfaces and through much encouragement, virtually no advertiser is taking advantage of it. They simply want us to take care of it. The advertisers I've worked with aren't sophisticated at all from a marketing perspective.
3. VideoAds: This is primarily a function of the size of advertiser you are going after and where they've advertised. Generally, it's the bigger advertiser who has run TV ads before that will be candidates to move $$. Turns out one of the categories where $$ are finally starting to move is political ads. The recent Supreme Court decision will accelerate that. Dynamically built videoads is a particularly promising area and is something that took place in the recent Massachusetts Senate race (on the winning side). There's some powerful tools that allow A-B testing, message optimization, etc. that are accessible even to the smallest advertiser.
: And Max Kalehoff says it well in the comments: "Sell the outcome."


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Last night, the St. Regis Hotel looked a lot like it did back in the hotel's golden era, when Salvador Dali's ocelot roamed the halls and Frank Sinatra's crew regularly rolled up to the hotel's famed King Cole Bar, which, today, is often occupied by midtown office workers. But to celebrate the launch of Thornwillow Libretto — an ongoing literary series that includes "ruminations, rants, reminiscences, and more" from some of today's top literary talents — guests sipped vintage cocktails, literary quotes were painted onto women in backless dresses (an homage to Salvador Dalí, who inhabited the hotel in the fifties), and a bathtub full of Champagne was on hand. Also on hand: bartender Louis Rodopoulos, who has been working at the St. Regis since 1955. We couldn't resist the chance to ask Rodopoulos about his tenure at the hotel, the recipe for the "original" Bloody Mary, and, obviously, Salvador Dalí's ocelot.
When did you start working at the St. Regis?
I've been working here for 56 years. I started working here on November 17, 1955. I came to the United States in 1953 from Greece. After two years, I met someone at a soccer game. I met someone who had worked at the St. Regis. So I sat next to him, and we start talking, so I said "I'm looking for a job. Do you know anybody?" This was Sunday. He says, "Come tomorrow." I started working the next day. When I came here, I met my boss, who was a wonderful man. I worked with him for seventeen years. He hired me here as a barback, and after seven years, he made me a bartender. He was the inventor of the Bloody Mary.
Did he give you his secret recipe?
He taught me how to make the Bloody Mary. And he told me, "This is the right way. You do it the way I'm doing it." I didn't keep the recipe a secret. If someone comes to me and says, "I love the Bloody Mary," I have to tell them how to make it. I can't keep it a secret.
So what's the recipe?
Two days of salt, two dashes of pepper — cayenne pepper and black pepper. A couple dashes of Lea & Perrins sauce, and then squeeze a lime or two, and mix it all together. Shake it once or twice, then pour it into the glass with two and a half ounces of tomato juice and two ounces of vodka. You mix it all together, you put it into a highball glass, and then you put in the celery stick. So that was the whole story of the Bloody Mary.
Did you ever encounter Salvador Dalí's ocelot?
Oh yes, yes.
Was it on a leash?
Sometimes he had it on the leash. I seen him a few times walking on the second floor, going to the side room — it was not on the leash! The ocelot knew the place. As soon as it got out of the elevator, it was walking in front of him and going to the side room.
Isn't that dangerous?
Not really. As far as I know, when I was working in the King Cole Bar, Dalí would come in almost every Sunday with the ocelot, and he puts it on the armchair. There were two armchairs and he would sit in the other one and have his lunch. Sometimes he was feeding the ocelot something.


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SpaceX to Launch First Private Craft to Space Station—Next Stop: Mars?
Firm's spacecraft being designed with deep space in mind, founder says.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule is almost ready to become the first private spacecraft to visit the International Space Station (ISS), NASA and SpaceX officials announced today.
Following what's known as a flight-readiness review, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, aka SpaceX, is so far on course to launch the reusable Dragon aboard the firm's Falcon 9 rocket later this month, NASA said at a Monday press briefing.
(See a picture of the Falcon 9 during an orbital test flight.)
But SpaceX founder Elon Musk already has his eyes on a bigger prize: putting people on Mars as quickly as possible.
According to Musk, all SpaceX ventures—including the Dragon mission—are being designed to advance this ambitious larger goal.
"I'm a big believer in humanity becoming a multiplanetary species," Musk said.
"At SpaceX our goal is to keep pushing innovations in rocketry and scaling things up to get to a point where we can allow people to basically move to Mars."
Musk envisions human colonies on Mars within the next 30 years or so, and he's said he'd like to retire there. (Musk isn't alone: See "Why Did 400 People Volunteer For a One-Way Trip to Mars?")
"People are really excited about the idea of Mars, but it's got to be done without blowing the national budget," Musk said. "So the thing that's really key for rockets is full and rapid reusability.
"Imagine a plane you could only use once a month or a plane where you had to replace the wings after every flight—they wouldn't be very useful.
"Designing more efficient reusable [space] equipment—which can withstand the forces of reentry and be quickly pressed back into service—is the breakthrough.
"At SpaceX we're going to try to solve this problem, but it's superhard. In the past when people have tried, it hasn't worked out. There are a lot of people who just don't think it's possible, including much of the space industry."
(Related: "Astronauts Could Ride Asteroids to Mars, Study Says.")
SpaceX Rockets to Be Mars Ready?
Dragon is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 30. The unmanned test flight will deliver some 1,150 pounds (521 kilograms) of cargo to astronauts aboard the space station and then will carry some cargo back to Earth.
The mission could prove to be a milestone in the new space race to commercialize U.S. space travel now that NASA's space shuttle program has ended.
Since last year NASA has paid to use Russian vehicles to deliver cargo and astronauts aloft. The space agency has also partially funded some private ventures, including SpaceX.
(Also see "After Space Shuttle, Does U.S. Have a Future in Space?")
In April 2011, for instance, NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to develop a crewed version of the Dragon capsule, which is being designed to carry up to seven astronauts and their gear to low-Earth orbit.
Musk knows that many setbacks await. He places the odds at total success for Dragon's upcoming mission, including successful docking with the ISS, at perhaps 60 percent.
"We just hope to make steady progress and try to get as far as we possibly can and make sure that rocket technology keeps getting better," Musk said.
In addition, the company's Falcon Heavy rocket—which builds off the Falcon 9—is being designed to become the world's most powerful currently operating rocket by a factor of two, second only to the Apollo missions' Saturn V among all rockets yet built.
(Related: Explore high-resolution, zoomable pictures of spacecraft.)
Like other SpaceX ventures, the Falcon Heavy is being built for nearer-term objectives and being made Mars ready at the same time, said SpaceX spokesperson Kirstin Grantham.
"We're talking about a vehicle that would allow us to carry heavier payloads for commercial customers," she explained.
"But it would also make possible unmanned scientific missions to Mars, which would be a good precursor to manned missions, and we've already talked with NASA Ames Research Center about [partnering] on that kind of mission."
For Mars Missions, Have to Do It Smart
Robert Zubrin, president of the nonprofit Mars Society, believes that SpaceX is already showing that such Mars missions are feasible from the critical big-picture perspectives of cost and scheduling.
"It's a huge step for an entrepreneurial company to begin operations to supply the space station, and frankly they've built a system that is good enough to transport crew, with regulatory approval the only thing standing in the way," he said.
"And they've done this for a tiny fraction of the money, something like one-twentieth of what NASA proposed to spend developing their own Orion or other multiple-purpose vehicle.
"This shows that things of this sort can be developed for hundreds of millions of dollars, not tens of billions of dollars, and that is a profound difference."
(Also see pictures: "Mock Mars Mission 'Returns' to Earth.")
Zubrin also noted that SpaceX's rapid progress suggests crewed Mars missions could become a reality within years, not decades.
"They've been at this cargo thing for only three years or so, and now they are flying it," he said. "NASA started working on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle circa 2002, and it still hasn't flown.
"We can afford to send humans to Mars," Zubrin continued. "Musk has shown us that we can do it, provided that we do it smart."
Partners Needed for Human Spaceflight?
Scott Pace, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, is also hoping to see a successful launch of Dragon, which he called important for the ISS program.
But Pace doesn't see much relation at all between this flight and any future Mars mission.
"Going to Mars is orders and orders of magnitude [more challenging] in terms of expense and in terms of technology."
Although he's an advocate of manned Mars missions, Pace added that after NASA's Mars Science Laboratory—aka Curiosity—lands on the red planet in August 2012, future Mars plans are very uncertain for space programs around the world.
"The strategy for Mars exploration is just not defined right now," he said. "A realistic look at the budget and the politics involved is such that I don't think anyone believes that we'll have a human mission beyond low-Earth orbit that's not an international mission."
Considering the likely partners in such a venture—countries such as Japan, China, and India—Pace says the moon is a more likely near-term target for human missions. (See "China's First Space Walk Mission a Step Toward the Moon?")
A lunar landing would be "very challenging for many countries, but it's also doable. A Mars mission or an asteroid mission is really far out for them, and I don't think we're going to go someplace where you don't have partners."
NASA officials would likely agree: "NASA's focus has been, in terms of private spacecraft, to get cargo to low-Earth orbit and then to get people to low-Earth orbit," said agency spokesperson Michael Braukus.
"In terms of our focus on deeper space, the President has laid out the first target for us as an asteroid landing by 2025, so we really haven't been focusing on Mars."
Becoming a Spacefaring Species
The Mars Society's Zubrin strongly advocates that the red planet be made a far more immediate priority for three reasons: the science, the challenge, and the future.
"We're going to find out by going to Mars whether another planet in our solar system developed life, and that will give us a better idea of how prevalent life might be elsewhere as well," he explained. (See "Life on Mars Found by NASA's Viking Mission?")
"And the challenge, I think, will encourage millions to enter the fields of science and engineering—just as Apollo did—but this time to an even greater extent, because those fields are far more open to women than they once were."
Finally, Zubrin said, humans should visit Mars for the future of the species.
"Mars is the closest planet that has the resources on it to support life and a civilization," he said.
"If we can establish a foothold on another world, then 200 years from now there will be a new branch of human civilization on Mars, and humanity will become a spacefaring species with the entire universe open to it."


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Left Is Mute On Racial Double Standard In Kagan Pick
By Roland S. Martin, CNN Political Analyst
* Roland Martin says that there's a double standard in pick of Elena Kagan for Supreme Court
* Of 29 posts Kagan filled at Harvard Law, 28 were whites, 1 was Asian-American, he says
* He says left ignores troubling issues about diversity in pick to protect Democratic president
* Martin: Feminist, civil rights groups should demand answers about Kagan's diversity record
Editor's note:Roland S. Martin, a CNN political analyst, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith" and the new book "The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House." He is a commentator for TV One Cable Network and host of a Sunday morning news show.
(CNN) -- If a white Republican president of the United States appointed a white male as his next Supreme Court justice, and upon the inspection of his record, it was discovered that of the 29 full-time tenured or tenured track faculty he hired as dean of Harvard Law, nearly all of them were white men, this would dominate the headlines.
It would be reasonable to conclude that the special interest groups that vigorously fight for diversity -- civil rights organizations, feminist groups and other liberal institutions -- would be up in arms, declaring that this person's records showed him unwilling to diversify academia, and unqualified to consider diverse views as one of nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court. There would be widespread condemnations of Republicans having no concern for the nonwhite males in America.
But what if the choice were made by a black Democratic president, and it was a woman? A white woman? A white Democratic woman?
Some of you may not like the fact that I am focusing on the race of the individual, but when diversity is raised, the person's skin color, gender and background are considered germane to the discussion. And if there is silence from black and female organizations, their race and gender matter as well.
We may very well witness this now that President Obama has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
Guy-Uriel Charles, founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics, has heavily scrutinized Kagan's hiring record as head of Harvard Law School. In a scathing blog post, he has said that of the 29 positions Kagan had a chance to fill, 28 were white and one was Asian-American. And of the group, only six were women -- five white and one Asian-American.
These numbers on the surface are appalling, and would be ripped to shreds by those who value diversity, but my gut tells me that even though Kagan has been tapped by Obama, the normally vocal and persistent voices in this area will be tight-lipped and quiet, unwilling to oppose or heavily criticize the nomination of a woman to the court, and especially one made by an African-American Democratic president.
If that does happen, Republicans will rightly cry foul, saying it represented a double standard -- that the silence was a signal of partisan hacks more concerned about not offending the Obama administration, rather than the ideals they hold near and dear.
They don't want to be seen as going against an ally, and they are more concerned about their access to the White House than the mission they have always valued.
Even before she was chosen, the White House was fighting back against the attacks on her record by Charles, which have been amplified by Salon.com.
According to the site, the White House has disseminated talking points stressing that the real issue is not those who took the jobs, but the offers Kagan made. In addition, they highlight the number of other African-Americans on the faculty, as well as the percentage of minority students during her tenure.
So basically, the White House wants everyone to believe that Kagan made offers, but nearly all of the minorities chose not to go to work for the most prestigious law school in America.
Folks, I wasn't born yesterday.
The real issue will be reaction from the left. It is shameful and disgusting when civil rights organizations, feminist groups and others lose their conviction and sense of purpose when a Democrat gets in the White House. They need to decide what matters: their principles or their politics; their mission or their liberal money; their convictions or chicken dinners in the White House.
Some have already spoken up. The Black Women's Roundtable of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation released a letter Sunday night questioning Kagan's commitment to civil rights, as well as criticizing the Obama administration for its failure to seriously consider African-American female judges.
"As we continue to promote the legacy of our late founding leader and Co-Convener, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, we will always seek to highlight the concerns of Black women, our families and our communities. Thus, as Dr. Height stated in our previous meeting with your Administration, we believe it is time for African American women to be represented in all sectors of government -- including the Supreme Court of the United States, which in its 221 year history has not had a Black woman nominated to serve on our highest court in the land," the letter stated.
"Our trepidation regarding General Kagan is premised on the lack of a clearly identifiable record on the protection of our nation's civil rights laws. As women leaders, we greatly respect General Kagan's intellectual capabilities and highly accomplished record in the Administration and academia. Nonetheless, there is a dearth of a specific emphasis on the civil rights laws utilized in the protection of racial and ethnic minorities and those traditionally disenfranchised in this nation."
Credibility and consistency are vital for any organization. And if the leaders of civil rights and feminist organizations do not demand strong and clear answers from the White House about Kagan and her diversity track record as dean of Harvard Law School, they are failing the people they say they represent.
Demanding accountability about diversity isn't a one-way street meant only for Republicans. Democrats should never get a pass either.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin.


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Welcome to this week's Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. As the title indicates, it's been a year since Mel Zelaya was thrown out of office. He and his teddy bear are also gone from his tin foil-lined room at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
The UN Office for Drugs and Crime's report
Collateral damage
Cristina se reunió con empresarios antes del comienzo de la cumbre del G20
Barbados and Panama sign double taxation agreement
Bolivian Bottles Build Houses
Brazil's foreign policy
An Iranian banana skin
Lula has little to show for his Tehran adventure
Lula's adventure in Tehran smacks of the overconfidence of a politician who basks in an approval rating of over 70% and who sees the Iraq war and the financial crisis as having irreparably damaged American power and credibility. But the United States is still Brazil's second-largest trading partner. Although some American and Brazilian officials are keen to prevent ill-will over Iran from spoiling co-operation in other areas, it nevertheless may do so. The United States Congress may be even less willing to support the elimination of a tariff on Brazil's sugar-based ethanol, for example.
Lula wants the UN reformed to reflect today's world, with Brazil gaining a permanent seat on the Security Council. But by choosing to apply his views on how the world should be run to an issue of pressing concern to America and Europe, and in which Brazil has no obvious national interest, Lula may only have lessened the chances that he will get his way.
Lula skips G20 summit due to deadly Brazil floods
Piñera's (dis)approval
Entrevista a Josep Montaner, "El rol de la sociedad civil ha de ser activo en cualquier situación" Video in Spanish,
Josep Montaner _ Rol de la sociedad civil from Plataforma Urbana on Vimeo.
THOMSON: Santos sweeps to the presidency
Platform for security, stability and development win b
Good news from Colombia, but does Obama appreciate it?
Ros-Lehtinen: Recognizing Colombia's presidential election and the U.S.-Colombia alliance Ros-Lehtinen Resolution on Colombia Elections Passes House
Will Washington treat Colombia's Santos as an ally?
Father's Day in Costa Rica
When Learning Turns to Dust
Syrian president due in Havana on Sunday
Interviews With Dr. Darsi Ferrer and Juan Juan Almeida
UPDATE: Filmmakers Argue Against Ruling In Chevron Case
A year without Mel Zelaya
More intromission by US Ambassador Llorens and G-16
Mr Coke turns himself in
Mexican Violence Crosses Borders; Attracts Media Attention
Mexico Represents Single Biggest Drug Trafficking Threat to U.S.
Nicaragua's Sandinistas accused of paying for power
Daniel Ortega's ruling Sandinistas Front is using strong-arm tactics to limit opposition, observers say.
Washington Post on retiring to Panama
Journalists in the crosshairs of Paraguayan People's Army
Peruvian Franken-Corn Defamation Case Update
Keiko Fujimori Leads Peru Presidential Poll, El Comercio Says
Keiko Fujimori says "I will be in the second round" for president of Peru in 2011
Peru judge rules Van der Sloot confession valid
Students approve strike pact. Back in the olden days when I was a student at the UPR they were striking, too, but no one slept in cute little tents on campus. Either way, the strikes are a total waste of time.
Today's podcast at 11AM Eastern: UN: Most of the cocaine going to Europe passes through Venezuela
The report launched by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) expresses concern about Venezuela due to the existence of cells of armed insurgent groups, such as the Bolivarian Liberation Front and civilian militias supported by the government.
WDR 2010 website. PDF file: full report.
Syrian president meets with Chavez in Caracas
Revolutionary Rot, But News It's Not: AP Ignores Venezuela's 'Battle for Food', also at BizzyBlog
Como el paternalismo crea dictadores
A radical shift to the radical left in Venezuela
Ollie Loves Hugo & Hugo Loves Ollie
Le Monde criticizes the selling out of Venezuela to Cuba, Chavez gets revenge by taking away a minor farm of Diego Arria and Letter from Diego Arria to Hugo Chavez
VenEconomy: Venezuela Dominated By & Split Up Into Ghettos
Commie Despot Renegs On Debts, Seizes Oil Rigs
Today's Video: Oligarchs vs. Bolivarians
Maria Conchita Alonso on Oliver Stone's South of the Border (VIDEO)
My cousin sent this, Por que Cuba No fue a el Mundial Los Pichy Boys
The week's posts and podcasts:
How about, Sayonara, Citgo?
Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm's oil rigs
Venezuela's fast-track doctors
Jamaica: Dudus Coke in the can
Mexican gangs' lookouts in Arizona
Rum war?
Obama Secretary of Labor: Illegals Have a Right to Fair Wages VIDEO
In Silvio Canto's podcast.
In Rick Moran's podcast.


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Take a standard network flow problem: a directed graph with nonnegative capacities on each edge, a source $s$, a sink $t$. We all know how to find the maximum flow from $s$ to $t$.
Now add edge-pair capacities: for each pair of edges, there is some maximum total flow for those two edges.
This new problem is solvable in polynomial time since it is a linear program, but I don't want to use such a sledge-hammer.
- Is there a way to convert this problem into an at-most-polynomially-larger ordinary network flow problem?
- Can it be solved using an augmenting-flow type of approach?
- In the original problem, if the capacities are integers then there is an optimum flow which is integer. This is not true in the new problem, but is it true that there is an optimum flow in which the edge flows are integer or half integer?
- The polytope of all flows is interesting in the original problem; is it still interesting in the new problem? (Choose your own definition of "interesting".)
UPDATE: Q3 was answered in the negative by Douglas Zare. Let me now weaken the hypothesis. Say that a pair-capacity $c(e_1,e_2)$ bites if $c(e_1,e_2)\lt c(e_1)+c(e_2)$. What happens in Q3 if no two biting pair-capacities have an edge in common? [Also negative per Douglas.]


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Hours after developers revealed they had exploited bugs in Apple's iOS to "jailbreak" iPhones and iPads, German government security authorities warned that one of the flaws could be put to malicious use.
Malformed files that exploit the vulnerability have been publicly posted on the Internet.
Late Wednesday, Germany's Federal Office for Information Security, known by its German-language initials of BSI for "Bundesamt fuer Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik," warned citizens that the iOS bug could be used by criminals to hijack iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.
"Even clicking a crafted PDF document or surfing to a website with the PDF documents are sufficient to infect the mobile device with malicious software," the BSI said in a translation of the German-language alert.
PDF files that successfully exploit the vulnerability are available on the Web, according to Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of Helsinki-based antivirus company F-Secure.
And those PDFs could be used by miscreants to hack iOS devices simply by luring users to malicious sites, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security.
iPhone and iPad users steered to a malicious PDF -- via a link embedded in an email, for instance -- would not receive any warning or be required to take additional action.
"This is a click-and-pwn kind of situation since the user is not prompted to confirm opening the file," said Storms, referring to the term used by researchers to describe hijacking a device.
The BSI warning came just hours after a group of developers released an updated version of JailbreakMe, a tool that hacks iOS so iPhone and iPad users can install software not sanctioned by Apple.
Those developers exploited a pair of vulnerabilities, including one in the font parsing of the PDF viewer integrated with the iOS version of Safari, and another that bypassed anti-malware defenses such as ASLR (address space layout randomization).
Wednesday, security experts said that the same vulnerabilities, particularly the one exploitable through malicious PDF files, could be used by criminals to hijack Apple's popular iPhone and iPad.
"They're certainly a threat, and would be easy to make malicious," said Charlie Miller, a noted Mac OS X and iOS vulnerability researcher who works for Denver-based Accuvant.
Miller also speculated that Apple would quickly patch the vulnerabilities, perhaps even faster than last year when it faced a similar situation. In August 2010, Apple patched a pair of bugs used by JailbreakMe 2.0 just 10 days after the tool's release.
News of JailbreakMe 3.0's impending release had leaked several days before Wednesday's official launch, noted Miller, and should have given Apple even more warning.
Yesterday's BSI alert was similar to one it issued last August after JailbreakMe 2.0 appeared.
On Thursday, Apple said it would fix the flaws.
"We're aware of this reported issue and developing a fix that will be available to customers in an upcoming software update," an Apple spokesman told the IDG News Service today.
Last year, Apple patched the Jailbreak 2.0 bugs six days after saying it was working on a fix.
Ironically, a patch is available, but only to those who have hacked their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with JailbreakMe 3.0. The fix, dubbed "PDF Patcher 2," can be downloaded by jailbroken devices from the Cydia app store.
The BSI was especially concerned that the vulnerability would be exploited by hackers to target specific individuals. Because iOS devices are often used by senior management, the agency warned, "It is possible that the weaknesses can be exploited for targeted attacks on leaders to get to confidential company information."
Often labeled, "spear phishing," such targeted attacks have become extremely effective for cyber criminals, who have used the tactic to infiltrate major corporations, including Google, and make off with proprietary data by the gigabyte, or have been aimed at senior officials in the U.S. government and the International Monetary Fund.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dr. Steven Rosinski, a senior hematology/oncology fellow in the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research Division, is one of five recipients of the 2011 American Society of Hematology Research Training Award for Fellows. The one-year, $50,000 ASH grant is intended to encourage junior researchers to pursue careers in academic hematology by supporting protected time to conduct research during his or her fellowship training.
"I am starting my postdoctoral work at a time when technological advancements allow us to afford a rapid determination of the genetic differences between the donor and recipient of a hematopoietic stem cell transplant," said Rosinski, who is working collaboratively with Dr. Brad Stone, Benaroya Research Institute, and under the direction of Dr. Rainer Storb.
"My goal is to apply this technology to the development of a vaccine that induces an allogeneic response against host hematopoietic cells that can be translated into human hematopoietic cell transplantation to prevent or treat relapsed hematological diseases," Rosinski said.
"The availability of protected research time is critical to the growth and success of these extremely bright trainees, as well as to the advancement of our specialty," said ASH President Dr. J. Evan Sadler, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "ASH is committed to providing assistance for young trainees to conduct research that will hone their skills, build their expertise, and ultimately lead to significant scientific breakthroughs."
The award primarily provides salary support for the recipient. However, up to $5,000 may be allocated for research supplies and reagents, and up to $1,000 may be allocated for travel to the ASH annual meeting.
Apply for 2012 Research Training Awards by Sept. 15
Visit the ASH website to see the list of grant recipients, learn more about the 2011 ASH Research Training Award and obtain information about applying for the 2012 award cycle. Letters of intent for the 2012 award cycle are due Sept. 15.
The American Society of Hematology is the world's largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders. The official journal of ASH is Blood, which is available weekly in print and online.
[Adapted from an ASH news release]
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Aerial drones have garnered a lot of attention (and controversy) for their ability to launch missile strikes for the U.S. military against enemies in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other hotspots. However, the Department of Defense is now cultivating another type of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for use in combat planning, designed to soar high above the battlefield for so-called ISR (intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance) missions.
The STS-111 aircraft, which is still in prototype, is in essence a worm-like weather balloon that undulates through the Earth's lower atmosphere, guided by satellite or ground communications or programmed to operate autonomously. "It's really a communications platform that has the ability to provide ISR," says Dan Erdberg, vice president of operations for Sanswire Corp. in Aventura, Fla. Sanswire and Stuttgart, Germany-based TAO Technologies formed a new entity called Sanswire-TAO in June 2008 specifically to develop, market and sell a lineup of ISR UAVs (the STS-111 being their first).
The 33.8-meter long STS-111 is made up of four segments that form what Erdberg refers to as an "airchain" platform. The first segment consists of a bullet-shaped balloon filled with helium, making it lighter than air. The remaining three segments (connected by hinges) house a single, elongated balloon filled with a gaseous fuel made of mostly methane, making it neutrally buoyant (the balloon's mass equals the mass of the air it displaces).
All four segments are contained within a large vented bag that helps the segments move by allowing air to flow in and out. As the aircraft takes off, the gas in each of the balloons expands, forcing air out of the outer bag. At the same time a blower attached under the first segment sends air back into the outer bag. This constant flow of air into and out of the bag creates the motion that helps the STS-111 gain altitude. A small propeller affixed to the underside of the first segment provides thrust and steering.
When fully inflated the STS-111's widest point is 3.4 meters, and it can carry a payload (cameras and sensors, for example) of up to 9.1 kilograms over a distance of 2,800 kilometers. The aircraft is designed to carry out its missions at altitudes between 3,048 to 9,144 meters.
The Sanswire-TAO aircraft is different from other military drones in several ways, but the two most important are cost and flight duration. Whereas the STS-111 costs about $3 million to make, the Air Force's new "Gorgon Stare" UAV, essentially a Reaper drone fitted with wide-area surveillance sensors, costs about $15 million. And, while a fully loaded Reaper can stay in the air for a maximum of 14 hours, the STS-111 is designed to monitor enemy targets for up to two-and-a-half days before returning to base.
The STS-111 takes off a bit like a kite and can even be launched by a person running in front of it holding an attached rope. Thanks to the helium in the first segment, the aircraft rises, aided by the motion of the remaining three segments. These segments contain no rigid parts; in fact the entire body can be rolled up and stored in a pickup truck bed, according to the company.
Sanswire-TAO announced on Tuesday that they will publicly unveil the STS-111 UAV at Sanford International Airport in Orlando, Fla., in mid-2010. The company, which held a private demonstration of the technology in Stuttgart, Germany, on December 18, is working on a number of what it refers to as "Stratellite" aircraft, with STS-111 being the first. The next Stratellite is expected to fly as high as 18,288 meters.


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Ok I have been playing with a Sprint EVDO card this evening that is activated and on a 14 day trial. The Sprint sales representatives did not have any Maps but a person I met a couple of weeks ago said the two areas I need coverage in are covered. It appears that the first location which is close to the Stadium is good to go. I am seeing transfer rates of 386K on some of the speed test.
But when go and do some FTP download test I am not so sure what the speed is as I am only seeing 14k transfers where my cable connection is pulling the same data at about 400K big difference. I will be giving this card a workout thats for sure and will be pushing the 14 day satisfaction guarantee trial.
If anyone has access to Sprint Hawaii EVDO coverage maps I would love to see what Sprint is claiming.


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(JTA) — More than 68 gravestones were found ransacked and graves were looted at a Jewish cemetery in the coastal Tunisian town of Sousse.
The Tunisian Shems FM radio station cited a Tunisian security official who said the graves were damaged over the last month. Claims on Facebook had said the graves were vandalized on Jan. 23.
According to the Shems FM report, Tunisian youths believing rumors that the Jews bury their dead with gold were responsible for the grave looting.
Only a few Jewish families now live in Sousse, which had a Jewish community of nearly 6,000 at the time of Tunisia's independence in 1956. One Jewish-owned fruit juice shop, Pascal, is located in the city.
According to TAP, the Tunisian state news agency, the office of Prime Minister Hammadi Jebali of the Islamist Ennahda party released a statement last Friday expressing "deep indignation at any criminal act undermining Tunisia's cultural and historical heritage," and said that efforts were under way to work with security forces and the judiciary to ensure that attacks on cemeteries and mausoleums stopped.
The Tunisian Ministry of Culture recently announced that 34 shrines of venerated Sufi Muslim saints have been attacked by religious extremists since the country's January 2011 revolution ousted former dictator Zine El Abddine Ben Ali.
Tunisia had a Jewish population of more than 100,000 at the time of independence in 1956, comprising the country's largest religious minority. Today nearly 2,000 remain, living mostly on the southern island of Djerba and around the capital, Tunis.


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China nears approval of $16 billion domestic jet-engine plan: Xinhua
China's cabinet may soon approve an aircraft engine development program that will require investment of at least 100 billion yuan ($16 billion), state-run Xinhua news agency quoted unidentified industry sources as saying.
China is determined to reduce its dependency on foreign companies like Boeing Co , EADS-owned Airbus , General Electric Co and Rolls Royce Plc for the country's soaring demand for planes and engines.
So far the domestic aerospace industry has failed to build a reliable, high-performance jet engine to end its dependence on Russian and Western makers for equipping its military and commercial aircraft.
Xinhua on Thursday quoted an unidentified professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) with knowledge of the project as saying the investment would be used mainly for research on technology, designs and materials related to aircraft engine manufacturing.
The project was going through approval procedures in the State Council and may be approved shortly, the professor was quoted as saying.
Participants in the project include Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group Corp, AVIC Xi'an Aero-Engine (Group) Ltd <600893.SS> and research institutes including the BUAA, Xinhua reported.
Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the country's dominant military and commercial aviation contractor, had lobbied the government to back a multi-billion dollar plan to build a high-performance jet engine.
China's military and aerospace industries have suffered from bans on the sale of military equipment imposed by Western governments after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and foreign engine-makers are reluctant to transfer costly technology.
Some Chinese aviation industry specialists forecast Beijing will eventually spend up to 300 billion yuan ($49 billion) on jet-engine development over the next two decades.
($1 = 6.2273 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by John Ruwitch; Editing by Matt Driskill)


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Mono home and office goods store opens in McCully
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It's Friday! In just a few hours, you can finally ditch the office and revel in the two glorious days that is your weekend.
Though maybe you wouldn't be so keen to leave work if your office didn't look so… lifeless. (Hey, even Milton Waddams knew the importance of a pop of color.)
And come Sunday, you will too, thanks to Mono, a new home and office goods store opening on King St. just steps away from the historic McCully Chop Sui sign. Inside, you'll find modern, design-centric accessories thoughtfully curated by owners Dean and Cassy Song.
On your left: Units Portable's utilitarian travel bags and leather passport holders, cracked concrete coasters by Kalki'd, colorblock-inducing scissor stands, clocks, and tape dispensers, and notebooks with three-dimensional turntable covers that can hold actual CDs.
On your right: sleek, portable mug-shaped and spherical speakers, laser-cut wooden keyboard and iPhone covers, and ceramic jewelry holders in the shapes of deer heads, hawks' feet, and unicorn skulls so beautifully sculpted, you might forget the actual jewelry and just admire it on your desk.
The inventory is stylish, yet surprisingly affordable with most items priced at less than $50. Plus, the couple only orders small quantities at a time, so you don't have to worry about copycat coworkers.
Or awkward conversations that begin with "I believe you have my unicorn skull."
Mono will be open Mondays through Saturdays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., starting this Sunday, at 2013 S. King St. Metered street parking only. For more information, call (808) 955-1595 or visit MonoHawaii.com. Turntable notebook photo courtesy of Afterain Design Studio.


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Defining tasks¶
As of Fabric 1.1, there are two distinct methods you may use in order to define which objects in your fabfile show up as tasks:
- The "new" method starting in 1.1 considers instances of
Taskor its subclasses, and also descends into imported modules to allow building nested namespaces.
- The "classic" method from 1.0 and earlier considers all public callable objects (functions, classes etc) and only considers the objects in the fabfile itself with no recursing into imported module.
These two methods are mutually exclusive: if Fabric finds any
new-style task objects in your fabfile or in modules it imports, it will
assume you've committed to this method of task declaration and won't
consider any non-
Task callables. If no new-style tasks
are found, it reverts to the classic behavior.
The rest of this document explores these two methods in detail.
To see exactly what tasks in your fabfile may be executed via
fab, use
fab --list.
New-style tasks¶
Fabric 1.1 introduced the
Task class to facilitate new features
and enable some programming best practices, specifically:
- Object-oriented tasks. Inheritance and all that comes with it can make for much more sensible code reuse than passing around simple function objects. The classic style of task declaration didn't entirely rule this out, but it also didn't make it terribly easy.
- Namespaces. Having an explicit method of declaring tasks makes it easier
to set up recursive namespaces without e.g. polluting your task list with the
contents of Python's
osmodule (which would show up as valid "tasks" under the classic methodology.)
With the introduction of
Task, there are two ways to set up new
- Decorate a regular module level function with
@task, which transparently wraps the function in a
Tasksubclass. The function name will be used as the task name when invoking.
- Subclass
Taskitself is intended to be abstract), define a
runmethod, and instantiate your subclass at module level. Instances'
nameattributes are used as the task name; if omitted the instance's variable name will be used instead.
Use of new-style tasks also allows you to set up namespaces.
@task decorator¶
The quickest way to make use of new-style task features is to wrap basic task functions with
from fabric.api import task, run
def mytask():
run("a command")
When this decorator is used, it signals to Fabric that only functions wrapped in the decorator are to be loaded up as valid tasks. (When not present, classic-style task behavior kicks in.)
@task may also be called with arguments to
customize its behavior. Any arguments not documented below are passed into the
constructor of the
task_class being used, with the function itself as the
first argument (see Using custom subclasses with @task for details.)
task_class: The
Tasksubclass used to wrap the decorated function. Defaults to
aliases: An iterable of string names which will be used as aliases for the wrapped function. See Aliases for details.
alias: Like
aliasesbut taking a single string argument instead of an iterable. If both
aliasesare specified,
aliaseswill take precedence.
default: A boolean value determining whether the decorated task also stands in for its containing module as a task name. See Default tasks.
name: A string setting the name this task appears as to the command-line interface. Useful for task names that would otherwise shadow Python builtins (which is technically legal but frowned upon and bug-prone.)
Here's a quick example of using the
alias keyword argument to facilitate
use of both a longer human-readable task name, and a shorter name which is
quicker to type:
from fabric.api import task
def deploy_with_migrations():
--list on this fabfile would show both the original
deploy_with_migrations and its alias
$ fab --list
Available commands:
When more than one alias for the same function is needed, simply swap in the
aliases kwarg, which takes an iterable of strings instead of a single
Default tasks¶
In a similar manner to aliases, it's sometimes useful to designate a given task within a module as the "default" task, which may be called by referencing just the module name. This can save typing and/or allow for neater organization when there's a single "main" task and a number of related tasks or subroutines.
For example, a
deploy submodule might contain tasks for provisioning new
servers, pushing code, migrating databases, and so forth – but it'd be very
convenient to highlight a task as the default "just deploy" action. Such a
deploy.py module might look like this:
from fabric.api import task
def migrate():
def push():
def provision():
def full_deploy():
if not provisioned:
With the following task list (assuming a simple top level
fabfile.py that just imports
$ fab --list
Available commands:
deploy.full_deploy on every deploy could get kind of old, or somebody new to the team might not be sure if that's really the right task to run.
Using the
default kwarg to
@task, we can tag
full_deploy as the default task:
def full_deploy():
Doing so updates the task list like so:
$ fab --list
Available commands:
Note that
full_deploy still exists as its own explicit task – but now
deploy shows up as a sort of top level alias for
If multiple tasks within a module have
default=True set, the last one to
be loaded (typically the one lowest down in the file) will take precedence.
Top-level default tasks¶
@task(default=True) in the top level fabfile will cause the denoted
task to execute when a user invokes
fab without any task names (similar to
make.) When using this shortcut, it is not possible to specify
arguments to the task itself – use a regular invocation of the task if this
is necessary.
Task subclasses¶
If you're used to classic-style tasks, an easy way to
think about
Task subclasses is that their
run method is
directly equivalent to a classic task; its arguments are the task arguments
(other than
self) and its body is what gets executed.
For example, this new-style task:
class MyTask(Task):
name = "deploy"
def run(self, environment, domain="whatever.com"):
run("git clone foo")
sudo("service apache2 restart")
instance = MyTask()
is exactly equivalent to this function-based task:
def deploy(environment, domain="whatever.com"):
run("git clone foo")
sudo("service apache2 restart")
Note how we had to instantiate an instance of our class; that's simply normal
Python object-oriented programming at work. While it's a small bit of
boilerplate right now – for example, Fabric doesn't care about the name you
give the instantiation, only the instance's
name attribute – it's well
worth the benefit of having the power of classes available.
We plan to extend the API in the future to make this experience a bit smoother.
Using custom subclasses with
It's possible to marry custom
Task subclasses with
@task. This may be useful in cases where your core
execution logic doesn't do anything class/object-specific, but you want to
take advantage of class metaprogramming or similar techniques.
Specifically, any
Task subclass which is designed to take in a
callable as its first constructor argument (as the built-in
WrappedCallableTask does) may be specified as the
task_class argument to
Fabric will automatically instantiate a copy of the given class, passing in the wrapped function as the first argument. All other args/kwargs given to the decorator (besides the "special" arguments documented in Arguments) are added afterwards.
Here's a brief and somewhat contrived example to make this obvious:
from fabric.api import task
from fabric.tasks import Task
class CustomTask(Task):
def __init__(self, func, myarg, *args, **kwargs):
super(CustomTask, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.func = func
self.myarg = myarg
def run(self, *args, **kwargs):
return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
@task(task_class=CustomTask, myarg='value', alias='at')
def actual_task():
When this fabfile is loaded, a copy of
CustomTask is instantiated, effectively calling:
task_obj = CustomTask(actual_task, myarg='value')
Note how the
alias kwarg is stripped out by the decorator itself and never
reaches the class instantiation; this is identical in function to how
command-line task arguments work.
With classic tasks, fabfiles were limited to a single,
flat set of task names with no real way to organize them. In Fabric 1.1 and
newer, if you declare tasks the new way (via
or your own
Task subclass instances) you may take advantage
of namespacing:
- Any module objects imported into your fabfile will be recursed into, looking for additional task objects.
- Within submodules, you may control which objects are "exported" by using the
standard Python
__all__module-level variable name (thought they should still be valid new-style task objects.)
- These tasks will be given new dotted-notation names based on the modules they came from, similar to Python's own import syntax.
Let's build up a fabfile package from simple to complex and see how this works.
We start with a single
__init__.py containing a few tasks (the Fabric API
import omitted for brevity):
def deploy():
def compress():
The output of
fab --list would look something like this:
There's just one namespace here: the "root" or global namespace. Looks simple now, but in a real-world fabfile with dozens of tasks, it can get difficult to manage.
Importing a submodule¶
As mentioned above, Fabric will examine any imported module objects for tasks,
regardless of where that module exists on your Python import path. For now we
just want to include our own, "nearby" tasks, so we'll make a new submodule in
our package for dealing with, say, load balancers –
def add_backend():
And we'll add this to the top of
import lb
fab --list shows us:
Again, with only one task in its own submodule, it looks kind of silly, but the benefits should be pretty obvious.
Going deeper¶
Namespacing isn't limited to just one level. Let's say we had a larger setup
and wanted a namespace for database related tasks, with additional
differentiation inside that. We make a sub-package named
db/ and inside it,
migrations.py module:
def list():
def run():
We need to make sure that this module is visible to anybody importing
so we add it to the sub-package's
import migrations
As a final step, we import the sub-package into our root-level
so now its first few lines look like this:
import lb
import db
After all that, our file tree looks like this:
├── __init__.py
├── db
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── migrations.py
└── lb.py
fab --list shows:
We could also have specified (or imported) tasks directly into
db/__init__.py, and they would show up as
db.<whatever> as you might
Limiting with
You may limit what Fabric "sees" when it examines imported modules, by using
the Python convention of a module level
__all__ variable (a list of
variable names.) If we didn't want the
db.migrations.run task to show up by
default for some reason, we could add this to the top of
__all__ = ['list']
Note the lack of
'run' there. You could, if needed, import
run directly
into some other part of the hierarchy, but otherwise it'll remain hidden.
Switching it up¶
We've been keeping our fabfile package neatly organized and importing it in a straightforward manner, but the filesystem layout doesn't actually matter here. All Fabric's loader cares about is the names the modules are given when they're imported.
For example, if we changed the top of our root
__init__.py to look like
import db as database
Our task list would change thusly:
This applies to any other import – you could import third party modules into your own task hierarchy, or grab a deeply nested module and make it appear near the top level.
Nested list output¶
As a final note, we've been using the default Fabric
output during this section – it makes it more obvious what the actual task
names are. However, you can get a more nested or tree-like view by passing
nested to the
--list-format option:
$ fab --list-format=nested --list
Available commands (remember to call as module.[...].task):
While it slightly obfuscates the "real" task names, this view provides a handy way of noting the organization of tasks in large namespaces.
Classic tasks¶
When no new-style
Task-based tasks are found, Fabric will
consider any callable object found in your fabfile, except the following:
- Callables whose name starts with an underscore (
_). In other words, Python's usual "private" convention holds true here.
- Callables defined within Fabric itself. Fabric's own functions such as
sudowill not show up in your task list.
import statement effectively includes the imported objects in your
module's namespace. Since Fabric's fabfiles are just Python modules, this means
that imports are also considered as possible classic-style tasks, alongside
anything defined in the fabfile itself.
This only applies to imported callable objects – not modules. Imported modules only come into play if they contain new-style tasks, at which point this section no longer applies.
Because of this, we strongly recommend that you use the
import module form
of importing, followed by
module.callable(), which will result in a cleaner
fabfile API than doing
from module import callable.
For example, here's a sample fabfile which uses
urllib.urlopen to get some
data out of a webservice:
from urllib import urlopen
from fabric.api import run
def webservice_read():
objects = urlopen('http://my/web/service/?foo=bar').read().split()
This looks simple enough, and will run without error. However, look what
happens if we run
fab --list on this fabfile:
$ fab --list
Available commands:
webservice_read List some directories.
urlopen urlopen(url [, data]) -> open file-like object
Our fabfile of only one task is showing two "tasks", which is bad enough, and
an unsuspecting user might accidentally try to call
fab urlopen, which
probably won't work very well. Imagine any real-world fabfile, which is likely
to be much more complex, and hopefully you can see how this could get messy
For reference, here's the recommended way to do it:
import urllib
from fabric.api import run
def webservice_read():
objects = urllib.urlopen('http://my/web/service/?foo=bar').read().split()
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Giveaway: The Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan
Today is the 75th anniversary of Penguin Books and the company is celebrating by giving away Penguin books to blog readers all over the internet - including here, at Deep Glamour. The book we'll be giving away is The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan's thought-provoking examination of how the food we eat is grown.
Pollan is part of an interesting trend in the food world, and his work points to the important role of glamour in American consumer behavior. His efforts to help Americans better understand what they eat (and to eat better) are largely about deglamorizing food by taking the mystery out of the food creation process. Hard as it is to imagine now, during the middle part of 20th century, mass-produced foods had a certain allure. They were blessed by the glamour of modernity. Most of that glamour had rubbed off by the end of the century, but mass-produced foods still retained a tiny touch of mystique. By stepping inside industrial farming, showing his readers how the metaphorical sausage is made, Pollan helps eliminate that last little bit of glamour.
At the same time, if you want to change the world (or, in this case, change how Americans shop), it's not enough to simply gross people out at the sight of plastic-wrapped ground beef. For one thing, that beef is less expensive than buying from a small, organic farmer. For another, it's how Americans have shopped for several generations now. We're used to it. If we're going to change, we need a good reason to stop doing what we're doing and a good reason to start doing something else.
Pollan recognizes this. He knows that Americans need not just good food to buy, but a good story behind that food. To get the good story, the people growing the food need to be passionate - and glamorous - themselves. In a 2006 interview with Powell's Books, he said:
You need more people on the land to do it well, so we have to make farming a more glamorous profession. That's one of the great things Alice Waters has done. She's taken that light of glamour and shown it on farmers by highlighting their menus and putting the ingredients in the forefront of her presentation.
Culture has devalued farming for a hundred years. Go back to Jefferson and nothing was more glamorous—not that glamour was the kind of word he would have used, but glamour is very important in a culture. To the extent that we value farming, more people will want to do it and we'll begin to repopulate the countryside. That will be a very positive step.
Pollan said that four years ago. In the time since, sustainable farming has continued to gain supporters and cache. However, it's still outside the mainstream and it's still expensive.
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Summer time is the perfect time to fire up the grill and barbecue. I know you'll love this sauce which is gluten free and vegan (no dairy). If you have subscribed to The WHOLE-istic Life newsletter than you have already received this recipe a couple of months ago. One bonus to subscribing.
I thought I would share it now with everyone else. You can use this on meats or vegetables as it will add flavor to anything.
Chipotle BBQ Sauce
4 organic unsulphured apricots
3 organic medjool dates, chop and soak in
First thing you want to do is get your apricots and dates chopped and into the boiling water to soak.
Next in a sturdy saucepan cook up the onion until soft and then add in the garlic to flavor the oil and soften some. DO NOT let it burn.
Next toss in everything else including the softened fruit along with the water it soaked in.
You'll want to bring it slowly to a boil and then let it simmer for 15 minutes.
Now you can pour it all into a blender to smooth out or you can use an immersion blender. I actually like my VitaMix for this because I know it will not miss any little bits and pieces and I'll get a smooth sauce.
Make sure you vent your blender with a towel when blending hot liquids. Start slow and up the speed until you feel like its all been pureed.
Transfer back to your saucepan and simmer for another 15 minutes.
Make sure you taste this and you like the way it tastes. You might want more salt, sugar, spiciness or whatever. Make the adjustments and let it simmer a little so those tastes incorporate, then taste again.
I would have liked it a little hotter but my family is not as spicy as I am. If it was just me, I would up the chipotle number in the recipe.
Now you'll want to slather it on your chicken, beef ribs, pork chops, lamb short ribs, seafood, grilled vegetables, tofu, or anything else you want.
Other things you may want to incorporate into this could be Worcestershire sauce, just the anchovies if you want the taste but not the high fructose corn syrup, regular molasses or whatever direction you want to take it in. Have fun and play with it.
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The way the power of supercomputers is measured is about to change.
Since 1993, Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor of computer science at UT has led the ranking of the world's top 500 supercomputers. The much-celebrated bi-annual TOP500 list is compiled using Dongarra's benchmark system, called Linpack. It is the most widely recognized and discussed metric for ranking high-performance computing systems.
But Dongarra says Linpack hasn't kept pace with supercomputing needs and must be updated.
"Linpack rankings of computer systems are no longer so strongly correlated to real application performance," Dongarra said.
Dongarra and his colleague Michael Heroux from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are developing a new benchmark that is expected to be released in time for the next TOP500 list release in November.
Linpack measures the speed and efficiency of linear equation calculations. Over time, applications requiring more complex computations have become more common. These calculations require high bandwidth and low latency, and access data using irregular patterns. Linpack is unable to measure these more complex calculations.
"This is an important issue to address since we are seeing more applications being dominated by differential equations, and thus, each iteration of the TOP500 will show increasing gaps between real versus Linpack performance," said Dongarra.
The new benchmark, called the High Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG), should better correlate to computation and data access patterns found in many applications today. This could improve the high performance community, because some of today's supercomputers are being designed to gain a high score for the TOP500 list than to meet real-life demands.
"We have reached a point where designing a system for good Linpack performance can actually lead to design choices that are wrong for the real application mix, or add unnecessary components or complexity to the system," said Dongarra. "The hope is that this new rating system will drive computer system design and implementation in directions that will better impact performance improvement for real applications."
Dongarra also expects the new benchmark to adapt to emerging trends, unlike its predecessor.
"The Linpack benchmark is an incredibly successful metric for the high-performance computing community," said Dongarra. "The trends it exposes, the focused optimization efforts it inspires, and the publicity it brings to our community are very important. Yet the relevance of the Linpack as a proxy for real application performance has become very low, creating a need for an alternative."
Linpack will not be laid to rest, however. Instead, HPCG will serve as an alternative ranking of the TOP500 list, allowing a re-ranking of the systems on the list to "real" applications.
The next Top500 list will be announced at the Supercomputing Conference – SC2013, to be held in November in Denver, Colorado. For more information on the TOP500, visit www.top500.org.
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