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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa -- The massive amount of data that is now available in many domains, according to Vasant Honavar, a professor and the new Edward Frymoyer Chair at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), has created new possibilities for scientific and social advancement. However, current research tools are not equipped to harness those vast pools of information. Honovar was recently honored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for leading a program that aims to foster scientific breakthroughs by maximizing the potential of big data.
Honavar, who joined the College of IST in September 2013, was honored with the NSF Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment for "exemplary leadership in the implementation and execution of the Big Data Initiative and related innovative interagency collaboration." The award recognizes Honavar's leadership of the NSF "Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA)" program.
Big data refers to data whose size, complexity, or the rate of acquisition, exceed the capabilities of current data management and data analytics tools. Some of the challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, transfer, analysis, interpretation, and visualization. Big data originate from many sources, including the web, biomedical sciences, sensor networks, business and commerce, scientific literature, digital media, and social networks.
In March 2012, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the Big Data Research and Development Initiative. Six federal departments and agencies announced more than $200 million in commitments with a goal of developing better data management and data analytics tools, accelerating scientific discovery, and fostering a new generation of data scientists equipped to harness big data to address national priorities such as improving human health and advancing national security.
The NSF BIGDATA program aims to advance the scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing, visualizing, and extracting useful information from massive amounts of disparate data. The resulting tools are expected to dramatically improve the ability of organizations and individuals to extract actionable insights from data, accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, and enable the use of data to improve decision making in many different areas.
"Our ability to gather data has far outstripped our ability to benefit from it," Honavar said. "The Big Data Initiative, and the BIGDATA program in particular, aim to close this gap."
The NSF BIGDATA program led to a joint solicitation in 2012 from NSF and the National Institutes of Health National (NIH) – "Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering"- with the objective of advancing the "core scientific and technological means of managing, analyzing, visualizing, and extracting useful information from large and diverse data sets." The NIH's interest in the solicitation centered on imaging, molecular, cellular, electrophysiological, chemical, behavioral, epidemiological, clinical, and other data sets related to health and disease.
"The BIGDATA program was a very complex program to get off the ground," Honavar said.
Between 2010 and 2013, Honavar served as a program director in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering directorate of the NSF while maintaining his research program in artificial intelligence at Iowa State University, where he served on the faculty of Computer Science and of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from 1990 to 2013.
Honavar received his doctorate in computer science and cognitive science in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in artificial intelligence. In addition to serving as the Edward Frymoyer Chair Professor of IST at Penn State, he is on the faculty of the Huck Institute of the Life Sciences, the Institute for Cyberscience, and the Bioinformatics and Genomics graduate programs. He is currently leading new research in discovery informatics, which aims to develop informatics foundations, techniques, infrastructure to integrate data, hypothesis, knowledge-based inference, predictive modeling, experimentation, simulation, and hypothesis testing to provide advanced exploratory apparatus for science, accelerate traditional modes of discovery, and enable novel forms of discovery.
According to Honavar, the massive amounts of data that are being generated as a result of advances in sensors, digital media and related areas provide unprecedented opportunities to leverage data to accelerate discovery and improve decision making in many fields such as health care, education, industry and government. For example, he said, traditionally, in order to test a new therapy for a particular illness, researchers would recruit, at the most, a few hundred participants for clinical trials. It is not uncommon, Honavar said, for a drug that is approved for use based on a limited clinical trial to have been found to have mixed results on a more diverse population. There's always a chance, he added, that the effectiveness of the drug and its possible side effects vary across subpopulations. In those cases, harmful side effects often aren't discovered until much later in the process, after the drug has been fielded.
"Now that we have the ability to monitor physiological signals and various other aspects of health using extremely cheap sensors, you can get data from large patient populations that are actually going through the treatment regimen and effectively extend the clinical trial beyond the initial period," he said. "This has huge potential in terms of improving health care."
Other ways in which big data can be useful to society, Honavar said, include enabling scientists to examine the effects of climate change and allowing for the effective use of social media by health care professionals to promote lifestyle changes. In the past, social scientists could make theories but not test them in a lab setting; they now have access to "electronic modes of interaction where we can study societies and virtual communities as they are being formed." With the rising popularity of the massive open online course (MOOC), which is aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web, educators "can get data about individual students on a level of granularity that was never possible before" and determine what teaching strategies are most effective.
"Many fields of science that were data-poor are now data-rich," he said.
The main issue in big data research, Honavar said, is improving technologies for data management and analytics to realize the full potential of big data. The research community needs better techniques for understanding the massive amount of data that is now available.
"If you want to make informed decisions, then you need to look at the data," he said. "You need to bring the scientific method to decision making in almost every domain of human endeavor."


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In his 16 years as a physician and clinical investigator, Dr. Landovitz has earned a strong reputation for his research on medical prevention of HIV infection and the impact of such interventions on risk behavior. As co-director of the Combination Prevention Core at the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services and the UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research & Education, he conducts research through the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), which awarded him the John Carey Young Investigator Award in 2010. Dr. Landovitz holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MSc from UCLA. Before moving to Los Angeles, he served as chief resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and medical co-director of the Vietnam-CDC-Harvard Medical School-AIDS-Partnership (VCHAP), which trains Vietnamese physicians in HIV care and treatment. (He speaks Vietnamese and Spanish.) Dr. Landovitz heads the Los Angeles County PEP Demonstration Project and collaborates with the City and County of Los Angeles, and Friends Community Center. His innovative work in HIV prevention includes prevention practices among gay men who use GRINDR (a GPS-based networking application MSM use to find sex partners) and combination HIV prevention with postexposure prophylaxis and contingency management for substance use among methamphetamine-using men.
Mascolini: Can you summarize the demographics, sexual behaviors, and substance use habits of HIVpositive and negative populations you care for and study in Los Angeles?
Landovitz: Our clinic cares for about 900 HIVinfected men and women on the west side of Los Angeles. We're broadening the scope of our care and research involving HIV-uninfected individuals at risk for HIV infection. With the medicalization of HIV prevention, we're working to learn how to best deliver prevention and care services as the domain of who provides prevention care continues to evolve.
Our clinic's HIV-infected population is approximately 42% non-Hispanic white, 34% African American, and 22% Latino. Although I don't have aggregate data on sexual and drug use behavior for this patient population, I can give you some data from certain studies we've done in people with HIV: 44% of that population had ever used any illicit substances, and 36% reported ever having used stimulants. In terms of sexual risk behavior, about 30% of that study population reported some unprotected sexual activity with a partner of unknown HIV status in the last year.
For the HIV-negative but at-risk individuals we see, I can cite some data from studies of people who requested HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) at our community-based program. That population is almost 95% male, and 85% men who have sex with men (MSM). Almost two thirds, 62%, sought PEP after receptive anal intercourse. This population is 48% Caucasian, 35% Latino, and 8% African American.
Mascolini: Do HIV-negative at-risk men in your area know about PrEP and do they want to try it?
Landovitz: We have had very few requests for PrEP in our clinic. I've surveyed other HIV providers on the west side of Los Angeles, and they too have had precious few requests for PrEP. We were a little surprised by that. The majority of these few requests have come from men who are in serodiscordant relationships and seem to keep their fingers on the pulse of what's current.
Here is Los Angeles we've only recently begun to be involved in clinical trials of PrEP. We were not part of the iPrEx trial in MSM1 or the early open-label study that came out of iPrEx, the iPrEx OLÉ rollover protocol. The HPTN 069 protocol comparing PrEP regimens containing tenofovir/emtricitabine to maraviroc-containing regimens2 (Table) is the first clinical study activity in Los Angeles. In the wake of the iPrEx results, we've had a number of community forums and engagement meetings to disseminate the results and initiate discussion about how PrEP could or should be used in the context of larger prevention programming.
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We've done some combination prevention work at two community-based sites in Los Angeles, one at the Gay and Lesbian Center and one at the Oasis Clinic, which is in South LA. As part of this work, we developed a community-based 1-year nonoccupational PEP demonstration project that we parlayed into an ongoing public health service delivery program sponsored by the Division of HIV/STD Prevention (DHSP) in the County Department of Public Health. We are ramping up a PrEP demonstration project that will be deployed at those sites, but it has not begun yet.
Our PEP work indicates that 3% to 5% of PEP users asked for PEP more than once, and we think those people are excellent candidates for PrEP. In my mind PEP should be a one-time emergency intervention after a condom breaks or isn't used in a particular situation. The counseling that surrounds an episode of PEP should help prevent someone from ever requiring PEP again, and certainly not to require PEP frequently. I believe recurrent PEP users would be better served by PrEP. At the same time, we have to continue studying this recurrently at-risk population -- to understand how to modify the behaviors that cause them to be persistently at risk and allow potential PrEP users to come off PrEP, because nobody wants to be on PrEP forever.
Mascolini: Have you and your colleagues figured out how to make PrEP part of your practice, and have you established any sort of PrEP use protocol?
Landovitz: We've talked about how PrEP might be part of larger HIV prevention programming. I think we all agree that PrEP should not be seen or promoted as an isolated intervention: PrEP may be an appropriate adjunct to other prevention efforts and may be appropriate for certain targeted populations, but we should not prescribe PrEP and send people off with the impression that PrEP alone is sufficient to mitigate HIV acquisition risk.
We're trying to funnel any PrEP referrals to providers who have kept up on the literature and have a comprehensive understanding of combination prevention programming. Such programming might involve referring people to other services, including mental health services, substance use treatment services, and intimate partner violence services. At the same time, we believe combination prevention includes condom provision and education and adherence counseling. In that context we can do some risk stratification for who appears to be at ongoing risk for HIV acquisition despite other interventions and then consider PrEP as an adjunct to all these other efforts.
I'm one of those people handling PrEP referrals, and so far I've seen two consultations for preexposure prophylaxis since the FDA approval of Truvada for PrEP. So at least in a controlled medical environment on the west side of LA, we're not seeing a lot of demand for PrEP.
Mascolini: Do you think this low demand means PrEP candidates are on an early part of the PrEP learning curve, or does it mean people just aren't interested in taking a pill to prevent HIV infection?
Landovitz: It's probably multifactorial. I think people are probably much less interested in taking a daily pill, and some adherence data from the placebocontrolled iPrEx,1 Partners PrEP,3 and TDF24 trials bear this out. [See the first article in this issue.] Others may believe it's just not feasible to take a daily HIVprevention pill for any number of reasons.
My personal feeling is that there's not going to be widespread uptake and interest in PrEP -- at least in the MSM communities who dominate the epidemic on the West Coast -- until a PrEP agent is available in a depot or sustained-release formulation. My experience talking to patients and interacting with other providers suggests that the analogy to women taking daily birth control does not appear to be a compelling one for gay men. So I think the game changer will be a depot or long-acting formulation -- or at the very least a much more sophisticated understanding of what sort of more intermittent dosing might be effective and safe.
Mascolini: What proportion of PrEP candidates you see have insurance that will pay for PrEP?
Landovitz: In our PEP experience with HIV-negative but at-risk people, 60% of those seeking PEP at our community-based sites are uninsured. Our PEP demonstration project is designed to have no cost to people seeking that service. I suspect this PEP population is similar to our potential PrEP population. People who are well-informed early adopters, who have private insurance and private doctors, will access PrEP in those contexts and aren't waiting for a publicly funded demonstration project.
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text: hi ya > > extruded aluminum is terrible heat conductor but very cheap to make > > and good enough for slower p3-cpu > > Terrible? 100W/mK - 150W/mK is terrible? and what would it be if it was NOT extruded ??? ( uncut block of aluminum ... than use a very sharp saw to cut your fins ( dont know if laser is good at cutting aluminmum w/o destroy the ( aligned cell structure or whatever its called to allow thermal ( thermal conductivity > > an aluminum block that is cut is "lot better" heat conductor as its > > molecules are relatively intact ... according to those heatsink > > manufacturers .. just a few cents more to cut than to extrude ... > > but when making millions of heatsinks units...guess it adds up... > > > Increasing the surface area of a heatsink or increasing the amount of > forced convection across the surface area is how the thermal resistance > of a heatsink is reduced. start with a good thermal conductor... ( in this case copper base ) than worry about resistance .. between the chip and the heatsink and lots of other variables > > isnt 68deg still on the high side ??? .... > > The 68 deg C ambient is the air temperature of the environment that the > CPU is in. Using a heat sink with a thermal resistance of 0.08 - 0.11 > degC/W allows us to keep the P4 case temp below the 75 deg C maximum > spec. at an ambient air temp of up to 68 deg C. So there is only a 7 deg > C rise above ambient. our ambient was about 25-20 deg c...and the cpu temps was NOT much higher just a few deg... and 5 or so while running heavy cpu loads c ya alvin > > > > some of ofour cpu temp measurements was around 30-35 range...hitting > > up to 40 or so when runnign heavy loads during the day... > > - the bigger the heatsink got... the hotter the cpu ran too > > cause the itty bitty fans was not good enough ... > > A bigger heatsink doesn't always mean better. Surface area and the the > profile is what counts. > > What was your ambient air temp for these mesurements? 20 deg C? -10C? At > an average room temp of 20 deg C the CPU case temp would only rise to 27 > deg C while running at the full 62W max. continuously with the heatsink > I mentioned above. >


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NVIDIA Tegra 4 Details Revealed By Leaked Slide
Subject: Processors, Mobile | December 19, 2012 - 03:26 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: wayne, tegra 4, SoC, nvidia, cortex a15, arm
Earlier this year, NVIDIA showed off a roadmap for its Tegra line of mobile system on a chip (SoC) processors. Namely, the next generation Tegra 4 mobile chip is codenamed Wayne and will be the successor to the Tegra 3.
Tegra 4 will use a 28nm manufacturing process and feature improvements to the CPU, GPU, and IO components. Thanks to a leaked slide that appeared on Chip Hell, we now have more details on Tegra 4.
The 28nm Tegra 4 SoC will keep the same 4+1 CPU design* as the Tegra 3, but it will use ARM Cortex A15 CPU cores instead of the Cortex A9 cores used in the current generation chips. NVIDIA is also improving the GPU portion, and Tegra 4 will reportedly feature a 72 core GPU based on a new architecture. Unfortunately, we do not have specifics on how that GPU is set up architecturally, but the leaked slide indicates that the GPU will be as much as 6x faster than NVIDIA's own Tegra 3. It will allegedly be fast enough to power displays with resolutions from 1080p @ 120Hz to 4K (refresh rate unknown). Don't expect to drive games at native 4K resolution, however it should run a tablet OS fine. Interestingly, NVIDIA has included hardware to hardware accelerate VP8 and H.264 video at up to 2560x1440 resolutions.
Additionally, Tegra 4 will feature support for dual channel DDR3L memory, USB 3.0 and hardware accelerated secuity options including HDCP, Secure Boot, and DRM which may make Tegra 4 an attractive option for Windows RT tablets.
The leaked slide has revealed several interesting details on Tegra 4, but it has also raised some questions on the nitty-gritty details. Also, there is no mention of the dual core variant of Tegra 4 – codenamed Grey – that is said to include an integrated Icera 4G LTE cellular modem. Here's hoping more details surface at CES next month!
* NVIDIA's name for a CPU that features four ARM CPU cores and one lower power ARM companion core.
NVIDIA Tegra 3 gets boost with LTE Support, 30 Devices this year
Subject: Mobile | May 24, 2012 - 08:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: wayne, tegra 3, tegra, nvidia, LTE, icera, grey
In the middle of 2011, NVIDIA acquired a small company by the name of Icera, a maker of baseband and RF technologies that would eventually allow the company to integrate the two into a single chip. As LTE-capable devices from Verizon, AT&T and even Sprint have been announced and ship, no NVIDIA Tegra-powered phone or tablet has been able to support the feature with the lone exception of the ZTE Mimosa X in February of this year.
Today NVIDIA officially announced support and validation from AT&T on their new and growing LTE network for the Icera 410 LTE multimode chipset. This will finally allow Tegra + LTE devices to be sold and available in the US and other markets when product manufacturers integrate the two processors in future designs.
As to when we will see those designs, we aren't quite sure but nothing was announced during the NVIDIA investors day today. All we know now is that they will be coming "through this year and next."
"Validation with AT&T is an achievement that paves the way for NVIDIA Icera-powered LTE devices on the AT&T network through this year and next," said Stan Boland, senior vice president of Mobile Communications at NVIDIA.
The NVIDIA Icera 410 LTE modem delivers lightning-fast web browsing, video streaming and multiplayer gaming to tablets and clamshell devices. It is the first Icera modem to implement 4G LTE in NVIDIA's software defined radio baseband processor. Together with its multimode radio transceiver, the chipset offers 4G LTE at category 2 data rates (up to 50 Mbps) as well as 4G HSPA+, 3G and 2G compatibility.
What we DID learn at the NVIDIA investors meeting is that Mike Rayfield, GM of Tegra business unit, things we'll see as many as 30 Tegra 3 based devices for sale this year.
NVIDIA has 30 devices planned for the year. So far, we've seen just two. Of those 30 devices, some 15 will be planned for sub-$200 pricing. That's certainly the sweet spot for impulse purchases.
NVIDIA's also looking to make inroads into the Chinese market, with 18 of those 30 tablets targeted for the Asian nation. By comparison, NVIDIA only released five devices in China in 2011, Rayfield said.
The big name to know for the rest of the year is Kai. That's the low-cost, high-performance system that NVIDIA is crowing about these days, and it's what will help bring prices down while keeping prices at a more affordable level. Will there be higher-performing tablets? Sure. But will they be $200?
Producing a number of devices, like 30, is impressive but without context the fact means very little. How many of these devices are going to tablets and how many are phones? How many will be running the Microsoft Win RT operating system for ARM due out in fall?
Speaking of Icera though, NVIDIA also showed the roadmap for LTE integration including the upcoming Icera i500 LTE controller for high-end phones and tablets with newly planned integration directly on the Tegra core in a new chip called "Grey". This new processor will run parallel with the planned 2013 release of "Wayne" though it will be targeted at smartphones and lower end tablets; Wayne is planned to find its way into higher end tablets and the onslaught of clamshells we'll see with Windows RT.
There is a lot more to learn and we expect see more news come our way as we approach Computex in Taipei!
MWC 12: NVIDIA Roadmap Outlines Tegra's Future Including 4G and Die Shrink
Subject: Mobile | February 27, 2012 - 01:53 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: wayne, tegra 3, tegra, tablets, nvidia, MWC 12, mobile, grey
This year is a big one for smaller silicon manufacturing processes with Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge, and NVIDIA and AMD moving to 28nm GPU processes. According to a report on VR-Zone, NVIDIA is already planning their next move for Tegra, including a die shrink to 28nm.
They managed to get their hands on a road map (shown below) for NVIDIA's Tegra SoC (system on a chip) lineup that extends into 2013. With Tegra 3, NVIDIA began by sampling the chip to Asus and the Transformer Prime. After that success, other partners and devices are starting to pick up the mobile chip, and they expect the situation to be the same for future Tegra iterations.
They company allegedly taped out a Tegra 4 (T40) SoC at the end of December 2011, and is starting to sample it to OEM partners to find someone to do a Tegra 3 like launch, with one device/platform to debut first and others to follow in later months.
The Tegra 4 chip is code named "Wayne" and will be comprised of multiple ARM Cortex A15 CPU cores and a new GPU on a 28nm process. The company alos plans to show off a dual core 28nm SoC that uses two Cortex A15 CPU cores, a revamped GPU, and an Icera 4G LTE radio at Mobile World Congress 2013 next year.
Further, the roadmap details a new Tegra 3 chip that is intended to be used with Windows on ARM powered notebooks and tablets. While the new Tegra 3 (T35) SoC will not be a die shrink, it will have higher clock speeds due to less restrictions placed on the maximum TDP (thermal design power) allowed for the devices. VR-Zone estimates that the T35 chips will run somewhere between 1.6 GHz and 1.7 GHz.
Currently there are some incompatibilities with Tegra and 4G LTE radios which has caused some LTE devices to go with Qualcomm SoCs, so it is good to see NVIDIA working on improving compatibility and then integrating the basebands into their future SoCs to rectify the issue.
As far as this year is concerned, we should see the updated Tegra 3 chip and a new version of Tegra 2 that integrates a Icera 4G LTE baseband. The Wayne and Grey chips will likely not be released until 2013 at the earliest. The expanded Tegra portfolio should help them to gain some market share, though exactly how much remains to be seen.


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Trying as hard as possible can be the most valuable asset an artist possesses or a liability.
For James Brown, known as the "hardest working man in show business" to his nearly ubiquitous adherents, maximum effort clearly yielded the greatest rewards.
Brown held almost impossibly high expectations for himself and for his musicians; he even went as far as to fine band members for playing off beat, refusing to follow his directions or committing other infractions. As a result, he crafted an innovative, vibrant funk groove that transcends its era. It's therefore ironic that "Get On Up," Tate Taylor's newly released James Brown biopic, gains appeal in part by not trying too hard.
James Brown's life was so darkly rich that it would take someone like Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola in his prime to come close to fully capturing it. Rather than let itself get bogged down in a pretentious display of over-ambition, however, "Get On Up" succeeds in providing an entertaining representation of Brown's rise to stardom.
That's not to say anyone slacks off in this movie, especially on the acting front. The film marks Chadwick Boseman's second leading role in a biopic in as many years. As Jackie Robinson in last year's "42," Boseman bore a strong physical resemblance to the late Brooklyn Dodgers trailblazer but couldn't elevate himself beyond the confines of a thinly written script.
The screenplay of "Get On Up" doesn't have that problem. Boseman evokes the magnetism that gave Brown such a strong stage presence and commanding personality, and yet refuses to drift into caricature. That's not an easy task.
Perhaps the most famous prior portrayal of Brown comes in the form of a nearly two-minute-long Eddie Murphy Saturday Night Live skit in which Murphy's Brown prepares to dip himself into a "celebrity hot tub." Boseman doesn't impersonate Brown so much as embody what the film sees him to be; his raspy voice seems more authentic than contrived.
As for the directing, Tate Taylor's name is not nearly as recognizable as his most famous effort to date: "The Help." "Get On Up" employs the same brand of wit that made Taylor's earlier film a hit with audiences and Oscar voters, but avoids the racial condescension that earned "The Help" some degree of criticism. Rest assured, "Get On Up" does not come off as hackneyed as its trailers and TV spots suggest. Sure, its narrative at times lacks the tight punch of the subject's music. But the film masks its cliches with a refreshing non-linear format, which jolts viewers but doesn't jar or confuse them.
The film doesn't shy away from revealing Brown's less flattering characteristics. We see Brown beat his second wife, drawing a sinister and all too potent comparison to the way Brown's father abused him and his mother (Viola Davis). When we see Boseman's heavily made up face in his later years as he smokes what appears to be PCP, the prosthetics come off as more haunting than cheesy.
In that manner, "Get On Up" recalls the narrative arc of "Goodfellas," reveling in Brown's excesses but not pulling any punches in depicting its consequences. "Get On Up" lacks the overwhelming vigor of "Goodfellas," but the film never provides a boring moment.
Overall, "Get On Up" stands as an admirable effort at chronicling the enigmatic essence of the Godfather of Soul.
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For those who have been following you will know that I have recently embarked on a three part review of Puppy Linux. For those who haven't been following, I have recently embarked on a three part review of Puppy Linux.
In the previous reviews I looked at Wary and Slacko. In this third review I am looking at the best of the bunch which is Lucid Puppy.
The rest of this post will explain why I think Lucid outshines both Wary and Slacko and I have a confession to make that will make a lot of people shout "What? you have to be kidding". All will become clear as time goes by.
Startup – Attempt 1
Ok so I had a few issues when I first tried Lucid Puppy. I had downloaded the iso and tried to burn it as an image to a USB drive.
When I rebooted I was left with a flashing cursor on the screen. Clearly this was not going to work
Startup – Attempt 2
The second attempt I tried to use UNetbootin. Again upon reboot the system would not load.
Startup – Attempt 3
Time for the old school method. Burn the ISO to disk and reboot. I was presented with the following message:
Performing a 'switch_root' to the layered file system… Kernel Panic- not syncing
A lesser person may well have become frustrated at this point. I did the usual Googling for an answer to my problem and I was presented with various options including
Try loading without a save file and
- Your machine obviously does not have enough memory to run Lucid Puppy
You can ignore these because…..
Startup – Attempt 4
I downloaded Lucid Puppy again from the Puppy Download page and when I burned to disk this time the system booted successfully. Therefore I put attempt 3 down to a dodgy download.
For those of you wondering why I haven't put attempts 1 and 2 down to a dodgy download as well then the answer is that really this should go down as attempt 6 because I tried attempts 1 and 2 again. In other words burning straight to USB and UNetbootin on this occasion let me down.
Boot Time
Now I've tried all three of the puppies I can honestly say there isn't much difference in the boot time.
Booting from CD with a save file takes approximately 2 minutes on my laptop. (Samsung R20 with 2 gb of ram). On a more modern machine it might boot faster and obviously with a hard drive install it would boot much faster.
I don't believe Puppy is a system for installing to your hard drive. It was built to run from memory and from removable media.
Connecting to the Internet
This is where Lucid Puppy beats both Slacko and Wary hands down. In all three reviews I have attempted to connect to the 3 mobile broadband network using the MIFI device.
For both Wary and Slacko although I got there in the end the process of connecting to the net was very cumbersome.
With Lucid a window popped up as soon as I booted the first time with my ethernet and wireless cards detected.
When I click the wlan button both my home broadband and three broadband were selected automatically. All I had to do was enter the WPA key and I was connected.
After connecting to the internet obviously the first thing you want to do is browse. Now there are icons on the desktop and there is a menu button. For some reason I chose the menu button and clicked the internet menu and could not find a browser. Stupid move. Had I clicked the browse icon on the desktop all would have come clear very quickly.
A menu appears asking which browser you would like to install. The options include SeaMonkey (which is the defauly Puppy browser), Firefox, Chromium and Opera.
So which of the browsers did I decide to install. Well Chromium is my favourite browser but out of the listed items it takes up the most space at 26 mb. The others were all around the 15 or 16 mb mark.
Shocking Confession Time
I'm going to say something now and it is not to make myself notorious or to cause offence to millions of people worldwide. Are you ready?
I have never liked Firefox
There it is. I have said it. Now of course I need to qualify why I have never liked Firefox.
For years there was a battle raging on the net about which was the best browser and a bit like LINUX in general there were those singing the praises of Internet Explorer and those that sang the praises of Firefox.
Now we all know Internet Explorer is bad. Why is it bad? It is bad because for years web developers have had to write workaround after workaround trying to get their web pages to work under both Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. What is worse is that even different versions of Internet Explorer would show the page in a different style.
That is just one reason for not liking Internet Explorer and has nothing to do with Firefox. The other reason for not liking internet explorer is toolbars. Within Windows no matter what piece of software you install you will be asked whether you want to install a toolbar. What is worse than that is that the checkboxes are checked by default so if you do not read the text properly you will acidentally install that toolbar and so eventually you could end up with 6 or 7 toolbars taking up half the screen.
Again you might ask what has this got to do with Firefox. Well….. undoubtedly Firefox fans will say that its strongest feature is the number of add-ons and plugins that you can get for Firefox. This has always bothered me and I was delighted when Chrome came out. Sure I could have just kept the base install and not installed any add-ons but the problem is still the same. Firefox has too many menus and takes up too much of the screen.
Chrome and Chromium were just what I was looking for. A minimalist browser that just let me search and browse.
Back on track then the browser I ended up installing was Opera. I've always quite liked it and it was built for loading into memory in the same way Puppy does. I am typing this article using Opera and it works just fine.
Installing Flash
With Wary and Slacko after connecting to the internet I was offered the opportunity to install flash. With Lucid this option did not appear.
To install Flash using Lucid I had to select the menu button and then from the internet menu there is an install flash icon.
Quick Pets
Another really useful feature in Lucid Puppy is the Quickpet application. This is simply a tabbed application which has links to install the most common and useful packages for Lucid Puppy.
There are 6 tabs split as follows:
Popular pets – Gimp, Pwidgets, Audacity, Songbird, WINE and Google Earth
- Internet pets – Firefox, SeaMonkey, Chromium, Opera, Thunderbird, Pidgin
- Useful pets – VLC, Kompozer, Cinelerra, JRE (java), Pdfedit, Inkscape
- SFS get – a list of a number of packages
- Drivers
- News
The list of applications highlighted are virtually all the applications I might use without having to go into the main package manager.
Save files
Puppy linux uses a save file to store data. When you reboot for the first time you are asked whether you want to create a save file and where you want to store it and how big is it going to be.
One thing I noticed in Lucid is that unlike the graphical tools used by Wary and Slacko this one seems to go back in time and show a blue screened background and almost a dos like set of menus.
The desktop for Lucid Puppy is very similar to that of Wary and Slacko.
In the top left of the screen are five rows of icons.
- Row 1 – file, help, install, mount, control, edit, console
- Row 2 – write, calc, paint, draw
- Row 3 – browse, email
- Row 4 – Plan, Play
- Row 5 – Connect, Quickpet
At the bottom of the screen is a toolbar with a menu button, taskbar icons and in the bottom right a system tray.
Above the menu are icons for each of the drives connected to your machine.
Finally on the right hand side are icons for locking the screen. zipping files and a trash can.
There is nothing majorly different between Lucid, Wary and Slacko with regards to the desktop and by and large the default applications installed are the same.
The background for Lucid is a plain gray colour which isn't very inspiring but that can easily be changed.
Lucid is the best of the three versions of Puppy that I have reviewed. It is more polished than the other two and just small things make it so much better.
Connecting to the internet is a basic requirement and Lucid gets it perfectly. Only 2 screens and I'm connected. Wary and Slacko required much more effort.
Installing commonly used applications via the Quickpet menu is brilliant. I think all distros could consider implementing this.
A choice of browsers is available for installation as opposed to being stuck with the default SeaMonkey. (Ok to be fair Wary and Slacko enable you to download PETs for other browsers).
Wary: 3/5
Slacko: 4/5
Lucid: 5/5
Lucid has the ability to rival Bodhi as a lightweight distro although given the choice I would still say Bodhi edges it.


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"Paris Was Ours: Thirty-Two Writers Reflect on the City of Light" Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, $15.95
In the introduction, editor Penelope Rowlands recalls when she and her then-boyfriend first arrived in Paris. It took a while for the then-20-year-old Rowlands to become accustomed to her new surroundings. Initially she hated the city, resisted it — then fell in love with it. "I learned the language," she writes, "through sheer humiliation" as she was subjected to the "scorn" of waiters and bus drivers as much for her perceived foreignness as for her halting French and "pale English looks."
But it was in Paris, the city that she loved and hated seemingly in equal measure, where she came of age and where she was changed by the experience of being there. That is the theme of this wonderful and mostly original collection of essays and two poems by 32 writers. They describe why they went there and what they found when they got there. The writers gathered by Rowlands are a diverse group.
A few are famous, such as David Sedaris and Edmund White. Others are well-known in their own areas of expertise. Stacy Schiff has written a well-received history of Benjamin Franklin in France, and Jeremy Mercer wrote a fabulous memoir of the time he spent working and living at the Shakespeare and Company bookstore. There also is novelist Diane Johnson and blogger Julie Lacoste.
The essays capture the mood of the city in all of its dark and light shades, evoking the spirit of Eugene Atget and Marcel Proust.
"Paris Was Ours" is a sparkling collection as well as a nice literary complement that fans of the Woody Allen movie "Midnight in Paris" would especially enjoy.
"Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi" Berkley, $15
In this tongue-in-cheek book, French sommelier Olivier Magny reveals what it takes to be a true Parisian. Sure, much of what he suggests is based on stereotypes, but that doesn't mean they aren't true.
The book consists of short entries on various aspects of Parisian life and culture, accompanied by a useful tip and a sentence that sums up the best way to sound like a Parisian. When crossing the street, for example, Magny declares that a person should never stand at a red light while waiting for the light to turn green. After all, he reasons, "There has to be a better way." In Paris, that means dashing across the street whenever and wherever you want.
Magny discusses the Parisian penchant for wearing black (except in the summer, when Parisian men get to wear white). There also is the observation that Parisians of both genders and all ages seem to be on a perpetual diet ("the Parisian will not let fatness take over"). That is packaged with the belief among the French that exercising is a pointless activity.
Another trait: Parisians love New York ("in Paris, stating that you prefer Paris over New York will make you sound old and boring").
As for tourist fashion, he strongly recommends that you avoid the uniform of the tourist. That means no fanny pack, sneakers or camera hanging from the neck, and try not to walk too slowly or get lost on the Metro. Most of all, to be a true Parisian you must learn the art of complaining because, according to the French, if you must complain, you must be smart.
Other topics covered include riding a bicycle, small cars, Clint Eastwood, scarves and Barack Obama ("the leader Parisians would love for their country").


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** Publisher Axel Springer AG struck a 920-million-euro ($1.22 billion) deal to sell some of Germany's best-known newspapers and magazines, severing its oldest roots to intensify its focus on digital media.
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DEVENS -- Manufacturers need to connect more with schools to fill an employment gap, employers were told at a forum Thursday.
One in three manufacturers reported problems finding production workers they needed, according to a UMass Dartmouth survey of more than 1,000 manufacturers across the state.
The number is a little higher than the national average but unsurprising, said Michael Goodman, part of the Advanced Manufacturing Regional Partnership Academy that worked on the study.
"We are more innovative as a group and we are more knowledge-intensive, and correspondingly we require a higher level of skill and higher level of education and training for our workers," he said.
But manufacturers still need to tell the community what kind of people they are looking for, he said. The study also found most respondents do not collaborate with K-12 and higher educational institutions.
Goodman said there needs to be a better job of working together to meet the manufacturing needs of the state.
The message hit particularly close to home in Devens, where large manufacturers such as Nypro have set up shop.
The same survey found that more manufacturers preferred industry experience to industry certifications.
"What we have is a need for not just certification, but actual demonstrated experience," he said.
That need could be filled with students who take hands-on programs from vocational schools or community colleges such as Mt.
One of the school's programs offered students six college credits at a time where no one would give credits for that kind of work, explained MWCC Vice President Jacqueline Belrose.
"We're really enforcing the type of workforce standards that you need to have," she said. "You can't come in flip flops, you can't come late."
The school is also putting together a new advanced manufacturing degree, she said.
Certification standards, she argued, are coming quickly to the manufacturing world, and that is going to require education.
"I think what we're going to see is educational institutions working a lot more closely with private vendors and certification agencies," she said.
Lowell High School Headmaster Brian Martin urged employers to partner with public schools and share what kind of employees they need.
Martin said the change from MCAS to PARCC testing is really starting to force schools to focus on career paths.
"The shift now is to create pathways so that students come in as freshmen and sophomores and are taking surveys and establishing some idea of a career plan," he said.
Lou Gaviglia of MassDevelopment said one of the biggest issues in matching students to jobs is transportation.
"These kids can't even take jobs as apprenticeships because you can't get them there," he said. He cited one program in Connecticut that provides transportation.
It seems the need for skilled laborers is there, but only waiting to be filled by the appropriate workforce. Half of survey respondents said they expected to employ more production workers in the near future.
Employers also learned about a few Workforce Training Fund grants, available through the state, that help businesses train their employees.
Rosemary Scrivens, who attended the conference as part of the state's Office of Business Development, said workforce is the number-one issue for businesses after money challenges.
She said she would have thought that manufacturers would at least be connecting with technical high schools that have manufacturing programs to find employees.
"I was kind of shocked that such a small percentage of the manufacturers are engaging with the high schools and the community colleges," she said.
Christine Bradshaw of the Shriver Job Corps in Devens said she came to talk about how the center's education program can interact with employers. The federally funded national Job Corps program offers technical training to 16- to 24-year-olds.
"It sounds like workforce development is really where the gap is," she said. "There's a big crevice there, and the study proved that."
Although Shriver does not have a manufacturing program, the sister center in Rhode Island has one and Mt. Wachusett has a certificate program, she said.
"I think it might be more likely that we would work with Mt. Wachusett right here on Devens -- we're both located on Devens -- to try to put some of our students into the manufacturing program, because it sounds like they have everything all set up," she said.
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Clubs participating in the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association's (IHRSA) annual financial index reported improved performance in revenue, membership dues revenue, non-dues revenue and EBITDAR for 2010, according to IHRSA.
The 16 companies represented in the industry were described by IHRSA as "leading" clubs representing 498 facilities.
Total revenue in 2010 for these clubs increased by 5.9 percent over 2009. Membership dues revenue increased by 3.5 percent. Non-dues sales improved by 11.8 percent. EBITDAR improved by 4.9 percent.
"Even though the year started with performance comparable to 2009 indicators, the quarterly index participants finished the year with strong fourth quarter results, relying on the success of non-dues programs," said Melissa Rodriguez, manager of IHRSA research.
In fourth quarter 2010, non-dues revenue had the greatest increase at 13.4 percent over fourth quarter 2009. Clubs also posted increases in total revenue (6.4 percent) and membership dues revenue (3.7 percent) for the quarter. EBITDAR nearly reached a double-digit improvement at 9.1 percent, which was the greatest improvement the index posted for EBITDAR in 2010.
Same-store club performance was steady with some slight improvements for the fourth quarter and full year. On a quarter-to-quarter basis, same-store total revenue increased slightly by 0.9 percent. Membership dues revenue and non-dues revenue were up by 1.0 percent and 0.8 percent, respectively. Same-store performance was better on a yearly basis in comparison with quarter-to-quarter results. Over the year, same-store revenue increased by 1.8 percent, membership dues revenue by 1.5 percent and non-dues revenue by 1.8 percent.
"Index results are consistent with other recent IHRSA research findings," says Jay Ablondi, executive vice president of global products for IHRSA. "IHRSA regularly tracks CPI (consumer price index) for fees for club dues and instruction such as personal training. We have found that the CPI for fees for instruction slightly increased in 2010, indicating consumer demand for non-dues services such as personal training."
Results from IHRSA's monthly survey also show improved performance indicators for select clubs. Survey results show that participating companies, representing more than 300 club locations, significantly improved performance in 2010 relative to 2009. Year-to-date as of Dec. 31, 2010, 66.3 percent of participating clubs reported increases in total revenue, while 56.3 percent of the same group indicated increases in non-dues revenue. Membership dues revenue was up for 65.7 percent of participating clubs.