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In the weeks leading up to the climate talks in Copenhagen now under way, public attention was shifting from the science of global warming to the seemingly intractable politics of the issue.

In October, a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press showed a steep drop in the percentage of Americans who believe global temperatures are actually rising. A few weeks later, President Barack Obama had to admit, during a visit to Singapore, that a comprehensive international treaty limiting emissions of the greenhouse gases implicated in warming probably was beyond reach.

For proponents of significant action to curb global warming, prospects weren't looking terribly bright in the run-up to Copenhagen. And then the bomb exploded.

It was a political bomb, of course, not a real one, but for journalists who write about climate change with any regularity, it seemed no less incendiary. Some one (it's still not known who) somehow managed to get hold of and make public thousands of e-mail messages exchanged between scientists at the U.K.'s Climatic Research Unit and dozens of other scientists throughout the world. Thus was born "Climategate."

The reverberations are still being felt. And the issues are unlikely to go away any time soon, as activists skeptical of humankind's role in global warming -- and even of the fact that the planet is warming -- sharpen their rhetoric.

And now, even CNN seems to be questioning the case for climate change.

So in this super-heated political environment, how should journalists go about reporting on this topic? You can find many answers in a new online learning course offered by Poynter's News University, Covering Climate Change. Here are a few tips, some taken directly from the course, and others in response to recent events.

Don't refer to the "global warming debate."

Too frequently, and to the detriment of public understanding, media outlets conflate the vast and varied terrain of climate science and policy as a unified issue. There are dozens of separate debates within science and within policy, and there are even debates about how scientific findings should guide policy. So rather than referring vaguely and unhelpfully to the "climate change debate," reporters should specify what debate, specifically, they are covering in a story.

Find scientists who have credible authority to speak on your topic.

Once you're ready to interview sources, who should you call? CNN recruited Bill Nye the Science Guy to debate the science with a global warming skeptic. The result was utter confusion.

If you need someone to help you understand what's happening, say, to the world's glaciers, don’t quote an activist (or a television celebrity). Find a glaciologist who has a track record of conducting research in this area, who publishes in the peer-reviewed literature, and who has had a recognized impact on contributing new knowledge to this field. A policy expert might be a good choice if you need to put the latest science into a broader context. For example, what might new research on melting ice sheets have to contribute to the policy process?

Remember that climate science is about defining risks, not certainties, and climate policy is about managing those risks.

Ever hear this expression?: "There are no facts about the future."

When it comes to projecting what continued emissions of greenhouse gases will do to the climate, all scientists can do is weigh the best available evidence and say that if we continue on a particular path, we will risk certain outcomes. Some of those risks are understood better than others, because the science is more mature.

But nothing about the future can be known for sure. So in your reporting on climate change, be careful to frame things in terms of future risks, and ask your sources how well understood those risks are, and what evidence those judgments are based on.

Also remember that policy action is about managing the risks identified by science, and it can certainly proceed even though significant scientific uncertainties remain. Governments routinely make immensely consequential decisions about fiscal policy -- to manage the risks, say, from renewed inflation. And they do it under great uncertainty. So why should climate change be any different?

Be clear about the role of science.

Science informs policymaking but it does not dictate what policies should be chosen. If a climate activist tells you that the latest research on the risk of dangerous impacts dictates that negotiators in Copenhagen must reach an agreement, know that scientific research can do no such thing.

What science may be able to show, however, is this: If steps are not taken to prevent global average temperature from rising more than a certain amount, the risk of dangerous impacts will increase substantially. That statement does not require that action be taken. Different people may reach different conclusions, depending on what they value.

Do your reporting, but do not assume that Climategate has substantially undermined the case for human-caused global warming.

Climate skeptics are spinning the troubling content of e-mails exchanged between climate scientists as proof that human-caused global warming is a hoax, and even a premeditated fraud.

These e-mails do raise legitimate questions about possible efforts to skirt Freedom of Information laws, possible suppression of data, and some hints that Phil Jones, head of the U.K.'s Climatic Research Unit, may have sought to interfere with the peer review process. (The University of East Anglia has announced an independent review of these issues.)

But the e-mail messages have not substantially undermined the scientific paradigm of human-caused climate change. It is built on more than 100 years of research involving hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists working in myriad disciplines. The work by the researchers at the center of the e-mail controversy was important (because it attempted to put current warming in a longer-term context). But while legitimate questions have been raised, this field of research has not been discredited.

In fact, independent researchers have reached similar conclusions. Moreover, even without this body of research, the scientific conclusion would almost certainly be the same: Adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is warming the globe, causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt and sea level to rise, and triggering other impacts as well.

Just how much warming can we expect in the future, how much melting, how much sea level rise and over what time frame? These questions are still the focus of intense scientific research.

Avoid being a stenographer or playing judge and jury; be a referee.

Don't simply balance opposing claims (in either science or policy) with comments from dueling experts, an approach that is now so unfortunately common in American television news.

And if you are not a columnist or blogger, don't simply pass judgment on who is right and wrong. Be a referee who subjects conflicting claims to independent scrutiny. Examine the evidence in the form of primary literature, such as scientific papers and reports. And enlist the help of impartial experts who can help you put claims from partisans wielding conflicting results and opinions into proper perspective.

Your goal is to help your audience weigh the merits of these varying positions, and to alert them when one side in a debate is cherry picking the data, or exaggerating, or committing other kinds of fouls.

Understand and distinguish between legitimate analyses and what Eric Pooley calls "weapons of mass persuasion."

We certainly need to tell our audiences what the persuaders are trying to accomplish, whether they are trying to speed or derail action on climate change. They are part of the policymaking process, and so they must be part of our coverage.

But we should not conflate what they say in the public square with rigorous, peer-reviewed research. When partisans present information that they claim is scientific, scrutinize it. Did a recognized expert in the field conduct the research? Where did the funding come from? (A study funded by ExxonMobil may not be as credible as one funded by, say, the National Science Foundation.) Was it published in a peer-reviewed publication? If so, what has other research in this field turned up? And what do impartial experts have to say?


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When Michael and Janet Verlander rented the shoebox-sized storefront at 1522 North Main Street in Walnut Creek in May of 1977, they had no idea that 38 years later, it would have become the East Bay’s premier wine and food destination. It started as a deli with a cheese counter, a hot plate and a few racks of wine. But these were dynamic times, and Michael, driven by a passion for wine, quickly forged close relationships with some of California’s newest and best names in the wine business. Duckhorn, Silver Oak, Kistler and Au Bon Climat, for example, all sold their first vintages at Walnut Creek Wine & Cheese. Michael still tells of talking Dan Duckhorn out of 14 cases of his first vintage of Three Palms Merlot and selling it for the princely sum of $14 per bottle!

Everything changed when the Verlanders, while taking a rare vacation in Italy in the late eighties, had an epiphany while dining at Ristorante Belvedere atop La Morra hill in Barolo. They were so taken by it all that they decided to import their Piemontese experience to Walnut Creek. Walnut Creek Wine & Cheese became successively Prima Café, Prima Trattoria e Negozio di Vini, and finally PRIMA. With the change came expansion. The shoebox doubled in size with the addition of what is now the Caminetto fireplace dining room.

When I started at PRIMA as Wine Director in the spring of 1994, what is now our wood-burning oven and Enoteca dining room was a sushi bar, and the space now occupied by PRIMA Vini, our wine shop, was another restaurant. Things grew quickly as both the restaurant and wine store’s reputation spread. Then in 1999, the Verlanders recruited Chef Peter Chastain to run the kitchen, further cementing the restaurant’s place as one of the East Bay’stop wining and dining destinations.

Chef Peter and I purchased PRIMA from the Verlanders in 2005, and have since made it our mission to not only preserve the original Italian sensibility that drove the business’ metamorphosis, but to enhance it, making subtle refinements to the menu, the appearance of the dining space, and to a wine list that now numbers over 1300 selections, with a particular focus on the Italian wine that best suit our cuisine.

These days PRIMA is hitting on all cylinders. Under the guidance of outstanding General Manager Jordana Arey and Chef Peter’s unwavering focus on only the best organic seasonal ingredients, PRIMA has elevated the dining experience to one of the best in the Bay Area; while PRIMA Vini, with its friendly, professional and experienced staff, is known not only as Walnut Creek’s most respected source for the world’s rarest and most exciting wines, but also as an internet retailer of national repute

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John RittmasterRittmaster’s passion for wine began while on his own honeymoon while attending a wedding where the father of the bride brought out some incredible wines. He was inspired to learn more and subsequently went with his the new bride (now of 25 years) to California wine county. “During that first visit I began to understand why wine fascinated me. I discovered that wine is a lot like my other passion – art. The fun is in how both pursuits are abstract and subjective,” says Rittmaster. It was after that trip, that he began collecting wine and aggressively pursuing learning all he could about the wine industry. This, in turn, led to his being recruited by Robert Mondavi in Japan.

After fifteen years there, Rittmaster left Japan in 1993 and moved to Northern California and worked for the venerable wine merchant, Draper and Esquin until joining PRIMA where he has increased annual sales for the full service wine merchant from $250,000 in 1994 to close to $4 million today.

Rittmaster leads an accomplished staff of wine experts, all of whom possess an incredible passion for the business and knowledge of PRIMA’s vast inventory. PRIMA is also nationally recognized as a leading source for eclectic, artisan wines produced by some of the world’s most sought after producers small from around the world; and it’s one of Northern California’s most important destination for Spanish, Antipodean and Italian wines. PRIMA’s staff takes pride in helping customers locate distinctive, fun-to-drink wines that stand apart from all the rest at any price point.

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Peter Chastain joined Prima in 1999 as executive chef. In 2005, Chastain purchased the restaurant and wine retail store with his business partner John Rittmaster. Today Chastain continues Prima’s more than 34 year tradition of sharing the simple pleasures of the Italian table with his guests.

Peter ChastainChastain, an American citizen of the world, has extensive international travel and cooking experience which is readily apparent in the cuisine of Prima. He has won national acclaim for embracing the Italian passion for excellent ingredient quality, freshness, and flavor. Chastain embraces Italian sensibility with foods that are exquisitely pure and immaculately simple. His style relies upon flawless execution to showcase the quality and freshness of each carefully selected dish.

Having worked in Japan, Europe, and the United States, Chastain has extensive experience in all aspects of kitchen operations — from production to instruction. A native of Berkeley, California, he trained under several industry leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the East Coast before residing in Japan for four years. Returning to the United States in the early eighties, Chastain studied under the late, renowned Ken Wolfe at Contra Costa College. Since then, he has taught classes on Italian cooking and culinary history in several private and public institutions. “I’ve been fortunate to have studied food and hospitality with amazingly generous and supportive teachers here and abroad. My goal is for that love and energy which was shared with me to come through in delicious food and a lively atmosphere at Prima,” says Chastain.

Prior to joining Prima, Chastain opened Mazzini Trattoria as executive chef, in Berkeley. He was also executive chef at Berkeley’s Ristorante Venezia for several years before serving as a consulting chef with Hilton International in Japan. (During Chastain’s previous sojourn in Japan, he was captivated by the Japanese attention to quality and detail and began to infuse those qualities into his work. He also met the love of his life whom he soon married.) He honed his craft and learned versatility in San Francisco Bay Area venues including Pacific Heights Bar and Grill, Janot’s, Clift Four Seasons Hotel, St. Francis Yacht Club and Paula Le Duc Fine Catering. In recent years on several stage tours to Barbaresco, Bologna, Florence, Marche, and Piemonte, Italy, Chastain has solidified the characteristic cooking style which is now the heart and soul of Prima.

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Nearly half of all Americans have an unfavorable view of former Vice President Al Gore, according to a new national poll.

A Gallup survey [2] released Wednesday indicates that 49 percent of the public holds an unfavorable view of Gore, with 44 percent saying they see him in a favorable light.

The 44 percent favorable rating is down 14 points from October 2007, the last time Gallup polled on Gore, which was soon after he was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Friday, February 3, 2012

Despite acknowledging there are “no credible or specific threats” to the safety of the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Sunday, the TSA is training thousands of fast food sellers and other vendors to spot terrorists under the “First Observer” program.

“TSA said over 8,000 stadium vendors, parking lot attendants, shuttle bus drivers, and other transportation professionals received the agency’s First Observer training for detecting and assessing indicators and planning tactics of potential terrorist activities,” reports Government Security News.

As we have previously reported, many of the behaviors characterized as potential signs of terrorism by the TSA in its training procedures are mundane activities performed by a majority of people, including using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.

The First Observer program has previously been used by the TSA on America’s highways, most recently in Tennessee for the purpose of “bothering truck drivers and passengers by subjecting their cargoes to exhaustive searches,” as former Congressman Bob Barr wrote back in November.

Drivers were also recruited to become snitches under the auspices of “See Something, Say Something,” as VIPR teams (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) worked with the Tennessee Highway Patrol to oversee a process that has been criticized as an alarming sign of internal checkpoints becoming commonplace in America.

With Congress having recently given the green light to increase their funding, VIPR teams, who conducted over 9300 unannounced checkpoints last year alone, will also be very much in evidence at the Super Bowl this weekend.

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“According to TSA, Super Bowl fans may encounter TSA Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams at local transportation venues, including commercial and general aviation facilities and mass transit,” reports GSN.

VIPR’s presence at the big game again illustrates the expanding scope of the deployment, under which TSA agents have been tasked with shaking down Americans at everywhere from bus depots, to ferry terminals, to train stations, in one instance conducting pat downs of passengers, including children, who had already completed their journey when arriving in Savannah.

The TSA yesterday denied a report out of WPRI that full body scanners would be used on fans entering the stadium, but reiterated that they would be in use at the nearby airport and also made reference to other “security issues” being coordinated with stadium venue security and local law enforcement.

Fans attending the game will be subject to a full body pat down and have been warned that most items being brought into the Lucas Oil Stadium will be confiscated.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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  • St. Mark Lutheran School offers a fully accredited program in a Christian environment for students 6 weeks through eighth grade.
  • Our mission is to assist parents in their God given responsibility to educate their children-spiritually, mentally, socially, emotionally, and physically as each child discovers his/her own life purpose in response to God's call to seek, strengthen and send fully-devoted disciples for Christ.

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School Membership(s)School Assoc. National Lutheran Schools Accreditation
Religious Affiliation Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Grades Offered Grades Nursery/Preschool-8
Year Founded 1949

Student Body

Total Students 367 students
Student Body Type Co-ed
% Students of Color
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Total Classroom Teachers 47 teachers
Student : Teacher Ratio 8:1
National avg.: 13:1
% Faculty w/Advanced Degree
Average Class Size 18 students
List of Courses Offered Link to List of Courses
Classroom Dress Code Formal

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Admission Deadline None / Rolling
Yearly Tuition Cost $10,000
Tuition Notes Tuition schedule is varied based on grade level.
% on Financial Aid
Average Financial Aid Grant $2,200
Acceptance Rate
National avg.: 85%
Admissions Director Gabriella Gonzalez

Total Sports Offered 9 sports
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Total ExtracurricularsTotal Extra-curric. 7 extracurriculars
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ePunk Reports FY2012 Financial Results

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SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ePunk, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: PUNK), an online power sports retailer and penny auctioneer, today announced financial results for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In reporting the year-over-year comparison for financial results below, please note that the Company entered into a "reverse merger" with Punk Industries, Inc. on June 30, 2011, and that the discussion below relates to the operations of Punk Industries Inc., which was incorporated in February 25, 2011. As such, the prior fiscal year results do not reflect a full 12-month period.

For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012, revenues were $1.96 million, compared to $354 thousand for the February 25 through September 30, 2011 period, with cost of sales of $1.69 million, and $315 thousand, respectively. Gross profit for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012 was 13.9%, compared to 11.1% for the February 25 through September 30, 2011 period, an increase in gross margins of 2.8%.

Excluding stock compensation expense, total operating expenses for fiscal year ended September 30, 2012 were $816,293 compared to $108,918 during the seven months ended September 30, 2011. The primary factor causing higher operating expenses was the ramping up of operations to support increasing sales.

Net loss for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2012 was $1.07 million, or $(0.018) per common share, compared to a net loss of $74 thousand for the seven month period ended September 30, 2011.

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US band STRATOSPHEERIUS developed from the solo career of Joe Deninzon, who released his first solo album back in 1998. The sophomore production "The Adventures of Stratospheerius" came in 2002 and a live album appeared next in 2004, the first disc that actually credited Stratospheerius as a band alongside Deninzon but which consisted of material from Deninzon's solo albums.
The first standalone Stratospheerius album was "Headspace" from 2007, and for the Progarchives website this album is the production that separates the solo career of Deninzon and the history of Stratospheerius as a true band unit. At this point the members were Joe Deninzon, Mack Price, Bob Bowen, Lucianna Padmore and Benny Koonyebsky. A five year long recording break followed this release, bassist Bowen passing away due to a car accident an event that had a serious impact on band proceedings for obvious reasons. In 2012 Stratospheerius returned with the CD "The Next World...", the band now a quartet consisting of Joe Deninzon, Aurelien Budynek, Jamie Bishop and Lucianna Padmore.

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Brandon Jennings will get a good test right away as the Milwaukee Bucks play their preseason opener Tuesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Canton, Ohio.

The Bucks' fourth-year point guard will go against reigning NBA rookie of the year Kyrie Irving, who has recovered from a broken right hand suffered this summer.

Irving had his share of success against the Bucks last season, including a 29-point performance in a game in Cleveland on March 30.

On that night the former Duke star was 6 of 6 from three-point range but left after three quarters with a sprained right shoulder.

Jennings has been working hard on his defense during training camp. Now he can measure his progress in an eight-game preseason schedule as the Bucks count down to the Nov. 2 season opener in Boston.

"At the end of the day it's going to start from me and Monta (Ellis) because we're the guards," Jennings said. "We're just trying to bring a defensive mentality to the team because that is what's going to get us to the playoffs.

"I'm containing more, being more aggressive and just bringing it every day in practice on the defensive end. That's why I'm doing it, so I can carry it onto the court in the real game."


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Traxisk's name may seem nonsensical - and it has definitely proved difficult to pronounce for many, earning her simpler nicknames - but in reality "Traxisk" is not so different from this author's real name. Certainly all the correct elements are there.

Traxisk was inspired to create her nickname after starting to play Kingdom Hearts II, in which many characters went about the same process of creating a new name for themselves (oh, some of you know what I mean!)

The most bothersome part of Traxisk's name is the inability for most others to distinguish whether or not this author is female. For the record, she is - I mean, I am :P

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A dragon is standing in the middle of the hall.

"What is that doing in here?" Lauren screamed clutching at Ailsa's arm

"Who cares, i need breakfast." Ailsa grumbled

"Trust you to think of eating in a situation like this." Lauren whispered under her breathe

"I think the teachers would know what it is doing in here."

"Well. What is it doing here?" she asked again

"Morning girls." Miss Manchee said smiling

Miss Manchee was one of the younger teachers. She had long brown hair covering the scar on the side of her face. where she had got it from, many romours had circulated yet no one knew the truth.

"This is your test." she said pointing at the dragon

"What? i thought it was a theroy test." lauren yelled accusingly

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"Great." Natalie said high fiving Ailsa as they walked foward to bet the dragon.

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The Bookstore

In a bookshop in New York, there is a window. A small window. A rounded one. This window looks upon a three legged stool. A child's stool, to be sure. On this stool, is a man. His hair is grizzled and his face worn. This man will tell you three riddles. If you guess correctly, well... who knows what will happen?

Rachel Wooddell stepped into the bright, warm bookshop. Work had been hell, and this was a great place to relax, not to mention spend her hard-earned dollars on oh-so-beloved books.

"Hey!" exclaimed a girl behind the counter.

"Lizzie! God, you scared my soul right out of me," Rachel said, twisting the common phrase and greeting her friend. She leaned against the edge of the fancy, dark wooden counters and surveyed the warmly lit store. It was bustling with both people and the smell of print and glue.

"I thought you didn't have one," she joked, pulling at the ends of her fiery hair.

"Ha, very funny. You working the eleven to ten?"

"First time in a month. How's work?"

"Crappy as always," she responded mudanely.

"Well, at least the novel's going well."

Rachel frowned. Desperately trying to trade her number-crunching profession for a keyboard, she had started a novel during National Novel Writing Month the month before.

"I had a major plot hole halfway through the revision and chucked it," she muttered.

"Shame. Well, the books are there. Go pick out a new one- and more importantly, buy it so I can put some dinner on the table."

Lizzie smiled over the counter and waited on another customer as Rachel wandered away. She quickly found her favourite section, a large airy one placed by small rounded windows labelled Fantasy.

Soon she was sitting on the floor near one end of the row, cross-legged and surrounded by cloth-bound volumes, poring over each synopsis on the back.

"Excuse me," said a voice.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, did you want through? I'll-" She frantically started to gather her selections, all the while looking around to find the source.

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A moment.Mature

Damn, I can't believe she doesn't remember, but she said it felt familiar. Why doesn't she remember? I can't tell her now, too much time needed to protect her from my brother.

He has always like to play games, he took advantage of my soul mate who is frantically kicking and screaming in my arms right this minute, fighting to go home as she does not know. I wish she knew or I could tell her but I know somewhere my brother lies beneath, secretly listening in, watching and waiting till he gets his own way. It won't happen, I won't let him get to her!

'JUST STOP' I bellowed at her, all of a sudden a stunned silence fell across the Island. I turned her around to face me, landing my lips on hers, feeling her body shake beneath me, smelling her sweet skin, tasting her is like eating strawberries, I can feel her lips move with mine as we both begin to move closer to one another. I run my fingers through her hair, so soft and free. All of a sudden the urges of biting her neck come to me so I push her to ground, leaving her confused. It's too early to explain.

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March 26, 2007

Another Engineering Excellence Blogger

James Waletzky, who works on the Development Engineering Excellence team with me, has started blogging. The blog is called Progressive Development and details the (and I quote) "Zany Adventures in Software Engineering with Maven and Motley". Maven and Motley, it seems, are two developers at a software company who disagree on what the $#%@* they are supposed to be doing. One of them is a slightly grumpy throwback and the other is a well-read progressive. I'll leave it to you to decide which one is less annoying. James is quite wise in the ways of software and there should be some good tips in there. So far he has blogged about vision, money, and debuggers.

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The Great Lawnmower Caper

Last week I tried a small experiment to determine the monetizability (which probably isn't a word, but you get the idea) of the Mini-Microsoft site. DISCLAIMER: I have no ability (or interest) in actually trying to turn the site into piles of cash, nor do I have any knowledge that Mr. da'Punk intends to. I was just CURIOUS about it.

Anyway, I had a lawnmower I wanted to sell. As I have mentioned, the extremely useful Micronews classified ads were transitioned to an online version which nobody reads. What people at Microsoft DO read is Mini-Microsoft. Someone had even made a comment (which I can't find right now) about how the site would be a great place to look for disgruntled Microsofties to hire. So, it seemed an obvious lateral thought to advertise the lawnmower on Mini-Microsoft.

I was pretty confident that Mini would accept the post, being an enlightened individual. Besides, it was bound to generate some discussion. Naturally it was all about the size of my brainpan, but I was actually hoping to sell the lawnmower. This is what being "agile" is about...put something in front of the customers, see how they respond, and iterate. Unfortunately, the ad didn't work...I did get some amused comments from inside the company, but no buyers (it is a nice lawnmower, really).

I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from this. I'm pretty sure a lot of people at Microsoft read Mini-Microsoft, and I doubt anybody would ignore the lawnmower just because the advertising method was tacky. So I guess nobody wants a lawnmower right now...oh well (thinking about it, the reason I am selling it is because I hire somebody to mow my lawn, which might be true of many other employees). If you want a nice battery-operated lawnmower, you know where to find me.

I did accomplish one thing: encouraging KeeperPlanet to post on Mini-Microsoft asking for angel funding for his startup. You can't stop progress.

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Cool Pictures by Satoshi Kuribayashi

I saw this in Natural History magazine. Kuribayashi is a photographer who modifies his camera so he can take pictures where both an extremely close object and a distant background are in focus. The resulting effect can make insects look giant, like in the photo I show here. If you go to his site you can see more examples (click on Enter, then choose Gallery 1, "Micro Landscape"; the one I saw in the magazine was image #3). He also took the pictures for a book called In Front of the Ant, but I can't tell how good those are (the picture on Amazon, ironically, is out of focus).

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March 22, 2007

The DST Fixup

As you probably noticed, the US government decided to pull a fast one and change the start of Daylight Savings Time, moving it from the first Sunday in April to the second Sunday in March. This caused problems, particularly for calendar appointments scheduled between those two dates. So why was that?

I was discussing this in a meeting of my team the other day and people were sort of harrumphing about how silly it was that Outlook had these problems, and didn't developers know that you should just store things in UTC (aka, more or less, Greenwich Mean Time) which doesn't change to DST and etc. In fact, the Wikipedia article on Daylight Savings Time states "Some computer-based systems may require downtime or restarting when clocks shift...These problems are compounded when the DST rules themselves change, as in the Y2K7 problem" and then goes on to claim "These problems can be avoided by adopting Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is unaffected by DST."

Right, so the people who wrote the software must be stupid? I mean, if most of the Developer Excellence Team agrees with Wikipedia, it's not going to get much more truthy than that, is it?

Except, of course, that they were wrong (as I eventually convinced them). This is an unusual case where storing appointments times in UTC actually winds up hurting you. I'm not saying storing in UTC is bad; you want a conference call between New York and Seattle to show up at the correct local time in each place, and computers move around and all that, so storing it in UTC on the server makes sense.

For example: Consider an recurring appointment that you set up every Friday at 10 am, for 4 weeks beginning March 23 and ending April 13. Outside of DST Seattle is 8 hours behind UTC, and during DST it is 7 hours behind. So if we are a computer that thinks that the cutover is April 1, that innocuous 10 am meeting actually occurs as follows, with times expressed in UTC:

  • 6 pm on March 23
  • 6 pm on March 30
  • 5 pm on April 6
  • 5 pm on April 13

Now, if you suddenly change things so that DST starts in early March, the two meetings scheduled for March 23 and March 30 actually shift; not in local time (which is still 10 am), but in actual UTC time. They are now at 5 pm also. So while most fixes about DST simply involve modifying the mapping between UTC and local time, in this case the meeting, as viewed by an alien and/or a Londoner, has shifted its start time.

So, when the cutover to DST changed, any meeting scheduled between March 11 and March 31 would need to actually change to be an hour earlier than previously. If not, it would show up an hour later when converted back to local time on a computer that had been updated (which is actually happening; people are showing up for our classes an hour late because that is what their calendar shows). And what if you have two meetings scheduled on March 26, one by a computer that has been patched and one by a computer that has not been patched? I doubt that Exchange Server has a way for a client machine to say "I really know what I am talking about when I tell you a UTC time to schedule an appointment on." And what if the Exchange Server itself hasn't been patched?

I suppose this all could have been designed for ahead of time if computers somehow presented evidence as to how up-to-date their DST cutoff date rules were, and the server arbitrating with the latest machine winning and knowing how to patch things up between different rules. But my point is that this is really a very tricky problem, which may actually be impossible to solve perfectly without a much more complicated patch than we likely had time to do.

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March 17, 2007

Engineering for Software Performance

If you dig around Microsoft for guidance on how to make your software have good performance ("performance" in this case meaning not "what it's supposed to do" but rather "it runs fast"), you will probably find some advice along the lines of "performance is not something you can leave until the end; performance is something you need to work on all throughout the life of your product." This seems like self-evident advice: if you delay worrying about performance until (say) you are integrating and preparing to ship, it may have drifted out of control and you won't have enough time to improve it before you need to ship. The comparison is made to security, where a design mistake can be just as painful as a coding mistake, and it took Microsoft a while to appreciate the (correct) assertion that "security is not something you can leave until the end; security is something you need to work on all throughout the life of your product."

The problem is when I think about my programming past, this really hasn't been the way it has been; I have pretty much ignored performance until the end, or more particularly I've ignored performance until a user noticed it was so bad that we had to fix it. The user could have been me, or someone else on the team, or someone in a beta...but the point is I didn't have to dig into the details of design to see ahead of time where the potential performance problems were going to be, the way you have to do for security. If something was so bad a user noticed it, then I fixed it, and the fix was always some local thing where I had to finetune the particular piece of code that was slower than it needed to be--nothing that destabilized all my work and made me wish I had analyzed the design in enough detail to perceive the performance problem before I started writing code.

Performance is not like security, where your system is only as secure as the weakest link on the chain; if some code that rarely executes is slow, it probably doesn't matter. Someone was telling me that at some point during the early work on Word 2007, they discovered they were writing a value to the registry on every keystroke. That sounds really bad, and it was, which is why they noticed...but the fix was nothing too fancy, just stop doing it.

On the other hand, I have seen LOTS of bugs in code that was attempting to optimize the speed of something that didn't need to be optimized, because it wasn't something a user was ever going to care about. Implementing a cache of some sort seems to be the most common mistake, I suppose because caches are the kind of thing you learn about in college and rush out to implement when you get a job. Overly complicated algorithms, like trying to get your sort down from O(n^2) to O(n log n) when all you ever sort is 10 items, is another one, for similar reasons. This has led some people to say that premature optimization is the root of all evil, a sentiment that I agree with more than I disagree with.

Microsoft has now realized that performance tuning needs to be scenario based, that is you have to actually think of something a user would actually do and then decide if the performance is going to be good enough. The problem, of course, is that you can't REALLY tell how long something is going to take until you run it, so this perforce does lead to optimization being done late in the game. And I really don't mind that; I have seen more bugs due to premature optimization than I have seen...well, I can't quite figure out how to parallel-and-reverse that previous sentence fragment, but you get the idea.

There have been times (particularly when I was working on Windows NT networking and trying to win performance tests against Novell's Netware) where we knew we had to absolutely be as fast as possible, and before we had any test data we would sit down with the assembly language that the compiler had produced and try to save clock ticks by having our if statements fall through more often than they jumped. But that is a pretty unusual case where we basically knew the exact user scenario that was going to matter, and also the code that was going to be executed the most.

There is something else interesting that is going on with computers, especially big servers. It turns out that memory usage is actually much more of a performance issue, especially as you scale out, than raw speed is. A server with thousands of connections is probably only doing active processing on a few of them, but it is holding the memory for all of them. And if you use up too much memory you wind up paging to disk, which typically dwarfs all of the goodness or badness in your algorithm. I once heard a story that the Microsoft C compiler used to have switches for "optimize for speed" (which would do things like unroll short loops) or "optimize for size" (which would try to squeeze the generated code into fewer bytes) but it was discovered that optimizing for size actually made things run faster also, because they used less memory. And, thinking about it, memory usage is a) something you probably can get a better handle on in design and have a bigger effect on during design, b) something where if you have to make changes late in the game they might be very disruptive, and c) something, like security, where every little bit helps. So if I had to give someone guidance on how to optimize for quote-unquote performance during the design phase, I would tell them to worry about optimizing their memory usage during the design phase; they could worry about execution speed once the thing was running and they could put it in front of a customer (the one case where you would want to think about speed during design was if you had a public API that had baked in some bad speed characteristics; the old DOS way of reading files in a directory, with its "find first/find next" type API, seems like one such case).

The other big piece of advice is that you do want to be able to figure out how your code is doing, so make sure your design allows you to measure the performance, whatever it is. This may just be baking in some stuff that can count how many times a method runs, and how much memory is used...which are probably things the compiler/IDE can help you with later no matter what you do in upfront design. But just in case, keep it in mind.

I also once heard someone say that when you design an algorithm, you should have in mind a way to improve it IF it turns out to be the performance bottleneck. So I'm fine with that, as long as it's just a quick thought and the IF is understood. Yes, if my sort is the problem, we can replace it with a better sort...but chances are it won't be, and I'll have saved time. As the saying goes, never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

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March 13, 2007

Workspace Advantage: We've Got Swatches!

After some delays due to permitting and planning, the Workplace Advantage remodel of the Engineering Excellence space is on track. I know some of you are rolling their eyes, but I personally am excited about this. We've got plans of the new space, and an actual date where we move out for construction (mid-May).

There will be a period where we are a bit nomadic; some groups in EE will have assigned temporary offices, but the dev team, at least, decided to not move into temporary space; we'll have a spot to put our desktop machines, but otherwise we will work from home, book conference rooms, squat in lounges, etc. I expect there will be a period of discovery as we seek out the most comfortable spots. Of course when we are teaching, we'll be in our regular classrooms.

The best sign this was really happening was that we were asked to choose among fabric samples for our couches. Since we are giving up some personal space, we get it back in the form of a mini-lounge in our team area, complete with coffee table and laptop stands. So, we need to choose the colors for all this. We had some slightly interesting fabrics to choose from. I was leaning towards a red-with-green-palm-tree and grey-with-dots combo, but the consensus in our team was for an exciting combination of beige, tan, ecru and sand. Oh well. You can take the developer out of the office, but you can't take the office out of the developer.

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March 12, 2007

U-Dub Snub

March Madness is upon us, the time of year when all thoughts turn to the NCAA college basketball tournament. The selections for the tournament were announced yesterday, including surprising upstart the Washington State Cougars.

For teams that don't make the NCAA, there is the NIT, essentially a consolation tournament which takes the best teams that didn't get chosen for the NCAA. This ESPN article about the tournament describes it as "Once the NCAA picked the 65-team field for its tournament, the NIT had the pick of the leftovers, which included the four No. 1s and others such as Syracuse, Drexel, Kansas State and Washington."

The only problem is that Washington didn't get chosen for the NIT. The top 6 teams in the Pac-10 got into the NCAA and UW was 7th in the conference. It was basically a foregone conclusion that Washington would get into the NIT, given that they beat UCLA, USC, and Oregon and played in a power conference, but for whatever reason they didn't. This Seattle PI article describes the scene: the players got all ready for practice, then gathered around the TV to watch the NIT selections, to find out where they would be playing. Surprise! The answer was "nowhere". Clunk.

The ESPN article raises the possibility that people on the East Coast (including the NIT selection committee) simply forgot the Huskies existed, and the whole thing was just a big oversight.

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March 10, 2007

Startup Urge

I recently heard of two people who are leaving Microsoft to start their own companies. One of them is Christopher Payne, VP of Search; the other is someone you have never heard of (yet!).

This may be a fatal character flaw, but I personally have no urge to start my own company or "do a startup" with some other people. I think the main reason is because my parents were/are of an academic bent. I know people whose parents impressed upon them, from an early age, the importance of being your own boss (and presumably nudged them in that direction, whatever their career success). But not mine, for which I am glad. I don't have any concerns that I am letting my parents down by drawing a salary, and I don't chafe under any built-in revulsion at working for "the man".

Understand, of course, that I'm not out there breaking rocks every day; the software industry in general, and my job in particular, allows me to operate with an impressive degree of independence. Still I have no sense that things would be any better if I hung out my own shingle. I view it more as a negative; having to worry about payroll and rent and equipment, prostrate myself to venture capitalists for money, argue with my partners over the couches on the corporate jet...who needs it! Yes, there would be some plusses, like being able to order up a Mariners suite for the season, but I don't view the fundamental "I am working for myself" as a particular benefit.

I was once talking to a Microsoftie about his dream of doing a startup; when I asked him what he wanted the company to do, he shrugged and explained that there were lots of ideas floating around; they just needed someone to run with them. I'm not saying never: I may one day start a small company. But it would be to pursue a specific idea, not because I was living the dream.

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March 08, 2007

C#: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

We are in the process of signing our oldest son up for junior high school, and one of the electives he could take is a C# programming class. This is a new class next year and I guess they weren't sure who to offer it to, so it's open to anybody (that being grades 7 through 9 at this school).

The description states "Students will learn the basis of C# programing language to create small programs and games. These programs will include how to author, compile, debug, and run Windows applications, console applications, and internet applications." The topics they cover include Writing Code to Handle Events and Set Properties, Using branching and Recursion, Getting to Know the.NET Framework, Obtaining Data From a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Database, and Data binding Data to User Interface Controls. That's a pretty impressive list. I don't recall worrying about binding data to controls until at least 8th grade (all kidding aside, I did actually begin programming around 8th grade, and we got our first IBM PC towards the end of 9th grade. Then again, I was a geek).

It's not that the school is some tech mecca; this course is basically the alpha and omega of their programming curriculum. Since they take the students all the way to a working database-backed application, there may not be much left to teach beyond how to choose a VC for your mezz round.

The school does offer a class in graphics (mostly web-focused, it appears). There is also one on using application such as Word and PowerPoint. Our son could probably teach the PowerPoint section: topics would include How To Rip Off Animations from YouTube for Fun and Profit, Looping Sounds to Annoy Your Parents, The Functional Efficacity of Purple-on-Green as an Eyesight Test, and Slide Transitions: For Great Victory.

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March 05, 2007

Vancouver, Land of the SPUI

We went down to Portland last weekend. Actually we stayed in Vancouver, Washington, which is just across the (Columbia) river from Portland.

In Vancouver we had the pleasure (or annoyance, if it's nighttime and the lane markings are unclear) of driving through several SPUIs. What is a SPUI, you ask? Ahhh, it's a Single Point Urban Interchange. In short, it's a highway exit where instead of two sets of traffic lights, one on either side of the highway, you have a single traffic light in the middle. The diagram on the Wikipedia page hopefully makes this clear.

Vancouver has several SPUIs. The ones we visited were on S.R. 500 at the Thurston and Andresen exits (the first two exits west of Interstate 205) and on Interstate 5 at the NE 99th Ave exit.

The Kurumi page on SPUIs promises a link to a complete list of known ones, but the link is dead, so I can't check if the Vancouver ones are listed. I also saw a SPUI in Fairbanks, Alaska about 10 years ago--presumably holding the title of "world's northernmost SPUI".

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I was recruited by Beo, over brunch. We started talking about crosswords, he suggested I might be interested in “this puzzle group I belong to,” and I was hooked on the idea even before I knew any details.

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I recruited Zeugma at a chorus rehearsal; we were waiting for the orchestra to finish rehearsing and I whipped out the Enigma to while away the time. Me: “Do you like word puzzles?” Zeugma (still Katherine, at that point): “Of course I like word puzzles! I'm a linguist!” We have been co-solving before (and during) rehearsals ever since.

My nom is an apt 2nd-letter change of my first name. The “A” could refer to precedence (I'm the first twin). Or maybe it needs punctuation and should be Twin: A, since my twin' s name starts with A. Some of the other things I considered: artist reborn (a transposal of my first and last names); Palestrina or some variation; variations on 3/2 Tuna, a mathematical version of Trina. But I liked the reference to my twin brother, a wordsmith and playwright (although I haven't managed to recruit him… yet…)

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