Another sad dose of real life has hit the family of a reality TV star.

The 4-year-old daughter of Ax Men slinger Jesse Browning has been mauled to death by the family’s Rottweiler.

Ashlynn Anderson’s body was discovered by her mother outside on the lawn Sunday, according to officials in Astoria, Ore., where the family resides.

“Apparently, the dog just snapped,” says Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin. “We have detectives working on investigating set the dog off]…We are going to give the family a day or two to grieve before we interview them.”

Browning called 911 and the girl was airlifted to a Portland hospital, but pronounced dead on arrival.

There was no immediate comment from the History Channel, which airs the popular lumberjack series.

Bergin says the attack came four months to the day after deputies removed a Rottweiler from the premises after it attacked an adult family member; that animal was euthanized. The Brownings’ two other Rottweilers have been quarantined at a shelter and are awaiting their fate.

“It’s from my understanding…only one of the dogs was involved in the attack but both dogs were seized by animal control services,” said Alan Oja, assistant chief of the Astoria Police Department, which received the initial dispatch.

“It’s a terrible tragedy.”

“- import is slow and constantly gives message “not enough disk space” while there is plenty of the disk space”

I didn’t experience this at all, neither on my aging 2007 MacBook Pro, nor on my early 2008 Mac Pro. In fact, the program is really fast and an improvement over Aperture 2 performance-wise.

“- you can not export original (DNG or any RAW file) with the data that you applied in Aperture. what is the point of Geotagging or creating custom attributes if you can not export them.”

The original file should never, ever be modified in any way, shape, or form. That’s the whole point: your original remains untouched. So why is it still useful to add information? Simply to work with it while inside Aperture. Are you saying that keywords are useless because they can’t be written into the original RAW or DNG file?

“- performance problems, 200$ software should not require a 4K computer, even MacBookPro have problems running it.”

Again, I don’t see this performance problem. Besides, your logic is bizarre: it’s as if you were saying that if Apple charged more for Aperture, it would be OK for the program to run slowly on some computers. Hhmmm…

“There is a bunch of other problems, you can read on Apple Support forum.”

Yes, some users are experiencing certain issues, especially with memory leaks that apparently occur in certain cases. Apple is clearly investigating this issue, and I’m sure a fix will be forthcoming soon. I find it odd that you don’t seem to be capable of separating an application’s functionality and fitness to purpose with something that clearly falls into the “bug” category.

This same inability to separate conceptual problems from purely anecdotal evidence comes through in most of your comments. For instance, because import is slow on your machine, it has to be so for everyone. Well, it isn’t.

Look, if LR does what you want, great, but just because you are missing what *you* consider to be must-have features is hardly a reason for others not to use Aperture.

Here is a new review http://www.artq.com/2010/02/my-review-of-apple-aperture3-vs-adobe.html

Bottom line. If geotags or custom fields are not exportable what is the point of using Apple Aperture 3 ? It’s about flexibility and ability to take changes from one place to another, otherwise there is no point to even spend time.

Granted if they would fix that, as well as performance Apple Aperture 3 would be a killer app