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All the mathematicians whose biographies are given in our archive exhibited extraordinary mental powers. In this article we look at a few mathematicians who have shown extraordinary powers of memory and calculating. We also look at a number of people who had no mathematical skills, usually no education, yet were able to display feats of mental arithmetical skills which astounded their contemporaries and today still astound us.
First we mention John Wallis whose calculating powers are described in [2]:-
[Wallis] occupied himself in finding (mentally) the integral part of the square root of 3 × 1040; and several hours afterwards wrote down the result from memory. This fact having attracted notice, two months later he was challenged to extract the square root of a number of 53 digits; this he performed mentally, and a month later he dictated the answer which he had not meantime committed to writing.This, although quite remarkable, is rather typical of the feats we shall describe in this article. It is the combination of exceptional memory and calculating ability which seems to combine in many of those we consider. However, in one respect Wallis is very different from others we describe in that he was 53 years old when he performed the above feats. Most of the others we describe were at the height of their powers when young children, often around 10 years of age.
Having looked at a mathematician from an early period, let us next consider von Neumann whose feats of memory are described by Herman Goldstine in [8]:-
As far as I could tell, von Neumann was able on once reading a book or article to quote it back verbatim; moreover he could do it years later without hesitation. He could also translate it at no diminution in speed from its original language into English. On one occasion I tested his ability by asking him to tell me how the 'Tale of Two Cities' started. Whereupon, without pause, he immediately began to recite the first chapter and continued until asked to stop after about ten or fifteen minutes.Von Neumann's ability to do mental arithmetic is the source of a large number of stories which no doubt have grown the more impressive with the telling. It is hard to decide between fact and fiction. However, it is clear that multiplying two eight digit numbers in his head was a task which he could accomplish with little effort. Again it would appear that von Neumann's 'almost perfect' memory played a large part in his ability to calculate.
Other mathematicians who have exhibited great powers in mental arithmetic include Ampere, Hamilton and Gauss. Only one mathematician has ever described in detail how he was able to perform incredible feats of memory and calculating. This is A C Aitken, see [9] , [1] and [7], and we shall consider his methods later in this article. First, however, let us describe the feats of a number of calculating prodigies who had no mathematical training.
Zerah Colburn's powers in calculating are described in [2], [12] and [13]. He was born in Cabut, Vermont, U.S.A. in 1804 and he visited Europe in 1812, when only eight years old to demonstrate his skills:-
He could instantly give the product of two numbers each of four digits but hesitated if both numbers exceeded 10,000. Among questions asked him at this time were to raise 8 to the 16th power; in a few seconds he gave the answer 281,474,976,710,656 which is correct. ... he worked less quickly when asked to raise numbers of two digits like 37 or 59 to high powers. ... Asked for the factors of 247,483 he replied 941 and 263; asked for the factors of 171,395 he gave 5, 7, 59 and 83, asked for the factors of 36,083 he said there were none. He, however, found it difficult to answer questions about numbers higher than 1,000,000.Colburn is interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly he influenced Hamilton to take up mathematics, secondly that he exhibited a common characteristic of most uneducated calculating prodigies, namely that his abilities diminished when he underwent education. This may be due to the simple fact that such calculating abilities require continual practice for many hours each day and education occupies too much time to allow this to continue. Colburn is also interesting in that he was able to give an idea of how he carried out the calculations, the main method being by factorising the numbers concerned:-
Asked for the square of 4,395 he hesitated but on the question being repeated he gave the correct answer, namely 19,316,025. Questioned as to the cause of his hesitation, he said he did not like to multiply four figures by four figures, but he said 'I found out another way; I multiplied 293 by 293 and then multiplied this product twice by 15'. On another occasion when asked for the product of 21,734 by 543 he immediately replied 11,801,562; and being questioned explained that he had arrived at this by multiplying 65,202 by 181.George Parker Bidder was born in 1806 at Moreton Hampstead in Devonshire, England. He was not one to lose his skills when educated and wrote an interesting account of his powers in [3]. Again it is worth noting that other members of his family had exceptional powers of memory and calculating. One of his brothers knew the Bible by heart, another brother, who was an actuary, had the misfortune of having all his books destroyed in a fire. This was not the problem it might have been to an ordinary person since he was able, in the period of six months, to rewrite them from memory. One of Bidder's sons was able to multiply two numbers of 15 digits but he was slow, and less accurate, compared with his father. Bidder explained how the sound of numbers was much more important to him than their visual representation, something that Aitken was also to emphasise. Bidder wrote, see [3]:-
... if I endeavour to get any number of figures that are represented on paper fixed in my memory, it takes me a much longer time and a very great deal more exertion than when they are expressed or enumerated verbally. ... if required to find the product of two numbers each of nine digits which were read to me, I should not require this to be done more than once; but if they were represented in the usual way, and put into my hands, it would probably take me four times to peruse them before it would be in my power to repeat them, and after all they would not be impressed so vividly on my imagination.The last non-mathematician whose feats we describe is Dase. He is of particular interest since his talents were investigated by Gauss, Encke and other mathematicians. As examples of Dase's calculating ability here is an example: 79532853 × 93758479 = 7456879327810587, time taken 54 seconds. He multiplied two 20 digit numbers in 6 minutes; two 40 digit numbers in 40 minutes; two 100 digit numbers in 8 hours 45 minutes. Gauss commented that he thought that someone skilled in calculation could have done the 100 digit example in about half that time with pencil and paper.
Although Dase had no mathematical education he offered to use his powers to help mathematics. He was shown how to use the formula
π/4 = tan-1(1/2) + tan-1(1/5) + tan-1(1/8)and, using this, he calculated π correctly to 200 places over a period of about two months. In his spare time, between 1844 and 1847, he calculated the natural logarithms of the first 1005000 numbers to 7 decimal places.
In the 19th century there seems to have been quite a popular entertainment watching extraordinarily gifted children perform calculations on stage. Of course since there was a market for such performances children who seemed gifted in this way were encouraged to practise hard so that they could earn money. Colburn, Bidder and Dase all gave stage performances.
Another type of lightning calculator was Trueman Henry Stafford from Royalton, Vermont in the United States. Stafford chose not to perform on stage although, as a ten year old, he had calculating abilities to rival any of the others. Had he performed on stage he might well have brought the crowds in according to the description given by H W Adams, see [12], [12]:-
Multiply in your head 365,365,365,365,365,365 and 365,365,365,365,365,365. He flew around the room like a top, pulled his pantaloons over the tops of his boots, bit his hands, rolled his eyes in their sockets, sometimes smiling and talking, and then seeming to be in agony, until, in not more than one minute, said he 133,491,850,208,566,925,016,658,299,941,583,225!Stafford took a degree at Princeton and became a professional astronomer. His ability to perform mental calculations slowly departed as he grew older.
In many ways the most interesting of all these people was A C Aitken. The reason is that
did not exhibit his talent at a young age like most of those described above. Rather he developed the skill as he explained, see [7]:-
Only at the age of 15 did I feel I might develop a real power and for some years about that time, without telling anyone, I practised mental calculation from memory like a Brahmin Yogi, a little extra here, a little extra there, until gradually what had been difficult at first became easier and easier...Aitken became an excellent professional mathematician holding the chair of mathematics in Edinburgh in Scotland. He put his memory to good use in many ways in his role as a mathematician. To give just one example, see [6]:-
When he examined a new number of a mathematical journal he had only to scan it page by page, turning the pages over at a rate which the ordinary reader would record only half dozen lines or so. Subsequent discussion made it clear that he registered all the material. And, as he said, he never forgot what he had once seen.Aitken's life is described in [7], his mental abilities are recorded and analysed by himself in [1] and by an Edinburgh psychologist in [9]. The most fascinating aspect of Aitken's ability to do mental calculation, to my [EFR] mind, is the way in which he was able to combine his calculating skill and extraordinary feats of memory with a deep understanding of the methods of numerical mathematics.
In [9] Hunter describes Aitken reciting the first 1000 digits of π to him:-
Sitting relaxed and still, he speaks the first 500 digits without error or hesitation. He then pauses, almost literally for breath. The total time taken is 150 sec. The rhythm and tempo of speech is obvious; about five digits per second separated by a pause of about 1/2 sec. The temporal regularity is almost mechanical; to illustrate, each successive block of fifty digits is spoken in exactly 15 sec.Then Aitken recited correctly the second 500 digits of π. Here however Hunter reports that Aitken hesitated and sometimes corrected himself. When asked why he found the second 500 much harder than the first 500 Aitken had an interesting answer. Partly he said it was due to tiredness since recall requires a great effort. More interesting however was his other reason:-
Before the days of computing machines there was a kind of competition (human, I mean) in seeing how far they could calculate π. In 1873, Shanks carried this to 707 decimals; but it was not until 1948 that it was discovered that the last 180 of these were wrong. Now, in 1927 I had memorised those 707 digits for an informal demonstration to a students society, and naturally I was rather chagrined, in 1948, to find that I had memorised something erroneous. When π was calculated to 1000 and indeed more decimals, I re-memorised it. But I had to suppress my earlier memory of those erroneous digits, 180 of them...So Aitken's problem was that he could not forget the incorrect 180 digits!
You can see the 1000 digits of the decimal expansion of π as Aitken recited them at THIS LINK.
What about his ability to calculate? Firstly when presented with a number, Aitken instantly saw a variety of different ways of expressing it. For example
1961 = 37 × 53 = 442 + 52 = 402 + 192occurred to him instantly. In fact a number instantly appeared to him in a form particularly suitable for the required task. For example if asked for the decimal expansion of 1/851 he would think of 851 as 23 × 37, if asked for the square root of 851 then he thought of it as 292 + 10, if asked for the decimal expansion of 17/851 then he would think of it as almost 0.02.
Numbers filled Aitken's world. He said:-
If I go for a walk and if a motor car passes and it has the registration number 731, I cannot but observe it is 17 times 43. ... When I see a bus conductor with a number on his lapel, I square it ... this isn't deliberate, I just can't help it. ... [Given a number] is it a prime of the form 4n+1, and so expressible as the sum of two squares in one way only? Is it the numerator of a Bernoullian number, or one occurring in some continued fraction? And so on. Sometimes a number has almost no properties at all, like 811, and sometimes a number, like 41, is deeply involved in many theorems that you know.Aitken showed an ability divide, and thus to calculate decimal expansions of rationals, which other calculators could not do. It was always a rule at the calculating exhibitions of those described above that, when the audience was asked to suggest sums, division sums were banned. Aitken however was able to use certain tricks. On asked to compute the decimal expansion of 1/697 he explained his method. He saw immediately that 697 = 17 × 41. Then:-
I mentally worked out a 41st and divided it by 17 at the same time. I did two things. That's severe by the way. A double process is very severe. You see you've got to run one decimal and divide it at the same time by something else. You've got to alternate back and forward I've got to be aware that a 41st is point, 0, 2, 4, 3, 9, and be dividing by 17 along.However many divisions were carried out by Aitken using clever tricks. He explained how many decimal expansions could be carried out by short division. He said, see [9]:-
One can divide by a number like 59, or 79, or 109, or 599, and so on, by short division. Take for example, 1/59, which is nearly 1/60. Set the division out thusWhen asked to explain exactly what he does when asked to multiply 123 by 456 Aitken replied:-
6 ) 1.0 1 6 9 4 9 1 5 2... ------------------------ 0.0 1 6 9 4 9 1 5 2 5...
Here we have the decimal for 1/59, obtained by dividing 1 by 60; as we obtain each digit we merely enter it in the dividend, one place later, and continue with the division. As another example, consider 5/23. Write it as 15/69. Then proceed
7 ) 15.2 1 7 3 9 1 3 0... ------------------------ 0.2 1 7 3 9 1 3 0 4...
In fact 5/23 = 0.2173913043478260869565, a recurring decimal with a period of 22 digits. One could equally well have written it as 65/299, then carrying out division by 3, two digits at a time, and entering in the dividend two places further along. There are other possibilities: For example, the mental calculator is, or should be, very familiar with the factorisation of numbers; he should know not merely that 23 time 13 is 299, but that 23 times 87 is 2001. For example 5/23 is equal to 435/2001; and if we note that 435 is the same as 434.999999999..., we have another method, in which, as we obtain the digits, we subtract them from the dividend, so many places later. Thus in the present case
2 ) 434 782 608 695 652 ... ------------------------- 217 391 304 347 ...
For example, 217 from 999 gives 782, which we then divide by 2, obtaining 391; this, subtracted from 999, gives 608; and so on. My aim has been to demonstrate, in these various rather simple examples, some part of the repertoire, the armoury of resource upon which a mental calculator may draw, and in regard to the choice of which he must make instantaneous decisions, and keep to them.
I see at once that 123 times 45 is 5535 and that 123 times 6 is 738; I hardly have to think. Then 5535 plus 738 gives 56088. Even at the moment of registering 56088, I have checked it by dividing it by 8, so 7011, and this by 9 gives 779. I recognise 779 as 41 by 19. And 41 by 3 is 123, while 19 by 24 is 456. A check, you see; and it passes by in about 1 sec.Why cannot we all then, having learned Aitken's tricks, perform rapid calculations as he could. Aitken, when asked what he believed made him more able to calculate than the average person, put it down to his ability to easily remember numbers. He said:-
I can put aside in storage for a future occasion a result that has already been obtained. I know I can bring it out correctly. .. [this] is what distinguishes the calculator from the man in the street. The man in the street forgets the stages in between.Some feats of memory are certainly visual in nature. The person concerned can 'see' the numbers of objects which have been committed to memory and in some sense read them off as if they had been written on paper. Aitken said that his memory could work that way but it slowed him down.
Seeing would put me off. If I were forced to visualise, I would be much slower.However, when asked to recite the digits of π backwards Aitken had, interestingly, no other option but to bring the numbers into a visual form and read them off backwards from his visual image. His 'much slower' comment may be true but the speed was still impressive. The last 50 digits of the expansion required 18 seconds for him to recite them forwards and 34 seconds to recite them backwards.
We end with two final illustrations of Aitken's memory. While serving in the Otago Company at Armentières during World War I, the platoon book was destroyed. Aitken recited the names and numbers of all the members of his platoon. The second illustration comes from the testing of Aitken's powers by the Psychology Department in Edinburgh. In the 1930's Aitken had been tested by the Department. One test involved 25 random words which were selected from a dictionary. These words were read to Aitken and he was able to repeat them. When Hunter interviewed Aitken in 1961 he had before him a record of the 1930's test and he asked Aitken if he remembered being asked to recite a random sequence of words. Indeed Aitken did and was still able to recite them correctly nearly 30 years later.
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Concrete Expressions of Georgetown's Jesuit Heritage: A Photographic Sampler of Campus Buildings and the Jesuits for Whom They are Named From the University Archives
Both the White-Gravenor Building and Copley Hall have been described as "sermons in stone" because of the Catholic and Jesuit symbolism of their external architectural details. The three story oriel over White-Gravenor's main entrance includes carved symbols representing academic subjects. The symbol for each subject is accompanied by the name of a Jesuit educator prominent in that field. For example, Suarez, with the lamp of learning, represents Philosophy and Kircher, with lab instruments, represents Science. Directly above the entrance are five shields symbolizing academies founded by the Jesuits in Maryland. These read: 1634 St. Mary's City; 1640 Calverton Manor; 1677 Newtown Manor; 1745 Bohemia Manor; and 1789 Georgetown Heights.
Among Copley Hall's many external decorations is a large Latin inscription on its middle gable which reads: Moribus Antiquis Res Stat Loyolaea Virisque. This has been translated as: Loyola's Fortune Still May Hope To Thrive, If Men and Mold Like Those of Old Survive. The south gable bears the family crest of St. Ignatius Loyola who founded the Society of Jesus, the lily of the seal of the University of Paris where he was educated, and the seal of the Society of Jesus.
Built as a multi-purpose structure, Mulledy Hall was completed in July 1833. Its first floor served as a student dining hall until 1904, the College Chapel was housed on the second floor until the opening of Dahlgren Chapel in 1893, and the third floor contained an auditorium capable of accommodating more than 1,000 people.
On the morning of February 27, 1947, a three-alarm fire swept through the upper floors of the building. A firefighter broke his leg while fighting the blaze but that, according to accounts in The Hoya, was the only fire-related injury. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Regent of the Foreign Service School, returned to the burning building to rescue a large number of photostatic copies of Nuremberg trial documents. These were used in the writing of his book, Total Power: A Footnote To History, published in 1949. The building was subsequently repaired and the fourth floor and roof were rebuilt, although to a different configuration.
Note: This exhibition was updated 11/17/2015 in response to the recommendation from the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation that Mulledy Hall be renamed.
When Father Mulledy became president, Georgetown was in decline. However, he proved to be an effective promoter of the College and rapidly increased enrollment. Congressmen and senators became regular visitors and Andrew Jackson, in his first year in the White House, enrolled his ward.
Note: This exhibition was updated 11/17/2015 in response to the recommendation from the Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation that Mulledy Hall be renamed.
Work began on Healy Hall in late 1877. It was to have space for laboratories and a new library, as well as classrooms, dormitory rooms, and a meeting area for alumni. The firm of J.L. Smithmeyer & Company, who also designed the main building of the Library of Congress, drew up the plans. Their product, massive in scale, is 312 feet long and 95 feet wide with a clock tower that rises 200 feet. With Healy Hall's opening, the University doubled the total square footage of its buildings.
Healy Hall was the first of our buildings to face the city rather than the river and it has been suggested that Father Healy deliberately oriented it as a signal that Georgetown should be viewed, from that point on, as an educational institution of national importance.
Patrick F. Healy, S.J., one of the University's most dynamic presidents, is credited with changing Georgetown from a small liberal arts college into a modern university. In addition to raising funds for Healy Hall and overseeing its construction, he undertook to expand our curriculum, to implement more strenuous graduation requirements, to improve the professional schools, and to increase studies in science. Born in Georgia in 1834, Father Healy was the son of Michael Morris Healy, an Irish immigrant, and his wife, Mary Eliza, a former slave. He entered the Jesuit Order in 1850 and became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. and the first to head a predominantly white university.
By the late 1940's, there was a pressing need on campus for a new gymnasium to replace the outdated facilities in Ryan Gym. The original plans placed the new gym next to the old but that concept was eventually dropped because of noise, parking, and access issues and an alternative site, south of the Observatory, was selected. The McDonough Memorial Gym was entirely funded by subscriptions from alumni and friends and the dedication ceremonies in December 1951 attracted over 1,000 alumni, the largest gathering of alumni at Georgetown to that point.
Father "Mac" was both revered and feared by students. In addition to serving as Director of Athletics, he was also Prefect of Discipline and a student counselor. When asked what he would most like to honor his 25th anniversary as a priest, he replied, "You give the boys a new gym and I'll be happy." A few days later, on September 3, 1939, he was found dead in his room, beside a radio broadcasting news of the declarations of war by Britain and France. Lou Little, who coached under Father "Mac", said of him, "I never knew a man with so broad a vision. I never knew one who understood boys as he understood them. I never saw him confronted with a decision and fail to give a fair and sympathetic answer- one that satisfied all hands and endeared him to all."
The Walsh Building, dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, was built for the School of Foreign Service. Among the modern and much touted features of the new building were air conditioning and a public address system. The showplace of the building was the Hall of Nations, an auditorium capable of seating over 500, which contained the flags of sixty countries and the seal of the United Nations on the rostrum. The plexiglas globe of the world in the lobby, ten feet in diameter, rotated once every three minutes. It was, at the time of the building's opening, the largest rotating globe in the world.
Priest, educator, scholar, and statesman, Father Walsh established the School of Foreign Service in 1919, the first of its kind in the U.S. While remaining actively involved in the running of the School, he undertook many international trips and diplomatic missions. He directed the Papal Famine Relief Mission to Russia in 1922, worked on behalf of the Vatican to resolve long-standing issues between Church and State in Mexico in 1929, negotiated with the Iraqi government to establish an American College in Baghdad in 1931, and served as Consultant to the U.S. Chief of Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials.
President Eisenhower sent a letter to the University when Father Walsh died, which read in part, "The death of Father Walsh is a grievous loss to the Society in which he served so many years, to the educational and religious life of the United States and to the free people of the Western World. For four decades, he was a vigorous and inspiring champion of freedom for mankind and independence for nations . . . at every call to duty, all his energy of leadership and wisdom of counsel were devoted to the service of the United States."
By the mid-1970's, Georgetown's international programs and activities had outgrown the physical capacity of the University to house them, so planning began for a new building which could consolidate all main campus international programs and contributing departments in one building. The project was given impetus, and federal funding, by a national recognition of the need for intercultural education and the Intercultural Center was dedicated in 1982. A quotation from French priest and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., appears above the stairs leading down to its auditorium: The Age of Nations is past. It remains for us now, if we do not wish to perish, to set aside the ancient prejudices and build the earth.
Father Bunn, known as "Doc" to his friends, reorganized and consolidated University administration during his tenure. He also developed study aboard programs and oversaw the construction of eight buildings in ten years. When talking to students, he often stressed the five "C's" he felt they should have: courtesy, cooperation, consideration, challenge and commitment. In 1952, he said, "A mediocre thing is not worth a man's whole life - unless you are willing to strive, to work, to sacrifice for the highest and best possible, it would be better to resign . . . and get into something else, where half-hearted effort and mediocre achievement are less damaging and less important, than the field of education. But, for myself, I will never give consideration to anything but the best."


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Hutchinson make a lot of road tyres, they also make a lot of mountain bike tyres, and squeezed between the two are just a few cyclo-cross tyres with the Toro being one. With its pattern of small, square knobs it looks like a mountain bike tyre but smaller, which comes as no surprise as it's based on Hutchinson's Toro MTB tyre.
Hutchinson are champions of the road tubeless movement but, unlike like their Piranha and Bulldog CX tyres, the Toro isn't tubeless ready. It prefers a regular tube inside, which is just fine for the majority of cyclo-cross riders.
The stated tyre size of 700x32 is hopelessly optimistic as the tyre measures nearer 30mm from outside knob to outside knob, so some Gallic boasting there, but the actual weight of the tested tyres is more gamine than the claimed weight of 350g at 301g and 312g respectively. They're slimmer and svelter than advertised nature is immediately noticeable on the bike making for a fast and skippy ride, the directional shallow tread making the Toro pretty sprinty even on the road. And that speed translates well off-road where there's more grip than its light weight and skinny 127 TPI carcass would suggest.
Hutchinson peddles the Toro as a tyre for wet and muddy conditions but they behave really, really well over a variety of terrains, unlike some other mud biased tyres. Their diminutive size and mass means a bit of care has to be taken anywhere rocky, pointy, bumpy or rooty but they make a good fist of anything if you give them faith, making for a fun, stimulating and rewarding ride. Over anything hardpacked they fly along, and when it eventually does get sloppy they grip with more assurance than those small blocks would have you believe. There's enough room between those blocks to allow mud to clear quickly too.
So there's a lot to like – love, even – about the Toro. These are tyres that somehow manage to skip along the delicate line between frisky and confident and they would frolic happily to the top of the charts if they weren't the fastest wearing tyres in the world. Probably. After just two rides the rear tyre was showing significant signs of abuse. After half a dozen rides it was looking like it had done a hard season already, and with a dozen outings under its belt the rear tyre was already looking on the internet for a replacement. The central knobs were almost down to the tyre body on the leading edges and the rest looked pretty well gnawed. Even compared to other mud ready CX tyres, deterioration was swift with the front tyre looking distressingly scuffed as well.
Although they're a tyre suggested for the wet and mud, the Toros perform well in all off-road theatres. As they're not at all draggy like other mud-friendly tyres can be, they're tarmac friendly as well. For a short while. Light, thin and with a mountain bikey tread pattern, they're fast yet sticky, but they don't 'arf wear fast, even when compared to other slop-specific tyres. Sadly, that means they're best kept off the play or commute CX bike and saved for competition days where they'll enter the ring fighting.
The Toro's are a bit of a tricky tyre to mark. They look to be a great CX tyre for mucking about on as nothing about them screams elite or mud tyre, but their wear rate is prohibitive and they should be marked down severely because of this. But Hutchinson label the Toro as a competition tyre where performance could be seen to come before longevity. They're probably not the tyre for you if you like multi-hour 'cross jaunts over a variety of tyre-chewing terrains or just for work and back. They're meant for a painful hour round the soft mud, which is something they do really well, being light, fast and slop-happy. So the final mark's going to reflect their competition genetics and be just a teeny bit more charitable.
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Make and model: Hutchinson Toro CX 700x32c
Size tested: 32mm
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Toro is a cyclocross competition tyre for wet and muddy conditions with aggressive knobs for traction and braking performance, also optimised for low rolling resistance and good mud clearance, it says here. The low weight and slender carcass definitely point to the performance end of the scale, and it does grip well in sloppy conditions whilst still being speedy. Ridiculously fast wear when just riding about makes them definitely a competition-only tread.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
700x32, 127tpi, folding bead, semi-soft compound on the sides for good cornering grip.
Well made... for the duration of their short life, that is.
A fast and fun tyre that grips where you don't expect it to.
The quickest wearing CX tyre I've ever ridden (and I had some Michelin Mud greens once!).
Very light.
For such a thin, light, shallow treaded tyre they weren't too punishing.
I'd like more than a dozen rides out of any tyre before I need to look for another one, even from a mud tyre.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Take the 'competition' tag in the Toro's description to heart because it won't last long anywhere else.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The light weight, the speed, the grip.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
The ridiculously fast wear.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes, while it lasted.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes, but I'd only use it on special race days, not for general mucking about.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, if they only ever used it for racing.
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
I usually ride: It varies as to the season. My best bike is: The one I\'m on at the time
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, cyclo cross, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Fun
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Crowds rock out at SnowGlobe
The sound of wind and waving trees was replaced by bass, lights and a cheering crowd Sunday as SnowGlobe kicked off in South Lake Tahoe for its third consecutive year.
Thousands of people in bright, warm clothes poured into the event for the three-day music festival, which had them dancing, jumping and singing through the night.
Some festivalgoers made their valiant return, while others — such as 22-year-old Zoe Thomas — participated for the first time.
Thomas came with her twin sister and roommate, all of who were visiting from the Sacramento area, she said.
"Most people here are here for the exact same thing: the music and the atmosphere," Thomas said. "Everyone's just trying to have a good time. There's nothing negative here at all."
On SnowGlobe's opening night, Thomas said her group was planning on taking it easy since they were attending the festival all three nights.
"We're going to take it more mellow tonight," she said. "Then tomorrow, we're going to rage pretty hard."
Apparently the festival did "rage" pretty hard Sunday, as the city of South Lake Tahoe posted a memo on its website addressing an increase in noise from the previous year.
"The lack of snow this year (2013) is contributing to sound being heard farther and louder than last year, although sound levels on site are the same as in 2012," according to the city website.
Officials asked SnowGlobe to lower the sound below what is required by the permit to compensate for the lack of snow, the website reported.
In all, there were about 15 noise complaints Sunday, City Manager Nancy Kerry said Monday.
Overall, the first day of the festival went "pretty well," Kerry said. Aside from noise levels, transportation and trash cleanup seemed to make an improvement.
Festivalgoers had also reported positive experiences, and many were excited about New Year's Eve in South Lake Tahoe. Roseville resident Kathryn Flint was one of them.
"It's my first time ever doing something on New Year's," the 34-year-old said. "So I thought I would go big."


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The historic cottage on the old coalyard premises at 40 Carrickmore Road, Ballycastle, has been reduced to a pile of rubble.
It would appear that BTW Cairns, the estate agents, Povall Worthington, the architects, and elements of the mainstream media have misled the public about the historic nature of the site. Was the buyer informed or did the buyer check the site's real history?
Povall Worthington: MARCONI COTTAGE - COUNTY ANTRIM
Located on the County Antrim coastline near Ballycastle, a two storey replacement dwelling is proposed on this dramatic 18 acre site.
A floor area of 2,500sqft is proposed and glazed facades provide excellent views over the surrounding sea & coastline. Image five shows the existing cottage property.
This property has received much attention from the media, being featured in numerous newspapers & online, including the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Examiner & BBC News.
BBC: "It was the Irish home of a wireless pioneer and has now gone on the market for £400,000. .. Just the spot for an inventor to quietly tinker with electromagnetic waves [Quite. Is this an advert or a news item?] .. The site has full planning consent for a replacement home [Ah, yes. So the Planning Service gave permission for the demolition of a building of global significance? Surely not]
UTV: "The seafront home on Northern Ireland's North Antrim coast was owned by the family of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Guglielmo Marconi and it was from there in 1898 he sent transmissions to the nearby Rathlin Island." [attributed to Press Association]
David Young, Press Association: "The seafront home on Northern Ireland's North Antrim coast was owned by the family of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Guglielmo Marconi and it was there in 1898 he sent transmissions to the nearby Rathlin Island.
Sitting on the rocks at Ballycastle with a spectacular view out to sea, the property was always expected to fetch a hefty price, but with its added historic significance the selling agent believes it will reach upwards of £400,000."
Irish Examiner: "Broadcast it far and wide, Marconi Cottage is for sale on Antrim coast .. Up for sale near Ballycastle, in north Co Antrim, is Marconi Cottage, a 19th century seaside stunner with a direct link to the great man of wireless, radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi."
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Chicago Church chooses Electro‑Voice sound
"The church asked me to design a concert sound system rather than a church system," says Rick Muermann CTS of AVI Systems, Inc. "They have a full band and a lot of audience participation; music is at the heart of their worship style, and they needed a system that could handle a full-on live performance. The sanctuary holds around 500, and the ceilings are about 60-70-feet high. One of the issues was figuring out whether or not to spec a line array. To hang the speakers, we had to climb up above the ceiling on these little 100-year-old walkways. After mapping the room, we found we could cover the entire congregation with just two FRX+ 940 loudspeakers. The walls and ceiling are very ornate, and this provides a nice, streamlined solution that doesn't compromise the room's aesthetics.
"The church loves their new sound system," Muermann adds; "the coverage is uniform throughout the room, and the sound is warm and always intelligible. There are no hot spots and no dead spots-it's so smooth. They were amazed that just two loudspeakers could achieve that. The two QRx218S subs we spec'd for low-end support are also pretty unbelievable, especially for the kind of music they play and the kind of mix they were looking for. We have one on each side of the stage. They didn't have subs in their previous system, so these made all the difference, really filling out the sound. They have a lot of people on stage, so proper monitoring was a key detail. We ensured they had enough monitor mixes and T221M monitors onstage to accommodate the band, the services-all the different things that happen on stage. FRi 2082 dual eight-inch and ZX1 boxes provide low profile front and side-fills, respectively."
"the coverage is uniform throughout the room, and the sound is warm and always intelligible."
"NetMax allows us to set the system up securely," Muermann adds, "so the only thing that can be adjusted are volume levels. The EQ on the mains and monitor mixes is locked in, so the system always sounds its best. The operator can still put his fingers on the faders and mix on the Midas Venice 320 at FOH, but the more critical elements are locked in. It ensures the system sounds its best. And, of course, if they need anything changed, it can be done in a matter of minutes."www.avimidwest.com AVI Systems, Inc. worked with Bob Sheffield of Bosch Communications Systems Reps Starin Marketing on this project. www.starin.biz
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This weekend I caught one of my favorite bands these days, Beats Antique, in concert for the second time this year at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC.
As I've mentioned previously, their music is a perfect blend of exotic Eastern sounds, modern electronica, and of course… killer beats.
These are some choice photos from the gig I took and edited via iPhone, using apps like Photoforge2 and Hipstamatic to boost the atmosphere.
Full disclosure: their PR team, The Confluence Group, emailed me asking if I'd be willing to post something about the show, which I probably would have done anyway. I'm just flattered to have been asked and am happy to promote a great act.
Click on any of these to see at full size, along with more Beats Antique photos I've taken.
Pick up the band's music at iTunes, Amazon or direct from the group on their Bandcamp page.
See also: Beats Antique tour dates. Definitely a fun show worth checking out if they come near your town.
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Quote:You've got a very true point there;Quote: making someone more angrier only makes things worse when its not a theory on paper
Quote: making someone more angrier only makes things worse when its not a theory on paper
Quote:Quote: which would you, in your experience of both giving, and recieving strikes, find more likely to end an attack? Giving, most definitely.
Quote: which would you, in your experience of both giving, and recieving strikes, find more likely to end an attack?
Quote:THERE ISNT NO SLAPPING IN JEET KUN DO ONLY PUNCHES, BACK FIST, UPPERCUT SHOVEL PUNCH ETC
Quote:KO'ing someone with a slap? Never seen anything that could come close.~Donnie out
Quote:Oh and there is far greater chance of injury with open hands.
Quote:know you havehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJJlAybY60Y
Quote:psychologically it has a much greater affect, culturally we have all been enculturated to perceive a slap as insulting and unmanly, we all have been programed that slaps a re used on disobedient children ( even if you didn't get slapped as a kid). Because of this deep enculturement when we (males especially) receive a slap it has a very profound and deep affect on us which is well over and above the actually pain. we expect to be punched in a fight and as such we are somewhat prepared for it (psychologically at least), but when we are slapped it is unexpected in a confrontation (esp between males), and it is contra to the situation, in stead of receiving the typical aggression tools we receive a tool that we associate to childhood punishment, we suddenly relive the embarrassment of being punished in public. and we are literally shocked more then if punched. when punched we are in the moment of the fight , thats normal for aggression, when slapped we are forced to attend to the psychological affect, it is incongruent with the situation and thus requires re-evaluation this is automatic and unavoidable (and often un noticed) the result is a moment of in activity as the system re-evaluates (similar to a freeze response).
Quote:Unlike the girly slap which is performed primarily by swinging the arm from the elbow and wrist hitting mainly with the fingers
Quote:the power slap is delivered with your entire body weight behind it. you hit with the entire palm of your hand it can be just as powerful as a hook punch and in some cases more so (the elbow is kept down in a slap as opposed horizontally with a hook). when done properly it is a very powerful strike and it is easier and more natural to do then many punches.
Quote:you don't have to be as accurate as you do with punches in fact if you can land with the base of your palm in the dribble line of the jaw (basically straight down to the jaw from the corner of your mouth) and have your hand extend along teh jay then you can virtually guarantee a KO (not that anything is a guarantee in self defence, but it is a high percent option).
Quote:From another point of view the slap looks better from a witness point of view. which sounds would sound worst for you a witness telling a cop that "he slapped him" or a witness telling a cop that "he punched him".
Quote:An added bonus, and this applies for most open hand techniques, is that you have more options after contact you can rake, scratch or gouge, grab or anchor, etc. unlike a punch which only really enables you to club them.
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While collecting the recipes for hot dish, bars, and Jell‐O salad, Emerald learns of an unsolved murder. Certain that cracking the case will catapult her from "gopher" to investigative reporter, she interviews the locals while attending a benefit dinner‐dance at the VFW.
By night's end, she has consumed lots of food, listened to some good music, heard a few Ole‐and‐Lena jokes, and questioned everyone from the Irish‐Catholic priest who lives among these Scandinavian‐Lutheran farmers, to the café owner's nutty aunts and the hunky local deputy sheriff.
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I think that 3 years old is one of the cutest stages for kids. I am so enjoying Noah right now at this age. He is so funny and smart but still so innocent. Here are just a few of his antics lately:
A couple of weeks ago, Noah was fuming mad at Miles. Right in front of me he screamed out, "Miles, you are a stupid butt!" Then he looked at me and said, "I'm so angry I just had to say that to him. I'll go put myself in timeout."
This is the same child who told me the other day that he did not, in fact, wet the bed and that someone must have snuck in his room while he was sleeping and squirted a juice box on top of him.
This is also the same kid who is having trouble learning how to wipe his own behind. We keep telling him that he will not be allowed to go to preschool next month if he doesn't learn how to do it. He keeps trying but he's not very good at it. I noticed at a pool party when I was getting ready to put his clothes back on him that his underwear were not very, shall we say "clean", and that he was going to have to go commando. He looked in his underwear and said, " I promise I wiped my bottom. I think a popsicle just melted in my underwear." I wanted to bust out laughing, but instead I asked him, "Well, did you put a popsicle in your underwear and let it melt." Dead serious, he said, "I don't think I did, but I might have. I don't know. Are they cold?" Because, you know- the temperature of your underwear is the only clue that would key you in to the fact that you had put a popsicle in your drawers.
And that brings us to yesterday... I walked in my bedroom to find Noah in a sobbing heap on the floor. I scooped him up and loved on him thinking that he must have gotten hurt. I kept trying to ask him what had happened to him. He was so upset that he could barely speak. He said between sobs, "I just wish that I was a girl!" He was so genuinely upset about not being a girl that it broke my heart. I tried to get to the bottom of the situation with him, trying to figure out if he was jealous of his sister, or some other thing. He said," No, I just want to be a girl so I can get a makeover!" So on this afternoon's agenda... giving Noah a makeover! This should be fun!
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The Anti-Islam Blogger and the Weapons-Stockpiling Norwegian
Bored rich moron Pamela Geller is a big deal in the internet anti-Islam scene, thanks to her unreadable blog Atlas Shrugs. Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik is reputedly such a big fan that he gave her a few shout-outs in his manifesto! Which is why we're interested in an email she got in 2007 from an anonymous Norwegian who was "stockpiling weapons."
Geller published the full email, which she described as "devastating in its matter-of-factness," in June of 2007. "[T]he situation is worsening," the author writes:
From Israel the hordes clawing at the walls of Jerusalem proclaim cheerfully that next year there will be no more Israel, and I know Israel shrugs this off as do I, and will mount a strike during the summer against all of its enemies in the middle east. This will make the muslims worldwide go into a frenzy, attacking everyone around them.
We are stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment. This is going to happen fast.
Before, I thought about emigrating to Britain, Israel, USA, South Africa, etc. for taxes and politics, but instead (although I believe we are the very last generation on earth before the return of God) I will stay and fight for the right to this country and indeed the entire peninsula, for the God-fearing people, just in case this isn't the end of the world after all. Doesn't hurt to have a backup plan.
Now, that's a very interesting email, especially in light of Geller's vehement rejection of the idea that she or her violent, apocalyptic rhetoric contributed in any way to Breivik's crime. And yet, sometime after the July 22 shooting, she removed the line about "stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment." (You can still see the original post using the Wayback Machine or in Google's cache; the excised version is here.)
Characteristically, Geller didn't acknowledge the edit until she was called out by Little Green Football's Charles Johnson and others. Today, in a post entitled "Clarifying the Edit," she says that the letter is not from Breivik (we'll take her word for it), and writes that she edited it out of sensitivity concerns "in the light of recent horrific events in Norway."
Uh-huh. "Sensitivity concerns" is a much more believable excuse than embarrassment over her admiring publication of an email from a Norwegian with the same violent, xenophobic worldview as Breivik. In fact, we're sure she's been in contact with Norwegian authorities regarding her correspondence with a weapons-stockpiling far-right Norwegian "anti-Jihadist"! Probably it's a false-flag email from a Muslim anyway! As Pamela says, "If anyone incited [Breivik] to violence, it was Islamic supremacists."


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Secrets of the Printer's Key
That row of numbers on a book's copyright page is called the printer's key and tells you whether you're holding a first edition or fourth or what. First editions look like this:
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… and each time the publisher goes back to the presses for a reprinting, they delete a number. So this:
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This isn't really a secret. I just thought that was a funny blog title. But reprintings are great, because they mean the book sold more than the publisher's worst fears. It's a constant source of joy to me that while the Syrup hardcover was such a commercial disaster that you can more easily find remaindered copies than real ones, the paperback keeps getting reprinted, fourteen years on. Last month, I flipped to a Syrup copyright page and saw this:
I don't care if they are running off eight books at a time; that's awesome. It's so sad when a book goes out of print. It's like a little death. I hope e-books will save authors from those.
Also, Syrup just got itself a movie tie-in edition! As a reader, I've always disdained movie tie-in editions. I'm all, "If I wanted to see the movie, I would, like, see it." But as an author, it makes me stupidly happy. I mean, movie tie-in edition. Who wouldn't want one of those. And I've never really loved the existing Syrup covers. I don't hate them. But I don't love them. The US paperback in particular looks to me like an ironic comment on marketing, only without the ironic part.
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http://emekanobis.com/your-writing-and-the-psychology-of-humans/ Welcome to The I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast. This week we talk about Harrison Ford's plane crash, Patton Oswalt's idea for "Unbreakable 2 & 3," and then a teacher has been arrested in Ohio for screening "ABC's of Death" to young teenagers. So we ask the question, when can you show your kids rated R movies?
This weeks releases include "Chappie," "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Unfinished Business" and "Merchants of Doubt." These movies generated a lot of hate from our film critic. Thankfully Josh saved the day by liking "Chappie." It was one of my favorite moments on the podcast. Sean's hate was at an all time high and Josh liked the movie and embraced his love of the movie despite Sean's hate and it was magical…ok I'm being corny.
"The Second Best Exotic Marigold" is gentle and pleasant. Gentle and pleasant often means lazy and pointless. "Unfinished Business" will probably go down as one of the worst movies of the year. It misses the point on so many levels. At worst "Unfinished Business" should have been another unoriginal Vince Vaughn comedy, but it was much worse than that. It's a bummer.
Then there is a documentary about "Merchants of Doubt." It's about how these spin doctors that have convinced half of America that Global Warming is a hoax. It's pretty infuriating, but the people that need to see this movie won't.
This weeks Defend It film is "A.I. Artificial Intelligence." Josh and Sean both agree this movie is great. I can't dispute it but I can't help but want to see what Kubrick would have done with it. Could you imagine if you watched every movie wondering what Kubrick's version would be like? That's not fair to the movie.
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In cities of yesteryear, it was much more common to see horse-drawn carriages or trolleys than the electric cars, city buses and limos of today.
But even in the late 1800s and early 1900s, cities relied on mass transportation much in the same way they do today, though systems have evolved over time.
The New York City subway system started with a single line from City Hall to the Bronx, and operates 468 separate train stations today.


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Protests Outside Cyprus Parliament
Protesters gathered outside Parliament in Nicosia, Cyprus on Tuesday as debate began on a controversial bank deposit levy. Video by WSJ's Matina Stevis via #WorldStream.
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The data shows one man was released in the Antioch zip code.
Donald R. Haisler Jr., 42, whose IDOC number is Y17530, was paroled on May 26.
In total, the state corrections department released 1,856 men and women on mandatory supervised release in May, according to records.
Under state law, paroled offenders are still in legal custody of the IDOC, meaning they can be taken back to a correctional center at any time if the state has probable cause or a warrant.


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Czech U18 Players Get Kicked Off Team, Blame Alex Semin
According to a story that was published last Thursday on LifeSports.ru, three Czech players were dismissed from the Czech Republic National Under-18 Team during the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament. The reason? Prospects Tomas Kvapil, Jaroslav Pavelka and Mateja Beran were caught smoking and drinking in their hotel room after their team's 3-2 victory over rival Russia. The prospects, "while in the heat of a fun moment" also smashed the room they were staying at in the team hotel.
In an interview after their dismissal, one of the players blamed the influence of a certain DC area sex symbol:
"I don't understand why we were sent home. On the web, I saw Alex Semin and other Russian stars smoking during the World Championships in Germany. And nothing came of it."
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Study: Medicaid expansion a boon to Ohio at first
Savings expected to drop as costs increase
Ohio stands to make $1.4 billion over the next decade by expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, but the savings would eventually drop and just about break even as the state's costs increase, according to a study released Tuesday.
The findings released by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, a nonpartisan policy organization, comes just weeks before Ohio Gov. John Kasich is to announce whether Ohio will expand Medicaid and its health care services for poor and disabled people.
Under the federal health care law, states have the option to expand Medicaid. Ohio officials are weighing the long-term impact and potential costs of expanding Medicaid against the possible savings.
The institute's report found nearly a half-million uninsured Ohioans would get coverage by 2022, at which point the payments by the federal government would have tapered down.
The analysis says Ohio would save money in 2014 because the federal government would pay a much higher share of Medicaid costs for newly eligible adults. The state also would see an increase in sales and health insurance tax revenues, the report said.
It estimates that Ohio would net $104 million in the first year, rising to $328 million in 2016. After that, the state would begin paying for the expansion and see the amounts it makes fall as well.
Medicaid expansion would essentially be paying for itself by 2022, but it would no longer be bringing in huge sums for the state either, the report said.
For states deciding to make Medicaid available to more people, the federal government will cover 100 percent of the cost of the first three years of the expansion, gradually phasing down to a 90 percent share – still more than states have traditionally received.
The study estimated that 456,000 uninsured Ohioans just above and below the poverty line would gain health care under the expansion.
The group releasing the report said it would not say whether it thought Ohio should expand Medicaid.
"Our intention was to look at this from as many angles as we could," said Amy Rohling McGee, president of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, who cautioned that numbers in the report are projections and could change slightly.
"This analysis is not inconsistent with what we have heard from the wave of hospitals and other stakeholders that have been urging the state to expand Medicaid," said Eric Poklar, of the governor's Office of Health Transformation. "We will continue to review all of the data at our disposal and feedback from stakeholders, both for and against, and recommend in the budget a course of action that is best for Ohio."
Kasich plans to make known his decision on whether to expand Medicaid when he releases his next budget on Feb. 4.


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I'm tempted to invoke the "global filter" in TweetDeck that will zap tweets containing terms I don't want to see anymore. You see, I follow a lot of Enterprise 2.0 gurus but am losing patience for some of the buzzwords. I don't want to unfollow them, since some of my favorite commentators lapse into B.S.-speak (and of course I have lapsed myself). As my 12-year-old solemnizes, let's criticize the behavior, not the person.
Here's the real problem. Behind hyped-up language lies the haziness that characterizes much of Enterprise 2.0 today. By changing our language--and more importantly, changing our attention--we can get clearer about what's really important.
This is my list of four E2.0 B.S. terms:
1. Consumerization
2. Gamification
3. Disruption
4. Commoditization
In a series of four BrainYard posts, I'll try to offer a better alternative to each of these tedious concepts.
Consumerization Is Lame
Consumerization of enterprise applications is a sexy concept that's frequently predicted as a trend by my analyst brethren. It's the most alluring kind of prediction because it's also aspirational. Touting consumerization lets the mossy technology pundit step out of SAP's occluding shadow to bask in Apple's warm glow. Wouldn't it be cool, the thought goes, if Steve Job's dictum that interfaces must be "lickable" also applied to workplace applications?
Predictions of consumerization also allow analysts to lecture the marketplace without making specific recommendations, beyond such bloviations as telling developers to make "delightful" software.
The rapid rise, and then equally rapid cooling, of the immersive collaboration technology space--think Second Life for the enterprise--should serve as a caution about the consumerization of enterprise technologies. Not all consumer technologies have readily obvious workplace applications. Because something looks cool doesn't mean it brings value to your busy colleagues.
Consumerization is also frequently touted by those who think we're moving quickly toward a blurring of personal and professional mobile devices (not to mention blurring personal and work time). But it can lead to some bad decisions. The desire to "consumerize" mobile apps for their own sake is stoking today's outsized enthusiasm with device-specific enterprise mobile apps at a time when HTML5 is right there staring us all in the face. Native apps make sense for battling angry birds, but they're too brittle and proprietary for enterprises trying to adapt to changing employee needs.
Humanization Is Good
A better alternative to consumerization is humanization. As a consumer and an employee, what I really want is a humane experience. Traditional corporate software treats us like dull robots. Any objective observer would have to declare most enterprise applications as downright inhumane.
To be sure, humanization isn't an entirely novel concept. For example, behind the innumerable gems in Jaron Lanier's book, "You Are Not a Gadget," lies a main theme that "human" always trumps "social."
In an enterprise 2.0 context, humanization means addressing application usability forthrightly. But what exactly is usability?
Steve Krug, in his fine book, "Don't Make Me Think," defines application usability as "fitness to purpose." Fitness is a difficult concept because it implies that usability is situational, and therefore you'll need to experiment and perhaps struggle to discover what your colleagues find even remotely lickable. (Personally, I try to keep my tongue inside my mouth at work.)
Yet, Krug's definition is also liberating because it takes the vague yet essential concept of usability and attaches it to a proven methodology. That methodology is called user-centered design (UCD). You can find a ton of great literature on it. You can also find alternative usability methodologies that are probably just as good; the point is to follow one.
Hopefully, your software vendors are reading up on UCD as well, but don't be too sure. Our research into 27 enterprise collaboration and social software products found myriad application interfaces that look cool to information gluttons like you and me, but are vertigo-inducingly busy for most normal people.
Note that this approach to humanization does not mean virtualizing the employee's physical world. Your co-workers don't need a new application that will represent them with a 3D avatar; what they need is a human-friendly mobile interface into their workaday teamspaces. Productivity is the new sexy.
Some in the Enterprise 2.0 community have an answer to the usability challenge: Don't bother with it at all. Forget Steve Krug. Let your colleagues experiment with different tools and decide for themselves what's effective. This approach sounds sensible and aligns with notions of "emergent" software adoption. The challenge comes when you try to extend social and collaboration services enterprise-wide, across diverse job roles, locales, and work contexts. The user experiences that one set of employees elects as useful may prove incomprehensible to a different set of coworkers. Humanizing workplace experiences typically requires customizing application interfaces.
Alright, enough complaining. Here's a positive message in closing. Go forth and see if you can humanize the digital experience in your company, perhaps initially on an experimental basis, but grounded in user-centered design, actively drawing lessons and maturing your systems and knowledge over time. Then tell the world about it. I will happily re-tweet your successes.
Tony Byrne is president of the Real Story Group, an analyst firm that publishes independent vendor evaluations to help businesses invest in the right content technologies for their needs. Contact him at [email protected].
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There are lots of points of view on running (and other semi related things), these are mine and all replies, both for and against are appreciated.
Journeys of a varying kind
An introduction to ultra running
Running, Recipes, Reviews
Rule 11: When the job's done, walk away
A runner, a hiker and a bearded man
I can't run fast so I choose to run far.
Observations from the Grumpy side of ultra running
My attempt to crack some serious challenges in an unserious manner
"Life Is An Endurance Event"
Swim, bike, run, fun!
Blogs on education and running: My two passions
Motherhood, marathons and more
(Though sometimes it might be wiser to keep my mouth shut- not)
The trials and tribulations of a Jolly Jogger
I like running, and feel the need to write about it
After a short break of 23 years I have registered to run the Melbourne Marathon.
Amateur wrangling with sewing machines, wool, fabric and thread. Some baking too!
A blog about running and middle distance wind chimes
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PCMR v. Talisker: is White Pine Touring case a proper precedent?
Attorneys for Park City Mountain Resort and Talisker Land Holdings, LLC spent nearly four hours on Thursday debating key points in a lawsuit centered on the resort's leases of the acreage encompassing much of its terrain, disagreeing on a wide range of issues during a back-and-forth hearing.
The attorneys engaged in a technical discussion in front of 3rd District Court Judge Ryan Harris that touched on numerous topics related to leases, renewals and legal precedents.
The Thursday hearing dealt with important motions from both sides. PCMR wants Harris to reconsider his earlier ruling that the resort was required to strictly comply with the terms of the leases. Talisker Land Holdings, LLC, meanwhile, wants the judge to find that it was not the firm's fault that PCMR did not renew the leases on time and that it did not waive the lease requirements for an extension.
Harris told the attorneys at the end of the hearing he was not sure when he would make his rulings. He said he typically wants to make rulings within 60 days of a hearing, but the timeline could be extended in this case.
Some of the arguments about strict compliance with the terms of the leases focused on a landlord-tenant dispute that unfolded more than a decade ago in Park City, pitting the outdoors store White Pine Touring against its landlord at the time, a firm known as Utah Coal and Lumber. In that case, White Pine Touring did not provide written notice of its intention to renew its lease for a building on Heber Avenue. The case wound its way to the Utah Supreme Court. White Pine Touring, now located just off Bonanza Drive, was forced out of the space.
Alan Sullivan, who is PCMR's lead attorney, said the case involving White Pine Touring "makes no sense here." He said the case should not be seen as a precedent in the PCMR-Talisker Land Holdings, LLC dispute. Sullivan argued there is much more at stake in the current case than was at stake in the earlier one. He noted the public interest of the PCMR case, the possible damage to people and businesses and that a new tenant on the PCMR terrain could not operate a mountain resort on the land. Sullivan also said $100 million worth of improvements to PCMR differentiates the case from the one involving White Pine Touring. Sullivan was White Pine Touring's attorney as well.
Sullivan said an "administrative mistake, at most" caused the dispute between PCMR and Talisker Land Holdings, LLC, referring to the resort's failure to properly renew its leases in 2011.
"The punishment doesn't fit the crime," Sullivan said.
He also argued Talisker Land Holdings, LLC was not harmed by the PCMR side's failure to renew the leases on time, but there could be disastrous consequences to the resort and the wider Park City community if the case is lost.
Howard Shapiro, one of the attorneys representing Talisker Land Holdings, LLC, countered that the White Pine Touring-Utah Coal and Lumber case is consistent with a century of rulings regarding strict compliance with a requirement of written notice of a lease renewal.
"That is not to be excused," Shapiro said.
Shapiro told Harris the court is "bound" by the earlier case. Shapiro disagreed with Sullivan's assertion about the importance of the stakes in the PCMR-Talisker Land Holdings, LLC case. He said such a claim is "unfounded." He said the PCMR side wants the judge to help it out of a jam that it created.
The sides, meanwhile, also debated Talisker Land Holdings, LLC's assertion that the firm was not responsible for PCMR not renewing the leases. Shapiro told the judge the PCMR side has essentially admitted it was a mistake. It was "a miss," Shapiro said, referring to deposition testimony by John Cumming, the CEO of PCMR parent Powdr Corp. Cumming was in the audience on Thursday in a rare courtroom appearance. Jenni Smith, the president and general manager of PCMR, was also there.
"The leases themselves are clear and unambiguous," Shapiro said, adding that Cumming had testified in a deposition that some sort of action was needed to renew them.
Shapiro said PCMR has described the situation with the renewal as an honest mistake at some points and at other points has said the leases were renewed verbally, there was an automatic renewal or there was substantial compliance with the renewal requirements. He said it was the PCMR side, not the Talisker Land Holdings, LLC one, that needed to track the renewal requirements.
"They have negligently slaughtered the goose that's been laying their golden eggs for decades," Shapiro said.
Bruce Meyer, one of the PCMR side's attorneys, argued that there was a common understanding that the leases would be extended until 2051. He said Cumming and Jack Bistricer, the chief of the Talisker corporate family, would joke about how old they would be when the leases expired.
He said Talisker Land Holdings, LLC did not realize the notice to extend the leases was required or the firm understood the terms but did not confront PCMR until it was beneficial to its side. Meyer also acknowledged that Talisker Land Holdings, LLC did not indicate PCMR was not required to renew the leases.
"It can be implied by conduct," he said.
The two sides are scheduled for another court date in front of Harris on Tuesday to debate PCMR's claim that it was denied a right of first refusal when Talisker Land Holdings, LLC reached an agreement with Vail Resorts to operate Canyons Resort. The agreement would be extended to include the disputed terrain at PCMR if Talisker Land Holdings, LLC wins the case.
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Park City has published the annual community guide to the Sundance Film Festival, an online booklet jammed with information about navigating Park City during what is normally the busiest stretch of the year.


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by Katie Parker, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The No. 30 Georgia College & State University women's tennis team (11-10, 6-6 PBC) clinched a spot in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament Wednesday, beating No. 32 Lander University (12-9, 5-7 PBC) 6-3.
In doubles action, the Bobcat French duo of Diane Danna (Paris) and Bertille Lion (Lyon, France) blanked the Bearcats' Aurelia Ruffat and Ana Luiza Zaia 8-0. At the No. 2 spot, Georgia College freshmen Kayla Barksdale (Martinez, Ga.) and Michelle Lingner (Dunwoody, Ga.) overpowered Eliza Adusmilli and Brandi Cordell 8-4, while Linda Mosa (Stockholm, Sweden) and Adriana Acuna (Peachtree City, Ga.) slid past Lander's Caitlin Fell and Nicola James 8-6. The Bobcats held a 3-0 lead going into singles play.
At first singles, No. 48 Danna swept Ruffat 6-2, 6-3, while improving to 15-4 overall this season. The senior has won 11 out of her last 12 matches. Slotted third in singles action, Lion overwhelmed Fell 6-1 and 6-0, going 16-4 for the 2010 campaign and claiming 12 of her last 13 matches. Lion's victory clinched the team win. Barksdale fell to Cordell in the second position after three sets, going 2-6, 6-3 and 10-6.
In the fourth spot, Lingner lost 6-1 and 6-3 to Adusmilii, while Mosa defeated James in three sets, going 6-4, 3-6 and 10-4. At sixth singles, Acuna surrendered to Newbold 6-4 and 6-3.
The Bobcats are back in action this weekend, traveling to Clayton State University for the Peach Belt Tournament. The seeding will be announced later this week.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute
The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute was founded by the late David Mahoney and his wife, Hildegarde, in collaboration with Daniel Tosteson, former dean of Harvard Medical School.
Since its founding in 1990—the inaugural year of what former President George H.W. Bush designated as the Decade of the Brain—The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute has helped advance neuroscience at Harvard Medical School by promoting public awareness of the importance of brain research and by helping to fund research at the School's Department of Neurobiology.
The Institute aims to:
- Educate the public on the latest scientific discoveries about the brain, and how these discoveries are relevant in their daily lives, through the publication of the On the Brain newsletter
- Support fellowships to young scientists pursuing neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School
- Award the David Mahoney Prize every two years to an individual who has increased awareness about brain science and/or disorders of the nervous system


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A winner was selected from 97 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
We need a great looking logo for a new church and ministry job site called MinistryHire.com.
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We're really relying on you to come up with our branding and look for our new website logo. The colors are up to you... we'll give you feedback as you go.
Here are some things we ARE looking for:
1. A contemporary look and feel; this logo should brand us as cutting edge.
2. While we will be working with churches and Christian ministries, we're not looking for anything 'churchy' or traditional; so no crosses, doves, images of Jesus, fish, etc. in the logo element, please.
3. The clients we will be working with will be mostly growing, innovative churches; so think, 'young', 'professional', 'entrepreneurial'
Again, the name of the website is "MinistryHire.com". If you want, you can even come up with a tagline for us! We're open to all great ideas!
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