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Kim Dotcom debates New Zealand leader over spying (Update)
In America, Kim Dotcom is a racketeering suspect. In New Zealand on Wednesday, he was the prime minister's debate partner.
The flamboyant Internet entrepreneur, who has gained celebrity status here while fighting extradition, took a helicopter from his estate to the capital, tweeting photos along the way, to speak against a bill that would expand the powers of New Zealand's foreign spy agency.
In Parliament, he used his allotted 15 minutes to rail against U.S. and New Zealand snooping, then traded jabs with Prime Minister John Key.
Dotcom is founder of the once-popular file-sharing site Megaupload, which was shut down last year by U.S. authorities who accuse him of facilitating online piracy. His testimony at the committee hearing was a highly anticipated piece of political theater, and his every word was followed on live video streams and Twitter.
Dotcom spoke against a bill that would allow the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) to spy on New Zealanders under certain circumstances, something not expressly permitted under current law. One such instance would be on behalf of another domestic agency.
Dotcom had a stake in the debate because the GCSB concluded in a review of its actions that it unlawfully spied on him before his arrest in the South Pacific nation last year. Key publicly apologized to Dotcom after that ruling, but Dotcom later questioned his sincerity given the government's interest in expanding the agency's powers.
When he confirmed earlier this week that Key was chairing Wednesday's hearing, Dotcom tweeted, "It's ON."
At the end of Dotcom's prepared remarks, Key challenged him. The prime minister had Dotcom agree that people once used Megaupload to outsource their file storage. Wasn't it the same thing, the prime minister asked, for the spy agency to accept work that other agencies outsource to it?
"On Megaupload you would share a file," Dotcom replied. "On the GCSB spy cloud you share private information about citizens that you don't have any right to access. That is the big difference."
Opposition Labour leader David Shearer then asked Dotcom whether Key knew the GCSB had spied on the entrepreneur before he was arrested in a dramatic raid, a point that has been politically contested for months.
"Oh, he knew about me before the raid. I know about that," Dotcom replied.
Key said that wasn't true.
"Why are you turning red, Prime Minister?" Dotcom asked.
"I'm not. Why are you sweating?" responded Key.
"Ah, it's hot," Dotcom replied.
The exchange drew laughter from the crowd watching and brought the debate to a close.
"See you later," Key said. "It's been fun."
Dotcom was joined at the hearing by his colleague Bram van der Kolk, who remained silent at his side throughout.
Proponents say the bill helps clarify a legal gray area; opponents say it amounts to an unwarranted intrusion into domestic affairs.
The agency's spying on Dotcom was found to be illegal because Dotcom, a German citizen by birth, was a legal resident of New Zealand at the time. Although embarrassing for the agency, the misstep to date hasn't significantly impacted the underlying case.
U.S. prosecutors are trying to extradite Dotcom, van der Kolk and two other Megaupload executives from New Zealand, claiming they facilitated massive copyright piracy through the site. Dotcom and his colleagues deny the charges, saying they can't be held responsible for users who chose to illegally download music or movies.
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In my research up to this point, I had learned that "Aunt Jane" Norman was:
--The mother of Jackson Norman (who married Dissie Norman, one of "my" Normans)
-- The mother of Thomas Moore (aka Tom Peat Moore, possibly the son of Michael Thomas Peater Moore, whose family had many connections to my Normans)
-- The last wife of Zera Lucern Cotton (a Civil War veteran and the husband of at least six wives)
-- Possibly the daughter of Louisiana Norman, the sister of my great-great-grandfather Joseph Madison Carroll Norman.
I was extremely curious about her and wanted to learn more, especially about her family and possible relation to "my" Normans.
The Puzzle Piece
I believed that I had enough information to search for Sarah Jane Norman on the 1870 and 1860 censuses: date and state of birth (1857 in Arkansas), possible county of origin (Montgomery, Arkansas), possible name of her mother (Louisiana), and a possible sister's name (Nancy).
Finding her on the 1870 census was no problem. And to say that what I found whetted my appetite for more information is an understatement:
1870 US Federal Census, South Fork Township, Mt. Ida Post Office, Montgomery County, Arkansas, pages 7 and 8, enumeration date 24 January 1870
Line number 38, dwelling 52, family 61
Norman, Lousa Age 31 Female White Keeping house Born in Arkansas Cannot read or write
[Norman], Sarah J., Age 11 Female White Born in Arkansas Cannot read or write
[Norman], Nancy Age 9 Female White Born in Arkansas
[Norman], John W. Age 5 Male White Born in Arkansas
Here was Sarah Jane. Here was Nancy. And here was Lousa – Lousiana? She was the right age to be J.M.C. Norman's sister Lousiana (both were born in around 1839), but that Lousiana was born in Alabama, not Arkansas.
So my next step was to try to find Lousa and Sarah Jane in the 1860 census. If Lousa had a husband named Norman in that census, she probably wasn't "my" Louisiana Norman.
I'm not going to wait to post that information. I do have to wrap this story up!
I believe this is the same family:
1860 US Federal Census, Mazarne Township, Mt. Ida Post Office, Montgomery County, Arkansas, Page 86, enumeration date 13 August 1860
Line number 7 Dwelling 575 Dwelling 565
John Norman Age 28 Male Farmer Personal estate value $300 Born in Alabama
Jonann [?] Norman Age 23 Female Born in Iowa [?] Cannot read or write
Louisa Norman Age 4 Female Born in Arkansas
Sarah Norman Age 1 Female Born in Arkansas
Although there are a lot of discrepancies in the information for Sarah Jane Norman's mother, I believe that John Norman was Sarah Jane's father. The older sister's name here, Louisa, would indicate that Jonann (it's not really clear from the handwriting that that is the actual name, but that is how it has been transcribed) is probably Lousiana/Louisa. I do not know why the state of Jonann's birth is listed as Iowa. The location, Mt. Ida Post Office, Montgomery County, Arkansas is the same as for the Lousa Norman family on the 1870 census.
And this John Norman was born in Alabama. That doesn't mean that he was one of "my" Normans, but it doesn't rule it out, either.
The Sources
Lousa Norman household, 1870 U.S. Census, Montgomery County, Arkansas, population schedule, South Fork Township, dwelling 52, family 61; Roll M593_59, Page: 283; Family History Library film: 545558. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
John Norman household, 1860 U.S. Census, Montgomery County, Arkansas, population schedule, Mazarne Township, dwelling 575, family 565; Roll M643_56, Page: 936; Family History Library Film: 803046. Accessed via Ancestry.com.
The Wrap-Up
In addition to the census, I used Findagrave, Worldconnect, Google, and a blog page – not exactly the basis for in-depth research, but definitely serviceable "tip lines" for pointers to an intriguing story. For now I've spent enough time on this detour, but I have entered the relevant information on Jackson Norman's family in my genealogy program (he did marry Dissie Norman, after all). And when I go back to research the parents and grandparents of J.M.C. Norman in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, I'm going to keep these Normans in mind. You never know; there might be a relationship after all.
I could not find Jackson Norman on later censuses, but I did find his brother Thomas Norman and his mother Sarah Jane Norman Cotton on the 1930 census:
1930 US Federal Census, Lincoln Township, Garland County, Arkansas, E.D. 26-27, Page 11A, 5 April 1930
Line number 44 Dwelling 9 Family 9
Moore, Thomas Head Home owned Family lives on farm Male White 45 years old Male Married at age 44 Did not attend school in year Can read and write AR AR AR Can speak English Farmer Farming Employer Actually at work Not a veteran Farm number 8
Moore, Pearl Wife Female White 36 years old Married at age 34 Did not attend school in year Can read and write Ark Ark Ark Can speak English Occupation: None
Cotton, S. Jane Mother Female white Age 76 Widowed Did not attend school in year Can read and write AR TN AL Can speak English Occupation: None
The Source
Thomas Moore household, 1930 U.S. Census, Garland County, Arkansas, population schedule, Lincoln Township, dwelling 9, family 9; Roll 75; Page 1A; Enumeration District 27; Image 657.0. Accessed via Ancestry.com.


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Table Talk: Field Days Food
A weekly blog about everything from farming food to cooking itFood stands lined the dirt paths of the fairgrounds, their colorful signs screaming "Zeppoles!" "'Fresh squeezed' lemonade!" "Fried Oreos!" "Italian sausage!" Yesterday was the first day of the 51st annual Addison County Fair and Field Days, and it was already crowded.The people strolling the paths, licking ice cream, drinking sodas, eating delicious-smelling fried things had whipped my head into a frenzied state, and I was hungry.The food vendors were a mixed crowd—some had traveled for hours to get here and spend months on the road each year, doing the fair and carnival circuit. Some were local vendors, open just for the fair and for other small events around. Most, however, had been coming to the fair for many years. As I approached the sausage stand near the entrance, Vincent Loosemara nodded in my direction."What can I do for you, honey?" he asked as he pushed a pile of onions across the greased cooktop. An older man with "Mike" tattooed across his upper arm looked on, taking the occasional order.Vincent needed to practice talking to the press, said Mike. Vincent said he had been working at the booth for four years, and that his uncle owns the business, which is based out of Bellows Falls, Vt."But we've been coming here for 19 years," added Mike, hovering in the background.Vincent cooks sausage for five months every summer, driving from one fair to another all over Vermont, Massachussetts and Connecticut. In the off-season, he takes on part-time jobs.The jobs are nothing compared to his summers: Vincent spends twelve hours at a time standing in the booth, making sausages. But he says he wouldn't trade the job for anything."I like the carny life," said Vincent. "I like camping, meeting cool people — new people."Further down the path was a truck retrofitted with a sink, a stove, shelves and a deep-fryer; "Dan's Van" was painted on the side."Dan was my father," said Doug Heath, who is from Bristol. Waiting on food from Dan's VanIndependent photo/Trent Campbell Twenty years ago Dan Heath bought the van — already 13 years old by then — and fixed it up, taking it around to events in Addison County for the next seven years.This wasn't Dan's first foray into the food business. Over 40 years ago Doug's father, a plumber by trade, had a food van that he parked on the Bristol Town Green during band concerts. Each of Doug's 11 siblings took shifts.After his father retired, Doug and his wife Linda took the business over, and have sold sandwiches, French fries and hamburgers at Field Days every year since. For the rest of the summer, they go to other events in the area: sports games, horse shows, the Bristol Fourth of July celebration, and the occasional construction site."We have a good reputation," said Linda. "The people who have eaten here before come back."Business has been hard for the past two years. Last year they raised their prices because of the rise in gas prices; this year they have kept prices steady in the hopes that people will spend more at events close to home. Still, the couple keeps on."We've had some really good years in this van," said Doug. "And I've had events where I've made as much in one day as a normal man makes in a month. Once or twice a year."While Dan's Van is a fixture at Field Days, nothing is more of a fixture than one of the only buildings on the grounds not owned by Field Days. The quaint wooden Sugarhouse is owned by the Addison County Maple Sugarmakers' Association and has been there since 1975.Barbara Rainville has been managing the Sugarhouse for about seven years."I like to watch the little kids, or people that aren't from here, trying to learn about maple," she said.Barbara learned to sugar at a young age — her grandparents, Fletcher and Hattie Brown of Lincoln, harvested sap from their maple trees every spring."When I was eight or nine, that's what you did in the spring — you went down in the woods. I did a lot of homework in the sugar house over the years," she said.Now Barbara collects sap from only about three trees on her property. During most of the year she does sales and marketing for Maple Landmark, a wooden toy company in Middlebury. But during the lead up to Field Days, she returns to the maple syrup business — she organizes and coordinates schedules for the Sugarhouse, making sure everything comes together neatly for the fair.This year she had some extra work to do: the Sugarmakers' Association just bought a creemee machine for the Sugarhouse, which has two flavors: maple walnut and vanilla. This is on top of all the old favorites, like milkshakes and cotton candy, 25 cent maple pops, maple cream, maple bread, and Barbara's favorite: maple squares from Otter Creek Bakery. There's probably no way to sample everything in five days without experiencing a lot of stomach pain. So choose carefully, and enjoy.


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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Comment Challenge 2012
The goal of the challenge is to leave at least 5 comments between today (January 5) and January 25 and to read 100 comments by the end. Each Wednesday we'll check in and post our updates. I'm going to try and keep track of comments on this post so I have an easy tallying system.
So won't you join in? It's the perfect way to make that new goal and get into the commenting habit in the new year!
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What a great challenge! I actually kind of love leaving comments for other bloggers, just bc I know how excited I get when someone takes the time to thoughtfully respond to something I've written. Good luck!ReplyDelete
I too, signed up for the Challenge and hope to learn a ton from other blogs. Maybe along the way, someone might learn from mine. This will also force me to update my blog on a regular basis.ReplyDelete
I look forward to reading your posts!
Have fun with the challenge :) I'm just getting back into blogging myself!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 5:34 PM
I joined and it's a good think I did as it has been little while since I've visited you! Happiest of New Years to you!ReplyDelete
I'm taking the challenge, too! I am going to use your idea of tallies to keep track.ReplyDelete
Good luck with your tallying - that gets a little tricky! :)ReplyDelete
This year I have been trying to select a few blogs to visit and send their links to my email account to remind myself to go back and comment if possible. The Flipboard app is pretty slick for this function :)
Happy commenting!
I really enjoyed this challenge last year, but would have forgot it this year without your timely reminder. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I should sign up for the challenge but this year I decided to pass on the challenges since I either a)fail to finish them or b) finish them but forget to update. I am trying to comment more this year too though. I've been tackling my reader tonight and forgot how good it feels to leave comments on people's blogs!ReplyDelete
I signed up for the challenge too - it's how I found your blog! Looking forward to reading more of your posts in the future!ReplyDelete
I'm glad I joined the challenge and found your blog. I LOVE reading children's books and I am looking forward to reading your picks for the best in 2011.ReplyDelete


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Living Through History Is No Birthday Party
Erik Deckers
Laughing Stalk syndicate
Copyright 2010
Today, I had the awful realization that I'm turning 43 next month. It's awful for a couple of reasons, mostly because I will no longer be 42.
"Well, duh, Erik. That's because 43 follows 42."
It's not actually turning 43 that bothers me (okay, it bothers me, but more on that later.) It's that I've liked being 42. It's a magical age. It's a fun number. It is, as any fan of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (the greatest science fiction novel ever) can tell you, the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
I will no longer be the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
This saddens me greatly, because I used to take particular geeky delight in telling people that's how old I was.
"How old are you?"
"The answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything."
If the other person got it, if they had read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (or H2G2 as the really cool people call it), they were rewarded with a beaming smile and some congratulatory well-wishes on their total awesomeness as a human being.
If they didn't get it, I told them my real age, and then talked about them behind their backs.
Seven years ago, I was happily chugging along, living in My Thirties. I was minding my own business, not bothering anyone, just being in My Thirties. It was a glorious decade, and one I look back on with great delight.
I capitalize My Thirties, because they were a nice big plateau of aging. Sort of a personal dynasty, like China's Ming dynasty or Hungary's Habsburg Dynasty. My Thirties was a time of great prosperity and gentle settling around the land. (I call my upper body "the land." That's what happens when you're in your Thirties.)
The great thing about being in My Thirties was that it didn't matter about birthdays, because the years didn't seem all that different — 33 was like 34, which looked just like 35. And 36 wasn't a whole lot different either.
But when I turned 40, disaster struck. Now, I was no longer in My Thirties, I was in My Forties. Things started settling at an alarming rate, and there soon followed some grumbling and strife from "the border lands" (my knees).
It's because the decade number changed. The number in the tens column of my life had just gone up by one tick, and it was going to redefine who I was for, well, ten more years.
But that feeling only lasted for a few months, and I began looking forward to 42. And it's been a great year. A year I would like to repeat. I would gladly pay whoever is in charge of aging if I could just be 42 for another year.
What made me think of all this today, though, was the realization that not only am I over 40, I'm almost ready to start remembering things that happened 40 years ago.
Right now, at age 42, I don't remember what happened 40 years ago. Muamar Qadafi became the premier of Libya 40 years ago. National Public Radio and Monday Night Football premiered 40 years ago. And the Apollo 13 crisis took place 40 years ago.
I don't remember any of it, because I was two.
But we're reaching the point in history that I will remember what happened back then.
Pretty soon, someone's going to say, "do you remember the Watergate scandal in 1972?" and I'll be able to say "yes, a little bit."
"That was 40 years ago," they'll say in 2012. I'll be 45.
"Do you remember when Jimmy Carter beat Gerald Ford to become president in 1976?"
"Oh sure," I'll say. "I remember watching the results on TV."
"That was 40 years ago," someone will say in 2016, when I'm 49.
Becoming 43 is not nearly as emotionally devastating as knowing that I'm quickly reaching the point where I saw, heard, and remember things that happened four decades ago.
That's four-tenths of a century. It's 4 percent of a millennium. My distress is not that I have lived that long. It's that I have lived long enough to remember things happened that long ago.
Not to worry though. I'll soon get over it. I always do. I'll relax for a few years, and then I'll start worrying about what will happen when people say, "Do you remember when Janet Guthrie became the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500 in 1977?"
That's going to bring a whole new level of panic.
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Crème brûlée
Is there anything better than a creamy, scrumptious dessert that mixes all the best ingredients to make something to savor? :-) Crème brûlée is my favorite French dessert, which also happens to be one of the easiest ones to make, in a way. It's a perfect solution for leftover yolks (after making Swiss meringue or Italian meringue buttercream)—one batch of the buttercream allows making 4-6 mini bowls of the dessert!
To prepare the crusty shell on top, you will need a blowtorch—you can get a small one at some convenience stores, and however some recipes out there suggest using a broiler instead, this method is faster, easier, and allows you to control the amount of browned caramel on top.
Cheese and mushroom casserole with chicken
This casserole is simple and delicious, and makes a perfect snack during a picnic (bento anyone?)—you should use it as a basic idea for a casserole, since the pasta sauce is the stable and the most important piece of the meal. It's also a very tweak-able recipe! :-)
Quick cream pie
Somehow I managed to hide mini chocolate muffins in my oven over the weekend and now I'm left with lots of chocolate cake crumbs. I decided to make a quick, and easy dessert, which doesn't look luxurious, but is really tasty, fast and easy to prepare in almost no time. Try on your own, you can use any kind of sweet baked cookies, cakes, etc., that crumbles easily.
Sweet potato quiche
Quiche is that one recipe that I love coming back to — it's easy to make, looks delicious and tastes heavenly :-) Plus, it allows me to come up with new fillings, which makes it very versatile!
Sweet potatoes are very smooth and creamy when boiled, then baked, and shallots add a crunchy texture. The combination of them is very mild and aromatic, so make sure you spice it up to your liking!
German vanilla Kipferl (cornetti)
One thing that I like about living in Germany is that during the Christmas time, locals cook and bake many delicious local dishes — one of them is Vanille-Kipferl, also known in other countries as Italian cornetti, French crossaints, or Polish rogaliki. But however you call them, they are basically very crispy cookies covered with vanilla sugar. And for this simplicity I absolutely love them :-)


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Hi Z,I'm also using 0023.I made a clean install on netbook and copied your RF22 library (from your post above) into the clean libraries folder.Copied the code (from above) and made a new pde called 'rf22_specan_simple' and veried it.It compiled OK.Ran up your RF22SpecScan.exe and it runs fine.I'll try some more later on my main PC and Laptop as this is where I want to mostly use it.Nigel.
if you look at the picture with only the RF22 switched on that is working as the receiver it would appear that there is a very high signal detected in the UHF range where i stay ? or am I seing it wrong ?also the labeling of the dBs on the left hand side would it not make more sence if it started form -120 at the top and -20 at the bottom? I arleady made the mistake at looking at the spike but in reality if i understand it correct is actually the lowest detected frequency that im looking at , can it be swapped ?
thanx for confirming that . so for example if the RF22 radio max output is 17-20dBs then if i transmit next the the analyzer i will see a 20 dB jump in the graph but so if it was -120 it will be -100 or around there.
regarding the Antenna issue , all i really wanna test with these unit is if RF equipments is working or not. for example if i have a 433mhz remote i just want to Tx next to it and see a jump in the graph so Accuracy is not that big of a problem. what i think i would do is make a small Antenna relay board with antenna's made for 900mhz, 433mhz and 600mhz and when i switch between them the reply will latch to the correct antenna Automatically i know its not the best but i think it will be best this setup can do. are you planning on upgrading the Pc app with more functions ?like to see if you can set a start line on the average incoming signal and the app will update the max output line at the top of the graph and under the setting just show a tab that updates the dB difference between the two lines.
This is and excellent project! I really want to try it out in my FPV quads.Does anyone has PCB's to sell? Unfortunately I have no way to make them. (well I could but I'd probably ended up sleeping in the balcony)Thanks!
Basically what Devonian said. If you want one or two boards that work right out of the box, you are better off getting the openlrs. I only have the bare pcbs.
Hi zitron,Where did you get your RFM22B? The only that I can find seem to have the emitting power locked and can't do the 100mW.Thanks
I know about Flytron gear I actually bought some other parts from them, but yes my intention is to get bare PCB's.I have all the remaining parts just the PCB that is missing.I got some time ago some similar RFM boards (RFM21 I believe) to do a telemetry project but got sidetracked and ended going for BlueTooth and developing an app for it. And the the boards are still here getting dust.But what you share here is on a another level (special in what concerns range) and rather interests me, so I eager to try it and put my hands on the code as well.
My first board works just fine as a spec analyser.I've yet to build my other boards.I'm a bit like you, no big motivation for UHF at the moment (I have OpenLRS for UHF R/C), plus I have a couple other projects - including weather monitoring, maybe with an RFM22B and an Arduino


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Whew! I was finally able to find some time this week to organize and put up photos from Tangra Summer. This past August, Chitra Agrawal and I decided to host an Indian-Chinese pop-up dinner at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn, a wooden house that dates back to 1652 and is the oldest surviving building in all of New York. We wanted to combine our respective specialties to creative a cross-cultural supper club event that also used locally grown produce. Jason Gaspar, head gardener at the Wyckoff House, grew some of the gorgeous vegetables we had at the dinner, including the enormous bottleneck gourd in the photo above. (For more background on the dinner, see Chitra's article An Indian Vegetable Grows in Brooklyn on Medium.)
While at times exhausting, the experience was still an amazing one all around, from creating the menu to figuring out tiny details for table settings. It was also wonderful to collaborate with a talented group of people for the event, including Chitra; Jason; Ethan Finkelstein from Color + Information, our photographer who took all these great photos here; and Big Alice Brewing, our beef sponsors and creators of delicious and unusual beers using ingredients like lemongrass, curry leaves, and lapsang souchang tea.
We're already cooking up ideas for the next seasonal dinner. (And hopefully you can join us too!)


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I don't know anything about Foursquare's fundraising plans--but as a user, I certainly hope the company lives to die another day. Somewhere along the line, the product went from changing the way I interact with the real world around me--running into friends more often, choosing to go to stick to habits to maintain a Mayorship--to aiming its sights on Yelp.
I don't use Yelp and never wanted a better one. It is what it is--less a discovery platform and more of a way to check on places you already heard about elsewhere. Besides, Yelp's core product is its killer sales team and ability to sell. It was never that great of a user experience. If you want to beat Yelp, you need to reinvent the product it gives to merchants, not the product on the phone.
Foursquare's product has moved away from two things--gaming and social, the two core aspects of what led to its growth in the first place. It's also what the team was good at. When times get tough, I generally tell people to start with what you know and build from there.
I'm hoping that it will retrench and return to those roots--because I actually think that's going to be key to returning to growth and building a business.
The game kind of went away by itself. Mayorships were never really that scalable in the first place. Only one person could be Mayor and, eventually, the person who frequents that venue everyday is the one who holds onto it and never lets go. In a city where the app has high penetration, Mayorship turnovers are rare. Creating levels around badges seemed to be an attempt to scale that system, but when you don't know what you need to do to win one and the badges aren't new to you, they fail to capture your interest. It's like when I studied Tae Kwon Do. Getting my blackbelt was a major goal of mine--but becoming a second, third or fourth degree didn't hold the same interest and so I moved onto other hobbies after six or seven years of working towards black.
Social moved to the side seemingly as a result of trying to move the app more into the mainstream. In a world where not everyone wants to check-in, then Explore, so it was thought, had to become front and center so anyone can feed off the data and get recommendations.
While finding out where your friends were and interacting with them in a stream wasn't necessarily a huge growth opportunity, deemphasizing that seemed to open up a flank for apps like Instagram and Path to take over that mindshare. If I want to know what my friends are doing--I can just as easily see where they're taking Instagram photos--especially given that they're using the Foursquare API to attach those photos to places.
It seems that growth and excitement around Foursquare has come down. I still use it regularly, but I'll admit that I don't check-in wherever I go--especially in a world of crappy cell bandwidth where it isn't always fast to load up a place and find the venue. It's impossible to win a Mayorship anywhere in NYC anyway--so sometimes it's just easier to snap an Instagram photo and kill two birds with one stone.
What I really want is that app that made it more fun to interact with the world around me and be more social with friends in real life--and I think it's very possible.
The key? Lists.
Before Wander, Jeremy Fisher built a site called Dinevore. I was the site's most hardcore user, despite its overly complicated interface. I loved the concept--publisher lists of "Top 25 Brooklyn Eats" and "Best Burger in NYC" were the main attraction, as were user created lists like " Places you're likely to run into a VC." Dinevore never made it to mobile, little time was spent on acquiring more publisher lists, and Jeremy moved onto Wander.
Still, I thought the lists were brilliant. Humans love lists. They love crossing off lists and getting to the end. It feels like a sense of accomplishment. They love sharing lists and they make for great SEO bait. Lists also negate the need for complicated recommendation algorithms. Instead of trying to figure out where the "best brunch" is by searching user comments on venues, then pulling in social data, you know that someone's already created that list--and you can just rank places depending on how many times they appear on publisher lists, weighted by the quality of the publisher. This is what Google does and it works. When you search for "best brunch in NYC", you get lots of publisher lists--and they're pretty good to be honest. Are they the single perfect recommendation based on time, coordinates, your friends, etc? No, but they don't have to be. That's a tough game to play. Instead, I'm pretty sure if I ate at every one of the places featured on Refinery29's best brunch list, I'd have a pretty good brunch experience. It would keep me incentivized to keep engaging with the app over time as well, because I'd keep coming back to see where to go next.
By bringing publisher lists into the equation, you also give publishers a way for them to reach their audience on phones. Every publisher recommendation list should come with an "Add to Foursquare" button. They tried that a while back and never seemed to push that through as a strategy. When you add a whole list at a time, you give a new user a set of goals that should keep them engaged for a while. You could even give people on site recognition on publisher sites when they've reached that goal--so that when I visit the page announcing the Eater 38, I can see all the people, including my friends, who have been to all 38 places.
Accomplishing lists is also much more scalable than a Mayorship and Badge system. It takes longer to run through a list--and there are always lots of lists specific to you that you'd care about.
Sharing lists also leads to what a more social Foursquare should look like--something that actually gets me to interact with my friends in real life. Just watching streams gets kind of tiresome after a while--and it's nothing that Foursquare has any innate advantage over than Instagram or Path. The difference could be that those two apps have zero chance of getting me to actually show up somewhere to meet a friend. That is much more emotionally meaningful to me than seeing a picture, and driving foot traffic to venues is... oh, what do you call that... that's right... a business.
One of the buried features of Dinevore was the ability to see which venues were on your friends' To Do lists. Everyone had a To Do list because the whole point of the site was about completing the lists. It made for a well informed answer to "Where should we go?" When you suggest going to a place with friends and they say, "Oh, great, I've been dying to go there!" it's pure geosocial gold. Foursquare should suggest people to hangout with and the places to go with them when they overlap--especially since they know who my closer friends are given who I've checked in together with and commented at.
The great thing for Foursquare is that it already has all of these features, in parts. Lists are buried in the app right now. It's just a design question to make them more important, specifically my friends' To Do's--as well as a business development strategy to get more publishers actively creating them.
If lists became front and center in the mobile app, Foursquare would accomplish three things:
a) It would kill off the awkward divide between using it for recommendations and being social--which feels like two separate things now.
b) It would engage people with a game they already play. The mobile app Matchbook proved out the same thing--reaching fantastic engagement because "normals" make lists of places they want to go to.
c) It would engage publishers in a better app distribution strategy. There's got to be some version of a list leaderboard and an add this list button that publishers would go for--and getting that kind of screen real estate, as well as a targeted scavenger hunt of sorts, could kickstart Foursquare's growth again.
The Foursquare I want to see will help me circle through the top eats in Brooklyn and tell me which of my friends also want to do so. It will be more about inspiring me to go out and be social--something that even parents with kids can plan ahead to do--rather than help me figure out what to do when I'm already out, which is a niche use case in my mind.
In any case, whether this is the strategy or something else is, I hope Foursquare figures it out. Foursquare's fate is emotionally meaningful to the NYC startup scene, even if, in the grand scheme of things, it's not the biggest, and you've got companies out there with lots of revs like Appnexus, Gilt, Etsy, Fab and ZocDoc. Foursquare, for a moment, seemed more "ours" and its funding in 2009 is what turned the VC engine back on in NYC.
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Washington, D.C. (May 17, 2010) –– With the recent floods in Tennessee causing widespread damage and devastation, the Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) is stepping up efforts to help people in the state who are uninsured and financially struggling. To date, he PPA has already helped more than 275,000 Tennesseans in need by connecting them to patient assistance programs that provide medicines for free or nearly free, but thousands may still be eligible for help. Since its debut in April 2005, the PPA has helped more than 6.5 million Americans nationwide.
"Given massive property losses throughout Tennessee and the high number of uninsured individuals in the state, it's important that people remember help is available through the PPA," said Billy Tauzin, President and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Nearly 18 percent of Tennesseans were uninsured in mid-2009, according to the Gallup Organization.
"High rates of chronic disease in the state also make the help provided by PPA all the more essential to Tennesseans in need," said Tauzin.
A report from the Milken Institute reveals just how costly chronic diseases can be. In 2003, nearly 3.8 million cases of the seven most common chronic medical conditions, including heart disease, stroke and diabetes, were reported in Tennessee. Treatment expenditures and lost productivity in the state for just that one year totaled $31.6 billion.
In an effort to continue to help Americans who are uninsured and struggling, the PPA recently launched new online resources designed to expand the program's outreach. "PPA 2.0," an evolution of the nationwide effort sponsored by America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, introduces new online resources that expand community partnerships and enhance PPA's mobile and Internet presence to make it even easier to obtain information about PPA programs.
These new resources include a text hotline and smart phone application, in addition to the existing toll-free hotline and Web site, helping to ensure around-the-clock access to information about the more than 475 programs offered through the PPA. Nearly 200 of the programs are provided by pharmaceutical companies.
"Over the past five years, we've been from coast to coast, in all 50 states, helping people who are uninsured and struggling – but our work is not yet done," said Tauzin. "The next generation of PPA employs the latest technology to give our partners, health care providers, patient advocates and patients themselves easier access to the help provided by patient assistance programs."
Jerry Mathers, who has diabetes, has traveled with the PPA to raise awareness of this devastating chronic disease and the help available through the program. Mathers, the new national spokesperson for PPA, is best known for his portrayal of "The Beaver" in the television classic, "Leave It To Beaver."
"I've been traveling the country talking about the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, urging people to pick up the phone or log on to the Web site to see if they may qualify for help," said Mathers. "As a patient who must cope every day with the effects of diabetes, I understand only too well the importance of having access to the medicine you need."
Awareness of the PPA is also being raised through a new 60-second television public service announcement featuring National Football league Hall of Famer and former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jerome Bettis and former New England Patriots star linebacker and patient advocate Tedy Bruschi, who team up to raise awareness of the PPA program. The PSA has been sent to more than 1,500 commercial television stations, 500 community TV stations and 500 cable systems throughout America.
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Patients who qualify for help from the PPA's participating patient assistance programs have access to more than 2,500 brand-name and generic prescription medicines. In addition, the PPA provides information on more than 10,000 free health care clinics in America and has connected more than 300,000 patients with clinics and health care providers in their communities.
More than 1,500 national, state and local partners are working with America's pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies to spread the word about the program. Trained specialists work with doctors, pharmacists, other health care providers and community groups, educating them on the process and use of PPA's easy-to-access Web site and toll-free number.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $50.3 billion in 2008 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.2 billion in 2008.
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Following the first double elimination on Survivor: Nicaragua, the eliminated outcasts are now speaking out with PEOPLE about being voted off.
Kelly Bruno, a 26-year-old University of North Carolina medical student, amputee and victim of NaOnka's insane behavior, along with Yve Rojas, a 41-year-old homemaker and mother-of-two, spoke with PEOPLE about being voted off, being outlasted by a complainer with bad knees and Kelly discusses being tackled by tribe mate NaOnka for an immunity idol clue.
Excerpts from their interview below –
How upsetting is it that Daniel complains and threatens to quit constantly yet skates through every week?
Yve: He was not having any fun. He cursed the game, where we were, everything, and I really wanted to play. It was so hard and disheartening to look at Danny's miserable face as I was walking out and thinking, "You don't even want to be here."
Did it come down to you saying you had good relationships on the older tribe?
Yve: I knew Alina was a target at the old La Flor so I said I had good relationships to make her think I could help her if we merged, but I also immediately backtracked to put a more negative line on it, which they didn't show, so I was shocked to hear that concern.
Kelly, on the other hand, you seemed totally surprised to see your name. Was there nothing that made you suspect how they felt about you?
Kelly: Kelly S. had come up to me and Jill earlier that evening and asked us to vote for her because she was having a hard time. She mentioned my name had come up. I didn't have any reason to think there was anything to it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I talked to others who denied it. I believed the plan was for the young tribe to stick together and flush out the idol. When Marty didn't play it, I assumed I was fine because it was going to be a good time to get him out because he's a real threat.
Do you think their sympathy vote argument was valid?
Kelly: They're the ones who'd be voting, so wouldn't they be able to stop a pity vote? It's not like it's open to the public. I guess they had sympathy for me. I thought I'd proved very clearly that I didn't want pity, I wasn't going to use that strategy and that wasn't why I was there.
Favorite and least favorite moments?
Yve: Looking at those monkeys was my favorite because it was the first time that something alive and beautiful was apparent. Otherwise it was rain, mud, thorns, bland and dark.
Kelly: My least favorite moment was getting pushed to the ground for a clue. A line was definitely crossed that could not be undone. My favorite thing was watching the sunset everyday and appreciating what I was doing there and the experience.
A new episode of Survivor airs tonight at 8/7c on CBS.


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text: Having served as the home for UMass Boston basketball, volleyball, and intramurals since the building was constructed, in the summer of 2012 the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium underwent a major multi-million dollar renovation. As part of the project the new home of Beacons basketball and volleyball features brand new bleachers, court surface and entrances. The gymnasium will also become completely wireless making the facility one of the most state-of-the-art facilities in the country.


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If you're a Southern Hills member, then you know all about our new vision statement. It is pretty exciting - our staff seems VERY excited. I'm not making fun of anyone and I'm happy to be part of a church that cares about moving forward.
There's something to be said for having a goal. That being said - Donnie hit on the one thing that's been on my mind, yesterday, in our class. Our kids.
Kenny went to a birthday party on Saturday of one of his classmates - Jesus. Jesus (pronounced Hey-zeus) lives just around the corner from us and Kenny told me he was one of his good friends. So, off I went to get the Target gift card, and he and I walked to the party. Yep, it was different. There wasn't a cake or presents to open but there was a bounce house. I left him there worried about supervision. Kenny reported that he was glad he had gone to the party and had fun.
This is the heart of the missional church. Being in the community, being friends with our neighbors, being part of THEIR lives not waiting for them to walk in the big, beautiful building we've built. (Feel free to correct me if you know more than me - I know lots of you do.) For me, the grown-up, mature Christian, I can be Christ to the unchurched and still have a strong walk with Christ. But what about my children? They are babies in Christ, in maturity, in their emotions. I don't want to see them hurt or corrupted (Do not be deceived: "Bad company corrupts good morals." I Cor. 15:33.) I know that we all want to protect our children and I know that we want them to be God's people.
So, what do we do? How much is too much for our kids and how much isn't enough? How do I teach that unchurched isn't horrible just unchurched (maybe even seeking.) What happens when they get dirty?


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I am starting radiation therapy for local recurrence of ovarian cancer following surgery and chemotherapy. I'd like to take supplements or antioxidants to boost my overall health, but the evidence seems to be conflicting on the benefits/risks. What is safe or unwise to take during radiation therapy?
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January / February Updates 2010
January / February Updates 2010
Out now – Gavin Harrison's "Rhythmic Designs" Book/DVD package! Rhythmic Designs (Book & DVD package) has very highly detailed transcriptions by Terry Branam of nineteen drum tracks from the recent Gavin Harrison and 05Ric albums "Drop" and "Circles". Along with the 204-page book there's a double-sided companion DVD shot in Gavin's studio featuring 2 hours 45 minutes of video (with his beautiful Tribal Finish SQ2 kit) packed with descriptions, demonstrations and discussions of the drum parts, set-ups, tuning and recording process - plus six minus-drums, play-along tracks. Plus an extra bonus track with bonus transcription. This package expands on the concepts covered in Gavin's previously published books "Rhythmic Illusions", "Rhythmic Perspectives" books and DVDs "Rhythmic Visions and Rhythmic Horizons" by offering detailed analysis of the practical application of the concepts and methods in those books and DVDs. Signed copies are available from www.burningshed.com/store/gavinharrison.
We are proud to announce that AC/DC, with longtime-SONOR-artist Phil Rudd won a Grammy® for "Best Hard Rock Performance" with "War Machine" (from their recent album "Black Ice"). That being said, the rock'n roll train still continues touring the world: www.acdcrocks.com. Further nominees at the recent Grammy® award ceremony also included SONOR artist Glenn Kotche and his band mates from Wilco, nominated for "Best Americana Album" with "Wilco (The Album)". www.wilcoworld.net
Tomas Haake and Meshuggah announced the official dates for their new live DVD/CD package "ALIVE". Europeans get ready for the blast February 5, 2010, as for fans out of the United States, mark February 9, 2010! Here's the official trailer!
Here's some official video footage of Tomas Haake drumming, check it out!
As reported earlier, Rob Zombie with Tommy Clufetos on Drums went on to the "Hellbilly Deluxe 2" World Tour with the final tour dates in December. The launch of Mr. Zombie's new album unfortunately was postponed to February 2, 2010. Stay tuned for more touring updates! www.robzombie.com
Tool's Danny Carey's Website recently has been seen offline for a little while. Don't fear – it was for good reasons. The page underwent some plastic surgery and just recently went online all-new. Reporting to Danny the page will be updated constantly and more information will be added for the visitor's pleasure. Danny's website: www.dannycarey.org.
SONOR artists in the press… Dutch magazine "Slagwerkrant" interviewed SONOR artist Glenn Kotche (Wilco), to be read in Issue #155 January-February 2010. Web: www.slagwerkwereld.com.
Rammstein's Christoph "Doom" Schneider is in French "Batteur" magazine, current issue # 232 January-February 2010. This issue also has a Force 1007 Drumkit Crash Test in it – check out the video online at www.batteurmag.com!
US magazine Drum! dissected 30 Seconds To Mars' Shannon Leto, talking about their current release This Means War. Read it in Drum! Magazine, issue # 163, January 2010. Website: www.drummagazine.com.
An online-interview of SONOR US-artist Charlie Z can be found at drumandstage.net - the "Sonor Resource Center" (privately owned and operated site)


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Al Harris Jr. of Fort Lauderdale would like to visit USC, Wisconsin, Penn State, Florida State and Louisville this summer and then announce his decision prior to the season. He said he may add one of two more visits to his list.
"After I take these visits, I want to go ahead and commit," said Harris. Harris and his father, former NFL defensive back Al Harris Sr. have formed a good relationship with USC assistant Grady Brown placing the Gamecocks very much in the mix.
"I really like that they always have a strong defensive line," he said. "The front end works with back end on defense. They also put a lot of defensive backs into the NFL."
The Gamecocks recent success is another factor in his interest. "The last four years...they just keep getting better and I like that," said Harris.
He has not scheduled his visits nor does he have a specific date to make his decision. Harris did say he does not have any favorites.


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Cameron promises tough action to fight militants
LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron says he'll introduce new laws to combat terror suspects, pledging to seize passports to fight what he described as an extremist threat more dangerous than any previously seen.
Cameron's remarks came just after authorities on Friday raised the terror threat level to severe, the second highest level. The decision was related to developments in Iraq and Syria, but there was no information to suggest an attack was imminent.
Cameron told reporters that while the Taliban facilitated al-Qaida terrorism, the Islamic State group is "effectively a state run by terrorists."
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Kristen Clark was named a Top 25 Finalist for the National Freshman of the Year award it was announced by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) on Thursday. She is the first ever Gaucho considered this honor.
Clark is in the midst of one of the greatest seasons ever by a Gaucho. She currently leads the Big West in both batting average (.427) and hits (67). With those numbers, she is on pace to crush the program's single season records of hitting .417 for 75 hits set by now UCSB assistant coach Christine Ramos in 2009.
While dangerous at the plate, Clark has proven to be as dynamic when she reaches base. The speedy outfielder has picked up 25 stolen bases this season (second in the conference) and has also hustled her way to a team-high four triples and an inside-the-park home run. Her swipes tie her with Jessica Soria for the sixth most in a single season.
Though only in her first season, Clark has looked anything but inexperienced, as she has tallied at least one hit in all but five games this season. Perhaps her best weekend came at the Louisville Slugger Invitational when she finished the tournament with a .818 batting average, which nabbed her Big West Field Player of the Week accolades.
Clark is one of three Big West players to make the Top 25 list, as Taylor Glover (Cal State Northridge) and Sierra Hyland (Cal Poly) were also listed. The list will be narrowed down to 10 on Thursday, May 8, while the top 3 finalists will be selected and released on Thursday, May 22. The inaugural NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year trophy will be presented during a live ceremony on May 27 prior to the opening of the annual Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Riding a five game win streak, the UCSB softball team is in second place in the conference at 6-3. They will look to keep pace with first place Long Beach State (9-1) when they travel to UC Davis tomorrow for a three game series. Tomorrow's doubleheader is scheduled for a 1 p.m. start time.


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Asked to choose if great songwriting or great performance ability is more important for a musician, "Inside Llewyn Davis" star Oscar Isaac hesitates, wavers, then decides.
"I'd say definitely songwriting. Because if you perform a [bleepy] song, then just `cause you're really good at performing it ..." says the 33-year-old actor, who plays the film's titular folk singer, at the James Hotel. "You can put diamonds on a turd, I guess."
In other words, you can try, but you can't fake quality. That's never been an issue for the Coen brothers ("No Country for Old Men," "Fargo"), who bring their traditional warped sense of humor and uncompromising view of the world's challenges to "Llewyn Davis," opening Friday. In his first leading role, Isaac ("Drive," "Robin Hood") is terrific as a struggling musician in 1961 New York who's more familiar with sleeping on couches than earning significant money for his versions of classic songs. Early folk singers played standards because that was the way songs were passed down before recorded music became the norm, Isaac notes.
Isaac, who chalks up his quick onscreen success to the sort of luck Llewyn doesn't have, has played in bands for much of his life. So this wasn't a case of an actor having to pick up an instrument and learn to perform for the first time. The potential Oscar nominee says the New York club shows he played to prepare for the film allowed him to simply "face an audience just with a guitar." No one recognized him from his films. No one booed. Some asked where they could buy his albums.
He's not the only actor-musician bridging the artistic forms, of course. Justin Timberlake co-stars in the film as Jim, the on- and offstage partner of the pregnant woman (Carey Mulligan, Isaac's "Drive" co-star) who isn't sure if Jim or Llewyn is the father. Yes, the "tricky" subject of mixing music and movies came up in conversation between Isaac and Timberlake.
"You don't want to be looked at as just an opportunist," Isaac says. "But if you actually have a true desire and you feel like you can contribute something to the medium, then I think it's fair to try ... I feel confident in that I have something to offer in both the music and film [industries], and I think [Justin] probably feels the same way."
Isaac has nothing to worry about. The film contains excellent performances and excellent music, curated by the Coens and T-Bone Burnett ("Crazy Heart") and assisted by Mumford and Sons frontman (and Mulligan's husband) Marcus Mumford. It provided Isaac the rare opportunity to jam with Timberlake, Mumford and bluegrass outfit the Punch Brothers -- including playing the entirety of Radiohead's "In Rainbows."
"We're all young guys that grew up listening to Radiohead," he says. "So the fact that we're into traditional music but still can dig into our favorites, that was an incredible night."
Incredible on a different level: To film some of Llewyn's many scenes trying to control a housecat, Isaac, who as a kid thought he could communicate with cats by meowing, had to be connected to the feline actors with a wire. I note that this is an experience most people don't have.
"And really they shouldn't," he says, not missing a beat. "I don't recommend it. A cat generally doesn't want to be attached to you by a wire, so it will try to become unattached by whatever means necessary."
Is there an animal he'd recommend attaching via wire instead?
"A dead one maybe."
On a moment during preparation or filming when he wanted to be a better musician: "That's always the challenge. Never being satisfied. I think that's good. Obviously if you take it too far it becomes perfectionism and it can turn into neuroses, but I think that feeling of, `I feel like it could be better; what work can I do that can make it be deeper and truer?,' that's the constant search for an artist I think."
If he had to choose between the Coens' "Raising Arizona" or "The Big Lebowski": "I'd probably go with `Raising Arizona' just because it's the first one that I saw. And I was like, `What is this weird tone?' It's so funny, yet I feel so weird and sad after it's over. `Lebowski's' a close second."
"Fargo" or "No Country For Old Men"? "Um, I don't know man. I can't really pick between those. It's too hard."
A song he likes on the radio now: "I really like that `Why I Love You,' the Kanye and Jay-Z song. (sings) `I love you so ... duh nuh nuh nuh ... I love you so ...' That song's awesome."
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We first saw the new Flow cranks from Rotor at last year's Tour de France and then at Eurobike, and now we've managed to get our hands on a set, as they've just arrived in the office for testing.
First seen on the bikes of Team Garmin Sharp when they were still being product tested and developed, the new Flow cranks are the Spanish company's aero offering. Aerodynamics is becoming one of the biggest concerns with manufacturers and professional racers, and Rotor realised they could make a faster crank than their standard 3D setup.
The Flow was developed then in collaboration with Garmin Sharp and developed using the latest computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, which uses algorithms to simulate testing in a wind tunnel. Such software not only is a lot cheaper than hiring a wind tunnel, but allows for easier development of the product.
Shaped to be more aerodynamic through the full 360 degree rotation, the arms are sculptured with a smooth rounded profile. Aero product releases aren't anything without a few claims of increased speed, and here Rotor reckon you can save in the region of 6 seconds on a 40km time trial, if averaging 200 watts. With the booking of a wind tunnel beyond the road.cc budget, we'll have to take their word for it.
Away from their claimed speed increase, Rotor also point to a 10% stiffness increase compared to any other aero cranks. They're also light as well, weighing just 558g on our scales (with no bottom bracket or chainrings). Rotor use a unique drilling process to eliminate excess material from the arms. They drill three full-length holes from the axle to pedal.
The cranks are compatible with most bottom bracket standards, from 24 to 30mm axles, with Rotor's UBB (Universal Bottom Brackets) system.
The cranks feature Rotor's unique Micro Adjust Spider (MAS) that makes for easy and perfect setup with their chainrings, because there's more available positions. The MAS gives five different positions and there are five available with the chainrings, with 2.5 degrees of adjustment between each setting, so you can precisely tune the orientation.
The idea behind the non-round Rotor rings is a simple one. They effectively give you a smaller chainring when the pedals are at the top/bottom of the stroke, to help you push through the dead spot. At the point where you produce most power in the stroke, about the 4 O'clock position, you have a bigger chainring in effect to push against. The difference is 51t at the top and 56t where maximum power is released. We won't go into too much detail now, but there's loads on the Rotor website.
Of course, there's nothing stopping you using the crank with regular round chainrings if you prefer to stick to what you know, and still benefit from the marginal aero advantage.
So the cranks are more aero, what about the chainrings? Rotor have released the new 130 BCD Aero chainring as well, which we have here. A 53/39t chainring combination is heavier than a regular Rotor version, 173g compared to 120g, but they're claimed to be more slippery in the air than their standard chainrings.
Flow cranks are available with 170, 172.5 and 175mm arms. There's a 130 BCD and 110 BCD version and they're compatible with 10/11-speed groupsets. Cost is £399 for just the cranks, and a chainring set costs £159-180.
More info at www.rotoruk.co.uk
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Land Deal Adds Old Baldy to Garner State Park
AUSTIN — Almost 200 acres encompassing the iconic bluff, Old Baldy, overlooking the Frio River officially became part of Garner State Park on Wednesday with the signing of real estate documents transferring ownership to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Texas Parks and Wildlife's purchase of a 177-acre tract, which includes the knobby, 400-foot-high bluff popular with park visitors, increases the size of the Texas Hill Country park near Concan to roughly 1,600 acres. The new tract at the southernmost end of the park includes a hiking trail that climbs the river bluff and an additional 210 feet of riverfront property.
"The acquisition of the Old Baldy tract means that this signature natural feature historically identified with one of Texas' most popular state parks will be forever protected for future generations of Garner visitors," said TPWD Executive Director Carter Smith. "With the state's population putting increasing development pressure on our natural resources, it's more important than ever to work with willing, conservation-minded landowners to acquire landmark properties like Old Baldy."
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission earlier this year gave the go-ahead for the agency to purchase the tract owned by Barbara Muennink, whose family has owned the property for more than 80 years. She sold the tract to TPWD for a price considerably less than its appraised value to help keep the land in its natural state.
Over the years, Muennink has never tried to restrict public access to the rocky bluff overlooking the scenic Frio River that most park visitors assumed was already part of state park property. In reality, only a very small part of the bluff was state-owned. Texas Parks and Wildlife staff and real estate broker Morris Killough with Texas Land & Ranch Company in Utopia worked closely with Muennink and her family to structure the Old Baldy land deal.
Funds for the Garner State Park land acquisition comes from monies allocated last year by the 81st Texas Legislature and a matching grant from the National Park Service's Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Garner State Park, perhaps best known for its dance pavilion popular with summertime visitors, records approximately 400,000 visits each year. It ranks No. 1 among 93 Texas state parks in the percentage of park visitors who stay overnight in one of the park's many campsites, screened shelters or 17 cabins built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
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Organized in 1994, Loch Lomond was set up in the tradition of Augusta National and Pine Valley; it has an international membership which doesn't serve as a local golf club in the traditional sense. In fact, Loch Lomond is constituted as a 'destination' club to be 'savored' only a few times a year. Membership is organized around specific geographic regions. The club has appointed specific 'Club Captains' to assume leadership and membership responsibilities for these geographic regions and to ensure a particular geographic mix of members.
Apparently I got it all wrong. The club markets itself in a pompous fashion, but once behind the gates, I found Loch Lomond to be delightful and not the least bit pretentious. After hearing my pleas for access, I was contacted by a member who wanted to prove that Loch Lomond is a down to earth kinda' club, even if it is for people in the über-privileged class. After my visit I was better able to appreciate what they have here and separate out the pomposity of the marketing from the actual membership and club operation. Bottom line, I immensely enjoyed my first visit to their 'private and discerning international golf club' and hope to return to play again.
As you can see from a picture of the third green above, one of the design elements of the course is the shaved areas around many greens. This picture shows the severity of the slope. The fourth, twelfth and thirteenth holes also have severe shaved areas such as the one seen here.
The photogenic seventeenth hole ("The Bay")
The 215 yard photogenic par three seventeenth hole is set in a spectacular setting near the loch.
Most would agree that Loch Lomond is one of the finest and most scenic places in the world to be at and to play golf on. But how is the course? Certainly, to rank a parkland course in Scotland this high in the world rankings it must be special. To be honest, the course on its own right probably is like a lot of other high quality parkland courses in the United States. What makes it so charming is the combination of having a very good course set in this breathtaking location, the exclusivity of the club and one of the best clubhouses in the world. It is impossible to separate the course from its environment. Looked at in total, I agree that Loch Lomond is roughly one of the top fifty places in the world to play golf.
Loch Lomond looking up toward Ben Lomond from the 17th green
If someone knows of a finer clubhouse in all the world than Rossdhu House at Loch Lomond, please let me know. The clubhouses at the National Golf Links, Winged Foot, Garden City and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers impressed me as being world-class. Rossdhu House takes it to another level. The similarities between Loch Lomond and The White House in Washington D.C. are striking. The club has a fenced exterior gate around the property with a guarded entrance. Your movements on the property are perfectly orchestrated. When you arrive and leave they track your progress with walkie talkies through a command center. The interior of this 18th century Georgian mansion has a series of interconnected, themed rooms, each decorated with original, high-quality large oil paintings. Rossdhu House has a green room, a red room, a library, a formal dining room, a reception area, and a series of additional rooms for a variety of specialized purposes that I lost count of them. Like at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the club has its own helicopter here. Each has a Rose Garden and perfectly manicured grounds. Rossdhu House even one ups The White House with clearly superior views out of the large windows, and I doubt that the White House has an amenitized spa!
In the end, I was won over at Loch Lomond by the setting and the Scottish charm. The club is not pretentious, and I've decided that I like being pampered. I had an 'A' caddy and a great day at Loch Lomond. I have been playing some local municipal courses this year to try to cut back on expenses, and the experience here was the polar opposite of public golf. I didn't find lots of broken tees laying on each tee box, nobody was walking around with their shirt out, there were not a lot of unrepaired pitch marks on the greens, and we didn't have to wait to hit every shot. While playing the round, I was asking the member how far it was to Dundonald, the other course associated with Loch Lomond. "About 10 minutes by helicopter." It must be nice.
It's official. I've become a golf snob. The problem is that, once you experience this level of golf, it's tough to go back. I apologize to all of you hackers out there for leaving the fraternity of regular guys and moving over to the dark side. I have indeed gone native. It did strike me as a bit odd that they served us Kool Aid at Loch Lomond after the round in the walled garden. I should have paid more attention, as it didn't seem right at the time, but now there is no going back.
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Had a great discussion with Matt Smith of Feeling Dodger Blue last night on the Podcast. In case you missed it, here's a link to the recording. I'm working to get these files available via iTunes, so you can download it directly to your iPod/iTouch/iPhone of choice and listen in.
Some of the highlights:
- Matt thinks the Dodgers will finish no lower than second in the division and will make the playoffs;
- Vincente Padilla starting on Opening Day makes sense, since it will allow Clayton Kershaw to start the first game at Chavez Ravine;
- Dodger bullpen will be a strength again this year;
- Matt Kemp is the best all-around player on the team, the one guy LA can't afford to lose, and
- Kershaw is primed for a breakout season.
We also talked a little Padres (Will Venable in the OF, the Kouzmanoff trade, Adrian Gonzalez trade rumors and where he's probably going to go).
We also had some great questions from the Chat Room (hat tip to Coffey_77 who logged in), so it made for a very pleasant hour of baseball talk.
One of the great things about the Baseball Bloggers Alliance is the opportunity to talk baseball with fans from across the country. Matt and I had never spoken to each other until last night, but with baseball as a common reference point it didn't matter. You often hear about fathers and sons who don't understand each other at all - generational gap and what not - but they share a common team rooting interest, which gives them something to talk about, and makes family gatherings much less awkward. It's true for strangers as well. Give two people something in common like baseball (or football, hockey, or basketball for that matter) and things just flow. Even if they don't share a rooting interest in the same team.
Not much going on today, as I'm still recovering from last night's epic Xavier/Kansas State game. Corey Brock is reporting via Twitter Latos has a "cranky" right elbow, and will not start tomorrow, however Bud Black doesn't seem too alarmed at this development.
So with that, enjoy the last weekend of Spring Training. The Padres break camp Wednesday.
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An essay on project management in organisational change
|An essay on project management in organisational change
|"feelings are the motive power, reason is the rudder"
|Ry Nielsen, J.C.; Ry, Morten
|In this essay we will demonstrate that the role of project management in organisational change processes is a mixture of rational and non-rational features. It is also colourful, difficult, interesting, and messy. We have named the paper "An Essay on". An essay means treating a topic freely from different angles, although not forgetting the sources you used. The implication of this is that we are not able or willing to make an encompassing study of the literature on project management3. We thus know that many angles will not be covered. Furthermore we do not intend a make a negative delineation, indicating what we are not dealing with. We prefer to make a positive delineation, emphasising what we are going to take up in our essay. Positively phrased we are inspired by 3 sources that will make the foundation for our different angles: 1. Decision making theory (Enderud,1976)4. One of the authors has previously with success applied decision-making theory as an approach for analysing organisation change processes 5. Both authors have followed the same line in analysing organisational changes in the Danish public sector6. That success has inspired us to re-use the distinction between rational, political and anarchic processes in this essay 7. Enderud (1976:21-22) excludes explicitly the role of the actors' participation in his presentation of decision models. We find, however this aspect so important that we have decided to include it 2. Buchanan and Boddy´s analysis of the character of change8: The authors characterise the change project in to dimensions. One pertains to the activities concerned: Are we dealing with peripheral or core activities of the organisation. The second dimension deals with the magnitude of the change. Buchanan and Boddy use the scale: incremental - radical9. Furthermore Buchanan and Boddy makes a useful distinction between "public performance" (on stage) of rationally considered and logically phased and visibly participative change and "backstage activity" in the recruitment and maintenance of support and in seeking and blocking resistance (ibid p.27) 3. We will apply data from our own case studies. We will use a format that we call an illustration, thereby indicating that we "only" illustrate a point. We do not prove it10. Our cases are almost all from the public sector or from trade unions. Most of them have been published elsewhere.
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Returning to civilian life after active duty is an adjustment. Many veterans are also returning to family life.
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Peer Support: 435-797-0405
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hours: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. or by appointment
Director: Tony Flores
Senior School Certifying Official: Kellie Crowley
VA Work-study: Josh Sommers
Peer Mentor (Student Coord): Mike Nelson
Peer Mentor: Robert Wolfley
Peer Mentor: Jonathan Gutierrez