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Ion, a company well known for its USB turntables and iCade arcade cabinet for iPad, recently released a photo and film "scanner" accessory for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S called the iPics2Go. The $50 device is little more than a black plastic box with some LEDs inside, a slot for 4x6" photos, and a carrier for 35mm negatives and slides, but together with a free companion app, iPics2Go makes it simple to get old photos onto your iPhone for easy manipulation, editing, and posting online.
We got a sample of the iPics2Go to test out, and found that while its simple design has some flaws, it is easy to use and makes working old analog photos into our digital social network a breeze.
iPhone: where my pictures live
I freely admit I'm an "iPhoneography" fiend. I have a collection of DSLR equipment I can use whenever I want, but these days I rarely have the need for the image quality and resolution they provide at the cost of bulk and weight. I stopped using my long-cherished Canon digital point-n-shoot after upgrading from an iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4 well over two years ago. I still take hundreds of pictures a month, as I did with my trusty Canon, but the vast majority are taken with my iPhone.
Before going digital in 2003, though, I had a vast array of analog 35mm and medium format gear. I may not have been quite as prodigious then as I am now—after all, every shutter press cost real money in terms of film, processing, printing, scanning, and storage—but I do have a sizable collection of images taken roughly between 1992 and 2003 that only exist as stacks of 4" prints or strips of acetate. I could use a professional flatbed scanner to get high quality, high-resolution scans of the prints, negatives, or slides, but for the kind of quick and casual sharing I do with a lot of snaps, that can sometimes be more trouble than it's worth.
Instead, I've often wished there was a good way to just snap a picture of an existing print with my iPhone and then share it via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr. I mean, you can lay a print on a flat surface and hover your iPhone over it, but it's a real challenge to get even lighting, avoid glare, and at the same time hold the iPhone perfectly parallel to minimize distortion. Doing the same thing with negatives or slides is, as far as I can tell, impractical to the point of impossibility.
Ion to the rescue
So, at CES 2012 in January, I was amazed when I saw a prototype of Ion's iPics2Go gadget. It's an alternate take on the company's Pics2PC scanners, which use fixed digital camera sensors to scan old photos and film and quickly transfer them to a Mac or PC. However, instead of including camera hardware, iPics2Go substitutes a user's iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. Your iPhone's built-in camera hardware does all the "scanning," and from there you can do anything you would do with any other photo: edit in apps like Camera Plus Pro or SnapSeed, make collages with Diptic or Pic Stitch, or upload to social networks like Facebook or Twitter.
Using the iPics2Go is fairly easy. Insert a 4x6" print into the print tray and slide it into the slot at the bottom. Push the power button, which lights up an array of 6 bright white LEDs, powered by 4 included AA batteries. Then lay your iPhone into the slot at the top, launch the iPics2Go app, select "4x6," tap the shutter button, and voila! You've just scanned an old photo into your iPhone.
The iPics2Go app isn't strictly necessary if you're just snapping 4x6" prints. The shape and design places the iPhone camera at just the right position and distance to fully capture a 4x6" print. However, if you flip over the print tray, the device now works with the smaller 3x5" prints that were more popular in the 70s and 80s. The iPics2Go app can automatically crop for 3x5" prints when selected.
The iPics2Go also comes with a 35mm film carrier, which can take a 4-5 frame strip of negatives, or a mounted 35mm slide. Selecting either of these options in iPics2Go crops the nominal 24x36mm 35mm frame area, and for negative film automatically reverses the image into a positive on capture.
Additionally, the iPics2Go app applies a bit of automatic image optimization, and then gives you the opportunity to adjust the image further. I found that it consistently produced low contrast images from negatives, added too much contrast to images from slides, and gave images from prints a yellow tint. Since the effects were consistent, after a bit of experience I was able to easily correct these "optimizations" using iPics2Go's simple sliders. More exacting photogs will likely want to pass the images through an editor such as Snapseed, Photoshop Touch, or whatever other application fits their workflow.
iPics2Go lets you save the image to your iPhone's photo roll, but can also e-mail photos or upload them to Facebook directly. These functions work exactly as expected, though I prefer to save the images and share them via other means. This has the added benefit of keeping the original capture around for future use, and the images get archived on my Mac whenever I sync the device (the same will be true if you use PhotoStream along with iPhoto over iCloud).
Overall, the iPics2Go device and the iPics2Go app generally work well. The device's plastic feels a bit cheap, but it also feels solid—there really isn't much of anything to break. I had a lot of fun digging up some old photos to try it out. However, it does have some problems that are worth noting. For one, the LEDs are arranged with three on the left and three on the right, which creates an area in the middle of prints that can be visibly darker than the edges. This was only noticeable in one of the images I scanned, but it really bothered me. Getting more even lighting might have required more LEDs or a change in the internal design, but for $50, it would have been nice.
Another problem is that the frame alignment of the film carrier was off—not by a lot, but it was bothersome. I tried inserting the carrier different ways to offset the problem, but the carrier is designed to only insert one way. Given this, it feels as though more design time could have been spent ensuring the frame aligned better with the crop marks in the app. In fact, it seems like allowing the cropping guide to be moved around in the iPics2Go app would be a pretty easy fix (hint hint!).
Finally, the film carrier is designed for both negatives and prints, but the way that negatives are inserted and the carrier's design left me nervous that the delicate film could end up scratched. I didn't notice any scratches after using it, but I was extremely careful to avoid doing so. I've seen film carriers for other scanners that used a soft felt or velvet inside; again, for the $50 asking price, that little extra touch would have been nice.
I ultimately had a lot of fun digging up old band photos from Warped Tour, high school dance photos, a quick portrait I snapped of a friend when his now 16-year-old son was just an infant, and even a revealing senior portrait of yours truly (the early '90s were a magical time, were they not?).
Using the iPics2Go is a lot less hassle than firing up a flatbed scanner. It works pretty much anywhere—you can take it to mom's house and go through old albums!—and you can use your own comfortable or convenient array of "iPhoneography" apps with all your scans. We also know that a significant amount of people don't have regular access to a desktop or laptop computer, and that sometimes an iOS or Android device might be their only computing device. If this is true for you, and you have an iPhone 4 or 4S, then the iPics2Go might be the only convenient way to save old photos.
Suggested retail for the iPics2Go is a steep $59.99, though Ion wisely sells it direct for $49.99. We found it on Amazon for $41.99, and at that price we think it will pay for itself pretty quickly in terms of fun and convenience. Do note that it only works with the iPhone 4 and 4S. Those are by far the most plentiful iPhone models sold to date, but there are plenty of 3GS owners out there who are getting left out.


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Lucinda Moyers, who has two previous burglary convictions on her record, proclaimed her innocence in an jail-house interview with the paper this week. She plead not guilty to the charges on Monday.
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The 56-year-old Moyers has previously served time for burglarizing a room at the Fisherman's Wharf Hotel and another San Francisco hotel room.
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The Indian Head one cent coin, was produced by the United States Mint from 1859 to 1909 at the Philadelphia Mint and in 1908 and 1909 at the San Francisco Mint. It was designed by James Barton Longacre the engraver at the Philadelphia Mint from 1844 to 1869.
The obverse of the coin shows "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA," the head of Liberty wearing a feather head dress of a Native American and the year of production. The word "LIBERTY" appears on the band of the head dress. From 1859 to 1864 the design did not feature any mark of the designer. In 1864, Longacre modified the portrait by sharpening the details at this time he added his initial "L" on the ribbon behind Liberty's neck as well. This design would continue largely unaltered until the end of the series, with a minor modification by Charles E. Barber in 1886 when the portrait was changed slightly.
Two reverse designs were used for the series. In 1859 the reverse featured "ONE CENT" within a wreath of olive. From 1860 until the end of the series the reverse featured "ONE CENT" within a wreath of oak and olive tied at the base with a ribbon with a Federal shield above. This design continued until the end on the series in 1909 with a minor modification by William Barber in 1870.
The coins struck between 1859 and 1864 contained 88% copper and 12% nickel. Due to the hoarding of all coinage during the Civil War, the nickel cents disappeared from daily use and were replaced in many Northern cities by tokens. The success of these copper tokens prompted the change of the cent to a similar metal. In 1864, the alloy changed to Bronze (95% Copper and 5% Tin and Zinc), and the weight of the coins was reduced from 72 grains to 48 grains. This weight continued for copper-alloy U.S. cents until the 1982 introduction of the current copper-plated zinc cent (about 38.6 grains).
The total production of the Indian Head cent was 1,849,648,000 pieces. The 1909-S had the lowest mintage, only 309,000. It is not considered as scarce as the 1877 issue, (852,500), since fewer of those were kept, particularly in the higher grades.


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Lucy and Ethel Get Tattoos
For those of you who know me and Cousin Debbie Register and also our history of getting into trouble together for all of our lives - I have to tell you that we are planning MATCHING TAT'S in April when she arrives on vacation Because we are old enough to be stupid in a whole new way. Most people also know we are as different as the sun and moon so agreeing on a tattoo is another thing. Which I THOUGHT we had done but now she is shifting her perspective on me.
A brief history:
Trouble. Deb and I have gotten into trouble all of our lives. The kind of trouble that cousins who are best friends can get into. That's the stupid kind. Not being bad but just being like Lucy and Ethel although I'd like to think of us more along the romantic Thelma and Louise types - It's def more Lucy and Ethel.
So for years we have decided to mark one thing or the other by getting a tattoo. Let's just do it, She'd say. And I'd say sure, sure. But of course we didn't. Then we put in at some point to get identical tats and since we are so different that didn't happen and then deciding on where to put them was another personal choice all of which has kept us for fifty years from getting inked. But we are old enough now to be full tilt stupid.
Deb decided when she read about the Phoenix bird and all its symbolism that we both really needed a phonenix. I said - fine. Then she started looking at pictures of the Phoenix. Her reactions were classic Deb. Hand to head, frown. Her exuberance replaced by concern.
What's the problem?
This is a very ugly bird. That neck, I mean, It looks like a snake. I don't think I can do this.
That was about three years ago or more and so that has certainly iced the ink move. In the meantime I came up with a tattoo of my own that I wanted - The Celtic knot that symbolizes The Trinity so that I could always remind myself in times of trouble - Look, girl -This is what you believe. Don't forget that. But I never got around to that as well. I do good to have clean underwear so having a tat just hasn't been on my to do list.
ENTER - Deb's vacation and her finding a Phoenix tattoo that is more impressionist and feminine. Okay. So we will just do it.
SIDEBAR- DEB has ABSOLUTELY NO TOLERANCE FOR PAIN. None. Zilch. If she has a fever you would think she just caught swine flu. If she stubs her toe it's a major affair. Mine almost cut off - She doesn't even pay attention as she chases a wasp because she is afraid it will STING HER and she will be rushed to the hospital.
Okay - So apparently getting a Tattoo is not a PAINLESS event. She swears she is going first and won't back out. When I told my sons one said - Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it because Deb won't do it. And the other laughed and laughed at the mere thought. He said if they are going to be matching it will be really small because it will be one dot. That's all they'll get done on Deb before she screams and backs out.
Deb could make some money on this because everyone is betting a) She won't do it. and B) she really won't do it.
All I know to do is report back in April. I pushed her out of tree over a river once when she changed her mind at the top and wanted to go back down. Then in all fairness I jumped in after her. If she backs out of this I don't think the tattoo artist will let me hold her down on the table. But I'm committed now. This story has been fifty years in the making. She turns chicken - I'm getting that Celtic knot.
What's the story in your world?
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If you've ever dropped in for an episode of the IFC channel's cult hit mockumentary "Portlandia" and wondered if Portland, Oregon, is really that wacky-crunchy, the answer is an unqualified Yes it is. Even the trees are green there. You think I joke! The public toilet handles are green—and that's not a joke. Let's see, a place where it rains something like 200 days a year needs to save water? (Good to know Portlanders have their numbers 1 & 2 sorted out so well.)
I made a quick overnight visit to Portland this week for a speech, and managed to take in the coffee house scene. Yes, indeed, it seems Portland hipsters really do have their business meetings in coffee houses.
You can take in some samples of IFC's Portlandia here, here, and here. Me—I'm still awaiting season four of Archer to start up early in the new year.
More seriously, if you want to see a good analysis of the deep greenery of these deep blue cities like Portland, see Mark Hendrickson's fine article up right now at Forbes.com.


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One Million Moms Claim They Got 'The New Normal' Cancelled
It's been a busy month for those One Million Moms.
Last week, the anti-gay group linked to the American Family Association targeted the Walt Disney Company for not banning the unofficial "Gay Days" LGBT event held yearly Walt Disney World. A week earlier, the "moms" gave Philips Norelco digital spanking for airing a television commercial featuring manscaping that they found distasteful. Now, OMM is taking a victory lap claiming, bragging rights for NBC's recent decision to cancel "The New Normal," the well reviewed but poorly rated sitcom that centers around a gay couple.
As reported on Joe My God, OMM sent out an email to its supporters stating, "Our persistence has paid off once again! The New Normal got the axe by NBC after the show's first and only season! Another program we have worked to end, "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23," has also been canceled and will no longer air on ABC."
Last October, after months of condemning "The New Normal" prior to its premiere, OMM announced a boycott against the sitcom and saying the show, "has constantly ridiculed anyone who believes differently than its makers do and even mocks conservative values," according to the Christian Post.
But the program's writers didn't take the group's threats too seriously and decided to have a little fun at OMM's expense by having Ellen Barkin's racist and homophobic character say "I need the help of every one of you future One Million Moms" in an episode following the boycott.
Not seeing the humor in this, OMM issued a response on their website: "Even though they attempted to poke fun, the show actually made One Million Moms look good," the statement reads. "The conservative grandmother chose three girls who are raised in traditional families who share the same beliefs she does to help her cancel her granddaughter's fake wedding ... By the way, thanks for the free publicity!"
While it's true that "The New Normal" and a number of other LGBT-centric shows have recently gotten the boot, it's unclear whether the decisions were made due to poor ratings or relentless nagging on One Million Moms' facebook page.
OMM also made headlines recently for setting their sights on "Gay Days," an unofficial LGBT event at Disney World.
"Homosexuals will be celebrating the 23rd anniversary of Gay Day wearing matching Gay Day merchandise, such as T-shirts," the group said in a statement. "There will also be transvestites dressed in drag showing their support for the event. This event is planned with the intent to expose and desensitize children to this lifestyle by same-sex couples holding hands, hugging and kissing. In short, a Gay Day participant's main goal is to be seen versus seeing Disney World."
Before that, the ultra conservative group, which does not really have a million moms as members, challenged Norelco's manscaping ad because it suggests a man is shaving his "private areas." The organization said in a statement that the ad went "WAY TOO FAR!" and even urged its Facebook supporters to boycott the shaving company.
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Let me just state for the record that no cats were harmed in the writing of this column. That said, I had a blast this week subjecting a couple of frisky felines to pillow fights, dog farts and dunks in the shower.
But before you call PETA on me, I should tell you that these cats were electronic children's toys. They're called Talking Friends Superstar from a company called OutFit7, and come in three characters — Tom, Ginger and Angela. I also checked out another toy called Ubooly, an adorable orange creature that resembles a Furby.
Both Talking Friends and Ubooly work with mobile apps that bring the plush toys to life with interactive activities, like games and storytelling. Of the two, I liked Ubooly better because of its more educational and imaginative content. But both are fun ways to entertain your kids, and augment the game play of smartphones and tablets.
Designed for children 3 years and older, Talking Friends had me giggling like a little schoolgirl. I had both Talking Tom and Talking Ginger, but they're pricey at $50 each. Each toy operates on three AAA batteries and features controls on the cats' bellies that blast jokes and different songs over the built-in speaker. (For parents, the important "volume down" and "power off" buttons are on the right side.)
I also downloaded the accompanying Talking Tom Cat 2 and Talking Ginger apps, so I could control the dolls from my iPhone 4. All the apps are free (they're 99 cents if you want the ad-free version) and work with iOS and Android devices.
When used with the apps, each cat offers a different set of features, but I found Tom the most entertaining. He's the victim of many pranks at the hands of Ben the dog, another Talking Friends character who exists in the app. You can make Ben fart behind Tom's back, or hit him with a pillow. You can also pet him or slap him — poor kitty.
After selecting an action, you'll see Tom's reaction onscreen as well as from the doll, in the form of audio feedback. For example, when Ben releases gas, the Tom toy responds, "Seriously?" Or when Ben surprises his buddy by popping a bag, Tom yells, "Bennn!"
Not surprisingly, the farting action was quite a hit with children. My friend's 6-year-old son repeatedly pressed the button for a couple of minutes, while he and I cackled the whole time. Unfortunately, his mom's laughter quickly turned into an evil glare aimed directly at me (oops).
What's nice, though, about Talking Friends is that there's no set-up. The apps and plush toys connect to each other instantaneously, without any need for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. OutFit7 says they are able to do so using high-frequency sound technology.
The dolls can also interact with each other. For example, there's a storytelling app called I Want to Be Big that's compatible with Tom and Ginger. They'll take turns reading sentences and make sound effects together — a nice option if you have more than one kid.
While Talking Friends is designed for fun, Ubooly also adds education to the mix, which I really liked. The plush toy costs $30, while the app is free. Currently, it only works with the iPhone and iPod Touch, but an Android version is coming soon. The company is also building a bigger toy that can accommodate the iPad and iPad mini.
Ubooly comes to life once you insert your smartphone into the stuffed animal. Your phone's display becomes its face, and after waking it up with a tap of the screen, it says, "Hello, what do you want to do?"
Using voice-recognition software, it can understand simple commands like "yes," "no," "play a game" or "tell me a joke." In my testing, there was a slight delay between the time I gave a command and the time Ubooly started the action, but I didn't find it to be a major problem.
If you don't give it a command, it will offer some suggestions or start sharing random thoughts and facts. My favorite was, "I just can't get into dubstep." You and me both, Ubooly.
Though it's designed for children between the age of 4 and 9, I was completely mesmerized by it. I listened to its stories, and learned new facts about animals and nature. I even pretended to go on an underwater adventure with the toy.
When I gave Ubooly to my friend's son, he didn't have that same immediate "this is fun!" reaction that he did with Talking Tom. Instead, he took more time with it, learning its various functions, and eventually got into it. With the activities, I could see he was using more of his imagination and listening to the facts, which was cool to witness.
Also, because Ubooly was more engaging, asking a lot of questions along the way, he played with it longer than Talking Tom. The only downside is that you might be without your smartphone for a while, but it did get the thumbs-up from mom.
Ubooly can play music, too. But parents should be aware that it accesses your smartphone's entire music library, so if you have any songs with explicit or inappropriate lyrics, you might want to monitor that. It caught me off guard when Ubooly started blasting Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It."
Ubooly's co-founders said they are working on a feature that will allow the toy to filter songs with profanity, and to only play songs assigned to an Ubooly playlist. The list of activities also continues to grow, as the company adds new features every month for free.
Kids today are going to grow up seeing smartphones and tablets as entertainment sources, but their activities shouldn't be limited to tapping at a screen. For parents looking for ways to bring back more physical interaction into playtime, Talking Friends Superstar, and Ubooly in particular, are great ways to do it.


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I spent about half the day trying to decide whether I should buy Halo: Reach immediately after work. I'm pretty torn. I want to play the single-player campaign, because a) I've consistently heard/read that it's ten (or so) hours of great, and b) I'm really not a multiplayer person (yeah, because I suck. What of it?). Of course, tossing out the notion of multiplayer also tosses out maybe 80% of the play I'd get otherwise, so my money hand has been stayed thus far. I don't think I'll miss out all that much waiting a few months to play it alone.
Also, I'm not really lacking in games to play, and this week I've taken a trip back to Bee-onia in Civilization IV. The game is a really odd mix of almost tedious maintenance, and a constant dawning realization that you're either completely badass, or totally hosed. Everything is so bite-sized, though, it's easy to get caught in and endless loop of "Oh! That did something! Ok, just one more turn..." For someone more inclined toward shooters, the not-so-breakneck pace has taken some getting used to, but my Steam account says I've now spent 27 hours playing it. I'll take that as pretty solid evidence that I like it.
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Digital Camera News, 4/12/08
Sigma DP1 firmware update now available
Sigma announced new firmware for its DP1 advanced compact earlier in the week, but the update didn't actually go live until yesterday.
The now-available version 1.01 corrects some stability issues with the camera, fixes an image numbering issue in RAW mode, and provides a composition grid for almost all shooting modes.
To learn more or download the new version, visit Sigma's firmware updates page.
ViewSonic rolls out 10 new digital photo frames
As if we didn't already feel like there were a bewildering number of digital photo frame choices out there, 10 more can now be added to the list. In a press release this week, LCD monitor standby ViewSonic announced the launch of 10 new digital photo frames, in 7-, 8-, and 10-inch models, just in time for Mother's Day.
Prices start at $139 for the new models, which all feature the now commonplace interchangeable bezels that allow users to customize the frame's appearance to suit different decor. Seven of the new models sport 256MB of internal memory for photo storage (multi-function widescreen versions in each size have 128MB instead), and photos can be uploaded to any of the new models from a computer via a USB connection, directly from a USB flash drive, or from most camera memory cards.
Power from a built-in rechargeable battery means the frames can be mounted or placed anywhere – no plugs or wires needed – though depending on the projected per-charge battery life, this may or may not have been a good decision.
Built-in speakers in all of the new models allow users to customize slide-shows in the frame with background music. The three all-white multimedia models can play most common video file types as well.
The new ViewSonic models don't offer a lot of glamour or new tech, but coming from a known monitor manufacturer we hope that, if nothing else, they'll be high-quality displays nonetheless. Find out more about the new offerings at www.viewsonic.com.
Nikon's "my Picturetown" photo sharing site gets improvements
In a complimentary announcement to Nikon's recent unveiling of its new Wi-Fi enabled ultracompact, the Coolpix S52c, the company has announced upgrades and improvements to its "my Picturetown" photo sharing site.
The site, which previous and newly released versions of Nikon's wireless ultracompact have used as a default photo storage location (as well as a throughway for sending images to other sites like Flickr), also provides up to 2GB of free online photo storage (200GB are available with a paid account) and organization tools for other Nikon shooters and the general public.
For advanced shooters, the biggest news among the upgrades is the ability to upload RAW files in Nikon's NEF format and have them viewable as JPEGs via the site. More work has also been done to seamlessly integrate site function with Nikon's Wi-Fi cameras, including the S52c (which should hit stores next month), and the service can now receive photos uploaded via Eye-Fi's wireless SD card as well.
To learn more about the updates, visit www.mypicturetown.com.
New Adobe Lightroom, Camera RAW versions actually available
We announced last month that Adobe had released a new version (v.1.4) of Lightroom, the company's noted RAW workflow software, as well as a new version (v.4.4) of its Adobe Camera RAW converter for Photoshop CS3/Elements 6. Almost immediately, both updates were withdrawn due to several bugs, including EXIF modification issues, a problem with JPEGs from some sources, and a problem with DNG RAW files.
Adobe has now fixed all identified bugs with both updates, and the new, corrected versions (versions 1.4.1 and 4.4.1) are now available for download. As reported previously, in addition to improved color temperature control and grayscale processing in the conversion algorithm, the new tools provide "RAW file support for most of the DSLRs and RAW-shooting compacts released at PMA, including the Canon Rebel XSi, the Nikon D60, the Pentax K20D and K200D, the Fujifilm S100FS, the Olympus SP-570 UZ, and Sony's new Alpha models."
To download the latest versions, check out the current listing of available updates on Adobe's website.


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I'm a big fan of disliking things, and "Project Runway" is the perfect show for people who like to dislike things. Not only do you get to hate on the contestants, you also get to hate on the horrible, horrible outfits they often send down the runway. It's a delight.
Best of all, until this new season came along, the show had two judges always on hand – designer Michael Kors and fashion editor Nina Garcia (be sure to use an overpronounced Spanish accent when you say it) – to perfectly express your disgust for the contestants and brutally crush their spirits. Kors and Garcia, when they are together, are haters on par with Silky Johnson.
Every jackass contestant on that show sends something down the runway and gushes about what they've done. "I'm am SO happy with my piece. When my model came out wearing it, I just SOARED!" Whatever. Your outfit blew, and Kors and Garcia will bring the thunder down on you for it.
But this season, Kors and Garcia have been practically MIA from the show, almost certainly as a result from the show's move to Los Angeles. Previews show the two will be together for this week's episode. But for the past several weeks, one or both have always been absent, with some sub filling the gap, usually an annoying lady with an English accent.
This will not stand. You listen to me, "Project Runway" people. You think you can take away my precious Nina and Michael and get away with it? You think you can just throw anyone in there, including possibly a bear, and have the show be the same? You think we didn't notice? Well, we did. And they're needed more than ever this season, given the uninspired challenges (Design something blue for Macy's? Really? That's exciting?), the general crumminess of the designs, and the need for someone to tell Irina that she's a total shrew.
Garcia explained to the LA Times that work interfered with their ability to be there every week. Well, people at Marie Claire magazine, given that your in an industry that is DYING, perhaps it would be wise to allow Ms. Garcia more time to participate in a show that millions of people watch, so that they might hear of your magazine, which no one buys? I'm stunned, STUNNED, to learn that your industry is struggling in light of such bold decision-making.
The Internet is noticing these glaring absences, and is becoming less than pleased. It all seems so unnecessary, given that Lifetime pledged to keep the show exactly the same once they acquired the rights to air it. But they moved it to LA for no good reason, and now we don't get two of the show's main attractions on a weekly basis because of it. Knock it off, "Project Runway," Or else I'll send a smoking hot German lady to come and dismiss you in a very curt and unpleasant manner.
Drew Magary is a co-founder of Kissing Suzy Kolber, a writer for Blue Star and Deadspin, and author of Men With Balls, now in bookstores.


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Behind-the-scenes team makes Miller Park hum
While the Brewers in uniform may get most of the spotlight during Opening Day, the team-behind-the-team will be making sure things run smoothly for more than 40,000 fans.
Warehouse manager Mike Ruiz has been preparing the food warehouse since the end of February.
"It takes me about a month to load up this building," he said.
And that's not including the ten beer room spread out across the park.
"We go through about 150 kegs per game," he said.
Ruiz has a staff of about 40, but there are two staff members who have a very specific job: tapping beer kegs..
"Two people who just walk around and change kegs, all day long," he said. "Fifteen-thousand kegs a year is about what we go through."
While the team is playing and the beer is flowing, Executive Chef John DiMartini is working to feed a family of more than 40,000 fans.
"I do circles all day," he said. "I do laps all day, just checking on the different areas."
There is also a full production team that handles the scoreboard and stadium cameras, and at least two dozen production team members handle the in-game entertainment.
"We have our in-between innings all plotted out," said Deron Anderson, the Brewers director of audio and video production. "We know what's coming up, but you may never know."
In the media area, there are several holes that appear to have been punched in the wall. But they weren't created by fists. They were the aftereffects of foul balls.
"These are markers of how dangerous it can be covering a game up here," said Tyler Barnes, the Brewers vice president of communications.
Instead of patching the holes, each one contains the hitter's name, opponent and date of impact.
"We try to have a little fun with it," Barnes said.
While the foul-ball wall is something many fans will never see, Ruiz said there are other things that fans should never see in the stadium.
"You can never run out of bratwurst, buns or beer," he said. "Those are the three Bs we've got to follow."


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Here is a fascinating article in Columbia Journalism Review about how photo slideshows drive traffic to news websites.
Not mentioned in the article is the key role that appropriate music can play in a successful slideshow. When a slideshow can be "auto-played," making the changes congruent with the rhythm of the music is an important technique that can enhance story-telling.
And according to the article, the quality of the slideshow will only grow in importance:
But when even bad slideshows succeed economically, where's the incentive to make them good? That incentive, eventually, will have to come from advertisers, as they tire of the tricks that their editorial friends are playing on them. Earlier, I noted that advertisers don't care if dozens of page views are coming from the same user, because their ads are still getting shown. But eventually this will reach a point of diminishing returns. Telling the same person about a new movie a dozen times is not as effective of telling a half-dozen people twice.
Advertisers have an easy way to hold sites accountable: rely on unique visitor, rather than page-view, counts. The page-view metric has become diluted by editorial and business tricks like recirculation tools, landing pages, and slideshows. As Gawker Media owner Nick Denton puts it, "Some page views are worth more than others." That's why he now judges his staff and sites' success on a less-manipulated number: how many people come to visit, not how many pages they visit once they're there. Denton's reason for the switch is editorial—he wants more exclusives, and he thinks uniques are a good way to incentivize them. Advertisers should follow suit. Their ads will have greater reach if sites know that it's unique visitors, not page views, that matter most.
And with that change of mentality will come a switch of strategy. No longer will the worst slideshows be as economically viable. Slideshow quality will rise as sites try to create iconic slideshows that bring in new visitors interested in hearing a story told as only the Internet can. Slideshows will no longer have to be a savior in scourge's clothing.


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This week in Fossil Friday I have a specimen I'm particularly pleased to show you. It's the holiday season—consider it a gift!
So what is this thing the University of Iowa fossil curator, Tiffany Adrain, is holding? This was a particularly nice specimen to touch: really smooth with distinct ridges, it felt almost like it had been carved and polished. Just one hint for identification: this fossil didn't have to travel very far to make its home in the UIowa collections. Identify it in the comments and win bragging rights for the week!


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Centreville For many local families, the holiday season isn't about Christmas carols and pretty decorations. It's about worrying how they'll keep their children warm in the coming winter and explain to them why Santa can't bring them any presents this year.
How to Help ONC
- Visit the web page at http://www.ournei...">www.ourneighorsch... for up-to-date information, current volunteer opportunities and a link for donations.
- To "adopt" a child and purchase his or her specific clothing needs, e-mail Stephanie Somers at volunteer@ourneig....
- Groups or businesses still have time to host a giving tree; the link to sign up is on the Web site. ONC will provide ornaments listing a child's specific gift wish, or organizations may host a general, gift or gift-card collection.
- Gifts for young teens are particularly needed. Especially popular with teens are iTunes gift cards or Target or Walmart gift cards for clothing that allow them the opportunity to select just the right fit and style.
- A box of homemade cookies accompanies every ONC gift delivery. More than 20,000 cookies are needed. Anyone wishing to bake cookies for the families should drop them off Thursday, Dec. 13, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Virginia Run Community Center, 15355 Wetherburn Court, off Route 29 and Pleasant Valley Road in Centreville. Any type of disposable container is fine; they'll all be repackaged into assortments. Contact Pam Ryan at volunteer@ourneig... with any questions.
- Packaging Day is also Dec. 13, when hundreds of volunteers will be needed to help match up each item to the children's wish lists provided by the recipient parents.
- Delivery Day is Sunday, Dec. 16, from 1-4 p.m. People interested in volunteering for either packaging or delivery should go to www.ourneighborsc... and click on "Volunteer Needs."
- To volunteer for any part of this effort or to reach someone in charge of a particular portion, e-mail volunteer@ourneig... and the e-mail will be redirected to the volunteer Project Leader organizing that event.
Financial contributions are more important than ever this season. These funds are critical to help ONC purchase any remaining gifts that aren't adopted by a sponsor. Due to the increase in clothing requests this year, that number is expected to be at an all-time high.
Checks payable to Our Neighbor's Child may be mailed to: Karen Moore, Treasurer, Our Neighbor's Child, P.O. Box 276, Centreville, VA 20120, or online donations may be made via the "donate now" link on the ONC website, www.ourneighborsc.... One hundred percent of the monetary contributions collected by this all-volunteer organization go directly to the purchase of gifts for local children in need.
And that's where the all-volunteer, nonprofit Our Neighbor's Child comes in, working to make sure that no child in need in Centreville, Chantilly, Clifton, Fair Oaks and Fair Lakes goes without holiday gifts.
This is its 21st year and, when it first began, ONC brought presents to a handful of local families. But over the years, the economy worsened, many local residents fell onto hard times and the need for help grew. So now, the group is providing new toys and clothing for 610 families.
That number includes more than 2,300 children, so the organization desperately needs the community's help. And even the smallest donation can make a difference.
"It takes a community, team effort to do this," said ONC Executive Director Kelly Lavin. "Our volunteers could never serve all these families alone. If the schools, businesses and churches didn't host the giving trees — with ornaments containing the children's gift wishes, we couldn't do it. And if people didn't take the ornaments, go buy the presents requested and bring them back, it would be hard for us to fulfill all those dreams."
Residents may also help by participating in some collection events for the recipient families:
- This Saturday, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., ONC volunteers will conduct a toy drive outside the new, Chantilly Walmart at the Dulles Expo Center site at 4368 Chantilly Shopping Center. Decked out in sparkly, holiday outfits, dancers from the Creative Dance Center's competition team will man the ONC giving tree inside the store. There, shoppers may take ornaments containing children's gift wishes, purchase these items in the store and then drop them in the decorated, ONC boxes outside or hand them to more CDC dancers there. This is the eighth year the dance group has participated in this event.
- ONC will also be collecting toys, Dec. 1, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., outside the Walmart in the Fair Lakes Shopping Center. ONC project leader Phyllis White is coordinating this toy drive.
- On Saturday, Dec. 8, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Stone Middle School is sponsoring its fifth annual Panther Drop Off. Area residents may bring new clothes and toys to the school, and everything collected that day will be donated to ONC. Students in Stone's National Junior Honor Society will be there to help unload cars and sort gifts.
All next week, civics students will be delivering flyers throughout Centreville to inform the community about this service project. They're also running contests in school to see which class can collect the most items, the week before the event.
Although it takes work and time, those who volunteer with and for ONC are happy to do it because they know the importance of the task at hand. Last year, for example, CDC and other area youth organizations joined together to provide 128 coats for children in need.
"In working with ONC for almost a decade, a generation of our dancers has learned of and personally witnessed the generosity of our greater Northern Virginia community," said CDC's Cheri Est. "We consider it an honor to assist ONC with its efforts."
Each year, as well, Centreville High and Westfield High SGA students bring to school and package thousands of homemade cookies so each recipient family on ONC's list can receive a box along with their gifts. And students at Chantilly High conduct a wrapping-paper drive so each family may wrap its presents for its own children.
Lavin continually learns how many people in this area need help. On Monday, while she was at the Chantilly Walmart discussing where the giving tree would go, an employee told her of a girl who came into the store one day, trying to cash a gift card so she could buy lunch at school. The employee said she couldn't use the gift card that way, but she gave her the lunch money, herself.
Even new freshmen in their high school's SGA, participating in ONC for the first time, initially have no clue about the need for help in the local community. "Once they do, they see firsthand the good they're doing," said Lavin. "And they realize that connection between their volunteer efforts and what they can do in the future."
"I love seeing their elation when that sinks in," she continued. "There's no truer high than doing something selfless to help someone else. There's no typical 'look' to a family in need. They might live in a nice home, but it belongs to someone else and they rent space in the basement."
With more clothing requests than ever, this year, Stephanie Somers, ONC project leader in charge of clothing donations, urgently needs people to 'adopt' families and purchase their children's clothing needs. Some 660 families have asked for warm clothing such as coats, hats, jackets, mittens and sweaters.
"Stephanie's gotten one-third of the families' clothing needs adopted, or some 220 families," said Lavin. "But that still leaves 440 more families needing their clothing wishes fulfilled — and we just received 30 new families Tuesday night." Somers may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Another way people may help ONC is by going to its website at www.ourneighborschild.org/index.html and clicking on the "donate now" button. Ultimately, said Lavin, "That's what's going to help us purchase the needed clothes and toys that aren't donated via the giving trees."
Tax-deductible contributions may also be made by mailing checks payable to Our Neighbor's Child to: Karen Moore, Treasurer, Our Neighbor's Child, P.O. Box 276, Centreville, VA 20120.
As always, Lavin's hoping the caring and generosity of local residents will shine through to help their neighbors. Because, she said, when it comes right down to it, "ONC isn't an entity — it's an effort from the community's heart."


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Nikon Coolpix P7100
A tailor-made Canon G12 competitor, the Nikon Coolpix P7100 offers a 3.0-inch vari-angle LCD, 720p HD video and an f/2.8 maximum aperture 7x optical zoom lens.
- Excellent images
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Quick TakeThe Nikon Coolpix P7100 successfully improves on the P7000's weaknesses in the performance department. Good image quality puts it head to head with the established G12.
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Only 20 years-old, it's clear Trayce [Thompson] has a long way to go. He's not a player Sox fans will see patrolling the outfield at The Cell next year, but he could become a hot prospect with a strong year. Will he blow away the South Atlantic League and become a top 20 MLB prospect? Maybe, but I think most people would be pleased if he maintained his current numbers for the full season. …
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- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallArtist Eddy Sykes takes the Big Lebowski to a whole new level with his unconventional bowling ball art. The Los Angeles-based artist recycles disused balls from America's favorite pastime into witty sculptures of books so thoroughly that it's tough to guess what they were originally.1
- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallSykes seeks out bowling balls that have been long forgotten- most of the pieces he has sourced are well over 30 years in age.2
- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallDespite being old and unused for years, the balls were all kept in pristine condition, making the perfect medium to carve from. Each of the bowling balls symbolized a certain historical significance to the original owners.3
- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallThe balls referenced a time period spent in a bowling league, or memories of playing with family. so Sykes wanted to transform the pieces into something else that would be historically significant.4
- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallCarefully hand carving each bowling ball, Sykes chose to turn the pieces into epic pieces of literature. Associating great books with sentimentality, Sykes carves out a new symbol of memory, relating books to trophies.5
- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallThe carved spines still bear the finger wholes of the bowling balls, linking the new nostalgic object with its former use. Besides transforming the balls' use and appearance, Syke's carved books take a step beyond the nostalgia of the bowling ball, and extend further into time, sighting that knowledge and information outlasts any physical object.6
- Eddy Sykes Recycled Bowling BallMore personally, Sykes associates bowling with his blue collar upbringing, and books with his studies in architecture school, when he left his small middle class town for university. The act of carving these books from bowling balls is both symbolic and an physical reference to Sykes' "escape" from blue collar work and into the world of the scholar.7


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The Fantastical Neoclassical
L'Antiquité rêvée: innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle
Not all the works on view at the Louvre are traveling to Houston, where the exhibition, titled "Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century," is supplemented with works from the Houston collections and elsewhere. The English-language catalog accompanying the Houston exhibition is also published by Louvre éditions/Gallimard ($45.00).
The Comte d'Angiviller, Louis XVI's fine arts supremo, knew his man when in 1775 he picked the painter Joseph-Marie Vien to head the Académie Royale's program in Rome. It was time to reimpose some control on the headstrong young Frenchmen studying at the Palazzo Mancini, the Académie's Rome headquarters: and Vien, nearing sixty, was exactly the type of painter a reformist bureaucrat could work with. "Accommodating, prudent and wise,"1 Denis Diderot had called him, reviewing the previous decade's Salons. Diderot had also deemed Vien's Marcus Aurelius Giving Aid to the People—nine square yards of columns, tunics, and hand gestures—"harsh, dry, and flat."2
But then the sheer self-important dullness of the fellow would surely be of value in disciplining his charges—the prizewinning young painters who went, four each year, from the modern metropolis of Paris to breathe the air once breathed by the ancients, by Raphael, and by Poussin. Vien indeed took to his new responsibilities with zeal: he proposed to d'Angiviller that during their five-year intensive drawing course, the future leaders of French art should be made to wear special uniforms.
Three decades earlier, Vien had been such a prizewinner himself. Then, on his return to Paris in 1750, he had fallen under the wing of the Comte de Caylus, an eminent antiquarian and art-world busybody. They enthused together over the excavations that had recently begun, three days' ride south of Rome, at Pompeii. The critic got the painter to attempt reviving the ancients' encaustic wax technique for painting—an experiment that led nowhere—then lent him freshly published volumes of engravings after Pompeian murals. From these Vien derived a set of canvases that made something of a splash in the Salon of 1763. One of them, The Girl Selling Cupids (La Marchande d'amours), featured in "Antiquity Rediscovered," the Louvre's recent exhibition of eighteenth-century European art. It sets a hawker and her female clients more or less frieze-wise against a columned wall, in a manner adapted from Poussin. The three women seem dopily demure cousins to those monotonous nudes painted by the Belgian Surrealist Paul Delvaux—but look again, and you realize that this is a Pompeian sex-toy party.
Diderot disapprovingly smirked at the phallic gesture the salesgirl's cupid figure is making, and the way one woman's hand has covertly reached for her skirts. The canvas displays the debonair professionalism that pervades Parisian art of the ancien régime: its play of tints, pale rose against deep greenish umbers, is exquisite; but it's a wholly daft confection, a whimsical jeu d'esprit you…
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Clothing Pictures From Sex and the City 2 2010-05-20 07:50:22
Let's take a break from looking at old-school outfits of Carrie's and Charlotte's (Samantha and Miranda to come!) and take in the new-school styles of the fabulous four. We've already shown you how you can shop the SATC2 closet and own the complete SATC2 fashion book. And have you noticed all the Halston Heritage cameos in the flick? The hype is palpable. Here are tons of totally glam rockin' looks from the sequel out May 27. Do believe the hype.


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Subtropical Storm Melissa has formed in the central Atlantic.
MIAMI � Subtropical Storm Melissa has formed in the central Atlantic.
The storm's maximum sustained winds Monday are near 50 mph (85 kph) with some strengthening forecast. The storm is expected to transition to a tropical storm by Tuesday.
Melissa is centered about 695 miles (1,120 kilometers) east-southeast of Bermuda and is moving northwest near 9 mph (15 kph).
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says large swells from the storm are already affecting parts of the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and the southeastern Bahamas.


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A Faint Flux-Limited LAE Sample at z = 0.3
Isak Wold, UT Austin
Observational surveys of Lya emitters (LAEs) have proven to be an efficient method to identify and study large numbers of galaxies over a wide redshift range. To understand what types of galaxies are selected in LAE surveys – and how this evolves with redshift – it is important to establish a low-redshift reference sample that can be directly compared to high-redshift samples. The lowest redshift where a direct Lya survey is currently possible is at a redshift of z~0.3 via the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX ) FUV grism data. Using the z~0.3 GALEX sample as an anchor point, it has been suggested that at low redshifts high equivalent width (EW) LAEs become less prevalent and that the amount of escaping Lya emission declines rapidly. A number of explanations for these trends have been suggested including increasing dust content, increasing neutral column density, and/or increasing metallicity of star-forming galaxies at lower redshifts. However, the published z~0.3 GALEX sample is pre-selected from bright NUV objects. Thus, objects with strong Lya emission but faint continuum (high-EW LAEs) could be missed. In this talk, I will present my efforts to re-reduce the deepest archival GALEX FUV grism data and obtain a sample that is not biased against high-EW LAEs. I will discuss the implications of this new sample on the evolutionary trends listed above.
Asteroseismology of Red Giants: The Detailed Modeling of Red Giants in Eclipsing Binary Systems
Jean McKeever, NMSU
Asteroseismology is an invaluable tool that allows one to peer into the inside of a star and know its fundamental stellar properties with relative ease. There has been much exploration of solar-like oscillations within red giants with recent advances in technology, leading to new innovations in observing. The Kepler mission, with its 4-year observations of a single patch of sky, has opened the floodgates on asteroseismic studies. Binary star systems are also an invaluable tool for their ability to provide independent constraints on fundamental stellar parameters such as mass and radius. The asteroseismic scaling laws link observables in the light curves of stars to the physical parameters in the star, providing a unique tool to study large populations of stars quite easily. In this work we present our 4-year radial velocity observing program to provide accurate dynamical masses for 16 red giants in eclipsing binary systems. From this we find that asteroseismology overestimates the mass and radius of red giants by 15% and 5% respectively. We further attempt to model the pulsations of a few of these stars using stellar evolution and oscillation codes. The goal is to determine which masses are correct and if there is a physical cause for the discrepancy in asteroseismic masses. We find there are many challenges to modeling evolved stars such as red giants and we address a few of the major concerns. These systems are some of the best studied systems to date and further exploration of their asteroseismic mysteries is inevitable.