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Is the rock chip/crack repair really free?
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Yes! Siri Auto Glass provides mobile service. We'll come to wherever you're located in Spring - your home, office etc.
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Why fix a chip if it's small or hasn't spread yet?
The longer you delay in fixing the chip, the higher the possibility of the damage area spreading. Damage can spread from bumps in the road, temperature changes (hot/cold) or wind stress on your windshield. Eventually, these un-repaired rock chips will "crack-out" all the way across and require you to replace your windshield, which is far more expensive . It is a lot cheaper to repair them before this happens.
Windshield repair also tends to look seamless when done as soon as possible after damage occurs. Otherwise, rain, dust and road grime will contaminate the damage over time thus inhibiting the best cosmetic results and may even cause further spreading of the damaged area.
Should small surface chips and pits be repaired?
Even a pin head size surface imperfection on a windshield has the potential to get worse. In particular, if the windshield damage has a shadow, or black or silver discoloration around the impact point, it could "crack out" if not repaired. Pits and surface chips are the beginning of potential further damage. Visible damage should be taken care of with windshield repair ASAP.
Should I contact my agent or insurance company?
At Siri Auto Glass, we're experts at verifying coverage, filing the claim and handling all the paperwork. We'll contact your insurance company and submit the claim for the windshield repair on your behalf, hassle free. Or if you prefer, you can also pay our repair technician directly and file the claim personally.
What zipcodes in Spring does Siri Auto Glass serve?
We provide mobile service to all of these zip codes: 77373, 77379, 77380, 77381, 77382, 77383, 77386, 77387, 77388, 77389, 77391, 77393. We also serve The Woodlands area.
Anyone who owns a vehicle would know that the windshield is very important for the safety of the vehicle as well as the passengers. You must keep the windshield as well as the auto glass in perfect condition at all times to have a safe ride and in case they are damaged you must mend them as soon as possible. Driving a car with a damaged windshield may increase the possibility of a serious injury in case of a collision or any other kind of accident. So let us have a look at certain aspects of Windshield Repair Spring TX to figure out the options available for the same in the region.
The main reason for using the windshield is to prevent the dust, wind, rain and any sort of external particles from getting inside the vehicle. It helps the vehicle clean from inside and also protects the passengers. The vehicles nowadays move at a very high speed and that makes it more likely to get hit by roadside particles such as small pebbles, stones and any stray particle spread on the road. They hit the glass more often than not and leave small scratches or cracks on them. Such cracks eventually affect visibility and hence it is better to take care of them as soon as they appear. In general it is not difficult to mend such small scars. Also, the windshield allows the driver to have a clear view of the road ahead and also other vehicles and people around the vehicle. In order to be safe, it is necessary to have a clear view of other elements around you when you are driving. That is why you must be careful about your visibility through the glasses that cover the vehicle. That is why small scratches and cracks must be tended to immediately. Windshield Repair Spring is also available nowadays readily and you do not have to try too hard to find a good repair shop.
You should note that even if you drive very carefully, small collisions and frictions can always happen. In fact it is not always about you but it may also be due to the mistake of someone else or may be due to the weather or road condition. The windshield must be able to prevent the passengers from being ejected out of the vehicle on impact in case of a major collision because that can cause severe damages and injuries to the person involved. If we look at the statistics, we can see that such ejections are the reason for a big number of accident related fatalities in the region and hence Windshield Repair Spring has become very important business for the car owners. Similarly, the airbags in cars also need a functioning and sturdy windshield to absorb the pressure when they are inflated because the airbag springs upward to shield the passenger. That is why weak windshields or cracked glasses will also lead to the non-performance of airbags.
Windshield Repair Spring TX has improved a lot nowadays as the importance of the same has been realized by the car owners. The windshield is there to support the roof atop the car. In case a car rolls over due to a collision or due to any other mishap, a faulty windshield can get detached from the car very quickly and in that case it exposes the passengers to greater danger. As the windshield crumbles, it fails to prevent the driver and passengers from popping out of the car on impact, thus risking their life. A well-made windshield can save your life when you during an accident. It should also be noted that a lot of people have a tendency to ignore small cracks on the glass as they consider them unimportant. But, as we have discussed already, the damage to the windshieldcan cause significant risks and hence Windshield Repair Spring should offer good service without any delay.
While Spring Windshield Repair is easy to find, you can also try a few tricks at the home to take care of your vehicle and its accessories. You need to prevent the damages and mend small glitches yourself as sometimes it is not possible to get professional help and also, you would not like to take the car to a repair shop for small operations. You can use some household items with a bit of understanding about your machine to take care of it and make them last longer. For example, you can maintain the wiper blades, which is an integral part of your windshield, using some simple tricks but most people ignore this aspect completely. Wiper blades are extremely important in keeping the windshields clean and ensuring clear vision. Especially during rains, snowfall or fog, they are crucial for safe driving but most people still ignore the same. In fact regular usage wears out the wiper blades and thus increases the risk of damaging the windshield as well as the vision of the driver. In general the automakers recommend the car owners to change the wiper blades on a regular basis, at least once in a year. If that sounds a bit too frequent, then you can try to enhance the life of the blades using a few tricks. For example, rubbing a wearing wiper blade with a piece of sandpaper enhances the coefficient of friction by making the rubber a bit rougher and thus the blade cleans the windshield more effectively.
Similarly, other parts of the car can be cleaned using such household items. A lot of damage actually comes from the dirt and dust that builds up on them. In the rainy season it is the mud that dries up and in the winter it is the snowflakes. So, it is necessary the give the vehicle a good wash. While a lot of Spring Windshield Repair shops also offer special washing services, it is possible for you to do it yourself at home. This not only saves money for you but also saves time by preventing a visit to the repair shop. For example, you can use the household lawn sprinkler, put it under the car and spray out the dirt with clean water. You can do the same with your windshield and the window glasses. Basically you have to take care of your machine. While, Windshield Repair Spring TX are easily accessible, it is better if you can understand where and when repair is required. Wipers that do not function properly can lead to safety issues of various kinds as we have seen earlier. It should also be noted that rough weather like snow or hailstorms first make small cracks. But the cracks get widened as the wiper repeatedly sweeps across the glass. You should also note that at Spring Windshield Repair service is provided by many, it is better if you buy the right equipment in the first place. For example it is absolutely necessary to get the correct sized wiper blades to fit with your windshield; otherwise it is very difficult to get them working properly.
While talking about Spring TX Windshield Repair , the first thing you have to understand is how the glass is made by the original makers. Basically it is the glass one the front side of the car or truck is not made up of a single sheet of manufactured glass. As a matter of fact there are two layers of glass bound by a type of glue specifically made for the purpose. The reason for having this glue is for safety of the passengers. Due to the glue, even during impact, the glass doesn't shatter into pieces. This is important because if it shatters to small pieces, it is all the more likely to injure the passengers inside by injuring various sensitive parts of the body such as the eyes.
Windshield Repair Spring TX gives you the option to repair or replace. So, first you need to be sure whether you want to replace or just repair the glass. When the windshield is damaged, most of the car owners think about replacing it altogether. In fact, if the damage is small, they tend to wait so that it wears out a bit more and the replacement becomes completely unavoidable. But persisting for a long time with damaged glasses can have negative consequences too in terms of decreasing visibility through the glass for the driver. Actually spring tx windshield repair has been there for a long time but still most people consider it to be not necessary. They try to avoid the small expenses and wait for a complete replacement. The fact is that repairing the windshield has become a common and acceptable practice and in fact several insurance companies also consider this option in their policies nowadays. So, there is no reason why one should not consider this as a viable option. Besides, it should also be noted that while most people avoid this to save small expenses, the fact is that such repairs are very low cost compared to a real replacement. In fact, such repairs eventually save money by elongating the life of windshields and delaying the replacement purchase for several years. Thus, through small repairs, a car owner ends up buying a lesser number of windshields as replacements during a lifetime and end up saving money.
Considering all the options at Spring TX Windshield Repair , it can be said that you can always have the right service when you need but still it is a better idea to know how to avoid damaging the glasses. Of course as a law of nature they will wear and some sort of damage will always be there. But the drivers can take a bit of precautions to avoid unnecessary damages which not only save money but also make it safer. For example, one should never drive behind other vehicles too closely because if the one in front of you presses the break suddenly, you can be certain to have a collision. Similarly, you should always keep a check on the speed limits and should never try your luck too much by speeding up when the weather is bad or visibility is low. Repairs and replacements are available for damaged equipment and accessories but the injury to your body can be mores ever and irreversible. That is why you should always try to be a responsible driver. Your windshield is there only to protect you from the elements outside your car but you need to be responsible for your own safety too. Also, rash driving not only affects your own safety but that of everyone else around you.


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Join Bredeson Outdoor Adventures on a trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun. This trip takes place in the western fjord country. We'll be based in Lofthus in the Hardanger region on the eastern shore of Sorfjorden, or South Fjord, facing the Folgefonna Glacier on the sunny side of high mountains. Most of our hikes will take place in the Hardangarvidda National Park with views of the Fjord, waterfalls and dramatically steep cliffs. Our hiking adventure will start and end in the beautiful, old coastal city of Bergen. We'll combine the comfort of first class hotels with an exciting overnight at a high mountain hut, the latter complete with showers and a happy hour. We will also experience transitions in scenery as we hike up from the shore of the Fjord past farms, orchards and flowers up to shrubs and rocky terrain. All of this will take place with the backdrop of a land legendary for Vikings, sagas, trolls (don't look under any bridges!), and the grand music of Grieg. Norway is one of the youngest and the oldest nations in Europe, and it is certainly its most thinly populated. You'll enjoy hiking along trails with the world's fittest and most nature-loving population, and returning to historic hotels in the evening for a Smorgasbord feast. NOTE: We have posted just one sample itinerary. Other wonderful destinations in our repertoire also include Ulvik, Stalheim, Utne and the Lofoten Islands.
Price varies based on the actual itinerary, whether guided or self-guided, and level of accommodations. Please contact us to develop a custom itinerary and price for your group.
We are proud of the quality of our tours, including our detailed pre-trip planning and attentive customer service, and the great on-the-ground experience executed by our guides. We would be happy to provide references. Here are a few comments from previous Norway tour participants:
Day One: Lofthus
We meet in the morning in Bergen at our pre-trip hotel and travel to Lofthus, the "orchard of Hardanger" on the beautiful Sorfjorden. On the way to Lofthus we'll visit Troldhaugen, Grieg's house and museum in the outskirts of Bergen and stop for a warm-up hike on the fascinating historical trail in the village of Ulvik. That evening we'll enjoy a welcome drink by the Fjord and the first of four nights of a wonderful Smorgasbord dinner in our historic hotel.
Day Two: Lofthus
After a hearty breakfast we'll travel to the town of Eidfjord for a walk to Viking graves and a dramatic hike up to Kjeasen, a hillside farm perched high on a hill above the fjord. We'll return to our hotel by boat. Our evening will be spent feasting on both the glacier view from our hotel and wonderful food while enjoying the company of our friends and the lingering sunlight.
Day Three: Lofthus
Today we'll hike out the door of our hotel past the orchards of Lofthus and up Nosi to the Hardangervidda National Park, this time taking the Monk's Steps, 616 huge stones set in place hundreds of years ago by farming monks. This evening we might decide to take a dip in the fjord (don't worry – it's not too cold) or perhaps take out a row boat before dinner.
Day Four: Lofthus
We'll travel to Roldal for a visit to one of Norway's famous stave churches and a hike on the pilgrim's trail, a route used by pilgrims during the Middle Ages to reach the church on foot in order to benefit from its supposed curative powers.
Day Five: Hardangervidda National Park; Hedlo Hut
Our adventure today begins with a visit to the Hardangervidda Nature Center at the foot of the Voringfossen, Norway's highest waterfall. The Nature Center provides information on the history, culture and natural environment of beautiful and dramatic western Norway. After our Nature Center visit we'll transfer to the trailhead leading up to the Hedlo Hut, where we'll have the opportunity to experience hiking the Norwegian way. At the hut we'll leave our packs and explore one of the many trails that depart from the hut. We'll enjoy our happy hour tonight amidst the remote beauty of the high plain and the camaraderie of other hikers we have met on the trail.
Day Six: Bergen
We'll hike down from the hut where we are picked up and taken to our hotel in Bergen. We'll enjoy a walking through Bryggen, the historical heart of old Bergen, as well as a hike up onto a hill overlooking this charming maritime city. Tonight we say skol to each other at our farewell dinner at a mountain top restaurant overlooking this World Heritage Site city.
Day Seven: Depart Bergen
After breakfast we depart for home or continued adventures in the Land of the Midnight sun.
Please bear in mind that this is a sample itinerary. We would be delighted to develop a custom proposal for an adventure that is just right for your needs.
We are delighted that you are planning to book a trip with Bredeson Outdoor Adventures. To make a reservation on one of our trips please use the Trip Sign-Up page or follow the instructions below:
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — AOL Inc. is seeking to add shareholder the old-fashioned way: by using such financial maneuvers as declaring a special dividend and buying back stock.
The moves underscore AOL's desire to establish a new image — a shareholder-friendly reputation — following years of presenting haphazard strategies and poorly received initiatives.
The company is declaring a special dividend of $5.15 a share and intends to buy back about $600 million of its common stock through an accelerated repurchase program.
You also have to wonder: That's going to cost the company a lot of money. AOL AOL will buy the shares back through an accelerated stock repurchase pact with Barclays Bank using a previous stock-buyback plan and an incremental $10 million which the company sanctioned on Sunday.
AOL will pay out the $600 million at the start of the deal and plans to get the lion's share of the shares prior to the end of 2012. The acts are designed to give back $1.1 billion to the stockholders.
AOL's executives must feel reassured by the pop that their stock got in Monday morning trading. And it is commendable that AOL is thinking so much of its stockholders' welfare.
But buybacks and dividends are old hat. No doubt, Wall Street would like it even better if the management could come up with something original, say, a sterling new product to captivate the digital marketplace.


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Our school year sputtered to an end when the reality of summer swim team gob-smacked us. Fortunately, we already had our required days in (plus three!) and had pretty much finished our semester's foray into Roman times. Below are the books we read aloud together or which I read in order to better discuss them with the big kids. The big kids all read a ton of other related titles, but I'm only listing the ones I personally read.
The Roman Mysteries Series – I was surprised at how much we liked these books. The author, Caroline Lawrence, puts so much period detail into the books, but without making them feel didactic. So we learned all sorts of fascinating things about daily life in Roman times, but all in the course of rousing mysteries and problem solving. However, I will caveat that I only read the first four, and there were a couple of issues that I wanted to talk over with the kids, like a point where someone drinks too much (and has a terrible headache and says things they regret as a result), and a distressing choice made by one character's mother. Both incidents were handled tastefully in the book, but really did require discussion. So be aware of that if you choose this series. Even so, I highly, highly recommend these books. The audio versions were great–check your library's OverDrive app if you've got travel upcoming!
The Silver Branch and Outcast – Rosemary Sutcliff is one of my favorite children's authors, so we snapped up her books about Rome. Actually, the kids read a couple of others and liked them as well, so really you can just look out for this author and be assured that you won't go wrong. Her characters are complex and well-drawn, action is excellent, and you always wind up with great insight into the time periods covered. Both of these books covered Britain in Roman times, which was fascinating.
Beric the Briton – Another solid choice about Roman Britain is G.A. Henty. Although his books can be a bit slow to start, overall they are great adventure stories. I always look for Henty at used book stores, but you can also find good audio versions.
Detectives in Togas – I didn't love this one as much this time around (having read it the last time we did Rome four years ago)–it's not particularly noteworthy as literature, and falls far short of Sutcliff or Henty or Lawrence for historical detail. If you're short on time, or your kids need an easy-ish read but you're not that concerned about historical depth, this book is fine. The kids like it as a story.
Julius Caesar – Naturally, we chose JC as our Shakespeare play of the term. We read it out loud together taking parts, and also listened to a dramatized audio version. Although I wouldn't say it was my favorite Shakespeare play, it was good.
Archimedes and the Door of Science – OK, Archimedes was technically a Greek. But I already did the Greek read-alouds post. So here you go, Archimedes, old boy, we're sticking you with the Romans. At any rate, this was a great book–a nice mix of biography, history, and science. We really enjoyed it, and would recommend it as a read-aloud or read-alone.
In Search of a Homeland – If you're looking for a solid retelling of the Aeneid, I recommend this one. It will make more sense if your kids are already familiar with the Odyssey, but is pretty crucial for understanding Roman history, in my opinion. Next time around I think we're going to go with the real deal, but in the meantime, this retelling is great (side note: the kids also read The Aeneid for Boys and Girls and said it was ok, but they preferred In Search of a Homeland).
The Story of the Romans and Famous Men of Rome – Reading both of these got a little repetitive as we read about the same people back and forth–we should have chosen one and left it at that. However, having read two of these books about famous Romans, the kids and I are SO primed for Plutarch.
Plutarch's Lives – So after reading about famous Greeks and famous Romans, we dove right in to Plutarch and I was surprised and pleased to see that the kids were ready to interact with it. Why read Plutarch after we already read about many of these people in other books? That's like saying "but we've read the Jesus Storybook Bible, so we don't need to read the WHOLE Bible, right?" Plutarch was required reading for most of history, and is really a civics/government primer, as well as a general springboard for discussion about character, leadership, and being a good citizen. We started with Poplicola because that's what everyone says to do, and because we were familiar with him. Then we just went to the front of the book and started with the first life, Theseus. We'll go straight through from here on out and eventually we'll have read the whole phone book. It's going to be awesome.
SPQR – One last note: this one was not for kids, but I read it as background for myself. It was a slog, but I think that was because I read it on the Kindle app on my phone. That's a handy thing, but not the best way for me to read/learn. A better reference for ancient times is Susan Wise Bauer's The History of the Ancient World (link is to my original review, when I read it as background in 2012).
And here we are in summer "break" (or the break it would be, were swim team not in the picture!). I think the year went well overall. I saw a lot of improvement and maturing in abilities. I changed some things, and am contemplating ways to make our next school year run even more smoothly. This was the last year–for a while at least–that I plan for the three big kids to be in the same history/literature time frame. It's funny. Initially we began combining for history and literature because I couldn't imagine how I could keep up with three separate eras, or why the kids would want to be alone in one. Now, the opposite is true. I think the kids are in a spot where they need the individual ownership and space. We'll still do lots of read-alouds together, because that's just who we are, but we'll do different independent reads. I'm excited to see how it works out.
Meanwhile, summer reading! What's on deck at your house?
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For my guest blog this month, I thought I would provide a small sample of the birds I have seen and photographed from mid-January to mid-March in the greater Vancouver region. To say that it has been warmer than the rest of the country for most of the time would be an understatement, but if it can make you feel better, we did get long periods of rain, especially in January!
In case you are wondering, all of these photos were taken by me with a handheld Nikon D5200 and AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED. None of these birds were baited, called in or set up…
Anna's Hummingbird (female), sipping a few cherry blossoms at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus in February:
And speaking of hummingbirds, I discovered several days ago that this Anna's Hummingbird chose build her nest on a wind chime, next to the front door of one of our neighbours! I am guessing that the eggs may hatch in the next 10 days or so…
This dashing male Northern Flicker seemed to be scouting, with his female companion, a suitable location for their nest:
And this handsome pair of Hooded Mergansers seemed to have been enjoying a leisurely swim in March no the pond at Jericho Beach Park:
And last (but certainly not least), the following photo of a female Bushtit hanging on a fern was taken in February at UBC Vancouver:
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Posts from — March 2010
Courtly Love
I kind of love Dahlia Lithwick, who writes about the Supreme Court over at Slate. How could I resist this?
Sheldon E. Richie represents New Process Steel, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg soon pins him over whether a group with a quorum of two is the board or an agent of the board. Justice Stephen Breyer asks what happens if the board of five delegates its power to three and then one of them dies. And I feel myself transported, just as you are doubtless being transported right now, to that one college lit class where pretty girls with long black hair talked wispily about Keats' "Endymion" while a solitary fly buzzed against the window pane. …
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Foundation stone laid for Nizwa Grand Mall
Oman's Ministry of Defence Pension Fund has laid the foundation stone for the Nizwa Grand Mall, Oman Daily Observer has reported. The project includes a shopping centre, restaurants, entertainment and children's play areas and many retail outlets, in addition to administrative offices, and other necessary facilities. The project will be run by global operators like Carrefour, Centre Point, Home Centre, Max, e-max and other commercial brands, said director general of the fund, Saleh bin Nasser al Habsi. Construction works of the complex and its different facilities are scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2015.
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The blower is no longer forcing air through the vents. I checked the fuse in the drivers door panel (htr/blr?) And replaced the relay under the hood. I used a voltage tester to see if the blower was getting juice, and it wasen't; then checked if the leads going to the resistor where getting anything by setting the fan dial to different speed and putting the voltage prongs to ground and each wire individually, with no luck.
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A theatre actor is an acting professional who works in theatrical productions and plays. A theatre actor resume is different from the resume of a movie or television actor, as a theatre actor requires special skills that may not be needed in a movie or television actor. A well written theatre actor resume will not just help you showcase your skills and talent to producers or directors of a theatrical production, it will also help you create a very good impression on them thus helping you get a shot at the audition.
Acting in theatres is very difficult because the mode of acting here is very different from that of a movie or television series. In a theatrical production there is no scope for error and actors need to be well aware of the script as the play is acted out in front of live audience. When drafting your resume it is important that you ensure that a few pointers are kept in mind to ensure that your resume comes out as desired and leverages your theatrical skills and qualities.
When drafting your actor profile for a theatre one must start at the top center, here you need to add your name (Bold and in large font) along with contact information like your address and telephone number. You need to ensure that the information is accurate as directors would be contacting you using this information.
The next section is your physical attributes like your height, weight, color of your eyes, hair and complexion.
This is followed by the theatrical experience section, here you need to add your past works or roles including name of the role, year and production house.
After your experience you should mention your skills, here you can add skills like singing, dancing, horse riding, acrobatics, gymnastics, voice over etc.
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This can be followed by sections including information regarding affiliations to various actor associations and unions, your agent's information and your reference section.
Below you will find a few sample resumes that have been created by an expert writer with vast experience in resume writing. These samples have been created keeping in mind the skills and qualities that a good theatre actor resume must have, you can refer to these samples and come up with a professional profile that is both eye catching and impressive and will help you get a step closer to your dream role that will change your career.
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Multi-billion dollar deficits don't come with easy fixes; plans relying exclusively on service cuts or tax increases are similarly painful to implement. This biennium, the Governor is using an executive power known as unallotment at an unprecedented level, to reduce spending unilaterally. From property taxes to transportation infrastructure, this approach is sure to impact those of us involved in redevelopment and placemaking.
Already, forecasts have been presented suggesting that this deficit is not a product of recession alone, but another iteration of a chronic budget imbalance. Jay Keidrowski, former finance commissioner, and nonpartisan Minnesota Senate Research analysis indicates the budget deficit for the next biennium (2011-12) to be in the $4.5 – $4.9 billion range.


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Conditions: reasonable seeing, clear sky, no wind, medium humidity
Setup: Obsession 18" Dobsonian telescope with 4x Televue powermate (f/18), Lumenera Skynyx 2-2M (with Schuler Ix infrared filter) and Lumenera Skynyx 2-2C (with IR reject filter) cameras. Here's a view of the imaging setup in my small garden.
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This was the first time I used the big Dobsonian for imaging from my own back yard. The telescope is so big and our gate so narrow that it had to be lifted up and into the garden. That gate will have to go! The time between the IR and RGB sequences was 12 minutes - just short enough to permit a combined version. The angular diameter was 12.5" and the seeing reasonable; but not as good as on Jan. 9 where Michael Rask and I shot our sharpest image.
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The Kitchen Sisters appears in the following:
Golden State Warriors Take On San Quentin Prisoners In Basketball
Wednesday, June 07, 2017
For the past five years, the Golden State Warriors have traveled to San Quentin, the well-known California maximum security prison, to play a basketball game against select prison inmates.
Poet Emily Dickinson Was A Much Loved Baker
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Though a notorious recluse, Emily Dickinson shared her masterful creations with friends and neighbors. Early drafts of her poems are often found on the backs of cake recipes and flour labels.
How South Korea Uses Kimchi To Connect To The World — And Beyond
Monday, August 22, 2016
The traditional dish is so essential to the nation's culture and identity that the government promotes it globally in an effort to foster understanding and peace among countries.
The Gold-Hungry Forty-Niners Also Plundered Something Else: Eggs
Monday, August 15, 2016
When food shortages struck San Francisco, wily entrepreneurs raided the dangerous Farallon Islands for protein-rich eggs from seabirds. In the process, they destroyed both wildlife and each other.
Food Manga: Where Culture, Conflict And Cooking All Collide
Monday, August 08, 2016
In Japan, a country rich with visual storytelling, food has skyrocketed as a genre of manga — and the stories often depict a struggle for self-improvement.
History, Horchata And Hope: How Classic Kiosks Are Boosting Lisbon's Public Life
Monday, August 01, 2016
Ornate refreshment kiosks were once the heart of Lisbon's parks and plazas. They faded away under a dictatorship that discouraged public gatherings. Now they're back to help revitalize the city.
If War Is Hell, Then Coffee Has Offered U.S. Soldiers Some Salvation
Monday, July 25, 2016
"Nobody can soldier without coffee," a Union cavalryman wrote in 1865. Hidden Kitchens looks at three American wars through the lens of coffee: the Civil War, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Give Chickpeas A Chance: Why Hummus Unites, And Divides, The Mideast
Monday, July 18, 2016
Nothing is simple in Mideast relations. Not even hummus. Lebanon, Israel and Palestinians are entangled over who owns the dish. Not even the title of world's largest hummus platter settled the matter.
Inmate With Stock Tips Wants To Be San Quentin's Warren Buffett
Friday, August 14, 2015
Curtis Carroll taught himself to read in prison. He also discovered a passion for finance. Now inmates and guards seek out his advice, and everyone calls him Wall Street.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Some of tequila's oldest traditions are fast being erased as international spirit conglomerates take over family businesses. And tequila makers are worried about their impact on the environment.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Rising waters are threatening the giant naval base in Norfolk, Va., as well as the local businesses. The community is beginning to grapple with the reality, but many owners say they're staying put.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Australia has a long, dark history of racial discrimination against the Aborigines. A cooking and hospitality program tries to help youth discover their culture and build confidence and competence.
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Tuesday, June 03, 2014
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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I've made freeware games before. I did it only for the challenge and the knowledge that I produced something that entertained some people; if only for a few minutes. In 2000, I would get feedback on the software that I made.
Today, I get nothing.
Perhaps it's because there are so many other games out there. Perhaps it's because people think their opinions don't matter.
Feedback is important. Feedback is valuable. It lets me know when I did something right, and when I did something wrong. Also, I'm just one guy. If you send feedback to Blizzard, your opinion will most likely be lost in the crowd. I will definitely see your comment, and probably respond. If I receive enough feedback on an issue, it will change how I do things.
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Rooney should be front and centre, admits Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson has pretty much seen all football has to offer so when a moment on the pitch causes him to laugh in bewilderment, as he did yesterday, it is fair to say something special has just happened. The Manchester United manager was sitting in a dug-out in Durban when the crowd of 500 people watching his team train roared in approval. Ferguson looked behind him to see what all the fuss was about and realised Wayne Rooney had just struck a shot from the halfway line with such power that it caused the crossbar of the far goal to shudder. Cue the chuckle and a shake of the head.
That Ferguson should be surprised by Rooney's talent is perhaps in itself, no surprise. Since arriving from Everton four years ago the forward has rarely been deployed in the central attacking role most observers agree is his best position, instead being pushed wide with Ferguson consistently justifying the selection as being the right one for the team. But relaxed by the warmth of a beautiful South African day and having witnessed Rooney's goal-scoring potential at its most vivid, the Scot has finally admitted he may have made a mistake.
"I think Wayne's best position is through the middle, either the front role or tucking in just behind," Ferguson said. "He is aggressive, has good pace and the courage to go in the box. There's no reason why he can't get a good supply of goals. But he may have benefited by having someone with more experience with him. That always happens with young strikers."
Rooney has been prepared to adopt unfamiliar roles to allow Cristiano Ronaldo to torment opponents, but last season the sacrifices undoubtedly blunted his edge. Despite scoring 20 goals for club and country, Rooney rarely stole the show for United and his England form suffered subsequently. Ferguson admits the time has come for him to stop taking advantage of the 22-year-old's versatility.
"We have to define Wayne's role better," he conceded. "He has never complained, which says a lot for the lad. He would play centre-half if I asked him to."
But Rooney was clearly annoyed at being deployed on the flanks to facilitate United's 4-3-3 formation last season and this was evident on those occasions when his frustrations resulted in the kind of flashpoints that leave him walking a disciplinary tightrope. The player once again allowed his temper to come to the fore on Saturday when he was booked for kicking out at an opposing player in a friendly against Kaizer Chiefs in Cape Town.
"At 22 he was never going to be the finished article. When you sign players at 18 it's for the long view," added Ferguson. "In a few years' time we will be saying that was brilliant business."
That Rooney's development, along with the rest of the United squad, will not be overseen by Carlos Queiroz clearly remains a matter of significant regret for Ferguson who yesterday spoke of the "legacy" the new head coach of the Portuguese national team has left following his two spells as assistant manager at Old Trafford.
"He was a great organiser and he was serious in his coaching. All the changes at the club in terms of sports sciences over the last few years have been down to Carlos," said Ferguson.
Looking ahead, he added: "Our coach Mike Phelan couldn't do much last season because of a knee problem but he's back now so the coaching side is no problem. What I have to decide is whether to bring someone in who is more experienced and can be there if I'm not. It is possible that person will be foreign because we have many Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking players. But whatever happens, Carlos's legacy must not be forgotten."
Asked if Queiroz could ever return, Ferguson said that having signed a four-year contract with the Portuguese FA such a scenario would be "difficult". It is of course conceivable that in four years' time Ferguson will himself no longer be at United and among those spoken of as a successor to the 66-year-old is the club's former striker, Mark Hughes. That seemed a real possibility while the Welshman continued to excel at Blackburn but, following his move to Manchester City, now appears less likely. Nevertheless, Ferguson is convinced "Sparky" made the right decision.
"He has left Blackburn at the right time because all the contracts are up next year," he said. "It was time for him to move on. He's proved himself there."
And what about Ferguson, what has he got left to prove? Having taken his trophy haul at United to 20 in 22 years, it would appear to be very little. But, in that respect, the club remains in the shadow of Liverpool - with 18 league titles and five European Cups to their name against United's 17 and three respectively - and it seems inconceivable a man as ambitious as Ferguson would be content to retire without having moved past them.
"There is no particular pressure in terms of trying to beat Liverpool," he insisted. "We proved the point about overcoming Liverpool when I came to the club. That was the time to do something about it."
Keep winning trophies and it will only be a matter of time before United establish all-time supremacy, is the message. And if the shaking frame of a Durban crossbar is anything to go by, that moment could come sooner rather than later.
Fergie on...
Wayne Rooney
ªWe have to define Wayne's role better because he sacrificed himself for the team last season. He would play centre-half if I asked himº
Mark Hughes
ªHe has left Blackburn at the right time because all the contracts are up next year. He's proved himself thereº
Carlos Queiroz
ªAll the changes at the club in terms of sports sciences over the last few years have been down to Carlosº
A new coach
ªOur coach Mike Phelan couldn't do much last season because of a knee problem but he's back now and can do more, so the coaching side is no problemº
ªThere is no particular pressure in terms of trying to beat Liverpool. We proved the point about overcoming Liverpool when I came to the clubº


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After years as an Internet urban myth, the email tax appears to be close at hand. The New York TImes reports that AOL and Yahoo have partnered with startup Goodmail to start offering guaranteed delivery of mass email to organizations for a fee. Organizations with large email lists can pay to have their email go directly to AOL and Yahoo customers' inboxes, bypassing spam filters. Goodmail claims that they will offer discounts to non-profits.
Moveon.org and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have joined together to create an alliance of nonprofit and public interest organizations to protest AOL's plans. They argue that this two-tiered system will create an economic incentive to decrease investment into AOL's spam filtering in order to encourage mass emailers to use the pay-to-deliver service. They have created an online petition called dearaol.com for people to request that AOL stop these plans. A similar protest to Yahoo who intends to launch this service after AOL is being planned as well. The alliance has created unusual bedfellows, including Gun Owners of America, AFL-CIO, Humane Society of United States and Human Rights Campaign, who are resisting the pressure to use this service.
Part of the leveling power of email is that the marginal cost of another email is effectively zero. By perverting this feature of email, smaller businesses, non-profits, and individuals will once again be put at a disadvantage to large affluent firms. Further, this service will do nothing to reduce spam, rather it is designed to help mass emailers. An AOL spokesman, Nicholas Graham is quoted as saying AOL will earn revenue akin to a "lemonade stand" which further questions by AOL would pursue this plan in the first place. Although the only affected parties will initially be AOL and Yahoo users, it sets a very dangerous precedent that goes against the democratizing spirit of the Internet and digital information.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
blu-ray, amazon, and our mediated technology dependent lives
A couple of recent technology news items got me thinking about media and proprietary hardware. One was the New York Times report of Sony's problems with its HD-DVD technology, Blu-Ray, which is causing them to delay the release of their next gaming system, the PS3. The other item was Amazon's intention of entering the music subscription business in the Wall Street Journal.
The New York Times gives a good overview on the up coming battle of hardware formats for the next generation of high definition DVD players. It is the Betamax VHS war from the 80s all over again. This time around Sony's more expensive / more capacity standard is pitted against Toshiba's cheaper but limited HD-DVD standard. It is hard to predict an obvious winner, as Blu-Ray's front runner position has been weaken by the release delays (implying some technical challenges) and the recent backing of Toshiba's standard by Microsoft (and with them, ally Intel follows.) Last time around, Sony also bet on the similarly better but more expensive Betamax technology and lost as consumers preferred the cheaper, lesser quality of VHS. Sony is investing a lot in their Blu-Ray technology, as the PS3 will be founded upon Blu-Ray. The standards battle in the move from VHS to DVD was avoided because Sony and Philips decided to scrap their individual plans of releasing a DVD standard and they agreed to share in the revenue of licensing of the Toshiba / Warner Brothers standard. However, Sony feels that creating format standards is an area of consumer electronics where they can and should dominate. Competing standards is nothing new, and date back to at least to the decision of AC versus DC electrical current. (Edison's preferred DC lost out to Westinghouses' AC.) Although, it does provide confusion for consumers who must decide which technology to invest in, with the potential danger that it may become obsolete in a few years.
On another front, Amazon also recently announced their plans to release their own music player. In this sphere, Amazon is looking to compete with iTunes and Apple's dominance in the music downloading sector. Initially, Apple surprised everyone with the foray into the music player and download market. What was even more surprising was they were able to pull it off, shown by their recent celebration of the 1 billionth downloaded song. Apple continues to command the largest market share, while warding off attempts from the likes of Walmart (the largest brick and mortar music retailer in the US.) Amazon is pursuing a subscription based model, sensing that Napster has failed to gain much traction. Because Amazon customers already pay for music, they will avoid Napster's difficult challenge of convincing their millions of previous users to start paying for a service that they once had for free, albeit illegally. Amazon's challenge will be to persuade people to rent their music from Amazon, rather than buy it outright. Both Real and Napster only have a fraction of Apple's customers, however the subscription model does have higher profit margins than the pay per song of iTunes.
It is a logical step for Amazon, who sells large numbers of CDs, DVDs and portable music devices (including iPods.) As more people download music, Amazon realizes that it needs to protect its markets. In Amazon's scheme, users can download as much music as they want, however, if they cancel their subscription, the music will no longer play on their devices. The model tests to see if people are willing to rent their music, just like they rent DVDs from Netflix or borrow books from the library. I would feel troubled if I didn't outright own my music, however, I can see the benefits of subscribing to access music and then buying the songs that I liked. However, it appears that if you will not be able to store and play your own MP3s on the Amazon player and the iPod will certainly not be able to use Amazon's service. Amazon and partner Samsung must create a device compelling enough for consumers drop their iPods. Because the iPod will not be compatible with Amazon's service, Amazon may be forced to sell the players at heavy discounts or give them to subscribers for free, in a similar fashion to the cell phone business model. The subscription music download services have yet to create a player with any kind of social or technical cachet comparable to the cultural phenomenon of the iPod. Thus, the design bar has been set quite high for Amazon and Samsung. Amazon's intentions highlight the issue of proprietary content and playback devices.
While all these companies jockey for position in the marketplace, there is little discussion on the relationship between wedding content to a particular player or reader. Print, painting, and photography do not rely on a separate device, in that the content and the displayer of the content, in other words the vessel, are the same thing. In the last century, the vessel and the content of media started to become discreet entities. With the development of transmitted media of recorded sound, film and television, content required a player and different manufacturers could produce vessels to play the content. Further, these new vessels inevitably require electricity. However, standards were formed so that a television could play any channel and the FM radio could play any FM station. Because technology is developing at a much faster rate, the battle for standards occur more frequently. Vinyl records reigned for decades where as CDs dominated for about ten years before MP3s came along. Today, a handful of new music compression formats are vying to replace MP3. Furthermore, companies from Microsoft and Adobe to Sony and Apple appear more willing to create proprietary formats which require their software or hardware to access content.
As more information and media (and in a sense, ourselves) migrate to digital forms, our reliance on often proprietary software and hardware for viewing and storage grows steadily. This fundamental shift on the ownership and control of content radically changes our relationship to media and these change receive little attention. We must be conscious of the implied and explicit contracts we agree to, as information we produce and consume is increasingly mediated through technology. Similarly, as companies develop vertical integration business models, they enter into media production, delivery, storage and playback. These business models create the temptation to start creating to their own content, and perhaps give preferential treatment to their internally produced media. (Amazon also has plans to produce and broadcast an Internet show with Bill Maher and various guests.) Both Amazon and Blu-Ray HD-DVD are just current examples content being tied to proprietary hardware. If information wants to be free, perhaps part of that freedom involves being independent from hardware and software.
thinking about blogging 1: process versus product
Thinking about blogging: where's it's been and where it's going. Recently I found food for thought in a smart but ultimately misguided essay by Trevor Butterworth in the Financial Times. In it, he decries blogging as a parasitic binge:
…blogging in the US is not reflective of the kind of deep social and political change that lay behind the alternative press in the 1960s. Instead, its dependency on old media for its material brings to mind Swift's fleas sucking upon other fleas "ad infinitum": somewhere there has to be a host for feeding to begin. That blogs will one day rule the media world is a triumph of optimism over parasitism.
While his critique is not without merit, Butterworth ultimately misses the forest for the fleas, fixating on the extremes of the phenomenon — the tiny tier of popular "establishment" bloggers and the millions of obscure hacks endlessly recycling news and gossip — while overlooking the thousands of mid-level blogs devoted to specialized or esoteric subjects not adequately covered — or not covered at all — by the press. Technorati founder David Sifry recently dubbed this the "magic middle" of the blogosphere — that group of roughly 150,000 sites falling somewhere between the short head and the long tail of the popularity graph. Notable as the establishment bloggers are, I would argue that it's the middle stratum that has done the most in advancing serious discourse online. Here we are not talking about antagonism between big and small media, but rather a filling out of the media ecosystem — where a proliferation of niches, like pixels on a screen, improves the resolution of our image of the world.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Hath smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind.
—Jonathan Swift
At their worst, bloggers — like Swift's reiterative fleas — bounce ineffectually off the press's opacities. But sometimes the collective feeding frenzy can expose flaws in the system. Moreover, there are some out there that have the knowledge and insight to decode what the press reports yet fails to adequately analyze. And there others still who are not tied so inexorably to the news cycle but follow their own daemon.
To me, Swift's satire, while humorously portraying the endless cycle of literary derivation, also suggests a healthier notion of process — less parasitic and more cumulative. At best transformative. The natural accretion over time of ideas and tradition. It's only natural that poets build — or feed — on the past. They feel the nip at their behinds. They channel and reinvent. As do scholars and philosophers.
But having some expertise and knowing how to craft a sentence does not necessarily mean one is meant to blog. In an amusing passage, Butterfield speculates on how things might how gone horribly awry had George Orwell (oft hailed as a proto-blogger) been given the opportunity to maintain a daily journal online (think tedious rambling on the virtues of English cuisine). Good blogging requires not only a voice, but a special commitment — a compulsion even — to air one's thinking in real time. A relish for working through ideas in the open, often before they're fully baked.
But evidently Butterfield hasn't considered the merits of blogging as a process. He remains terminally hung up on the product, concluding that blogging "renders the word even more evanescent than journalism" and is "the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence." Fine. Blogging is in many ways a vaporous pursuit, but then so is conversation — so is theatre. Blogging, in its essence, is about discussion and about working through ideas. And, I would argue, it is as much about reading as it is about writing.
Back in August, I wrote about this notion of the blog as a record of reading — an idea to which I still hold fast. The blog is a tool (for writers and readers alike) for dealing with information overload — for processing an unmanageable abundance of reading material. Most bloggers, the good ones anyway, not only point to links (though the good pointer sites like Arts & Letters Daily are invaluable), they comment upon them (as I am doing here), glossing them for their readers, often quoting at length. The blog captures that wave of energy emitted by the reader's mind upon contact with an idea or story.
I do think blogging goes a significant ways toward the Enlightenment ideal of a reading public, even if only one percent of that public is worth reading. Hemingway famously said that he wrote 99 pages of crap for every one page of masterpiece. We should apply a similar math to blogs, and hope the tools for filtering out that 99 percent improve over time. After all, one percent of 28 million is no small number (about the population of Buffalo, NY). I'm confident that, in aggregate, this small democratic layer illumines more than it obscures, blazing trails of readings and fostering conversation. And this, I would venture — when combined and balanced with more traditional media sources — offers a more balanced reading diet.
sonogram of networked book in embryo (GAM3R 7H30RY part 3)
It probably won't be until mid to late March that we finally roll out McKenzie Wark's GAM3R 7H30RY Version 10.1, but substantial progress is being made. Here's a snapshot:
After debating (part 1) our way to a final design concept (part 2), we're now focused (well, mainly Jesse at this point) on hammering the thing together. We're using all open source software and placing the book under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Half the site will consist of a digital edition of the book in Word Press with a custom-built card shuffling interface. As mentioned earlier, Ken has given us an incredibly modular structure to work with (a designer's dream): nine chapters (so far), each consisting of 25 paragraphs. Each chapter will contain five five-paragraph stacks with comments popping up to the side for whichever card is on top. No scrolling is involved except in the comment field, and only then if there is a substantial number of replies.
The graphic above shows the color scale we're thinking of for the different chapters. As they progress, each five-card stack will move from light to dark within the color of its parent chapter. Floating below the color spectrum is the proud parent of the born-digital book: McKenzie Wark, Space Invader (an image that will appear in some fashion throughout the site). Right now he's a fairly mean-looking space invader — on a bombing run or something. But we're thinking of shuffling a few pixels to give him a friendlier appearance.
You are also welcome to view an interactive mock-up of the card view (click on the image below):
The other half of the site will be a discussion forum set up in PHP Bulletin Board. Actually, it'll be a collection of nine discussion forums: one for each chapter of the book, each focusing (except for the first, which is more of an introduction) on a specific video game. Here's how it breaks down:
* Allegory (on The Sims)
* America (on Civilization III)
* Analog (on Katamari Damarcy)
* Atopia (on Vice City)
* Battle (on Rez)
* Boredom (on State of Emergency)
* Complex (on Deus Ex)
* Conclusions (on SimEarth)
The gateway to each forum will be a two-dimensional topic graph where forum threads float in an x-y matrix. Their position in the graph will be determined by the time they were posted and the number of comments they've accumulated so far. Thus, hot topics will rise toward the top while simultaneously being dragged to the left (and eventually off the chart) by the progression of time. Something like this:
At this point there's no way of knowing for sure which part of the site will be more successful. The book view is designed to gather commentary, and Ken is sincerely interested in reader feedback as he writes and rewrites. There will also be the option of syndicating the book to be digested serially in an RSS reader. We're very curious to see how readers interact with the text and hope we've designed a compelling environment in which to do so.
Excited as we are about the book interface, our hunch is that the discussion forum component has the potential to become the more vital half of the endeavor. The forum will be quite different from the thousands of gaming sites already active on the web in that it will be less utilitarian and more meditative in its focus. This won't be a place for posting cheats and walk-throughs but rather a reflective space for talking about the experience of gaming and what players take games to mean. Our hope is that people will have quite a bit to say about this — some of which may end up finding its way into the book.
Although there's still a ways to go, the process of developing this site has been incredibly illuminating in our thinking about the role of the book in the network. We're coming to understand how the book might be reinvented as social software while still retaining its cohesion and authorial vision. Stay tuned for further developments.
[!] technical difficulties [!]
Dear readers,
We're in the process of upgrading Movable Type (our esteemed publishing software) to the latest version and inevitably are experiencing a few hiccups — for instance, our feed seems to have acquired the dreaded "[!]" in Bloglines. We should manage to sort out these little details by day's end. Please do let us know of any other suspicious irregularities.
One thing you might notice if you scroll down the sidebar is that we've replaced our confusing categories system with a confusing tag system. Actually, for now we're keeping them side by side, in the interest of maximizing confusion. Bear with us as we piece together our taxonomic golem and watch it wreak havoc on our poor, quivering blog, which is, as ever, a work in progress.
The feeds have been reinstated, and the feeds from the old version of MovableType have been rerouted to their holding location. I believe the old feeds were causing the conflict with the new feeds which is making Bloglines choke. -jdw
We've also decided to reinstate trackback on a provisional basis. Movable Type 3.2 seems to have better moderation and junk-filtering tools so hopefully spammers will be deterred. Trackback is dead! Long live trackback! – bv
net-based video creates bandwidth crunch
Apparently the recent explosion of internet video services like YouTube and Google Video has led to a serious bandwidth bottleneck on the network, potentially giving ammunition to broadband providers in their campaign for tiered internet service.
If Congress chooses to ignore the cable and phone lobbies and includes a network neutrality provision in the new Telecommunications bill, that will then place the burden on the providers to embrace peer-to-peer technologies that could solve the traffic problem. Bit torrent, for instance, distributes large downloads across multiple users in a local network, minimizing the strain on the parent server and greatly speeding up the transfer of big media files. But if govenment capitulates, then the ISPs will have every incentive to preserve their archaic one-to-many distribution model, slicing up the bandwidth and selling it to the highest bidder — like the broadcast companies of old.
The video bandwidth crunch and the potential p2p solution nicely illustrates how the internet is a self-correcting organic entity. But the broadband providers want to seize on this moment of inneficiency — the inevitable rise of pressure in the pipes that comes from innovation — and exploit it. They ought to remember that the reason people are willing to pay for broadband service in the first place is because they want access to all the great, innovative stuff developing on the net. Give them more control and they'll stifle that innovation, even as they say they're providing better service.
subtitles and the future of reading
After enduring a weeks-long PR pummeling for its dealings in China, Google is hard at work to improve its image in the world, racking up some points for good after slipping briefly into evil. Recently they launched Google.org: a website for the Google Foundation, the corporation's philanthropic arm and central office of evil mitigation. Paying a visit to the site, the disillusioned among us will be pleased to find that the foundation is already sponsoring a handful of worthy initiatives, along with a grants program that donates free web advertising to nonprofit organizations. And just in case we were concerned that Google might not apply its techno-capitalist wizardry to altruism as zealously as to making profit, they just announced today they've named a new director for the foundation by the name of — no joke — Dr. Brilliant. So it seems the world is in capable hands.
One project in particular caught my eye in light of recent discussions about screen-based reading and genre-blending visions of the book. Planet Read is an organization that promotes literacy in India through Same Language Subtitling — a simple but apparently effective technique for building basic reading skills, taking popular visual entertainment like Bollywood movies and adding subtitles in English and Hindi along the bottom of the screen. A number of samples (sadly no Bollywood, just videos or photo montages set to Indian folk songs) can be found on Google Video. Here's one that I particularly liked:
Watching the video — managing the interplay between moving text and moving pictures — I began to wonder whether there are possibly some clues to be mined here about the future of reading. Yes, Planet Read is designed first and foremost to train basic alphabetic literacy, turning a captive audience into a captive classroom. But in doing so, might it not also be nurturing another kind of literacy?
The problem with contemporary discussions about the future of the book is that they are mired — for cultural and economic reasons — in a highly inflexible conception of what a book can be. People who grew up with print tend to assume that going digital is simply a matter of switching containers (with a few enhancements thrown in the mix), failing to consider how the actual content of books might change, or how the act of reading — which increasingly takes place in a dyanamic visual context — may eventually demand a more dynamic kind of text.
Blurring the lines between text and visual media naturally makes us uneasy because it points to a future that quite literally (for us dinosaurs at least) could be unreadable. But kids growing up today, in India or here in the States, are already highly accustomed to reading in screen-based environments, and so they probably have a somewhat different idea of what reading is. For them, text is likely just one ingredient in a complex combinatory medium.
Another example: Nochnoi Dozor (translated "Night Watch") is a film that has widely been credited as the first Russian blockbuster of the post-Soviet era — an adrenaline-pumping, special effects-infused, sci-fi vampire epic made entirely by Russians, on Russian soil and on Russian themes (it's based on a popular trilogy of novels). When it was released about a year and a half ago it shattered domestic box office records previously held by Western hits like Titanic and Lord of the Rings. Just about a month ago, the sequel "Day Watch" shattered the records set by "Night Watch."
While highly derivative of western action movies, Nochnoi Dozor is moody, raucous and darkly gorgeous, giving a good, gritty feel of contemporary Moscow. Its plot grows rickety in places, and sometimes things are downright incomprehensible (even, I'm told, with fluent Russian), so I'm skeptical about its prospects on this side of the globe. But goshdarnit, Russians can't seem to get enough of it — so in an effort to lure American audiences over to this uniquely Russian gothic thriller, start building a brand out of the projected trilogy (and presumably pave the way for the eventual crossover to Hollywood of director Timur Bekmambetov), Fox Searchlight just last week rolled the film out in the U.S. on a very limited release.
What could this possibly have to do with the future of reading? Well, naturally the film is subtitled, and we all know how subtitles are the kiss of death for a film in the U.S. market (Passion of the Christ notwithstanding). But the marketers at Fox are trying something new with Nochnoi Dozor. No, they weren't foolish enough to dub it, which would have robbed the film of the scratchy, smoke-scarred Moscow voices that give it so much of its texture. What they've done is played with the subtitles themselves, making them more active and responsive to the action in the film (sounds like some Flash programmer had a field day…). Here's a description from an article in the NY Times (unfortunately now behind pay wall):
…[the words] change color and position on the screen, simulate dripping blood, stutter in emulation of a fearful query, or dissolve into red vapor to emulate a character's gasping breaths.
And this from Anthony Lane's review in the latest New Yorker:
…the subtitles, for instance, are the best I have encountered. Far from palely loitering at the foot of the screen, they lurk in odd corners of the frame and, at one point, glow scarlet and then spool away, like blood in water. I trust that this will start a technical trend and that, from here on, no respectable French actress will dream of removing her clothes unless at least three lines of dialogue can be made to unwind across her midriff.
It might seem strange to think of subtitling of foreign films as a harbinger of future reading practices. But then, with the increasing popularity of Asian cinema, and continued cross-pollination between comics and film, it's not crazy to suspect that we'll be seeing more of this kind of textual-visual fusion in the future.
Most significant is the idea that the text can itself be an actor in a perfomance: a frontier that has only barely been explored — though typography enthusiasts will likely pillory me for saying so.
iTunes U: more read/write than you'd think
In Ben's recent post, he noted that Larry Lessig worries about the trend toward a read-only internet, the harbinger of which is iTunes. Apple's latest (academic) venture is iTunes U, a project begun at Duke and piloted by seven universities — Stanford, it appears, has been most active. Since they are looking for a large scale roll out of iTunes U for 2006-07, and since we have many podcasting faculty here at USC, a group of us met with Apple reps yesterday.
Initially I was very skeptical about Apple's further insinuation into the academy and yet, what iTunes U offers is a repository for instructors to store podcasts, with several components similar to courseware such as Blackboard. Apple stores the content on its servers but the university retains ownership. The service is fairly customizable–you can store audio, video with audio, slides with audio (aka enhanced podcasts) and text (but only in pdf). Then you populate the class via university course rosters, which are password protected.
There are also open access levels on which the university (or, say, the alumni association) can add podcasts of vodcasts of events. And it is free. At least for now — the rep got a little cagey when asked about how long this would be the case.
The point is to allow students to capture lectures and such on their iPods (or MP3 players) for the purposes of study and review. The rationale is that students are already extremely familiar with the technology so there is less of a learning curve (well, at least privileged students such as those at my institution are familiar).
What seems particularly interesting is that students can then either speed up the talk of the lecture without changing pitch (and lord knows there are some whose speaking I would love to accelerate) or, say, in the case of an ESL student, slow it down for better comprehension. Finally, there is space for students to upload their own work — podcasting has been assigned to some of our students already.
Part of me is concerned at further academic incorporation, but a lot more parts of me are thinking this is not only a chance to help less tech savvy profs employ the technology (the ease of collecting and distributing assets is germane here) while also really pushing the envelope in terms of copyright, educational use, fair use, etc. Apple wants to only use materials that are in the public domain or creative commons initially, but undoubtedly some of the more muddy digital use issues will arise and it would be nice to have academics involved in the process.
presidents' day
Few would disagree that Presidents' Day, though in theory a celebration of the nation's highest office, is actually one of our blandest holidays — not so much about history as the resuscitation of commerce from the post-holiday slump. Yesterday, however, brought a refreshing change.
Spending the afternoon at the institute was Holly Shulman, a historian from the University of Virginia well known among digital scholarship circles as the force behind the Dolley Madison Project — a comprehensive online portal to the life, letters and times of one of the great figures of the early American republic. So, for once we actually talked about presidential history on Presidents' Day — only, in this case from the fascinating and chronically under-studied spousal perspective.
Shulman came to discuss possible collaboration on a web-based history project that would piece together the world of America's founding period — specifically, as experienced and influenced by its leading women. The question, in terms of form, was how to break out of the mould of traditional web archives, which tend to be static and exceedingly hierarchical, and tap more fully into the energies of the network? We're talking about something you might call open source scholarship — new collaborative methods that take cues from popular social software experiments like Wikipedia, Flickr and del.icio.us yet add new layers and structures that would better ensure high standards of scholarship. In other words: the best of both worlds.
Shulman lamented that the current generation of historians are highly resistant to the idea of electronic publication as anything more than supplemental to print. Even harder to swallow is the open ethos of Wikipedia, commonly regarded as a threat to the hierarchical authority and medieval insularity of academia.
Again, we're reminded of how fatally behind the times the academy is in terms of communication — both communication among scholars and with the larger world. Shulman's eyes lit up as we described the recent surge on the web of social software and bottom-up organizational systems like tagging that could potentially create new and unexpected avenues into history.
A small example that recurred in our discussion: Dolley Madison wrote eloquently on grief, mourning and widowhood, yet few would know to seek out her perspective on these matters. Think of how something like tagging, still in an infant stage of development, could begin to solve such a problem, helping scholars, students and general readers unlock the multiple facets of complex historical figures like Madison, and deepening our collective knowledge of subjects — like death and war — that have historically been dominated by men's accounts. It's a small example, but points toward something grand.
the bible on dvd: another weird embodiment of the book on screen
The bible has long been a driver of innovation in book design, and this latest is no exception: an ad I saw today on TV for the complete King James Bible on DVD. Not a film, mind you, but an interactive edition of the old and new testaments built around a graphical rendering of an old bible open on a lectern that the reader, uh viewer, uh… reader controls. Each page is synched up to a full-text narration in the "crystal clear, mellow baritone" of Emmy-winning Bible reader Stephen Johnston, along with assorted other actors and dramatic sound effects bringing the stories to life.
There's the ad to the right (though when I saw it on BET the family was black). You can also download an actual demo (Real format) here. It's interesting to see the interactivity of the DVD used to mimic a physical book — even the package is designed to suggest the embossed leather of an old bible, opening up to the incongruous sight of a pair of shiny CDs. More than a few analogies could be drawn to the British Library's manuscript-mimicking "Turning the Pages," which Sally profiled here last week, though here the pages replace each other with much less fidelity to the real.
There's no shortage of movie dramatizations aimed at making the bible more accessible to churchgoers and families in the age of TV and the net. What the makers of this DVD seem to have figured out is how to combine the couch potato ritual of television with the much older practice of group scriptural reading. Whether or not you'd prefer to read the bible in this way, with remote control in hand, you can't deny that it keeps the focus on the text.
Last week, Jesse argued that it's not technology that's causing a decline in book-reading, but rather a lack of new technologies that make books readable in the new communications environment. He was talking about books online, but the DVD bible serves just as well to illustrate how a text (a text that, to say the least, is still in high demand) might be repurposed in the context of newer media.
Another great driver of innovation in DVDs: pornography. No other genre has made more creative use of the multiple camera views options that can be offered simulataneously on a single film in the DVD format (I don't have to spell out what for). They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and what greater necessities than sex and god? You won't necessarily find the world's most elegant design, but it's good to keep track of these uniquely high-demand areas as they are consistently ahead of the curve.


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