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Nike Air Foamposite One – Black – Electric Green
March 14th, 2011 by Aaron Hope | 2 comments
You may have looked at the title of this post and thought, "What's goin on with Sneaker News? The Electric Green Foamposites that just dropped were Pros, and the black part was an accent color." And while you're totally right, don't make the mistake of sleeping on these just cos the words in its title look to be familiar. That's cos this is a brand new sneaker, our very first look at the upcoming Nike Air Foamposite One in black with Electric Green accents including a translucent outsole. These have an bizarro-Kryptonate feel to them thanks to this reversal of colorblocking and though they share those colors in common with the Foam Pros that released earlier this month, their closest resemblance is probably the Green Spark Half Cent that hit retail in late 2009. Nike Sportswear is giving us more and more Foamposite retros and totally new colorways, so we've gotta know, how do these rank against the best we've seen so far? Click through for a better view and stick with Sneaker News for updates on the black/Electric Green Foamposite One release date. via RMK
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Letter from Zapallal: April 2014
March started very hot, something I didn't really appreciate when cleaning the library windows but at the end, literally with sweat and blood, they were finished and looked almost presentable. I also washed the floor with the help of a hosepipe but I felt a bit badly done to when we had very heavy rain the night before the start of the school. Normally when it rains, there are plenty of puddles on the balcony outside the library. This time the rain was so heavy that it flowed from the balcony and entered the library and several classrooms by the gap under the doors. It was not simply a matter of sweeping out the water because the floor is so uneven that as you push the water in one area it comes back from another area. A great test of patience and a marvellous penitential act on Ash Wednesday!
The heavy rain did not augur well for the official inauguration of the new school year but it cleared up and was actually more comfortable than having the assembly in the full force of the sun. It was nice to see the 5th formers, hand in hand with the little ones of the kindergarten, leading them into the assembly. With the introduction of all the personnel of the school, the new teachers, the form tutors, words of advice, the assembly went on quite a while – much too long for the little ones. Another nice thing was a big banner of a photo of some of the teachers with words of welcome to the pupils - who actually appreciated it.
Despite some worries about stationery materials, as mentioned before, the year got off to a good start. A very welcome initiative this year is a pause of activities at 12 noon and 5 in the afternoon for just over a minute. During this time there is a beautiful song, beautifully sung about entering into the presence of God. The peace and calm are a lovely experience.
No one seems to know why, but we had an invasion of lots of municipal workers who cut the grass inside and outside the school, pruned the trees and generally tidied up. One could cynically think, if inclined that way, that there could be some connection with this year being election year.
We have two new workshops: personal aesthetics and fish production. The first is not only for pupils but is also part of adult education. Its two basic ingredients are hairstyling and make-up and can obviously lead to good employment. I have promised to visit the workshop to take photos. The teacher of fish production is supernumerary provided by the local department of education. The idea is to make full use of our facilities. I haven't seen the workshop in action but I've paid visits to the site. The fish have certainly come on with the hot weather. Unfortunately the photos I've taken are not very good but I live in hope.
I mentioned last time the work on improving the laboratory. Work has gone on well and there will be the official opening on 14th April, so photos next time.There is plenty of activity on Saturdays. Basketball teams are training really hard for the Lasallian games in October when all the Brothers' schools in Peru compete in various sports, art, oratory, singing. There are various pastoral groups.
The 5th year have just finished with me Project GB when they choose aspects of Britain to present to their companions. There was plenty of hard work but not the flair of some other years. One group decided to do typical English food and I must say I have never seen it in England. Their bangers and mash had no connection with the real thing! Impressive though were the costumes they produced from recycled materials. The large sacks used for rice are great for making clothes but are not easy to walk about in and certainly not to sit down in. Particularly striking was a model of Big Ben which they obviously don't want to destroy and they don't want any individual to have it! They would like me to keep it as a permanent exhibition.
There will be more activities in school as we get nearer to Holy Week and Easter but more of that next time.I would like to wish you all the blessings of the marvellous season of Easter, especially the peace with which the risen Lord greeted the apostles. May you have a wonderful spring after the very hard winter. I do miss the daffodils.
God bless,
Brother Mark
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I made just a few tweaks to this recipe based on others' reviews, and I absolutely loved it. My changes: Used 2 cans of clams, with their juice, and added 1/2 cup water instead of bottled clam juice. Started the veg in 2t bacon fat instead of olive oil. Used 2 1/2T flour. Simmered longer at the end (about 10 minutes) till the flavors were all blended and it was nicely thickened. Fantastic! Rich and creamy, but without the stick of butter and cup of cream they'd add at most restaurants. And so easy. I'll make this again for sure.
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San Francisco, CA, United States (4E Sports) – After a so-so 2011-2012 season, the San Francisco Dons have emerged as one of the most surprising teams in the mid-majors early this season and it's largely because of the outstanding play of hardworking junior forward Cole Dickerson.
Following their 74-62 loss to the Stanford Cardinals in the season opener, the Dons ripped through their next four assignments to improve their record at 4-1.
In the Dons' first five games, Dickerson averaged 14.8 points and 15.0 rebounds and collected four double-doubles, including a 19 point, 20-board output against Montana last Friday.
The 6-foot-7 Dickerson has been an active body on the floor, fearlessly banging with big bodies just to grab a rebound or a loose ball. He also proved to be a solid defender by averaging at least a steal per game.
In a program that produced NBA legend Bill Russell and solid veteran Bill Cartwright, Dickerson embodies the Dons' philosophy of hardcore basketball.
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Rodeo Disco 2 @ Mason Dixon – Sunday, June 27th, 2010
The last stop on the NYC Pride Marathon was Mason Dixon, where Autostraddle closed out NYC Pride with their second annual Pride event, Rodeo Disco. In keeping with the bi-coastal love theme, Club Skirts The Dinah's DJ Saratonin flew in from Los Angeles to throw down some beats.
L to R: DJ Carlytron and DJ Saratonin
A gaggle of celesbians were in attendance, including MTV's Rachel Robinson, Aneesa Ferreira from Real Word Chicago, Hilary of Logo's Gimme Sugar: Miami, and I'm sure all of you recognize these ladies:
L to R: Rachael Hip-Flores, Nicole Pacent, Tina Cesa Ward
The star of the event, though, was the mechanical bull. Yes, you read that correctly. There was a mechanical bull. Quite a few of the ladies that were present attempted to tame the bull, but the bull and the forces of gravity had a strategic pact, and each brave rider soon came face to face with the floor in front of a sizeable crowd of raucous lesbians.
This concludes AfterEllen.com's NYC Pride Marathon, which, in retrospect, was far more physically grueling and inspired more moments of open-mouthed disbelief than The Dinah, which I didn't think was possible. Am I glad I did it? Yes. Would I do it again? Unlikely. Next year's AfterEllen.com's NYC Pride Marathon will consist of me hugging Trinity Tam and Nell Starks's mop bucket for dear life.
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Frequent crashes in Couchbase 2.0.1 cluster
We are seeing a lot of instability in a 5 server cluster of community 2.0.1 servers. The servers are housed on AMS large instances with optimized EBS, which has alleviated the major CPU problems we were seeing when initially moving to v2.
Now, we have spurious failures on errors like this:
Server error during processing: ["web request failed",
{menelaus_web,loop,3}]}] (repeated 2259 times)
During/after which the cpu pegs and the service on that machine goes down.
Any ideas where to start in debugging this?
Could you give us more information about you configuration and capture all the data with cbcollect_info on each node?
- how many documents?
- size of the documents?
- are you using views? how many?
- type of operations on your cluster (number of operation per seconds, ...)
Ideally if you can follow the steps that are documented here it would be great to allow the team to look at your problem.
We've gained a lot of information about the crash, and made a ton of changes to our cluster since I posted this initially, in order to try to address the issues we've seen.
Your answers:
- 53M items
- 35.4GB total data size
- no views
- peak of 1.5k gets/sec, 250 sets/sec, 40 deletes/sec
(Note: prior to the move to 2.0, we were servicing peaks of 3.5k, 600, 100 on 3 Amazon m1.large instances with 100% uptime for months, but a growing rate of read timeouts)
Configuration changes:
I've recently migrated our cluster onto higher memory hardware (m2.xlarge), where we are only allocating 35% of RAM to couchbase (previously ~70%) on each node. I've also striped our EBS volumes (4x) to try to improve disk performance (m2.xlarge don't support EBS-optimized).
The crashes:
The crashes we were seeing resulted from the beam.smp process spiking in memory usage and triggering the linux OOM handler. We experienced this under high load and low load, with no obvious pattern. I've seen this problem 1x since moving to our higher memory cluster, so the regularity APPEARS less, however I'm not sure whether this is directly related to available memory or not, since there are several way in which the new cluster outperforms the old one, including reduced iowait / shorter transaction/connection times. In the crash on the new cluster, we were at our lowest usage time BUT there was a compaction in progress and all initial CB connections were going to this server (we normally round-robin load balance the initial CB connection across all of the servers). We are using v1.1.2 of the PHP client library to communicate with the cluster, in case that is important for any reason. Our CB initialization looks something like this:
$servers = explode(';', $COUCHBASE_SERVER); $serverIdx = rand(0, count($servers) - 1); $this->conn = new Couchbase($servers[$serverIdx], $COUCHBASE_USER, $COUCHBASE_PASS, $COUCHBASE_BUCKET);
If we encounter the crash again, I will try to get a cbcollect from the suspect machine & get that over to you.
And now, after running through the night, all 5 CPU in our cluster have gone to 70-80% usage, and memcached process is consuming 100% (of a possible 200%). Each server jumped from 20% to 70% at a different point during the night, but in every case it was an immediate and lasting change in resource usage, which was not accompanied by increased load or increased network traffic.
Regarding the crash in the original incident, all 5 servers experienced a massive burst in incoming traffic at the time where we lost a server. But ONLY the one server had an accompanying burst in CPU usage. Seems possible that this server started spinning out of control and spamming the rest of the cluster with messages? We have also not ruled out DOS atk at this point, but it seems unlikely.
We are going to investigate more options for moving the cluster back to 1.8.1 today, but any help our guidance would be appreciated.


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Welcome to Jen and there be spoilers
And then there were five…
I've been meaning to announce this for a while, but some time ago Jen (aka @dumblydore) joined the Book Thingo team!
(It might have been around the time she posted this awesome review of Twilight, the graphic novel, complete with customised sparkly features.)
Jen is a Melbourne-based graphic designer with a particular interest in popular culture, and I think she brings quite a different perspective to reviewing books than any of the other Book Thingo bloggers. Many Aussie romance readers have probably seen her work—she has designed banners for ARRA and websites for various authors.
We're totally chuffed to have her as part of the team!
Book Thingo at Google+
For those of you who play over at Google, we now have a Google+ page. At the moment, it mimics our Facebook page, so you can choose your preferred social network.
Kill a fairy
Last year I created Kill a fairy, a site dedicated to spoiling book endings for those who, like me, won't read a book without knowing the ending first. There are no spoilers on the front page—they're all behind the cut—so you can check it out without fear of spoilage.
I've tried to walk a tight line between revealing the ending and revealing everything about the novel. It's not meant to be a full recap, but another way of helping people decide whether or not they want to read a book.
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And for the curious, I post excerpts of my current reads in a tumblelog. This isn't updated often, but it's there for when I want to bookmark quotes from books that will either expire (eARC) or need to be returned to its owner (especially library books). I'm tossing up the idea of using it for review notes, as well, as I usually read when travelling, and I don't always have pens and post-its handy.
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- Why yes, schadenfreude makes your butthurt look big - September 30, 2014
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Oakland, CA-based artist and illustrator Justin DeVine must've been channelling the Black Lodge when he created his wonderfully weird series of watercolor illustrations combining Twin Peaks characters with The Muppets. It's an awesome pop culture mashup that works so well, we can't believe we'd never considered it before.
You can see the entire series right here on Tumblr at Jason Devine's sticksstonesandherringbones. Prints are also available via INPRNT.
[via io9]
On June 18, 1983 American physicist and astronaut Sally Ride became the very first American woman in space as a crew member on the space shuttle Challenger for NASA mission STS-7. The mission successfully deployed two communications satellites and conducted pharmaceutical experiments. Sally Ride was the first woman to use the robot arm in space and the first to use the arm to retrieve a satellite. This was (and still is) an awesome and inspirational milestone for girls and women alike.
In 1984 Sally Ride appeared on Sesame Street where she demonstrated the letter A, as in astronaut. In the second photo Sally is posing with Grundgetta, best friend and girlfriend of Oscar the Grouch.
Kenny Durkin, an illustrator based in Clermont, Florida, has created an awesome series of illustrations depicting The Muppets as popular movie and tv show characters. Each piece makes us smile, but there is something particularly delightful about Rowlf the Dog as The Big Bowwowski.
"I'm the Dog. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dogness, or uh, Doger, or El Dogerino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."
Click here to view the entire series.
[via Laughing Squid]
Science + The Muppets = Awesome
Artist and designer Mike Boon created this fantastic Periodic Table of The Muppets in which each square represents a different muppet character and also indicates the primary Muppeteer(s) for that character along with the year and production in which that character was debuted. But that's not all:
"Borders align with hair/hat colour, background aligns with skin/fur colour, and colour of the abbreviated name represents nose colour (for characters with noses that is)."
Click here to view a larger version.
Mike's utterly geektastic chart is currently available as prints and more at Redbubble and Society6.
[via Nerd Approved]
What is a dog, if not a fluffy, walking canvas? That seems to be the mindset of competitive dog groomers. Photographer Ren Netherland (previously featured here) is still traveling around the United States taking awesome canine portraits at creative dog grooming competitions. We're still impressed by just how many characters or creatures a groomer is able to include on one dog thanks to careful dyeing and shearing.
Why settle for simply transforming a dog into Yoda when you can make one end look like Yoda and the other end look like an Ewok? And just how many different Sesame Street characters can you fit on a single dog?
"It takes two intense hours for the groomers to produce their masterpieces before facing judges. Mr Netherland said: 'The owners have to grow out their dog's hair in preparation for the show - so that it's long enough for them to make something. They train and rehearse throughout the year in preparation for the competition, whittling their creation down to a fine art.
'The best thing for spectators is that when the poodles fist come onto the stage, they just look like normal poodles. Suddenly they are transformed before your eyes into something colourful and completely different. The dogs seem to enjoy the pampering and all the attention.'"
Visit Ren Netherland's website to view more of his fascinating photos.
[via Laughing Squid and Neatorama]
Artist Hillary White (previously featured here) has created an extensive and completely awesome series of paintings, entitled Pop Reinterpretation, for which she beautifully recreates painting by the Old Masters depicting a wide variety of pop culture icons in place of the original subjects.
R2-D2 becomes Francois-Xavier Fabre's Portrait Of A Man, Kermit the Frog becomes Frans Hals' Portrait of a Young Woman, Optimus Prime becomes Anthony Van Dyck's Self Portrait With Sunflower, and so on.
Hillary has painted so many of these wonderful portraits, it's an almost unbearably awesome accomplishment. If you like these even half as much as we do, check out the entire Pop Reinterpretation gallery to see the rest.
[via HiConsumption]
It's Pop Art Meets High Art on Geyser of Awesome!
RBKCreations is a mother and daughter team in Dallas, Texas who design and create bouquets, boutonnières, and other wedding/bridal accessories using felt, satin, and buttons. Their creations are all fun and colourful, but what really grabbed our attention were the pop culture-themed sets featuring characters from video games like Super Mario Bros. and Angry Birds or the incredibly awesome set of bouquets made for a Muppet-themed wedding.
[via Neatorama]
More wonderfully whimsical street art by French artist OaKoAK (previously featured here), who likes to play with existing elements of the urban landscape, often making surprisingly small alterations or enhancements to achieve striking results, enabling us to see the world through his eyes.
"Using simple means and materials, OakOak undermines his neighborhood with playful results. He uses a minimal amount of actual original artwork, instead re-purposing signs, facades, cement blocks, chipping paint, and more. OakOak transforms a neighborhood's imperfections into its own adornments. "
He says of his interventions:
"The less I intervene on the wall or the road, the better, especially if I can totally change the sense of the urban environment."
[via Beautiful Decay]
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Just when we thought we'd seen the creepiest Bert and Ernie cosplay ever along comes this truly frightening pair. Not only are they dressed up as Bert and Ernie might appear in real life, they also appear to be elderly, which adds a whole new unsettling dimension to the mix. We are impressed. Acutely unsettled, yes, but also undeniably impressed.
Redditor ProbableCause spotted the geriatric muppets come to life walking around this year's Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia. If you end up having nightmares because of their awesome cosplay efforts, please know that we'll almost certainly be suffering right along with you.
[via Geekologie]
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Here's an unsettling sight you probably won't be able to un-see. If there are any pupaphobics present, we apologize, but this simply isn't something we could keep to ourselves.
Back in 2007 Jason Paul Smith and his friend Rob attended a Halloween party dressed as an impressibly creepy version of the inseparable Sesame Street muppet pair Bert and Ernie, complete with a dead-eyed rubber ducky friend. They already look pretty ominous, so we're hoping they went all the way and sang Ernie's bath time rubber ducky serenade.
[via Neatorama Halloween]
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James Patrick Robinson is a comedian, writer, and filmmaker originally from the purple mountain sprawl of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
His watershed moment in comedy came in 2007 where he portrayed rapping evangelist "James Reagan Johnston" in his mostly one-man show 'Teens Get Tough on Terror". The show ran for three nights at the IPI Festival in Santa Fe, NM.
He holds a BA from the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in Moving Image Arts.
Patrick (or JPR as he's known in TNM-Land) can be seen performing and hosting events at TNM and throughout all of Austin. He is the co-host of the comedy free for all open-mic BLOCK PARTY, has traveled across the country with The Air Sex World Championships and has performed in numerous improv festivals across the country.
He's also part of the multimedia improv/sketch/video/whatevs group Spirit Desire. You can catch their variety show every month at!
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Michael, we will cross that bridge when we come to it. I have to see more of how Arduino works before I fully understand what you are talking about. I haven't bought one yet. I was waiting to see if anyone here would tell me, "Oh no way. You can't do that. They are way too young." or "Nonono--this product is WAY better for kids your age."
The response here has been fabulous. Thanks!


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For the majority of my Wish List series, I have avoided going after teams' "Big Name" players. Doing so would be too easy, too obvious, and therefore, kind of pointless. Yeah – who wouldn't want Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin from the Pittsburgh Penguins? Steven Stamkos from the Tampa Bay Lightning? Pavel Datsyuk from the Detroit Red Wings? Any monkey with a keyboard could create that wish list!
Every once in a while, though, I focus my series on one of the better, if not the best, player on a team, either because I'm being selfish, or because there is no one else on the team I would want playing for the Buffalo Sabres.
Sorry, Montreal fans, but this post is one example of the latter.
P.K. Subban, D
Yeah, yeah, yeah: lots of people dislike, or hate, P.K. Subban. He talks trash. He celebrates when he scores. He plays undisciplined at times.
He also delivers. In a big, big way. Anyone who follows hockey knows that Subban brought home the Norris Trophy last season, due to a regular season stat line of 11-27-38, making him the NHL's leading scorer among defensemen (tied with Kris Letang) as well as the second-leading scorer on the Canadiens last season.
All that despite the fact that he missed training camp and the beginning of last season because he had not yet agreed on a new contract with Montreal. For those of you keeping score at home, Subban's 38 points would have also made him the Sabres' second-leading scorer, as well, a mere 30 points better than Tyler Myers. Just sayin'!
Subban can absolutely fire rockets at opposing goalies, including this shot against Ryan Miller that had me simultaneously cursing him and hoping that my kid develops such a blast:
Yeah – I would take that. I would also take Subban's willingness to hit anything wearing the other team's jersey, and so would all you Buffalo Sabres fans who want a more physical team. More than anything though, I want Subban because of what he can do on the powerplay. Last season, he led all NHL defensemen in powerplay goals (7), and he was second in the NHL with 19 powerplay assists. Think of what he could have done to improve the godawful Sabres powerplay we had to endure last season. The only player on the Sabres roster with more PP goals was Thomas Vanek (9), with Cody Hodgson next with . . . three. The Sabres' leading assist man on the powerplay? Tyler Ennis with 12. The Sabres player who was closest to matching Subban's 26 total PP points? Vanek and Ennis, with 14 points each. I won't even begin to compare Subban's numbers to those of any Sabres defensemen, because those comparisons would not be fair. Sorry, Buffalo blueliners – you just don't stack up.
Duct tape his mouth if you must, but the bottom line is this: Subban got a contract extension last season and more than lived up to it . . . and you can certainly never accuse this dude of being out of shape (cough, Tyler Myers, cough!):
I'm not much of a Montreal Canadiens fan, but I would take P.K. Subban in a second if the Canadiens ever lost their mind and decided to send him packing.
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FAIRBANKS-Head coach Scott Lemley and the Nanooks swim team are all about finishing in the top three of the Pacific Swiming and Diving Conference this season after finishing in the bottom half last year. They want to send at least five swimmers to the NCAA championships as well. Those are some ambitious goals for the program but Lemley feels his team is highly motivated.
"Well they like to train and that's the biggest thing. Training is what brings success," Lemley said. "We definitely have some big team goals this year."
11 returner, two freshmen, and a transfer from Arizona make up the team. The lone senior on the team is the team captain Bente Heller. Last year Heller won the NCAA title in the 100 backstroke, an event she never trained for. Her championship was the first national title in program history.
"Last year was a great year for me just in general but I want to improve in my freestyles and my backstrokes. I actually want to train for the backstroke and see what I can do with that. This year is just going to be my last year. I'm going to make the best out of it and see what happens," Heller said.
Junior Margot Adams, the repeat national runner-up in the 100 fly, has her younger sister Victoria on the team. Victoria won swimmer of the meet in the Blue and Gold Penthalon earlier this month. She was three events and had the lowest total time after five events.
"It was a lot of fun. I wasn't really expecting anything out of it. I just got in the pool and raced and it was a lot of fun," Adams said.
Fellow freshman, Kathryn Pound, endured a 20 hour trip from New Zealand to swim for Lemley. Why?
"I really like his coaching philosophy so I thought Alaska was the best fit out of all of the universities. The team's really cool. We're all really close, really good friends so it's good. I like that," Pound said.
She's ready for her first Alaskan winter too.
"I've ordered my coat and boots so I'm ready for winter to hit. It was supposed to hit last week but I'm just ready for the winters and some different experiences."
The team hosts conference foe Biola in their first meet of the season this Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at noon in the Patty Center Pool.


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Social Opportunity Costs and Immiserizing Growth: Some Observations on the Long Run versus the Short
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The NFL has come to the point where you can not be reliant on paying free agents and you must build your team through the draft in order to be successful. Everyone knows the most important factor to win in the NFL starts with the play of your quarterback and that determines the status of coaches & front offices. You only go as far as your QB takes you, but at what cost? The Redskins traded up from #6 in the draft to take RG3 with the 2nd overall pick, while the Rams moved back 4 slots and assured themselves 2 1st round picks in each of the next 2 drafts plus an extra 2nd round pick in that 2012 draft.
Now we still can't judge this trade because the Redskins along with losing these picks got in trouble with cap issues and have been down some million dollars each of the last 2 seasons adding on to their already struggling team. This year the main excuse for the Skins is that they have no talent well let's take a look at the talent the Rams added: After moving down to 6, the Rams again traded out of the selection to the Cowboys who so desperately wanted Mo Claiborne (which hasn't proven too much so far) and received the 14th overall pick plus another 2nd round pick. The Rams finally stayed put and got Michael Brockers whom they wanted all along and filled a massive need for them at the time. Then in the 2nd round they're able to draft a WR (Brian Quick) with their own 2nd round pick, plus adding Janoris Jenkins & Isaiah Pead with the Redskins and Cowboys picks, respectively. All of these guys still on the Rams roster with Brockers & Jenkins starting and having depth at skill positions with Pead & Quick. If the Redskins don't make this trade they end up with Tannehill & Mitchell Schwartz (Who is doing an impressive job with the Browns) just in the 2012 draft alone.
Fast forward to the 2013 draft, the Rams are sitting in a position with 2 1st round picks and have the ammo to basically get whoever they want. Sitting at 16 they see Tavon Austin available at 8 and they want him so they move up to grab him and STILL have another 1st round pick. So pick #22 comes (from the Redskins) and they decide to move down 8 slots to recuperate the picks they gave away for Tavon and still get another stud in the 1st round with Alec Ogletree. Then continue to add TJ McDonald, Stedman Bailey and Zac Stacy all because of the ammo the received for the RG3 trade.
Let's add this up....So far the Redskins have RG3. The Rams have Brockers, Janoris, Pead, Tavon, Ogletree, TJ McDonald, Stedman Bailey & Zac Stacy...Would you do that trade? Oh and the Rams STILL have another Redskins 1st round pick to use in a loaded 2014 class while the Redskins are still stuck waiting until Day 2 of the draft. If the Redskins had their 2013 1st round pick they could've drafted Desmond Trufant with the 22nd pick allowing them to spend their 2nd round pick on DJ Swearinger or Arthur Brown to help that miserable defense or maybe an olineman to help protect Tannehill (who they would've gotten had they not traded up for RG3).
So the result of the trade is RG3 & David Amerson, without the trade they have Ryan Tannehill, Mitchell Schwartz, Desmond Trufant, and Swearinger/Brown/Oline or they could've used it to move back and acquire more picks who knows what would've happened. One thing I do know is the Redskins would be a hell of a lot more talented with the latter. Would they have made the playoffs last year with Tannehill? Who knows they could have.
I'm not going nearly into detail about the Julio trade all you need to know the Browns old regime was a joke wasting the picks on Brandon Weeden, Trent Richardson, Greg Little & Phil Taylor (the 3rd round pick they traded to the Chiefs to move up to get Taylor got the Chiefs Justin Houston, you might of heard of him). However, clearly the lack of depth the Falcons have has led them to a putrid season and they now have massive holes to fill going forward.
From the looks of it, these trades have set the Redskins and Falcons back rather than propel them to the top, it must be awesome to have a QB like RG3 or a dynamic playmaker like Julio but was it worth everything they gave up? I don't think so.
Beyond all of that though the main point is teams like the 49ers, Seahawks, Patriots, Broncos are so successful because not only are the starters drafted and developed through their systems, but the talent level of every body on the roster is greater than the talent of other team's rosters.
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"In this paper I outline the transformative power of new media technologies in Latin American contexts as tools for social change, comparing examples of youth digital activism from both Costa Rican and Panamanian contexts. Focusing on two types of Social Media, both Social Networks and Mobile Communication are examined as tools for Central American youth activists. In my conclusion I summarize the effects of national media policies, the situation of the digital divide and its effect on media democracy. The powerful nature of Citizen Media illustrates how overcoming the digital divide can produce democratic access to the media and societies' larger institutions for social change."
You can read it in one go, or split out over four chapters:
In the Netherlands, 'Big Brother' cafe watches what you eat
The $4.5 million Restaurant of the Future is run by scientists of Wageningen University and Research Center, working with Sodexo, an international catering firm, and the Noldus software company, to answer questions from the food industry and behaviorists. [...]
Research on consumer behavior has been around since marketing began. Cornell University professor Brian Wansink has published popular works in the United States on how to fight obesity through food psychology, and runs a lab designed to look like a kitchen on the Cornell campus. McDonald's has done confidential studies on its own customers.
But with its spy machines, databases and battery of analysts, the Wageningen project, with 42 companies participating, is meant to take the study of eating to a level approaching rocket science.
Cultural aspects of interaction design
"When a group of people, no matter its scale, start sharing common ways of thinking, feeling and living, culture emerges. Culture therefore can emerge from any population segment. It is not limited to a geographic area or ethnicity. Different cultures can be distinguished by their individual and group characteristics, e.g. the mental models, behavioral patterns, emotional responses, aesthetics, rules, norms, and values that group members share. Different cultures therefore produce different artifacts and environments based on their cultural characteristics. On the other hand, artifacts, through people's interactions with them, influence cultures and can even produce a new culture."
Book: Coming of Age in Second Life – an anthropologist explores the virtually human
by Tom Boellstorff
Princeton University Press
Hardcover, 2008, 328 pages
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love–the possibilities are endless, and all encountered through a computer screen. Coming of Age in Second Life is the first book of anthropology to examine this thriving alternate universe.
Tom Boellstorff conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Second Life, living among and observing its residents in exactly the same way anthropologists traditionally have done to learn about cultures and social groups in the so-called real world. He conducted his research as the avatar "Tom Bukowski," and applied the rigorous methods of anthropology to study many facets of this new frontier of human life, including issues of gender, race, sex, money, conflict and antisocial behavior, the construction of place and time, and the interplay of self and group.
Coming of Age in Second Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself.
Tom Boellstorff is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia and The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton).
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Book reviews: The Guardian | Scientific American | Times Literary Supplement
This is not just a trivial statistic about our office. It is a choice.
When we founded Experientia three years ago, we wanted to be an international agency with a global awareness and a Mediterranean sensitivity (after all, we are based in Italy).
We didn't want to be literally copying the American approach to people-centred design (although all four of the founding partners have lived in the US at some point in their lives), nor did we want to be identified as just an Italian consultancy.
We believe that people-centred design implies and requires a deep understanding of cultural context. Since people's experiences are both defined and expressed through culture and language, we put a lot of emphasis on the linguistic and cultural skills of our staff.
Therefore seventeen languages spoken is equivalent to seventeen in-depth viewpoints onto rich, local cultural contexts.
We are therefore quite pleased that the upcoming UPA Europe conference (Turin, 4-6 December) carries the subtitle "Usability and Design: Cultivating Diversity", a byline which came about thanks to the very active involvement of our partner Michele Visciola.
This rise of mobile phone use by low-income and so-called 'base-of-the-pyramid' users raises a number of questions. Are low-income people using mobile technology in different ways than their higher-income counterparts? How can mobile phones be designed and used in ways that are useful to these populations? Two new studies–one of favelas in Brazil and the other of a low-income township in South Africa–seek to answer these questions.
China and the next billion customers
Author Jared Braiterman seeks to understand mobile phones play in China's fast-paced development and explores why China become a centre of passionate technology usage.
Braiterman claims there are two cultural explanations for the intensity with which the Chinese have adopted the internet and, even more so, mobile phones: the single child policy of nearly thirty years, and the dearth of communication and entertainment alternatives.
Jared Braiterman is a Harvard and Stanford-trained anthropologist (PhD 1996) who has worked for twelve years as a human technology consultant and educator in Silicon Valley, Europe, Asia and the Americas. With his San Francisco-based research and creative studio Giant Ant he recently led a public research study on youth culture and technology called "Mobile China". Now in its fourth year, the project has examined mobile phones, virtual life and mixed reality in the world's biggest emerging market.
Upcoming book on the "high end"
The book, which has the tentative title "Future High Tide of High End" and will be published by Wharton School Publishing, provides a socio-cultural and people-centred understanding of the concept of luxury — more specifically prestige products for the masses (which they call "High End") — with the aim of delivering insights and guidance for future business development in this sector.
Made possible by about seventy conversations, contributions and interviews with industry experts, thought leaders and opinion makers, the book is quite unique in its approach, and bound to become a must-read for anyone conceiving, developing and marketing higher-end consumer products and services.
A focus on the intersection of social trends, designer visions, and deep people understanding, allows the authors to propose a series of original insights, including a new, experience-based concept for the future of the industry, as well as a toolbox from which to create and understand new "High End" product and service offerings.
To understand what the soul of the High End is going to be in the near future, the authors also introduce an experimental method, the Rule Developing Experimentation (RDE) — with people having to evaluate pairs of future scenarios, with those data then statistically analysed to find out which underlying ideas are the real drivers. They then present the results of an original experimental study based on this method, that was conducted in four countries (US, UK, China and Italy) with more than 500 end-users, all from somewhat higher income brackets.
The book, which is currently in advanced editing (partly on the basis of our feedback), is bound to be published before the end of the year. The authors told us they will soon publish some more material on their website (such as an abstract, a table of contents, a sample chapter, etc.), so that also our readers can contribute their own insights and suggestions.
A small endnote is one of pride: this is the first public piece on the upcoming book. Marco said he would be happy if it came from his hometown (Torino, Italy) and so are we.
CHI 2008: a selection on product design
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.)
Case study: using online communities to drive commercial product development [abstract]
Authors: Sheena Lewis (IBM)
Abstract: This paper demonstrates how human computer interaction (HCI) practitioners utilize an online community to drive commercial product innovation, definition, and development. Upper management's increased interest in user feedback suggests that this development strategy promotes the case for stronger human-centered design processes to be included in corporate strategic planning.
Future Craft: how digital media is transforming product design [abstract]
Authors: Leonardo Bonanni, Amanda Parkes, Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab)
Abstract: The open and collective traditions of the interaction community have created new opportunities for product designers to engage in the social issues around industrial production. This paper introduces Future Craft, a design methodology which applies emerging digital tools and processes to product design toward new objects that are socially and environmentally sustainable. We present the results of teaching the Future Craft curriculum at the MIT Media Lab including principal themes of public, local and personal design, resources, assignments and student work. Novel ethnographic methods are discussed with relevance to informing the design of physical products. We aim to create a dialogue around these themes for the product design and HCI communities.
"If you build it, they will come … if they can": pitfalls of releasing the same product globally [abstract]
Authors: Ann Hsieh, Todd Hausman, Nerija Titus and Jennifer Miller (Yahoo, Inc.)
Abstract: As companies based in the US launch more interactive, "Web 2.0"-style products, the rest of the world may not be moving at the same speed. This presentation will reveal the pitfalls of building the same product for all audiences across many countries, especially when it comes to economic, technological, and cultural disparities. This illustrates the point that even if global users want to access new products, they may not always have the means.
What about a 'local' wrapper around an 'universal' core? [abstract]
Authors: Apala Lahiri Chavan (Human Factors International)
Abstract: In this paper, I examine the possibility of restructuring our premise about cross cultural design and explore a possible new way to look at how we can create products in one culture and yet have the whole 'flat world' use it!
Studying paper use to inform the design of personal and portable technology [abstract]
Authors: Daniela Rosner, Lora Oehlberg and Kimiko Ryokai (UC Berkeley)
Abstract: This paper introduces design guidelines for new technology that leverage our understanding of traditional interactions with bound paper in the form of books and notebooks. Existing, physical interactions with books have evolved over hundreds of years, providing a rich history that we can use to inform our design of new computing technologies. In this paper, we initially survey existing paper technology and summarize previous historical and anthropological analyses of people's interactions with bound paper. We then present our development of three design principles for personal and portable technologies based on these analyses. For each design guideline, we describe a design scenario illustrating these principles in action.
Down with innovation
Design is now so important, it seems, that designers can no longer be trusted with it, and to make it absolutely clear that control has moved into someone else's hands, design needs to be given a fancy new name. Call it design thinking. Call it innovation. "Everyone loves design but no one wants to call it design," BusinessWeek's Bruce Nussbaum informed the readers of Design Observer last year. "Top CEOs and managers want to call design something else—innovation. Innovation: that they are comfortable with. Design, well, it's a little too wild and crazy for them." Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, offers this prescription: "Businesspeople don't just need to understand designers better—they need to become designers."[...]
Which is more patronizing: to create something you believe in because you think other people might like it too, and just put it out there? (The old, design, way.) Or to study every facet of consumers' behavior with the intention of filling them with feelings of "insane loyalty" for your client's products? (The new, innovation, way.)
Cultures of virtual worlds
Event organizers theorize that virtual worlds can be studied by researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences.
Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito, Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell, UCI informatics professors Paul Dourish and Bonnie Nardi, Intel researcher Maria Bezaitis and UCI anthropologist Tom Boellstorff will lead the discussions.
The event is sponsored by Intel Research and UCI's Department of Anthropology and Center for Ethnography.
Tom Boellstorff, one of the conference organizers, is the author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. His is the first book to take a look at Second Life from a purely anthropological perspective.
The future of Europe lies in email
"The EU is the test case for the effects of the Internet on government. No other multi-national region of the world has gone so far to dismantle national broders. Within the EU there are no passport checks, no customs checks at internal broders, and no barriers to work – any citizen of any of the 12 EU countries can work in any other EU country without needing a visa. Things that Americans take for granted, like being able to move 3000 miles for a job, are available to the citizens of the EU for the first time. In other words, the EU has most of the trappings of a country except the citizens, and the citizens are being produced at places like easyEverything. The people sending their email there are Europe's first post-national generation, its first Internet generation, the first group of people who can move from one country to another if they hear that life is better elsewhere. The willingness of this generation to ignore national identity is going to confound their elders, the people who have grown up convinced that sentiments like 'The Germans are efficient and humorless, while the Italians are undisciplined and fun-loving' have an almost genetic component. Nationality matters less than economics – the Internet generation is going to behave more like customers than citizens."
Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, unveiled the action plan, Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy, in what the government is labelling the first-ever comprehensive, state-supported plan to move the creative industries from the "margins to the mainstream of economic and policy thinking" in the UK.
The action plan [which was welcomed by the design industry] outlines 26 commitments for both government and the creative industries to nurture talent, create jobs and to drive the UK's international competitiveness.
One of the initiatives is to develop a new annual World Creative Business Conference that will act as the "centrepiece" of an international push to make the UK the "world's creative hub".
– Read full story [The Guardian]
– Download action plan (pdf, 1.2 mb, 81 pages)
(via Richard Florida)
Nokia morphs itself from within
Dr John Shen, head of the Palo Alto Research lab, said his team was helping Nokia's development as a services company.
"We see the intersecting of the internet and mobility. Nokia has been a device company and that will remain a lucrative business for years to come, but instead of waiting until we have to change, Nokia is looking ahead and making changes now."
He said the focus for the firm was a "total solution", encompassing hardware and software, but focusing on a "compelling user experience".
"The company that understands the end user experience is going to have an edge," he added. [...]
Dr Shen added: "When technology is below the user requirement, technology drives the industry.
"But once you cross over to the mainstream then you have to look at services and the user experience.
"The real focus now is compelling user experiences. It has to be user experience driven rather than technology driven."
The expectation economy
"The expectation economy is an economy inhabited by experienced, well-informed consumers from Canada to South Korea who have a long list of high expectations that they apply to each and every good, service and experience on offer.
Their expectations are based on years of self-training in hyperconsumption, and on the biblical flood of new-style, readily available information sources, curators and BS filters. Which all help them track down and expect not just basic standards of quality, but the 'best of the best'."
"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born"
"Using Google and a variety of online shopping sites, Mary researched dresses online, getting a sense for what styles she liked and reading information about what was considered stylish that year. Next, Mary and her friends went to the local department store as a small group, toting along their digital cameras (even though they're banned). They tried on the dresses, taking pictures of each other in the ones that fit. Upon returning home, Mary uploaded the photos to her Facebook and asked her broader group of friends to comment on which they liked the best. Based on this feedback, she decided which dress to purchase, but didn't tell anyone because she wanted her choice to be a surprise. Rather than returning to the store, Mary purchased the same dress online at a cheaper price based on the information on the tag that she had written down when she initially saw the dress. She went for the cheaper option because her mother had given her a set budget for homecoming shopping; this allowed her to spend the rest on accessories."
Boyd analyses this further:
In the 1980s, Alan Kay declared that, "technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born." In other words, what is perceived as technology to adults is often ubiquitous if not invisible to youth. In telling this story, Mary's mother was perplexed by the technology choices made by her daughter. Yet, most likely, Mary saw her steps in a practical way: research, test out, get feedback, purchase. Her choices were to maximize her options, make a choice that would be socially accepted, and purchase the dress at the cheapest price. Her steps were not about maximizing technology, but about using it to optimize what she did care about.
The blog entry is also a Fieldnote for the Digital Youth Project.
(via FutureLab)
Museum 2.0
Just like Web 2.0 which is "a definition of web-based applications with an 'architecture of participation,' that is, one in which users generate, share, and curate the content", says Nina Simon who is behind the Museum 2.0 blog, "museums have the potential to undergo a similar (r)evolution as that on the web, to transform from static content authorities to dynamic platforms for content generation and sharing."
"I believe that visitors can become users, and museums central to social interactions. Web 2.0 opens up opportunity, but it also demonstrates where museums are lacking. The intention of this blog is to explore these opportunities and shortcomings with regard to museums and interactive design."
(via IdeaFestival)
Eataly, the slow and experiential supermarket
But I had never written about in those terms. Mea culpa. I was reminded of this gap only when I read the Guinness Storehouse case study on the Design Council website.
The Atlantic Monthly [full article here] calls it the "supermarket of the future":
"Eataly is an irresistible realization of every food-lover's gluttonous fantasy, paired with guilt-cleansing social conscience—a new combination of grand food hall, farm stand, continuing- education university, and throbbing urban market. Much like Boqueria, in Barcelona, and Vucciria, in Palermo, two of the few thriving center-city markets left in Europe, Eataly draws all classes and ages at all times of day. The emphasis on local and artisanal producers, education, affordable prices, a lightened environmental footprint, and sheer fun makes Eataly a persuasive model for the supermarket of the future—one that is sure to be widely copied around the world. The question is whether Eataly will bite the hands of the people feeding it, the people it says it wants to help: Slow Food, which is the arbiter and moral center of today's food culture, and the artisans themselves. "
Monocle carries an excellent video report:
"Housed in a former vermouth factory, Eataly offers the finest artisanal produce from Italian suppliers, all selected with the assistance of Slow Food Italia and accompanied by lovingly compiled details of its provenance and production."
And also The New York Times featured it, using the opportunity to announce that a smaller version (one tenth the size of the Torino market) will open this spring in a two-level, 10,000-square-foot space in the new Centria building at 18 West 48th Street in New York:
"In January, in what had been a defunct vermouth factory in Turin, [Oscar Farinetti] opened a 30,000-square-foot megastore called Eataly that combines elements of a bustling European open market, a Whole-Foods-style supermarket, a high-end food court and a New Age learning center. [...]"
"Artisanal products from some 900 Italian producers fill the store's shelves, and 12 suppliers (some of which Mr. Farinetti invested in or bought outright) were enlisted as partners. Many of the food items are accompanied by explanatory placards and nearly half of the three-level store is dedicated to educational activities: a computer center, a library, a vermouth museum and rooms for cooking classes and tasting seminars. [...]"
"According to management, more than 1.5 million people visited the store in its first six months and sales have exceeded projections."
In short, for the real experience of fresh products from the Piedmont countryside you need to come to Torino.
Torino heading towards 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
The centre of events for 31 December 2007 is Piazza Castello [the "Castle Square"], the Baroque heart of the city, seen on TV screens worldwide as the "Medals Plaza" of the XX Olympic Winter Games of 2006.
The New Year Eve's activities contain a lot of interaction design with Luminous LEDs, Shining microvideos, and Interactive balls, plus of course the live music and the DJ's.
Aside from the many events planned during the first World Design Capital in 2008 — with quite a few requiring your participation — keep also an eye open for what's coming up in the following years:
2008 – UIA World Congress of Architecture (29 June – 3 July)
For the first time an Italian city hosts a World Congress of the International Union of Architects. Torino will be the location of this prestigious event which every three years reunites thousands of professionals and students to cover a theme analysing the future prospects of the profession and its relationship with the social and cultural problems of the moment. The theme chosen for the event in 2008 is Transmitting Architecture.
2009 is dedicated to sports with the European Athletics Indoor Championships (6-8 March) and the World Air Games (7-13 June).
2010 – Euroscience City (2-7 July)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is Europe's most important interdisciplinary forum for presentation and debate of leading scientific trends and key science policy issues. It brings Europe's science community together to discuss the social and economic impact of science, technology, the social sciences and humanities. The event is promoted by Euroscience, an organisation that includes scientists from 40 European countries.
2011 – Italy 150 (17 March – 31 October)
In 2011 Italy will celebrate its 150th birthday as a united nation: an opportunity to look back of course but also to debate what future should Italy be aiming at (a hot topic also in the international press – see The New York Times and The Times). Many of the planned events will take place in Torino, Italy's first capital. The slogan: "Experience Italy" !


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Someone out there on this forum is the real Stephan Fry. He will not post as such for that would be ridiculous, however he does post, of that I am sure.
Anyone any ideas on who he might be ?....As an outside bet I'm wagering on PamJH but I could well be barking up the wrong tree...I normally do.
P.S...... Forgive me if it is public knowledge which forum member is the real Stephan, I am new to this site.


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TEAMS: New York Jets
SportsCenter has thankfully dialed back their stalking of Tim Tebow and Jets camp in the past week. (Maybe Tebow finally got that restraining order filed?) But c'mon now, ESPN can't go cold turkey on dumb Tebow stories! The latest breaking news comes from ESPN2's SportsNation with the incredibly significant topic of Tim Tebow throwing a football into a trash can from WHOA 25 YARDS AWAY!! He must be like super awesome at throwing a football! Maybe they'll find the party hats from Tebow's ESPN birthday celebration in the trash can while they're at it too.
(Pic via BeardyTaughtMe)
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