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Let it snow, let it blow, let it snow
City crew up early to clear streets.
Early mornings and lots of coffee are the city's secrets to thoroughfares cleared of snow by the time most people venture from their homes.
At least in Corey Cooper's view.
Cooper works for Gothenburg's water and sewer department.
Street department employee Gary Suhr is the oldest in the city's four public works departments that include street, electrical, water and sewer and wastewater treatment.Suhr, who's removed snow from the city for nearly 25 years, described his 12 coworkers as like a well-oiled machine when they remove snow.
"We all work together," he said. "Shane will plow and Bruce is always willing to help."
Shane Gruber is city services director and Bruce Clymer is city administrator.
The crew took a break at the city shop Christmas Eve morning from clearing about five inches of the white stuff that fell Dec. 23.
Another two inches were added Thursday and Friday with recorded wind gusts of up to 59 mph that caused drifting throughout the city and visibility problems on state roads and highways and Interstate 80.
During the break, Gruber attributed efficient removal to the fact that "everyone knows what they're doing."
"We work together and just have a good crew," Gruber said. "We may have a slim crew but we've got the whole town covered in about six hours."
Cooper said cooperation by the public in keeping their vehicles off the street during a snowstorm and not driving around while the crew is working is also key.
When snow is forecast, the crew begins preparation the day before.
"We have the plows on our trucks and the sand in the boxes," Suhr explained. "We make sure all the equipment has fuel and the blades are in good shape."
Gruber said they were ready for a foot or more of snow before the last storm but it hit areas south and east harder.
Suhr said the emergency snow route, 10 major arterials in town, is cleaned first followed by the streets around the school and the downtown area and finally residential streets.
With heavy snow, the white stuff is piled in the middle of the street downtown and later trucked to the airport.
In most cases, the crew is out by 4 a.m. clearing streets before people go to work and school.
When there's freezing rain, like the night of Dec. 22, Suhr said they're out throwing sand and salt around intersections and stop signs.
Asked about the worst snowstorm he remembers, Suhr said it was probably when he worked "out in the open" for the Nebraska Department of Roads.
In Gothenburg, he said most of the snow and drifting occurs from 20th to 27th Street.
"One time, Gary Dishman (who's now retired) and I worked 12-hour shifts," Suhr said as he bladed snow on Cottonwood Drive. "There was heavy snow and a lot of wind."
Gruber said the Oct. 30 storm that dropped about a foot of heavy, wet snow was a nightmare for the city crew.
"People were stuck all over town," he said. "Tree branches were down and people were out driving around and getting stuck."
Fall and spring snow, which is usually wetter and heavier, is always harder to remove, Gruber said.
"But in the spring, the weather is warmer so it goes away pretty fast," he said.
Three major snowstorms in October and snow in November and December may cause residents to wonder about the snow removal budget with more winter to come.
Not to worry, Clymer said.
"We don't have a snow budget but do budget for fuel and maintenance," Clymer said. "It typically averages out every year.
"Some years we won't use all the budget and some years we do."
Clymer said they typically over budget in case there's more snow than expected.
"We still have a long ways to go," he said about winter weather this year.
Since Suhr started removing snow, equipment has changed the most.
For example, trucks are equipped with electric mechanisms where drivers flip a switch to start sanding.
"I used to have to stand in the back of the box and throw out gravel with a scoop shovel," he said about when he first worked for the state roads department.
Suhr also used to wear three pairs of jeans to keep warm compared to the insulated jeans and coveralls now available.
Currently, the city has two maintainers, two Bobcats, two trucks with plows and sanders, a pay loader and a snowblower to remove snow.
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is it just me or has there been an uprising of a new religion lately? starting back away, in the day of copernicus and galileo. heck, it started even way before that. it started when man (and woman) stopped accepting things based on faith, and asked why? people stopped turning to religion to answering questions, and deided to do their own research. this has been around for a while, but i see more and more of it appearing in recent times. i dont know if its because the faiths no longer punish the practice as heresy punishable by death, or if mankind has become more questioning. is it science that is the new religion? i couldnt say, but i will say that a lot of people are believing nowadays in what has been proven through science. is it mankind's drive to quest for knowledge (more apparent in some than others) that has driven us away from religion? is the scientist the new preacher? or is it all a big conspiracy planted by the government? (who knows?)
in this post, i am not saying religion is a bad thing, or that it is obsolete, or anything negative about it, so please dont get after me for an objective post. i think that all things are good taken in moderation, including religion, so dont make a big deal of one lousy post.
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New Mexico History Museum
Decoding the Segesser Hides
Project Group
DateMay 2009
LocationNew Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Exhibition DesignGallagher & Associates
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High-resolution interactive images of animal hide paintings give an unprecedented view of these 18th-century artifacts that depict early encounters in New Mexico's history.
Focusing on bringing out the incredible detail of historical battle scenes painted on animal hides sometime in the 18th century, the Segesser Hides interactive experience consists of two tracks that visitors can fluidly weave between while exploring high-resolution images. A tour mode gives visitors the story of the hides and the scenes within them in a linear presentation; another free-form, self-directed mode allows visitors to manipulate the images, to zoom in on details and pan across the hides, to uncover curatorial insight as their curiosity dictates. Developed as both an online experience and an on-site interactive kiosk, this hybrid interactive allows the museum to share these unique paintings with audiences beyond Santa Fe.
Press & Awards"New Museum Showcases New Mexico's Colorful History," The Associated Press, Deborah Baker, May 14, 2009
Interactive displays are an important part of the museum's mix... [including] a sophisticated, bilingual exhibit on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War and made New Mexico a U.S. territory. Highlighted portions of the treaty link to interviews with historians.
Part of SapientRazorfish /© 2018 Second Story, Inc.
- Designer
- Kieran Lynn
- Technology Director
- Thomas Wester
- Developer
- Jeremy Brown
- Producer
- Melissa Paugh
- Production Artist
- Rebecca Rosen
- Production/QA Assistant
- Elizabeth Bourke
- A/V System Design
- Romeantics
- A/V Integration
- Electrosonic
- Exhibit Design
- Gallagher & Associates
Project Group
- Project Overview
- Decoding the Segesser Hides
- New Mexico Oral Histories
- Shifting Boundaries
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo


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Fengqi You wins 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award
Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor, was named a recipient of the prestigious 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award. This award recognizes and honors scientists, who are doing exceptional research that impacts sustainability, green chemistry, and green engineering. This award specifically honors Professor You's research contributions in process systems engineering, sustainability analytics, and life cycle optimization of supply chains.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has more than 158,000 members in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields, and it is the world's largest scientific society by membership. The winners of this award are selected from exceptional candidates from around the world. To reflect the global scope of ACS, one recipient is chosen from each of the following three regions across the world: The Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia/Pacific. Professor You was selected as the award winner from the Americas region. The award will be presented to Professor You in a special award symposium at the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA (March 18-22, 2018) to honor his research contributions.
This is the 3rd major international award that Professor You has received recently, in addition to the 2017 AIChE Environmental Division Early Career Award and the 2017 AIChE Sustainable Engineering Research Excellence Award.


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Navigate tight urban spaces with confidence thanks to front and side protective body mouldings.
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Featuring fully adjustable seats with cloth upholstery and reduced driving noise, the comfortable interior cabin takes the stress out of long days on the road.
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Even when unloaded, though, the Kangoo Compact has the suspension finesse to feel more car-like, controlled and settled, than virtually any single- or dual-cab rival. It is quite an enthusiastic, enjoyable car to drive, even beyond its genre.Read more
The Kangoo had not only proved durable and reliable, it had also proved comfortable and frugal. The fuel average for the little diesel still stood at 8.5l/100km.Read more
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newarenanow wrote:Not sure how the impact studies were put together, but the PG basically said all of the positives for Harrah's, not mentioning any negatives, and had all negatives reported for the IOC, with not one positive.
IF this is how it is going to be viewed by the gaming board, then the IOC has no chance.
Bowser wrote:Bill - Trib has their issues with any money going to the arena. They won't back IOC unless they know it will help the Republican spin cycle.
Bowser wrote:Has anyone on this board ever dealt with economic impact statements?
I'd like to create a little excel spreadsheet to show the HUGE lies given by the casino applicants. Yes, that includes IOC if they are doing it.
Things like job creation formulas, crime rate, etc.
I plan on comparing the reports released Friday with Philadelphia applicants. I haven't done it yet but I'm going to try to find the statements for New Orleans by Harrah's.
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June 25. 2014 11:18PM
Two sought after Rochester gas station robbery
ROCHESTER - Police are searching for two men they say robbed the Milton Road Shell gas station at gunpoint Wednesday evening.
Police said two men, one carrying a handgun and the other a shotgun, entered the store about 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, confronted a clerk and demanded money.
"At the time the store was busy with several customers and two store clerks," police said in a release.
The men ran away toward Milton Road heading north after the robbery, police said.
One man is described as white with a heavy build, about 5 feet, 8 inches to 6 feet tall about 18 to 25 years old with blond hair. He was wearing a Patriots hat with a red bandanna over his face and was holding a sawed-off gray camouflaged shotgun.
The other man is described as a thin man, also 5 feet, 8 inches to 6 feet tall wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt and a cloth covering his face. He was wearing a dark-brimmed ball cap and was holding a long-barreled handgun, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 330-7127.


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Hotel De Weyman
The hotel has 20 renovated and newly furnished rooms for 1, 2 or more persons. Our aim is to ensure that you enjoy a relaxed and homely stay at Hotel de Weyman.
We offer a rich and tasteful breakfast, usually not included in the price of the room. The home-baked bread is a must; to make you feel at home, breakfast can be served at all hours; you may therefore sleep as long as you like and take your breakfast when you are ready! Breakfast is not included in the prise and its euro 8,00 per person per night.
City tax is an additional euro 2,00 per person per person per night.
Thanks to the limited amount of rooms, Hotel de Weyman is in a position to provide you and your guests with a very personal and pleasant stay.
As a result of many years of experience in various countries, the manager and the employees insure that guests from a great diversity of cultures are attentively cared for by the hotel staff, who is able to communicate in perfect English, good German, French, Bulgarian, Russian, as well as a bit Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Should you have any special wishes connected to eating and drinking, we are pleased to meet all or a great deal of your requests or wishes. Such as it should be in a real family hotel, you are welcome to use the kitchen, where you will be assisted by one of our team members.
Last but not least, Hotel de Weyman houses the most beautiful Art Nouveau design bar in the neighbourhood, where everybody is welcome, including guests who are not staying at the hotel.
From the total of 20 rooms there are 2 single-rooms, 18 double-rooms, 8 of which may also accommodate three persons; 6 of them are suited for four persons.
All rooms are modern, stylish and cosy.
Obviously, every room has a fully furnished bathroom, with hair dryer, Kleenex-tissues and special lotion. Your bathing robe and slippers are waiting for you !
Further, in every room you have at your disposal a direct dial telephone, cable TV (a number of TVs is provided with a built-in DVD or video), as well as a desk (with mirror, to enable you to also use it as a make-up table).
You may feel free to internet or fax in your own room, either via de telephone or the cable; for this purpose, the hotel can supply you with a laptop, computer or fax machine whenever you wish. In a very near future, we will also be able to offer a completely installed wireless internet system in every room.
Besides, we are also able to provide other sorts of facilities, such as an iron and ironing board, a dress boy or a trousers-press, a (empty) mini-fridge or a (senseo) coffee/tea machine (depending on demand and availability).
A great majority of these services are free of charge, while others can be supplied against a minimal fee.
Typical of the excellent service offered by Hotel de Weyman, are the two flowers arrangements you will find in your room upon arrival: one fresh and one artificial.
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O's lose to Yankees on wild pitch
Baltimore falls again to New York
O's lose to Yankees on wild pitch
Baltimore falls again to New York
Brendan Ryan scored the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning on a wild pitch by Jim Johnson, and the New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 Thursday night after blowing a four-run lead.
Mark Reynolds and Curtis Granderson homered for the Yankees, who remained one game behind Tampa Bay for the second AL wild card. New York next travels to first-place Boston for a weekend series between division rivals.
New York led 5-1 before Nick Markakis hit a solo shot in the seventh and Danny Valencia homered with two on against David Robertson in the eighth.
But the Yankees bounced right back in the ninth with an unearned run against Johnson (3-8).


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Lloris enjoying life in England
After getting a rare chance to enjoy the festive period with friends and family, added to a maximum haul of points, Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Hugo Lloris says life in England could hardly be better.
• Blog: Merry Christmas for Spurs
With only the long trip to Sunderland between a short drive to Aston Villa for his birthday on Boxing Day and a home game with Reading to bring in 2013, Lloris had the opportunity to celebrate on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, while also helping Spurs to a hat-trick of victories, which has eased them into third place in the Premier League.
"It was really nice to find out about it. I spent my birthday at Aston Villa, but I was still able to enjoy being with friends and family during this time, while also not letting myself go and staying focused on my games," the 26-year-old, a summer signing from Lyon, told French media following the 3-1 win over Reading.
"A matchday is still a matchday. We had to stay focused. We absolutely did not want to drop points during the festive period, and it was important to cap it all by winning at home, and in style. It sets us up for the new year, and means we're in touch to qualify for the Champions League."
What surprised Lloris still more than his team's success was the fact he could spend most of the festive period at home, and even sip a glass of Champagne on New Year's Eve, something unheard of in France, where he would most likely have been cosseted in a hotel with his team-mates ahead of a game.
"I appreciate the freedom and the trust of the staff," said Lloris, who admitted he had celebrated the turning of the year on French time, earning himself a precious extra hour's sleep. "I understand the risk of being distracted, but we were only off-colour in one game during the Christmas period. The team stayed focused and ambitious."
Lloris, too, retained his focus and ambition during his initial struggles to dislodge Brad Friedel from the Spurs goal. The France captain seems to have now won over manager Andre Villas-Boas - something that helps him shake off the fatigue built by a season that began early last summer.
"I have fun every day. I'm here to improve and push myself in a different context. It's important in sporting terms, but also personally," he said. "A goalkeeper has to be the master of his penalty box, even if it's trickier here than elsewhere.
"You always have two men blocking your path at corners. That's part of English football. You have to accept it, and make the right decisions, even if things happen quickly. It's difficult to hold balls because there are so many people, so it's better to punch. You have that same battle everywhere, but in England it's true that you're a little less protected than elsewhere."
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Minimizing Wind NoiseReducing wind noise on a location shoot
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Nothing annoys me more on a location shoot than wind noise. In fact I've had more than an earful of it, and decided to do something serious about it.
The occasion was on location at a major horse stud, filming a tutorial for my client, a major veterinarian firm in northern Victoria. Up until now, all previous talking head pieces had been done in the stables; this time however, it was to be an outside shoot for a specialist tutorial, but a strong wind had sprung. REALLY strong. The talent was around 30 metres from the camera and wearing a radio microphone clipped to the shirtfront, and it fitted with a custom-made foam windsock. It certainly didn't help the situation to have the talent speaking quietly either, typically hovering around -15db, which meant the compressor was working overtime to compensate.
I could hear the wind rustle then crackle while I was monitoring through my cans (headphones) and stopped tape to do another take. By now, the wind noise was utterly swamping the speech.
Turning your back
The problem was fixed immediately by having the subject turn their back to the wind, as his body sheltered the mic. Mind you the lighting issue was now another problem, but a quick rejig of reflectors and lights fixed that.
This particular wind problem got me to thinking; what can I do to reduce the wind noise problem on outdoor shoots? I mean to say the radio mic has a foam windsock and the Rode shotgun ,ic not only has a foam shield, but also permanently wears a furry.
I did a net search and found, well, nothing much. There are certainly lots of patent applications for electronic noise reduction systems, but a bare handful on the issue at hand.
Asking mates in the industry proved I had been on the right track for years.
But to me this was an area where I confess I have little knowledge or expertise, despite a childhood spent building electronic gear including mic preamps, mixers and amps and an adult life using them and creating radio adverts.
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What I did know from basic science was that the microphone element inside the mic was designed to pick up sound waves, and that the movement of air, no matter how gentle would always create sound as it struck any object.
The clue was to have it strike the object as far away from the mic element, and preferably have the resulting sound and energy absorbed instead of being reflected so it could hit the microphone element.
Or to put it in another way, having no moving air next to the microphone.
A quick way of checking this thinking was to stand into the wind, and cover the ears. Deflecting the wind worked. While I have always thought of a foam windsock on a mic as more of protection from physical damage than wind noise, I thought it time to literally bite the bullet and do a test.
Noise, damned noise.
When out and about, I use the Rode shotty with 'full protection' and the on camera mic has its foam cover and furry as well. I use this combo simply because it was an economical system of best practice to reduce noise - but how effective was it?
So I played with the gear- the unprotected shotty versus the foam sock, versus the foam sock AND furry. The answer was a no brainer. The furry combo won hands down for wind noise reduction. My sound gathering for fieldwork was up to scratch.
That was until I had to record an interview in slightly stronger wind conditions where there was no escape. And by slight, I am talking of ten knots on an open plain. Monitoring the sound proved the problem was there, even with a sheltered lavaliere or lapel microphone.
Using the shotty on a boompole as I frequently do was no better. There HAD to be a solution. I had heard of using an enclosed case, nicknamed a Zeppelin due to its shape, but found them to be rare and very very expensive.
In flew the Blimp
I discovered Rode Microphones, an Aussie company, was now producing the Blimp. The Blimp is an enclosed protection device for just this situation - and at the brilliant price under $250 including delivery.
No way was I just going to do a review. I needed this gear as well.
When my order turned up, I assembled the mic into it and decided there was only one thing to do and that was to test it. I headed off to the Echuca Airport where it was blowing 25knots.
(Interested readers may also know that Ben - or 'Biggles' as we call him- is also a qualified pilot. For some reason, a large proportion of Auscam authors are interested in either aircraft or fast cars! Misspent youth? Or not yet grown up? Hard to tell - Ed)
Once there I set up the mic stand next to the camera and pointed things toward the wind - and airport windsock so the wind speed could have a visual reference.
As the camera has two audio channels, track 1 was left to the on board mic, in situ with its foam sock and furry combo to act as a reference, so the audio from the test could be directly compared. Channel 2 was set to the Rode NTG-2 connected via coax for the testing.
A picture tells a thousand words. This screen grab shows the dramatic noise reduction capable by the Blimp, as well as the efficiency of basic noise reduction techniques such as a foam sock and a furry.
Flight testing the Blimp
The Rode would be set under several strict conditions;
- Bare mounted in a Rode suspension mount to isolate it from mechanical noise from the mic stand. It was to have no protection. This was to be the baseline measurement. The mic was set to give a flat response, and not engage the bass rolloff, which is used as a common wind noise reduction technique.
- Still mounted in the suspension frame, it was fitted with just the foam windsock
- As above but with a furry slipped over the foam sock.
- Taken out of the suspension mount, the shotty was placed inside the Rode Blimp following the maker's instructions. The Blimp was mounted on the mic stand so it would be in the same physical space as before.
- Exactly as for the Blimp base test, but with the Rode dead Wombat fur coat placed over the Blimp. (Dead wombat is Rode's name for the furry).
- The results were not that surprising. Even looking at the VU meter on the camera and monitoring through the headphones, it roughly indicated there and then that the wind noise reduction increased to the point of being -30db compared to the on camera mic.
In anyone's language, that is a huge reduction. But it was not until the vision was imported into my NLE, and the sound lines gave an astonishing result. The Blimp with Dead Wombat was giving a flatline.
You can easily see the reduction when looking at the photo.
|Rode 1 level; The first test with a bare mic, the on camera mic level on the left, the Rode on the right.
- On camera mic -17.3. Foam socked Rode -13.8 A gain of 3.5db. Again an expected result, as the on camera mic has more protection.
- On Camera mic -12.8. Rode with Foam sock AND furry -15. A reduction of 2.8db. I was not expecting this result. I was thinking it would be closer to the on camera mic, as the foam is almost identical and the synthetic fur is from the same roll of material. Mind you, the human ear is just able to distinguish a 3db change, which represents a multiplication factor of two in terms of energy. The Rode was receiving half the noise energy as its on camera counterpart.
- On camera mic -12.2. Rode fitted in Blimp -26.3. A reduction of 14.1db. What can I say? Astonishing.
- On camera mic -9.2db. Blimp in a dead wombat -31.2. A reduction of 22db. This is truly a mind-blowing result and considering the conditions, The Rode Blimp was quite at home.
|Rode 2 level; The second test with the Rode wearing just a foam windsock (right hand number)
Blimps and foam?
The question did arise; what if the mic wore a foam windsock INSIDE the Blimp? Well, what I was able to find out was that this is not advised, as the higher frequency end would be attenuated, and that as the air inside the Blimp was not moving, the foam sock was a waste.
So how does all this work?
Simply by reducing the energy of the wind and absorbing it before it hits the microphone element! With the Blimp, the outside frame supports a very fine mesh, which stops the wind from passing through, and it also absorbs the energy released. With the dead wombat on top, the long hairs further reduce the velocity of the wind, while also allowing sound to pass through.
|Rode 3 levels; With the Rode wearing a foam sock and a deadrat.
Any shotty will do; almost.
The other great thing is that Rode have recognized that not all the world has caught on and use their mics, so they provide adapter rings for the double ringed suspension frame to carry mics with a diameter from 21 to 30mm up to 325mm long with the usual three pin XLR connection.
To ensure wind proofing, the Blimp is fitted with a tail cable, so you simply attach your mic cables to the handgrip base. For those who want to mount the Blimp, the standard screw thread is there and fits perfectly on a mic stand or boom pole.
Its also light as well, weighing 755g with the tail cable and no mic, its easy to move and balance. The thing to get used to is that it is big; 490mm long and 125mm in diameter and is supplied not only with the dead wombat, but also a special hairbrush and hex key for customizing the suspension mounts to your microphone.
|Rode 4 levels; The noise attenuation of the Blimp is astonishing at -26db.
Protect the Blimp
As the Blimp is somewhat fragile, it can't be expected to lie in the back of the car getting battered and bruised. One low cost answer is to buy an aluminum tool case that looks like a briefcase from a super, cheap retail outlet for about $30. Remember the Blimp is 490x125mm in size.
The "grab bag" I use is about 20 years old and it easily takes the Blimp, a set of headphones, the Rode Mic, radio transmitter, spare 20m of coax, windsock and furry and wombat along with spare mic batteries, tapes, cables and Panadol...
While Rode Microphones, an Aussie company is renowned as being one of the leaders in mic technology, it has to be acknowledged that their new Blimp is one of the greatest assets any mic user will benefit from.
Just another test
|Rode 5a levels; But wearing the dead wombat, the Blimp is truly in its element at -31db
Just moving the bare mic in the shockproof mount showed wind noise. This was astonishing, as I had never really thought about it as a potential problem.
As mentioned before, the noise of the still air striking the metalwork of the moving microphone was creating noise. The issue was fixed simply by placing the foam sock on the mic.
I cranked up the air cooler (it was 42 in the shade outside) and repeated the test. The wind noise was noticeable noise even with the foam sock. This was reduced to a negligible level by slipping on the furry.
Moral of the story; for maximum wind noise reduction on set use a furry inside and a Blimp outside.
What is a furry?
Simply it is a custom-made microphone glove made from acrylic fur.
Some makers call it a dead cat, but being a cat lover the name HAD to change. Rode call their series in order of size, dead kitten, deadcat and dead wombat. Other makers call them fur windjammers, windcutters, fluffies, dead koalas and even roadkill.
The best thing is that you can make a fluffy for yourself, if you have access to a sewing machine or know someone with one.
Simply take the mic with foam windsock fitted, and a sheet of paper. Then trace a pattern on the paper to the shape and size of the furry you need for that mic.
Next head to a fabric shop, and ask the assistant if they have acrylic or synthetic fur and buy a metre. And simply transfer the pattern to the fabric, cut and stitch then fit.
You will be able to get away with at least two furries (one for the shotty, and one for the on camera mic) for about $25.
The next thing you need to get is a hairbrush. One with the long plastic bristles about a centimeter apart is best. Once the furry is on the mic, give it a gentle brush to keep the pile from matting, which would otherwise reduce its performance.
Further information; www.rode.com.au
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I came here for news
Not reprinting of the moronic rantings of a shameless self-publicist. It really doesn't take much effort in computer security to come up with the dumbest story known to man and get big in the mainstream press does it?
Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download. Ron Bowles, who describes himself as a certified penetration tester, said he used some hastily written code to harvest …
Not reprinting of the moronic rantings of a shameless self-publicist. It really doesn't take much effort in computer security to come up with the dumbest story known to man and get big in the mainstream press does it?
*shrug* For the life of me I can't see the interest of this story. It puzzled me when it hit the big media. Exgirlfriends, colleagues, bosses, neighbours and mostly everybody have been stalked this way via google->facebook since the dawn of time.
And you guys are putting this on "Top stories"?
The only point that's marginally interesting about this is the "Internet is forever" thing. Which, sadly, is far from the truth. I browse the web archive more than I would like, and many thigs aren't there anymore.
Not even a story - when the BBC played this "news" on loop all day yesterday, I was thinking "well done the reg for not even mentioning it" - however, it just seems that the reg were a day late in reporting on IT...
Wow there's some serious harrumphing going on here.
Do you not think the scale of this at all news worthy?
OK, so they've basically just automated a process that could be done manually. Except that they've then used it to mine data from 100 million people.
Also, having not heard of this through the mainstream media, this seemed to be a well written, un-biased, informative piece on something that is certainly IT related.
Well done El Reg.
Boo angry people.
Cue much flapping of wings, clucking, looking brainless and other chicken-like behaviour as those on the list discover that "exposing your details" really did mean them too. i can only hope Faecebook really aren't enjoying the attendant publicity.
Whilst i have all of my security settings set to private and dont allow anyone but friends to view my stuff and dont post moronic messages etc, im still interested to see just how much stuff this trawl picked up. I'll probably download this tonight and do a search for my name to make sure that the level of privacy i THINK i have is the same as the level of privacy i ACTUALLY have.
I will probably also search for members of my family (who arent the most tech saavy of individuals) so i can show them exactly how much theyre making available online and get them to improve their security and start taking this seriously.
Yes its a non-story for anyone who is the remotest bit tech-saavy, if this story makes those for whom a breadboard is the thing in the kitchen you slice your loaf on, a tiny bit more aware of their privacy (or lack thereof) on thie internet this can only be a good thing...
Facebook != Privacy
Which is why my Facebook privacy measures are 100% secure as I don't have a Facebook account!
I've never bought into the whole Facebook culture fad. I use "old fashioned" forms of communications like email, IM, phones, letters, talking to people etc... They all do the job without having to leak so much about myself to the Facebook company and that is the real privacy issue. Because even when you are using Facebook privacy settings to the max, Facebook are still able to access and exploit your data and they do exploit it and they are not the only ones with access to Facebook data.
(Anyone who doesn't believe the kind of privacy issues Facebook presents, just try this as an experiment. If you live in the UK, and are on facebook then just for a laugh add binladin as a friend so you can tell all your friends you have finally found him, when no one else could. Think its just a joke, yeah right, then wait for the interesting worrying phone call that most definitely isn't from a marketing company. The question this raises is how does state security associate facebook to your phone number and directly to you? They clearly can because I now know for a fact this happens as its happened to someone I know. State security has no sense of humour, to them its not a joke because to them, that friend link is a honey pot trap to try to identify potential sympathizers. I think its profoundly ignorant in the extreme, but there you go, that's the kind of twisted stupid games they are increasingly playing to identify people. So it shows the state is profiling Facebook all the time and they are increasingly trying to link people together and they have ever more reasons to try to link like minded people together. So even if you have never done anything wrong then just through association you can move higher up their watch list. Score enough points (even if they are false positives) and you win the coveted Domestic Extremist award which entitles you to have your liberty withheld whenever the state chooses while they rummage through your car, your house, your life, what ever they want. Evil Domestic Extremists like 2 million UK RSPB bird watching members, environmental protesters and airport expansion (destroying their homes) protesters. You know, the kind of people the police want to watch if they are going anywhere near potentially large protest meetings.
That's just a glimpse of the insanely stupid ways Facebook data is being increasingly being exploited by the state. So behind the facade of a Facebook cultural fad, its getting very Orwellian very fast.
Which is why I said Facebook != Privacy … and that's just a glimpse of where we are at now!
Remember Geocities? Most of those sites are long lost and never to be seen again...
I see you haven't heard of the Internet Archive and similar projects.
When I search for the site running on my lab's computer I get:
"We're sorry, access to http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."
And no, my site's URL is not xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Or go here to see El Reg in 1998 (instead of annoying Flash you get annoying animated GIFs, yay):
Do you *REALLY* think that Yahoo! doesn't still have access to all that data?
If you provide details to multi-billion-dollar multi-national corporations, you'll never be able to sweep the cats through the barn door into the worm can[1] again ...
Now ask me why I don't use BingMyGooFaceYouTwit! & the like ...
[1] "tin", to you Brits.
while the top million most hideous web pages now reside on Myspace
Not quite, www.archive.org
... thewaybackmachine most of it is archived there.
Despite abandoning it years ago, I found my old Geocities now being hosted at oocities.com so they may not be all gone.
As for this story, this is such a non-event story. The files told me that they had found a couple of thousand people who had the same name as me, and didn't find the link to my url. And so what if they did, it's not as if it's not available from Google anyway.
Unless you look in the Internet Archive and/or the projects which specifically targeted archiving Geocities before its closing.
Not strictly true... there's at least two domains out there that archived Geocities sites wholesale and make it available. And you have forgottom about the Wayback Machine too.
To this Brit you're opening up a whole can of tins!
[1] "tin", to you Brits.
yeah, we know.
the stable door after it's bolted.
There's not enough room to swing a horse in here
.... your move.
What can Suckerburger say? It was Facebook that decided to spray everyone's info all over the net.
Facebook gave users the choice: Reveal your profile to search engines or not ? Some users said: "Sure, let google, et al" see my profile.
They gave the users the choice, and the users made their choice. So why is this Facebook's/Zuckerburger's problem ?
Well, yes actually, this is Facebook and Zuckerburger's problem, in that the default security settings have always been the lowest possible, and whenever they change settings, they get reverted to the lowest possible, not to mention that only in the last year have they actually started to bother adding some real security settings at all....
and Fools.
The amount of personal information people put put in Facebook about themselves AND OTHERS boggles the mind. This information id a treasure trove for skip tracers, police and potential employers.
Such people can be described as fools.
"You won't get it!"
It all depends on what info is put on Facebook and what the level of access has been set to.
Plus, most people seem to have some really odd pictures as profile pics.
Then there are those with (against Facebook's T&C) more than one account where everything is fictitious.
I guess it's just the difference between someone scraping the publicly accessable side of Facebook and someone else getting in the backdoor of a bank or insurance company. I know which I feel safer with.
I'm going to create a Facebook page about this right now!
I've set my facebook page up to open because I really couldn't care less if people see my name and who I'm friends with.
I use it to upload photos and share with family and friends mainly and have it open so friends of friends etc can also view them.
I don't post anything up there that I wouldn't be happy with the world+dog seeing so no security issues are ever going to bother me short of someone getting access to my account and sending friends/familly obscene emails or spam =p.
I register a SPAM email address, fake address, no phone number, no problem.
But there's a whole planet full of people who simply don't understand the only security that counts is that which is between your ears and within your skull. For them, taking care of security is somebody elses task and is thereby never what it needs to be. Not that it ever will be.
Sheep were made to be fleeced, there's a sucker born every minute and if you're going to be dumb, you better be tough.
If you get the thrust of the article...
Mine's the trenchcoat, I'm going in deep, deep, deep undercover.
... and college and it had nothing to do witrh any computer program. But it did deal with "hard" ware.
Paris because Paris has already dealt with hardware and is certified.
Surprised he didn't publish 'the details of a billion websites'
Spending 5 minutes writing a script to google facebook accounts = lots of publicity. Nice little earner too once the tabloids come around waving their chequebooks.
I am a tiny bit more famous now!
Nothing on my FB site I care about having exposed - I always assumed the security was crap and always would be and behaved accordingly.
Then again, I don't even assume what is on my home box behind a NAT and two firewalls is 'safe'. ....well, while it is on the encrypted external drive and said drive is unplugged, I tentatively make the assumption of reasonable content security.
If this guys a "certified penetration tester" where is his work effics gone when he makes all of this available via bittorrent?????? why didn't he just let them know?
Sounds very dodge to me!!
Like old bubble gum ... just add a bit of spit and you can chew all over again.
...no-one hears about it. No point being a penetration tester if no-one knows you do it. This is how to get your story more exposure - instead of 3 people reading about it, a few million. I'm not saying it's right, ethical or whatever. I am saying it's exactly what I'd have done.
Seriously, who cares? The answer is easy - don't put anything on your Facebook pages that you don't want on your Facebook pages. The whole point of Facebook is that it's for sharing. If you want to keep things private you don't put it on the internet anywhere let alone a site that's specifically designed to share data with many people.
I'm bored with the whole Facebook-privacy thing.
Can't we just leave the following advice as a sticky on the Reg frontpage and not bother with any more Facebook stories?
"Facebook is a web site. Your data might be visible to people you didn't intend. If you're that concerned about data security and privacy, don't join Facebook. If you want to join anyway, only put things on there you'd be happy for anyone to see. Otherwise, keep calm and carry on."
"certified penetration tester"??? Now that's something to have on your business card.
"You can't do it" doesn't cut much ice, really. After all, those with naughtiness on their mind aren't going to look at the Ts & Cs and quake in their boots, are they?
someone create a better alternative that people will move to, and i hope it doesnt turn out to be a Betamax vs. VHS
i am sure thats already happened though.
And still people don't get it.
Once information is made public, it's Out There. That's nothing specifically to do with the internet, though it'll rub your face in it if you try and make things unpublic again ("Streisand effect").
It is also why privacy protection is important, and why "we'll store your data first and maybe perhaps remove it later" is not an acceptable answer from, oh, companies (nokia), the government (preventive storing on dna databases, fingerprinting 6yo children, others) or whoever else. Plenty of people don't get that, including people in government, corporations, or generally supposedly IT savvy readers of el reg.
Really, the only way to protect privacy in any meaningful way is to stop requiring full identity at the drop of a hat. Instead we'll have to find ways to reduce the information that needs handing over to the absolute minimum. If disposable credit cards aren't enough, well, maybe we'll have to come up with disposable "identity proofs". Yes, most people won't get that either, at first. They'll have to get their heads around it later or sooner. They'd better.
The ICO will not consider a name, photograph, unique URL, and list of friends to be in any way, personally identifiable information.
you missed out the '... bitch'
Sounds like fun work, where do I sign up.... Paris because, well...
What a lame script kiddie.
...they'll have my name, a graphic of Haruhi Suzumiya, and a disposable Yahoo email address.
Wait, what... you think I'd give my address...? To Facebook? Nyahahahaha! HELL NO.
Reminds me of when I worked for a marketing company. They had a service they used to offer where they would "append" brick and mortar address details to any email address. The idea is they would capture your email address when you signed up for an email newsletter, then would be able to send you things though the post/get your home phone number etc. Un-ethical and probably illegal too I know.
I put in some of my email addresses that I've used over the years to see what got appended. The results where pretty funny. I hope to god that some marketing company somewhere really has tried to send some crap to the fake addresses I made up!
Sadly, the service often did manage to find addresses for email addresses.
I left the company mainly because I couldn't live the the feeling that I was helping distribute the kind of crap I hate to receive myself. The company has since folded.
This is a complete joke. So he can google and brute force? I think he needs a friendly DoS from anon to remind him that he is a pathetic little c**t.
What's that? skullsecurity.org is down? I wonder.
All the shit on my farcebook page is intentionally made searchable, to obfuscate anything that might be important further down the rankings.


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2013 Dally M Award Results
The Dally M Awards the are the official annual awards presented to current players across a number of areas. See who picked up the awards in 2012. Follow @LeagueUnlimited during the night for all the updates as it happens. Be sure to join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #DallyM
Background: The event in 2013 is held at Sydney's 'The Star' Casino. The Dally M itself was created in 1980 and named in honour of the "little master" Herbert Henry "Dally" Messenger. The player of the year is determined by a 3-2-1 points system which is judged by a journalist for each game across the 26 rounds of the year.
At the end of 16 rounds, the public leader board goes "dark" and each round is announced who was awarded the points in each game on the night.
1. Cooper Cronk (Melbourne Storm) - 28 points
2. Todd Carney (Cronulla Sharks) - 26 points
3. Johnathan Thurston (North Queensland Cowboys) - 26 points
4. Daly Cherry-Evans (Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles) - 26 points
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Dally M Player of the Year: Cooper Cronk (Melbourne Storm - 28 points)
Provan-Summons Medal: Greg Inglis (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
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Ware belted out her performance, playing most of Devotion in the process. "Night Light," "110%," "Wildest Moments," and set-closer "Running" were crowd favorites, with a good number of fans singing along. "Wildest Moments" was received particularly well, and Ware noted that the song blew up after Katy Perry tweeted a link to it. (Returning the favor somewhat, Ware encouraged the crowd to watch Katy Perry's documentary, something she said she did on the plane to New York.) Ware also announced that "110%" is no longer called "110%" — at the request of Big Pun's family, she changed the name to "If You're Never Gonna Move." She joked about it, whispering, "Fuck you Big Pun!" before diving into the song.
With the benefit of gorgeous lighting and a good sound system, Ware showed that she can perform. Even if the show had been lackluster, though, her charm would have saved her. Between songs she joked with the audience, telling stories about how she found a dildo in her sister's bathroom that her sister had stolen from the Box (a nightclub known for it's, um, "exhibitionist" burlesque show), that she listed Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet from Girls on her guest list and was disappointed they didn't show ("Shoshanna's the best!"), and that she was devastated by the death of Kim Kardashian's cat. When she asked if it was true that Woody Allen performed at the Carlyle every Monday, and a member of the audience confirmed he did, she asked, "What are we doing here?"
Jessie Ware will head out on a short U.S. tour in January. Dates:
01/14 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair?
01/15 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
?01/17 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
?01/18 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer?
01/23 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
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Sonics: Shawn Kemp "The Reign Man"
Any Seattle basketball fan will tell you that the Supersonics will one day make a triumphant return to the NBA. While we await this "inevitability,' how can we keep the memory of the Supersonics alive? Why not track down some of the all-time greats and see what they're up to?
Take Shawn Kemp, a.k.a. the Reign Man. He was a first-round pick in 1989 and a six-time NBA All-Star.
But where on Earth has he gone?
Kemp played his final season with the Orlando Magic in 2002-03 before making unsuccessful comeback attempts in 2005-06 and 2006-07.
He signed with an Italian team in 2008 and played three preseason games but returned to the U.S. to assess possible damage to his Houston home caused by Hurricane Ike.
In 2009, Kemp appeared on Pros vs. Joes. There's little information on what Kemp, now 41 years old, is doing today. But he did surface to criticize Blake Griffin's over-the-car jam in the Slam Dunk Competition last winter.
He called the dunk "weak" and said he could jump over "two Smart Cars" even at his age.
Interstingly enough, the Kemps haven't forgotten their Seattle roots. Shawn Kemp Jr. signed with the University of Washington this past July.
Coach Lorenzo Romar said that Kemp Jr., a 6'10" forward, has good size and that "he's a very good athlete. He can run the floor. He's the type of player that plays above the rim.
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Livingston County Assessor Steve Ripley will soon mail forms to property owners for listing their personal property which is subject to assessment for the 2013 assessment year.
This year, the assessor's office has changed the software that it uses to value personal property. Please take a moment and look at the new personal property form. Most forms should have a preprinted list of items. During the conversion, many items were not able to be converted. Ripley suggests that you examine the form carefully, and follow the instructions provided, adding any personal property you owned as of Jan. 1, 2013, and providing the vehicle identification number (VIN), and marking through any items you no longer own.
By March 1, 2013, every owner of personal property must report, on the form provided by the assessor, all taxable personal property which was owned by the person or business on Jan. 1, 2013.
There will be a form for individuals owning personal property, and a separate form for business and commercial personal property owners.
Ripley also noted that the reporting of business and commercial property has changed for items purchased after Jan. 2, 2006. Those items shall be depreciated using the Cost Recovery Tables, as specified in RSMO 137.122, and based on the IRS MACRS tables.
"Every year, a few property owners forget to return their lists," Ripley said, "so we make every effort to remind people to return them on time."
Those not returning a completed list to the assessor by the March 1 deadline are subject to penalty.
"Penalties range from $10 to $100 depending upon the value of the property," Ripley said. "The statutes provide the assessor with almost no discretion to waive the penalties."
The assessor advises that the best way to remember to return the list on time and avoid a penalty is to fill out the form, sign it, make a copy of it, and put it in the mail the same day you receive it. A copy of the form may be helpful if a question arises regarding the filing of the form.
Property owners who have not received a list, or who are new residents to the county, are not excused from filing, and should contact the assessor's office to obtain a form at 660-646-8000 ext. 2, or stop by the office on the first floor of the courthouse.
Assessor to mail personal property forms
Livingston County Assessor Steve Ripley will soon mail forms to property owners for listing their personal property which is subject to assessment for the 2013 assessment year.


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Car crash kills 1 baby, injures another
Car crash kills 1 baby, injures another
MADISON COUNTY, Ark. —
Arkansas State Police said a 9-month-old Elisha Vanhoose of Sprindale was killed in a car wreck in Madison County Monday morning.
According to the police report, Hannah Bryan of Springdale was driving a vehicle with the girl and a 6-month-old boy when the wreck occured.
The report said that Bryan was driving west on Highway 16 when the car went off the road and stuck a sign, sending the car down a steep embankment. The car struck several trees and came to a final stop on its side.
Bryan and the 6-month-old boy were taken to Mercy Hospital in Springfield Missouri. Their conditions are unknown.


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Veteran driver Morgan Shepherd, 72, is listed as the driver of the Circle Sport Racing No. 33 Chevrolet for the Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sunday, July 13. Shepherd is attempting to stretch his own record as the oldest driver to compete in NASCAR's top division.
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BK Racing announced Wednesday, Feb. 5, that driver Morgan Shepherd will try to become the oldest driver to race in the Daytona 500 later this month. Shepherd turned 72 years old in October of last year and was the oldest driver to drive in a Sprint Cup race last year at New Hampshire. He'll attempt to qualify in the No. 93 Toyota.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College head volleyball coach Todd Caughlin announced today that Hannah Vadakin will be joining the Cobras for the fall of 2011 from Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
A right-side hitter, Vadakin calls Centennial, Colorado home where she was a three-time letter winner for the Little High School volleyball team. Named to the All-State Honorable Mention Team in 2009 Vadakin spent the last season at Graceland University.
"Hannah brings to Coker a high level playing experience from both her club program and Graceland University," said Caughlin. "She understands that success on the court works hand-in-hand with success in the classroom. She wants to be on the floor and wants to make an impact with the program. I look forward to seeing what the future holds."
In addition to her on the court success, Vadakin is a four-time member of the honor roll and a member of the National Honors Society. She plans on majoring in Sports Management when she arrives at Coker in the fall.
One of nine new players joining the Cobras this season, Vadakin and the rest of the team are looking forward to big things during Coach Caughlin's second year in command.


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Kia is having a busy year. The automaker is launching the Niro, a gas-electric hybrid with style, utility, and 50 mpg in combined driving. Redesigned Cadenza sedan and Sportage crossover SUV models also arrive, and the Optima family sedan lineup expands with hybrid and plug-in hybrid variants. The Soul adds an available turbocharged engine, and many Kia models get next-generation infotainment systems along with active headlights and automatic emergency braking.
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The 19th century psychologist William James observed, "All our life ... is but a mass of habits."
Ad men in the 20th century took this aphorism to heart. It wasn't enough to simply sell a product; the goal was to hook consumers and keep them coming back.
In his new book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg, a business reporter for The New York Times, explains how some companies have achieved enormous success by altering people's habits. By luck or design, they've been tapping into a powerful psychological pattern: the "habit loop."
The habit loop is a three-part process. First, "there's a cue, which is kind of a trigger for an automatic behavior to start unfolding," Duhigg tells Morning Edition's Renee Montagne. "There's a routine, which is the behavior itself ... and then there's a reward, which tells our brain whether we should store this habit for future use or not."
Toothpaste is a perfect example of how companies put the habit loop to use. About a hundred years ago, says Duhigg, no one in America brushed his or her teeth. But when one of the nation's most prominent advertising executives, Claude C. Hopkins, heard about a new toothpaste called Pepsodent, he thought he could make a killing.
"Claude C. Hopkins had made his name creating habits around products and making them famous," Duhigg says. "He had these two simple rules: make a product into a daily habit — find some simple cue, something that's going to trigger the consumer — and second of all, you have to give them the reward. ... He intuited [the habit loop] years before laboratories had proven that it exists."
The cue Hopkins used to sell his toothpaste was the filmy plaque that forms naturally on teeth. "For years, people had felt a film on their teeth and had never worried about it, and you don't need toothpaste to get rid of it," Duhigg says. But Hopkins drew people's attention to it by creating posters that read, "Get rid of that film. Pepsodent gives you a beautiful smile."
"For the first time, people started buying toothpaste. Hopkins actually started the tooth-brushing habit in America with Pepsodent," Duhigg says.
Duhigg points out that the toothpaste's mere ability to remove plaque would not have been enough to enshrine tooth-brushing into a daily routine. A reward was needed: In this case, it was the tingling, clean feeling you get after brushing your teeth. When consumers did not brush their teeth, they missed that feeling.
"This gets to how habits work," Duhigg says. "The reason why these cues and rewards are so important is because over time, people begin craving the reward whenever they see the cue, and that craving makes a habit occur automatically."
The science of habit-forming can be used not only to sell products, but also to transform people or entire companies. To do this, Duhigg says, you have to target a particularly significant behavior he calls a "keystone habit."
"If you can change a keystone habit, you unlock all these other patterns in someone's life or in an organization," Duhigg says.
He provides the example of Alcoa. When Paul O'Neill took over as CEO, the relationship between managers and employees had long been fraught — some 15,000 workers had recently gone on strike.
"When he first got hired, everyone expected him to come in and say, 'I'm going to concentrate on profits and efficiency and making people work harder.' But instead what he said was, 'My No. 1 priority is transforming worker safety habits within this company, so that we have zero injuries' — which is a big deal in a company where all of your employees handle molten metals," Duhigg says.
By focusing on worker safety and examining how an inefficient manufacturing process is dangerous to employees and produces subpar aluminum, O'Neill found a way to bring the entire corporation in line.
He catalyzed a series of better practices and habits throughout Alcoa, making it one of the world's most profitable and efficient companies.
"One of the characteristics of a keystone habit is that it creates a culture. That's why it seems to have such a profound influence on other patterns in our lives," Duhigg says.
The 19th century psychologist William James once said all our life is but a mass of habits. It's certainly something ad men in the 20th century used to a great advantage. As our colleague Renee Montagne learned, getting people to buy a product over and over again means literally creating in them the habit of using that product.
In his new book, "The Power of Habit," New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg explores the science behind forming and changing habits and how that knowledge has been successfully employed in business, beginning with a rather basic set of behaviors, what he calls the habit loop.
CHARLES DUHIGG: There's a cue which is kind of a trigger for an automatic behavior to start unfolding. And then there's a routine, which is the behavior itself, and this is usually what we think of when we think about habits. And then there's a reward. And the reward is what tells our brain whether we should store this habit for future use or not.
MONTAGNE: Let's begin, as you do in the book, with a particular habit that seems like it's been around from the beginning of time but in fact is about 90 years old: the habit of brushing your teeth with a toothpaste. And in this case we're talking about Pepsodent.
DUHIGG: Exactly. About 100 years ago, no one in America brushed their teeth. No one was ever using toothpaste. So this one guy discovered a new toothpaste named Pepsodent, and he went to a friend of his - one of the nation's largest advertising executives - and said I've got this stuff and I think we can make a killing. Now, the guy he went to, Claude C. Hopkins, had made his name creating habits around products and making them famous. He had these two simple rules: make a product into a daily habit, find some simple cue, something that's going to trigger the consumer; and second of all, you have to give them the reward, just like the habit loop that we just spoke about. He kind of intuited it years before laboratories had proven that it exists.
MONTAGNE: So his cue, which he figured out for Pepsodent toothpaste, was what?
DUHIGG: The film you feel on your teeth. For years people had felt a film on their teeth and had never worried about it. And you don't need toothpaste to get rid of it. But what he said was: I can use this. And he created these posters that said: Get rid of that film, Pepsodent gives you a beautiful smile. And what happened was, for the first time people started buying toothpaste. Hopkins actually started the toothbrushing habit in America with Pepsodent.
MONTAGNE: OK. But it wasn't just people worrying about the film on their teeth. That, as you write, would not have turned it into a daily routine that everyone did.
DUHIGG: That's exactly right. What every consumer said was, well, after I brush my teeth, my mouth kind of tingles. And if I forget to brush my teeth, I miss that tingling, I crave that tingling. This gets to how habits work. The reason why these cues and rewards are so important is because over time people begin craving the reward whenever they see the cue. And that craving makes a habit occur automatically.
MONTAGNE: You give an example of changing a habit that you call a keystone habit, and the example has to do with the company Alcoa.
DUHIGG: That's right. For some reason there are certain habits that seem to matter more than others. We call these keystone habits. And if you can change a keystone habit, you unlock all these other patterns in someone's life or in an organization. And the best example of this is Alcoa, the largest aluminum company on Earth when Paul O'Neill took it over, and Paul O'Neill later became Treasury secretary. When he first got hired, everyone expected him to come in and say I'm going to concentrate on profits and efficiency and making people work harder. But instead what he said was my number one priority is transforming worker safety habits within this company so that we have zero injuries, which is a big deal in a company where all of your employees handle molten metal.
MONTAGNE: How did the crescendo of other better habits fall out of changing one habit?
DUHIGG: One of the characteristics of a keystone habit is that it creates a culture. That's why it seems to have such a profound influence on other patterns in our lives. For a long time, all the managers and the employees had kind of been at odds. In fact, there had been this huge strike of 15,000 workers at Alcoa. And then Paul O'Neill comes in and says here's something that both of us can agree on: We need to change our habits around worker safety. And management and workers were able to sit down at the same table, and all of a sudden they realized to change those habits, to make safety automatic, you have to do certain things - like, for instance, you have to look at your production line. When does the manufacturing process get out of whack? Because an out-of-whack manufacturing process is dangerous to employees. It also creates subpar aluminum. So if we make it safer for employees, if we bring everything in line, we actually make better aluminum also. By focusing on this one keystone habit, worker safety, Paul O'Neill set off a series of changes through the corporation that made it one of the most profitable companies on Earth and one of the most efficient companies ever.
MONTAGNE: There's another example you use. It's for a particular product, Febreze, which is a pretty successful product now. But when it was introduced back in the '90s, it was a tough sell.
DUHIGG: Febreze today is one of the most successful products on Earth. It earns more than a billion dollars a year. But when it was first released it was a complete flop, because Febreze is this amazing spray that you can spray onto any fabric and it makes smells disappear. So if you have a dog on your couch and your couch terrible, if you spray Febreze on it, the smell just is eradicated. But the problem is that Procter and Gamble's marketers who were selling Febreze discovered people who have bad smells in their lives don't smell them after a little while. The cue for this habit completely disappears in people's lives. So what they did is they completely reformulated Febreze. It used to something that was scentless. They invented a perfume that was strong enough to withstand the Febreze formula and poured it in so that Febreze had its own smell. And then instead of selling it to people who have bad smells in their lives, they decided to sell it to regular people who just clean their homes as the final step, the reward, in a cleaning routine. They decided to piggyback on an existing habit.
MONTAGNE: The habit of cleaning and then the good feeling you have after you've put the final touches on some cleaning.
DUHIGG: Exactly. It's that feeling at the end - oh, I just vacuumed the carpet, it looks so nice. And now I can give a little spray of Febreze and all of a sudden things smell delightful. It's like a signal to myself that I've done a great job. All Procter and Gamble had to do was look for the cues and the rewards and all of a sudden this product became a huge seller.
MONTAGNE: Thank you very much for joining us.
DUHIGG: Sure, absolutely.
MONTAGNE: Charles Duhigg is the author of "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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When Philadelphia's own Free Energy formed in 2008, they lived in relative darkness before deciding to step into the light a year ago. Upon their arrival, the five piece outfit was met with an enormous amount of buzz, and with the release of their debut album, they are taking the rock world by storm in 2010.
Their fun spirited rock has a reminiscent appeal to it, as if pulled right from a batch of 70's records. So while their heady and raw sound is fringed with familiarity,it managed to distance the group from a huge pool of emerging indie rock bands. Fusing elements of 70's glam, power pop, bubble gum, and arena rock, the band unabashedly embraces poppy hooks and boy-girl romance, wooing critics and fans with their exuberant and joyous take on life. That take won the attention of LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, who produced the band's debut album, "Stuck on Nothing," for DFA Records. The album's spring arrival saw the band quickly catapulted to the national stage, with stellar SXSW performances cementing what fans knew all along: Free Energy's "hopelessly hopeful" music is not only jam-packed with fun,it's also really good.
Website: http://freeenergymusic.com/
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Recent Release: Stuck On Nothing
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Label: DFA Records
Origin: Philadelphia, PA
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When Philadelphia's own Free Energy formed in 2008, they lived in relative darkness before deciding to step into the light a year ago. Upon their arrival, the five piece outfit was met with an enormous amount of buzz, and with the release of their debut album, they are taking the rock world by storm in 2010.