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Down With Audio Interfaces
I often get asked about the future of interfaces: "Wouldn't it be great", people say, "if we could just talk to our computers like in Star Trek? Aren't voice recognition and talking computers the interface of the future?" A lot of people seem to think that all interface problems can be solved via voice. But I have a one word answer: Voicemail.
Everyone hates voicemail and voicemail systems. And with good reason. These days voicemail is getting pretty "smart" : you can now say "Yes" and "No" instead of pressing 1 or 2 in response to questions (unless you have an accent, in which case don't bother). You can even say a person's name to be connected to a someone else's extension. But technical problems aside, these are patches on a fatally flawed medium.
Audio interfaces will always lack something that visual interfaces posess effortlessly: the ability to jump around at will. If you don't care about the information in a paragraph, you skip to the next one. You don't have to inform the piece of paper you are reading that you want to navigate, you just do it. You look here, then there. You scan. You find what's interesting. Visual interfaces excel because they let you throw away the unneeded information-chaff and focus on what you want to know. There is no analog in the audible world. When you're listening, it takes substantially longer to know where you are and what you're listening to. When using an audio interface, you are forced to be linear: a word follows the word that came before it and precedes the word after it. There is no way to get to the last word without hearing the two words before it. There's no getting around it. It sucks.
An example: imagine you are using a conventional voicemail implementation on a computer with a standard display. There would be a button for skipping, a button for replaying, a button for saving, a button for deleting, a button for hearing the time and date the message was left. In short, all of the normal voicemail actions. If the designer was ambitious, they could even have include a widget to let you scrub through the message. When you want to delete a message, you'd roam the interface with your eyes, reading each button label in a fraction of a second, find the delete button, and click it. Simple and quick. The important point is that you are effortlessly flitting your eyes past all of the information you don't want, to find the information you do want. In fact, a very common phone system—the cell phone—has a display too, and if its voice mail interface had some hint of humanity to it, it would at least show a visual menu telling you what button performed what action.
But instead, you have to wait for the voicemail system to tell you what number to press to delete the message. Yet before it tells you how to delete the message, it will first tell you how to replay the message, skip the message, move to the previous message, save the message for later, and perhaps force you to listen to an advertisment from your service provider. And because it's audio and linear, you can't skip any of it. The more complex voicemail gets, the longer you'll have to wait. With an audio interface, you have no way of moving past the information you don't want.
The reason why the Candorville cartoon shown at the top of this post is funny is because it illustrates a lose-lose situation in voicemail: if you have instructions read to you before every message, listening to your voicemail takes forever; if you don't have the instructions read at all, you'll never know what to do. It's a Catch-22. And that's the crux of the problem: there doesn't exist a good way of providing instructions in purely audio interfaces. Sometimes a balance can be struck, but it will always be the best of a bad set of solutions. It will never even be good.
I know that I've made egregious mistakes because I didn't want to wait for the instructions and I thought I remembered what button to push. But, do I press 7 to save a message and 9 to delete it? Or is it 9 to save and 7 to delete? Naturally, I remembered incorrectly. The moral of the story is that voice-based interfaces can cost you a date.
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That's not fair. "Talk to our computers like in Star Trek" means to me that you would say "Delete this message" or "Computer, when is my appointment with Sara?". The computer would understand spoken commands in context and summarize relevant information. Then the problems you point out do not arise. Talking and listening, like looking, are natural human activities.
We are at least 100 years away from such technology, but we are making progress. Please do not discredit audio interfaces in general.
Oh, I should add, that a good audio interface is more fitting than a visual one in some situations, for example when asking for directions while driving, or asking your car to auto-drive you the next whiskey bar.
I agree with Pgan on this one, and let me explain why. Audio interfaces as they are now are only useful in certain situations, but mainly in ubiquitous computing (make a computer do something for you anywhere you are, such as in your house, with "turn off all the lights and appliances", or to your PDA with "show me the nearest pub", and so on).
Audio interfaces excel not as systems for general computing but at doing very specific things very quickly–no menus or virtual paths, just straight-to-the-point tasks. In fact, it's my personal belief that the apex of interfaces will be an AI that understands every word you say and does it immediately–everything else (sifting through websites, browsing virtual galleries, etc) will be done just like they are today, only because they're virtual (using augmented reality), we can move through the information/content much faster and in a natural manner.
Oh man, someone was telling about some research or developments going on in audio interface design right now. This research involved the acronym TTH — Time To Human — to talk about how easy or frustrating audio systems were. Apparently T-Mobile's customer service has the lowest (quickest) TTH out of any major cell phone company. I think I've never actually been frustrated with T-Mobile's customer service or anything. They've been surprisingly easy to deal with.
Audio interfaces seem to be inherently linear… until you realize that human-to-human conversation can be purely audio, yet be nonlinear and interactive. Perhaps this is what AI will be able to mimic some day? In a conversation, you can interrupt the person and say "but what about xyz? that's what I want to know" or whatever, analogous to how you would skim a visual text. If audio interfaces became good enough, they would allow for this kind of interruption and be able to process your requests with greater understanding than dudeguybot or smarterchild.
Although I think you're really on to something with this bit–
"and if its voice mail interface had some hint of humanity to it, it would at least show a visual menu telling you what button performed what action."
This works for voice mail, but not necessarily for every audio interface. Unless this voice mail visual menu would be sent to your phone as a whole other type of information (if not, the menu would have to come with the phone, or be installed on it or whatever). In that case, you'd have an entirely different type of cell phone technology on your hands (I think?), and every call you make could send you things like menus and all other kinds of multimedia, and this will probably happen when blackberry-like devices replace cell phones.
And I just read your last sentence, ouch… was that the catalyst of making this post?
(PS. Sorry this is such a long / rambling rant.)
Thanks for all of the insightful comments. I think wasn't as clear as should have been.
I do not mean to say the audio interfaces form a bad method of input–at this they excel, especially in specific domains where visual input is cumbersome or dangerous, such as in the car or on devices too small for keyboards. But they will always lack a benefit that visual interfaces give for output–audio is fundamentally linear.
I'd argue that the ability to interrupt an audio interface to ask for new information does not mean that audio output is not linear. In visual output, the same organ that perceives the information can change what information it is perceiving. That is, the eye plays an active role in information processing. The same cannot be said for audio output. In order to change what is being heard, one must first think about what one wants to be hearing, form it into a sentence, and say it (with possible modifications and corrections). That is, the ear plays a passive roll in information processing.
Now, this linearity can be compensated for: if voice recognition were perfect and computers could flawlessly pass the Turing test (both challenges are many scores, if not more, years away) then indeed one could interrupt the computer asking for new pieces of information as in human-to-human communication. But, for now and in the near future, the natural language processing required for such interaction is truly science fiction. Finally, remember that we can speak faster than we type, but we can read faster than we speak.
And, as a side note, humans augment their communication with gesticulations, intonation, and eye-brow squiggles. Anyone who has been stymied trying to speak a foreign language over the phone can attest to just how important those non-audio factors are to understanding.
Needless to say, audio interfaces also lack spacial information. You can't design and you can't plan with an audio interface. So there will always be a place for visual (even in Star Trek).
Current audio interfaces are so fallable that in order to use them effectivly you need some form of feedback. As you are currently talking to the interface, that feedback really has to be visual to not be distracting. Voicemail systems and the likes, while presumably necessary, are not really the ideal place to develop audio interfaces. Currently, the place to develop them are on desktop machines and the likes, that can provide visual feedback.
I'd be interested to know what the current speech-to-text capabilities are for phone-line quality conversations. I would love for all my messages to be displayed in an email-style fashion with summaries I can skip through, and then listen to each as I please. But I would be willing to gamble that too is a little way off.
I like voicemail. I like it, and I don't make more mistakes with its menus than I do with visual menus. 7 is delete, 9 is save, 1 is hear messages. Hitting 7 twice while listening ends the message and deletes it, hitting 3 jumps ahead a few seconds in the message. Sure I've accidentally deleted a message I wanted to keep–I've also accidentally clicked "Okay" on a pop-up dialogue I meant to cancel. A lot of the ideas generated here sound cool, but I'm not really with you on the original post. Everyone doesn't hate voicemail and voicemail systems. I for one am a living exception.
Moreso than anything I just want my voicemail to have an "undo"….
I have a desktop interface to voicemail that's integrated into my email client. It has the visual control interface (play, skip forward, backward, delete, …) and unread messages are highlighted like new email messages. This completely eliminates login and listening to instructions so that you get straight to listening to the messages.
An indispensible feature is speed adjustment. You can speed up (or slow down) a message which saves time.
Deleted messages go into a trash can enabling them to be restored if desired.
It's tedious using the voicemail system directly and rarely have to anymore!
That is quite nifty! I had no idea such a thing actually existed. Now if only the carriers would beam it directly to my phone…
The post's logic is invalid.
One current audio interface is bad.
Therefore all audio interfaces now and in the future are bad.
That's analogous to saying:
One apple in this basket is bad.
Therefore all apples in this basket are bad.
Also, audio can be quite good for output, for things that are fundamentally linear, such as music and listening to a speech. Of course, combined with a flexible audio input would help for other tasks, such as booking airline reservations where the computer would ask you where you want to go, what time, etc. over the phone. I read a book about one implemented at Stanford or something like that.
Call me old fashioned, (hum rest of Bob Seger tune here if you must) – but I will NEVER get used to a machine that speaks in first person and tries to pretend that it is a sentient being and wants me to play along!
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Over in Massachusetts, Jeremy Goldberg was having an issue with his IPA. Namely, it wasn't selling well. So when the 34-year-old head brewer and co-owner at Cape Ann Brewing discovered that his supplier was discontinuing Brewer's Gold—a piney, pungent British bittering hop that flavored his IPA—he took it as a sign to re-jigger the recipe. Some of his employees, who were avid homebrewers, told Goldberg about the unusual Sorachi Ace hop. Japan's Sapporo Breweries originally developed the variety, but the brewery was unable to find a use for the uniquely lemony hop. Goldberg would. To temper Sorachi's citric character, he paired it with the herbal Chinook hop, creating an earthy, piney IPA with a bright, citrusy aroma.
Whereas Cape Ann uses Sorachi Ace as a flavoring component, New York's Brooklyn Brewery created a summery beer expressly as a platform for the singular hop. "When I smelled Sorachi Ace, the first thing that came to mind was, 'That'd make a great saison,' " says brewmaster Garrett Oliver. For last summer's Brewmaster Reserve series, he created the dry, austere, single-hopped Belgian-style saison called, fittingly, Sorachi Ace.
Though Oliver was confident that the beer would do well, the results outstripped his expectations. Sorachi Ace became the fastest-selling release in the series. While the inventive Brewmaster's Reserve beers (like the Cookie Jar Porter) are mainly one-offs and rarely bottled, the love for Sorachi Ace led Oliver to revive it for this spring and summer. The beer rolled off the factory line in large-format bottles, but the production run might be a tad smaller than expected. "People working at the brewery said, 'It's a shame that some of these will accidentally be misplaced,' " Oliver jokes.
Tea Time
Some hops aren't even developed with beer-making in mind. The Teamaker hop was developed several decades ago by researchers at Oregon State University's USDA laboratory. The scientists' goal was to harness the natural antimicrobial properties of hops while subtracting the trademark bitterness caused by the flower's alpha acids. Teamaker was engineered with low alpha acids and high beta acids, which impart aroma but no bitterness—like the perfect cup of tea, hence the name.
One of Teamaker's proposed applications is livestock production. In lieu of antibiotics, the hop could be incorporated into animal feed to lessen microbial and fungal illnesses. That's great news for farmers, but brewers were nonplussed. "It was a homeless hop," says Widmer Brothers co-owner Rob Widmer. He first heard of Teamaker from longtime Oregon hop grower Goschie Farms and was intrigued: "You can have too much bitterness, but you can't have too much hop aroma."
Widmer Brothers is one of America's first brewers to experiment with the Teamaker hop, brewing its first batch of TEAser Pale Ale in 2008. If you were lucky enough to get a pint, you would've found a heady aroma of grassy, floral hops. But sipping the pale-golden TEAser would reveal that the piney aromatics and gentle, iced tea-like flavors didn't correlate with the beer's bitterness—or lack thereof. "You get a wonderful bouquet without the beer being a tongue-scraper," says Widmer. The brewery has used Teamaker to make TEAser Pale Ale twice, though the brewers were unable to resist including a tiny amount of traditional hops. They're planning to brew it again, but there's no confirmed date. "Next time," Widmer says, "I'd be tempted to skip the bittering agents completely."
Secret Citra
Since most brewers have access to the same hops, having the means to create a proprietary variety with uncommon aromatic and bittering qualities can pay delicious dividends. A few years ago, the brewers at Sierra Nevada were aflutter over hop variety 394. In conjunction with Deschutes and Widmer Brothers, Sierra Nevada helped finance the research and development of this strain with a strange flavor profile—a hard-to-pin mix of citrus, mango and papaya. "There's even something strangely Southeast Asian about the hop," says Sierra Nevada's Bill Manley. "This was one of the most promising hops we'd seen in some time."
Sierra's brewers played around with 394, polishing and tweaking recipes to serve as the novel hop's coming-out party. By late 2008, Sierra Nevada had its eureka moment. The tropical 394, christened Citra, would drive the flavor of the Torpedo Extra IPA. When it was released in early 2009, it was Sierra's first addition to its year-round lineup since 1992.
If that sounds like a lot of time and research to spend on developing a beer for a single hop strain, it is. But unlike small brewpubs or microbreweries, Sierra Nevada and other larger brewers are uniquely positioned to do the time-consuming legwork. "We have labs and a researcher with a background in hop compounds," says Manley. "Smaller craft brewers would just have to buy a lot of hops and hope for the best."
Since Sierra Nevada cracked the seal on Citra, other brewers have quickly adopted the hop. Widmer Brothers recently released its golden Sunburn Summer Brew, while Deschutes used Citra in its Hop in the Dark black IPA. In Madison, Wis., Ale Asylum's Bedlam! mixes Trappist yeast with Citra, while Flying Fish's Exit 16 Wild Rice Double IPA is generously dosed with Citra. With the word out, now amateur brewers are clamoring to experiment with the trademarked hop. "We get frequent requests from homebrewers asking where to find Citra," Manley says. "It just takes somebody to break the ice."
Check out the July/August 2010 issue for tasting notes of beers using the hops talked about this article, as well as a Q&A with hop farmer Jason Perrault, who helped develop the new Citra hop.

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How Ryan balanced his budget
Call it Paul Ryan's 0.5 percent solution.
In a little-noticed but vital change last spring, the House Budget Committee chairman cut half a point from the annual growth rate he had allowed for Medicare spending. It gave him the extra margin needed to pay for tax cuts and still placate the right by getting to balance in 2040. But it meant breaking with Ryan's fellow Medicare reformer, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and raised this question that echoes now in the presidential campaign:
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Did Ryan cut corners with seniors to pay for tax cuts just as he accuses President Barack Obama of doing to finance health care reform?
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Indeed, calculations by POLITICO — drawn from a Congressional Budget Office analysis commissioned by Ryan in March — show that without the half-point cut, the House Republican budget would still be in the red in 2040. And Ryan's small adjustment compounds greatly over time: lowering spending for Medicare by hundreds of billions from 2030 to 2040 and well over $1 trillion from 2040 to 2050.
Now, as Mitt Romney's running mate, Ryan has pushed hard on the Medicare raid theme.
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"Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program and raiding it," Ryan told GOP delegates in Tampa, Fla. Returning to the same attack line before AARP in New Orleans last week, Ryan told the seniors lobby, "The law turned Medicare into a piggy bank for Obamacare."
But Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the Budget Committee's ranking Democrat and the man chosen to play Ryan in prepping Joe Biden for the Oct. 11 vice presidential debate, answered in kind. Ryan is the true Medicare raider, Van Hollen said, squeezing seniors to make room for the GOP's tax cuts.
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"There's no doubt that the additional cost to seniors is used to provide a tax break for people like Mitt Romney," Van Hollen told POLITICO. "I think you're going to hear the president make the argument even more … that asking seniors to pay a lot more on Medicare is being done to finance tax cuts for people like Mitt Romney."
In Ryan's case, the CBO analysis in March best illustrates the math. And because all the spending and revenue lines converge in 2040, it's an intriguing snapshot of the choices Ryan was willing to make to get to balance.
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The 17-page report first assumes enactment of his full 10-year Republican budget plan and then attempts to measure the impact if it were extended forward several decades along a path dictated by Ryan. A variety of different inflation indices are assigned to entitlement accounts by Ryan and at his instruction, revenues capped — below Obama — at 19 percent of GDP.
Ryan's Medicare reforms were central to this exercise because they kick in only outside the 10-year budget window. No longer was he seeking to do away with the Great Society legacy entirely — an idea that had proved political catnip for Democrats. Instead, the young Wisconsin Republican wanted to test a more bipartisan plan worked out with Wyden that promised a level field competition between the government-run health care program and new private alternatives.


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Could someone please tell me the origins and the meaning of the term 'Generation Next'
In terms of anthropology/sociology, the term generation refers to all the people born at the same time. For example, the Baby Boomers of the 1940s and 50s, the Hippy Generation of the 1960s, the X Generation of the 1970s. The present generation, people born in the 1980s ad 1990s has yet to be named officially. At present, though, Generation Next is adopted as a play on words. It means, not Generation X.Originally Posted by Erra
The term Next Generation refers to the generation after this, the present one. The term is also used in manufacturing, especialy hardware and software, and even Star Trek has a "Next Generation" of cast members. 8)


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92-year-old retired school teacher faces sentencing for selling helium suicide kits
(CBS/AP) A 92-year-old retired school teacher who sold $40 helium kits to people who could use it to kill themselves faces sentencing in San Diego for failing to file federal tax returns.
Sharlotte Hydorn faces a maximum term of one year in prison when she is sentenced Monday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernard Skomal.
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Both the prosecution and defense agree she should be spared prison and sentenced to five years' probation. But prosecutors recommend that Hydorn be ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution to the IRS, a charge that the defense is asking she also be spared.
Hydorn told authorities she knew the helium kits were intended to be used to commit suicide but she said she thought they would be used by the terminally ill. She pleaded guilty to the tax charge, but under an agreement with prosecutors she will not be in charged in state court with involvement in six suicides.
The Spokane, Wash, native began assisting physicians with patient suicides after her husband, Rex, died of colon cancer, said Charles Goldberg, her attorney. Her husband was in "agonizing pain" and did not want to die "filled with tubes in a hospital."
Hydorn felt she could design a helium hood that would be more comfortable for patients than the ones she saw doctors using. She received "thousands" of orders for her hoods and began charging for her time and materials.
Last year agents raided Hydorn's home in San Diego, CBS Los Angeles reported at the time. Agents who raided the home found checks that were not cashed and thousands of dollars in cash from buyers.
"To Ms. Hydorn, her involvement in the suicide kits was an act of compassion and not based on greed," Goldberg wrote.
Prosecutors said she took no steps to verify the physical condition, age, identity or mental state of her customers and therefore had no idea whether her kits were being bought by people suffering from depression or by minors acting without the consent of an adult. Court documents say she sold more than 1,300 kits to people across the U.S. and abroad, mostly be mail or phone.
Hydorn's kits included tubing, material for the hood and a user diagram. A needed helium source was not included.
Investigators determined that the kits were sold to at least 50 people in San Diego County since 2007 and that four of those people last year used the kits to commit suicide. None was terminally ill, according to investigators.
Hydorn has pleaded guilty to the tax charge dating back to 2007 and acknowledged she made more than $150,000 in income from various sources during that period, including from the sale of helium kits.
After her home was raided last year, Hydorn told The Associated Press that she wasn't responsible for who uses the kit and was only trying to help people in pain. She said she had been in business for three years and sold up to 60 kits a month under the name "GLADD Group." In court, she admitted she made $66,717 in 2010 and paid no taxes on that.
She has been allowed to remain free on $10,000 bond on the condition she not assist any suicides.
According to ProCon.org, Oregon, Washington, and Montana are the only three states to have legalized physician-assisted suicide.
Recent deaths by high-profile right-to-die advocates such as Jack Kevorkian and Peter Goodwin have brought renewed spotlight to the issue.


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wow.. I slept off after we restricted them to 130..
So much for the same team theory..
Ian Chappell hit the nail on the head that the Indian team (the captain, coach etc. included) were just too overconfident coming in here... Some of the batting has been exposed and these guys better learn to combat quick, short pitched bowling into the body... Losing is not bad as long as you can learn from it and hopefully, Dhoni will understand that stuff like having a struggling batsman at 3 will never win you games, even if he is the captain and perhaps the best LOI batsman of recent times...
I suppose the lessons for INdia from this campaign would be:
1. You need to take back up openers and back up batsmen. Packing your squad with bowlers makes no sense and gets found out when you have niggles all around.
2. Proper fitness tests are required before selection. Trusting just word of physios who haven't even met the players doesn't seem enough. Also, if you are taking injured guys on tour in the hopes that they will get fit soon, it makes sense to have backups around.. Couldn't the BCCI just take care of expenses and have two more guys with the team as "backups" for Sehwag and Zaheer?
3. A lot of our bowlers need to get better at T20 bowling, mainly Zak and Ishant. Might make sense to rest these two from all T20s too and preserve them for the longer formats where they are so much more useful.
4. Irfan should not bat at 7, Yousuf should not bat at 6... Both seem to be one position too high in international matches...
5. The parttime spin options could be used more often... We didn't seem to have a plan B once batsmen went after Ojha... More worryingly, Ojha himself doesn't seem to have a plan B.
6. Taking one or two batsmen with decent to good techniques will always help on pitches which are not roads...
I don't mind picking the same side, perhaps Dhoni genuinely believes this is the best 11 out of the players available. Unfortunately, I don't think Ravindra Jadeja should be anywhere near a T20 side for India.. his batting just does no cut it and his bowling is not better than Ojha's... And I guess even if we did replace Raina with some other youngster, they may get found out too. You just don't come across 140Ks+ fast bowling with balls directed to your ribcage in India at all...
Hopefully, Dhoni and the whole team, including staff, can get better through this experience.
One thing that did worry me is that Dhoni seemed to be thinking that all criticism in India is unwarranted.. He said like "hoepfully we will win a few and they will be back praising us again"... That is worrying. While most of the criticism is indeed unjust, there are quite a few that are valid.
He didn't need to put himself at 3 unnecessarily when Raina had done well there.. It was a bad move regardless of the fact that most probably Raina would have been found out at 3..
And Ravindra Jadeja is a misfit for T20s unless he is actually considered to be better than Ojha as a left arm spinner... And one would think Murali Kartik was better than either anyways.
hopefully, he can at least understand that SOME criticism is still quite fair.


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You'll know it when you feel itBecause this smartwatch sits on your wrist, it can give you a gentle tap the instant you receive an alert.
Stay in touch like never beforeYou won't just send and receive messages, calls, and mail more easily and efficiently. You'll express yourself in unique, fun, and more personal ways. Communicating with the smartphone is discreet, sophisticated, and nuanced - a different way to connect with others.
Messages, calls, and mail designed for your wristThe ways you communicate on your smartphone are even more immediate on the smartwatch. To read a message or email, just raise your wrist. You can take a quick phone call using the built-in speaker and microphone.
Easy ways to respondYou don't always have time to craft a lengthy response to a message or email. With the smartwatch, you can make a quick but meaningful reply.
Say it with feelingYou don't even have to use words. The Digital Touch feature gives you fun, spontaneous ways to connect with other smartwatch wearers, wrist to wrist.
Sensitive enough to tell a tap from a pressIn addition to recognizing touch, the smartwatch senses force, adding a different dimension to the user interface. With Force Touch, pressing firmly on the display brings up additional controls in apps.
Technology with a more human touchThis linear actuator inside the smartwatch taps you on the wrist when you receive a notification, press down on the display, or use Digital Touch. The Taptic Engine gives different kinds of notifications and actions their own distinct character. So even with the accompanying audio cues turned off, you can feel the difference between an alarm and an incoming phone call without even looking.
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Smart Watch Case
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- Ceramic back
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- Stainless steel
- Name
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- 130-200 mm
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- Pin-and-tuck
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- Fluoroelastomer
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- Soft white
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- 11.4 mm
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- 42.4 g
- Preloaded Software
- Siri
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These are all the News & Announcements posted in April, 2011.
Thursday, 28
Staff Reading Pick
Here is another reading pick from the Logan Library Staff.
Book: The Diary by Eileen Goudge
Recommended by: Karen, Senior Librarian
This novel blends romance and mystery when two grown daughters learn about their mother through her diary. Who was she? What choices did she have to make? Is their father the love of their mother's life, or was there another? How well do adult children know their parents? The answers could surprise you. A delightful novel, moving, warm, and heartrending.
Want more reading suggestions? View previous staff picks.
Posted By Logan Library at 8:55 AM / Category:Staff Picks
Monday, 25
Author Night
Probably the most frequent comment heard last Friday evening at Logan Library's Author Night was "Wow, what a great event". With more than 1,000 people in attendance authors Shannon Hale, Ally Condie, James Dashner, Jessica Day George, and Brandon Mull, thrilled the audience, told stories, talked about each other, and answered questions from excited fans. Book signing followed and continued until midnight.
Here is a photo file to help you relive the experience if you were there, and to enjoy the experience if you could not attend.
Posted By Logan Library at 11:39 AM / Category:Events
Monday, 18
Reminder: Author Night This Friday, April 22
Remember, the Logan Library's Author Night is this Friday, April 22 at 6:00 p.m. at the Mount Logan Middle School Auditorium (875 N 200 E). We will be featuring presentations and books signings by Ally Condie, James Dashner, Jessica Day George, Shannon Hale, and Brandon Mull.
Posted By Logan Library at 12:39 PM / Category:Events
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Photo: Financial services, CRDB Bank Ltd., Tanzania. (Omar Kilima, 2009) Evaluation Department,Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark.
The private sector is widely recognised as a main driver of economic growth and employment creation - key dimensions in the international community's work to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction. Increasingly, development partners work directly with the private sector in developing countries to deliver programmes in areas such as enterprise development, aid for trade, financial sector policy and investment climate reform. Read more about evaluating support to private sector development.
This day-long workshop brought together the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation, along with other key actors and development finance institutions, to share experiences on evaluating private sector-oriented development co-operation.
The objectives of the workshop were to:
Workshop documents and presentations
Workshop agenda
Workshop report
Opening remarks by Martyn Pennington – Chair of the DAC Evaluation Network
Opening remarks by Caroline Heider - DGE and Senior Vice President, IEG, World Bank Group
Evaluation of targeted programmes for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) :
Evaluation of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)
The Independent Evaluation Group is an independent unit within the World
Bank Group (WBG). It reports directly to the Board of Executive Directors, which oversees IEG's work through its Committee on Development Effectiveness.
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In addition, I wanted to create truly unique Raku wall pieces for distinctive home decor. I've always loved mixed media and many of my wall art pieces are a reflection of this… often containing mixed fibers, copper wire embellishment, metallic threads, turquoise beads, feathers and anything else I think might complement the work!
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The behavior of an emotionally abusive parent or caregiver does not
support a child's healthy development and well-being—instead, it creates an
environment of fear, hostility, or anxiety. A child is sensitive to the
feeling, opinions, and actions of his or her parents. Emotionally harmful
attitudes may include the following.
This behavior often includes rejecting the child by:
Emotionally abusive parents say things or convey feelings that can
hurt a child deeply. Common examples include:
Some emotionally abusive parents place ill-advised or impossibly
difficult expectations on their children, such as:
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This harbor community is bracing for water rationing this summer and even more severe restrictions this fall in the face of continuing drought, dwindling groundwater and a rising demand from tourists who are flocking here in numbers not seen since 2000.
Ron Hite, district manager for the island's water utility, Southern California Edison, told the Avalon City Council recently that this is the driest year on the island in 123 years.
Edison plans to impose restrictions in July that will call for the island's 2,200 ratepayers to reduce water consumption by 25% or face penalties on their monthly bills. If current trends continue, Edison could be forced to reduce water usage by 50% in November, the utility warned.
If that happens, restaurants may have to serve customers with paper and plastic plates, cups and utensils because they won't have enough water to wash dishes, business leaders say. Hotels may be forced to turn away customers.
The restrictions could have a devastating effect on a building boom in Avalon spurred by a steady uptick in tourism over the last four years. More than half a dozen projects are underway or planned in the two-square-mile community, including a museum, hotel and a spa scheduled to open in July.
With so much at stake, many Avalon officials and business owners are pointing an accusing finger at Edison, which acquired the island's water, gas and electric utility in 1962.
"Our good fortune in having some of the highest visitor counts we've ever seen is not why we are going into serious water rationing in July," said Wayne Griffin, president and chief executive officer of the Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce. "We're going into water rationing because of a terrible drought and because Edison has done very little to increase our water supplies over the past half-century."
Avalon City Councilwoman Cinde MacGugan-Cassidy said the island's population has doubled to 4,000 since 1978 and the visitor count has jumped from 450,000 to 850,000. "What has Edison done to double the amount of water available to Avalon over those years? Not much."
More water is probably on the way, but it is several years away.
The Catalina Island Co., which owns most of the developable land on the 75-square-mile island about 22 miles offshore, plans to fund construction of a new $2-million well to tap water supplies in bedrock hundreds of feet beneath the city's diminishing reservoir and aquifer supplies.
If tests validate the well's potential, and the permitting process goes smoothly, it could begin producing up to 300 acre-feet of water within a few years. The new resource would be evenly divided between the Island Co. and local ratepayers, who consumed a total of 400 acre-feet of water last year.
The utility said that maintaining the water system and boosting its capacity has been costly and time-consuming. In recent years, the utility has made seismic improvements at dams and reservoirs, replaced a pump house, repaired infrastructure damaged by fire and increased capacity of the island's main water storage basin, Thompson Reservoir.
Edison's desalination plant provides about 80% of the roughly 250,000 gallons of water consumed on the island each day during the slow winter months, with the rest coming from groundwater wells, utility officials said. In the summer, when the island population grows to more than 8,000 people on a given day, Edison relies mostly on groundwater wells.
Avalon is operating in Stage 1 restrictions, which prohibit the washing of streets, piers, parking lots and driveways. July's restrictions will fall under Stage 2, which begins when the water level at Thompson Reservoir drops below 300 acre-feet. In Stage 3, water usage must be reduced by 50%, and in Stage 4 by 75%.
In Hite's remarks to the City Council, he noted that U.S. government meteorologists are forecasting that an El Niño weather pattern will return to the Pacific Ocean this winter, probably bringing ample rain to California.


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Steven McRae will perform with American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in June. The Royal Ballet Principal will perform the role of Lankendem in Le Corsaire.
The performances are the result of an exchange programme which will see ABT Principal Cory Stearns perform with The Royal Ballet in December 2013 with performances to be announced later in the year.
Steven's upcoming performances with The Royal Ballet include roles in The Nutcracker, Raymonda Act III, Onegin, Voices of Spring, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, La Bayadère and Symphony in C.


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GOP plots to prevent more Akins
Read their lips: no more Todd Akins.
In the wake of the GOP's Election Day beatdown, influential Republican senators say enough's enough: Party leaders need to put the kibosh on the kind of savage primaries that yielded candidates like Akin — and crippled Republican prospects of taking the Senate in two straight election cycles.
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( Also on POLITICO: John Cornyn on Senate races: GOP blew it)
It's time, they say, for Washington bosses to be more assertive about recruiting and then defending promising candidates. They argue that it's critical to start enlisting local conservative activists as allies and to ease the tea party versus Washington dynamic that's wreaked havoc on the party.
All easier said than done, of course. Tea party types have relished showing the chosen candidates of the Washington establishment a thing or two — and it's hard to see them laying down arms overnight. But after a sure-bet election in 2012 turned into an electoral disaster, Republicans say resolving their primary problem is, well, their primary problem.
Now, top Republicans are considering splitting the difference between the heavy hand they wielded in 2010 that prompted sharp blowback from the right and their mostly hands-off approach of 2012. Both strategies produced a handful of unelectable candidates, so senators are gravitating toward a middle ground: engage in primaries so long as they can get some cover on the local level.
"We ought to make certain that if we get engaged in primaries that we're doing it based on the desires, the electability and the input of people back in the states that we're talking about," Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, the incoming National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, told POLITICO. "And not from the perception of what political operatives from Washington, D.C., think about who ought to be the candidate in state X."
The first-term Moran, who was elected to the spot last week by his Senate colleagues, tapped incoming Texas freshman Sen. Ted Cruz as a vice chairman for grass roots and outreach. The plan, according to party leaders, is to employ Cruz's tea party star power to help win over activist groups that may be wary of the NRSC and help unify the GOP behind a single candidate in crucial Senate races.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP Senate in 2014 a longshot)
Other conservative senators who have clout with the base may be enlisted to this effort, as well, Moran said, such as Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, former head of Club for Growth.


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Though an open secret for years, the realization finally sunk in thanks to some high-profile news reports this week that, yup, Americans are being watched on a massive scale.
As the Guardian informed us Wednesday, the government's National Security Agency enjoys unfettered access to your phone records (and has since 2006, if you don't recall). It can read your thoughts as they form, keystroke by keystroke through a program called PRISM, WashPo told us a day later and Fast Company explained in detail.
Remember that closed-circuit capture of one of the Boston bombers circulated by the media? Those security cams are widespread, and could very well record you as you wait for the train, stroll through an intersection or walk from office to car.
New York Mayor Bloomberg, discussing domestic spying and drones a couple months ago, said it's a given that privacy is a thing of the past.
"We're going to have more visibility and less privacy," he said on the radio, per the New York Daily Post. "I don't see how you stop that. And I don't think it's a question of whether that's good or bad."
Better to ask, he insists, how do we live with it? Can we even find privacy in an age of surveillance?
Yeah, you can. But it's a huge pain in the neck, Wired explains.
Worried about phone tapping? Buy a burner phone–no contract, pay-by-the-minute. With cash. The throw it away. Got some secret e-mails to send? Use a secure e-mail service that encrypts your messages and don't open any attachments (that gives away your location). Set your IM to off-the-record.
Even then, all that's moot if the person on the other end doesn't take the same precautions.
If you're like most Americans, of course, you share the most intimate details voluntarily. You build networks of personal acquaintances online, mostly through Facebook. You probably list your hometown, your place of employment, where you went to school. You post your favorite quotes and links to articles you read and places you've traveled. You upload your job history to LinkedIn. At work, you probably commiserate with pals on g-chat about your tedious workday and co-worker crushes.
Someone you've never met could write your unauthorized biography, if they cared. (Chances are they don't.)
That's the nature of data-mining: You collect reams of information, most of it goes unused and the anomalies get put under the microscope for the putative aim of fighting terrorism, as President Obama reminded us in a defensive speech delivered in San Jose today.
It's not as if no one warned you about it.
Some the blame has shifted to the private sector, as inquiring minds want to know how complicit big tech was in the whole spying-on-customers thing.
Mashable pretty much defended the powers that be, asking if we'd rather risk another 9/11 or learn to live in a world where the public is under watch.
So good luck finding some semblance of privacy. No secrets for you. Those civil liberties were exchanged for national safety during the last administration – a policy continued to this day.
"I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 10 percent security, and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience," Obama said today. "We're going to have to make some choices as a society."
A choice would be lovely, but it seems it's been made for us.
The only well-kept secret is how quickly these spying capabilities are advancing.
Find Jennifer Wadsworth on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.


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Scarboro Hills
Street, Maryland 1 course · 18 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
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+2 votes Dave Dietz › September 27, 2010
I love coming here. The Harford County Parks and Rec. crew do a great job at maintaining the course(along with some other volunteers). There are no other activities going on here except disc golf. It's a great place to get away from everything. Very quiet and peaceful. Every hole has at least two pin placements to keep things fresh. There is good variety here as well. Lots of different elevation changes, good mix between open and wooded shots. Great signage and website (http://www.scarborohills. ...
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I love coming here. The Harford County Parks and Rec. crew do a great job at maintaining the course(along with some other volunteers). There are no other activities going on here except disc golf. It's a great place to get away from everything. Very quiet and peaceful. Every hole has at least two pin placements to keep things fresh. There is good variety here as well. Lots of different elevation changes, good mix between open and wooded shots. Great signage and website (http://www.scarborohills.com ) with any info you need, makes it a breeze to find your way around. The local player base is growing and running weekly events(doubles, tags, and legal winter glow).
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+1 votes Elliot Pfarr › November 21, 2010
One of my favorite places to play. It has hole's characteristic of a goal course at the start, and gives you plenty of challenges. Doglegs, elevation changes, open holes, wooded holes. Has some nice views as well.
+1 votes Scott H › May 22, 2011
Great course that is extremely well taken care of. Holes take you through woods and fields making for a great round!
+0 votes Geremy Gieryna › October 23, 2011
+0 votes j swatso › September 14, 2017
+0 votes Facundo Silva › November 7, 2011
+0 votes Jeff VanSpriell › November 18, 2011
I moved to Maryland from Colorado in June 2011. Probably played 7 or 8 courses out there, but none compares to Scarboro Hills. Love the mixture of tight wooded shots, open fields, change of elevation. Plus the guys out at Scarboro are pretty cool and welcoming. I'm very happy to call Scarboro my "Home Course".
+0 votes Michael Sung › August 23, 2012
Nice course that is beginner to intermediate friendly but hard enough that a pro isn't going to shoot a 36 here. It's a pleasant course in which the Parks and Rec guys and the Scarboro guys take great care of. The guys in the club are great all around guys and players.
+0 votes Timothy Henshaw › January 3, 2013
Fantastic course. It was a bit of a drive for me to get to but well worth it. Played it for the first time on New Year's Day 2013 and it was a hell of a way to start the year. Great signage, layout and overall fun course. I am privileged to play Tyler in PA. and Iron Hill in DE often, and I would place this course right alongside the both. Also want to give big thanks to the locals who were super nice and welcoming. Not always the case in my experience. Maintenance and upkeep are very noticeable as is the love the people who play it often have for it. Thanks.
+0 votes Gar Neely › January 1, 2013
This course is awesome and a great way to start out the year. A+ on the grounds-keeping and the easy to follow layout. Thanx, Gar
+0 votes Josh Scarff › February 21, 2017
Great course that is not super long but has technical variations. Pads are nice and signage is decent. 20 permanent holes now with long and short positions for a lot of them. Very cool course that is a hidden paradise. The Harford County Club does a great job!
+0 votes Dave Quinlan › August 25, 2017
+0 votes Joshua Schneider › June 7, 2017
+0 votes Travis Galliher › April 27, 2018
+0 votes Alan Hicks › April 27, 2018
+0 votes Josh Pinsky › August 25, 2019
+0 votes Raymond Brown › September 18, 2019
+0 votes Corey Sargent › August 14, 2019
Played Scarboro Hills since 2009 favorite course around great scenery and layout course is challenging to any level player wooded holes are in great shape pads are great and grass and rough is kept up with Harford county disc golf club does great work to keep Scarboro top notch if you want a challenging course and a fun round head to scarbssss
-1 votes ray mclaughlin › July 18, 2011
Since playing my first round here in may i've made it a priority to get here at least once a month.Good mix of open and wooded holes with elevation changes,.water hazards and mutiple pin placements.The locals are a good bunch of people who obviously have taken great pride in their course and are still working to improve it.
-1 votes Mark Laubner › April 7, 2013
This course has a pleasant mix of woods and open holes. The terrain can be challanging to traverse because you are up and down some decent sized hills, but the folks that maintain the course are constantly making improvements and cleaning up the grounds. Scarboro does a great job hosting several tournaments through out the year, along with a year-round tag match, doubles and glow doubles.
-1 votes BRIAN MAY › August 1, 2012
-1 votes Joshua Lemly › February 26, 2012
Great mixture of holes to rip it on and control. Ongoing work continues to improve the course and great mixture of events throughout the year. Course is easy to navigate and can be enjoyed by many different skill ranged players.
-1 votes Benjamin Bohl › October 27, 2010
Very nice course and a great layout done by the guys out in Harford County...Great being able to play so close to where I grew up...Hole 17 was the only downfall on the course with the huge uphill walk..
-1 votes Tim Stevenson › September 24, 2012
-1 votes Brad Schappell › December 21, 2010
This is one of my favorites. Great open spaces and tight shots on some. All around great course. Parks and Rec keep the place really nice. The tee pads are super grippy (if it didn't just snow). Perfect course for beginner and pro alike
-1 votes Corey Stahl › June 1, 2011
Good combo of wide open and in the woods. Fun course to play. Pretty clean and quiet
-1 votes Christopher "THUMBER" da Rosa › July 22, 2011
-1 votes Chris Archibald › July 29, 2012
-1 votes Jared Brazil › April 14, 2012
-1 votes Roger Cole › June 6, 2013
Can't ask for anything more! Field holes, Wooded holes, challenging, but not too long. Many narrow drives, without trees clogging up the line. Well cared for course!
-1 votes Todd Slater › June 1, 2014
Nicely maintained course with a good mix of shots. Wooded sections are tight and challenging. Open holes are very manageable with plenty of birdie opportunities.
-1 votes Steven Penton › June 28, 2017
Love this place
-1 votes Michael Heredia › July 8, 2014
This course was challenging, yet very enjoyable! I will definitely be back whenever I am in town! My only request is that the grass be cut a little lower. It was rather hard to find my discs on some of the open fairways.
-1 votes Scott Miller › September 9, 2015
great course the second time you play but despite decent signage some baskets are tough to find. Takes a run through to figure it all out. Also, be prepared to wade through some poison ivy with errant tosses.
-1 votes Chris roseboom › July 8, 2016
Most of the holes are great from the Reds for novice. Some of the par ratings and differences between blue and red made little sense. Condition was good. First timers may have to walk the fairway prior to shooting as the map may show two baskets and there may only be one.


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Need a tyre for your wheelbarrow? Kenda make one. Need a tyre for your wheelchair? Kenda make one. Need a tyre for your fork-lift? You can get one from Kenda. Need a tyre for your bicycle? Kenda can help out there too, thankfully no matter what the bicycle they even have a selection for cyclocross bicycles which includes the Kwicker.
Kenda's mountainbike tyres are a favourite for many and as they're designed by a selection of champions they should know what they're dong when it comes to delivering tyres for the dirt. The Kwicker is their cyclo-cross tyre for loose to intermediate terrain. Their Small Block 8 CX tyre has its fans amongst those who want an outrageously fast but fragile summer tyre but does the Kwicker have what it takes to become a more robust favourite for more down and dirty conditions?
Kenda recommend that the Kwicker is suited for rough and rocky terrain, light mud, hardpack and dry conditions, so pretty much everything then. In truth you could ride it everywhere, but it really excels in certain areas. Tarmac is not one of them. On the blacktop it is outrageously draggy, as you might expect from looking at that widely spaced chunky tread built upon the foundation of a file tread down the middle, and it's not just a bit sluggish but exasperatingly knee-achingly slow. The centre line of tread might hope towards a faster paved tyre but it's made of fat chunks of tread spaced well apart so hardly smooth running meaning that if you like to use your 'cross bike to sample a smorgasbord of riding terrains you'll be adjusting your route to avoid as much tarmac as possible with Kwickers on your wheels. For such an aggressive tyre it's pretty lightweight though, and it's not a weight at the wheel you can feel sucking you down and hindering sprints out of corners, even if the friction heavy tread can do.
Off road the Kendas sluggishness is less apparent but they still drag their heels on hard dirt surfaces, you'll have to steer the Kwickers onto softer crumblier dirt to get the most from them, or wait for rain. Off road you can treat it like the small MTB tyre its tread resembles and get away with much much more than other more traditionally and meagerly treaded cyclo-cross tyres will let you, which is heaps of fun and will put a grin on the face of those who like to treat their cross bike like a slim fast mountain bike.
But it is in the mud where the Kenda Kwicker really earns its supper. Thanks to the large gaps between the knobs it doesn't clog up with clart readily and the open design offers unparalleled levels of grip in the slop. Straight line pedaling it's possible to keep putting the power down long after other tyres have started slipping and even on off-camber sections the Kwickers keep on gripping thanks to those large sticky side paddles well beyond the point where past experience is whispering that you should be tumbling into the bushes. Only the kind of waterlogged short grass that cheerfully populates cyclo-cross racing does that oodles of grip become a disadvantage; you can hear it as each tyre knob rips into the ground tearing at the grass, all that traction makes things slow going on the green.
There's no mention of a puncture protection strip in the blurb but the Kwickers haven't suffered a single breach, which is pretty unheard of as most other tyres succumb to at least a thorn every few rides, dumb luck or a fantastic defenses, it's hard to tell.
For such a rugged and sticky tyre the Kwicker wears surprisingly well, they're definitely a longer lasting tread than other tyres of a similar wide mouthed grippy ilk, this will be down to the DTC composition of the knobs. DTC, or Dual Tread Compound is Kenda's way of describing their use of L3R PRO compound with 60 shore A durometer for the center treads and softer STICK-E compound (50 shore A durometer) for the cornering knobs giving the double-whammy of longer center tread life with greater cornering control and grip. This pair of Kwickers have been used a lot over a variety of terrains and they're only just starting to show very limited signs of wear.
As a quick look at its tread profile would imply the Kwicker is a great piece of rubber for when you're going to be scrabbling for grip, be that in the loose or the slop. For the cyclo-cross rider that likes to take their skinny bike over the dirt root and rock where they should really be riding a mountainbike but revel in the inappropriateness of it all then these are a great aggressive tyre for that sort of shenanigans. For the racey types these are going to be waaaay too sluggish for fast and/or dry courses so should be left in the shed until it's been raining for at least a fortnight which is their signal to unleash muddy hell. When it's liquid and brown the Kwickers are an excellent tyre, light enough to be a viable race tread and finding grip where others can't, especially in off-camber situations where you're usually leaning on the course tape to stay upright. Those that mix a lot of road work in with their CX rides or use their bike for commuting should look elsewhere, unless they like resistance training.
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Make and model: Kenda Kwicker
Size tested: 700x35c - Weight – 339g and 335 g (Claimed – 347g +/-17)
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Kenda say their Kwicker is great tyre for when the weather or terrain turn rough with traction and speed not being an issue. I'd agree wholeheartedly with that, it's great tyre for rugged terrain, and especially great in the mud.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Folding bead, 120 TPI carcass with DTC - Dual Tread Compound – knobs. Kenda's L3R PRO compound (60 shore A durometer) in the center and STICK-E compound (50 shore A durometer) on the sides gives greater centre tread life, and great cornering control and grip. Knurled casing for stability and grip, directional tread with diamond shaped cornering knobs for control, front and rear application.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
As a cyclo-cross tyre for rough and ready conditions it did exceptionally well gripping where it had no right to. Outrageously slow on tarmac and hardpacked trails but you wouldn't expect such an aggressive tyre to be anything but.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Its light weight and tenacity in mud.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Well draggy on tarmac.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? Yes.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes.
About the tester
Age: 42 Height: 180cm Weight: 73kg
I usually ride: It varies as to the season. My best bike is: The one I\'m on at the time
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, cyclo cross, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Fun
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.


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Pat's Famous Hot Wings
- Level: Easy
- Yield: 4 to 6 servings
- Total: 45 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook: 30 min
Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce:
1/4 cup Danish blue cheese, crumbled
1/4 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup sour cream
1/4 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
2 teaspoons Neely's Dry Rub
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Peanut oil, for frying
3 pounds chicken wings, cut at joint, washed and dried
1 to 2 tablespoons lemon-pepper seasoning
4 tablespoons salted butter
1 clove minced garlic
1/2 cup hot sauce (recommend: Texas Pete's)
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Carrot and Celery Sticks, for serving
- For the dipping sauce:
- In a small bowl, mash the blue cheese into the buttermilk and sour cream. Mix in the sugar and the apple cider vinegar, and season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- For the seasoning:
- Mix the dry rub, salt, and cayenne together in a small bowl.
- Preheat deep-fryer with peanut oil to 350 degrees F.
- For the wings:
- Add the wings to a large mixing bowl and season with the lemon-pepper seasoning and toss to coat. Allow to sit for a few minutes, so flavors can permeate into the chicken.
- Add the wings to the deep-fryer and fry until cooked through and golden and crisp, 12 to 15 minutes. You may need to do this in batches.
- Meanwhile, while wings are frying, melt butter in small saucepan over medium-low heat with the garlic. Transfer to a large bowl and whisk in the hot sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce until combined.
- Remove wings from fryer and drain on a paper towel lined sheet tray. Immediately sprinkle with the seasoning.
- Add fried wings to the large bowl of sauce and toss until well combined and wings are well coated. Serve immediately after tossing the wings with the sauce. Serve with the blue cheese dipping sauce and celery and carrot sticks.


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