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Introducing the new Ezlunch Online Service
Kristin is enhancing its online lunch ordering with a new service in partnership with www.ezlunch.co.nz
Kristin has offered an online lunch ordering service since 2007, but the new Ezlunch ordering system will provide a boosted service that includes:
- Same day delivery for orders placed by 9am
- Ordering online or via text in less than a minute
- Hot and cold food made by local suppliers
- Online order tracking for convenient reordering
- Real-time account information and top-up service
You can try it now
The new Ezlunch service has replaced the nutriSmart system. To set up your account – login here (please ensure you enter the correct room number for delivery).
If you need help, just contact the helpdesk on 09 475 5287 or 0800 EZLUNCH or email email@example.com
Nutritious, delicious and tested on kids
Kristin believe the Ezlunch service offers an enhanced way of ordering lunches, and also provides healthy and convenient food options.
- All menu items are tried and tested by the toughest judges of them all – kids!
- Ezlunch strives to offer chemical-free, healthy food that tastes great.
- Ezlunch uses local cafes and caterers – including Albany's Go-Deli, Subway and Pita Pit
- Food is prepared fresh each day.
A sample menu of the Ezlunch offering is here and is also available online.
Pavilion Café
The Pavilion Café is specifically for Senior School students, staff and visitors to the school. It offers a café environment with over-the-counter service and barista coffee with the option to dine outside on a balcony overlooking the sports grounds.


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Gaea Girls (2000)
Directed by Jano Williams / Kim LonginottoGenres - Sports & Recreation | Sub-Genres - Biography, Sports | Run Time - 104 min. | Countries - United Kingdom | MPAA Rating - NR
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A documentary look at women's wrestling in Japan, Gaea Girls is largely set in the training camp of the eponymous Gaea club, where aspiring wrestlers are supervised by the coolly sophisticated club president Yuka Sugiyama and whipped into shape by the pro wrestler Chigusa Nagayo. The film focuses much of its attention on Saika Takeuchi, a whiny trainee who struggles to pass her final tests. Directed by renowned documentarians Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, Gaea Girls was screened at the 2000 Edinburgh Film Festival.
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The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life
Taunton Press, Incorporated, 2008 - Cooking - 316 pages
Do you think that healthy food couldn't possibly taste good? Does the idea of "eating healthy" conjure up images of roughage and steamed vegetables? Author Ellie Krieger, host of Food Network's Healthy Appetite, will change all that. A registered dietitian, Ellie is also a lover and proponent of good, fresh food, simply but deliciously prepared. And she's not about denial--no nonfat foods here, because when you take the fat out of natural foods, in go the chemicals. Don't deny yourself butter--use a pat of it, but put it front and center on those mashed potatoes, so you can revel in it with all your senses. The Food You Crave is all you'll need to change the way you eat and change the way you feel. It contains 200 recipes that cover every meal of the day and every craving you might have. Every recipe contains a complete nutritional breakdown, as well as tips on ingredients and techniques that will keep you eating smart and eating well.
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Texas Farm Bureau members will receive a complimentary general admission ticket to any regular season Sam Houston State home football, volleyball, men's and women's basketball, baseball and softball games this season simply by showing a membership card or a recent billing statement. Offer is not vailid for postseason events which may include NCAA events, conference tournaments or other postseason tournaments.
The offer is a special benefit arranged by Texas Farm Bureau for its membership. The offer is good for two tickets per member. Proof of membership will be requested at the time of ticket pick up.
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As each year passes, living with chronic pain and disease, I find myself grateful to still be alive to be grateful, to be grateful to still be alive, well, you get the picture.
I'm thankful for modern medical care which saves us from the old fears of scurvy, consumption and the ingestion of laudanum; but we still have a long way to go.
I'm thankful for the many medications, like the dreaded prednisone, biologics, NSAID's and anti-malarials, in spite of their numerous side effects.
I'm thankful there isn't as much fat in my behind as there is in my chin…chins…I think.
In spite of living with daily pain, I look back in awe and wonder why I still have as many "marbles rattling around in my jar" as I do.
I'm thankful for the insight which I have gained from all this suffering, without which I would be a shallow, narcissistic, self-indulgent healthy person who felt great every day. Huh?
I'm thankful for the rain that falls almost daily here in the Northwest without which we would not have all this greenery that surrounds us like green bricks, green sidewalks and green pet paws.
I'm thankful I still have enough joy in my heart to understand there is still much to be joyful about.
I'm grateful for the God-given insight to look through the rain clouds toward the sunshine; to see the promise of buds on a huge camellia bush in the midst of winters chill and the faith to plant bulbs for next spring.
I'm grateful I still feel enough hope to buy green bananas.
I'm appreciative of the faith I have in the physician who is a prince, in spite of all the frogs I've "kissed" along the way in my medical history.
I'm in awe of the many fantastic individuals I have met who travel and survive the same road I travel, riddled with pot-holes, dangerous winding curves and faux dead ends.
I'm thankful each curve in the road is not a dead end but a change of direction with new hope and possibilities.
I'm thankful for the hand that's always there to lift me out of the gutter of my own depression.
I'm grateful for the lesson of living for today and only today as exemplified by innocent children and all furry creatures with wet noses.
I'm thankful for the child who still lives within me to help me enjoy building blocks, play dough, crayons, water coloring on construction paper and a stick of glue with all of their inherent possibilities, limited only by imagination.
I'm grateful for the laughter of a child when his/her mouth is spewed with a spray can of whipping crème. I'm also grateful for squirt guns, silly knock-knock jokes and all toys that walk, dance, chime, zoom, giggle, burp, beep or sing.
I'm grateful for the ability to climb a flight of stairs irrespective of the pain. It's only getting to the top that counts; or arriving at the bottom while still standing. The pain becomes unimportant if I can still function.
I'm thankful for comfortable shoes, warm socks and a heating pad on a chilly day and night; as well as long silk underwear, soft sweaters and hooded jackets.
I'm thankful for a spouse who sees me with eyes of memory, love and acceptance; smattered with that always needed forgiveness.
I'm thankful we don't live in an era when we have to pick bird shot out of the Thanksgiving turkey. This also includes plucking out feathers and dealing with decapitation of the bird. I like to think my Butterball was born in that white plastic bag.
I'm thankful for the delicious crackling edge on a piece of turkey, a moist serving of stuffing and the sweet memories that accompany every piece of pumpkin pie rich in spices and cream.
I'm thankful for the constants in life like the love of a child, the changing of the seasons, the wag of a tail after any absence and relief after a painful episode.
I'm grateful it always feels so good when the pain subsides and the many modern miracles which make it possible to live this altered life.
I'm ever thankful for the grace to live with dignity in often horrible conditions.
I'm humbly grateful nothing has fallen off of me…yet.
I'm thankful and appreciative for the smells of the season; candle wax, scented or not, a roasting turkey, sage and onions in cornbread stuffing and that unique fragrance of crisp, clean air.
I'm thankful for the inspiration of survival exemplified by our old house that has withstood 120 winters of fierce, buffeting gales and pouring rain.
I'm thankful for my constant and deep assurance of life after this one from the many miracles of life and death I witnessed as a registered nurse.
I have much to be thankful for this year and pray that you do, too.


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In 1976, a music executive named Walter Yetnikoff launched a campaign that came to be known as Walter's War. He had recently become president of CBS Records, the parent company of Columbia Records, and resolved to rally his troops by providing them an enemy. It was not enough that CBS should succeed; Warner Bros., its hipper rival, should fail. In "Hit Men" (1990), an unsentimental book about the music business in its prime, Fredric Dannen explained that the campaign began with an expensive gambit. Yetnikoff lured James Taylor away from Warner Bros., paying him two and a half million dollars in advance, and a million dollars per album. Two years later, Warner got its revenge, outbidding CBS for the services of Paul Simon, and offering Rod Stewart two million dollars for each of his next ten albums. From the perspective of the rock stars, Walter's War was an unusually munificent one: its combatants strafed innocent bystanders with seven-digit payments.
It would be wrong to imply that this scramble for stars was motivated purely by spite—greed played a role, too. By the nineteen-seventies, some record executives had concluded that it made more sense to pay for established hit-makers than to cultivate lots of so-called "baby acts" in the hopes that one of them would eventually grow up. "The pop-music business had a golden principle," Dannen wrote. "There was an enormous amount of money to be made with a hit record, and no money to be made without one."
When Dannen published his book, the old business model still worked. The record companies' fat profits got fatter during the nineties, because of the compact-disk boom. Then, ten years after Dannen's book appeared, the golden principle failed. In 2001, album sales started a sharp decline; some years, it seemed as if none of the big companies were making any money at all. Executives from television, film, and publishing began to wonder whether this would be their fate, too. It seemed possible that America's long pop-culture boom, which spanned most of the twentieth century, was finally going bust.
This was a dominant refrain in the aughts; commentators mourned the disappearance of small record stores, big bookstores, broadly popular television programs. Chris Anderson, who was then the editor of Wired, had a more optimistic view: in 2006, he published "The Long Tail," which celebrated the coming demise of "the hit-driven mindset" and the growing importance of online distribution. Using Netflix, Amazon, or iTunes, you could browse what Anderson called "the infinite aisle," where vast inventories and smart suggestion software made it easy to shun blockbusters and follow your own passions, no matter how obscure. He argued that retailers, too, had been freed from the tyranny of the hit. Technology made it possible for businesses to profit by "selling less of more," catering to an explosion of niche markets that, taken together, rivalled the size of the mainstream. Consumers were travelling down the demand curve, away from the head, where the most popular products lived, and out onto the tail, home of the miscellany, which was growing longer (as variety increased) and fatter (as sales of non-hits increased). The new popular culture would be more interesting and more efficient, catering to the ever more diverse tastes of a general public that was outgrowing its reliance on old-fashioned hit men.
Anderson's book arrived with endorsements from new-economy moguls such as Eric Schmidt, of Google, who wrote, "Anderson's insights with The Long Tail influence Google's strategic thinking in a profound way." (Anderson, in turn, praised Google's innovative automated advertising program, which allowed small clients to create micro-targeted campaigns.) He also hailed a researcher named Anita Elberse, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, whose work on Netflix had been "very helpful." Now Elberse has published "Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment" (Henry Holt), which is a response to Anderson's long-tail theory, and in many ways a refutation of it. In Elberse's telling, today's entertainment moguls, no less than Walter's Warriors, spend much of their time finding ways to pay big money for big stars to make big hits. Her book, like Anderson's, is full of congenial portraits of executives who think they have figured out this new economy. One of her most persuasive subjects is Schmidt, who revealed himself to be a long-tail apostate in 2008, scarcely two years after Anderson's book was published. "Although the tail is very interesting, and we enable it, the vast majority of the revenue remains in the head," he said. "In fact, it's probable that the Internet will lead to larger blockbusters, more concentration of brands."
Anderson's book often read like a manifesto, cheering for the triumph of the underdogs while also predicting it. Elberse wants to reassure her readers that a hit—"The Avengers," an N.F.L. game, a Taylor Swift album—still draws a crowd, showering profit on the corporations behind it. Her case studies are meant to demonstrate that popular culture remains big business, and that, in an increasingly complicated and unpredictable cultural marketplace, hits are more dominant than ever. The story she tells about the entertainment business resonates with a bigger story that people often tell about America, where Elberse sees "a winner-take-all dynamic" increasing the distance between the most economically productive citizens and everyone else. More efficient markets aren't necessarily more diverse or more egalitarian, and perhaps there's no reason that music or film or books should be immune from the forces of consolidation. Anderson assumed that consumers, once freed from the limitations of brick-and-mortar retail, would scatter into countless niches. In Elberse's view, we would rather lump than split, and new technology—amplified by canny deal-making—is making us lumpier.
One of the executives central to "The Long Tail" was Reed Hastings, the C.E.O. of Netflix, the company that helped put video-rental stores out of business. Hastings told Anderson that while Blockbuster's brick-and-mortar stores derived about ninety per cent of their business from new releases, Netflix's business, built around mailing out DVDs, was only about thirty per cent new releases, partly because of its ability to offer individualized recommendations based on consumer data. Anderson called Netflix's granular approach "a remarkable democratizing force in a remarkably undemocratic industry." But, as Netflix expanded into streaming video, the company needed to secure licenses for its movies, rather than simply buying DVDs. And these licenses grew more expensive as film studios realized how lucrative streaming video could be. (If Netflix was making lots of money, that meant the studios were charging too little.) In response, Netflix did something that "The Long Tail" didn't predict: in 2011, it decided to become a studio itself, spending something like a hundred million dollars to create an American version of the British political drama "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey. Netflix has continued to produce expensive and attention-generating series, including "Hemlock Grove," by the horror-movie auteur Eli Roth, and a revival of the surreal sitcom "Arrested Development." Netflix, according to Elberse, is behaving "more like an old-school television network than the long-tail company it once seemed intent on becoming." Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix was negotiating with cable providers, in hopes of finding a place on set-top boxes.
The bedrock of Elberse's "blockbuster strategy" is a willingness to invest in "premium" content, on the theory that a series of small ripples is no substitute for one big splash. She notes that YouTube, one of the Internet's most miscellaneous destinations, has increasingly devoted itself to promoting its "Original Channels," many of them tied to established stars or brands, like Jay Z or World Wrestling Entertainment. Elberse extends her analysis to blockbusters of all sorts, arguing that a grand enough event can "break through the clutter," thereby justifying its cost. She tells the story of Real Madrid, the soccer team, which paid more than a hundred and thirty million dollars for the right to sign Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese star; she explains how Lady Gaga's team arranged for her 2011 album, "Born This Way," to appear in twenty thousand shops, ranging from Starbucks to RadioShack. Elberse argues that the profusion of consumer choice only increases the pressure on big media companies to create grand spectacles that bring us together. Alan Horn, the chairman of Walt Disney Studios, tells her that he concentrates on "high production value" films precisely because people now go to so few movies per year: only a big event, he figures, will drag people out of their homes. "If entertainment businesses forgo making big bets on likely blockbusters," Elberse writes, "they will find their channel power waning over time."
Although Elberse's book is written in the upbeat, anecdotal, gently exhortative style of an airport best-seller, she struggles to turn her observations into useful advice. One passage describes the strategy of Harry Sloan, a Hollywood executive who in 2005 was appointed chairman and C.E.O. of M-G-M, a venerable studio that had fallen behind its rivals. Sloan brokered a deal that was, in itself, a blockbuster: he signed up perhaps the biggest and most reliable movie star in the world, Tom Cruise, by offering him an equity stake and sweeping creative freedom. But the Cruise experiment was, Elberse concedes, "widely regarded as a disappointment." Even Lady Gaga's ubiquitous album release turns out to have been only a qualified success: "Born This Way" sold 2.3 million copies, roughly half the sales of her first album, "The Fame." In Elberse's telling, blockbusterism often seems less like a strategy and more like a tendency.
Is it a growing tendency? Elberse links the phenomenon to "the public's ever-increasing fascination with celebrities," while providing no evidence that we are increasingly fascinated with celebrities. Certainly a scholar wishing to conduct a thorough study of Kim Kardashian will find no shortage of primary and secondary sources—but there's more available information about everything else, too. How, exactly, would we measure our interest in Kardashian against an earlier generation's interest in Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis? A related difficulty applies to any consideration of "hits" or "blockbusters": there's no easy way to make comparisons across decades or across media. Using data from Warner Bros. and Grand Central Publishing, Elberse shows that the most expensive titles—the potential blockbusters—generally consume a big chunk of a corporation's budget, while generating an even bigger chunk of its revenues. And yet, by many measures, earlier eras produced bigger hits. "Avatar" is generally considered the top-grossing film of all time, with worldwide earnings of more than $2.7 billion. But nearly three-quarters of that was earned overseas. If you consider only American ticket sales and adjust for inflation, you will find that "Gone with the Wind" earned more than twice as much, at a time when the U.S. population was less than half as big.
Even seemingly simple comparisons are trickier than they first appear. To demonstrate that "hits are gaining in relevance," Elberse tells us that, from 2007 to 2011, a growing number of songs sold more than a million digital copies, accounting for a growing share of the digital-music market: thirty-six tracks, for seven per cent, in 2007; a hundred and two tracks, for fifteen per cent, in 2011. But the digital-music market, in general, was expanding during those years: more songs were released, more songs were bought, and more songs crossed the million-sale threshold. Yes, hits are important—and they always have been.
On this point, at least, Anderson would agree. Although "The Long Tail" proclaimed a coming revolution, Anderson was careful never to predict the demise of blockbusters. "Hits, like it or not, are here to stay," he wrote. But he believed that the cultural power of hits was fading, and he presented his economic analysis as a moral crusade. "For too long," he wrote, "we've been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common-denominator fare, subjected to brain-dead summer blockbusters and manufactured pop." The language reflected his own tastes, which were self-consciously hip. (He was vexed by the popularity of boy bands and excited about a retro-futurist electronic genre known as "chip music," which achieved micro-success in the aughts.) He hoped that more of us would discover "smaller artists who speak more authentically to their audience," and that all of us might, at last, perceive "the true shape of demand in our culture." He was flattering his readers by inviting them to be part of his community of connoisseurs. Long-tail economics would make good on the promise of the Internet, turning more people into experts on topics fewer people had heard of. Elberse flatters her readers, too. In her book, the old ethos of the Internet has given way to the new ethos of social media; while Anderson predicted the end of the "watercooler era," Elberse sees the water cooler reborn, as fans track the progress of the latest cultural juggernaut across their Twitter timelines. "Because people are inherently social, they generally find value in reading the same books and watching the same television shows and movies that others do," she writes, recasting our taste for hits as proof of our common humanity. Lurking behind her blockbuster thesis is the suggestion that being sociable matters more than being hip.
Because Anderson and Elberse both focus on consumer choice, they make it easy to forget that the entertainment industry is partly a reflection of the political processes that created it. For instance, movie franchises might be much less valuable if copyright protections didn't last so long. In 1790, Congress enacted a law granting copyright protection for fourteen years, with an option for a fourteen-year extension; in the most recent revision, in 1998, Congress extended copyright protection to last a lifetime plus seventy years. (Works created by a corporation, instead of a person, may be protected for as long as a hundred and twenty years.) Similarly, the shape and the size of various online music-streaming services will be largely determined by the compulsory royalty rates set by the government, and by legal decisions about the relative value of different forms of digital musical consumption.
Although neither "Blockbusters" nor "The Long Tail" spends much time considering the power of legislation, that power is one of the main themes of "Hit Men." The book's true protagonist is a federal regulation, a 1960 amendment to the Communications Act, which banned secret payments to radio disk jockeys. In response, the big record companies began hiring middlemen known as independent radio promoters, who had a mysterious ability to transmit their musical passions to the program directors running radio. By the nineteen-eighties, during Yetnikoff's heyday at CBS Records, big labels were spending millions on independent promotion, a practice their smaller competitors couldn't copy. "The large record companies understood on some level that if radio airplay were not free, it would mean a major competitive edge," Dannen writes. This is not so different from the logic that drives big film studios to spend increasing amounts of money on special effects and elaborate marketing campaigns, at a time when it's easier than ever to shoot and distribute a movie. Horn, the Disney chairman, told Elberse that blockbusters were important precisely because they cost so much money. And Disney would have much less money to spend if Congress hadn't extended its copyright protections. "Very few entities in this world can afford to spend $200 million on a movie," he said. "That is our competitive advantage." The long tail is real—and executives like Horn will pay whatever they must to stay out of it.
For a book about the future of the entertainment industry, "Blockbusters" can seem strikingly old-fashioned. Elberse quotes an executive talking about the importance of securing a screen at a big Los Angeles movie theatre; she explains the continuing influence of radio airplay; she analyzes the art and science of getting a book onto a bookstore's most coveted shelves. Part of this is a necessary corrective to the idea that everything is digital: even in the atomized and de-atomized entertainment industry, an awful lot of business still gets done offline. Elberse sees the unreconstructed nature of the entertainment industry as proof that the blockbuster is here to stay. But it's also possible that the stubborn endurance of cardboard-and-paper books, eighties-era multiplexes, and laughably primitive compact disks is proof of how much electronic transformation still lies ahead. In the seventies and eighties, the hit men worried mainly about each other, but the rise of digital delivery means that their modern-day successors must also contend with a more existential threat. After all, the endurance of blockbusters wasn't enough to save Blockbuster video, which announced the closure of its last remaining stores earlier this month. Horn's decision to focus on expensive movies might be shrewd, but it is not likely to reverse a decades-long decline in moviegoing. Betting on blockbusters might be a defensive strategy: a way for established entertainment companies to stall the larger forces eroding their "channel power," at least for a while. Unlike the old hit men, Elberse's executives can't assume that their industries will be around forever.
You needn't be a mogul to share some version of this anxiety: it is common among cultural producers of all sorts and sizes. Where fans see a glorious profusion of options, some performers see a potentially dangerous imbalance: an ever greater supply, balanced by the kind of soft, digital-era demand that can more easily be measured in eyeballs than in dollars. In "How Music Works" (McSweeney's), a wide-ranging book of essays, David Byrne expresses a dismay shared by many of his peers. Byrne released his first album, with Talking Heads, in 1977, and he can't help but be nostalgic for the old industry. Like Elberse, though less happily, he sees labels chasing after "blockbuster hits," and he broods over the plight of musicians, especially the kind who, like him, once made a pretty good living in the margins of the major-label profit machine. Byrne's 2004 album, "Grown Backwards," was a modest success, selling nearly a hundred and fifty thousand copies, and he estimates that, after recording costs and other expenses, his net profit was about fifty-eight thousand dollars, not including royalties. Spread over a few years, that doesn't seem like much, especially since Byrne can't expect every album he makes to sell that well. He wonders, "How is a mid-level artist—someone who sells more than five thousand copies of a record but less than a million—supposed to live, given this scenario?"
The disappearance of the middle is the possibility that unites Anderson and Elberse, suggesting that the blockbuster era and the long-tail era are perfectly compatible. In financial terms, "mid-level" acts are by definition mediocre, and mediocrity is what a dynamic, low-friction marketplace is supposed to drive out. In "Average Is Over" (Dutton), the inventive economist Tyler Cowen sketches a vision of the future based on precisely this logic. He, like Anderson, is impressed by Netflix's ability to guide its subscribers toward films they might like. But he sees the exchange as an example of an increasingly common labor arrangement: a consumer with money to spend relies on a computer algorithm for advice on how to spend it, making everyone better off except, perhaps, the movie buff from Blockbuster or the local video store, who no longer has a job. Anderson, more interested in culture than in economics, spent lots of time considering the independent films that Netflix might help, and not much time considering the merchants that it might hurt. From this angle, his egalitarian pronouncements can seem darkly ironic. "By putting our commercial weight behind the big winners, we actually amplify the gap between them and everything else," Anderson wrote. "Economically, this is the same as saying, 'If there can only be a few rich, let them at least be super-rich.' "
Cowen is less troubled by the further enrichment of the already rich. He takes it for granted that America will be increasingly influenced by "labor-market polarization": productivity will continue to increase, but an ever larger proportion of the gains will go to "a relatively small cognitive elite"—human blockbusters, economically speaking. Meanwhile, more and more workers will find themselves in various service industries, assuming they can find full-time work at all. According to Cowen, future citizens will agree that "America is one of the nicest places in the world." He predicts that even those with stagnant or falling wages will have "a lot more opportunities for cheap fun and also cheap education." The formulation "cheap fun" explains much of what makes people so excited, and so anxious, about the future of popular culture.
In an earlier generation, anxiety about popular culture usually referred to something different: a fear that our entertainment industry was somehow corrupt, and corrupting us. We were being manipulated, it seemed, by nefarious executives like Dannen's hit men, who conspired with shady men in shiny cars to manipulate radio playlists. But popular culture isn't scary anymore. When ABC, NBC, and Fox created a streaming video site called Hulu, to compete with YouTube, they announced it with a 2009 Super Bowl commercial starring Alec Baldwin as a friendly but evil alien, intent on turning viewers' brains to "mushy mush" by beaming television shows to their computers and phones. (The tagline was "Hulu: An evil plot to destroy the world. Enjoy.") Beneath the joke was a sly acknowledgment that now network television, not the human brain, looks to be in danger of maceration.
Cultural consumption has grown more self-conscious: after years of stories about entertainment-industry upheaval, consumers have grown intensely aware of what Anderson called the "commercial weight" of our purchases. Despite all the lumping and splitting, popular culture remains roughly democratic: every consumer has a vote, and the price of voting is low enough to allow just about everyone to participate. And the availability of free pirated content online has endowed other, legal, forms of cultural consumption with a faint aura of righteousness. Many connoisseurs have come to think of themselves as patrons, eager not just to consume culture but to support it—or, occasionally, to boycott it. Each paid-for download, each Kickstarter donation, each movie ticket, each HBO subscription is an affirmative act, and a social one: a contribution to the cause, a vote in favor of Katniss Everdeen or some rookies on Bandcamp, a strike against the demise of whatever part of the entertainment industry still entertains us. Even Elberse's blockbusting executives look vulnerable: they are producers in a consumers' paradise, forever scrambling to adjust to the public's changing whims. And so Elberse must reassure them, and reassure us, that big hits and big business aren't going away. Once upon a time, we worried about what popular culture was doing to us. Now, more and more, we worry about what we're doing to it. ♦


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AURORA, Ill.—In its biggest acquisition in 47 years, Alarm Detection Systems has acquired Safe Systems, a residential and commercial security business in Louisville, Colo.
In the last couple weeks, I've talked to a lot of people about how things fared in 2014, and what their plans are for this brand new year. Two conversations in particular stand out to me.
Larry Halpern, president of Safe Systems, said the company is looking at how to service its continued growth, possibly through moving to a bigger facility. When I spoke with David Bitton, COO for Supreme Security Systems, he mentioned updating the company website.
It's a recurrent topic, but always interesting. This is even the question we've posed to our readers in the newest SSN News Poll, and one that I've enjoyed hearing about.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Vanderbilt athletic director David Williams already can tell a difference in how the Commodores are perceived now compared to the last time he went searching for a football coach.
More people are willing to talk to him about the job now.
"This time already -- and don't ask me any names because I'm not going to tell you -- there's already a list of 20-25 people who've reached out to us," Williams said Saturday at a midday news conference. "And at least five of them are people who we asked to talk to us last time and said no."
Stanford defensive coordinator Derek Mason will be among those to interview for the position, a source told ESPN's Joe Schad on Monday. Mason, whose unit ranked No. 1 in the Pac-12 in scoring defense, No. 2 in total defense, No. 2 in yards per play, No. 1 in rushing defense and No. 1 in sacks, will interview mid-week with Vandy.
Williams said the Commodores plan to hire someone who can build on the progress of the past few years after James Franklin left the Southeastern Conference's smallest school for Penn State. Williams said Franklin called him Friday night telling him he was leaving after three seasons with Vanderbilt.
The athletic director let Franklin meet Saturday morning with his former players before leaving for Pennsylvania.
Williams called Franklin's decision to leave after three seasons "disappointing" and wished the coach well. The athletic director met with the Commodores after Franklin left, and Williams said Vanderbilt is ready to get on with business.
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Junior defensive end Kyle Woestmann appeared with Williams and said the players trust their athletic director to bring in someone even better for their new head coach.
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Vanderbilt did not name an interim coach with assistants under contract until March 15. Williams said the assistants know their responsibilities and school officials will be making sure recruits in a class estimated between No. 25 and 33 knows that Vanderbilt remains committed to them.
In Franklin's three seasons, Vanderbilt is 24-15 with three straight bowl berths for the first time in school history and a 16-4 mark over the past 20 games second only to Alabama in the Southeastern Conference.
That's a stark contrast with Vanderbilt going 4-20 in the two seasons before Williams hired Franklin over a field of candidates in 2010 that also included Gus Malzahn, who this season won the SEC championship and lost in the BCS national championship game in his first year as Auburn's head coach.
Vanderbilt's last search for a coach was for a program that had played in only four bowls in its history and went 36-114 between 2000 and 2010. The Commodores posted only one winning season between 1982 and 2010 in 2008.
Williams said Vanderbilt's program now is stronger in every way than just a few years ago. Vanderbilt opened an indoor practice facility in November that the football team used to prepare for the BBVA Compass Bowl the Commodores won on Jan. 4. Renovations also have been going on around the football offices and locker room with the training room next up.
Officials also have been studying what to do with the football stadium for the past year.
Vandy's 9-4 record in 2012 was the program's best since 1915, and in 2013 the Commodores beat Georgia, Florida and Tennessee in the same season for the first time in school history. Vanderbilt also finished in the final Associated Press rankings each of the past two seasons, including No. 24 in the poll released Tuesday.
Vanderbilt hadn't finished in the final AP poll before Franklin arrived since 1948 under Red Sanders. Vanderbilt will be using a search firm just like 2010, and Williams said he was busy on the telephone Friday night after Franklin informed the athletic director of his decision getting the process underway.
"We're going to move as quickly as we can, but we're not going to move quick in such a way to make a mistake," Williams said.
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A few people have asked me how I did my conversion. If you can solder, the mod is fairly painless. Its also cheap. The whole thing probably cost about $75. If you keep the dual mount plate and tape the hole and skip some of the other stuff, you could probably get it done for less than $35. Heres a thread with my truck: http://www.traxxas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=492844. Also, there are many other links in the forum with pictures and other ideas on this conversion. This is just how I did it.
6 - Black 12ga wire (motor to ESC)
6 - Red 12ga wire (motor to ESC)
4ea - Male bullet connectors
3ea - 100nF Capacitors
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1 - Single motor mount plate; TRX p/n: 5690X
1 - Single gear cover; TRX p/n: 5677X
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2 - Replacement brushes; p/n: 493511-00
1 - RRP pinion; 18t (w/ 5mm hole - stock pinions wont work on the DeWalt)
1 - Spur gear, 62t; TRX p/n: 3959
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1. Remove the brushes from the motor; solder on the power wires. I used solid brass bullets from my LHS. They plug right into the Traxxas ones. As for the wires, I used (2) 3 wires for each side. I used el cheapo bulk wire from Lowes, not very flexible but its sufficient.
2. Remove the pinion gear from the DeWalt. Be careful not to bend the shaft. I scored the gear between 2 teeth with a dremel cut off desk (also score the gear on the opposite side). Then while firmly supporting the gear on an anvil, I hit a chisel placed between the teeth on one of the score marks. The pinion cracked in half.
3. Slightly flatten 1 side of the motor shaft for the pinion set grub screw. Dremel it, then smooth with a file. Dont install the new pinion yet. Be sure to blow all of the debris out of the motor.
4. Solder the caps to the motor as follows (you will need a powerful iron to heat the tabs enough or the caps will pop off every time you crash):
a. [1] Positive terminal to motor can
b. [2] Negative terminal to motor can
c. [3] Positive terminal to Negative terminal
5. Paint the motor black. Not sure if it really helps, but there are arguments that the black paint helps to dissipate heat. Regardless, it looks better anyways. I also painted the motor mount & spacer (detailed below). Also, some argue that you should run the motor in a cup of water to break it in. I broke mine in at full throttle on the street. Works great!
6. Reinstall the brushes w/ power wires.
7. Enlarge the holes on the motor mount. I filled the original holes all in with JB weld. After letting it cure overnight, I smoothed out the inside surface for a clean look then drilled & countersunk new mount holes to perfectly align with the oversized motor.
8. To get the pinion to fully line up with the spur you may have to make a spacer. The spacer fits between the mount and the motor. I used a 1/8 piece of aluminum. Youll have to notch the spacer so the tabs on the motor can dont interfere. I put the heat transfer compound (computer supply store) on both sides of the spacer. May not be necessary, but oh well.
9. Assemble the motor/spacer/motor mount; use the 4mm countersunk screws. I had to do this at the counter of my LHS so I could get the best grip length. Now, install the pinion. Some people have not had to use the spacer. You may be able to just put the pinion on backwards. Wouldnt line up for me that way. Do what you have to do.
10. You may have to assembly everything in step 9 a few times to get the gears to align (including adjusting pinion spacing on the motor shaft & varying the thickness of the spacer).
11. Install the new motor mount plate on the gearbox (youll have to remove the gearbox)
12. Install the new motor setup & new gear cover.
13. Plug everything in, install batts & bash.
14. Note - the gearing I used, 18/62, is a good mix between speed & acceleration. Also, Im using 16.8v NiMH, not lipo.
15. Heres a few I referenced (and thanks to the authors):
a. http://www.traxxas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=478448
b. http://www.traxxas.com/forums/showth...t+installation
c. http://www.traxxas.com/forums/showth...ghlight=smoked
DeWalt motor p/n # 396505-20 (I actually bought mine from a local DeWalt repair center + they gave me some stickers to go with it)
Brushes p/n # 603754-01
Note the brushes are in case you need replacements. Ive abused this motor for several months now with no problems and Ive never replaced them. And to save a few bucks, you could reuse the caps & wires from the titans.
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Great how to! I need to review it more but I was wondering how you know which caps to choose and what their purpose is for? I was also wondering how those worked for you because someone reviewed them on the Rad Shack site and said for his RC application, they didn't work so good. Thanks for the good info.
Phs 2 S-Maxx build- 24/54 gears. Can U say faster?
One of the other posts on here with the dewalt conversion listed those caps, so i used them as well. Different sized ones may work better, i'm not sure. I do know that my iron barely gets hot enough to solder them to the motor so they pop off occasionally if its a nasty crash. I can instantly tell if one or more came loose because the glitching starts instantly.
So in my experience they work well, but maybe someone with more of an electrical background can say if other caps would work better.
i don't think it matter's what cap's are used as long as you have all threeOriginally Posted by Hack Job
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Its gotta matter a little because they have different values. I would think they have to relate to input voltages, etc. This would be one for the electrical pros to answer.
Phs 2 S-Maxx build- 24/54 gears. Can U say faster?
For a easier motor lead installation I used these: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXTJ21&P=ML
For the second lead I removed them from my dead Titan, bared a bit of the new wires and soldered together. Nice clean install, removable, and the no-solder ends slid perfectly onto the Dewalt brush flats.
I went for 20/62 gearing which gave alot of speed but still safe motor temps. I do run in a wide open area, so a 19 or 20/68 would be safer for tighter areas.
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Originally Posted by cubsfan2010
20/68 should be about 3.40, and 18/62 about 3.44. So for two given gear sets being almost equal, would one be more beneficial or efficient over the other? A 17/58 is also numerically equivalent at 3.41.
I'm using the 18/62, and i was just wondering if there would be anthing to gain from using a different but equal ratio.
no there will be no benefit if they are almost identical ....Originally Posted by Hack Job
actually with the gear combo's that have fewer total teeth will be slightly lighter lol
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That's right. The only time you would need to switch up is when there is a motor or spur gear clearance issue. Sometimes you need to raise one while lowering the other to make the motor clear an obstacle. Or if you've max'd out the spur gear size but still need more torque, you then need to decrease pinion size. Its all about fitment (and availability of gear sizes too).
Phs 2 S-Maxx build- 24/54 gears. Can U say faster?
what kind of speed are u getting with this motor? this is interesting
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I can't say for sure what the exact numbers are, maybe someone on here could calculate it...but its noticeably faster than with the titans. I'm using 5000mah 8.4v batts from john the battery guy & a similiar pair of DTX 5000's.
I have 2 Robinson Racing pinions - 18t & 20t, and 62, 65, and 68t spurs that i've been using. Speed and acceleration are excellent with all of the combos i've tried, but the batts don't last as long with real steep gearing.
I have yet to be able to make it pop wheelies from a standstill; seems i always have to have at least a little reverse momentum. That may be the tmaxx chevron tires though. They just spin. The talons were the same way. If I had some tires that hooked up, i think it would always be upside down.
Now that it's cold outside I have a hard time getting a wheelie. The cold rubber won't hook up well and spins. When it was warmer it was fairly easy to lift the front and scrap the wing with no reversing. Running Dewalt with 20/62 and 2 x 2s lipo.
Best guess on speed was at least 30+ mph before strapping my tires. Tons of torque to boot for ripping acceleration. Now with strapping in place and very little tire ballooning 'overdrive' I think I'm at about a even 30 mph. Regardless it just feels amazingly more powerful than the Titans.
The cold rubber doesn't help i'm sure. Probably if i had some softer tires i'd get better results for all bashing surfaces.
I taped & balanced the tires/rims as well. I think the balancing helped more than anything.
seems really nice. i wish i could know someone in montreal Canada could do the swap to the dewalt. i'm not so good with my hands.I want to stay brushed because i want to go on water and snow and stay out of lipo's. does someone knows somebody in my area? thanks guys. and one other thing, what's the best set up:
dewalt , the 700 ho , or 900 or 950 i don't remember.
i live in BC canada ...if you pay for shipping and include return shipping cost i will make it work for you ..just send me your dewalt motor and you motor mount and i will supply the cap's, solder up the cap's,remove the dewalt pinion and widen the motor mount hole's for you....its really not hard you could definitely do it on your ownOriginally Posted by phil666
i could show you picture's of my dewalt conversion
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thanks Notin_but_aRevo ,i'll think about that offer. it's really nice of you. i'll check out to make the list and start to plan this, finding my parts. and another question ,some people spoke about 2 kind of dewalt 12v ,is somebody knows wich one is better? and can i put a 14.4 motor?
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i would like to see some pics of your conversion please. should be really nice.
thanks. and someone told that makita is lighter and it's got more power.
yes there are 2 different dewalt motor's for each voltage new style and old style you want the new style it will be easier to make work...thanks Notin_but_aRevo ,i'll think about that offer. it's really nice of you. i'll check out to make the list and start to plan this, finding my parts. and another question ,some people spoke about 2 kind of dewalt 12v ,is somebody knows wich one is better? and can i put a 14.4 motor?
thank you guys
the 18v is a lower Kv motor so it will spin slower but will have more torque you could easily gear the 18v up to reach similar speed's as the 12v or 14.4v.my 18v i had geared 54t/18t and it was only warm
here are some photo's of my conversion
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I have beat on my dewalt hard, crazy gearing, 5 cell lipo, high amp load, big tires, hydroplaned it and its still running, I'd say its the best thing you can do to an E-revo short of brushless
take it home in a bucket
the dewalt are IMO some of the best brushed motor's available and fit without any hard modification ..I have beat on my dewalt hard, crazy gearing, 5 cell lipo, high amp load, big tires, hydroplaned it and its still running, I'd say its the best thing you can do to an E-revo short of brushlessi have no experience with makita motor's but i would assume they would work just as good..makita came out with a new lithium powered 18v drill that is very light.. depending on the makita's motor hole spacing it should be easy to installi would like to see some pics of your conversion please. should be really nice.
thanks. and someone told that makita is lighter and it's got more power.
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Has anyone made a rear support for a dewalt? I've noticed that its weight causes the motor mount plate to flex a bit. My spur gears are showing wear on the back side because of the flex. Spurs are cheap enough to replace, but a simple way to hold the back of the motor would make things last a little longer.
If you could take the can off of the motor and work it over on a belt sander you could probably save about a pound and a half.
Since my truck is NMC i thought I'd take a couple extra pics of the dewalt. I also blasted it out with some brake cleaner and reoiled the bushings.
These pics have a little more detail on the spacer. I know some people don't use a spacer, but i couldn't get the gears to align without it. Anyway, its made out of 3/32" aluminum. Its cut & sanded to match the profile of the ribbed motor mount. There's also a small notch filed in one corner to allow for a tighter fit on the motor. I drilled the center hole just a bit larger than the pinion for easy removal.
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i bought de dual dewalt conversion from Kd. i just post a mail and ask him if could do something for my erevo.it's 175$. not so bad.
So how has everyones dewalt conversion been holding up? I heard there was an issue of the dewalt motors not really liking lipo batteries? Is that true? Of course i only heard about this just a few days after i did my conversion and all i own are lipo's lol
lipos are fine with the dewalt. I just did 5s on my dewalt last night - no issues.
I've run about 30 sets of 6000mah lipo's through my Dewalt running 21/62 gearing and it is holding up excellent. Hasn't missed a beat and feels just as powerful as the 1st packs. Brushes look to have worn about maybe 1/3 of the way down, so I'm on track for about 90 runs b4 a re-brush.
Power is amazing on 4s and I would imagine 5s would be approaching brushless power levels.
Good! thats exactly what i wanted to hear! Someone was telling me on RCU that lipo's have too much amperage for the dewalt motor, and his started slowing down, getting hot and burnt up his comm after 20 runs. Maybe it was just an isolated incedent. And as for running 5s isnt that too much voltage for the stock ESC?Originally Posted by cubsfan2010
I was wondering the same thing^^^ and I'm new to brushed motors. I can't find anything on how to actually solder the leads on and take the brushes out. I'm also VERY confused on how the evx2 works....I know there is two different battery connections on the esc, but apparently they are different? How? I'm doing an erevo build and saving the electronics for last for this exact reason. Any help is appreciated.
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heres a video on how to change the brushes, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtb8SdsMQXo after i watched this i felt dumb because it becomes pretty obvious, but i didnt know either. when you get them out you will see a male spade connector, just find a few matching female conectors and you are set. I soldered both red and both black motor wires to the female conectors and then just slid them on before i put the brushes back in. I also put heat shrink on and covered the entire female conector with it. the 2 battery leads on the evx2 esc are different only in that one of them supplies power to the reciever and the other one doesnt. other than that there is nothing to worry about.Originally Posted by zrau17
oh, well that work lol. but i cant figure out this whole esc thing. whats the difference in the two battery leads?
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theres nothing different, except the power for the reciever comes from one of them, im not sure wich one and its really not important anyway. Or am i missing somethng that you wanted to know? You do know that you must have a battery plugged into BOTH of the battery leads for it to work, right?
Yeah I know that lol. I just remember seeing somewhere that one did something different than the other one but I wasn't sure what. It was on the topic of LVC's I think?
what was that? what was what..oh that. thats mine.
If your gonna hook up one LVC you hook it up to the battery that is plugged to the lead that powers the Rx. It runs the BEC (battery eliminating circuit) which regulates a 6 volt power supply that the Rx needs to work correctly. You run your LVC on that side because it should be the one that drains faster therefor cutting off the truck earlier then later to be on the safe side.
Phs 2 S-Maxx build- 24/54 gears. Can U say faster?
Yeah see that's why I wanted to know lol. Any direction on which side that actually is?
what was that? what was what..oh that. thats mine.
So the evx2 can handle 5s ok?
What would be a better option...evx2 and dewalt, or the 150a/80A with a generic BL motor (say a 10xl) on 4s/5s?
depends on how much power/ how fast/ how much you wanna spend.
Dewalt - new motor + lvc (or lva) +wires = $40
325 watss of power, 20-33 mph with gearing
ezrun 80 -bl motor +esc = $130-$145
800 watts of power, 45 mph
ezrun 150 -bl motor + esc = $210 - $230
approx 1200 watts (depend on lipos), 65+ mph
Hook up one battery to one of the sides and try to turn it on. When hooked to the BEC side the green light will flash briefly.Originally Posted by zrau17
I've never found the watt rating for the Dewalt, but it feels like alot more than just 325 watts. Maybe it just has so much torque that it feels like more, but it is way more than the dual Titans.Originally Posted by noir522
I never found that to work on mine but it will work in reverse... after your next run is over, disconnect your batteries one at a time and if the first one you unplug makes the light on the ESC go out immediately, then that is the BEC plug. If the light stays on for a second or 2, then the plug with the other battery connected is the BEC side. It is usually the harness that has the red tag wrapped around it.Originally Posted by cubsfan2010
As for 5s, the EVX-2 was not built for that so I wouldn't recommend trying it and I don't know why anyone would suggest it. The car was made to run at a peak of 16.8volts. Beyond that and your asking for smoke. And if you do try it with one 2S and one 3S pack, you have to hook up the 2S pack to the BEC connector or you risk overheating and burning it out with the added 3S voltage being applied to it. Don't try hooking any more then 2S to the built in BEC. Use an external one rated for what you plan to run. And while running the external one, your still powering the internal one so expect that to not work again if you ever go back to 2S.
Phs 2 S-Maxx build- 24/54 gears. Can U say faster?


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