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Surely Disc brakes are better than rim brakes. But what about cost benefit considerations? And what about service considerations?
By the way, I think the tested disc brake vastly failed a test in the German bike mag "Tour".
The new Specialized S-Works Tarmac Disc offers flawless performance with crisp, balanced and stable handling, and the disc brakes are a game-changer on a race bike such as this, but there simply is no getting around the £8,000 price tag. Early adoption has never been cheap.
The Tarmac, Specialized's go-to race bike, has come a long way since it was first introduced in 2003. It's won some of the world's biggest races including the Tour de France, cobbled Classics such as Tour of Flanders, and helped amateur racers around the world to realise their ambitions and win local road races.
On the surface it looks as though little has changed from the old Tarmac SL4 aside from the addition of disc brakes, but in fact the whole frame has changed; it's been engineered from the outset with disc brakes in mind.
Disc brakes have been big news on endurance road bikes this past year, but there are virtually no race bikes with disc brakes. The Tarmac represents the first of a new breed of out-and-out race bikes with disc brakes. Okay, so you can't actually race this bike in any UCI-sanctioned race, but if they changed the rules tomorrow, this bike would be ready to race.
Specialized have nailed it with the new Tarmac. On the road, the Tarmac is a stunning bike, offering a level of performance that not only benefits from the disc brakes, but a host of other changes underneath the paint job, all combining to create a truly remarkable road bike.
Aside from the small matter of the UCI not (yet) allowing disc brakes in the professional peloton, the Tarmac Disc is to all intents and purposes, ready to race. It has the exact same geometry as the non-disc Tarmac and the changes to accommodate the disc brakes has resulted in a mere 80g weight increase in the frame, the whole bike in this range-topping build is 6.9kg (15.21lb), about 350g heavier than a non-disc Tarmac with mechanical Dura-Ace.
The disc brakes are a revelation. True enough I've been won over by disc brakes on a host of endurance bikes such as the Cannondale Synapse and Giant Defy this year, but they're rangey and relaxed long distance cruisers. The Tarmac is a thoroughbred race bike and that shows the moment you hit the road. It's an eye-opening thrill a minute. It's fast, really fast, with a fantastically enthusiuastic response to any pedalling input.
The frame is really stiff. You can really detect it when pedalling; there is virtually no deflection in the bottom bracket. This makes it a great climber. It's super responsive on the steepest hills and, even though I've ridden lighter bikes this year, the Tarmac was one of the quickest up my local hills.
The geometry, short in the wheelbase and low in the head tube, puts you in a really good position and means the Tarmac is very responsive to any sort of steering input. There's no lethargy in the way it cuts and turns through corners, darts across the road with pinpoint direction changes. The feedback through the frame paints a really vivid image of the road surface passing beneath you, allowing you to exploit the maximum available traction from the S-Works tyres.
The descents are where the Tarmac really showcases its delightful, flawless handling. It's rock solid, even on rougher roads, and you can line up for apexes with the sort of accuracy you demand from a race bike. There's no lag, no uncertainty, no hesitation. It's in tune with everything you demand from it. Accelerating, sprinting, cornering, braking, descending, climbing, it does all of that so well you won't want to ride another bike ever again.
There's one small caveat to all this performance: it's not the smoothest ride. It's noticeably smoother than the old SL4, thanks to the changes to the seatpost and carbon fibre layup, but it does relay quite a lot of the road surface texture through the frame and fork. It never becomes jarring or uncomfortable, but it certainly doesn't isolate you from the road.
Yes, there really is an advantage. I've been won over by disc brakes on road bikes this past 12 months, but they've all been endurance bikes with longer wheelbases, taller head tubes, and comfort features. To ride a proper race bike with disc brakes has been an interesting experience. In every situation the disc brakes were nothing short of wonderful. Dry or wet, slow or fast, the lever feel and power offered more control, and confidence, in scrubbing off speed coming into corners.
I was often asked about the limit of traction from the 24mm S-Works tyres; there's a fear that the power of disc brakes will result in locked wheels and skidding. But not once did I find any more concerns with tyre traction than on a non-disc bike. Tyre grip is a limiting factor for all road bikes, regardless of the braking system. Even a caliper rim brake will lock the rear wheel if you pull it hard enough. What the disc brakes offer is much more control and easy application of that power right up to the limit of the tyres' traction, with a much more usable power curve than you might imagine. Think how good the brakes in your car are. These are just like that.
One finger braking is all that is required all of the time, whether you're checking speed through a high speed corner, or dumping a load of speed for a tight corner, T-junction at the bottom of a fast descent, or traffic lights. In my hands, the Tarmac Disc is without doubt quicker over a challenging circuit full of hills, descents and corners.
Downsides? Sometimes riding in the rain, splashing through puddles, does result in a spot of tinkling and squealing when you first apply the brakes, but it's short lived and certainly doesn't happen all of the time. When you actually come to use the brakes in such conditions there is no noise. Compared to the awful graunching soundtrack of a rubber brake block flaying wet aluminium rim in horrid conditions, it's a satisfyingly quiet experience.
I noticed no disc brake rub from the front, as I did with the Bianchi Infinito CV. That's a good thing because Specialized, as the majority of manufacturers offering disc-equipped road bikes are doing, have gone with traditional quick release skewers and not a thru-axle system. With my mountain bike experience I'm a fan of the thru-axle solidness and security, but the Tarmac gave me no reason to think there was any need for them on this bike.
The Tarmac frame is made from FACT 11r carbon fibre and visually looks similar to the old SL4, but there are a few key differences. The seat clamp is now integrated into the top tube, accessed by a small hole in the side of the top tube. This allows more seatpost to be extended out of the seat tube and results in a small, but measurable, increase in deflection. It does add up to a slightly smoother ride.
The big news with the new Tarmac is Specialized's Rider-First Engineered approach to developing each of the six frame sizes independently, rather than sizing up and down from the 56cm. They've essentially designed six different frames, with specific layup and tube profiles, with the aim of optimising the handling and performance for each frame size. It's less noticeable on the 56cm - the bike feels very similar to the old SL4 - but on the smaller and larger frame sizes the difference is likely to be more pronounced.
Specialized have done an impressive job of smoothly integrating the disc brakes and they've kept the weight increase to a minimum. The disc frame has a claimed 80g increase over the standard Tarmac, with most of that weight in the modified rear stays and the new fork. The hydraulic hoses are routed inside the fork and the frame, as is the wiring for the Shimano Di2 shifting. It's a cleaner and better looking bike than the non-disc version, but that's a subjective thing of course.
Compared to the previous SL4, the differences I detected with the new Tarmac were small, but noticeable. It clearly feels like the old model but it's a bit sharper, a bit more focused when you're really pushing the pace, yet it's a little smoother and more comfortable too, not that the old model was particularly uncomfortable. There's less chatter on rougher roads, less vibration feeding back through the contact points. Far from the smoothest bike but in the race bike category it's one of the smoother and more supple over a variety of road surfaces.
The Tarmac Disc range comprises three models for 2015, all with hydraulic disc brakes. The £4,500 Tarmac Pro Disc Race gets the ball rolling, above it is the £5,500 Tarmac Pro Disc Race Di2, and at the top is the £8,000 S-Works Tarmac Disc we have here. Specialized clearly don't expect to sell many, it's a halo product, a demonstration of all the best off-the-shelf kit currently available, and it's a pretty stunning looking bike as a result.
With an £8,000 budget it's no surprise the build kit on this S-Works model is all top stuff. Firstly, there's the Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupset with a Specialized S-Works carbon fibre chainset rolling on CeramicSpeed bearings and fitted with 52/36 chainrings. However, I didn't feel the Specialized chainrings offered the same high quality of shifting performance as a set of Dura-Ace chainrings.
Otherwise there's nothing much to say about the groupset that hasn't been said before. It's excellent, it is the benchmark. The battery lasts for ages. The shape of the non-series R785 brake levers is admirable, considering there's a hydraulic reservoir tucked away inside, you can easily wrap your fingers around the body no problems. Specialized have stuck with Shimano's recommended 140mm rotors front and rear.
Specialized have reached into their own parts bin for the 27.2mm carbon fibre seatpost and Body Geometry Toupe Pro saddle with carbon rails, which all helps to save weight. The Toupe saddle has been around for many years and despite its slender profile, is a comfortable saddle for long rides. The 20mm offset clamp on the seatpost provides a wide range of fit adjustment.
Up front is an S-Works SL Carbon handlebar with a comfortable shallow 125mm drop and 75mm reach. Those numbers make the drops easily accessible for even the least flexible cyclist. An S-Works SL aluminium stem is light on the scales but I had to swap it out for a longer (12cm) stem to get my preferred fit. Very tactile and hard-wearing Specialized Classic gel bar tape is wrapped around the handlebars.
Lastly, the wheels. Roval is Specialized's own wheel brand and the CLX 40 SCS Disc wheels are fitted with CeramicSpeed bearings and feature a 40mm deep-section rim. The hub shells are compact units and finished with a carbon fibre centre section to save even more weight.
The wheels are everything you want from a deep-section wheel. They're fast, stiff under sprinting with no side-to-side flex evident, whether pushing hard for the top of a hill or finish line, and they provide good rolling speed at high cruising speeds. That's a good thing too, because you're kind of locked into these wheels with this bike.
Why? Well, in order to keep the short 405mm chainstays of the regular Tarmac required Specialized to get inventive. You see, Shimano recommends a minimum chainstay length of 415mm with disc brakes, in order to avoid any chainline issues. Not a problem on an endurance bike which naturally has longer chainstays.
So, to keep the chainstays short, but avoid fouling the chainline (the chain rubbing on the front derailleur cage in certain gear combinations) Specialized modified the rear hub to effectively place the cassette further inboard. The cassette sits where it would if it were on a 130m hub, not the 135mm on this disc bike, and a specific mech hanger and dropout brings the rear mech further inboard. The result is a sweet chainline in all the gear combinations I tried, even big-to-big and little-to-little.
It's a measure that limits wheel choice, but Specialized says you can change the mech hanger and dropout to a regular one and fit another disc wheel, but they can't guarantee perfect chainline. I could find no reason to want to change the wheels though. Even training rides in the foul winter conditions poses no problems, because you've got the disc brakes you don't have to pack away your carbon fibre clincher wheels for a set of aluminium rims for better braking in the rain and mud.
With such high-end kit, the S-Works Tarmac Disc is light. At 6.9kg (15.21lb) it's the lightest disc-equipped road bike we've ever tested. To put that in perspective, it's about 350g heavier than the equivalent spec non-disc Tarmac. This is really a first generation disc race bike too, so that weight will come down, as will the price, within a few years. Being an early adopter is never cheap.
Yes, it's a race bike that can't technically be used in a race. But here's the thing: a large number of the race bikes bought never actually see a race circuit, and if that's you, and you want a proper race bike for the handling and performance the Tarmac offers, but like the appeal of disc brakes for the all-round benefits, then the S-Works Tarmac Disc won't disappoint. If you are racing, then you can just look at the non-disc S-Works Tarmac instead which should offer the same performance but a little less weight, a few more pounds in your pocket and be race legal.
If you want the best race bike with disc brakes currently available, the S-Works Tarmac Disc sets the benchmark, and it sets it high.
Fast and peerless handling with all the benefits of hydraulic disc brakes, it sets the benchmark, but it's not cheap
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Make and model: Specialized S-Works Tarmac Disc
Size tested: 56cm, black
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?
The new S-Works Tarmac Disc is Rider-First Engineered™ to provide every size frame with the hill destroying stiffness and legendary descending prowess the Tarmac is known for. It's a no compromise race-bred machine and now with full hydraulic Shimano disc brakes, slowing down has never been easier.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
S-Works FACT 11r carbon Rider-First Engineered™ frameset for the best fit and ultimate speed
Roval Rapide CLX 40 SCS Disc wheels w/ CeramicSpeed bearings for speed and stiffness
S-Works Turbo, 700x24c tyres w/ Gripton blend extreme grip w/ high speed
S-Works FACT carbon OSBB crankset is the perfect blend of light weight and stiffness
Shimano 785 hydraulic disc brakes for incredible modulation and stopping power
Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, 11-speed derailleur for precise shifting no matter the conditions
Specialized Body Geometry Toupé Pro saddle w/ carbon rails for performance and comfort
Yes it's not cheap, but being an early adopter never is. This bike is packed with the most high-end kit, so I'd be take a look at the cheaper Tarmac Disc models still with hydraulic disc brakes instead.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Flawless performance, incredible speed and handling, sublime in all situations, and all the benefits of disc brakes '' and it really does benefit from the disc brakes.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Just incredible handling, lovely to ride, oh so fast up and down and on the flat, and looks stunning.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
It's a race bike and perhaps the most noticeable reminder is the sometimes choppy ride, but generally it's a very smooth bike considering how sharply tuned and focused it is for the pursuit of going absolutely flat-out fast.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes.
Would you consider buying the product? If I had the money, yes I would.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? If they had the money, certainly.
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
Since riding this bike, I've started doing the lottery, because I really don't want to give it back.
Age: 31 Height: 180 Weight: 67
I usually ride: My best bike is:
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, time trialling, cyclo cross, commuting, touring, mtb,
David has worked on the road.cc tech team since July 2012. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds.
Surely Disc brakes are better than rim brakes. But what about cost benefit considerations? And what about service considerations?
By the way, I think the tested disc brake vastly failed a test in the German bike mag "Tour".
Any moderately competent home mechanic can service a hydraulic disc brake with a simple set of tools.
As for cost/benefit... bit of a moot point on a£8k bike
Re: the chainline, is a 2.5 mm offset at the back not something that you could adjust for in the front mech design or setting? It must mean less than 1mm deflection at the point the chain would contact the mech or chainring.
Statement of the year: 'It's not cheap'
Personally when I read the review I thought, dam that's not bad for 8000 of the queens pounds. then I woke up and thought that looks like a rip off of the Colnago CX zero Nero, even stem looks very very similar in design to the Superleggera stem.
6.9kg for 8 grand is a bit pants... Trek Emonda anyone...
Still don't like them on top end road bikes, discs are ugly IMO, however they are here to stay, and they work well, it's as easy as that. I have hydraulics on my commuter and MTB... Not ready to have them on machine #1 yet though.
Wicked bike.
I've just sold my SL4 because I've been lent a Giant Defy Advanced Pro for the season and was blown away by the experience of riding hydraulic discs on a road bike. Going back to my caliper brake SL4 just felt primitive, and regressive. So I sold it...
Tarmac disc is very interesting because I've ridden the new 'tarmac' caliper brake bike already and can only see hydraulic discs brakes adding to the experience.
The Giant I am riding is an amazing bit of kit, certainly not a baggy endurance bike by any means, but that Tarmac disc. Hmmmmm
I have had two S-Works Roubaixs; both of which cracked throught the seat tube. The first was bought in 2015 and developed a 2.5cm crack underneath the deraileur mount. It meant the bike would not stay tuned and it took ages to find. The frame was replaced under warranty. The second was a 2016 model and it cracked 3/4 way through the seat tube while riding; thankfully just above the seat post so it held together (avoiding a nasty hospital trip). Specilaised agreed to replace the second frame but I wasn't going for a third time unlikely.
The Roval Rapide CLX 40 wheels are another problem. Just over 12 months old and they developed a loud creaking noise that has been isolated to the rear spokes grinding together. The noise started only when under load climbing but after a short time occured during normal riding. It is so loud as to be distracting and dangerous. My dealer has had them back twice to re-tension and lubricate, but the noise just comes back. Specilaised won't warrant because they are over 12 months old - even though their web material provides a 3 year warranty.


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Design and consultancy firm Arcadis has called for the country's chancellor George Osborne to pause housing tax on high end luxury properties or risk distorting the wider market, writes development specialist Richard Carr.
Projects affected
Successive stamp duty hikes has seen buyer interest drop in the UK's high end property market at a time when there had been a 40% rise in prime properties planned for development in London.
Many projects in development for a number of years have been disproportionately affected meaning that they delivery of affordable homes could also be put at risk.
The government appears to be giving mixed messages in relation to the market; initially they encouraged investment in prime residential property, but have changed policies mid-cycle, leaving developers in trouble.
Since the end of 2014, the stamp duty for a £6m home has almost doubled from £420,000 to £810,000 when bought as a second property.
Developers have either had to offer discounts or delay construction on projects, which means that a significant number of affordable homes – planned as part of the original development – are not being built as quickly.
Others are opting to focus on properties below the stamp duty threshold of £1.5m, however this means that people looking to by family homes in this market are being priced out.
Mark Cleverly of Arcadis told propertywire.com: "To accelerate the delivery of affordable housing currently in the pipeline and ensure the construction sector remains sustainable, the Chancellor must impose a temporary reduction in stamp duty on new build properties. In tandem with this, he must better focus the debate onto ensuring acceptable levels of affordable housing are delivered as part of new developments."
Richard Carr agrees with Mark and believes this approach would get the market moving again, which would in turn help bring more affordable home to the market. It would make schemes viable for developers again and safeguard jobs in the industry.
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Awareness. Appreciation. Gratefulness. Thankfulness. Gratitude. Enjoyment. Thanksgiving.
Happy Father's Day! Today I am thankful for my husband and the father of my children. Over the last dozen years, he has been my constant partner and companion in life. He is my best friend. He is also an amazing dad. I could write pages on how much I appreciate his role as husband and friend, but today… I'm thankful for him as the father of my sons.
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As the boys grew, my husband began to teach them all the fine arts of being boys. Fishing, working on cars, spitting, catching bugs, rolling in the dirt, and belching are just a few of the skills my husband has taught the boys. In the process, he taught me much about appreciating the differences between boys and girls (and men and women) and how to appreciate all that boyish behavior.
He teaches them things that I can not.. like why it's not ok to hit girls, or how to make a woman laugh when she is angry. He answers the questions I have no answers for… like how to burp on demand, or why it isn't ok to hunt for cows. He shows them things that I would never be able to show them… like how to not cry when it hurts, or how to pee standing up. He teaches them to be good at stuff I stink at… like cleaning out the cat litter box or remembering that it's garbage day.
As a parent, my husband is rough where I am smooth, he is firm where I am soft, yet he also teaches mercy and grace. My sons' lives are infinitely richer because of the man their father is. I can not imagine how much harder my job as a Mom would be without him as my partner.
Motherhood is a journey of discovery, and he is my perfect traveling companion.
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Moving from 9 to 10. The end of September. The beginning of October. I felt something significant move into my body yesterday. After my past 9 year, 9 month, 9 day cycle had completed with quite a bang through the body illness, it filled with a renewed sense of being. Of purpose. Of clarity and above all…Trust. I was filled with 10. It is like I have been a 9 for so long that I can't even remember anything else. Always on the edge of completion but never completing. Suffering over the suffering of feeling out of reach of this new world of 10.
When I look it up, I read the characteristics as
*Infinite potential
That all seems to align perfectly with what is moving through me. Now these are not absolute. I still feel parts of me that have doubt, anxiety, and fear but they feel less 'up front' then they used to be. My Service to Other has grown over my Service to Self. A tipping point has occurred and I feel the Divine gracefully guiding me and supporting me in my next steps as a healer and a leader.
I needed this last round of Dark Night to get me here. It may not be my last but it is getting awfully damn close. The Dark Mother has always been a gift to me, even though parts of me just couldn't see it that way until they could.
I feel many of us are in this phase of moving from 9 to 10. Getting swept up in the brevity of its chaos and intensity. I have traversed these waters for a reason. Not to just move on but to assist others as well to the other side that want the support and guidance. I feel clear about that as the Sun shines behind me.
How that service and support manifests is up to the Divine but I am Here. I am continuing to love myself and to offer Love to others in any way that it is meant to land, whether by my word or through space-holding. I am excited to see what unfolds for myself, you, and the world at large as we move into this new phase of our INvolution.
Love to you all that have been with me on this journey. Thank you for your witness and love. I offer it back to you in spades.
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To minimize risk, OSHA has set exacting standards (1926-502) for the design and functionality of free standing guardrails. These standards include rail height and force resistance. Top rails should be approximately 42 inches above walk or work level. There should be a mid rail and screening if the guard rail, itself, does not abut a parapet height of 21 inches. The top rail, of whatever overall design, must be capable of resisting an applied force of 200 lbs.
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Playwrights' Perspectives
Melissa James Gibson on Placebo
How much does committing to a job, to a life, to a partner, to a path, fix who we are? And how sustainable are these choices in the shadow of forever, in the shadow of mortality?
Placebo, in Latin, means "I shall please."
The term "placebo effect" is over sixty years old, and refers to an improvement in a medical condition that can't be attributed to the medicine, since the medicine in question is medicine-less. How does something result from nothing?
Lots of ways, it turns out. Or rather, something results from something other than nothing. The pills might be inert, but the clinical/research environment is not. The physician's encouraging words, a hand on a shoulder—attention paid!—things like these have a documented positive effect on treatment. We are permeable creatures, we humans. Impressionable. Susceptible. Simple acknowledgment matters more than most of us care to admit.
The main characters in Placebo are grappling with questions of identity, both individually and as a couple. In that cuspy place where formal education ends and true adulthood begins, they are trying to reconcile two internal selves: the professional and the private. Their states are liminal, to use another fine Latin word—limen means "threshold."
Humans, consciously or not, keep one eye on the future. How will the decisions and commitments we make now… feel then? It can weigh on a person, or a character in a play. What tense—present or future—is the one to which the most credence should be given? For the ancient eastern philosopher, and his modern disciple, the answer is the present. But anyone who's spent any time on earth looks into the future, and wonders.
How do we choose who and what we choose? How do we make any big decisions about our paths? Of course, we are constrained by our circumstances, financial and otherwise. But when we get beyond these, how do we wind up where we wind up? With Placebo, as with all my plays, I suppose, I'm trying to shine a light on the pathmaking.
A lot of the research tells us that the placebo effect, essentially, comes down to the power of expectation. What is the recipe for expectation? One part knowledge. One part speculation. And then there's a third species-specific ingredient, I think—hope. I mean, in some sense, don't we all have our fingers crossed pretty much all the time?
Melissa James Gibson
November 2014


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This is what it looked like when I was walking into work this morning. The figure up ahead is the youth librarian, returning from her lunch. [EDIT: it was 2PM! where is my head?]
What are you reading? I have a bunch of things lined up, and have read a bunch of really fun things just recently (more on those in future), but right this very moment I am reading two things:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: I'm almost half way through and have to read the rest of this tomorrow or, you know, pay late fees (which I will do). This was a slow start for me, but it's probably because I didn't sit down and read 50 pages at once to get right into it. The book is like a YA picture book with creepy photos, which is FUN, but I'm having some trouble with the voice of the narrator - it's supposed to be 1st person 16 y.o. boy, but there's a lot of description and that description is very evocative, but...writerly. Although I think I may have just figured out a way to read further without going "I doubt very much he would have described the light as 'gauzy'!" Maybe this story is being told in retrospect by a former 16 year old who is now a writer and therefore prone to describing things as gauzy or "leaving a trail of parenthetical scars on the floor." I'll let you know!
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from my Kitchen Table: This is for my non-fiction book group - it's a series of essays about food and family followed by a recipe. Every single recipe has made me hungry and the writing is really lovely.


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One day while cruising the Mandovi river in Goa, we passed under a bridge. As we came closer, we realized that a group of young boys had climbed up the bridge. They acknowledged us too and waved. They were probably enjoying the sunset from the height on a lazy Sunday evening.
Month: August 2013
An 1869 building in the heart of Mumbai
St. Xaviers High school. Neo Gothic Architecture. Sketch.
The crow Pheasant: An unusual bird of Rural Northern India
Egyptian Vulture: An Endangered species
The estimated population for these birds is 10,000 to 1,00,000 and is said to be on decline. Therefore I was fortunate to get this series of pictures on my last visit to a nature reserve in Himachal.
The Parsi new year!
We are all familiar with ID which was yesterday on 15th Aug, but few know that the Parsi New year is being celebrated this week, on sunday. Parsis are a Zoroastrian community mainly settled in Bombay, said to have arrived via Gujrat to Bombay around 8th C. They have their own set of customs and traditions which they follow very earnestly. I'll also like to share with you the Parsi symbol called Faravahar, believed to be depiction of Fravashi (Gaurdian Spirit) according to the net. I found it on the outer facade of a building in Old Bombay.
How our national flag is looking in the old Bombay on Independance Day!
The best part about South Mumbai is the rich cultural buildings which are a part of the landscape. While the rest of India is celebrating ID with unfurling of the flag atop the Redfort, I'm lucky to be able to see many flags dotting the skyline in Mumbai. Some areas have copper pod trees which contribute a lovely yellow offering to the picture. The pink-roofed building picture in the photo is the same that I tried to visually document in my last post about Mumbai.
Starting a day!
Diamond looks like sugar. Especially when it is sprinkled down from its little packet onto paper. Only a trained eye can differentiate a diamond. Not only from sugar! But the many other substitutes. The diamonds above are in a shape called "Baguette". It is possible that the origin could be from a bread of that shape. (In local parlance in India however, the french word is twisted and called by various names such as baggit, bugget and bracket! (sic).)
Left: Unassorted Diamonds and Gemstones Right: Assorting in process


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President Trump on Friday said that he "should have" visited Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day.
The president remarks came via early excerpts of an interview Trump did on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
Upon returning to the nation's capital last week from France, Wallace asked the president why he didnt "go across the river to Arlington for that ceremony."
"I should have done that, I was extremely busy on calls for the country, we did a lot of calling as you know," Trump replied. "I could have done that, as you know I just left the day before the American Cemetery and I probably think, and that was one where it was raining as hard as you can imagine and I made a speech at the American Cemetery the day before and I probably, you know, in retrospect I should have and I did last year and I will virtually every year.
"But we had come in very late at night and I had just left, literally, the American Cemetery in Paris and I really probably assumed that was fine and I was extremely busy because of affairs of state — doing other things."
Trump, who was in France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, on Sunday went to the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial to pay tribute to the U.S. and allied soldiers killed in the war. More than 1,500 Americans who died in the war are buried at the site.
The president also received heat on Saturday for failing to visit a second American cemetery located outside of Paris because bad weather grounded the helicopter he planned to take.
During the interview, the pair also discussed the president's upcoming visit to California on Saturday in the wake of wildfires burning on both ends of the state.
"It's incredible what's going on," Trump said. "And burned beyond recognition. They can't even see the bodies. It's incredible."
The president also doubled down on his previous assertion that insufficient "forest management" was to blame for the infernos.
"When I was in a certain state, I won't say which, the governor said, 'You know, we've tested it. We clean out areas and we actually set the fire just to see, we lose almost nothing. We can put it out right away. And then we leave areas unmaintained.' He said, 'We'll lose 100,000 acres before you even know it.'" Trump said. "You need forest management. It has to be. I'm not saying that in a negative way, a positive — I'm just saying the facts. And I've really learned a lot."
Trump's interview will air on Sunday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET.
Fox News' Chris Wallace, Samuel Chamberlain and Nicole Darrah contributed to this report.
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Jess Haydon - Beazley Medal: VET 2018 winner
Swan Valley Anglican Community School student Jess Haydon has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Beazley Medal: VET, the State's top honour in student achievement in vocational education and training.
Jess received his medal from the Governor of Western Australia, The Honourable Kim Beazley AC.
Jess was recognised for demonstrating the most outstanding overall performance for a Year 12 student in a VET Certificate ll or higher, as well as his other WACE achievements. During Year 12, Jess juggled four days a week at school with one day a week spent off campus completing a Certificate II in Civil Construction with his host employer Ertech. He also studied English, Maths, Career and Enterprise, as well as completing a Certificate ll in Engineering Pathways and a Certificate ll in Visual Arts.
This caps off a fantastic year for Jess who was the Swan Valley Anglican Community School Year 12 Dux: VET and was also the youngest and only school-based finalist for the 2018 Vocational Student of the Year at the WA Training Awards.
Jess is one of Swan Valley Anglican School's Foundation students from 2006 and the ASC congratulates him on his achievements.
2018 WA ATAR Results
Congratulations to the ASC's 2018 Year 12 graduates
Our WA students received excellent ATAR results overall, with both John Wollaston Anglican Community School and St Mark's Anglican Community School listed in the top 30 schools in the State.
Swan Valley Anglican Community School student Jess Haydon was the ASC's highest individual performer, winning the 2018 Beazley Medal: VET, the State's top honour in student achievement in vocational education and training.
Jess also won the VET Subject Exhibition for Construction Industries, as well as a VET Certificate of Excellence: Construction Industries.
Subject Certificates of Excellence
Nine Certificates of Excellence were awarded to our WA students for being in the top 0.5 per cent of examination marks in an ATAR course.
Our congratulations go to:
Certificates of Distinction and Certificates of Merit
In other awards, 45 students received Certificates of Distinction (for students who receive 190-200 points from 20 Year 11 and 12 units), and a further 124 students earned Certificates of Merit, for students who receive 150-189 points.
These Awards were won by students at the following ASC schools:
Congratulations to all students, teachers and support staff. We wish our students well in the next phase of your life after school.
Congratulations Caitlin
Australian School-based Apprentice of the Year, Australian Training Awards
Swan Valley Anglican Community School Year 12 student Caitlin Whittle topped off a year of achievement by winning the Australian School-based Apprentice of the Year at the Australian Training Awards. Caitlin attended the national awards at the Sydney International Convention Centre in November. Over 750 people gathered to celebrate the nation's best in vocational education and training (VET) sector.
Caitlin qualified for the national awards after taking out the WA School-Based Apprentice award earlier in the year at the WA Training Awards. As part of her award, Caitlin received a $3,000 study grant. Caitlin has juggled studying five ATAR subjects with a Certificate II in Hospitality and credits the experience with increasing her confidence and dedication, and has seen her grades improve as a result. She is a strong advocate for Swan Valley Anglican Community School's hospitality program.
Swan Valley Anglican Community School was strongly represented at the WA Awards with Year 12 student Jess Haydon also shortlisted as a finalist for Vocational Student of the Year. Although Jess didn't win his category, to have been shortlisted as a finalist was outstanding, particularly given that other finalists in his category were not all school-based. The ceremony was held at Crown Perth with over 600 guests in attendance.
ASC Newsletter
The latest edition of ASC News is now available.
Issue 63, April 2019
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Combined Schools Concert 2018
More than 460 students from all 14 ASC Schools were the stars of the show at the Perth Concert Hall for the ASC Biennial Combined Schools Concert.
2018 was the first time all 14 schools had performers taking part in the Concert, which featured a Combined Choir, Stage Band, Rock Band, Concert Band, String Orchestra and Concert Orchestra. The tradition of student leaders from each school acting as MCs enabled the audience to hear about music in each school as well as learn of the piece they were about to hear.
Other features included a performance of Tarantella in A Minor by Chantelle Tran, the winner of this year's ASC Piano Competition and a performance from the Combined Schools Percussion Ensemble during the Interval.
The standard of music was exceptional, with students only coming together for rehearsals in the week leading up to the Concert.
The ASC was privileged to have two Guest Conductors who engaged with our students in workshops and rehearsals in the week leading up to the Concert to ensure musicians from each school joined together as cohesive groups to produce wonderful music.
It was the fifth appearance from conductor Stephen Williams, who has taken part in each ASC Concert, and the first appearance from conductor Trevor Jones. Both conductors were an asset to the program, teaching and inspiring our young musicians.
With a diverse selection of music ranging from John Fogerty's Proud Mary to Fauré's Requiem, the concert played to an appreciative crowd of parents, as well as representatives from the ASC, the Diocese of Perth and from education, including the WA Minister for Education, The Honourable Sue Ellery MLC.
This was the fourth biennial concert for the ASC which began after the success of the ASC's 25th Anniversary Concert and we now look to what 2020 might bring!
ASC International
ASC International is part of the Anglican Schools Commission dedicated to servicing international students wishing to study in our schools. With a specialised English Language School and multiple school locations to service our students, ASC International is the only private schooling system in Australia to operate as a gateway to multiple school destinations with one application form, one set of entry criteria and one tuition fee structure.
ASC Internation offers multiple program options for students, including:
ASC International is led by Ms Amanda Fritz, the Director of International Programs and her team: Ms Ariel Wee (International Marketing Manager), Mrs Dorothy He (Admissions Manager) and Mrs Bronwyn Claughton (Student Support and Welfare Coordinator). The team is now based at the ASC Office at Mt Claremont.
Click here for further information on ASC International and international study options.
Swan Valley Adventure Centre
The Swan Valley Adventure Centre is a joint venture of the ASC with the Perth Diocesan Trustees.
The ASC bought into the Swan Valley Adventure Centre so that each of our schools could access the first-rate outdoor education facilities on Perth's doorstep at a significantly reduced price to all other schools, groups and corporate bookings. A number of our schools have already taken advantage of what is on offer. Staff and students are always mightily impressed with the flying fox, the high ropes course, the commando course, the archery range and the bike adventure area.


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By Maria Gaheir
The road to success for Somaliland's female lawyers was not easy; until very recently there were no female lawyers in the field. Until 2007, Ifrah Aden Omar was the sole practicing female lawyer in Somaliland. She currently heads the first Women Lawyers Association (SWLA) not only in Somaliland but also in Somalia. It was established in Somaliland with the help of the United Nations Development Program in 2008 (UNDP 2008).
Since 2011, UNDP has supported one-year legal internships, making sure half the interns were female. Students were provided with exposure to the public sector, including key ministries, courts, and the police, where they benefited from work experience (Human Right Center 2014). Thus, there are now many female prosecutors and lawyers in Somaliland who are devoted to their profession and compete in the male dominated legal profession. They undertake case proceedings and have demonstrated how female lawyers are crucial in society, but still the gap exists, because there is no strong famous female lawyers and legal firms owned by women who compete with male in every step of the field whether case proceedings, client representation or legal consulting in large business corporations and public offices.
However, the significance of women in legal development and participation and their contribution are immense. In the short time they were in the profession they made a big difference whether to case proceedings, client integration, advocacy and human right activities, although they experience cultural, and social difficulties while doing their jobs.
Research Question
What is the public perception of female lawyers in Hargeisa?
Aim of the Research
To understand the public perception on female lawyers in Hargeisa.
Objective of the Research
To find out how the public in Hargeisa perceive female lawyers.
This report involves qualitative study including key informant interviewees and 1 focus group discussion. Interviewees included practitioners in a variety of legal specialists, including a judge, a male lawyer, a senior legal consultant, court registrars, and previous attorney works business owner.
The journey of women into the legal profession began in 1970's (Michelson, 2013). That was a step forward for modern women to take part in professional development and occupational advancement. Although the increasing transformation of women's role in the legal profession was a good starting point, it did not happen in every country. The spread of women into the legal profession occurs mostly 2000 (Michelson, 2013). The growing entry of women into the profession occurred when the legal profession was generally growing (Menkel-Meadow, 1997).
On the other hand, the concept "feminization" of women into the legal profession meant an increase of women entering into the profession for the first time which permitted more women to be in the field. However, from that point a question arises: "if women in the profession present different perspective in to law or not (Menkel-Meadow, 1997).
Women are super intelligent at solving problems and join the legal profession to make positive social and environmental change (Ballard, 1998). It is a work that allows women to be optimistic to use their intellect, confidence, resourcefulness and perspicacity to solve complex business problems (The Nalp Foundation, 1998). However, women in the legal profession earn less than men for the same work (Neil, 2013), and they faced a gendered discrimination in their professional life. A further problem is that women lawyers in the law firms are in competition all the time; they are the driving engine of law firms but still women are not in positions of leadership and power in the legal sector and leading the law firms (Kelly, 2014). This also applies in top academic positions.
Women lawyers have the chance and the ability needed to reach the upper echelons of the profession and every area of law. Nevertheless, many obstacles and barriers continue to complicate women's gender-based segregation, including assumptions about their ability and characteristics (Menkel Meadow, 1997). Furthermore, a study by Carol Gilligan demonstrated that when women identify a problem or issue they offer solutions to moral problems without concluding the right and wrong answers and they are constantly keeping the relationship and moral satisfaction of the parties (Gilligan, 2003).
Today more than ever, women in the legal profession are vigorous participants in advocacy, strengthening and fully exercising the development of the legal sector and bringing valuable contributions as much as men (Menkel-Meadow, 1997).
What is your perception on women lawyers' case proceeding in Hargeisa?
During the interview, Yusuf Gele who is Hargeisa regional court judge, explained female lawyer's case proceedings and stated that: "women lawyers are more loyal than men lawyers. They are very kind to their clients, and the people welcome women lawyers' case proceeding and are willing to work with them due their good performance". Also Guled Jama, who is a lawyer and human rights activist and Chairman of the Human Right Center, agreed that women are as effective as any other lawyer and they can perform their tasks fully and efficiently. "I work with female lawyers and they do their activities and help clients, they face challenges in the male- dominated judiciary where the majority of the staff and all of the judges are men, however, their contributions are enormous Guled added. Correspondingly Hibak Gamute, Executive Director of Center for Policy Analyses, said women lawyers are good in case proceedings, because there are more than one hundred women legal professionals having had a long legal training in handling cases. Since they have legal proficiency and they have the ability to handle all the cases that the courts adjudicate, whether criminal or civil cases, they are same as the male lawyers in their capacity for advocacy in case proceedings.
Respondent in the Focus group discussion said women differ from men in many things and jobs not just legal practice. They keep promises and they are honest and committed to their job. Similarly female respondents said that women lawyers respect trial hearing schedules and that is the most important thing in case proceedings.
What are the most common cases that women lawyers proceed?
Mr Gele said that: "in regional court women lawyers mostly represent civil cases but recently they also represent enforcement cases", for example "last week I have three enforcement cases that women were lawyers" he said. Female respondents declared that they handle both criminal and civil cases, but most of them proceed family cases and legal aid cases helping vulnerable groups – mostly women, IDPs, and minority groups. While a male lawyer respondent also said female lawyers mostly handle family cases and there are few female lawyers who take other cases, both criminal and civil.
The Focus Group Discussion (FGD) male respondents said they mostly handle family cases while female respondents added that they also handle some criminal cases but not the heavy cases like murder and terror.
How do women lawyers serve their clients?
"As I know, women lawyers serve their clients better than the men lawyers, although it's necessary to investigate relationship between women lawyers and clients, but when serving clients women lawyers serve their clients the best; they are very kind to them, they communicate well to the clients and they are available and on time for the court trial hearings schedules they are representing" a regional judge said during interview. The female respondents said during the interview and they serve their clients well, representing their cases on time without delay.
A male lawyer respondent stated that: "Female lawyers are more passionate than their male counterparts. They show sympathy and help their clients. They do their tasks with determination and commitment. Their dedication and hardworking is apparent in the field".
All respondents in the FGD agreed that when women lawyers serve their clients they charge lower fees than their male counterparts and they are always very kind to their clients, serve honestly and with commitment and they follow up the cases that they represent.
How competent are women lawyers in their job according to male lawyers?
The judge said "The nature of the cases are different one case to another, civil cases and enforcement cases are less risky than criminal cases; Criminal cases are more dangerous than the civil cases and mostly women lawyers represent civil cases because civil cases take time and there are more laws for them and they have some freedom in the civil cases, for that reason women's competency is related to the nature of the case, also there is no social pressure in the civil cases and its safe and secure compared to the criminal cases" . While female respondents stated that women are more competent in their legal representation than men. They are less corrupted, honest, and punctual than the men.
"Competence is a personal matter. There are competent men and women as there are incompetent men and women. I do not think, the issue of competency has anything to do being man or women" the male lawyer stated.
Female respondents in the FGD said women lawyers are more competent in their job more than anyone else. Similarly female respondents in the FGD said they are competent and they are better than men in some specific cases (family cases), but commonly in the legal profession some criminal cases are against personal attitude and there are circumstances that need deeper investigation, or cases against culture which is extreme. Some believe a women lawyer can't argue in the courtroom because they are shy.
Do you appoint a female lawyer in your own case? And why?
"It depends on the reputation of the lawyers and how he/she defending my case and this kind of question is interest based, if appointing a women lawyer is my interest and she can make that case yes I am appointing my case, but if it's seen contrary on that I am not. This is not about gender sympathy it's about personal interest and what this person can do for you" Mr. Gelle replied. Similarly a second interviewee noted that it depends on the nature of the case saying: "I would not base my choice on gender but rather competency and knowledge. If a female lawyer is in a better position to take my case then I would prefer her…. The same is for the male lawyers". Whereas a female interviewee said that: yes of course I will appoint a female lawyer to represent my case because of their punctuality, they are less corrupt and honest. Similarly other female respondents in the FGD said yes I will appoint a female lawyer because of their honesty and timekeeping on the trial hearing schedules and also I can share her with my secrets that I can't give to a male lawyer.
However, a male respondent in the FGD disagreed saying "I prefer men lawyers than women lawyers; I can meet him at coffee shops or chewing qat with him, and in that case, my wife will not be jealous because my lawyer is not female". And also another male respondent in the FGD said it depends on the nature of the case, it's possible to hire a female lawyer because of their honesty and sometimes I will choose a male lawyer for his qualifications.
Do women lawyers participate in advocacy development? And how?
A regional court judge agreed that they do, saying: "Yes they do; women lawyers have the most cases in the Hargeisa district court and that cases are not working without women lawyers, women lawyers know more about families and their behavior and what's required from them. They participate in the litigation process; advocacy development and they help the court very well. In the family cases, there is a need for women lawyers and they fulfill that gap". A second respondent said: they participate through serving as lawyers, and as human rights and humanitarian activists. In the same way, a female respondent in the FGD said. "Women lawyers participate in the advocacy development; they provide legal assistance to the poor people who can't afford a lawyer and that balances to reach justice and provide useful counseling and legal advice to their clients. As they support the victims and their family and show them sympathy that everything will be ok".
In contrast another interviewee said: "women lawyers face discrimination. The judiciary is highly male dominated and in the Somali culture it was only the men who were involved in conflict resolution. Women were even not allowed to be present in the cases they were a part.
From that historical point of view, the female lawyer is not something expected and welcomed". Another respondent in the FGD said that Somali culture is not structured on how to litigate and there are more people, men and women, who are under oppression and diffident going to court. Women lawyers notice issues like that and they investigate and do their best to provide help.
What are the challenges that women lawyers face during their daily job?
"I am a judge and it's possible that there is no problem or challenge to them but may be in town there is a challenge and threat because she is women but this needs more investigation about these challenges; but all lawyers face challenge may be their lawyers structure or courage from one to another but sometimes men lawyers are more courageous than the women lawyers. We are patriarchal society and it's possible" a Hargeisa regional court judge said during an interview. While female respondents declared that they face discrimination in terms of gender, where some of the clients believe that women can't handle case proceedings.
At the same time, the male lawyer agreed saying that "women lawyers face discrimination. The judiciary is highly male dominated and in the Somali culture it was only the men who were involved in conflict resolution. Even women were not allowed to be present in the cases they were a part. From that historical point of view, the female lawyer is not something expected and welcomed. They also face a huge challenge in getting clients. If you cannot get a client you cannot continue the legal practice. All the female lawyers in the legal profession in one way or another for the institution because female lawyers are facing a challenge in convincing the society to trust to handle cases".
Correspondingly, female respondents in the FGD said "mostly they face public discrimination for being women, and also men saying that she is women and she can't do anything to defend their case because they are weak and can't bring strong arguments. On the other hand, if her own family need a lawyer they are going to men lawyers and that weakens her clients and her profession, sometimes women lawyers face threat for defending an accused rape". While other male respondents in the FGD said there is a perception that the Somaliland justice system is contrary to the Islamic sharia, and also they believe that women lawyers are taking wives out of the home by handling family cases and advocacy for women in trouble and that these women lawyers have a westernized idea of a legal system, because family issues are sensitive and it's better to settle issues through sharia and culture. On the other hand, people look for justification and blame others for their faults and believe that women lawyers are family destroyers and that is one of the biggest challenges that female lawyers face during their duties.
What are your suggestions to improve/ capacitate women in the legal profession?
It is "Not only women in the legal profession who needs the improvement, the improving legal system is a success for all and all lawyers will be improved; women lawyers are part of it and when the justice institutions are improved women will take their part but this is not concerning only women in the profession" the judge replied. While the other interviewees recommended giving women further training in the legal profession. In addition, female respondents in the FGD said effective women lawyer's organizations will strengthen and capacity build for women in the profession and improve their experience in the field and public awareness about female lawyers and the success they have made during their careers and encourage them. While the male respondents in the FGD declared that to avoid the existing legal challenges and power abuse that can occur in some cases, transparency in the legal system and applying the rule of law and protecting lawyers from threat will develop women in the legal profession
A male lawyer interviewee recommended that: "Women shall be appointed as judges to infiltrate in the system and provide the female lawyers an environment they can work in. They also need strong female lawyers association that can help them and give them strong lobbying group"
Interviewees perceived that woman in the legal profession make an enormous contribution to the field and they filled a gap. Moreover, they emphasized that women lawyers are honest, committed, keep to trial hearing schedules and are less corrupted than to their male counterparts, and they are eager to help their clients including the poor ones.
Although interviewee noted that women lawyers face challenges in the male-dominated legal profession where the majority of the staff and all of the judges are men, and there exist Somali cultural barriers which hold back the women in the profession at all times, they are rising above the difficulties.
I hope that this research stimulates further inquiry and examination of the public perception of female lawyers in Hargeisa, and to bring further investigation of the challenges that women in the legal profession face during their daily job and how to promote their profession, experience, and qualifications to achieve seniority in the field.
Published first in September 2016
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Project Arcadia is an interactive recycling station. The goal of this project is to encourage active recycling by engaging people in self-motivated interactions. We built this recycling station - disguised as an arcade machine, that calls on people to vote on two sides of a trivial argument, and takes votes with empty liquid containers. The machine counts the number of votes, and detects whether the recycled material was put in the right slot. Then it gives visual and audio feedback based on what was inserted and whether that was recycled correctly.
My Role
Conducted field research to investigate the environment and discovered opportunity for improvement.
Carried out preliminary tests to collect evidence that led us to develop the solution.
Designed the experience map, fleshed out visual and audio interactions.
Figured out technical solutions to detect the input and gives the desired output.
Created the system map showing the relations between interaction status, sensors, and the processing logic.
As the primary visual designer and product engineer in our team, I
Embodied our concept and turned it into a physical product design.
Built the 3D model on 1:1 scale.
Built the product physically.
Set up vote topic
Correct recycling
Wrong material
What Problem?
As Americans, we create an enormous amount of trash. The average person produces about 4.4 pounds per day (the global average is 2.6 pounds), and most of it is comprised of recyclable items.
To tackle the trash problem
Using recycled plastic to make new products saves 66% of the energy over using the virgin material. Recycling of aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy required to make the same amount of aluminum from its virgin source.
Wait... What's wrong with recycling?
While government and enterprises take initial acts to increase recycling rates, we are seeing this interesting phenomenon: Mixed trashcans always fill faster than recycle bins.
In order to understand what prevents people from correct recycling, two team members did an observation in the Georgia Tech Student Center.
Two recycle bins were in the observation area. Mixed trashcans out-numbered recycle bins and were mostly placed in the open area.
Georgia Tech Student Center, First floor
Time: One hour during lunch peak time
During this one-hour lunch peak, we observed no one putting anything in the recycle bins, but mixed trashcans quickly filled up.
Why did this happen? We had some hypothesis:
- Location: Mixed trashcans were more accessible -Most of them were in the open area close to where people sit and eat.
- Ease of use: Most people were in a hurry and didn't even stop when passing by the trash cans. Putting trash in the recycle bins, however, requires extra time reading signs and sorting the trash.
People won't put in extra effort to get rid of their trash -They just go to the closest trashcan and dump the trash without looking.
Mixed trashcans were placed in more accessible locations for a reason: they take less space and improve efficiency in such busy areas. It won't work to replace all of them with recycle bins.
After we figured why mixed trashcans fill faster than recycle bins, the team started brainstorming ideas. We collected more than 20 ideas in 2 brainstorming sessions, and discovered 4 themes.
- Make recycle bins easier to read and understand
- Shape trashcans to restrict the objects that go into it
- Engage people in motivating interactions in recycling
- Educate about trash problem and benefits of recycling
Pick a direction
After searching for existing solutions online and discussing the pros and cons of each idea, we thought the 3rd theme would lead us further. Because restricting the trashcan slot shape has been attempted by others, and it didn't solve the problem well. As shown in the photo of trashcans in the Seatle airport, people ignore the hints of slot shapes and put all things in the "trash" slot anyway. Educating and raising awareness has also been done a lot of times. We were afraid that it does nothing other than raising awareness. Lastly, we couldn't come up with a brilliant idea that helps people read the recycle bins and save their time separating the trash. Shaping the slots was a good attempt but it failed. So we decided to try encouraging people to spend extra time and take extra steps in recycling by making it attractive.
Initial concept
Then we started to construct the concept of an interactive recycle bin, which took the two most motivating elements: "gaming" and "competing".
How did we know if our concept works?
In order to better design the experience for a dedicated environment, we narrowed down our design space to Georgia Tech campus. Because the key to success in our approach is to motivate people to participate in a voting contest on trivial arguments. It requires every participant to have a strong ownership of the community. Thus it makes sense to choose a campus environment because it has a strong community nature.
Target Users
We created the following personas to help us resonate empathy with the users' goals, needs, motivations, and lifestyles.
We wanted to find out if our users will be truly motivated to vote on trivial topics. So we conducted a validation test to see how much participation can we receive.
Georgia Tech Architecture Building
Georgia Tech Klaus building
Georgia Tech Clough Learning Commons
Over a weekend
In a Friday night, we put together 5 sloppy voting boxes and distributed them secretly across the campus.
We retrieved the boxes on Monday morning. To our surprise, we received plenty of notes even there were fewer people during the weekend.
The result was absolutely exciting. Not only did we see sticker notes in the boxes, but a lot of them were also written and commented. It proved that people cared enough that they were willing to spend the time to share their opinions.
At this point, we had solid proof that the core of our idea - "Increase motivation" was working.
Audio Interaction Design
In addition to visual interactions, we designed a series of audio tones for our recycling machine. The audio tones will provide users with prompt feedbacks of valid input, and give hints about whether the recycling was correct or incorrect.
Containers Inserted
Correct or Incorrect?
The sound of containers will immediately play once bottles or cans are inserted. Following that, the elevating tone rings if the insert is correct (cans in aluminum, bottles in plastic), and vice versa.
Visual Design
Product Engineering
I used to be an industrial designer, now it's the time where my education in industrial design and HCI come together (yes that's why I love tangible interaction design so much). I wanted the physical existance of our product to echo the golden memories of gaming in the arcade. The shape of our recycling machine resembles an arcade machine, on which each side represents one standpoint of the argument. There are 4 inserting slots (2 on each side) for disposing containers, and 2 drains for emptying remaining liquid. On the top of each side there is a digital display showing the current score of that team. The center of the front panel is reserved for visual feedback of correct or incorrect recycling.
Inside the machine there are 3 tanks. Objects made in the same material will be joined in the tanks for collection. Different tanks are connected to the slots on the front through tunnels.
To get ready for implementation, I built the 3D model on 1:1 scale in Fusion 360. The 3D model helped us get the precise measurement for the different parts of the machine.
System Design
The team spent a lot of time figuring out the technical solutions. I have made this flowchart below to explain how our system works.
The sensors we used include 4 infrared sensors, 4 self-made conductivity sensors, 2 flow sensors.
Other electronics we used to produce the audio and visual feedback are 2 LED strips, 2 7-Segment displays, and a laptop that does all the processing.
We Started Building
After several late-night Home Depot runs, our arcade machine started to embody. We assembled the entire thing with mostly wood boards, thanks to the carefully designed cut slots by David. The team's favorite part of building was painting the surface and least favorite was sanding it.
Implementing the electronics was a challenge. We used Arduino to read and control all the electronics. Our processing code runs on a laptop which we hide at the back of the kiosk.
The team had fun building it. The following group pictures were taken when we were making fun of "real human-computer interface" by mimicking "indifferent", "happy", "sad" emojis behind the kiosk. This joke inspired our final design of layering acrylic faces on the middle of the screen and edge lighting it to give feedback on correct or incorrect recycling.
Building Was Complete!
After some final touching, the building was complete. We lit the edges with fluorescence wire which was my favorite part because it brought out the arcade scent and really helped it stand out in the dark.
Video Demo
Road Tests
We rolled out our machine on the "LaunchPad Demo Day" at Georgia Tech. It attracted a lot of people to see and interact with our machine. We put together a clip of that day, and it's just fun to look at.
Through this semester-long project, I learned a lot about designing feedback to prompt users about further interactions. The audio and visual feedbacks need to be consistent, self-explanatory and right on time. Some usual occasions are recognition, rejection, warning, confirmation.Users don't interact with our product the way we designed to
As occurred in our road tests, people pour water into the recycling machine in order to gain more points for their teams. That ends up wasting water which is the opposite of our purpose (a bug in our code enabled counting multiple points instead of 1 during one liquid flow detection). We should include that thought in the earlier phase and design our system to be more robust.The power of brainstorm
We pivoted a lot in the early ideation phase. The final concept resulted from a lot of creative thinking, which didn't seem to connect directly to the problem. But we proved the rationale in the later experiment.How to collaborate in teamwork
Teamwork is more than 1 + 1. All members in a team should understand each others' skillsets and learn from others. We can create better results when we support each other and, most importantly, love what we are making!


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A lot of people still see frequent bar-goers as being people who are addicted to drinking out with their friends, even though this might not necessarily be the case all the time. In fact, recent studies have helped us to show that pub-goers might actually get a lot of benefits from their regular visits, so much that even people who don't go to such places often may be encouraged to do so in future. Here are certain examples of why regular pub visits might not be such a bad idea after all:
Time Spent Communicating with Others
Visiting a pub frequently does offer you the opportunity of talking with many people on a regular basis. Humans need these interactions to live a healthy life, and since you get plenty of time to talk and discuss while enjoying some quality craft beer Sydney at your favourite retreat, there won't be much of a need to go out of your way to socialize with friends: your regular pub visits should be enough to cover this aspect.
You Get Some Good Food
Most of the pubs in your neighbourhood will offer quality food that matches what regular restaurants and diners can offer to their customers. Some of the higher rated places may provide special menus on selected days so that you can enjoy some good food while talking over many different things with your friends. This alone may be a reason for people to attend pubs more frequently, more so if they don't like cooking at their own home.
You Make Some Useful Connections
Knowing the pub owner and staff very well can be a major advantage in certain situations. For some reason or another, pubs are often used for gatherings, no matter whether it may be an informal event or a party sponsored by a private organization. In any case, you could easily get yourself decent party function rooms in Sydney by virtue of having close contact with a pub. This could be a serious advantage if you are often tasked with planning and organizing events of your own, as you ought to have considerable time savings in getting everything done before the due date.
Drinking in Moderation Is Better than You Might Have Expected
Pubs are notorious for allowing people to consume high-quality alcoholic beverages. While this might be viewed in a bad light by most people out there, the reality is that drinking just a little bit of beer is not going to have noticeably bad effects on your health. Rather, it encourages socializing by making your discussions a tad longer on average. This provides you with plenty of chances to make new friends who might be interested in the same things that you seem to consider as your hobbies. Why is drinking such a bad thing when it only serves to help you out with communication?


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Today, ladies and gents, Victoria Jackson!
Do you remember Victoria Jackson from Saturday Night Live? Here she is, to sing for you again. This is a poignant little ditty called "There's a Communist Living in the White House." Let's hear it for Victoria, folks!
Thanks, Victoria!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Sunday afternoon concert
Today, ladies and gents, Victoria Jackson!
2 comments:
- Mimi Black said...
Oh man this is excellent! She is hilarious.
- April 13, 2010 at 8:03 AM
She is a train wreck
- July 14, 2010 at 12:20 AM
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OCCASIONALLY jealous of the couple legitimate. There's a good idea to identify the size of a sense of normality, so that her relationship with the running healthy.
If it turns out the couple began uncomfortable, you should immediately perform corrective measures attitudes.Here are some tips and tricks, as reported by AskMen.
Every time it comes jealousy, write and give grades 1-10 at each reason he was saying. For example, the couple having an affair with her female colleagues rated 9 because you think it's outrageous actions, and so on.
Write down all the reasons why you are jealous. Do not let your anger had exploded when she heard the rumors about the affair which was only a figment Two minutes Silent for a moment about two minutes to calm your anger. Drag breath and remind yourself how you feel guilty at some time previously been blind him jealous. Try to calm down and think clearly so you can see the problem from a different perspective. Encourage yourself to challenge each point has been made in the above list with a more logical explanation. For example, he was late home from work for reasons of promotion. Do not involve other people Read back what you've written and focus on a logical explanation. Then, give the rankings again about how strong you now believe that the first suspicion or jealousy is true. Do not involve ranking friend at least until the behavior has reached 9 points. Sometimes the presence of others will only make your mind a mess. Repeat exercise However, if you are still out of control, repeat step by step exercises above. If you are the jealous type weight, it may take a little practice time. After that you will see a significant change and become a new person who no longer indulgence in excessive jealousy.


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|Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. The Hole in Long Island as it appeared in 2014
My friend and fellow children's book author Caroline Hatton visited the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada, in October 2014. She took the photos in this post. Caroline's latest book, C'est pas marrant, is in her native French, for ages 8 and up. It's about humorous sibling antics and it practically takes readers on a trip to Paris! Here is her account of what she saw on her trip to Canada.
The Bay of Fundy is home to the world's highest tides, rising and falling up to a record 53 feet (16 meters) a day. But even when and where the tide doesn't reach such extremes, waves erode rocks, islands, and cliffs, constantly reshaping the landscape. The changes range from imperceptible most of the time to colossal proportions once in a while, in which case they make headlines.
|Red dot: location of Five Island Provincial Park
|Five Island Provincial Park. Note hole in Long Island
When I visited Nova Scotia in 2014, a point of interest on my itinerary was Five Island Provincial Park, advertised as a lovely spot for family picnics and beach strolls. It is so named because five islands grace the horizon not far from the shore: Moose, Diamond, Long, Egg, and Pinnacle Island. Having looked up the low tide time on an online tide table weeks in advance, I planned to take a walk on the beach.
It was nice and quiet in the late afternoon sun, sharing the dry sand with only a few dog walkers and watching two clam diggers out on the vast, wet expanse. The closest island was Long Island with its charming, beloved, postcard-perfect arch, known as The Hole or The Eye. I wasn't about to slosh across all that mud to see The Hole up close, so I took a picture (above) with a telephoto. Then, on the display on the back of the camera, I admired the hole's smooth, regular shape, and its dainty look in contrast to the massively thick rock above it.
I imagined kayaking at high tide, paddling through the hole, out to the bay and back toward the beach, or maybe around the point of the island. But not on this trip. Maybe some other time. The Bay of Fundy was fascinating enough to have made it onto my bucket list, so I didn't exclude re-visiting it in the distant future.
Which is why I felt like I had missed something special when a year later I came across news that the arch had collapsed overnight on Monday, October 19, 2015. No one got hurt. No one saw it collapse. Some locals reported hearing noises through the night. The last photo before The Hole disappeared, taken the day before, and the first photo afterwards, on the day after, are shown in a local news article.
I am left with the bittersweet excitement of having seen The Hole before it vanished forever. As for kayaking through rock arches, I can go do it elsewhere in the Bay of Fundy. At least as of now.
For more info
Go to http://bayoffundytourism.com/bay_of_fundy_ecozones_map.pdf for a good map of the three ecozones: "Aquarium" (whale watching), "Sea Cliffs and Fossils," and "World's Highest Tides."
Read another blog post by Caroline Hatton, about the Bay of Fundy's Joggins Fossil Cliffs, at https://theintrepidtourist.blogspot.com/2015/11/canadas-joggins-fossil-cliffs-guest.html


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The Optimus Multi Functional Selfie Stick is Anti-Slip stable design, cell phone holder play a good role in your surroundings.
Certified Bluetooth connectivity ensures easy pairing.
With the Face light with 3 level light adjustments. feature that helps you get better pictures.
Bluetooth remote control for ease in use while on tripod mode.
Lightweight, 1.6m Extendable and Foldable just perfect to port anywhere you travel.
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The IRS has announced its estate tax and gift exemption for 2016, which is $5.45 million per individual and $10.9 million for a married couple. This is up just a bit, based on inflation, from the 2015 exemption of $5.43 million applicable to residents of New York and across the country. The yearly gift exemption remains the same, at $14,000.
Digital estate planning
New York residents who are embarking upon the estate planning process may have heard about new digital options and wondered if this is the right choice for them. Digital document archives have both pros and cons associated with them. Family members have sometimes spent months or even years searching for financial documentation belonging to deceased loved ones, and digital storage has the potential to make it simpler to find those items.
The importance of estate planning
People living in New York may worry about their heirs having to pay estate taxes after they die. However, most people will never have to worry about federal estate taxes. They simply do not have enough money for this tax to become a factor in their estate planning, although the New York estate tax exemption is lower than the federal one.
Tips to limit or avoid estate taxes
New York residents who plan to leave a multi-million dollar estate to their heirs might be worried about taxes because the federal government takes 40 percent, which can account for a large chunk of the assets. However, there are steps that they could follow to limit how much their heirs pay in estate taxes.


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Used sedans near Los Angeles CA
It's no secret that used vehicles are generally more economical than brand-new ones. A new car is great, but they lose so much value so quickly. A used car, even one that is only a couple years old, will maintain much more of its value after you purchase it. There are certainly pros and cons to buying new and used vehicles, but for now, we're going to focus on why you should consider buying a used sedan.
Puente Hills Mazda is home to dozens of new cars, but our used inventory is equally impressive. Of course, it is always changing, so if we don't have the pre-owned vehicle you're looking for, check back frequently! And yes, we feature more than used Mazda cars. Most of our used vehicles are no older than five to six years old. Check out more details about our used inventory below.
Used Mazda vehicles
As you would expect, our used lot primarily features Mazda models. We have a wide selection of Mazda3 and Mazda6 vehicles ranging in years from 2015 to as new as 2018. A pre-owned Mazda3 Touring from 2015 can be purchased for just over $15,000.
Used Toyota vehicles
Despite being a fierce rival, we still will carry used Toyotas. Both the Camry and the Corolla have been known to show up on our used lot, and customers have loved them. A 2016 Toyota Camry with around 40,000 miles can be purchased for just a hair over $16,000.
Other used sedan models
Again, our used inventory is always changing. We can't promise what will be here on a given day, but we can guarantee that all of our used vehicles are well-inspected and completely safe. Other common used sedans at Puente Hills Mazda include the Chevy Cruze, Volkswagen Jetta, and Honda Accord. Visit us in person for the most up-to-date knowledge about our used cars.
Test drive a used car near Los Angeles CA
We allow all of our customers to test drive anything in our inventory. Any time you are looking to purchase a vehicle, you should give several models a test spin so you know what you're investing in. Test driving a car is easier now than ever thanks to this thing called the internet. You can conveniently schedule a test drive online and come in at your earliest convenience. All you have to do is enter some contact information and tell us which vehicle you would like to drive. This way, we will know exactly when you're coming in and we can have everything ready for you so there is no waiting! Come on in soon and see what we have to offer!


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November 2, 2018
An Active Life Restored, Thanks to Regenerative Medicine
For years, Rick Amatuzio lived with severe back pain that kept him from the active life he'd always savored. But advanced diagnostic tests and regenerative medicine therapy at Mayo Clinic ultimately led to a complete recovery. Now Rick once again can play sports and enjoy the outdoors free from pain.
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