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Shane Snow has been bothering the Foursquare crew since before the startup was funded and became the internet's darling du jour. A student at Columbia's School of Journalism at the time, Snow was in the room during key moments in the company's early history, and was granted more than 30 exclusive interviews over the course of six months.
This is the first installment of a two-part series chronicling Snow's inside view of the birth of Foursquare, one of the most talked-about tech companies of 2010.
Dubbed 'highly competitive' by his friends, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley loves games. And he doesn't like to lose.The top of Dennis Crowley's toilet is home to the 176-page paperback, Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less, and a stack of snowboarding magazines, but no one is reading tonight. Cheers mingle with agonized shouts over a backdrop of nerd rock a la Weezer and drift in from the living room where Crowley, 33-year-old cofounder of the "hip" new social network, Foursquare, prepares for his turn at the Nintendo Wii.
Red and purple bogeys from Atari's classic Space Invaders leer menacingly from their painted positions on the wall above the roughly 30 guests, who sport holiday sweaters and busily destroy their livers while watching one another compete for the title of "Wii Ski Jump Champ." A string of lights provides a makeshift border for the 10-foot projection of a cartoon ski ramp cast on the other wall, between a row of seven (real) snowboards and one of the oddest Christmas trees you'll ever see.
It's Dec. 18, 2009, the night of Crowley's annual BYOTTHOTMFT (Bring Your Own Thing To Hang On This M-F**king Tree) party. His 7-foot spruce hangs heavily with toy robots, coasters and Pokemon, topped by a pastel blue thong. "I have no idea who brought that," Crowley confesses. He turns to greet two new guests who've just staggered in from the Manhattan cold before taking his turn at the videogame.
Someone hands him a pair of silver and red ski goggles – for costume's sake – which he dons over shaggy, medium-brown bangs before stepping his 5-foot-9-inch, 170-pound frame onto a balance mat that triggers his character's movement. On the wall, his cartoon alter ego poises itself at the top of the virtual incline, skis ready. Crowley leans forward, and his character whooshes down the ramp. As the lip approaches, he jumps, flails and lands.
A collective "Ohhhh!" erupts from the party-goers. Crowley has scored a paltry 42 feet, putting him nearly dead last.
He's losing his own game at his own party.
At age 11, the boy who would one day find himself on the cusp of tech celebrity with his own company called up Nintendo Power from his Boston home to see if he was one of the first 10 people to beat The Legend of Zelda ever. (He says the guy on the phone let him down easy, telling him that player No. 10 had called in just that day.)
A few years later, he was enlisting his high school friends to help him write a videogame fanzine called Dystopia (which periodically enraged other fanzines with its teenage offensiveness). By the time he got his hands on Zelda Wind Waker at age 26, his girlfriend literally told him, "You need to choose between me and that game."
Dubbed "highly competitive" by his friends, Crowley loves games. He doesn't like to lose.
Foursquare is the latest in a line of social networks – websites using technology to enhance social interaction. From SixDegrees.com in the late '90s to Friendster in '02, the musically inclined MySpace in '03 to the now privacy-challenged Facebook in '05, online networking became an integral part of mainstream U.S. (and increasingly, world) culture.
One year into Facebook's 400-million-user climb to the top, the microblogging social network, Twitter.com, which allows users to broadcast their status in text-message-sized updates, emerged as the newest hit networking medium.
Crowley and his partner, Naveen Selvadurai, a curly haired, 27-year-old mobile programmer from Connecticut, describe Foursquare as the next evolution.
Foursquare is part social city guide, part mobile friend finder. Users connect based on GPS location. Those who can make a habit of "checking in" whenever they go places can meet new people, invite friends to join up, and leave tips for others who check in later. It's common to check in someplace and receive a tip like, "Since you're nearby, your friend, Jacob, recommends the 'Cookie Monster' at Craigo's Pizza."
What makes it different than other GPS apps is it's also a competitive game. A user who checks into a venue most often becomes "Mayor," a faux status symbol that still encourages many to use the app more frequently. Users can earn an array of other digital "badges" for various accomplishments, like checking out new places or events. For some, collecting badges becomes an addictive incentive to keep using the app.
Can it be long before people start saying, "Who cares about being mayor of some latte stand?"Three months before the BYOTTHOTMFT party, Foursquare received $1.35 million from investors including Ron Conway, who funded Google and PayPal in the late '90s and early '00s; Jack Dorsey, the original CEO and co-founder of Twitter; and Union Square Ventures, which has seeded dozens of well-known web companies like Twitter and Etsy. including the URL shortener, Bit.ly. (USV did not invest in Bit.ly, as originally reported. We regret the error).
Union Square's Fred Wilson, who's managed to invest in several tech companies that have ended up dominating their industries, says Foursquare's "combination of engagement, addiction and growth is what made them attractive to us."
Starting in New York City, Foursquare launched in major cities first, spreading to over 100 cities by December. Users began flooding in: nearly 200,000 since summer, and climbing – it hit a million users in April). Foursquare's key premise ties it inextricably to ancillary businesses, making monetization (something even the big social networks struggle with) a no-brainer.
Crowley's already been surprised by the ways small businesses have taken to Foursquare. Retailers are starting to use check ins as "digital punch cards," a hotel in Amsterdam is using Foursquare to raffle off free rooms, and many a coffee shop now offers free lattes to its "Mayor" as a promotional strategy.
Recently, as of March 2010, Foursquare has announced partnerships with MTV and VH1, Bravo TV and Zagat, all of which could be huge for growth. On May 7, 2010, The Wall Street Journal become the first mainstream news organization to use Foursquare to report the evacuation of Times Square due to a bomb scare.
But unlike the now ubiquitous Facebook and the ever-growing Twitter, in front of Foursquare looms a significant hurdle. Foursquare mainly seems to appeal to a specific, limited crowd of young urbanites, a fact of which the founders are painfully aware. Even Ma and Pa are are using Facebook (albeit to the chagrin of their children). But many who hear about Foursquare can't seem to find the answer to, "Why should I?" From the outside, it appears to be built for popular people with an active nightlife, which immediately alienates, well, the majority, who don't.
Even more worrisome is that the barrier to entry isn't all that high. With giants like Twitter, Facebook and now the review site Yelp starting to incorporate location-based data into their services, Foursquare adoption will depend on its ability to add value in ways other media can't.
And there is the small matter that The Next Big thing might be a complete rejection of The Current Big Thing. Douglas Rushkoff, a media theorist who's written a dozen books on pop culture and new media including the recent bestseller, Life Inc., predicts that social networks will wane in popularity due to "friend overload and people not caring anymore."
Recent backlash against Facebook has brought a growing concern about privacy and sharing personal information to center stage. The New York Times has since reported statistics that the "tell-all generation" of social networking teens and twenty-somethings are becoming less prone to reflexively sharing everything. Should that happen, Foursquare, and a lot of other companies, could be out of luck.
At first glance, Foursquare does seem pretty fun, but it has a lot of things conspiring against it. Privacy, competitors and the fad-burnout possibility inherent in its game aspect all threaten its long-term viability. Can it be long before people start saying, "Who cares about being mayor of some latte stand?"
The criticism and doom scenarios don't deter Crowley, though the stakes are clear: rock-stardom and altering the media landscape forever versus, you know, humiliation and unemployment. Ultimately, he says, he just wants to make up for a disappointment that's still on his mind: a social network he started in 2003, called Dodgeball.
Dodgeball aimed to connect people in a Friendster-like way, using text messages rather than web pages. After gathering some momentum and being acquired by Google in 2005, Dodgeball's progress slowed due to internal power struggles, technical issues and shallow user-adoption rates. It gradually bled away members until Google killed it. When asked about any lofty goals for Foursquare, Crowley simply says, "I just want to build the thing that Dodgeball was supposed to be."
Several of Crowley's friends from the Dodgeball days are at the BYOTTHOTMFT party, beating him at his ski jump game. It's his turn again, and one of them thrusts the goggles back into his hands. Pressure's on. Though his first attempt was a bust, the scoreboard, written with a Sharpie on a slab of butcher paper taped to the wall, shows Crowley still has a chance to win if he nails a near-perfect second jump.
There's something that causes Foursquare to break every Saturday at 2:30 a.m.It's Oct. 1, 2009, the day of Foursquare's London debut, and the launch is going ... well, terribly.
Something about switching from 10-digit U.S. phone numbers to Europe's 12 has caused the popular new social network to break. All the carefully crafted buzz around the launch event is being slowly flushed down the social media toilet as eager potential users simply can't join.
Harry Heymann, the newly hired former Google programmer, looks really glad it's not his fault. He sits barefoot, with one leg up on his chair, and watches co-founder Naveen Selvadurai hover over a 24-inch Dell monitor full of code on the other side of the table. The latter insists that he has no idea what's wrong. Dennis Crowley, the other co-founder, paces. The twin emotions, panic and pissed-off, fight for dominance, but he pushes them both down. Profanity: averted. Disaster: ongoing.
The trio occupies a wobbly rectangular table in the middle of Curbed.com's fifth floor office space in Cooper Square, Manhattan, where Curbed has lent them a little room. Engrossed in their work, a dozen Curbed employees peck thoughtfully at their keyboards, oblivious to the severity of the circumstance.
With a fresh million in the bank, Crowley and Selvadurai have brought Heymann in to help rewrite the shoddy programming they initially threw together earlier this year. It turns out their code won't allow Foursquare to grow stably at its current rate, which is much higher than they expected. But as Heymann replaced old PHP code with the more stable Scala, Foursquare's 60,000-member following, and therefore its bug list, was growing exponentially.
Heymann's hair resembles the code he's fixing: overlong, with pieces flying every direction. He's smart – "insanely smart" are Selvadurai's exact words – and the question on his mind is not can he fix it. It's can he fix it before someone else steals Foursquare's thunder.
With so many eyes in the tech world on Foursquare right now, it's any day now before the "me too's" start swooping in.
Crowley continues to pace.
Before Dodgeball plunged him into the menacing world of board meetings and venture capitalists, Crowley thought he'd end up somewhere in magazine journalism. He got a bachelor's degree in communication at Syracuse University, then moved to New York and worked at Vindigo, a city guide for Palm Pilots. There, he was exposed to (and fell in love with) the field of product development.
While at Vindigo, Crowley dreamed of a way to turn his employer's software into something ahead of its time: city discovery with a social twist. "I was pushing Vindigo, like, 'Hey you should know where your friends are eating or what places they've gone to,'" he recalls. It was 2000, before the term "social media" was even coined, and Vindigo didn't catch his vision.
Two years later, he entered New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. In a class, he met a user experience designer, Alex Rainert, and told him his idea for a text-message-based social network. They started working on a prototype together for a class project.
"We tried to get the domain name, Foursquare, but it was taken," Crowley says. "But we got Dodgeball and thought it was pretty cool."
The project became their thesis. After graduation, they borrowed money to pay rent and began plugging away at it from their kitchens and the school computer labs. Dodgeball gobbled up early adopters in New York and San Francisco, though cost and technology severely limited its growth.
Regardless, Crowley and Rainert were soon chatting with starry-eyed VCs who wanted to give them lots of money, yet didn't seem to grasp what Dodgeball even was. The search giant, Google, won their affections in the end, acquiring the company in the spring of 2005. They stayed on board under the new management, but dealing with the slow bureaucracy of a corporation – even one that professes to be "not evil" like Google – turned out to be painful. Both left in 2007, calling the experience "incredibly frustrating." The project essentially made no progress post-acquisition.
Apple's invention of the iPhone that same year proved to be a game-changer in the mobile industry. It was now possible to build all the features Crowley hadn't been able to with Dodgeball. Knowing his noncompete agreement with Google would soon expire, in 2008 he began quietly developing a Dodgeball replacement with Selvadurai, whom he had met in the NY tech scene. On Jan. 14, 2009, Google announced Dodgeball's official (and long overdue) shutdown, and the two began coding furiously with the intention of finishing their project in time for the South By Southwest interactive festival in March.
And this time Crowley would finally get the name, Foursquare.
If you're hunting for geeks, SXSW is the place to find them in all varieties: music geeks, movie geeks, comic book geeks, computer geeks. Every year, more than 10,000 gather in Austin, Texas, to watch bands, screen films, and talk technology. Here, Crowley and Selvadurai seized the opportunity to announce the launch of their newly completed iPhone app. Though it was one of dozens of new products debuting at the event, Foursquare was dubbed the "Breakout App" by Mashable and other social media blogs.
"It was kind of amazing to be sitting in a keynote and every three or four people in front [of] you are looking at a Foursquare screen," says Tim Vetter, who would join the team in November.
By July, Foursquare was courting investors. In September, investment cash in hand, Crowley and Selvadurai bought Foursquare.com from its hesitant owner and hired Heymann, a top software engineer who had worked on Dodgeball at Google. Soon after, they released an Android app, plus a mobile website for BlackBerry and other smartphones, and launched in 15 major U.S. cities by mid-September.
Having heard the news that Foursquare might be the next big thing, early adopters around the globe began clamoring for it to come to their city. Foursquare was quickly becoming the darling of the new media community.
Despite its shiny outward success, the team knows it's behind in terms of how mature its code infrastructure is. The signup-denying U.K. phone debacle is proof.
Crowley paces, helplessly. Heymann watches, anxiously.
There's something that causes Foursquare to break every Saturday at 2:30 a.m.
"It's awesome," Nathan Folkman, an engineer Foursquare recently lured away from Bit.ly, grates as Heymann explains this, the latest bug to ruin his beauty rest. It's just six weeks since London, and Foursquare is now in 100 cities, with two new employees.
Two minutes ago Crowley announced, "Last week is the first week I think we didn't have something break," only to be met with an outburst of laughter, then grumbling.
He stands corrected.
If there's one core expectation users have of a social network, it's that it be available on demand, 24/7. Twitter makes headlines when it goes down for 15 minutes. Heaven forbid a Facebook crash.
Whereas there won't exactly be a riot if Foursquare's down ... well, that's the problem. And fixing the website at an obscene hour every weekend is just plain irritating.
Selvadurai shakes his head at the news, "That's so random." But Heymann corrects him, "No it's not random, actually. It's entirely predictable." Their table is littered: a neon orange portable hard drive, caffeinated "Perky Jerky" (not just a package, a whole box of the so-called "meat"), and a Spiderman pillow stand out against a background of papers, manuals and computer monitors. The tattered corrugated remains of a giant box lie beneath a gleaming new whiteboard on which the team has already written its first to-do list:
World Domination. Eat sandwich. Friendster integration. 4SQ Geocities page widget.
In Part II: SXSW 2010, code warriors, Gowalla worries and ... world domination.


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Search teams across Southeast Asia using ships and planes scoured the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam yesterday looking for traces of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared from air traffic control screens with 239 people on board.
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Holdren goes on to say that "no single weather episode can either prove or disprove climate change." However, he adds that a "growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues."
The White House has scheduled a Google hangout Friday on the issue. That online event, titled "'Polar Vortex' and Extreme Weather," is slated to feature a conversation with leading meteorologists, climate scientists and other weather experts about why temperatures dipped so low this week, how weather experts turn data into forecasts and "what we know about extreme weather events in the context of a changing climate," according to the blog post.
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English director Danny Boyle doesn't have much respect for boundaries. You can see that in the films he's chosen to direct over his nearly 20-year career, ranging from a soundtrack-heavy descent into the black comedy of heroin addiction ("Trainspotting") to an unexpected fairy tale of sorts set in the slums of Mumbai ("Slumdog Millionaire"). He's earned respect in the art house and the megaplex, and with a best-director Oscar on his shelf, he has the clout to pick and choose how he'll surprise us next.
But Boyle is hardly contained by medium. He proved himself as a theatrical director in his early career and again in 2011 with his Olivier Award-winning stage production of "Frankenstein." Most recently he branched out to massive, stadium-sized theatrics involving 10,000 performers, 100 live animals, a movie star and one very game queen for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, a feat so large in scale, bureaucratic in nature and glacial in pace that Boyle decided to squeeze in a film shoot during his off-hours just to stay sane. That film was "Trance," a crime thriller/psycho-drama that uses the art and science of hypnosis to explore ideas about identity and perception.
"The Olympics is what would drive you mad. Not some crazy twisted thriller about bending the minds. That doesn't drive you mad, that keeps you sane," Boyle, 56, joked during a recent telephone interview. "You know what they say about watching paint dry or listening to the sound of your hair growing? It's all boring. To be able to do something like ("Trance") was a wonderful relief — to actually go and make something. The Olympics is a wonderful job and it turned out all right in the end. It was great. But it's very, very slow."
Although he found relief in filmmaking, Boyle hardly played it safe with "Trance," a film that explores the limits of the human mind. Boyle first became interested in hypnosis after seeing a stage show in which the hypnotist/performer put selected audience members under hypnosis and had them perform various stunts, much to the crowd's delight. "I was fascinated because, like a lot of people, I felt going in that these are probably stooges or actors, because it's impossible what he's getting them to do," Boyle admitted. "And yet, I know actors and I can spot actors, because I'm quite experienced like that. And I think, that's not an actor."
When Boyle learned that 5 percent to 10 percent of the population is highly suggestible and, therefore, extremely responsive to hypnosis, he was intrigued by the possibilities. "Hypnosis is a very powerful tool which, in the wrong hands, can be used in a deeply unethical way. I loved what that gave you as part of a crime thriller and a mind exploration," he said.
All that we don't know about how the brain works, combined with what we do know about manipulating it, proved to be fertile creative territory for Boyle. He worked closely with screenwriter John Hodge, his collaborator on "Trainspotting" and his debut film, "Shallow Grave," to develop the screenplay for "Trance," which begins with an audacious heist orchestrated by a slick art thief (Vincent Cassel), in cahoots with an auctioneer (James McAvoy). When the auctioneer is knocked unconscious and can't remember where he hid the painting, he's sent to a therapist (Rosario Dawson), who uses hypnosis to help him find it — or is it something else she's up to?
"Our identity is made up of constructed memories, just selected, manipulated and polished to our own particular version of the story," Boyle explained. "Suppose you fracture that? And suppose it's not a fracture? Suppose it's an intervention? Somebody has gone in there and actually done something. What happens to somebody when that is done? I loved finding out about it and what possibilities it threw out."
Although Boyle admits that the possibilities portrayed in "Trance" are "deeply unethical," he screened the film for actual hypnotists, who acknowledged that the tactics are indeed clinically possible. Perhaps that's why the director, who describes himself as "a control freak," was unable to relax enough to enter a hypnotic state during his research for the film. His actors, however, were able to surrender, though without any of the high drama that plays out in the film.
Indeed, "Trance" brings with it a great deal of on-screen intrigue that twists and turns, keeping the characters just as unsettled and out of sorts as the audience. Understandably, Boyle is keen on avoiding spoilers as he promotes the film, but he admits he might have initially tried to withhold too much information from the audience. "You're so paranoid about people guessing it before they should," Boyle explained.
Thankfully, Boyle had the luxury of an eight-month break between shooting and editing the film, a rare opportunity in a world where film financiers are eager to get the product out to market. But the Olympics were a worthy enough excuse for delay, and by the time he returned to the project he'd had enough time away to see where he needed to offer the audience a few more "bread crumbs" along the trail. "It needs to be something that the audience can begin to perceive and understand when something's not quite right. There are clues, and you need to be sure you lay those clues in."
The actors, however, were operating in full daylight. Boyle had them work off a strict chronological version of the script to avoid any confusion. "That's your bible that you rely on," Boyle said. "It would've been too complicated to play those mind games and not let anybody know (redacted to avoid spoilers, as Boyle would undoubtedly appreciate)."
Even if you're still hazy on the facts by the time the credits roll, Boyle hopes that at least he got you on a visceral level, a strategy he employs across all of his work. "Whatever the story is — and you vary them — you want it to have an appeal that is hypnotic," Boyle said. "When you immediately experience it, there is no way out. It's a frenzied kind of journey that you go on with these characters."


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Damir Doma: You're given me the answer with your question! It was about finding the lightness with new materials it was about finding the lightness even in a material like leather. I also used a lace, which a season ago I wouldn't have thought of ever using. Also with the shapes like the balloon sleeves and skirts that wouldn't normally go with my style if you think about it. I found a way of linking the pureness and my sensibility with those sort of shapes.
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Obama told graduates of the University of California-Irvine that it will take their youthful spirit, passion and knowledge to overcome naysayers who don't believe climate change is a threat or don't want to take dramatic action to stop it before it causes more wildfires, floods, storms, and droughts.
"There's going to be a stubborn status quo, and there are going to be people determined to stymie your efforts to bring about change," Obama told an estimated 30,640 people gathered at Angel Stadium in Anaheim. "There are going to be people who say you shouldn't bother. I've got some experience with this myself."
The president was referring to criticism by Republican leaders in Congress — and by some Democrats — that his administration's new carbon pollution regulations are too stringent and will hurt the economy by putting more than 600 coal-fired power plants out of business and increasing the cost of energy.
Environmentalists say the action is long overdue to fight the growing threat of climate change and the catastrophic weather events it creates.
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations that would cut carbon pollution from the nation's power plants 30% from 2005 levels by 2030.
It is the strongest action ever taken by a presidential administration to reduce climate change, and Obama clearly hopes to make it an important part of his legacy. If the legislation survives legislative challenges in Congress and legal challenges in court, it could lead to a huge change in the way the nation gets its power.
"The question is whether we have the will to act before it is too late," Obama told the graduates. "The answer will affect the world we leave — not just to my children — but to your children and your children's children."
Obama compared the challenge to President John F. Kennedy's call to the nation in the early 1960s to land a man on the moon.
"It's no accident that Kennedy went to a university (Rice University in Houston) when he wanted to convince the nation about going to the moon," Obama said. "Progress requires the spirit of youth, it requires optimism, it requires hope."
Progress on climate change will be measured in "disasters averted, lives spared," the president said.
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In April, I will make the rounds of Family History Expos to Houston, Texas and then on to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and finally to the Family History Expo in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If you live near any of these places, please come by and say hello.
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It looks like I will also be presenting two classes, one on Google Treasures for Genealogists and the other on FamilySearch. I am looking forward to seeing some of my friends at the Conference and having a good time in sunny St. George.Free Book Scanning Service at the St George ExpoThe Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah is world renowned as the largest research collection under one roof anywhere in the world! You can access their collections through more than 3,000 FamilySearch Centers throughout the U.S.At the St George Family History Expo FamilySearch is offering to scan your family history book and give you a digital copy on a flash drive provided by FamilySearch for your convenience.Benefits of scanning your book:
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Sending a Sim on Tour
Sending a Sim[edit]
On the home page of the SimPort book, you'll have two big options in the top-left corner: Host a sim or Send a Sim. We'll talk about Hosting a Sim on Tour in the next section of the wiki.
Depending on your Sim's circumstances, the "Send a Sim" button may be grayed out. Sims can only go on a successful tour once a week, and you'll need a Level 2 performer in any profession to have the option anyway. Also, you can only have four total Sims on tour per profile regardless of how many saved games they're spread over. You can cancel tours from this screen if necessary (for example, if you've deleted a save game without pulling the Sim back first), which we'll explain below. Any Sims who are on tour are listed below the "Send a Sim" button, and for us right now, it's blank.
We hit the button, then we get a pop-up box divided into three steps. The first step is to select all the Sims of the current household you wish to send on tour. Any Sims you want to send must be at their home lot to be listed here. You can only select one at a time regardless of how many performers in the same family; if you want to send more than one, you need to complete one sending before you start to send the second. You can see below that Lanette is the only choice, so we select her and hit the checkmark button.
The second step selects what stamp we want to pursue. You can see that Lanette has collected several stamps already from other tours. You can select stamps you've already collected if you wish, as you may be helping out a friend complete his hosting stamps. This time, Lanette chooses the easiest stamp she has not yet collected, then hits the checkmark button.
The final step allows you to choose which friend to send your request to. This screen is all-or-one: you can either select one specific friend, or you can choose to post the request to all friends. You cannot select just a few friends to host. If you speak to certain friends outside the game, you can coordinate with each other to work on each other's SimPort book. Otherwise, it's probably best to just choose all your friends. Lanette is doing that here.
After you select which friend to send your Sim, the game will pause and do a couple things. First, it will automatically package your Sim and upload him or her to The Sims 3 Exchange. The actual process of making the file won't take more than a couple seconds, but depending on your Internet connection speed, the uploading process could take a while, and you unfortunately don't get a progress bar or time estimate. Performers tend to be about 10 megabytes, possibly more depending on their skills. Their inventory is not packaged with them, but their appearance and any alterations you've done to their performing outfit is packaged.
If anything goes wrong with the upload, such as your Internet connection getting interrupted, you'll be alerted and the game will give you back control. You can then immediately attempt to send her again if you wish. If everything goes well and the upload completes, the game will immeidately save as well.
Because the game has to package your performer, upload him or her to the exchange, make the wall posts for any friend or all friends, and save, the entire process could take several minutes depending on your Internet connection and processor speed. It's recommended you pause the game before activating your SimPort book so you can even walk away from the computer without risking your Sims standing around without anyone in control.
Once the process is totally complete and we're given control again, Lanette automatically cancels any action she's doing; in this case, she immediately wakes up. A limo arrives to pick her up within the hour, and it drives off the edge of the map. Lanette's portrait turns gray, showing she's completely out of our control and cannot even be selected.
Returning from Tour[edit]
Assuming none of her friends can host her, Lanette will return on her own after about 12 in-game hours. Because of this, you'll want to make sure you properly time when to send your Sim on a tour. If she has a gig in a few hours for example, and she winds up going on tour for too long, she'll miss her gig! Not only is that a paycheck she won't receive, but if it was a steady gig, she'll lose it and will have to try auditioning again.
Your friends and still accept a tour even if your Sim has already returned on her own. This way, you don't necessarily have to be strictly coordinating with your friends just to host each other. Just check your wall whenever you play The Sims 3:Showtime, and see if you have anyone who has sent a Sim.
If someone does choose to host Lanette while we're still playing Lanette's save, we'll be alerted immediately. Even better, she'll return immediately too! If Lanette is hosted and we're not playing, or we're playing a different save file, we'll be alerted as soon as our friend finishes the hosting process. This means, if we can coordinate with a friend, they can accept to host Lanette but she'll be able to come straight back to town after just a few in-game minutes! This allows her to be hosted and still get back in time for a gig!
Alternately, you can simply send your Sim as you end your gaming session. This way, your Sim clock will pause, and it gives your friends time to accept hosting your Sim's tour. Again, next time you load up that save file, if you have been hosted, you'll be told immediately.
Rewards may not happen immediately however. It's an alternate universe in a literal sense, so if Lanette comes back home immediately, a copy of her is still in our friend's town. Your Sim has to actually finish performing over in your friend's town before anyone gets rewarded, so it may take a little while to happen. Once the tour is finished, both players will automatically post on their walls, and both players will be rewarded.
If you need to recall your performer immediately for some reason, there are two ways you can do it. First, you can click the Sim's portrait, and you'll get a pop-up box asking if you want to end the tour. Alternatively, you can open the SimPort book and click the Sim's portrait below the "Send a Sim" button. Either way, if click "Yes" on the pop-up box, your Sim will return immediately but no one will be rewarded for it.


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After the introduction of Vampires in The Sims 3 Late Night, it was only a matter of time before EA added Werewolves. Now Twilight fans everywhere can use The Sims 3 Supernatural to decide once and for all who Bella should be with!
have no inherent magical abilities like Fairies or Witches, and in fact have the least amount of change at all. But this is both a blessing and a curse: while Fairies and Witches routinely use magic to get by, Werewolves can instead concentrate on conventional methods to accomplish goals.
Werewolves have both a human form and a wolf form, both of which can be edited in Create A Sim (either from scratch, or from the mirror with a "Change Appearance" command). Interestingly, and for the better, you are not forced to actually change your wolf's appearance. That is, he could look identical in both forms, including a lack of body hair if you so desire. It's doubtful you want to do that, of course, but you can use any hair style and amount for the alternate form. You could even have a hairy human form and a bald wolf form if you desire.
Typically, Werewolves can choose when to transform to their alternate form. During full moons, Werewolves may be forced to transform to their wolf forms and stay in them for about six hours. As Werewolves practice their special commands and otherwise interact with society, they'll become more comfortable with their powers and less likely to transform in and out of their forms without your command. That said, unless the moon is somehow affecting them, Werewolves can transform at-will without cost to any sort of mana bar or other time limit.
feature powers that are redundant to dogs in The Sims 3 Pets. Werewolves can scratch furniture or may desire to eat raw food instead of meals. They aren't penalized for ignoring their wolfish desires -- a Werewolf in his Werewolf form can go on acting like a human without any sort of problem -- but they'll earn decent lifetime points for fulfilling those special wishes.
By far the most profitable feature of Werewolves is their ability to hunt. With the Werewolf active, merely click an unoccupied terrain tile, then choose "Hunt Solo." The Werewolf will dash around the lot -- whether it's your home lot or a public lot -- and will always find something as a result, usually a valuable gem or ore! For this reason, Werewolves should invest in a gem cutting machine as soon as possible. With a bit of work, a werewolf could hunt for a living and never have to take a conventional job or profession!
Still, if hunting solo is valuable, hunting in a pack is even better. After a Werewolf practices his powers for a while, he'll gain the ability to spread the Werewolf Curse through a special social interaction. The Werewolf will bite the victim, who is guaranteed to transform into a Werewolf in a matter of days. (This assumes that the intended target doesn't fight back by pulling a newspaper out of Hammerspace and whacking the Werewolf on the nose, but the Werewolf can simply try again.) Whichever Sim is initiating the transformations is the pack leader, and other Werewolves will often come calling when the leader howls at the moon in wolf form. Then, you can choose to hunt with the pack rather than alone, thus bringing much greater rewards!


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Exceptional Minds Studio (EMS), an offshoot of Exceptional Minds digital arts academy, is creating the opportunity for adults with autism to be employed doing film post-production work. EMS will provide services on a per-project basis by skilled video effects professionals who have completed the three-year vocational program at Exceptional Minds digital arts academy for young adults with autism. One of the studios recent projects was the film "American Hustle."
A study published recently in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders has found that autistic adults who are engaged in independent work may experience a reduction in autism symptoms. Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined 153 adults with autism and found that greater vocational independence and engagement led to improvements in core features of autism, other problem behaviors and ability to take care of oneself.
Researchers at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy report that care for a child with autism can cost nearly $160,000 per year over lifespan, with families bearing much of the fiscal burden. "A scan of provincial programs finds a patchwork of unequal and incomplete supports for individuals living with autism spectrum disorders," reads the report, which was released at a press conference in Calgary on Wednesday. The report notes that relying on families to provide the bulk of care over lifespan in the absence of adequate support services is not a "sustainable approach."
Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who famously stunned judges on "Britain's Got Talent" with her rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables," has announced that she has received an ASD diagnosis. Boyle stated in an interview that she feels relieved to have a better understanding of herself. She said she was misdiagnosed as a child as being "brain-damaged."
Autism Speaks is today releasing the findings of an online survey conducted regarding housing needs for autistic adults. In July and August 2013, over 10,000 people (including 400 autistic adults) responded to the National Housing and Residential Supports Survey. According to the report, "The survey was intended to identify the most important and commonly recurring housing needs within this community and highlight the concerns of their caregivers when it comes to providing for these needs." Results indicate that "76% of caregivers reported that the individual with autism is not currently on a waiting list to receive these services. Just one in four caregivers is currently saving for the future housing needs of the individual with autism."
The 2013 New York City Marathon is just one of the many races identical twin brothers Alex and and Jamie Schneider—who are severely autistic—have run together. ABC News looks at how running became central to the twins' lives.
David Royko, son of the late Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, tells of his family's struggles with severe autism in a new book, "The Chronicles of Ben—Adventures in Autism." David Royko details how paying for care and treatment for his son, now 20, pushed the family into bankruptcy and caused them to lose their home.
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In a study published in the online edition of the journal Cerebral Cortex, scientists have shown that children with high-functioning ASD appear to outgrow difficulties with sensory issues critical to communication. Children with ASD and typically developing children between the ages of 5 and 17 were involved in the study, and their ability to understand speech with increasing levels of background noise was tested. Children with ASD between ages 6 and 12 performed much worse than typically developing children of the same age. However, there was no difference in performance among the older children in the study. Further research is needed to determine if this "catching up" is a result of intervention children with ASD receive or physiological changes in the brain, or both.
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I have to confess some shock about the level of interest and excitement with the Star Trek Marisole paper doll on Monday, and then of course, I neglected the blog for a bit. Still, these things happen and I am back now with a wedding dress for Flora. The dress with it's matching spencer jacket is based on a costume from the Victoria and Albert Museum . I sort of rambled on about the dress in a post I did about spencers and how much I adore them.
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Do people care about these sorts of random historical fashion things? I never know if I should be straying so far from the topic of paper dolls… I'm still divided about the "posting pictures from my sketchbook" idea. It's kinda fun, but, again, I'm not sure people enjoy them. Well loyal fans, what do you think?
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Reserve forward Mike Scott scored nine points to lead Atlanta as none of the starters reached double figures. Josh Smith and Kyle Korver had nine points each.
Jeff Teague had a layup with 7.9 seconds left to prevent the Hawks' lowest scoring total in franchise history.
Atlanta has lost five straight on the road and six of seven overall.
The Bulls held the Hawks to just five points in the second quarter and led 48-20 at the break. Ivan Johnson had a basket for the Hawks with 2:54 left in the first quarter, and Atlanta did not score again until Al Horford's tip with 5:15 left in the second. The Hawks missed 17 consecutive shots during the drought while getting outscored 14-0.
They finished the 2 for 21 from the field in the second quarter, with Smith making a free throw and a jumper for Atlanta's other points. The Hawks shot 20.5 percent on 8-of-39 shooting in the first half. Josh Smith was 3 for 10 Horford 2 for 8 in the opening two periods.
Boozer had 14 points and Deng eight to help the Bulls to their halftime lead. Noah had 12 rebounds in the half and finished with 16 and nine points.
The Bulls set a record for the fewest points allowed, eclipsing the previous mark of 59 by Orlando last March 19. Atlanta's 20 points in the first half also set a Chicago record for the fewest allowed in a half, bettering the 22 scored by the Knicks in 1999. The Bulls also limited New York to five points in the second quarter of that game.
The Hawks' previous scoring lows were six points in a quarter (at Minnesota) in 1994, 25 in a half — accomplished three times, most recently against New Orleans in 2011.
Tensions heated up in the third quarter. After Hamilton was called for an offensive foul on Devin Harris, Harris pushed Hinrich hard to the floor as he was attempting a layup. Hinrich had to be restrained by teammates after he rushed toward Harris, who was called for a flagrant one. In seperate incidents, Teague and Smith were called for technicals in the third quarter.
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Federal officials on Saturday will investigate why a small sightseeing plane crashed into a Minnesota home, killing two people on board and starting a fierce fire Friday night, police said.
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"It's surreal," the homeowner, Jeffrey Hille, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He said his brother-in-law, Kole Heckendorf, 27, was in an upstairs bedroom when he heard an explosion.
"There was just flames, with smoke," Hille said his brother-in-law told him, according to the newspaper. "He jumped out the second-story window."
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"Several police agencies assisted with the initial investigation," the Sauk Rapids Police Department said in a statement. "The victims were recovered from the residence and the Benton County Medical Examiner's Office will conduct an investigation into the cause of death."
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Siri hacked to "play" Yamaha Disklavier piano
Siri's been hacked to remotely start a car and even change channels on a TV set, though this is likely the first time iPhone 4S' digital assistant' hasbeen made to "play" an instrument. Using an AirPort Express and some special MIDI files, this Siri hack is able to make the not-so-cheap Yamaha Disklavier piano play requested songs. Here's how the setup works according to The Loop:
Take a standard MIDI songfile and convert it to an audio file (while maintaining the MIDI data). The songfile is then sent wirelessly via WiFi to an Apple Airport Express (which is mounted underneath a Yamaha Disklavier reproducing piano. The audio output of the Airport Express is then connected to the analog MIDI inputs of the Disklavier, using a standard audio cable.
Then, you simply ask Siri to play your favorite song from your iTunes library, and Siri responds immediately, by making the Disklavier's keys and pedal move up and down, recreating the performance, including full orchestration.
For those fortunately enough to own a Disklavier, there's even an iOS app – Disklavier Controller – that lets you perform similar functions like song selection and playback. Of course, this is no where near as cool as asking Siri to do all the hard work for you.[Wired via Gizmodo]


text: Palmer alumni are keeping elite athletes at the top of their gameSpring 2012 Home article > a message from Dr. Burt Celebrating alumni accomplishments and creating meaningful services This issue of Palmer Insights is a celebration of alumni accomplishments, including our alumni who work in the sports chiropractic arena with elite athletes. Chiropractors play a significant role in sports today, from the community level with Little League and pee wee football teams, to college and all the way up to professional levels and the Olympics. Our campuses continue to offer strong programs in chiropractic rehabilitation and sports injury education, and you'll hear from Dr. Dave Juehring, the director of Chiropractic Rehabilitation and Sports Injury on the Davenport Campus, in our Spinal Column. All three of our campuses have active Sports Council groups, and they are among the largest and most involved groups at any of the chiropractic colleges. More and more individual sports stars are aligning themselves with chiropractic, such as NFL football stars Jerry Rice and Reggie Bush, who are spokespeople for the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress. It's an area where I believe we rightly belong, because chiropractic offers athletes more than other healthcare professions do, and we should be proud of our role and embrace it. In addition, we are very proud of our own athletes. Our rugby players and alumni promote chiropractic and have been doing so for five decades now. Our rugby alumni are promoting chiropractic as well as sending students to Palmer and raising funds to help students and Palmer's athletic programs. You'll see photos from the first David D. Palmer Athletic Trust Symposium in March on page 9. In the Alumni Office, we have a lot going on and are very excited about some new business services we have to offer. It all started with our Staples program a few years ago, and now we have a full slate of business services to help you succeed in practice. Our Business Solutions program, through Deluxe for Business Marketing Solutions, provides you with printed materials like business cards, letterhead and brochures as well as practice forms and essential marketing tools such as clinic logos, website design and e-mail marketing. It allows you to go to one place and secure any of the products and services you need to run your practice, and 2% of net sales are donated back to Palmer. Our newest partner is m2 Lease Funds, with whom we've launched the Palmer Practice Finance Program (PPFP). We are offering a special promotion on chiropractic equipment, technology and office equipment leasing through June 30, 2012. As with all of the PPFP services, 1% of each new lease will be donated back to Palmer (see page 6 for details). For more information about all of Palmer's business services for alumni, go to www.palmer.edu/BusinessServices. In the meantime, enjoy this issue of Palmer Insights, and thank you for all of the things you do for Palmer and chiropractic. article >


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Skin Applier Spam
Sooo a couple of you have reported making skin appliers that were spamming you when customers use them. Well It's been driving me nutz, since it's set up to Message the CLICKER, not the owner or creator.
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She had clicked the applier to test it.... and then removed it because it was done....and then got spammed by each person who'd opened up a copy of it.
So apparently, if you detach the applier mid-application, it'll finish it's chatter and application when the customer attaches it. Since I used InstantMessage() for the chatter... it means you'll hear it ANYWHERE.
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text: Designer Thomas O'Connor has come up with a concept to join the legions of goofy USB flash drives with this charming USB Floppy Drive. Take one of those floppy disks granpappy's always going on about, hollow it out, stuff it with some flash storage and a USB dongle and you've got a "sustainable" and nostalgic USB drive. It looks to be a mere concept right now, but I bet an enterprising modder could whip one of these up in no time. [Core77]


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Any new parent knows to board a plane flight equipped with bottles, blankets, pacifiers, toys and any other gear to help keep their babies quiet. But should parents bring gifts for their fellow passengers as a way to say sorry for any noise their children might make?
That's what people are asking after a Reddit user posted an image of a goodie bag that parents passed out on a recent flight from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
Take a look at these cute little bags of candy with a charming note attached.
The parents of 14-week-old twins gave passengers a gift as a sort of preemptive strike to prevent dirty looks. The plastic bags included hard candies and chocolates and a note apologizing for any noise from the 14-week-old twins.
The Reddit posting immediately spurred a discussion and now has over 3,100 comments. The user who posted the image called the parents "brilliant and thoughtful" and many readers chimed in saying that they'd love for parents to give them gifts and buy them rounds of drinks on flights. But others felt the gesture was unnecessary and think babies on planes aren't any more bothersome than an obnoxious passenger talking too loudly.
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Quote from: bwims on Apr 08, 1974, 04:34 pmIt looks like robotshop is not dfrobot.No warning here, and the schematic has not changed...Bummer...Yes, robotshop is a distributor for various parts manufactured by others (DFRobot in this case makes the lcd shield). I've used them in the past rather than ordering straight from DFRobot because Robotshop is USA based and shipping times are much less. As I mentioned upthread, evidently robotshop hasn't changed the warning, but when I ordered the lcd shield in May, it was the fixed version where digital pin 10 does control the contrast.IIRC, you can't use servos and the lcd shield together on UNOs because the servo library disables PWM on pins 9 and 10.
It looks like robotshop is not dfrobot.No warning here, and the schematic has not changed...Bummer...
Hi, I'm curious about this.My understanding is that pin 10 would control the brightness on boards with this bug - just that it puts a high current on the pin with the danger of frying it. Have you done the test to see if the problem exists on your board, as described by the original poster?
Otherwise, I cannot see why DFRobot would not have updated their schematic. Could it be that you are just lucky?
Also, you say pin 10 controls the contrast - do you mean brightness? I thought a VR controlled the contrast?
HiIs it right to assume that if I can only see 1 resistor beside the transistor under the LCD that my board has the issue?
Will it be ok as long as I dont use D10 in my code for brightness?
This is really a non-issue.
It would have been nice if the resistor is on the transistor's base.
But even if it is not, you can still control the backlight via the pin (D10): first, clear D10. After that, if you wish to turn on the back light, turn D10 into an input - the pull-up resistor will now turn on the switch / led; if you wish to turn off the back light, turn D10 into an output - now, D10 will be cleared thus turning off the switch / led.If you do that in a timer, you can do software PWM and control the backlight brightness continuously.
There is also a software alternative which is to set the pin to input mode to turn the backlighton and to output and low to turn the LED off.
Do not set D10 to HIGH or use PWM on this shield unless you modify it.You can still control the backlight .First set D10 to LOW. (only need to that once)Then set the D10 to OUTPUT for off and INPUT for on.
But that is just my guess.
AVR's output, even in the push-pull mode, isn't a strong voltage source in that it has substantial output resistance. So even if you short the output pin (in a logic 1), you don't get much current (40-50ma maybe) out of it. The design here isn't a great design but it is not a deadly design either.
Stresses beyond those listed under "AbsoluteMaximum Ratings" may cause permanent dam-age to the device. This is a stress rating only andfunctional operation of the device at these orother conditions beyond those indicated in theoperational sections of this specification is notimplied. Exposure to absolute maximum ratingconditions for extended periods may affectdevice reliability.
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I measured 95ma being sourced from D10 when D10 is high.
AVR's output, even in the push-pull mode, isn't a strong voltage source in that it has substantial output resistance. So even if you short the output pin (in a logic 1), you don't get much current (40-50ma maybe) out of it.


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Apparently, Randy Michaels, the CEO of Tribune Co. here in Chicago, has issued a list to the reporters on WGN, our local public radio station, containing words and phrases they must no longer speak on air. These are not dirty words, a la George Carlin, but words that sound like "newsspeak" (according to WGN news director Charlie Meyerson, who passed along the list to the article's author). Presumably, this means sounding too much like a cliched newscaster and is not to be confused with cracking down on thoughtcrime. Some of the phrases listed probably do deserve to be retired as outworn cliches: giving 110%; mother of all (anything); senseless murder. Some of them, though, seem designed to make a reporter's life a lot more difficult: how are you supposed to report one of those senseless murders without using the word "alleged"?
All this makes me feel a little dictatorial myself. I propose that we make a list of words and phrases that should be verboten in reporting about women's issues, starting with the phrase "women's issues." Here's a few to start our list:
- reference to shoes when the article is not about shoes
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