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Dealerships are getting clever in the war on "showrooming," the retail phenomenon in which shoppers visit stores to get product and pricing information, then whip out smartphones to shop for a better deal elsewhere.
Peter Chung, general manager of Magic Toyota-Scion in Edmonds, Wash., arms each of his 30 salespeople with an iPad mini and hopes a shopper will pull out a smartphone or tablet.
That way, Chung said, the salesperson can synch up with the shopper to view a competing dealer's inventory and focus the sales pitch on why a specific vehicle at Magic Toyota is a better value.
"We see someone checking his iPhone, we say, 'Perfect. We want you to have all the information,' '' Chung said. "Why run from it?"
Sellers Subaru in Macomb Township has a large interactive touch screen in its showroom, said Joe Jackson, the Internet and marketing director for Sellers Auto Group. The screen not only informs shoppers about Subaru products but aims to keep them occupied and away from their own devices during lulls in the sales process, he said.
One digital marketing consultant even recommends providing open Wi-Fi in the showroom and on inventory lots for visitors to access, while strategically blocking the URLs of rival dealers.
Last month, a study commissioned by Cars.com, the vehicle shopping site, found that showrooming happens routinely at dealerships.
Cars.com, working with Placed Inc. of Seattle, a company that tracks how customers use mobile phones in purchase decisions, found that 51 percent of the 1,170 shoppers who agreed to be studied over several weeks in fall 2013 used smartphones to compare prices and payments while on a dealership lot. About 29 percent checked inventory, and 17 percent read vehicle or dealer reviews, the study found.
Of that group, 22 percent looked at vehicles at other dealerships, said Alex Vetter, senior vice president of Cars.com.
Of those who used their phones while on the lot, 62 percent visited other dealerships within a day, Vetter said. "You need to pay attention how you appear on mobile," he said.
Kevin Filan, a vice president at AutoTrader.com, said shoppers at a dealership often use mobile devices to verify prices and information they have received from salespeople. So dealerships need to make sure their numbers are consistent with data on third-party sites, Filan said.
Chung at Magic Toyota said he puts videos of vehicles and other auto-related subjects on his website so visitors may not feel the need to leave the site to get information.
The store also had its website vendors build the site with content and software code that gives it optimal placement on Google, Chung said.
Jackson at Sellers, which also owns a Buick-GMC store in Farmington Hills, said the stores pay a premium on Cars.com to get their inventory listed first on a Cars.com search in their geographic areas.
Jackson said the touch screen installed at Sellers Subaru is used frequently by shoppers who come to the store. The so-called Subaru Digital Showroom combines a 42-inch screen with an iPad application to provide videos and other vehicle information, he said. The screens now are in all 620 Subaru stores.
It doesn't prevent cross-shopping but fills time when salespeople are fetching vehicles for a test drive or doing other tasks, he said.
Otherwise, Jackson said, "they might be shopping on their own phone."
Automotive News is a sister publication to Crain's Detroit Business.


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I do not believe in diseases like cancer as many others do. I believe having cancer is like having a scab or having a scar maybe. It just means a certain kind of an accumulation of waste material.
The cancer is not really very important, nor is it especially mysterious or interesting- though probably at least a little interesting. It may mean that more vitamin B-17 in particular and better nourishing of the organs in general would help the overall well-being by cleaning out some waste material that is currently beyond the capacity of the eliminative systems to remove quickly. As demonstrated for thousands of years, adapting the diet, adapting the breathing, and adapting the language all produce clear distinct results in the well-being of the organism. The laws of nature (including physiology) may actually be very simple, even in the intricacy of their genius.
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Island Hopping
If you're looking for a place to get away from it all nothing beats an island. The sense of escape and isolation is perfect.
Ask anyone who has visited Kapiti Island about their trip and you'll get the same response: a dreamy expression falls across their face as they recall the extreme nature-buzz of sampling what New Zealand must have been like before humans arrived.
Kapiti is the only large island sanctuary for birds between the Hauraki Gulf in the north and our southern outlying islands, where human influence is kept to a minimum. It's one of the few relatively accessible island nature reserves where you'll see birds that are very rare on the mainland, and a whole bunch of native trees and plants.
You'll need a visitor access permit from DOC to visit Kapiti and private boats are not permitted to land or anchor, so you'll need to book transport for the 5km journey from the mainland.
By making it slightly tricky to visit the island, DOC is doing us all a great favour. By controlling visitor numbers and protecting the island from high visitor numbers, the local wildlife grows up thinking it has nothing to fear. So those who make the effort to get the permit and make landfall can expect close-up encounters with critters you'd never see anywhere near home, like the takahē, kererū, kākā and weka. You may even be lucky enough to spot a North Island robin or hihi.
You'll also see signs of the island's long and varied human history, from pre-European pa sites to whaling stations and early farm cottages.
At the other end of the county lies a place that we all know but few have visited. Stewart Island offers a slice of New Zealand life the way it used to be; low (or no) technology, quirky locals and abundant wildlife. Eighty-five percent of the island's 1570 square kilometres comprises the Rakiura National Park.
Whether you go to enjoy the land and seascapes, take in the wildlife, or walk, boat, fish, dive, kayak, hunt or just relax, a Stewart Island holiday will be an experience that draws you back again and again. It might feel like the end of the earth but that's part of the appeal. And getting there is actually pretty easy – Stewart Island is just one hour by ferry from Bluff, or 15-20 minutes by plane.
Bird watchers come from all over the world to spot South Island Saddleback, Bellbird, Mohua, Rifleman, Stewart Island Robin and other rare birds in this predator-free environment.
Incredibly, 20,000 Kiwi outnumber humans on the island and the Stewart Island Brown Kiwi, unlike other Kiwis, is active during the day as well as the night. But that doesn't necessarily mean you'll see one as they're as shy and retiring as their northern cousins.
We love island hopping – we do it every day! If you have made it to Stewart Island we'd love to see your snaps.


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The high-ranking troubleshooter who replaced purged politician Bo Xilai in China's mega-city of Chongqing ended his eight-month stint there Tuesday after being promoted to the country's top leadership.
Zhang Dejiang had sought to play down the populist crime-fighting and social policies that made the once-rising star Bo popular as Chongqing's party chief. Zhang, 66, also a vice premier, is now expected to become head of the Chinese legislature following his elevation last week to the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, the country's top panel.
Sun Zhengcai, 49, will replace Zhang in Chongqing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. A former agriculture minister, Sun was most recently party chief in the northeastern province of Jilin, and was promoted to the 25-member Politburo in last week's once-a-decade leadership transition.
Bo was ousted from the Chongqing post earlier this year, and now faces allegations of corruption and obstruction of justice in the murder of a British businessman. His wife was convicted in the murder, and several senior police officers — including Chongqing's police chief — were implicated in the case.
Though Bo has yet to go on trial, China's leadership is eager to move on from the scandal. Bo was long considered a Standing Committee candidate and his purge disrupted the run-up to the leadership transition.
Xi Jinping, installed last Thursday as Communist Party chief to replace outgoing Hu Jintao, stressed in his first speech to the newly reconstituted Politburo over the weekend that the party risks losing its grip on power if it fails to root out corruption.
Xinhua also announced the appointment of Han Zheng as the new Shanghai party chief. Han, 58, worked his way up the Shanghai political hierarchy from a humble start as a warehouse manager to becoming the city's mayor, a post he has held since 2003.
Han is replacing Yu Zhengsheng, 67, who was promoted to the Standing Committee during the party congress that ended last Wednesday.
During Han's tenure as mayor, the city hosted the World Expo in 2010 that showcased China's rise as a modern industrial power. But it was also under his watch that a massive corruption scandal centering on the city's pension fund unfolded and resulted in the purge of the city's former Communist Party chief, Chen Liangyu. Chen was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2008.


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8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a (I)Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
Luke 2:8-12.
Whether one says Feliz Navidad or Froeliche Weihnachten or just "Merry Christmas", spoken from faith and love the words have a universal meaning of hope for all. And that's my prayer for my Catholic Gene colleagues, our readers, our brothers and sisters around the world, those we know as well as those we'll never meet.
And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest,
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were among the stars who gathered in St. Lucia on Saturday to witness Matt Damon renew his vows with his wife of seven years.
"The Talented Mr. Ripley" actor wed Luciana Barroso in December, 2005, at City Hall in New York City, and they cemented their union with a special ceremony in the Caribbean.
Damon's best friend Affleck and his partner attended the bash at the Sugar Beach resort, as did Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, according to People.com.
Damon and his wife's three young daughters, as well as Barroso's daughter from a previous relationship, looked on as their parents renewed their vows.
Jimmy Kimmel officiated the wedding renewal ceremony over the weekend, according to Eonline.com.
Damon and Barroso wrote their own vows. Damon said, "(I promise) to keep my sense of humour through everything and anything life throws at us… To defend you in public and correct you in private, to hold the hand-held shower when you're rinsing the dye out of your hair even though you say I don't do it right. To always respect your views even when we disagree – like about the fact that there's a right way and a wrong way to hold a hand-held shower… To make a fool out of myself in front of you – but not too often… To be the dad our four beautiful children deserve, to be your best friend."
Barroso also delivered a heart-felt speech, adding, "(I vow) to not yell at you when you hold the hand-held shower wrong – and yes, you do it wrong, to take the side of the bed closest to the bathroom no matter where on earth we are, to protect you from yourself when you sleepwalk but also to videotape you if I can find my phone in the dark… To be the mum our four beautiful girls deserve… and no matter what unpredictable direction life takes us in, to be right next to you loving you with everything I have."


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President Barack Obama's current trip to Texas is the eighth time the president has visited the Lone Star State since being inaugurated as president in January 2009.
Six of the visits have included fundraising components.
Obama's current trip includes two nonpartisan elements — the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University and the memorial service in Waco for victims of the West fertilizer plant blast — along with Democratic money-gathering in Dallas.
Dallas is the president's favorite venue for fundraising (three trips). He also has raised money in Austin, Houston and San Antonio.
Obama's "official" trips — with no fundraising components grafted on — were to College Station and Fort Hood.
According to CBS Radio's Mark Knoller, George W. Bush had visited Texas 52 times at this point in his presidency. Of course, he was a Texan and often visited his ranch in Crawford.
Here is a list of President Obama's Texas trips:
10/16/09 (College Station)
• Points of Light Foundation event at Rudder Auditorium with former President George H.W. Bush and Defense Secretary Bob Gates
11/09/09 (Ft. Hood)
• Speech to troops during a memorial service for victims of the Fort Hood massacre
• Visited troops wounded during the Fort Hood massacre, met with victims' families
08/09/10 (Austin)
• DNC Fundraiser
• Remarks at the University of Texas Gregory Gymnasium
05/10/11 (El Paso)
• Tour Bridge of America Cargo Facility With Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Alan Bersin
• Speech on Immigration
05/10/11 (Dallas)
• Two fundraisers
10/04/11 (Dallas)
• Two fundraisers
10/04/11 (Mesquite)
• Tour of lab school at Eastfield College
•Remarks on the his plan to stimulate the economy, called the American Jobs Act
3/9/12 (Houston)
•Two fundraisers
7/17/12 (San Antonio)
• Fundraising
7/17/12 (Austin)
• Fundraising
4/24-25/13 (Dallas)
• Democratic fundraiser
• Dedication of George W. Bush Presidential Center
4/25/13 (Waco)
• Memorial service for victims of West explosion


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The Houston Cougars are officially in the top 10.
The latest Associated Press and USA Today Coaches polls released on Sunday morning and the Cougars are inside the top 10 of both polls.
UH ranks No. 8 in the latest AP poll, up from No. 11 last week. The Cougars rank No. 7 in the coaches poll, also up from No. 11 last week.
It marks the first time in the top 10 for the Cougars since 1990. That season, UH ranked as high as No. 3.
The latest Bowl Championship Series rankings will release at 7:15 p.m. tonight.
The Cougars (11-0, 7-0 Conference USA) are coming off a 37-7 win over SMU on Saturday. It marks the third time in school history that UH has won 11 games and it is the first time that they are 11-0. UH's regular season finale is at 11 a.m. on Friday at Tulsa (8-3, 7-0), with the winner earning a berth in the Conference USA championship game.
Also, senior linebacker Sammy Brown snagged a weekly award on Sunday.
Brown, who led the Cougars with 10 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and three sacks, was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week by the Walter Camp Foundation.
Brown leads the country in tackles for loss with 26 and is second in the country in sacks with 12.5.


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Hope College senior violinist Alexandru Hamzea of Brasov, Romania, has won First Prize in the Senior Division of the Michigan Solo Competition sponsored by the Michigan American String Teachers Association and held on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The 15th biennial competition awarded Grand Prize and First Prize honors in Junior and Senior divisions. The competition for each of the four awards included musicians from throughout the state performing either violin, viola, cello, double bass, classical guitar or harp.
Dr. Mihai Craioveanu, who is a professor of violin and has instructed Hamzea throughout his time at Hope, noted that the breadth and level of the competition, which includes graduate-level students, makes the recognition especially significant.
"It's prestigious for both Alexandru and Hope College," Craioveanu said. "The competition includes performers from many programs, with strong representation from large programs, so it's nice to have a student from Hope go in and excel at that level. I believe that it's the first time that Hope College has ever had a string player, let alone a violinist, place so high."
Having competed at the state level makes Hamzea eligible to submit audition materials to the National Solo Competition sponsored by the American String Teachers Association, which is being held on Wednesday-Saturday, March 18-21, in Atlanta, Ga.
The state and national events are held every two years. After competing at the state level two years ago, as a sophomore, Hamzea went on to place fourth nationally among competitors that included violinists from all major university music schools and conservatories, and their graduate programs, in the United States and Canada.
For both the state and national events, the violinists competing in the Senior Division are required to perform a movement from among the Bach Solo Sonatas or Partitas; Sarasate's "Jota Navarra, op. 22, no. 2 for Violin and Piano"; and an additional work of their choosing. In addition to the Sarasate piece, Hamzea performed the "Adagio" from the "Solo Sonata in G minor" by Bach and "Solo Sonata No. 6 in E Major" by Eugene Ysaye during the Michigan competition.
Hamzea is the son of Radu and Liliana Hamzea of Brasov. A violin performance major at Hope, he intends to attend graduate school in violin performance after graduation.
The American String Teachers Association (ASTA), founded more than 60 years ago, is a membership organization for string and orchestra teachers and players, helping them to develop and refine their careers.
ASTA's members range from budding student-teachers to artist-status performers. The organization provides a vast array of services, including an award-winning scholarly journal, annual professional development opportunities, discounts on publications and resources, instrument insurance, and access to a network of colleagues throughout the string profession.


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Picture: Paula Hamilton - Celebrities at the ITV studios London United Kingdom Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Former British model Paula Hamilton appeared in court on Wednesday (06Feb13) to defend herself over allegations she assaulted a police officer last year (12).
The star is accused of attacking PC Dominic Matheson after ripping the head off a sunflower when he arrived at her home in Buckinghamshire, England on 29 September (12) in response to an emergency call over a domestic incident.
Hamilton was arrested and charged with assault, but denied the allegations.
The 55 year old claimed she had fallen backwards as she tried to pull the plant free and accidentally came into contact with the officer.
She says, "I can prove... that unless you have secateurs you cannot cut a sunflower at that time of the season.
"I would never, ever use a sacred sunflower - our family crest - to hurt anybody. It was a present. I misbalanced (sic) on my feet because I had four toes broken. The only toe that wasn't broken was my big toe. I lost my balance.
"I'm an anthropologist, a philanthropist. I would never use my family crest to assault a police officer, that would be sacrilege... I would never hurt a police officer, I'm pro-police."
In court in Aylesbury, England on Wednesday, Hamilton also alleged a second police officer injured her before taking her to a police station with nothing but a coat on.
She added, "The policeman... stamped on my broken foot again. They took me to the police station in a coat - no underwear, nothing."
The case has been adjourned until later this month (Feb13) when a verdict will be reached.


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Great Output With Crap InputApril 30, 2003
It all started when I worked for a large retailer in the entertainment industry years back. They had the right to use movie posters, box–art, and generally copyrighted material for the purposes of promotion. However, they didn't have access to source material. Solution? Go and steal from the web.
The legality might seem shady, but the assumption was that anyone else using these materials had the right, so it wasn't much different than grabbing them from the distributors. With a real need to get the job done, I didn't question it. I used these low–resolution JPGs and dithered GIFs, and eventually mastered the art of Stealing Other People's Source.
Since that point, I've found the skills I developed have come in handy almost daily. Whether clients don't have any material other than what's on the current site, or their print designer is uncooperative, or heaven forbid you have to scan printed material for source, there are times when you just don't have a good starting point. So you fire up Photoshop and flex your image–editing skills, because it's gonna get ugly.
Luckily we don't have to go to quite the lengths the print industry has to. The general solution in their case is to re–create a logo or wordmark. Photographs must be provided, or substituted, there's no way around it. We don't need the resolution they do, so it's often times possible to fudge it with the existing image and some tweaking.
Masks, colour adjustments, blending modes, and the good old–fashioned Eraser tool all have their part to play in this method. Creative level adjustment can drop out almost the entire background. Selection strategies can reduce the time it takes to mask and guarantee no stray fringe pixels.
But you have to be really comfortable with Photoshop to do it. Over the next little while, as I have time (and as I catch myself using the techniques!), I'm going to start putting together some basic intros on cleaning up low–res GIFs, fixing harsh JPG artifacts, and generally using Photoshop for good. Er, and evil, if you're so inclined, but don't say you learned it here.
First up: Creative Masking, Part I. Coming late next week.
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It happens in the print industry too, it's just harder to do.
When you work for a newspaper, people send the lowest resolution photos and we usually have to grab stuff off of the web. Sometimes it's amazing how well a 72 dpi image will reproduce with a 110 line screen…
Whew. I thought I was the only one! Heh. I don't do this quite as much anymore, as I just don't have the need really. Oh, that and my digital camera affords me all sorts of generic source material. I think you mentioned that a few posts back – damn thing is a wealth of good, er, "building blocks". Anyway, can't wait to see your intros. I'm sure I'll find a good nugget or three to add to the photoshop arsenal.


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"Quick – Who's The Best Actor/Actress Under 25 Today?"
From People's Choice Award:
Turns out, youth is the new black. Or something like that.
Did you vote for PCA nominees yet? You still can, you have just a few days left, and if you don't weigh in on today's category you just might be kicking yourself down the road, because… well, you could be shaping Hollywood's future. I'll explain.
Movie Stars… Under 25. The fun category. The one everyone wants to vote for, because - let's face it – it's the one everyone wants to be in.
25 years is a long time for many people. A twenty-five year old car is considered a "classic car" – and when it hits forty, it enters what they call the "antique class". If you work at a job for 25 years, chances are someone's going to give you a gold watch when you step down. Maybe gold plated, but still.
In Hollywood however, if you're a popular actor under 25, you're in about as desirable a category as anyone on earth could be. 25-year-old actors have it all – choice roles, attentive agents, great skin, plenty of hair, they've not yet hit the reality show circuit, and they're often charming and still quite self-effacing. This is that golden period in an actor's life before plastic surgeons, divorce lawyers, and comebacks. It's when they shine very, very bright. And it's when the youth of America can pin their hopes and dreams on them as role models; these are the kids who bring everyone's favorite books, adventures, stories, and graphic novels to life on the big screen.
Thus, we've teamed up with Moviefone once again to present what's easily one of my fave awards categories: the Favorite Movie Star Under 25. Last year's winner was Zac Efron, and my personal pick, Twilight's Rob Pattinson is now officially too old for the category. (!!) But what remains is a splendid array of adorable dudes and enchanting young ladies.
Maybe you like action heroes…or wizards…or people who will soon mature into action heroes …we've got a few mythological icons, and even some princesses in there …a hairwhipper or two…a karate kid…some sultry vixens and a few brooding loners…there are several actors' cute siblings plus some "ordinary" girls with "extraordinary" powers of attraction. And having a met a few of them, I am still shocked at their poise, their skill and their professionalism. This is a crop of truly amazing young people with talent for days. What do you think? Are to ready to rate them?
Here's how it works – you pick your Top Five from the Under 25 group here, and then some ultra-high-tech computer somewhere tallies all the votes. Then it presents us with a list of the Top Five Movie Stars Under 25 Finalists. Then, starting on November the 8th you can vote AGAIN for one of these actor/actresses – which point the star with the most votes wins. And you'll get to see him or her up close on January 11th at the People's Choice Awards.
So let your voice be heard and cast your votes today.


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Down with 8 ride tickets!
Caltrain is ending paper 8 ride tickets. They should just end *all* 8 ride tickets.
An 8 ride ticket gets the rider a 15% discount on their rides, when purchased in bulk. The simplest answer for Caltrain would be to just sell "Caltrain Cash" at a 15% discount. So for $17, you can get $20 in Caltrain value. Done. Tag on, tag off, pay the cash fare, same as anyone - but with discounted dollars.
With that, the Caltrain clipper system is greatly simplified. Buy a pass, or buy "Caltrain Cash". As it stands, I currently have 3 different 8 rides loaded onto my card, to cover my most likely trips. It was annoying to load them all because the Clipper readers can only "load" one product at a time.
This will really benefit riders - and Caltrain. Currently if I have a Zone 1-3 8 ride, I can't use it to ride from Zone 4-2, even though the cost of the ticket is the same. This is an artifact of the paper system - you couldn't buy a "3 zone ticket" because it wasn't clear where you got onto the train for citation purposes (with the Validators, in theory the Conductor could figure it out, but that's not very efficient). With a Clipper Card, all the tag reader needs to know is "Did you tag on". With the conductor issue solved, they can go to a seamless system.
This would greatly simplify the software on the Clipper end, and the user interface as well. It solves various issues like "Why can't I use a zone upgrade with my 8 ride" - because you effectively can.
This has the benefit to the rider of being able to get the volume discount even though they take an atypical trip. Right now, with my 1-3 8 ride, going from San Francisco to Sunnyvale is $5.53. But sometimes it might be more convenient for me to use Lawrence (zone 4) but since I don't have an 8 ride, the fare is $8.50. I'd be much more likely to take that extra zone if I automatically get to pay the discounted rate of $7.22.
In a perfect world, the "Caltrain cash" could be applicable to the purchase of a Monthly pass, allowing people to more easily move between 8-rides and passes for months where they ride more, and ones where they ride infrequently.
The $20 denomination is the same as a 1 zone 8 ride ticket now, but would allow riders who go longer distances to purchase volume tickets for fewer rides, allowing them to try out the system without as much commitment.
Convenience. Simplicity.
The only downside is that this would probably reduce the amount of "shrinkage" that Caltrain benefits from, but that should not be the goal of a ticketing system - Caltrain is not Bank of America, they are a public agency and nickel and diming should not be their strategy. But with a simpler, more user friendly system, they are likely to make up the shrinkage in increased ridership that comes from a happier ridership.
The monthly pass product needs to stay for now - because of the dearth of Clipper readers at the station.
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- 295bus said...
I basically agree.
I'd suggest another, really simple alternative: if you take 7 (or some N) rides (within some span, say, a month) you get an 8th ride (of the same value) for free.
It's simple, doesn't require riders to put up a lot of money up front, and has the upside of encouraging you to keep riding--and people really like feeling like they got something for free.
- February 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM
- murphstahoe said...
That was the first iteration of my thinking. I prefer removing the tie to specific zones or distances. But the incentive to get something for free is a very tasty carrot - like Elaine on Seinfeld choking down Sub Sandwiches she didn't like just to finish her punch card.
The second iteration of my thinking was "Once you spend $20, get a $3 refund"
Either of those mean they don't have to sell another product - just passes. Cash is already on the card.
I'm extrapolating and hoping that this concept would be the easiest to program for the Clipper folks, not having to track your usage and act upon it. BART already has High Value tickets, so in theory they could "just whip the code together" ;)
- February 1, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- blobree said...
I'm agreeing more with the comments here than your first iteration. Mainly, what makes Clipper Cash = Caltrain cash. I use my clipper way more for Muni and don't really consider it as Muni cash. It's just cash. There is no way I would allocate money to one transit system as this implies.
One other note. Removing the tie to specific zones does not seem Clipper specific. With the paper system the validation station was printed on the pass for that day. Seems they could have done non-specific zone passes before, but chose not to burden the "ticket" checkers.
- February 1, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- murphstahoe said...
For BART, you can pay "cash", or you can buy a "High Value Ticket" - $48 for $45 or something like that. I have the high value tickets autoloading on my card - while this means BART gets a float on my money, the resultant discount is six percent - I'm not getting six percent on my money anywhere.
The zones goes back to the non-vending machine tickets - which had little squares on them for each zone, the station agent (or conductor! - back in the day) would punch the squares for the right zone.
- February 2, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Mike said...
I like this idea. I have also had 3 different 8-ride tickets at some points, although right now I only have zones 1-3. Sometimes I add a zone 1-4 for Sharks and a zone 2-3 if I am going to do the Millbrae shuffle instead of riding to 4th & King. I would love to have a Caltrain high-value discount.
- February 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- berk said...
I would love not to have to tag off an Eight-Ride ticket.
The paper ticket most recently replaced was pre-purchased with certain zones specified.
The day of use you would activate one ride by sticking an unstamped end into the machine at the station and it would date and time stamp it.
It was like a Day Pass in the respect that, within the pre-specified zones, you had eight hours to get your ride accomplished.
If you went too far on not enough ticket, you were written a ticket (fined), or at least sternly warned & instructed to correct your behavior.
Being charged a ride from SF to Gilroy, by default, is stupid and reeks of poor systems design, swindling, or perhaps both.
- February 13, 2011 at 7:43 PM
- berk said...
Correction, I meant to post the old Eight Rides lasted FOUR hours..."
- February 13, 2011 at 7:45 PM


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Rob Cox, March 30, 2012
Pool Salt Systems: MythBusters!
Saltwater Chlorine Generators, Pool Salt Systems, Salt Cells - whatever you call them, the technology is the same. By adding salt to the pool water, to a level of 2500ppm, and then moving that water through a series of electrically charged metal plates, we can safely convert salty water into chlorinated (salty) water.
It's not so much salt that you would notice, it's less than a tenth of the saltiness of the ocean, and a third of a human tear. It doesn't taste or feel salty, but it does add a buffering quality to the pool water. What you will notice is that the water has a softer, silkier feel.
Allow me to dispel a few myths about salt water chlorine generators.
Myth #1: Salt Systems are chlorine-free.
I saw a tweet yesterday that read, "I need to get to a salt pool, this chlorine is frizzing my hair!" lol - Salt pools are not chlorine-free, they can have just as much chlorine in the water as any other pool. Salt systems make their own chlorine, to replace tablets - but to be clear, it is a chlorine system.
Myth #2: Salt Systems are maintenance-free.
This one is almost true. Salt cells can develop mineral deposits on the metal plates, and need to be cleaned every so often. It's an easy process of acid cleaning the salt cell, which dissolves the mineral plaque. In addition, you also need to maintain the salt level in the pool, occasionally adding more to make up for backwash and splash out.
And - most importantly, you still need to test the pool water and maintain proper water balance. Salt pool systems do nothing for the pH, alkalinity or calcium hardness level in the pool. Salt systems do not create stabilized chlorine, and to help reduce demand on your salt cell, it is recommended that you still continue to maintain a level of chlorine stabilizer, also known as conditioner, to help shield your chlorine from the sun.
Myth #3: Salt Chlorine systems are cost-free.
If you compare the cost of a pool salt system + salt to the equal amount of tablets required to do the job, you may come out pretty close to equal. Salt cells will also eventually need to be replaced, they don't last forever - so this will need to be factored into the overall equation. You may save some money and time using a salt system, but it may be more time and less money savings.
Nonetheless, salt chlorine systems are very popular nowadays for their convenience, ease of use, and coolness factor. 10 years ago, salt systems were complicated and expensive devices, and not all that common. Few manufacturers were producing the units, and they spent most of their time educating and evangelizing salt chlorine generation.
Nowadays, it seems that everyone has a new pool salt system coming out, each year with more features than the last, and at a lower price too. Formerly the domain of high end inground pools, salt systems are now just as common on aboveground pools. Everyone enjoys the convenience and the coolness.
Installation of a new pool salt system is usually a 2 step process. 1). Mount the Controller and 2). Plumb in the salt cell and the sensor. Then you need to add salt to the pool - a special type of pool salt of course, called ... Pool Salt. The average aboveground pool will need 100-200lbs of salt, and inground pools can require at least double that amount for the initial pool salt treatment. Then you only need to add occassional boosters to replace the salt lost during backwash and splash out.
Fortunately, Pool Salt is rather affordable, you will save money to source it locally, as the cost to ship the salt can be prohibitive. Good sources may be a Culligan outlet, popular home stores, or sand and gravel yards.
Take a look at what modern pool salt systems have to offer. They can make chlorine management simpler, safer for you and the environment, and have a coolness factor - something to talk about when people ask you about your pool.


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Is TV news making more mistakes? Or are they just more obvious?
Almost all of the major national news organizations have made high-profile mistakes in recent months: CNN and Fox News initially misreported the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. ABC News erroneously linked the Colorado shootings to a member of the Tea Party movement. And NBC edited the Trayvon Martin phone call in a highly misleading way.
There are at least two possibilities at work, both involving the crush of tweeted, Tumbl'd and wall-posted information that besieges anyone with access to a laptop or a nice phone.
One: The old-school, TV elite are making more mistakes because of the pressure of competing not just with each other, but with the unwashed, unedited and un-vetted masses breaking stories from their parents' attics.
Two: Traditional journalists are making the same number of mistakes they always have. But the same motley confederation competing with them to break news is also holding them more accountable than ever before. That, fans of accuracy would agree, would be a good thing.
It could be a combination of both. And it remains to be seen whether that will lead to a golden age of accountability in which everyone is kept honest, or an Idiocracy in which people throw up their hands and refuse to believe anything.
Once the 24-hour news cycle made newspapers look hopelessly stodgy. Then online news sources started making TV look slow. And now Twitter is doing the same to websites. There are more sources of news than ever. But many of the news outlets with the most experience in sorting the factual from the inaccurate are strapped for time and resources, thanks to staff cutbacks across the field of journalism.
There's also no hard line between TV and online, obviously: Every network uses social media to stay in touch with viewers, promote stories and track down sources. But given the mainstream draw of the top news TV outlets, they are generally held to higher expectations than smaller operations. And their reach makes their errors more obvious.
It's easy to say they need to act like grown-ups - and recognize that it's more important to get it right than to get it first. But to say that is to minimize the constant pressure of a news environment in which a blogger can post, tweet and mass email a piece of breaking news in the time it takes a traditional news anchor to tie his tie.
"There's just a lot more on the air now, and the pressure to get there first is considerable," said Tom Brokaw, one of the best of those traditional anchors, speaking to TheWrap during a recent Television Critics Association panel.
Brokaw said mistakes have always been a part of journalism, and that when he looks lately at the corrections section of a given newspaper, "It doesn't seem to be getting any smaller."
"The important part about making a mistake in journalism is catching it quickly, acknowledging it, and apologizing and moving on," he said.
The Internet is gleefully happy to help that process along, as CNN Worldwide managing editor Mark Whitaker noted in an interview last month. Any error, he said, is instantly posted across several platforms.
Mistakes - and often facts, because, well, people are crazy - bring instant online demands for corrections, apologies and firings.
Two of those repercussions occurred in the case of ABC News reporter Brian Ross' Tea Party mistake, when he noted that a man with the same name as the suspected Colorado shooter had a page on a Tea Party website. Ross apologized and has kept his job.
One of the great frustrations of traditional journalists is that independent entities can share stories or mere speculation without going through any standards and practices. But so, sometimes, do TV journalists.
That's exactly what happened with Ross, who was speaking extemporaneously and apparently didn't vet his information through proper channels before sharing it live on the air.
ABC News President Ben Sherwood said after another recent TCA panel that Ross didn't follow network procedures.
"In general, I think that what we do is we typically put on the air what we confirm and know to be true and that [which] is reportable," he said. "This is an instance where clearly - just watch it - clearly Brian said we have something, we don't know if it's the same guy - but there is a connection between a guy of this name and this particular organization."
He added: "We don't do that."
Ross, in other words, did what millions of people do every day on Twitter: Post information without checking with an editor, a lawyer or anyone else. The faster the news breaks, the greater the risk of mistakes, as CNN and Fox News learned with their Obamacare fumbles.
CNN, beset by recent ratings woes, prides itself on fast and accurate breaking news. Whitaker said last month that CNN was reviewing its entire process because of the error.
As the Associated Press documented, CNN reported on the morning of the decision that the Supreme Court had struck down the health care law's individual mandate, but expressed doubt five minutes later, and two minutes later corrected itself.
Fox News also reported that the individual mandate had been found unconstitutional, but within two minutes corrected itself. Anchor Megyn Kelly asked for the removal of an inaccurate onscreen headline.
Michael Clemente, Fox's executive vice president of news and editorial, said in a statement that the network reported "the news as it happened," noting that it had accurately reported that the mandate was found unconstitutional under the commerce clause.
But both CNN and Fox initially missed the fact that it was found constitutional under Congress' right to tax.
CBS said it avoided the error by refusing to rush to judgment or listen to chatter from outside its newsroom - even from other networks.
"CBS This Morning" executive producer Chris Licht said during a TCA panel that CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager and President David Rhodes never call him asking, "'Why don't you have this thing ABC has?"
Rhodes jumped on the setup: "Because it's probably not true," he quipped.
But what CBS considers a more cautious approach hasn't helped it beat NBC or ABC in ratings: It lags both networks in its morning and evening news programs. On Sundays, CBS's "Face the Nation" is tied with NBC's "Meet the Press" for the highest ratings in the key demo and is just behind NBC in total viewers.
And not every aspect of CBS's operation is as sewn up as "CBS This Morning" aims to be. CBS fired a sports blogger in January after he reported Joe Paterno's death hours before the coach's family said he actually died. The producer was following a report by a Penn State student publication. Many news outlets - including TheWrap - picked up on the CBS death report, crediting the network.
NBC News, meanwhile, fired a producer in April after the network aired a misleading clip of a 911 call in the Trayvon Martin shooting. The edit made it appear that gunman George Zimmerman had said, unprompted, that Martin was black. In fact, he had only identified Martin's race when the dispatcher asked for a description.
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Pigments stain fabrics. Fact. I don't own any sheets that haven't been sprinkled with the stuff. Pigment….glitter…..everywhere……
I picked up this set in the sale at my local Supermarket for about £7. I love mini sized everything, so this was ideal:
I bought the cream shadow version of this once from QVC but I didn't like it so I sent it back. The beauty of being able to return cosmetics.
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These pigments are tiny little things. It would take 3 to make the length of a biro. The colours are nice and varied – white, purple, brown, gold, brown-green, blue:
Once applied these are pigmented, shimmery, pretty and easy to blend.
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I am pretty good with fall out – I use a nice firm brush with a sticky base and tip my head slightly forward. But this product was a fall out nightmare.
For one thing, there's no way – no way – you can pull the sponge tipped applicator (which is not mini) out of the tube without lots of product coming out. It comes out around the edges and you can't really get it back in, so it goes on your clothes instead.
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The destructive 'Shamoon' malware attacks hit the Saudi Arabian Aramco oil company last month could have been aided by a rogue insider, a source has told Reuters news agency.
Activating on 15 August, Shamoon (also known as 'Disttrack') set about wiping parts of the master boot record (MBR) on the hard drive of any Windows system it could reach, a technique designed to cause chaos on target networks.
In the case of Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national oil producer, it succeeded in this ambition, reportedly damaging 30,000 systems.
A group calling itself the 'Cutting Sword of Justice' claimed responsibility for the attack, which many assumed marked the incident as being pro-Iranian in its origins although Syria and the political upheaval on Bahrain are also seen as possible motivations.
According to Reuters, Aramco has hired security forms to work out how the malware got inside its defences with one hypothesis being that it was either introduced internally or using information supplied from an internal source.
"It was someone who had inside knowledge and inside privileges within the company," reuters quoted the source as saying.
Although external targeted attacks are not hard to pull off, the huge scale and rapidity of the Shamoon attacks suggests that it had some sense of the layout of the internal LANs it was trying to target.
Fast-spreading attacks are invariably the work of worms but these can be slowed by today's security systems. For some reason Shamoon was able to bypass this layer of control which hints that it was more coordinated that an old-fashioned worm.
As the largest oil production company in the world in the largest oil producing state, Saudi Arabia, Aramco is no ordinary target. Anyone attacking it would be doing so with commercial or political intent.
By odd coincidence, Shamoon was not the only example of data-wiping malware to target the oil industry in the Middle East this year, following on the heels of an even more mysterious attack dubbed 'Wiper'.
Recently analysed by Kaspersky Lab, this hit computers in Iran in April, causing significant damage to the company's oil industry using the same hard drive-wiping technique.
Iran itself has said little about the nature of the attacks but Kaspersky Lab has been able to link them using rather sketchy forensic evidence to prominent attacks such as Stuxnet, Flame, Gauss and Duqu. That would make them a part of a larger and longer-term cyberattack campaign meant to harm Iran, in this case possibly by deleting an evidence trail connected to a previous attack.
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Woman is accused of coordinating Los Angeles gang activity from her Salina home
California authorities have arrested a 31-year-old Kansas resident who's accused of helping coordinate gang activities in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Francis Hardiman was in Salina on Wednesday to arrest the woman. Hardiman told The Salina Journal the woman's accused of using cellphones and computers from her Salina home to help coordinate criminal activity of the Surenos street gang in Los Angeles and Mexican Mafia members in the Los Angeles County jail.
The Los Angeles County prosecutor's office said Thursday formal charges hadn't been filed.
Hardiman said it's not uncommon for a gang member in her position to be located far from the prison where gang members are housed.
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A look at high school boys weightlifting teams from Volusia and Flagler counties.
A look at high school boys weightlifting teams from Volusia and Flagler counties.
Coach: Tim Smith
Outlook: The Sharks return state qualifiers Richard Carr (119 pounds) and Deandre Lee (129). Kim Mack, Wakeem Whipper and Jaylon Scott could score some points and Travis Rothwell (119) shows lots of potential.
Coach: Al Manning
Outlook: Senior Jojo Kemp (183/199 pounds) returns from his third-place finish at state last season. Senior Patrick Ball (238) is back, having taken fourth at state in 2011. Also watch seniors Lincoln Stewart (219) and Kinston Montgomery (139/154) and junior Tyler Havenner (219).
Coach: Ky Cowan
Outlook: The Wolves return senior captain Matt Kilgore (199-pound class; 475 pounds total best lift) and add senior Anthony Ciardullo (139; 440) from DeLand. Also back is junior Sam Normandy (154; 450). Sophomore newcomers Brian Nieves and Austin Rasmussen could score some points.
Coach: Duane Hagstrom
Outlook: Devon McIntire looks to lead the Bulldogs after finishing seventh at state last year and is already posting better lifts. Junior Ricshay Nelson could be a state contender and sophomore Stephen Sheeley could be a conference contender. Also keep an eye on senior Stephen Klinker (199 pounds) and juniors Marcus Polite (139) and Cal Lilavois (139).
Coach: Joey Lippo
Outlook: The Pirates return state runner-up senior Chris Santana (129), who should make a strong bid for the title this season. Seniors Joe Murtagh (199) and Peter Corey (129) and junior Travis Thompson (238) could be state contenders. Seniors Marquese Jones (169), Coy Sprunger (139) and Zach Gonzales (238) and juniors Alex Kubiet (heavyweight) and Rahim Booker (169) could score some points.
Coach: Tim McRae
Outlook: The 'Cudas should be strong again, led by Devin Weaver (119), Ryan Sebben (119), Tim Merrick (129), Billy Lachenal (129) and Cody Wilson (154), but will be without state qualifier Luke Belliveau (wrist injury).
Coach: Skip Saunier
Outlook: Senior Dylan Garrison (238) and juniors Scotty Harris (199) and Dorian Gonzalez (219) could make state bids this season. Freshman Bobby Frugoly (119) shows a lot of promise. Keep an eye on juniors Reggie Wright (129) and Josh Stevens (169) and sophomore Cole Dunagan (154).
Coach: Michael Randow
Outlook: The Hawks are loaded again, led by state champion and News-Journal Lifter of the Year George Hanna (169 pounds). Also back are state runner-up Luis Verdiales (154) and state qualifier Zack Johnson (heavyweight). Also look for big-time scoring from Matt Roos (219) and Keith Trotter (238).
Coach: Greg Harper
Outlook: The Titans are loaded with experience, led by seniors Derrick Dillard, Evan Cotroneo, Nathan Symes, Dustin Lamia, Kyle Wood and Brandon Wallace.
Coach: Bobby Guidotti
Outlook: Senior James Harris returns after just missing states last season. Also back are juniors Josh McFarran, John Stapleton, Dillon Sharpton and Daniel Tacker and sophomores Mario Goss, John Harris and Demars Tillman. Top newcomers are Austin Harold and Noah Hukill.


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Many thanks for Richard Parker's insightful telling of the story of globalization, "From Conquistadors to Corporations" (May-June 2002). His broadly historical perspective on our present situation is much needed.
I was troubled, however, to read that the story ends with a call to return to the Social Gospel era in which great "confidence" led Americans to associate "Christian moral teachings with scientific advance and social and political reform." In the wake of Thomas Kuhn et al., I would have hoped that the "confidence" that associates scientific progress with Christian ethics could be recognized as the hubris that it is. Let us look to 33 A.D. and boldly confess Jesus' way of humility that ushered in the only true political reform that this world has ever known—the Kingdom of God among us. As we look ahead, we ought to carefully consider how the Kingdom is manifested through our life together as resident aliens in the kingdoms of this world.
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Jacob and I moved into our new Beijing apartment less than a week ago. Because we were lacking proper equipment and flatware, we had to eat out or prepare frozen dumplings every night. (Ever eat dumplings out of a coffee mug because you didn't have plates? Ever do it post-college?)
I am happy to report that our kitchen is now getting less and less empty. After several trips to outdoor markets, department stores, and Carrefour, we have not only plates but also woks, teacups, beer mugs, and many many pairs of chopsticks. We are also the proud owners of a sleek new Joyoung induction cooker, otherwise known as a Chinese home hot pot machine.
Tonight we had our first full meal at home. It was, to be honest, very bare bones. All vegetarian, minimal sauces.. Since I'm also sadly coming down with a cold and possible fever, we cooked with a non-spicy broth. But the wonderful thing about hot pot is its inherent simplicity. Throw a bunch of raw food in a boiling broth, and watch it cook right at the dinner table.
Our minimalist hot pot meal:
1. Induction cooker with pot
2. Original flavor (原味) hot pot sauce from Little Sheep
3. Lettuce, spinach, bok choy
4. Enoki mushrooms
5. Fresh wheat noodles
6. Fresh tofu
7. A sauce made from 2 parts soy sauce, 1 part honey, 1 part sesame oil
Those are our ingredients for the simplest hotpot meal, for when you've just moved into a new home, when you feel too under-the-weather to cook, or whenever you want something just a step up from dumplings in a coffee mug.