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Get your shovels ready again.
Winter Storm "Q," the latest in a long line of storms to sweep across the Twin Cities region, is expected to reach Dakota County by Thursday evening.
By the time you're headed home from work Friday, we could see an additional seven inches of snow in Eagan, according to an winter storm watch alert from the National Weather Service.
The snow is expected to begin over southern Minnesota by late afternoon on Thursday and spread north and east to the central parts of the state Thursday night. Snowfall may continue through much of the day on Friday, according to forecasters, with the greatest accumulations possible in the extreme southern and southwestern parts of the state.


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Posted By Jessica Camerato On June 17, 2009 @ 11:07 pm In General | 3 Comments
In the last few weeks there have been rumors of the Boston Celtics trading nearly the entire team, from starters Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo and Kendrick Perkins, to role players Tony Allen and J.R. Giddens. In spite of these talks, Paul Pierce let everyone know on Twitter that expects the Cs to return in full force next season.
@paulpierce34 [1]: Lakers vs orlando. Looked like a german sherperd vs a poodle that's ok the rotwieler celtics will b back in 2o10
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A continuum based nonlinear finite element for modelling of dynamic response of deep water riser behaviour
Student's name: Dr. Ali Hosseini
First supervisor: Dr. Hamid Bahai
Second Supervisor: Prof Luiz Wrobel
Funded by: Funded by EPSRC (grant EP/C510232/1)
Project details: Flexible risers are slender marine structures that are widely used in offshore production to convey fluids between the well-head and the surface unit. In deep-water applications, because of the low bending stiffness when compared to axial and torsional stiffness, a flexible pipe can suffer large displacements which demand special geometrically nonlinear analysis. On the other hand, deepwater riser fatigue failure due to vortex induced vibration (VIV) is currently considered by the oil industry to be a very significant unresolved problem. When the vortex shedding frequency coincides with a natural frequency of the riser the resulting response can have catastrophic repercussions.
In this project:
- A finite element formulation is presented for geometrically nonlinear dynamic analysis of flexible riser structures
- A fluid-structure dynamic interaction scheme using Localized Lagrange Multipliers (LLM) is employed to model coupling between to different regions where for fluid region an existence code will be considered.


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Police seize 36 cats from apartment
A Myrtle Beach woman was charged with mistreatment of animals after police officers seized 36 cats from her apartment, which she was evicted from this week, according to a police report.
Debra Susan Vroman, 56, was cited when officers were called about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday to 105 Chester St., by her landlord, who reported her having too many cats and she was being evicted, police said.
Vroman told police she had one kitten that had died and some of the other kittens she had were sick, according to the report. Vroman told officers that one cat belonged to a neighbor, who is hospitalized.
Police learned none of the cats were current on their rabies shots or any veterinarian care and one cat had three separate litters, according to the report. Vroman asked to keep some of the cats, but ended up giving them all to animal control officers to be taken to the Humane Society for care.
Officers told Vroman that she would have to ask a judge for some of the cats back and that she must spay or neuter them and provide medical care.
Woman gets face sprayed with chemical
A Myrtle Beach woman was charged with assault after another woman reported she was sprayed in the face with pepper spray while in her vehicle in the city, according to a police report.
Asia Carrissia Knox, 22, of Myrtle Beach was charged with simple assault and battery after officers responded to a 911 hang up about 7 p.m. Tuesday from the 1300 block of Hemingway Street, police said.
A witness told police that Knox passed the 21-year-old victim while driving along Canal Street and Knox yelled out of her vehicle that she was going to harm the victim, according to the report. The witness said that Knox turned her vehicle around and followed the victim to the 800 block of Nance Street.
The witness said Knox went up the victim's vehicle and sprayed the woman in the face with pepper spray, according to the report. The victim ran to a nearby home and Knox followed.
The witness said the victim then ran back and was able to escape from Knox, according to the report. The victim had several red marks on her face, was crying uncontrollably and had a runny nose, according to officers. EMS treated her at the scene.
Officers located Knox a few minutes later and took her into custody. The report did not list a motive in the attack.
Bloodied couple arrested after fight
A Myrtle Beach couple were charged with assaulting each other after an officer on patrol saw them bleeding and walking along Ocean Boulevard, according to a police report.
Christopher Gary Wells, 31, and Crystal Lynne Haymore, 27, were each charged with criminal domestic violence after the officer stopped them in the 1000 block of South Ocean Boulevard at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
The officer wrote in the report he was on patrol when he saw a bloody man, Wells, walking toward him with a bloody woman, Haymore, following closely behind, yelling and hitting Wells in the back of the head with her hands, according to the report. The officer subdued Haymore and put her in his patrol car.
Officers learned that the couple had been drinking and argued before Wells smashed a glass coffee table in their room and punched the wall several times, according to the report. Wells suffered cuts to his hands, nose and stomach, while Haymore had bruises on her arms and a burn on her left wrist.
Haymore said that Wells pushed her into a hot grill, which caused the burns to her arm, according to the report. Haymore told officers she caused the cuts to Wells' stomach and nose.
Porn viewing in library lands man in jail
A Myrtle Beach man was jailed Tuesday when he was caught watching pornography at a college library, authorities said.
Nathaniel Peter Phillips, 23, of Myrtle Beach is charged with disturbing schools and disorderly conduct, according to an incident report from Coastal Carolina University.
A girl heard him breathing heavily and saw him moving as if he was was masturbating around 2 p.m. Tuesday in the library at Horry Georgetown Technical College on Pampas Drive, the report said.
An officer stopped Phillips as he was leaving the bathroom, and he admitted to watching pornography on the campus computer and masturbating, police said. He is not a registered student at Horry Georgetown Technical College or Coastal Carolina University, said Doug Bell with CCU.
MinuteClinic opens new location
A walk-in clinic has opened at the CVS/pharmacy store in Pawleys Island at 10317 U.S. 17 South. The MinuteClinic is open from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sundays.
MinuteClinic is the largest provider of retail-based medical clinics in the country with seven in South Carolina.
Nurse practitioners specialize in family health car and can diagnose, treat and write prescriptions for common illnesses like strep throat or infections. Minor wounds and bruises can also be treated and vaccinations including flu, tetanus and Hepatitis A and B are offered.
Appointments aren't required and most health insurance is accepted. For anyone paying up front, all prices are listed on site and at minuteclinic.com. Most treatments start at $79.
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Hi All! We decided to start with the recipe that started the club, Buttermilk Brownies. This recipe is provided by birdlvr. I mentioned them in a chat one day and got multiple requests for the recipe. Now, it is a favorite of many. I hope you all enjoy them.
Buttermilk Brownies Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2 cups flour (reg. enriched)
2 cups sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter
1 cup water
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I use dark cocoa powder)
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter
3 tbls buttermilk
3 tbls unsweetened cocoa powder
2 1/4 cups sifted powdered sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cups coarsely chopped pecans (optional)
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
In a medium saucepan, combine the 1 cup butter, water, and 1/3 cup cocoa powder. Bringe mixture just to boiling, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add the chocolate mixture to the dry ingredients and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed till thoroughly combined. Add eggs, the 1/2 cup buttermilk and the 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla. Beat for 1 minute. (batter will be thin)
Pour into a greased and floured 10 x 13 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 35 min, or till a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, combine the 1/4 cup butter, 3 tbls cocoa powder, and 3 tbls buttermilk. Bring to boiling. Remove from heat. Add powdered sugar and the 1/2 tsp. vanilla. Beat till smooth. Stir in chopped pecans (if you are using them). Pour warm frosting over the warm brownies, spreading evenly. Cool in pan.
This is a cake brownie. Is great with vanilla ice cream!


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JESSUP, Md. - Taylor Farms, a Jessup, Md. firm, is
recalling almost 5,084 pounds of broccoli salad kit products.
The kits have
salad dressing packets that are part of a Food and Drug Administration recall.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
announced Friday that there are concerns about possible Listeria monocytogenes
The products recalled include:
-6.06 lb. boxes labeled "Taylor Farms Broccoli Crunch with
Bacon and Dressing" with the case code 310151, produced Oct. 21 and Oct. 22,
-12.13 lb. boxes labeled "Taylor Farms Broccoli Crunch with
Bacon and Dressing" with case code 310153, produced Oct. 21-Oct. 13.
The salad kits were shipped to distributors and retail
locations in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
York and Vermont.
The FSIS, FDA and the company have not received any reports
of illnesses related to these products. Anyone concerned about an illness
should contact a healthcare provider.
Consumption of food contaminated with L.
monocytogenescan cause listeriosis, which is a serious infection that primarily
affects older adults, pregnant women and their newborns, and those with
weakened immune systems.
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- Octree-Based Sparse Voxelization Using The GPU Hardware Rasterizer
- Octree-Based Sparse Voxelization Using The GP…Posted 2 years ago
Discrete voxel representations are generating growing interest in a wide range of applications in computational sciences and particularly in computer graphics. In this chapter, we first describe an efficient OpenGL…
- Interactive Indirect Illumination Using
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Indirect illumination is an important element for realistic image synthesis, but its computation is expensive and highly dependent on the complexity of the scene and of the BRDF of the…
- GigaVoxels: A Voxel-Based Rendering Pipeline For Efficient Exploration Of Large And Detailed Scenes
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In this thesis, we present a new approach to efficiently render large scenes and detailed objects in real-time. Our approach is based on a new volumetric pre-filtered geometry representation and…
- GigaBroccoli: The Mandelbulb into GigaVoxels
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Last week I discovered this website: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html. It describes a new way of rendering 3D Mandelbrot fractals using three components simplex numbers, instead of the traditional 4D Quaternion. This new…
- GigaVoxels Siggraph 2009 Slides
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I come back from one week of vacation in Louisiana I took right after Siggraph. My Siggraph talk about GigaVoxels went very well I guess, I get interesting feedbacks and…
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I also added a whole new section about my research with an embedded publication management system, which allows me to easily release the publications I have been working on. Finally, I enhanced the integration of my Blog (on Blogger) and unified the two designs. Note that the old forum is gone, as well as the old link section.
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MS Gallery − Tiago
"This disease will not prevent me from doing whatever I have to do. If something happens to me, then I'll adapt, and keep on living my life."
Age: 25
Hometown: Lisbon, Portugal
Onset of symptoms: 2005
First symptoms experienced: Hearing loss and dizziness
Diagnosed: 2006
Started treatment: 2006
Tiago was both surprised and concerned when he began to experience dizziness and hearing loss in his left ear. Shortly thereafter, he visited a specialist, and an MRI confirmed that he had MS.
"My first reaction was to research the disease so I could learn more about it. I didn't really know what it was, what the symptoms were and what effect it could have. I decided that I would better understand what was happening to me, and I would keep on living my life as usual." Soon after receiving his diagnosis, Tiago began treatment that would slow down the progression of the disease – giving him hope for a more active future.
Today, he is a graphic and product designer, with an optimistic and positive outlook on life. "Looking to the future, I'll keep on leading my life as usual. This disease will not prevent me from doing whatever I have to do. If something happens to me, then I'll adapt, and keep on living my life."
Tiago is excited to share his story in the hopes that it may help other people with MS to see that life can continue despite the disease. "That is why I am here – to tell people not to give up on life. Do not bury your head in the sand, but try to keep on living as usual."


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Sarah Stright-Hartley
New Castle News
With summer now in full stride, all I can think about is spending my days at a beach or pool.
When the weather heats up, nothing but cool water can make me feel like I'm not actually going to melt into a puddle. Each year I seem to add another bathing suit to my collection but I never really think about those easy beach cover-ups that are much cuter than my T-shirt and jean shorts that I seem to slip on to go eat or head home.
And, of course, nothing is worse than wet jeans shorts.
So at the request of a reader, I took a look at some of the beach cover-up options to see what was available and let's just say, I'd like to add ALL of those at right to my closet.
My favorite thing about the beach cover-up market is that there are so many options! You can be bohemian, girly, classic, and you can buy anything from a dress to an easy top. Personally, I love a romper look (like numbers 1 and 4). I think they're adorable and perfect for the beach.
Yes, going to the bathroom can be a bit more tricky but it's just the price we pay for cuteness, right?
Easy strapless dresses like 2 and 3 are comfortable and acceptable for having lunch in a restaurant while still wearing your bathing suit underneath. Cute oversized tops (numbers 5, 6, and 7) are perfect for shading yourself from the sun while hanging out in the sand or running a quick errand. These aren't generally as useful for having a quick bite in a restaurant since they don't cover your lower half, but just throw a pair of linen shorts in your bag too and you're good to go.
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WASHINGTON (WKOW) -- NASA scientists are celebrating a big discovery, life may have existed on Mars.
The discovery is based on tests from rock samples gathered by the Curiosity rover.
Scientists were able to find minerals that indicate an environment that could have supported small organisms and slightly salty, liquid water.
"Probably if this water was around and you would have been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it," says Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger.
Photos taken by the rover also show a lake bed scientists say was filled with sediment derived by streams.
NASA says curiosity will perform more drilling in May.


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Warne backs Australia in Test series
By Roger Vaughan, 24 Oct 2012
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Shane Warne has backed Australia to win the upcoming Test cricket series against South Africa, but only because they are the home team.
The leg-spin legend said on Tuesday there is very little separating Australia, South Africa, England and India – and perhaps Sri Lanka as well when they are at home.
The three-Test series against South Africa starts on November 9 at the `Gabba in Brisbane.
"When you're at home, you're expected to win," Warne said.
"There's no real standout side for me.
"Anyone can beat anyone and when it's at home, I would expect Australia to beat South Africa.
"It will be a great contest – it will be the bowlers who are on display for both teams, they will really test the batsmen's techniques.
"Young (James) Pattinson is really on fire here at the moment."
Warne expects Victorian Matthew Wade to be named wicketkeeper for the first Test, but said there could also be room in the side for fellow gloveman Brad Haddin.
"Brad Haddin is a good friend and he's done well, but maybe there's a spot for him as a batsman," Warne said.
"Whichever way the selectors go will be fine, but I think Matthew Wade will probably get the nod."
While Jon Holland is out with a shoulder injury, Warne also predictably called on selectors to pick a spinner in the first Test team.
"I mean, c'mon, you always play a spinner no matter what the conditions are," he said with a grin.
Warne added it was a shame Holland could be a long-term casualty because of his shoulder injury, which might need surgery.
"Jon Holland is a big loss, I had him pencilled in about 12-18 months ago that he and Nathan Lyon would be on the Ashes (tour) next year," he said.
"I was hopeful that both would play, especially with the balance of the team when you have guys like Shane Watson, Mitchell Marsh who could play as allrounders.
"It's a real big loss to lose `Dutchy' (Holland), he's really improved."
Warne called for patience with the current crop of Australian spinners, saying it would take time for them to develop.
He said the strength of Australia's pace bowling meant the spinners could bide their time.
"When the times comes, when the pitches start to `rag' … then that's when it's pay day for them," he said.
But Warne is unimpressed about the lack of wrist spinners coming through Australian cricket, blaming it on impatience at junior level.
"I don't want to bang my chest … it would be a long conversation, but to try to have it in a minute or two – it's hard," he said.
"You need encouragement and sometimes the captaincy at junior level that I found with a lot of the kids … they get smacked around the park, they bowl a few double-bouncers, the encouragement's not there."© AAP 2014
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October 24th 2012 @ 11:09pm
REd said | October 24th 2012 @ 11:09pm | Report comment
Great news for the Proteas because Warne is the worst predictor out there. he also had the Poms beating the Proteas 2-0.
October 25th 2012 @ 12:24am
Johnno said | October 25th 2012 @ 12:24am | Report comment
Going to be a good series too.
October 25th 2012 @ 1:39am
Bee Bee said | October 25th 2012 @ 1:39am | Report comment
Agree with Warnee regarding junior spinners. May I share a sad story.
20years ago (before Warnee arrived) I was a gifted leg spinner. It was awesome in under 12s. Every top shot batsmen would hear the umpire call (Right arm spinner over the wicket.) Some actually said things like "Yeah, I'm gonna hit me 6 sixes in a row." Only to charge down the pitch ten paces, Smash air and look like a total wally. I must have got a dozen kids stumped one year with my mandatory 2 overs a match.
All was looking great for me to become Australia's next great spinner until I hit under 15s and mandatory 2 overs ceased to exist. To my shock I never got to bowl. Spinners were considered a liability. The guy who was a bit slow in the head and told everyone he was spinner to hide the fact that he was really just an inadequate tosser. While I stood forlornly at fine leg every Saturday for hours straight. The coaches gifted fast bowling son bowled 10 overs straight. Sadly that boys Dad didn't coach Australia so he never made it either.
Being a spinner is like being a Jedi. Unless you meet Yoda your never going to fight the Empire. I wish I had persisted and just kept bowling in the nets and just showed them all. But its tough when your fifteen and no one believes in you. Oh to be 15 again and know what I know now.
The moral of my sad story is this. If your a kid out there and your a spinner. Don't lose hope. You can spin until your 40. Look at Brad Hogg. Warnee would still be the best spinner in the World if he wasn't so easily distracted. Keep spinning kids. Even if they won't bowl you cause they think your a loser. Just keep spinning.
October 27th 2012 @ 3:24pm
Neuen said | October 27th 2012 @ 3:24pm | Report comment
Warne is just being patriotic
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I've had no less than nine friends and family members give birth to boys in the past year. NINE. Can't think of a single baby girl though…why is that?? What is up with the baby boys?? I would be lying if I said I was able to make handmade gifts for all of them, but I did manage to finish and gift this little boy quilt last week:
This ladder quilt was inspired by this quilt on the Cloud 9 blog, which in turn was inspired by this post by Lu Summers. There's a tutorial for Michelle's version on the Cloud 9 post, mine is a bit simpler but if there's enough interest I could probably post some instructions for this version as well. I used my "cheater bindof method" for this quilt, super easy and — extra added bonus! — because I quilted all the way to the edge of the blue backing with white thread, it created a cool stitching pattern along the side bindings.
Baby quilts are so fun and quick to make. I like that it's rectangular so that it could be potentially used as real bedding once little Baby M is old enough in addition to the usual nursery decor or play-blanket functions.
Oh and of course I had to make a cute little pair of Big Butt Baby Pants too!!! Love the little frogs on this print. That Ed Emberley is a genius.
{Fabric in this post: Happy Drawing by Ed Emberley for Cloud 9, stripes are Hello Pilgrim by Lizzy House, blue and white Moda Bella solids for quilt backing and sashing}
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nopinkhere says:
what an adorable use of the ed emberley fabrics!
Leslie R. says:
What a great quilt! Perfect for a little guy. Like you, I also have been surrounded by baby boy births. I'm always looking for new gift ideas. I usually do an appliqued name pillow – but am thinking about changing it up some.
Kellie says:
Love that quilt!
Monica says:
Oh, I love this quilt! I'm sure baby and mama are going to as well
abby says:
Love the quilt! I'm the opposite here…surrounded by baby girls! Except for my own, who is a boy. You can never have enough boy project ideas in the back of your head.
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Mikea says:
Love it! I would appreciate you posting how you did it. Your fabric choices are awesome
kristin says:
love those ed emberley prints – so cute! BOY SEWING WOO!
treen says:
*Raised hand* Here's a baby girl for your statistical count – I'm due with my 5th girl (no boys for us) next month.
So I'm glad to hear that someone somewhere is having boys, because there sure aren't any baby boys around here! It's been girls girls girls for about 2 years in our neck of the woods, and the only new boys I've known about at all (all 1 or 2 of them) live at the other end of the country.
Suzanne says:
I love the quilt – and would love to see your instructions as well!! Beautiful.
Mae says:
WOW RAE! i am really liking that quilt, & have absolutely no quilt skills (mostly just that jealous feeling in the place where talent is usually stored)
Lindsay says:
I love the quilt! Great job! Cute fabrics and composition.
Carlee says:
I love this quilt! I love modern quilts and yours is so pretty! Thanks for sharing, Rae!
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The Wayne County First Responders Memorial at Haggerty Road. / Gene Scott
Wilcox Mill and Dam at the entrance to old Plymouth's 'Little Village.' / Gene Scott
Ford's Northville Mill, just north of the northern end of Hines Drive. / Gene Scott
Fall is the prettiest time of year to take a drive, bike ride or Segway (rentable at Nankin Mills) on Hines Drive. / Gene Scott
Restored and remodeled Nankin Mills, at Hines Drive and Ann Arbor trail. / Gene Scott
Shortly after we moved to Livonia, Barb and I took a walk in Hines Drive Park. We saw herons, egrets and wood ducks on that first walk and later canaries, woodpeckers, butterflies and deer. Why did we go to Florida when such wonders of nature are so close by?
This is part of the magic of Hines where worlds of nature, recreational fun and history await everyone.
Hines Drive was opened in 1949 by the Wayne County Road Commission and is named after Edward N. Hines, one of its first commissioners. Hines (1870-1938) was a cyclist who founded the Good Roads organization which preceded the Road Commission.
The 17-mile long Hines Drive begins in Dearborn and winds along the Middle Rouge River through five other cities Dearborn Heights, Westland, Livonia, Plymouth and Northville. It begins at Ford Road in Dearborn, a city of 96,000, first settled in 1826 and named after Gen. Henry Dearborn.
The first stops are several of 24 recreational areas with picnic facilities and shelters, ball fields, playgrounds, and bits of history too, beginning with Parkdale, named for a nearby Detroit neighborhood one of 51 in the city before annexations ended 1926.
A mile north on Hines is Warrendale, named for one of 44 early villages that once existed inside the Detroit city limits. At 2.7 miles is Wallaceville, near a former village founded in 1862 by saw-miller John Wallace.
Ten more recreational areas are ahead as we pass through Dearborn Heights and Westland, some named for sections or streets within these cities, like Helms Haven, Parr, Nolar Bend and Perrin.
The city of Dearborn Heights (pop.57,000) was created out of parts of Dearborn and Inkster in 1960. Westland (pop. 84,000), a city since 1966, was founded with the Perrin brothers sawmill in 1832. It was first called Perrinville and later (1887) Pikes Peak, after the one in Colorado.
Then comes Middlebelt Hill (aka Dead Mans Hill), an old landfill thats one of Hines best winter recreational areas, with long sled/toboggan runs.
Next is Sherwood, a recreational area named for a nearby 1900s village on the old Detroit & Northwestern interurban railway.
Nankin Mills
At 7.6 miles, we come to the heart of Hines Drive Park Nankin Mills, today Wayne County Parks headquarters, a nature center, and a museum of the Henry Ford mills along the Rouge river watershed. Nankin Mills is named after the former Nankin Township, est. 1829 when split off from Bucklin Township, along with Pekin Township both taking names from provinces in China.
Dating to 1842, the mill was the center of Pike Peaks village. The first grist mill burned and the present one was built by Sam Hardenbergh in the 1860s.
Henry Ford bought the mill and nearby dam in 1918. It is the first of six of his village industry mills along what became Hines Drive. He converted the mill to hydroelectric power, building a larger dam which created a larger Nankin Lake. Fords mill produced screws, stencils and other parts for Ford automobiles. Nearly all mill workers were nearby farmers.
This and other mill properties along Hines were donated by Ford to the Road Commission in 1948 by his wife, Clara, the year after his death. It was remodeled in 1955-57, becoming an interpretive nature center offering park tours. The millers Greek Revival-style house next door is now used for special events.
Nankin Mills visitors can see replicas of mill equipment and theres a changing wildlife exhibit in the lobby. The Friends of Nankin Mills have been helping keep it going since 1988. For more, go to nankinmills.org or call 734-261-1990.
The mill and adjacent Nankin recreation area are assembly points for numerous Hines Park annual events including the helicopter Marshmallow Drop, Cruisin The Hines old car show in August, and Saturdays in the Park, when the eastern half of Hines is closed for family fun until 3 p.m. May through September.
Most popular is the Holiday Lights display along Hines, from Merriman east to Warrendale, mid-November to New Years Eve.
Perrinville School
Across Ann Arbor Trail is the 1856 Perrinville School one-room school, closed since 1937 and a church until 1968. At Joy Road, we enter the city of Livonia (pop. 97,000), first settled 1818 and started as a township in 1835. It was named after Livonia, N.Y., an eastern Russia province, now part of Latvia.
At 9.1 miles is the Stark Road Bridge. Stark (1870-1930), one of Livonias early villages, was an interurban stop.
Next comes Newburgh Mill and dam, Fords last-purchased village industry mill site along Hines. Two earlier mills, by Asa Johns in 1819 and Nicolas Bodee in 1870, made cider from nearby apple orchards. Ford built his mill in 1934 with Wayne County and the WPA program under FDRs New Deal. It made airplane parts during World War II.
Fords mill is now a County Sheriffs Mounted Division headquarters. His bigger dam created Newburgh Lake, largest of the lakes along Hines. Newburgh (1819-1930) was another Livonia early village.
At 11.1 miles is the most elaborate of 20 Comfort Stations along Hines: Newburgh Pointe on the lake, built 1935. Several other stations on Hines were designed to simulate train stations, as was Fords wish. A canoe livery recently re-opened here.
After passing under the M-14 expressway, we enter Plymouth (est. 1825, pop. 9,000) and come to the newest attraction on Hines at Haggerty Road: Wayne Countys First Responders Memorial. It includes the names of more than 400 police, fire, and EMS personnel since 1867 who gave their lives in the line of duty.
Next is the site of Gunsolly Mill, a wool carding mill from 1851 which Ford moved to Greenfield Village in 1929. Then, its up a hilly stretch to Wilcox Mill and Dam and the entrance to Plymouths Little Village. Here earlier was the Hardenbergh Grist Mill, built in 1850. The millers 1840 house is around the corner in the village.
Ford rebuilt the mill, the fourth of his village industry mills, and by 1923 it was making cutouts and taps for Ford cars. In 1933, he rebuilt the mill pond dam into a much larger dam, creating Wilcox Lake. During World War II, it produced bomber plane parts. The building is now used for storage.
Next up the road at Five Mile is Phoenix Mill, a grist mill 1840-1905, named after Phoenix village, 1837-1880. It became Fords third village industry mill in 1922. The former mill also was a distillery, briefly.
The Phoenix Mill made voltage regulators and switches and employed mostly women, 70 of them. They were paid like the men: $5 a day. In World War II, the plant made ID badges and wiring for M-7 guns. Across Five Mile is Phoenix Lake, which had a beach in the 1920s. The mill buildings are used for park maintenance.
Hines continues northwest on Five Mile and Northville roads. The next of Fords mills is just off Hines. Go north on Northville Road and right turn onto Mill Street to Waterford Mill in the former town of Waterford (1837-1880). Fords sixth village industry mill, it opened 1925 and produced precision gauges until 1958. It is now used by a durable castings firm.
Bell Foundry
Continuing back on Hines and around a bend brings us near the remains of Meads Mill, an 1850s bell foundry that closed after a fire in the 1880s. Michigans largest grist mill was next door. The foundry collapsed while being relocated to a small dam nearby. Its barely viewable from the roadway and a difficult walk. Mindless vandals continue to deface the mills stonework.
Hines then goes into Northville ( pop. 6,000), founded 1825 and a city since 1955, and up a hillside past Bennett Arboretum, planted here in 1936 by Jesse Bennett, first County parks superintendent, and the Cass-Benton recreation area, named after road commissioner Cassius Benton.
Along this final stretch of Hines is another favorite winter sledding run and, in and out of the nearby woods, a fairly new disc golf course, unfortunately also subject to frequent vandalism.
This bring us to the end of Hines Drive at Seven Mile Road. However, there is one more mill a few blocks north on Northville Road that is worth a look. Its the Northville Mill, opened in 1920 and the last of Fords village mills to close in the 1980s. An 1827 grist mill and a later sawmill were once here.
Now commercial offices, the Northville Mill still has an operating waterwheel (just wait a few minutes and youll see).
Theres reason in every season to take a drive, bike ride or Segway (rentable at Nankin Mills) on Hines, with fall the best time. Mile for mile its as pretty as the 384-mile Blue Ridge Parkway from Virginia to the Smokies and conveniently close to home.
Gene Scott has been a Livonia Historical Society member for about 12 years. He is a retired editor and teacher who has published four books on the histories of Michigan towns. The most recent is Michigan Shadow Towns. He and his wife Barb have lived in Livonia for 23 years.


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By Jessica Bagley firstname.lastname@example.com
The Tonawanda News
Tonawanda News — Erie County Court Judge Tracey Bannister has sided with People, Inc., and granted the non-profit the zoning variances necessary for the redevelopment of the vacant Highland school in the City of Tonawanda.
The case landed in court after the city's Zoning Board of Appeals refused to grant waivers related to parking spaces on the site.
"She felt that the findings of the Zoning Board of Appeals were not sufficient to support their position in denying the variance," City Attorney Ron Trabucco said.
The non-profit plans to rent the building from owner S. Spoth, LLC, and turn it into 38 low-income apartments for young professionals, seniors and those with disabilities who earn less than $23,000 per year.
People, Inc., Chief Operating Officer Rhonda Frederick said the construction will cost $6 million, and they are hoping to begin work in a year. Although the judge's decision allows People, Inc., to move forward with the project, the organization still needs to secure funding for the construction and negotiate a Payment in Lieu of Taxes agreement with the city.
The plans first hit a stumbling block last year when the group's application for a building permit was denied. In a letter to the nonprofit, Building Inspector Kevin Rank said the plans were inconsistent with four zoning regulations. The width as well as the surface area of the parking lot are not big enough for the project, Rank said. His letter stated the city's minimum lot size for the project is listed as 135,500 square feet, while the lot size of the Highland property is significantly smaller — only 80,127 square feet.
The location of the parking lots as well as the number of spots were also not up to code.
The non-profit then filed a variance request, but the zoning board voted to reject it. In response, People, Inc., filed a legal challenge. The two parties attempted to settle the matter outside of the courtroom, but were unsuccessful.
In December, Bannister remanded the case back to the board of appeals and asked them to reconsider.
For the second time, the body denied the variance request, citing a variety of concerns.
"This board usually approves variances of 10 to 15 percent. This is a significant request of 41 percent," Zoning Board of Appeals Chairman Dave Bernosky said at the December meeting of the parking lot size disparity. "The location of the school is in the center of a residential area, and there will be an influx of people, which will change the character of the neighborhood."
The two parties then met back in Erie County Court, where Bannister granted the variances.
"We are pleased with the decision, and just as importantly, we look forward to continue working with the city," Sean Hopkins, an attorney representing People, Inc., said. "We want to work together and not be adversarial."
Mayor Rick Davis noted that People Inc.'s proposed development will allow the building, which has been vacant since 2009, to be utilized.
"The reuse of any school is really limited," he said. "I hope People, Inc., is going to be a good neighbor to the homeowners who live in the neighborhood, but the last thing we need is a vacant school deteriorating."
Contact reporter Jessica Bagley at 693-1000 ext. 4150, or follow her on Twitter @JessicaLBagley.


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Google just announced their augmented reality project. It's called Project Glass. From the announcement on Google+:
We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't."Project Glass" Discuss
A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment. We're sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input. So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do.
166 Responses to "Google's augmented reality glasses project"
macegr says:
Since Google is an advertising company, and I'm a little cynical, I instantly remembered another augmented reality demo video from a couple years ago. This is probably what Glass will ACTUALLY be like: http://vimeo.com/8569187
Romeo Vitelli says:
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated…
Adam Kruckenberg says:
Is it crazy that I would live like the link?
mtdna says:
What Glass will ACTUALLY be used for? Porn.
Editz says:
That's Project Ass.
Marshall Banana says:
I'll be fascinated to see what the creatures of places like 4chan end up using it for
Sagodjur says:
That's fine. It won't be long until they're jailbroken and running custom roms.
It'll just be a newer version of what I did back in college when NetZero was actually a free, ad-based internet access service. You just found the folder where the application stored the rotating ads and replaced them with empty image files.
Paul Souders says:
Ye Gods that is spot on. I like how he needs instructions from his Magic Glasses to boil water.
Iain Marcks says:
my glasses are smart so i don't have to be.
Iain Marcks says:
case in point: the guy in the video walks from 2nd Ave and St. Marks to the 23rd St 6 station to take the train a 15 minute walk back to the neighborhood he just left.
mccrum says:
Not to mention leaving Strand and being not on Broadway but looking more like Brooklyn.
taintofevil says:
And buying a book in a bookstore? You know he'd just scan the barcode and order one from Amazon.
Anthony Vila says:
And the fact that he's holding his ukulele UPSIDE-DOWN!
Kimmo says:
Yeah, I found myself thinking, wow – heads-up navigation will totally kill people's sense of direction.
…You know how FF plugins get broken by the silly new version system? For the last few months, I've gone without a spellchecker, thanks to hassles with the Australian dictionary… and I figure, since it involved remembering how to spell stuff, it's worth the trouble.
Next, get working on your penmanship!
Kimmo says:
Come on, that concept's so obsolete it was quaint when I was a kid.
My spelling was always good but suffered from technological assistance; my penmanship was never worth a damn.
Alan Ball says:
That's because you weren't born when spelling assistance was ubiquitous. For example my spelling of ubiquitous was just corrected there.
SeattlePete says:
Does anyone else get the feeling like the only reason this video and announcement exist is to buzz market Google+?
Andrew Singleton says:
No. I could go into reasons why I'm tired of the persistent 'Google+ is dead' meme, but why bother? You choose to believe otherwise and by this point there's probably little i can say that would convince you otherwise.
It reminds me of those old ATT 'you will' commercials.
Here's one thing I want in an augmented reality system…
Standing in front of a wall of similar products, I want the ones distributed or manufactured by companies I don't want to support to be marked red. Every user can opt in to whatever metric of approval they want, but for me, that seems like the only way to really encourage "good citizen" behavior on the part of corporations.
For anyone offended at the idea of that kind of consumer empowering transparency, please note your corporate affiliations so I can add them to my filter.
skeptacally says:
you forget that the glasses come with little Google+ electrodes that give you urges to give +1′s. unfortunately they also make you walk in circles.
hostile_17 says:
Start a conversation? Has anyone ever tried to contact Google? Utterly impossible.
What they mean is "We'll do what we want to anyway, as we don't care what you think". Watch as we waste our time on novelties, April Fool's jokes and more while we don't fix fundamental issues with our other products.
Cowicide says:
Has anyone ever tried to contact Google? Utterly impossible.
Seriously. They are the last company on Earth to understand conversing with the public, that's for sure.
Donald Petersen says:
Verizon has an slightly different attitude. Have you ever tried to change anything about your Verizon Wireless account on their website? That interface has been broken for years and years now, and the automated phone tree isn't any better. I have to find an operator to perform even the simplest account changes. It seems they actually prefer to talk to people.
Maybe they're just lonely.
kmoser says:
It forgot to correct his pronunciation of "monsieur".
taintofevil says:
He'll be getting a reminder to buy some Muenster on May 12.
CaptainPedge says:
Always wonder how these sorts of things work for people who have to wear prescription glasses.
franko says:
according to what i've read, they are also planning a version that clips on existing eyewear, and another one that accommodates bifocals.
Good cameras and most binoculars have diopter adjustments that could work for a pretty good range of users. The rest could be easily customized. Indeed, a generation or two down the road, these could autofocus to relieve eyestrain, even to gradually correct some conditions.
And why not zoom and capture? Replay?
I can't begin to imagine the uses of these. Imagine the medical applications…
Hell, I can't wait to have them for measuring cuts on the fly in woodworking… or for tagging the right bolts in a mixed jar of metric and english so I quit damaging my telescope mounts using American hardware.
It's just the next step of input/output, but isn't that pretty amazing?
Culturedropout says:
…or for pointing out hotties on the street in case you missed them, and then recording a video clip for later… enjoyment. XD
Laundro says:
The bookstore's quite an anomaly if Google's to be believed.
Cowicide says:
Ha, I noticed that too. I guess the premise might be that the bookstore's website developer added their blueprint to their site and made it compatible with this Google thing. Sounds plausible for some bookstores nowadays, I guess.
Rusty says:
I think it's a used bookstore. Notice how all the books are one-offs. Good condition, but not a bookstore that's got 5 or 10 copies of whatever the distributor bothered to put in the bin for them this week.
mccrum says:
The Strand is both new and used. They pretty much have everything. If you ever make it to town, it's worth a visit.
McGreens says:
Which led me to ask whether it was named after the street in London home to Penguin, etc. Which led me to discover that yes, yes it was.
Baz says:
I think people will still want physical copies, and instantly, and used copies, for price and novelty reasons. A $4 used paperback is cheaper than the $11 digital copy of it – and probably will be for near eternity.
angusm says:
"Tell us, grandad, how did people meet their friends or take the subway or buy things before they had near-field communication, image-recognition technology, GPS, ubiquitous 4G wireless connections, and a massively distributed virtual hypernetwork to make it all work for them?"
Lupus_Yonderboy says:
Hell, I already feel like that. I remember when I actually had to make *plans* and think about how I was going to go someplace *before* I went there and be on *time* because someone would be waiting for me and wondering where I was. Dark ages.
Halloween Jack says:
The dissonance between your comment and your username should not go unremarked upon.
Robert says:
Well, kiddo, we weren't so lucky! We had illnesses back then! And diabeetus, too. Millions of Americans had that, and tens of millions had to have corrective lenses. Millions were overweight. Also, we tended to die a lot, and only lived — can you believe it — mostly until we were eighty! Crazy, I know!
Cowicide says:
Mark Dow says:
Canadian pennys.
LikesTurtles says:
I my experience Google's voice recognition would have sent "Beat me foot strangle boots" instead of "Meet me in front of Strand Books". Also when it turns out the subway is closed, why didn't it give bike directions? There was a bike right there and Google could have easily found a page on how to steal it.
Cowicide says:
Or someone hacks into it and has everyone wearing these glasses get redirected outside of some random strip club in an impromptu, unwitting flash mob.
Donald Petersen says:
The Pied Piper results once law enforcement decides to get in on the act will be a new level of tragicomedy.
Shane Simmons says:
A while back I was on a walk and had inspiration strike. I was working on something in Python at home, and wanted to try something out in the console. I checked the Play Store (ugh), didn't find an interactive shell, so I tapped on the voice search button and said, "interactive python shell for Android." A moment later, I had several search results for "fuck a raccoon on Android."
franko says:
i think they look amazing. i'd totally wear them.
Aaron Swain says:
Meh. I'll hold out for the ocular implant.
Cowicide says:
Pfft… Ocular? You luddite, I'm holding out for the high tech genital implant.
dculberson says:
Pfft, heteronormative much? I'm holding out for the anal implant.
Cowicide says:
Pfft, heteronormative much?
Last I checked nearly all LGBT people have some sort of genitalia.
Pfft, Anal implant? I've already got three of their largest prototypes up in there. I'm not holding out.
floraldeoderant says:
Oh no! You poor thing! You got the 2nd gen ocular implant? Way back in 2036? Haha, how's seeing everything in 800×640 res with a not-so-sharp magenta palate? :(
JPW says:
I'd totally wear a revision that only shuns cliché and helps the wearer produce, not consume.
Otherwise there should be a steep hipster stupidity tax on this POS. It's time to grow up.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Or, you know, you could just not wear them.
Finnagain says:
No that would never work.
Cowicide says:
This thing could totally help you with shoplifting with a team of other people. That'll show 'em.
robuluz says:
You forgot to put GROW UP in ALL CAPS.
Shane Simmons says:
If it had been me, I would have gone after people for using a big corporate system without knowing how it works, and ended it with WAKE UP SHEEPLE. That lets people know you're serious, and they'll take you seriously as a result.
skeptacally says:
there are going to be a lot of people walking into lamp poles.
Because looking straight forward and having a heads-up-display is more dangerous than staring at a smart phone?
skeptacally says:
i've been walked into by many a smart phone user.
miasm says:
Yes, I can damn well see you in my peripheral vision.
There's no bloody need to strut down the centre of the pavement (center of the sidewalk) flailing your arms around as widely as possible in the hope of nudging me, in order to enhance your 'WELL I'M LOOKING WHERE I'M GOING' indignation.
The next time I have to balance on the kerb because some self important dinosaur needs to feed their confirmation bias, shit's gonna get real.
taintofevil says:
Says you. It would take all of a tenth of a second to make eye contact and reassure the person that you really are paying attention.
miasm says:
re: taintofevil. You might think that but the rules get reset as soon as I look back down at my phone.
Yeah, but have you ever been walked into by a lamp pole?
skeptacally says:
after several single malts, yes.
Felton / Moderator says:
The lamp pole has been drinking, not me.
Donald Petersen says:
Or buying Tylenol. Just watching the focus-racking on a 2D screen was giving me a screaming headache. I doubt my eyes would easily adapt to this, though I guess my kids will have independently-moving lizard eyes by the time they're my age now.
Hand me my unfashionable hat and walking stick; I already have a map and two bits for the pay-telephone. I shan't be needing this twenty-first century techno-frippery.
Cowicide says:
It'll warn you of incoming lamp poles, cars, etc. with a plug-in and extra camera (not included). Then someone will hack the plug-in and it will help you hit them.
xzzy says:
Tying it in with google+ is a really bad idea, because once someone gets a million friends in their circles, google will release a virus that turns everyone into zombies.
I saw it in a documentary once.
James Hotelling says:
I think I saw this on the History Channel, where they tested out the virus delivery system a few hundred years before the release you're talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_Eye_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29
Antinous / Moderator says:
I thought it was going to be the one where Riker is off in some alien brothel and gets hooked on that game.
That's ok though because any effects will immediately disappear in the next episode… of our lives…
Ethan Taliesin Houser says:
The one thing I imagine it will be really useful for is making you look like a bumbling dork.
And talking to yourself in public. I find myself NEVER using Siri if I think someone else could hear me.
Lupus_Yonderboy says:
No help needed there, still want them.
I had Google Glasses before they became popular. I doubt you've heard of them. They really enhance my ukulele playing. The headphones are really great too. They make obscure french-sounding bands sound great.
Andrew Singleton says:
Where's the dislike button?
In the future you will be able to ask your spectacles.
The Ethnic Hipster says:
I didn't realize we were still in 2011.
Stefan Jones says:
I look forward to generation of kids who can't walk on dirt, and who can be hacked into walking around in circles, like ants following a pheromone trail.
Also, to Google's genetically uplifted Border collies, which make sure stray kids stay in Advertising Rich areas.
Rather than hacking wearers into circles, perhaps lead them Pied Piper-like into the middle of a river?
elix says:
Neeraj Kashiva says:
Call it the 'Third Eye'
I think an unsavoury adult film already has the rights to that name (and if it doesn't, it should)
Donald Petersen says:
Wink wink.
Andrew Singleton says:
I want to see how it works in a real world setting.
I want ot see how it works for those with glasses.
I want to see how it works for people who's eyes move different.
Anything else I have to say would be pointless griping at people whining or picking about this or that detail. This is just an advertising clip. Advertisements tend to have stupid stuff in them. Much like how you get stock photo cliche. You have Advertising cliche.
I want to see how it works for vision-impaired people.
Stephen Ballantyne says:
Frankly, I can't see how it works at all, given the spectacle-frame device shown. Somehow this is supposed to superimpose a collimated high-res image of data on your field of view? What's the virtual distance? A metre? Two? Three? Infinity?
And how do the images projected on the visual field obscure the real world objects behind them? Light does not actually possess the property of opacity – there would really have to be something physical in front of your eye, or eyes, to make that work. Which would also mean there would have to be a lens system to bring the image into focus …
It's all bullshit – you might be able to work out something like LaFarge's visor that could do it, but not this.
And as for what Google might do to derive an advertising revenue stream from this, that's another level of bullshit altogether …
Antinous / Moderator says:
I'll just stick with beer goggles.
Gtmac says:
I prefer madeira pince nez
elix says:
Okay, are you Stephen Fry's or Phill Jupitus' secret BoingBoing account?
(baaaaaah, baaaaaaah, maaaaaah)
David McRaney says:
This is a nice demonstration of what AR might look like once advertising is added:
Seriously? You didn't bother to read comment #1?
BBNinja says:
Google +? Lol, nice try. Just go ahead and replace that with Facebook. Also, everyone knows all the "cool" kids will have their own "I-Wear" (I just posted it, Apple now owns it).
Linley Lee says:
Wouldn't it be iEye?
Snarf says:
iOpener. Wait, that name is for my (yet to be developed) beer bottle opener app.
bo1n6bo1n6 says:
Give that man the ten thousand dollars!
Lupus_Yonderboy says:
But Manfred's glasses are supposed to be so much bigger than that!
Louis Brown says:
Try also the anime series Dennou Coil for more augmented reality stuff…It's like Hayao Miyazaki might have done Ghost In The Shell.
Tuff Luke says:
Okay, seriously, that thing is ugly as sin.
Antinous / Moderator says:
Then it can double as birth control.
Robert says:
The first PDA was also pretty shitty-looking. Get some perspective.
Halloween Jack says:
I was waiting for someone like you to pipe up. a), look up some of the early prototypes of wearable computing–they make the Borg look sexy (and I'm not talking about Seven of Nine). b), it's already almost small enough to conceal in the horn-rim frames that half the bloggers on this site already wear.
Gutierrez says:
HahTse says:
Gutierrez says:
More seriously with the advent of devices like this hacking out useful ambient interfaces will be the new challenge. I'm all for having this information right in view when I want it. The key is keeping it in the periphery when I don't.
Robert says:
LOL! I thought the first popup was "See Jesus tonight"!
(Edit: Cultural fail. Le sigh.)
John Smith says:
That's what I thought. Rapture alerts.
Robert says:
You get rapture alerts from pope-ups.
Cowicide says:
I'd be staring at mirrors all day and tilting my head to make the video feedback produce cool fractals. Then an ad would pop up showing me the nearest dealer for shrooms.
teapot says:
I usually like Google's offerings but this just vomits hipster.
Some questions: Why would you want an overlay of the weather while you're looking at the weather? Why would it wait until you get to the subway to tell you it's suspended? How does it know what he wants a reminder for when his French pronunciation sounded so awful? Is Google planning on cataloging the store layouts of every store? When I played his casual "um, meet me at…." response into my Android voice keyboard (through my headphones) it thought I said "I'm in front of me" which, while delectably post-modern, is wrong. What happens when people refuse to share their location because of (likely justified) privacy concerns? What happens when it rains?
Cowicide says:
Why would it wait until you get to the subway to tell you it's suspended?
Because you forgot to tell it where you were going.
Is Google planning on cataloging the store layouts of every store?
No, but I'm sure just like how Google Local/Maps works, businesses can opt-in and submit their own maps/data via their web developer or otherwise.
What happens when people refuse to share their location because of (likely justified) privacy concerns?
Then it won't work very well because just about every feature I can see is location-based. I guess the question is will Google keep that data and can Google be trusted with that data. If we look to Google's track record, the answer is probably "no".
What happens when it rains?
It's waterproof?
okalokee says:
"this just vomits hipster." Perfectly said!
Indeed. Quite unnecessarily painful aesthetic choices were made in the creation of that video. I was hoping he was going to get wiped out by a car while he was busy 'sharing with his circle'.
Culturedropout says:
"So I got this cool book on how to play the ukelele and I…" *WARNING* *WARNING* *ONCOMING VEHICLE* "WHERE?? YEAARRRGH!" (Cute little animated frowning car icon pops up with an arrow pointing to left, displayed on a pair of AR glasses laying on the asphalt with cracks running across the lenses…)
Bottle Imp says:
Does "hipster" mean anything anymore, or is it just the seven letters we currently use for "shit that I don't like/don't identify with?" Because I don't see what makes this any more or less hipster than anything else in or outside our society. I don't particularly care for the glasses, but I don't think of them as hipster, or meeting my friend for coffee as hipster, or going to a bookstore. The uke I'll give you, but the rest… Then again, I'm not sure what I define as hipster anymore. So I guess who am I to judge…
Antinous / Moderator says:
Does "hipster" mean anything anymore, or is it just the seven letters we currently use for "shit that I don't like/don't identify with?"
It's what people who were bullied for being nerds call people whom they think are lower down the social ladder. Only…the hipsters seem to be enjoying themselves and don't care.
Donald Petersen says:
All that's true. But it's also true that while the urban-dwelling guy who navigates his way to the independent bookstore to buy a ukulele book, then meets his buddy for coffee at a curbside truck, snaps a quick picture of some neato street art, then serenades his sweetie while sharing his rooftop view of a sunset, all through his eyewear, may be considered a hipster, it's a pretty sure bet that the guy who spends the same day watching the Brickyard 400 on his DVR, taking pictures on his iPhone of his preschooler kids rolling down a grassy hill, putting together a non-ironic hair-metal playlist for his wife's 40th birthday, and using his GPS to find where in Wilmington the old Memory Lane junkyard might have moved to… that guy is probably not what you'd call a hipster.
penguinchris says:
That's true but is only one of the definitions. The arguably good aspects of that type of person were co-opted by the 'hip' young urban-dwelling folks that @boingboing-096f32c997988c54d6d7c09ff0be4d32:disqus describes. People who didn't used to be 'cool' but who also weren't necessarily nerds and geeks, who now enjoy things for their own sake (even if they are decidedly 'quirky' things like playing the ukulele).
Basically it's people who are outside the mainstream and who enjoy themselves and don't care (as you say). Many geeks fall into this category as well, but the sorts of things hipsters and geeks are into is different.
And anyone who's a regular reader of Boing Boing very likely falls into either the hipster or geek category (going by these nebulous definitions anyway) – even yoga instructors in Palm Springs. Which is to say that hipsters as defined here have always existed, it's only just now that we're becoming relatively mainstream.
Of course, if we go by my definition it does mean that people with beards, v-necks, and fake glasses who ride fixies in Portland and Brooklyn need a new label. But the mainstream idea of what a hipster is has become so broad that we're well past the point where there are different categories of hipster.
Ladyfingers says:
I believe "vomits hipster" here refers to the kind of studied innocuous, babyfied "quirkiness" in terms of taste in music and clothing that seems de rigueur for Apple advertising and other things that fans of Zooey Deschanel use as left-handed material.
Glockenspiel, marimba, ukulele: the instrumental hat trick of tweeness in music.
floraldeoderant says:
The big takeaway for me is that the hardware is exciting, but (it being so new) the people at Google have no idea what to do with it. They know it's cool but can't see precisely how yet, just the same as when the iPhone came out and all that existed were the relatively shite Apple application.
The street has not yet found a use for it, as it were.
Jack Holmes says:
AT LONG LAST, I will be able to wear these on sunglasses, go around at night and when people ask me why I'm wearing sunglasses at night, I can go "my vision is augmented."
naam says:
You can do that right now, without clipping this thing on.
Paul Souders says:
I was gonna post that this looks creepy and society-eroding as all hell but looks like 69 other people beat me to it. Good job, Hivemind!
I am so ready to move to a pit on a mountainside and eat juniper berries. I want none of this. YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN
Cowicide says:
Has anyone else seen the irony in this? This version at least doesn't seem very compatible with vision correcting glasses. The geeks with glasses won't be able to beta test it without resorting to contact lenses.
elix says:
I imagine any Googlers involved in the in-house testing that wear corrective lenses have been given units that fit on their glasses (or just have a set of matching prescription lenses built in). I also read from a different source that Google is cooking up a variety of forms, including ones that will fit on/over existing glasses. I'm afraid I don't have it handy right now, however, so I can't cite it.
I'm willing to bet that they haven't come up with a works-with-correctives prototype that looks good enough to show off yet, so they left it out of the announcement.
Stephen Ballantyne says:
Oh really! Are you actually suggesting they've actually built anything that works like this, rather than a completely non-functional "conceptual design"?
elix says:
Or perhaps they've yet to come up with a non-ugly prototype design that fits over corrective lenses. In either case, I imagine Google has taken this into account, but for some reason they did not demonstrate this in their launch video.
Stephen Ballantyne says:
"For some reason…"
Yep, I'm sure we'll be able to pick up our pairs of these from the same shop that'll sell us our Microsoft Couriers™.
Any day now.
SedanChair says:
Thank goodness; it looks like the internet is finally almost ready to use properly.
Donald Petersen says:
I wonder if simply taking off the glasses (or shutting off the implant's interface, if it comes to that) for two weeks will constitute one's annual vacation in 2016.
s2redux says:
Right around 1:42 where he looks left at the painted door, I was so ready to hear him say, "Who?" Then Alberto would sidle up with his laptop (mindful of the cord) and say, "River Phoenix."
okalokee says:
The excellent Brandon Bolt did a take on this a while back:
sata blank says:
I for one am looking forward to my Dennō Coil -esque future.
floraldeoderant says:
McGuyver App 1st Generation: Takes info from barcodes and rfids about items in its range. Compiles a list of things you can do with the stuff around you, presents it to you in HUD, complete with really intuitive filter generation. Links to instructables and the like so all the info of it is crowdsourced.
Navigation App: Enter a destination. Reskins the sky in shades of red, purple and blue. Red-hot just over your destination. Doesn't clutter your daily life.
elix says:
I'd want a plugin that replicates the old sky beacon from Second Life for navigation destinations. I don't know if it's still in use, but for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, if you selected a point on the map as a navigation point to travel to, and then you chose to travel there manually instead of teleporting (or the teleport wasn't direct-to-point but a telehub instead), during a certain era of SL, a vertical red beacon would be visible in the 3D world view, and pulses of light would shoot up it and burst outwards across the sky in the top.
zombiebob says:
eh, interesting, but a bit much. As for the vid, what would have been a very interesting twist would have been if at 2:00 the girlfriend informed him that she would be breaking up with him because of her new cyborg boyfriend. this could be followed by the guy hurling himself off of the roof, and at the moment of impact, his glasses changing his facebook status to "Dead"
okalokee says:
to quote the video: "Hunh!"
Finnagain says:
Wow, let the hate flow, haters.
Dear Googly,
Ignore the rabble. This is cool, and I would like to pre-order.
ablebody says:
i agree. nothing wrong with getting technology to work for you, but this video contains the most insipid examples imaginable.
Noctilucent Studios says:
The only thing I really liked was the camera and little video serenade at the end. My 2 cents. You have them.
stretchoutandwait says:
oh nice, a vision of a future myopic, inane chatter filled hell.
10xor01 says:
Once we have Google's ads plastered all over virtual reality, can we tear down all the billboards and printed ads in the real world?
Only once the glasses become implants and compulsory.
aunthillary says:
Slightly off topic, but I'm pretty impressed that google is running a tech ad with photos of five people, none of which are caucasian males! I'm not sure if I've seen such a thing before, but it's a really positive step.
Donald Petersen says:
I gotta hand it to Google. When they make a mistake, it's generally not a decades-old one. They have been known to learn from other people's failures.
TokenFrenchDude says:
Got to start saving. Also, "mozier"
lovelystrangeness says:
How exactly does the wearer select between two options like "walking route" and "other public transportation"? Do the glasses track your eyes? Do you have to give excessive voice commands? I can see how the more passive features would work, but there's not much to go on here as far as a user interface is concerned.
hypersomniac says:
Do they come in rose-colored?
picaflor says:
this is the first I've even heard of the phrase "augmented reality"
I am so out of the loop already
(No seriously, that Vimeo clip is two YEARS old!)
quitterjunior says:
I agree. I'm surprised this doesn't exist already. If I'm presented with an array of products (i.e., Amazon), I first thought I should be able to sort those products by more than just price or popularity. 'Vegan friendly' sounds too subjective. But third party curators like BoingBoing and the Dow certainly work, eh? I imagine we'll run into the same problem/bonus in augmented reality – the group providing you with the list – be it a restaurant giving you a menu, or a retailer giving you prices, doesn't control, or even actively want you to know information relating to its own aggregate-objective worth/status/popularity. But the Great Aggregator, who knows the color of the awning of the building I am typing this from, might fit the bill. At least in this snake oil narrative. I'm sold.
As an aside I really dislike the new comment vehicle. Difficult to post anon, 3 min just to confirm your comment went through, and I "might need to disable my popup blocker." Disqus, et al "might need to realize people like that feature." Seriously. I ctrl-c before posting anything now, almost certain it will be lost to history/synergy/god knows what. Downright prodigal. (as in, 'like Prodigy').
OMG it just happened! Five minutes writing drivel. But they're MY five minutes. Ctrl-v!!!!! You can't just waste my work/thoughts because choose not to be logged into some API aggregator 24/7. Seriously. Betamax tech on these comment threads.
Antinous / Moderator says:
You have a better solution?
robuluz says:
"Wanna meet up today?"
Fuck no.
Message Sent
sharkb8 says:
It's like none of these guys have ever read William Gibson. Why is the map obscuring the user's vision? Why isn't the walking route laid out on the street overlaying the actual street? It's not augmented reality, it's a head mounted Android phone. With everything they've got in Google maps, they could add so much more information to the real world.
elix says:
Baby steps. First, wearable computing, then augmented reality/eyeglass HUDs. The consumer public isn't ready for change too quickly (look at how long it took for smartphones to become mainstream–before the iPhone, if you owned a Palm, a BlackBerry, a Windows Mobile, or some other thing with a full QWERTY keyboard on it, you were likely either a geek or it was a work-supplied phone).
If you see someone wear a pair and swinging a katana, make room.
He might be going for the leader board in the Black Sun.
elix says:
I'd wear one of these, but I wouldn't waste money being an early adopter (because they're not gonna be $25 for a while). But if I had to choose between the two prototype models available, I'd get the black one. For some reason, the white one looks like you have an iPhone 4S wedged in the front of your head.
And, yes, I did see that they're planning a variety of shapes and styles, so there would presumably be a better selection for an actual product being placed on the market.
Ladyfingers says:
What an incredibly adorkable lifestyle the protagonist has.
BarBarSeven says:
Seems like nonsense. Especially since it clearly states , "So we took a few design photos to show what this technology could look like and created a video to demonstrate what it might enable you to do." COULD & MIGHT are the key words.
I have no doubt technology like this can exist. But I honestly think that they will be about as popular as Bluetooth headsets: People buy them, look like a futuristic secret agent for a few days, then get sick of it. Because—when you come down to it—people really don't like things hanging around their heads all the time. Yeah, eyeglasses are an exception. And so are hearing aids, but it's not the same.
I think people far prefer using devices they can touch than the augmented reality this thing provides.
cpm5280 says:
This would all be interesting if it were personally encryptable, decentrally stored, anonymized, open-source and user-hackable.
From Google? "What rough beast…"
HahTse says:
'Nuff said.
Shane Simmons says:
Nothing says Forever Alone like augmented reality gear.
It's a neat idea, but I think I'll stick with a separate screen, thanks.
koko szanel says:
They are soo 1970
Im really surprised they didnt get Steve Mann on board, after all he is a pioneer of this technology.
Gutierrez says:
I think he's more into his musical career playing Fluorgan these days.


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