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Peter Zander, curator of the Nobel Museum.
We broadcast from Sweden, where the Nobel Prize will be handed out at ceremonies here in Stockholm and in Oslo. The prize is awarded in the categories of Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics. They're handed out every year on the anniversary of the death of the Nobel Prize's founder, the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. We speak with Peter Zander, the curator of the Nobel Museum. [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: We're broadcasting from Sweden, the birthplace of labor activist Joe Hill and children's author Astrid Lindgrin, the author of Pippi Longstocking
and other children's stories. I'm Amy Goodman, as we continue today talking about the Nobel Prizes. Last night, I had the honor to join three remarkable women from around the world — Asha Hagi of Somalia, Krishnammal Jagannathan of India, and Monika Hauser of Germany — to receive the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize.
Well, tomorrow the Nobel Prizes will be handed out at ceremonies here in Stockholm and also in Oslo. The prizes are awarded in the categories of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, peace and economics. They're handed out every year on the anniversary of the death of the Nobel Prize's founder, the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite.
To talk more about the Nobel Prize, its history and its founder, I'm joined by Peter Zander, the curator of the Nobel Museum here in Stockholm.
Welcome to Democracy Now!
, Peter.
PETER ZANDER: Well, thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: It's good to have you with us. Why don't you tell us the story of Alfred Nobel?
PETER ZANDER: Well, the story of Alfred Nobel is, in a way, pretty short, because he did just live until the age of sixty-three, though he had time to do a lot. He was born here in Stockholm, though his father went bankrupt, and they had to move elsewhere, so they settled in St. Petersburg in Russia. So one could say that Alfred Nobel both grew up here in Stockholm and in Russia. So that was the beginning of his life.
And then he continued to be an inventor, though, from the beginning, he wanted to become an author. So literature was, I would say, one of his main interests in life.
AMY GOODMAN: But talk about how he became an extremely successful industrialist and weapons manufacturer.
PETER ZANDER: Yes, he did. And I think that was typical for its time. When he invented dynamite, which he became famous for and rich from, he said, at least himself, that he did it from a peaceful angle. He wanted it to be used to build up things. But quite rapidly, one understood it could be used for less peaceful things, as well. And he formed his own theory, one could say. He said that if each and every nation had as much dynamite as they could ever use, there would be peace on earth, which actually never worked. So, he had his own peace theory, in a way.
AMY GOODMAN: And the beginning of the whole arms industry here in Sweden in Bofors, that was really where his plants were, his factories were.
PETER ZANDER: Well, he had plants in Sweden, but also in other countries. So, to produce dynamite, for instance, you were not allowed to export it from one country to another, so he had hundreds of dynamite plants.
AMY GOODMAN: Here and in other countries.
PETER ZANDER: Here and in other countries, all over the world, from Japan in the East to the United States in the West.
AMY GOODMAN: So talk about how the idea of the prizes came to him.
PETER ZANDER: I think that he suffered a little from what people had said about him. They said that he was trading with death. And he wanted to make up. So that may be the reason why there is a peace prize. Of course, he never explained why.
But he also wanted to be remembered for building up something. So when he got older, he realized that he wasn't going to get married. He was never ever going to have any children of his own. So the will became quite important to him, and that's why he started to write it. And he was interested in science, he was interested in literature, and he was also interested in politics. So I suppose that's why we have those five Nobel Prize fields, which is chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and peace.
AMY GOODMAN: And economics, how did that enter into the Nobel Prizes?
PETER ZANDER: Well, it actually never entered into the Nobel Prizes, because that was added much later. In 1968, when the Bank of Sweden had its 300-year anniversary, that was introduced. So it was given out the first time in 1969. And since it's not financed by the Nobel Foundation, it cannot, from a technical point of view, be called a Nobel Prize. So it's a prize in honor or in memory of Alfred Nobel.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about Baroness von Suttner, the 1905 Nobel Peace Prize winner, and her influence on Alfred Nobel in setting up these prizes?
PETER ZANDER: She had a great influence. Well, all her life is almost like an operetta. Born as a countess, she was hired as a tutor in a noble family. And she fell in love with a son in that family and wasn't allowed to stay there, because they were not supposed to marry each other.
So, the mother of that family found an ad in a daily newspaper. There were living in Vienna. So the Baroness von Suttner, or the Countess Kinsky, as her name was at the time, she was hired as the secretary of Alfred Nobel in a safe distance from Vienna. She stayed there just for a couple of weeks and went back to Vienna, though I think during those weeks she inspired Alfred about a great deal in what was an important question to her, namely peace.
And she became one of the really early leading peace activists at the turn of the century. She wrote a book called Die Waffen nieder!, or Lay Down Your Arms!. Everyone read it, even Alfred Nobel. And I know that he supported her peace campaign a lot, though they never really agreed. He actually said that "I think my dynamite might cause more peace than your struggle." But he believed in her, anyway. So, many people say that the peace prize, the way he mentioned it in his will, is tailor-made for Baroness von Suttner.
AMY GOODMAN: And, in fact, she did win one in 1905.
PETER ZANDER: She did, in 1905.
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, this weekend, in the papers here in Stockholm was the controversy over Honeywell, the weapons manufacturer, sponsoring the Nobel Institute, Nobel Foundation. How does that relate to your museum, the Nobel Museum?
PETER ZANDER: Well, it doesn't directly relate to the Nobel Museum, because we're sponsored by the Swedish government and the city of Stockholm. And what we do is to bring information about the peace prize and the literature prize and all the other Nobel Prizes to the public. And so, actually, I would say, to get the best answer to that question, you should ask someone from the Nobel Foundation that knows it a lot better.
AMY GOODMAN: A controversy on the board of the foundation, some wanting to take the money and others not wanting to take it. Finally, Peter, can you talk about why all the prizes will be given here in Stockholm tomorrow night, Wednesday night, in a big ceremony, except the Peace Prize, which is in Oslo?
PETER ZANDER: I would say that's the most common question we have at the Nobel Museum. Unfortunately, I don't have a really quick and good answer to that, except that Alfred Nobel was pretty precise in his will that it was to take place in Oslo, or Christiania, as it was called when he wrote the will, though a good theory, I would say, is actually Baroness von Suttner, because she informed Alfred Nobel at a quite early stage that the Norwegian government, they were willing to negotiate with the Swedish government back in the 1890s, when they wanted to split a union we had back then, Norway and Sweden. That wasn't very common at the time. Normally, you declared each other war and which was a very bad way of solving problems, according to Baroness von Suttner. And I think Alfred Nobel agreed on that. And he wanted real experts to be in each committee, so he thought politicians are responsible for war, and the real peace experts would be members of the Norwegian parliament, who pleaded for this negotiation.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Peter Zander, I want to thank you very much for being with us. Peter Zander is one of the curators at the Nobel Museum here in Stockholm.
This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report.
As we continue this tale — well, the two themes here in Sweden, one following the road of peace and the other of war, of the weapons manufacturers, of Sweden being perhaps the second largest weapons exporter per capita in the world, we'll come back with a peace activist who faces jail for her peace protest and a professor who will tell us the story.
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|ROBERT CUNNINGHAM, b. May 13, 1820, Newcastle, Maine; d. February 12, 1842, Lost at sea (Ship Canton enroute to Boston).
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|WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, b. December 09, 1823, Newcastle, Maine; d. May 13, 1826, Newcastle, Maine.
|MARTHA CUNNINGHAM, b. March 18, 1825, Newcastle, Maine; d. Unknown, Boston, Massachusetts; m. JAMES D ABBOTT, Unknown, Unknown; b. Unknown, Beverly, Massachusetts; d. Unknown, Boston, Massachusetts.
|CAPTAIN ENOCH CUNNINGHAM, b. January 07, 1829, Newcastle, Maine; d. June 22, 1862, Maine.
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|JOSEPH C CUNNINGHAM, b. April 02, 1830, Newcastle, Maine; d. May 21, 1912, Newcastle, Maine (So Newcastle Cem); m. EUNICE ELLEN SHERMAN, December 25, 1860, Newcastle, Maine; b. October 24, 1841, Newcastle, Maine; d. September 02, 1909, Newcastle, Maine (So Newcastle Cem).
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Joseph owned a farm in Newcastle, Maine(Cunningham Island-?)
Could read & write
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Eunice had a twin, Martha
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Mother: Elizabeth Poole
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|HUTCHINGS SOLOMON CUNNINGHAM, b. September 29, 1833, Newcastle, Maine; d. January 25, 1895, Newcastle, Maine; m. SARAH M SIDELINGER, January 14, 1871, Newcastle, Maine; b. Abt. 1850, Newcastle, Maine; d. Abt. 1927, Newcastle, Maine.
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Civil War veteran-Private, 4th Maine Regiment, Co G (5/1861 to 2/1863)
Brickmaker and Seaman
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Father: Charles Sidelinger (carpenter)
Mother: Elizabeth
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|DURETTA CUNNINGHAM, b. July 30, 1842, Newcastle, Maine; d. Unknown, Augusta, Maine; m. A P GOULD, Unknown, Newcastle, Maine; b. Unknown, Augusta, Maine; d. Unknown, Augusta, Maine.
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|ABBY5 CUNNINGHAM, b. February 23, 1839.
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|WILLIAM F CUNNINGHAM, b. March 23, 1848, Maine; d. September 12, 1882, Maine.
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Budget Dilemma: 5 nights at Pop Century or 4 nights at Port Orleans
We originally made our reservations at POR for 5 nights for us and our kiddos aged 5 and 7. BUT we just had a major issue with one of our cars and yesterday with no planning had to purchase a new car.
Which would be the better option: Drop down to four nights and stay at POR or keep te 5 nights but move the reservation to POP? Because 5 nights at Pop is just about the same cost as 4 nights at POR.
Any input is appreciated!
Switch to POP and stay for 5! :)
I would do then4 nights
It really depends on what you like. If you won't be spending much time in the room other than sleeping - move to a value for 5 nights. If you're spending the majority of your time at the hotel resort - do POR. Your kids are at a great age for POP and they will have a great time there so I'd vote for the 5 days at POP because I'd want more disney days.
We are not really the park 'commando" type of family - we will go for a bit in te AM, take a break, head back at night. Two of our 6 days there were planned to just stick around the resort and have fun exploring swimming and taking advantage of everything there so we ooked POR so that we could get out of the craziness of the parks and be a bit more relaxed yet still definitely in WDW. Having never stayed at the value resorts we are afraid that it will be craziness 24/7.
I would do POP for 5 nights. We have stayed at the POP twice, once with just DH and me, and once with me, dh and 4 kids, 2 rooms. We had an excellent experience both trips.
As a matter of fact, DH and I are going in September and we had booked POP originally and were going to pay to upgrade from the QSDP to DDP as we will be there during FD, however, we changed POR as we love the water taxi to DTD. Our kids, well not so much into the water taxi.
So I highly rec the POP, its fun, clean, and just is so fun:thumbsup2
POP for 5 nights! :wizard:
If you stick around the resorts, then I'd say stay four nights at PORS. There is more than one pool and quick access to the boat if you wanted to do Downtown Disney just to break up the day. Your location states "Tampa." If you are that close, then you could just do day trips couldn't you? Or, maybe an offsite hotel? Just a thought. Good luck and have fun.
Yes, being as close as we are we do day trips pretty often (Probably too often!). So that is part of the reason why the extra night is not that big of a deal since we will likely be back in WDW for at least a day trip within a month or so of this week long trip. Tuff decision though since we do want to have the big trip for our family summer vacation.
Thank you everyone for the suggestions - need to talk to the family and see what everyone thinks!
POP - your family really won't care where they sleep. Have fun!
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Jun 29, 2009
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Let's say you have a problem or a need or a want, and you're sure there is product somewhere in the marketplace that would help. You Google, and a handful of web sites pop up that offer promising solutions. But obviously you don't believe anything you read from vendors, so you check for online reviews. Then you wonder if the favorable reviews are planted by the vendor, and the bad reviews are planted by his competitors. Can you trust reviews from anonymous strangers?
You ask your coworkers and friends if they have ever used the product that you're interested in, and no one has. What now?
Shopping is broken.
How much more stimulated would the economy be if the people who have money, and are willing to spend it, could be reliably connected with the products that they desire?
What the world really needs is some way to connect you with the people who already use the sorts of products you want, and are willing to answer an e-mail or two about the topic.
About a year ago I had surgery to fix my voice. The information on the Internet about that particular surgery was outdated and didn't address my questions. The only way I could become a consumer of that surgery was by communicating directly with people who already had it, which I did. And since then I have answered questions for dozens of people who have the same questions that I had.
Likewise, as my wife and I make a zillion decisions for the home we are building, we prefer products and solutions used by people that we have spoken to personally. The Internet is virtually useless for any of the hundreds of product decisions we have made so far.
And what about choosing a destination for a vacation? You're much more comfortable if you have spoken to someone who visited the same place.
The obvious problem with connecting past consumers with potential consumers is that while people are generally helpful by nature, no one wants a million e-mails asking how they like their new can opener. So how do you strike the right balance?
Imagine a system that works like this: When you buy a product, you agree in advance to answer up to four e-mails from future potential customers, beginning no sooner than one year from when you make your purchase. It's totally optional, but agreeing gives you access to people who already bought the product you're considering today, to help you make your own decision. It would strike you as a fair deal.
For privacy reasons, this imagined system would disguise your e-mail address. And the system would have to be administered by some third party, not the vendor selling the product, or you wouldn't trust the strangers giving you advice.
Maybe you have a better idea for fixing shopping.
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I had the best experience ever a few years ago when I wanted to take a trip. I let a friend of mine know who is a travel agent that my wife and I were looking for an inexpensive but enjoyable trip down south. Two months later, she calls me up and tells me that she has the perfect trip for us, and it is such a good deal at a great resort, that she has even booked a trip for herself. She ended up going down 2 weeks before us, and was able to come back and tell us what was great about the resort, what to avoid, where to go, the entertainment, etc. It was the best possible review we could have gotten.
Back to the topic however, I think your idea would work, but it would never be perfect. You would still have the vendors and competitors slipping through the cracks, and in order to get enough reviewers, you would need to offer an incentive. You would need to give the consumer a reason to want to leave a review, good or bad. The best way I can think of is maybe 5% off their purchase after they successfully complete a review, say after 3 months. Further, they could earn another 5% off if they give another review after 12 months. Although, like mail in rebates, most people would probably still never collect.
Amazon is good for products they sell, and review sites like cnet are a little better, but I think you need a format like wikipedia to fully get the scope you want. Post a product, let others review it. The problem is funding to keep the site running, which means ads, probably from product that are being reviewed, and it won't be perfect, but it would be a step in the right direction.
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Jun 29, 2009
Very timely post for me Scott...I'm working on a solution to this as we speak: http://BuyersVote.com
Launching a major revision to it in the next few days, and as always, would love to get feedback.
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Jun 29, 2009
Retailers could capitalize on this by having (and marketing) a very lenient return policy. "Come to our store, buy 3 can openers, return the 2 you don't like."
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Jun 29, 2009
My brother, in a Kohl's store, once said on Twitter that he couldn't find any pants that fit him in the store, whereupon he quickly got a reply from the Kohl's Twitter feed that he should check out Kohls.com for more options and sizes.
Even with social networking sites, it will be possible to game the system at least slightly by watching for messages with certain key words in them (for example, a company making blenders could watch for their corporate or brand names and, I think, even the word "blender") and replying, though it'll probably be easier to identify them doing so since they'll probably have the company name for the account.
One thing I like is that there is a line of stores that originated in Japan that allow for people to get like 5 things they like in the store for free if they write a review on each product afterward, which to my knowledge only goes back to the company in order to improve the product -- and thus it's not in the company's best interest to game said reviews. The customer gets a product for free which in most cases is usually a winning situation for the customer even if its quality is questionable, and they get first-hand situation with the product eliminating the need for them to read other reviews to determine the quality of the product.
The one issue is that the store of course mainly deals with products that are still in later stages of development and can't really be found on the market aside from that store. Still, it's not too different from how companies send out free preview and review copies of products to sites.
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Jun 29, 2009
I always thought the bigger problem was price comparison rather than reviews. I don't have too much trouble finding plenty of information on a product's reception.
Sites like Google Product Search or Travelocity do help and do make things easier, but they're not 100% effective. I frequently find better airline deals on a carrier's site than I do through my Travelocity fare alerts. Maybe this will always be a problem - after all, primary source data is usually better, and any sort of aggregation of data is still technically a secondary source.
My approach to buying something is to research (1) features and (2) drawbacks, but it is this information that is probably the most elusive.
It would be nice to have a more straightforward way of searching for product features, so instead of having to look through a bunch of items and reviews, I could narrow a search down by querying for certain product features. Google can be a bit iffy about this and some products can be frustrating. For example, there's a certain kind of car I want, but one of my must-have criteria is that I want it to come with fold-down rear seats. But even though this is a simple option, available on any model, searching many dealers' inventory can only show me this by hand, looking at the cars one at a time.
So that's my trouble, not so much looking at reviews, but finding something I actually want (I'm quite particular about it, which is probably why, unlike Scott, I don't have 20 things that don't work - I have a year or two of agonizing over the decision and then one thing that works very well, heh).
I agree with all the reasons here why a new review process wouldn't be an improvement. I'm sticking with the idea that being able to query features in a clear way would be a huge plus. I realize that defining equal features is tough, but there are a lot of things that seem simple that don't have a good solution. Potholes are one (by this I mean, the reporting and repairs are not always straightforward and efficient - I have seen Massachusetts dig up a perfectly good, smooth stretch of interstate to repave, while four !$%*! north on the same highway, two lanes are completely covered in craters to the point of almost not being drivable, and it baffles me how things are done this poorly for what should be a relatively simple process, i.e., fix the biggest problems first!).
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Jun 29, 2009
Appropos of nothing, I think a job I would immensely enjoy would be writing negative reviews for my competitor's products on websites.
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Jun 29, 2009
I think this gap can be filled by Twitter and Facebook.
Put out a Tweet saying, "Thinking of buying a can opener; looking for ideas." or "Need a good plumber in Santa Clara" or whatever. Those with strong feeling (whom you already know and trust) will respond.
The problem is there's a sweetspot of followers/friends you need to have for this to be effective. Too few and you'll get crickets. Too many (like someone like Scott would likely have) and you'll be flooded.
This loses the anonmity, but gains the trust factor.
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Jun 29, 2009
I work for a major travel review website. We attempt to solve exactly the problem you're talking about.
It takes an incredible amount of manpower, though. It's no surprise that we get "reviews" from hotels or their competitors. Apart from some very simple safeguards, actually checking all of these takes a very large amount of work, both automated and to a very large extent by a human being reading and investigating them. This is possible with hotels, restaurants, vacation rentals, etc because (1) they're larger-ticket purchases and (2) the owners can't "cripple a feature and change the model number." Even after switching ownership or remodelling, if your hotel was next to the sewage treatment plant, it probably still is.
As for consumer products, though, you've got lower priced items, many more options, and no real well-established review aggregating companies. Amazon's done well, but their fraud detection in the past has been obviously thwarted (I haven't heard of anything recently, so maybe they've cracked down.) There's also something fishy about reading a review of a product from a company with an interest in selling me that product.
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Jun 29, 2009
Without Billy Mays demonstrating, I have no idea what I will do...
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Jun 29, 2009
I would recommend checking out Aardvark (vark.com). You designate yourself as knowledgeable in some areas, and invite friends to do the same.
You can pose a question to the service, and it'll find a friend (or friend's friend, etc.) who it thinks might be able to answer your question. The idea is powerful. You can sometimes get good advice on highly particular questions. However, the community is still too small to be as useful as the idea can be.
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Jun 29, 2009
What if your premise, and not shopping, is actually broken?
If you see something in the store that you want (above a threshold of say, $100):
1. Go home and Google it. You'll find all kinds of opinions on the product.
2. Include the word "review" in your search to narrow it down.
3. Go to Amazon and read the reviews.
4. Use Google shopping to find a low price from a reliable retailer.
5. Go to a site like retailmenot.com and find a coupon for it to save even more money, perhaps with free shipping.
6. Buy it online and not get charged sales tax.
7. Use a credit card that doubles the warranty and adds price protection.
I use the above "strategy" to buy just about everything. Before Google, what would have taken me weeks to do (e.g, research, read through magazines) now takes minutes. And I find the lowest possible price.
This seems to work for 99% of *every day* purchases, and makes shopping a no-brainer (kind of like buying a last minute funeral suit from Men's Warehouse). Fast, easy and cheap.
Maybe the opportunity here is a niche membership site dedicated to helping upper middle class folk make difficult decisions when planning high-end purchases (e.g., eco-homes) that aren't well-reviewed online. (As a membership site owner, I can tell you something like this may have some potential.)
RE: travel - call an experienced travel agent. There are times when you just need to speak to an expert.
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Your comments are exactly why I've found Facebook so powerful. With a couple of hundred friends, all of whom I know personally (or at least online), I can get qualified feedback that is otherwise so hard to find on the web. Essentially, Facebook is one extended, shared blog that everyone uses.
This doesn't work for everything (for your surgery, for instance), but for travel recommendations, books, computer stuff and the like, I trust the comments I receive through Facebook far more than random searches on Google.
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I still don't think it's enough incentive to get people to participate.
What about the company offering a discount or a credit added to YOUR account (no discount code, they expire and are spread everywhere) for a review of each product that you buy from them? The discount amount could be based off of the cost of the product, which would make the more expensive items more attractive to review.
Note: I hate those third-party vendors who swoop in after an e-sale and say "save 20 percent by filling out this simple survey!" and the survey ends with a requirement that you give them your personal information or else no reward. Everyone feels cheap and disgusting after an encounter like that.
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I think this won't work for two reasons:
One: There are bootstrapping issues. How will the system get seeded with the initial batch of people? Are you depending on a batch of people willing to say "I will answer questions about this product that I bought without similar assistance"?
Two: I generally have three or four competing products I'm looking at when contemplating a purchase, but of course I only ever end up buying one (or none!). If each shopper is approximately like me then even if the total number of shoppers online never goes up (not a valid assumption, it appears), if you constrain the number of queries a purchaser will have to address then the system will quickly become empty again.
Also, companies could send out questions about their competitors' products to empty the pool and make it look like nobody's bought them.
I notice that Amazon provides a mini-forum on many (maybe now all?) of its pages for asking questions. I have used it once, and I got a lot of very helpful responses from previous purchasers. I'm not sure how previous purchasers knew that a question had been asked, but it's pretty fancy. I realize that it's a total crapshoot, though.
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A friend of mine is a VP for one of the major companies that provides out-sourced review software for web retailers. His company hires people to read and moderate the ads and they keep track of individual reviewers to try and prevent "astroturfing." He says that he trusts the ratings and reviews once they receive around 15 or so moderated reviews.
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It's a good idea, with one flaw, and then one point about how it's not much better.
Flaw: a lot of systems already allow for user feedback (see Amazon). The problem is it costs me time, hence money, to take the time to do reviews. I don't do them - so why would I answer personal feedback? A better system would be to give some kind of ridiculously small cash award or discount if you agreed to exchange emails, or give feedback. If I want to buy a laptop for $1000 and newegg says "click here to setup a 'reviewer' account for this product (or use your review.com creds); after you post a successful review, we will refund you %1 of the purchasing price". For $10, I'd spend a few minutes.
Point though: Why couldn't companies still salt the reviews with fake bad ones or fake good ones?
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Instead, Robert R. LaCombe, 26, has decided to accept a sentence of 55 years to life in state prison with the possibility that 15 years could eventually be taken off that prison term.
LaCombe has entered guilty pleas to two counts of second-degree murder and is now set for sentencing on Feb. 21 before Judge Timothy J. Vaughan in the North Haverhill court.
Senior Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General Janice Rundles said she would have no comment on the case "outside of court," but said prosecutors would present elements of the state's case at next week's hearing.
At previous sessions and in court filings, prosecutors and police have said that at the height of a violent June 24, 2011, argument, LaCombe fired multiple shots into the young couple who had befriended him and taken him in, killing them both.
William Hatch, 24, and Crystal Farnham, 23, according to investigators, died at their Island Road home in Grafton, a rural community along Route 4 east of Lebanon, in an attack so vicious that Hatch's body bore 16 bullet wounds in the head, neck and abdomen. His girlfriend was also shot multiple times in the head, chest and back.
Family members discovered the couple's bodies some hours after LaCombe fled the scene. He was taken into custody the following day in Randolph, Mass., where, police said, they found him with two handguns - a .45-caliber and a 9 mm - in his possession.
Prior to the plea, prosecutors had presented alternative jury options in the case, that LaCombe had either "recklessly" or "purposely" caused the deaths of Hatch and Farnham.
But had he gone to trial and been convicted of first-degree murder, LaCombe would not have been liable for the death penalty. The alleged crimes did not fit the state statute for a capital offense, Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General James Vara said last year.
Guilty verdicts following trial might well have resulted in a sentence of life without parole. If the proposed sentencing goes through as laid out, five years of LaCombe's term could be deferred after he serves 10 years; five more at 20 years, and an additional five at the 25-year mark.
To earn that time in the coming decades, LaCombe's prison behavior must include "no major disciplinary violations for violence," according to the terms of the agreement on file at the court.
Hatch and Farnham had opened their home to the jobless LaCombe some four months prior to the killings. Witnesses told police LaCombe appeared drunk earlier on the night the couple died. The primary dispute, according to court records, was between Hatch and LaCombe, and included Hatch's objection to the long-term guest's continued freeloading.
By the time police caught up with LaCombe, he had written a note apologizing for killing the couple, and stating that he was going to kill himself, according to testimony presented in Lebanon District Court following his arrest.
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if he had not redone his contract this year for the rest of the year he would have been cut..
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Towards the end of each episode Mike and sometimes Edd generally take the car out for a test drive and begin approaching potential buyers. Mike also usually gets the opportunity to see a well maintained example of whatever car they are working on so he can get a good idea of how the car should look and perform when complete. At the end Mike often makes a deal to sell the car to whoever is interested and the total profit for the two is calculated based on the purchase price as well as work and labor done on the car to get it ready. Sometimes the guys make a little bit of money buying and repairing the cars but a large amount of the time they barely break even or even lose a little bit of money due to more costly repairs than what they expected.
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Wheeler Dealers Full Episode Guide
- Episode 8 - Top 10: Edd-aches
Mike and Edd count down Wheeler Dealers' biggest "Edd-aches," the most difficult builds Edd's garage have completed.
- Episode 7 - Maserati 3200gt
Mike purchases an Italian thoroughbred for under £10k. But Mike's reports of poor handling and a hair-trigger throttle could be costly or unsafe. Edd's solutions could keep the budget under control but will it be enough to tame this V8?
- Episode 6 - Ford Fiesta XR2
Mike looks for an Italian classic and has five grand in his pocket.
- Episode 5 - Amphicar
Mike takes the plunge and invests in the Amphicar, an amphibious vehicle that Edd has been dreaming of for years. But when he discovers the car's problems are serious, will he find himself in deep water and rinse away all the profit?
- Episode 4 - Citroen 2CV
- Episode 3 - Mazda RX7
- Episode 2 - Porsche 993 Targa
- Episode 1 - Chevrolet Camaro
- Episode 12 - Cadillac Coupe
- Episode 11 - Lotus Elise
- Episode 10 - Syrena
- Episode 8 - Ford Popular
- Episode 7 - Lamborghini Urraco
- Episode 6 - TVR Cerbera
- Episode 5 - Morris Minor Traveller 1966
- Episode 4 - Porsche Boxster 3.2 S
- Episode 3 - Range Rover Vogue Mk 3
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Rebuilding or repairing a home after flooding can be a daunting task. But with the right information, homeowners can build back in a way that reduces the likelihood of future damage. Mitigation specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be demonstrating building techniques and offering free professional advice in area building supply stores. The schedule is listed below:
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Nov 14, 2013, 11:49 AM EST
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Hunter Pence is in The Best Shape of His Life
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We're all gonna go to hell to some extent after we retire. Many of us before. Roger Clemens is no exception: Roger Clemens in full uniform, awaiting to throw live BP. twitpic.com/c5dz01 — Brian McTaggart (@brianmctaggart) February 20, 2013 And throw live BP he did. McTaggart has a report. The upshot: Clemens had fun, but…
J.J. Putz is in The Best Shape of his Life
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Carlos Gomez is in The Best Shape of His Life
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Man, we got actual professional beat reporters hipping us to these things now. We should spin this feature off to BSOHLTalk: Hey @craigcalcaterra! Carlos Gomez says, "Right now I'm in the best shape, ever, in my career." — Adam McCalvy (@AdamMcCalvy) February 19, 2013 He's always been in pretty good shape. But if he's…
Dusty Baker may be in The Best Shape of His Life
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At least his managerial life. This pic was taken on Saturday. Dude looks like he could cover right field today if he had to.
Dan Uggla has no idea when he is truly in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 15, 2013, 5:38 PM EST
Here was David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tweeting during spring training 2012: Meanwhile, #Braves 2B Dan Uggla, who already had Popeye arms, has even larger guns now after adding about 20 lbs through heavier lifting. — David O'Brien (@ajcbraves) February 21, 2012 Here is David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution tweeting today: #Braves 2B…
As promised, Carlos Quentin is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 14, 2013, 3:45 PM EST
Shortly after the season ended Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin vowed to get into The Best Shape of His Life in an effort to avoid the injuries that have plagued his career and guess what? He actually did it: Hoping to stay healthy, Carlos Quentin dropped 15 lbs, hired a chef to cook inflammation-fighting food, went…
Ramon Hernandez is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 13, 2013, 2:49 PM EST
This is good, because the "Best Shape of His Life" team can always use more catching depth: Biggest body transformation from last spring is catcher Ramon Hernandez. He's roughly 20 lbs lighter. Dropped weight to ease burden on legs — Troy Renck (@TroyRenck) February 13, 2013 Hernandez was limited to just 52 games last season…
Josh Hamilton is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 12, 2013, 2:49 PM EST
Josh Hamilton has a new team and a $125 million contract AND he's the newest addition to the ever-expanding "Best Shape of His Life" roster. Mike Giovanna of the Los Angeles Times writes that Hamilton spent the offseason "juicing" fruits and vegetables on the way to losing 20-25 pounds. At 6-foot-4 he now weighs 225,…
Homer Bailey is in The Best Shape of His Life (again)
Feb 11, 2013, 2:49 PM EST
Add another name to the list, via John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer: Homer Bailey came in last year with about 10 pounds of added muscle. It worked pretty well, so added another 10 pounds or so this year. Bailey weighed in at 230. Bailey only carried 205 pounds on his 6-foot-4 frame when he…
Mark Prior is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 10, 2013, 10:02 AM EST
I read that long piece about Mark Prior over at MLB.com the other day. It was good. But it was missing one key ingredient that this report from CSNChicago.com has: Prior, who has suffered multiple shoulder injuries, is in the best physical shape of his life, according to two people who have seen him. He has…
Lance Lynn is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 8, 2013, 5:47 PM EST
Add another name to the list, from Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post Dispatch: Cardinals righthander Lance Lynn, who was challenged and helped by the club to improve his fitness level during the offseason, arrived at the team's complex Friday with a tightened haircut, no beard, and a significantly slimmed-down frame. Teammates joked they…
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Feb 7, 2013, 10:41 AM EST
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Vinnie Pestano is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 4, 2013, 8:24 AM EST
Maybe! Ok now its baseball time. 1 more week!Best shape I've been in a long time…maybe ever. Can't wait for Baseball back on Sportscenter #letsgo — Vinnie Pestano (@VinnieP52) February 4, 2013 Dude just had two really nice seasons no one outside of Cleveland noticed. If he really is in better shape is could…
Jhonny Peralta is in The Best Shape of His Life
Feb 1, 2013, 7:29 AM EST
The main point of BSOHL articles is to poke a bit of fun at the recurrence of a cliche that, until around last year anyway, most people didn't realize was a cliche. The secondary though related point was to observe that, as far as cliches go, it's a kind of empty one inasmuch as the…
Mitch Moreland is in The Best Shape Of His Life
Jan 30, 2013, 11:19 AM EST
Add another name to the "Best Shape Of His Life" list, via Richard Durrett of ESPN Dallas: Mitch Moreland showed up for one of his few public appearances with the Texas Rangers this offseason (at a Winter Caravan event on Tuesday night) looking fit and ready for spring training. Moreland said he's lost 10 pounds…
Albert Pujols is in The Best Shape of His Life
Jan 29, 2013, 6:18 AM EST
Well, "in years," but I think the "wedge" part makes this qualify: Those who saw Albert at Stan's funeral insist Pujols looks in best shape in years. A wedge. — Joe Strauss (@JoeStrauss) January 28, 2013 Pujols is an all-time great already, but given his slow start last year — and slow finish, followed…
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John Lackey is in The Best Shape of His Life
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|Jul 07, 2010, 06:55 PM
1S micro speed contest!
After reading about some ideas bouncing around I thought I would start this thread out to start laying out the ground rules for a 1s speed contest.
Obviously every contest needs some rules, I will edit this post to keep the rules we adopt up front and easily locatable.
Conversions to brushless are likely going to be a given, though in these classes a brushed motor might stand a chance..
Here are the classes and rules set forth so far.
Class #1a: Unlimited scratch built, 1S powered. Wingspan & weight unrestricted, a fuselage is required.
--- Class #1b: Unlimited scratch built 1S powered. Wingspan & weight unrestricted, anything goes (Delta Wings)
Class #2: RTF & BNF (IE: Parkzone Sukhoi/p-51 or Flyzone Playmate etc.) Modified airframes, BL conversion allowed, 1S powered.
Video of the plane in flight will be required for 3 reasons:
#1: Verification that it is the correct plane flying the bi-directional passes.
#2: Verification it is level flight, from start to finish without a lead-in dive for a speed bonus.
#3: For a .wav file dump to doppler the passes and produce a speed reading.
2 good bidirectional passes on video will be required to get an average speed and this eliminates wind assistance.
Budget is currently unlimited, though there will also be a "Bang for the buck" deal to see who can get the highest speed per dollar spent.
Deadline for entries: None at this time.
Class #1a Results to date:
Class #1b Results to date:
#1: RobZulu Flying Wing- 92.66 kmh / 57.57 mph Video Doppler Cost: $125.00, $2.19 per mph
#2: Slider2732 Flying Wing- 46.95 kmh / 29.17 mph Video post Doppler post Picture
Class #2 Results to date:
#1: Darksiede Lightly modified PZ Sukhoi Su-26XP- 62.89 kmh / 39.07mph Video & Doppler post Cost: $106.99, $2.73 per mph
|Jul 07, 2010, 07:04 PM
Nice post Kev, something that's been discussed in passing (quickly and low) a few times recently.
Would you think weight classes would apply and then brushed and unbrushed ? or would all of that start to complicate the heck out of things ?
I can just see a flying wing, with 5g brushless on a 240mAh lipo winning Class 1. Or am I thinking blinkered
|Jul 07, 2010, 07:15 PM
Well, yeh I thought about that, then realized class 1 might not go to a wing, after all that big blue foam speed contest went to what was basically an X-plane design with a bullet fuse, tiny wings and a prop.
Weight is open, with this little thrust and flat runs that get dopplere'd & video'd We take the weight out mostly by eliminating gravity. I think lighter is going to be better honestly.
I don't see a need to break brushed & BL apart because honestly we are talking 1S here, and not much thrust either way. The stock mustang & sukhoi XP can cook along fairly decently, with a few mods to clean up to airframe and maybe re-propping I could see them being competitive with a 5g brushless in the same airframe.
|Jul 07, 2010, 07:54 PM
For those who are really into the contest, the Hyperion 70mah could be a great battery. It has the lowest weight and greatest punch of all the micro batteries out there.
Hyperion 1S 70mAh
|Jul 07, 2010, 07:57 PM
hm now what to make! i like the sounds of something like this!
|Jul 07, 2010, 08:02 PM
Very light + very powerful = very fast!
|Jul 07, 2010, 08:13 PM
Yeh, I've seen in other contests that they require a fuselage in order to stay away from the speedwing syndrome, It may be something to consider as well, or split off into its own group?
I've not seen any other posts about micro powered speed contests, so regardless of what we do here, we're the first lol.
|Jul 07, 2010, 08:15 PM
"I want you to know that will be on here"..."I know" lol
The bullet shaped creation was an eye opener. I hadn't seen that thread in a while. Wow !
We do have the likes of micro_builder's Stryker doing nearly 70mph (EDIT, sorry that was 3S). It's something this competition and sure to be lots of fun.
|Jul 07, 2010, 08:39 PM
HA! you read my mind piper! how would you ever know!
|Jul 07, 2010, 08:57 PM
|Jul 07, 2010, 09:09 PM
if my little ultra micro stick is pushing 25, i think with a better airframe, that gear could go over 35. maybe up the prop to a 3*3 without the wobbly adapter.
|Jul 07, 2010, 09:43 PM
something similar i would imagine. i will have to see were my mind takes me!! hopefully i will have the time to partake in such an AWSOME contest! haha probubly about the best contest i have seen on here!
one thing is for sure we need to set the rules out so i can start building.
|Jul 07, 2010, 10:37 PM
OK, I see this next bit as quite important...speed measurement.
Being almost completely fresh to this sort of thing, I did some reading and found Waveoscope: http://www.sprut.de/electronic/soft/scope.htm
It's a German program, but appears to be quite easy to work with for us English speakers.
As I understand things - Load a .wav of your speed run and select a middle section which has clear vertical elements denoting start and finish of the pass. Mark the start (left mouse click) and end (right mouse click), it then shows you your speed in kph.
Use Google for a quick mph conversion, if wished.
Can I ask if i've done this right ? I used a section of vid from my Bionic Stryker videoing, where the plane runs through the camera shot and is not panned to follow it.
Seems to be around 42kph or 26mph.
|Jul 07, 2010, 10:57 PM
Good point, and one of the the reasons I mentioned about having a good video above.
I haven't messed with waveoscope, but seen many readouts on here from it, and the only thing I see wrong with yours is the right line appears to be before the true peak of the wave. Maybe slide it right a hair more and have less overlap on the peak then it currently shows. That should bring your speed up a hair, but otherwise looks about right for what the plane should be capable of.
Top post edited to reflect changes.
|Jul 07, 2010, 11:00 PM
Thanks Kev. I had it a hair to the right and it gave another 2kph...but I wished to err on the side of low. Interestingly, you can pick quite a few different spots on these graphs and the speed only changes by say 6kph throughout...it's all very intriguing !
Oh, while i'm here. I remember in the dark and dusty times a while back, that ITC gear was incredible on tiny planes. Had a Mosquito of about 6" span that would shoot off at some ridiculous speeds. I was thinking MSL gear with a big 350mAh lipo, but now am thinking higher wing loading. Watch it turn out like that bullet winner on the other section lol
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