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Flashing your ESC involves some needed software & hardware. Also some knowledge is needed about the connections and specific settings. This page intends to cover the necessary hard & software and the flashing process.
Programming device.
You will need an additional programmer. The programmer will be connected to the specified points on the ESC and communicates with the computer.
There are several versions of these programmers from different brands and in different price ranges. You should be able to find an adapter around 15$.
Commonly used USBasp adapters can be found for example here:
HobbyKing: USBasp AVR Programming Device for ATMEL processors
GoodLuckBuy: USB-ASP Atmel ISP Programmer Download Adapter
ProtoStack: USBASP AVR Programmer
CuteDigi: AVRISP STK500 programmer
On Linux and MacOS X no kernel driver is needed. Windows requires a driver for USBasp:
USB Windows BASP driver. usbasp-windriver (Driver source: Fischl.de)
Additionally, you need a way to connect the programmer to the ESC. This can be done with pins or one can just solder the wires onto the ESC.
Interface Software
Depending on your platform you will need dedicated interface software installed on your computer to flash your ESC with the new firmware.
Interface software:
ESC Flash Tool - This interface program uses the tools from AVRDUDE and WINAVR. It automatically downloads the latest available SimonK firmware version for the ESC. (ESC Flash Tool requires Microsoft .NET framework to run.)
KKmulticopter Flash Tool - This tool was initially written to update the KKmulticopter firmware. It is, however, perfectly suited to flash ESCs. All information and manuals can be found on the author's web page. Windows, Mac and OS X and Linux are supported in different languages.
AVRDUDE - AVRDUDE is software for programming Atmel AVR Micro controllers.
eXtremeBurner - GUI Software for USBasp based USB AVR Programmers for Windows & Linux
AVR Studio - and toolchain from Atmel
You will need to upgrade or flash the firmware on the ESC through the interface software. The firmware is developed by Simon Kirby.
There are different versions for various ESCs. Please refer to the ESC Spreadsheet below for the correct firmware version.
Connection to the MCU
If your ESC has the advantage of pads, then you can solder wires to them or make a non-permanent connection with pin headers:
Or you have to grab the legs of the Atmel itself with micro clips:
Another method is to make a programming adapter from modelling clay. Please refer to this link for a detailed write-up of this adapter.
Another, similar adapter is now commercially made for flashing Amtel Atmega chips and is available through Hobby King:
Basic Knowledge
The communication between the ESC and the programmer is done over a Serial Peripheral Interface Bus, commonly referred to as an SPI. The necessary connections in the bus are called MOSI, MISO, SCK, VCC, RST & GND. These terms are the denominations for the connections between the programmer and the ESC, hence the reason why the connections on the ESC pictures are called like this. You need to connect the correct pins of the programmer to the correct pin on the ESC. See the "Connection" section below for more information.
The term fuses has nothing to do with a regular protection you will find in ordinary electronics. The term fuse in this case applies to a small part of the MCU (micro controller). Depending on the fuse settings, the MCU knows how it should act. Incorrect fuse settings will lead to improper behavior, hence the reason they are specified. The latest Simonk firmware doesn't normally require the fuses to be changed or adapted.
Fuses can be calculated or determined with fuse calculators. E.g. Engbedded Atmel AVR® Fuse Calculator
Hex files
The firmware for the ESCs is available in a .hex file. One .hex file contains the complete firmware for one particular ESC. You can flash your ESC multiple times but only the last flashed firmware is active on the micro controller. If the wrong firmware is flashed, you may end up with a damaged ESC when it's powered by the battery supply. It's important to safely test your ESC after the firmware upgrade.
FET type
An ESC has either P-channel and N-channel FETs mixed or N-channel FETs only. The ESCs which use only N-channel FETs have the advantage of lower resistance, less losses and hence more efficiency. The matching .hex file depends on the type of FETs. It is also possible that the latest version of an ESC has N-FETs only whereas an older version used P/N FETs.
This is how you determine the FET type:
An Atmel ISP header comes typically in 2 versions, a 6-pin or 10-pin layout. You must connect your ESC connections (MOSI, MISO, SCK, VCC, RST & GND) to the same pins of the programmer.
6-pin ISP socket pin-out
10-pin ISP socket & plug pin-out.
Atmega8 pinout
Flashing step by step examples.
Example: Turnigy Plush 18A
In this example, an older Turnigy Plush 18A ESC will be flashed on a Windows system using the ESC Flash Tool with a USBasp adapter.
You should have connected the programmer to the computer and your ESC to the programmer. In this example, the connections are soldered onto the ESC.
The ESC Flash Tool requires Microsoft .NET Framework to run. If you do not have .NET framework installed, you can download and install it from the Microsoft website (free of charge).
The ESC Flash Tool is packed in a flashtool.zip file. If you haven't done so, you can download the latest version here. Extract the contents of the flashtool.zip file in a directory of your choice. When the tool is extracted, a directory called Debug and a FLASHTOOL.bat file should be available.
Start the tool.
Execute FLASHTOOL.bat or start ESCFlashTool.exe in the Debug directory.
The tool has different interface sections:
Section 1 identifies the programmer type.
Section 2 specifies the correct ESC type.
Section 3 indicates the status of the flashing process.
Section 4 is used when the tool is used in offline mode without an internet connection.
- Select your interface programmer. In this example, a USBasp USB interface programmer is used to flash the ESC.
- Select your ESC from the list.
Refer to the ESC database to check the correct ESC and .hex file combination.
- If you do not have an internet connection, you can select to use the firmware files on your computer (use cache). Normally you won't touch this setting. The program will automatically download the latest firmware files from the internet.
Press the Flash! button. The tool will download the latest firmware files, or use the offline files if that option was checked.
Your ESC is flashed with the new firmware. These are the only steps needed for most ESCs. You should test your ESC now.
Advanced flashing
If the ESC in the list is not associated with the correct .hex file, you can flash an alternative firmware using the Custom check-box.
If a special firmware was designed for your ESC and it's not available through the regular selection, then choose the advanced option in the Edit menu. This option allows you to select an alternative firmware file.
Testing your ESC.
If you have flashed your ESC and something is wrong, then the chance is real that the ESC will get damaged immediately when it's powered up.
Power the ESC for the first time
The safest arrangement is to use a current-limited bench power supply, set to a low voltage (6V-7V), for both flashing and initial testing. If the pin-out is wrong and causes a short, the current-limiting causes the input voltage to drop below the brown-out detection voltage of the MCU, causing all output pins to go high-impedance in hardware and an automatic reset when the voltage comes back.
If you do not have a current-limited supply, you can improvise by using 4 AA batteries or an old NiCad pack, or even a LiPo with a 12V light bulb in series to act as a current limiter. Also, be careful when touching the board, since it can be quite easy to turn on a FET gate with just your finger. This should be okay if you have a current-limited supply, since it should just reset.
Sample current-limited supply using 3s Lipo, 5v ubec & lightbulb.
ESC start-up tones
To confirm that your ESC has been successfully flashed, it should make a different start-up sound compared to the original firmware.
In the following video, the start-up tones from a copter with unflashed ESCs is compared to one flashed with SimonK firmware.
My ESC doesn't arm.
A flashed ESC should generate 3 increasing tones at start-up. If the signal pulse is below ± 1030µs then a fourth beep is emitted. In the below movie, the ESC is started and then the signal is lowered slowly below 1030µs which generates the 4th beep. If you connect the flashed ESC to your receiver, you may need to lower your end points to "arm" the ESC.
The firmware is not available offline.
You should download all the firmware files with the Download Cache option before you can use this function. The tool will then download all files and notify the user when the files are downloaded and available for offline use.
Can I program the ESC like I normally would, setting the recommended settings?
No. Once the ESC is flashed, you cannot program the settings like brake on/off, Lipo/NiMh etc. etc. All the best settings have been embedded in the upgrade. However, the throttle range is still programmed like most standard ESCs. Remove your props, and disconnect the battery. Push your radio throttle to max, connect the flight battery, wait for the unique beeps, then immediately lower the throttle to 0. You will then hear another unique beep, indicating low throttle set. Disconnect the battery.
- Turnigy/TowerPro/AfroESC/BlueSeries AVR ESC software from Simon Kirby (SimonK).
- Comprehensive writeup of the ESC firmware including flashing & testing information. (must read).
- RCTimer/Turnigy/Hobbywing ESC DIY Firmware Flashing RCG thread. ( A lot of information has been gathered and grouped from that huge thread.)


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Reflections on Germany
Not only did I bring home wonderful experiences and photos from Europe but I brought some type of "bug" that has been kicking my butt since Sunday night with a sore throat, cough, and perhaps a low grade fever. The worse is I can't sleep well with my head stuffed up, making it harder to work through a bit of jet lag. Oh well…still worth it.
The following reflections and thoughts are simply my opinions based on my experiences and observations — other people's milage may vary.
I found Germany to be a beautiful place, but I've been there before so I knew it was. The parts we visited were clean and well maintained. The transportation infrastructure is above the standards we maintain in America. On the roads, the makes, models and conditions of automobiles seemed superb. As you would suspect a majority were VW, Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz and while some of them may have had high milage I didn't see a single "clunker" — perhaps this is due to stricter inspection, safety and environmental regulations. Noticeable was a lack of personal pickup trucks and large SUV's — I didn't miss them.
The countryside and mountains in southern Germany are indeed lovely and striking. Someone commented some of the countryside reminded them of scenes along the Blue Ridge Parkway in America — I can see that but the Alps take it to another degree. Only the Rockies are as impressive in America.
The German people are friendly but reserved — very matter of fact. It's expensive…especially in Munich (or at least the part we were in.) Europe as a whole is ahead of America on the subject of environmentally sustainable lifestyles. We have much work to do and there needs to be a change of American expectations and values.
Smoking…has no one spread the word about smoking and lung cancer to the Europeans. It was noticeable how many people, especially younger people, were smoking in Munich as well as other European cities we visited. From all the America brand cigarette logos spotted, I'm ashamed to say cigarettes may be one of our most successful and deadly exports. We've tightened the screws on the tobacco industry in America and they've simply marketed stronger elsewhere in the world.
When taking photos on a trip like this I find myself pulled in two directions. Friends and relatives of course want to see the sights most tourist take snapshots of so I try to capture those scenes as best I can, tossing in a little uniqueness when possible. Yet I also want to spend time discovering and making photos of aspects which perhaps only appeal to me. Sometimes I don't feel terrible successful at either.
This first photo was taken from the Hotel Königshof, in Munich, Germany, where we stayed. It's looking toward the western entrance to the Old Town section of Munich, Germany. The second photo is from the top of Zupspitze, the highest mountain peak in Germany.
You can find additional photos I've posted HERE. Thus far there are only photos from Munich posted.
I will post photos from other locations to the same page soon.
Update: 9/20/2011 – I've added photos from the Ettal Monastery and Zugspitze Mountain to the gallery link above. This should cover the first leg of our trip — Germany.


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Pls RT my "pledge" to contact @grovernorquist &members of Congress who have signed his pledge not to raise taxes. You do not have to sign it. Just retweet it. Here it is. If your Senator or Representative has signed Grover Norquists' pledge ask them. "Which pledge means more the one to uphold the Constitution or the one not raise marginal tax rates?" Retweet the pledge.
For fun here is th website http://www.atr.org/taxpayer-protection-pledge
So the fantasy season is in full swing. Here is some advice for you if you are interested. This is not intended to be advice for Roto leagues. Unfortunately many of the people you drafted expecting big things from are not producing. I actually have two of those players on my bench right now: Adam Lind and Jeff Francoeur. I am running out Lucus Duda at first base because Lind has been so poor. I am not in a panic. I call it the Tori Hunter principle. Last year I was able to hold on to Tori Hunter while he was terrible. When he finally got going my patience paid off and he helped carry me to the playoffs.
That is not to say you shouldn't work the waiver wire. But you need to be careful not to act rashly: I wouldn't drop Lind to try to catch lightning in a bottle for a week. When you drop someone you have to tell yourself that as soon as you drop him someone will pick him up.
I also do not care about the %owned stat. I am more interested in finding players that help my team. For instance if I see that my team is weak in steals I look for a guy who can bolster that stat. I do not care if only 2% of leagues own him. I care that he can help me.
Finally, I will tell you do not try play the matchup game if you have two guys you want to play but can only play one. Choose one and send him out for a series. Give him three or four games. How many times have you put a guy in who 4-4 the night before only to see him go 0-3 and the guy you sat goes 2-3? That's frustrating but avoidable. When possible stick to guy for at least a series or two.
If I wanted to Destroy America: I saw a video that is making the rounds on Twitter, "If I wanted America to Fail". Honestly it aggravated the hell out of me. I have been thinking about the theme of if I wanted America to Fail. It is an interesting theme and now that I have thought about it I have some ideas I would like to share.
If I wanted America to Fail I would:
1. Convince the population that the government cannot do anything correctly and push to privatize the most basic functions of government like education and prisons. Instead of inculcating the values of our society at schools we could make sure that corporate interests are taught to our young citizens. Privatizing prisons allows private interests to lock up those who do not agree with them. It subverts the justice system. Prisons are about removing people from society who have committed some crime not creating profit through misery.
2. I would start a race to the bottom for wages. Some of you out there are earning $8/hour without benefits. Some of you out there are doing much better. Those of you doing much better need to work for less. Because the less you make the more people can work. You have the right to be exploited by business and you are not using that right.
3. I would scapegoat the powerless in our society like the poor and immigrants making Americans fear them. Though almost everyone reading this is the part of an immigrant family. That family may stretch back 10 years or 100 years.
4. I would make sure that power was concentrated in the hands of a smaller and smaller group of people. I would do this by convincing Americans that it is in their best interest to have the absolute wealthiest pay less and less while using the government to redistribute wealth upwards out of the hands of average Americans into the hands of that smaller and smaller group. This concentration of power is not simply money but information.
5. I would seek to create a smaller and smaller group of companies that report the news.
6. I would seek to slow down the flow information on the internet by passing laws that restrict what can be said.
7. I would convince the population that the one thing that government does well is keeping the machine of war well oiled. I would make sure that a larger and larger portion of the country's wealth goes into the war machine while telling Americans that we can't afford to help those who are weakest in our society.
8. I would roll back voting rights. America has for over 200 years consistently expanded voting rights. I would convince Americans that previously scapegoated immigrants were ruining our democracy and pass voter ID laws making it more difficult for the poorest to vote.
9. I would convince Americans that if you fail it is your fault and the government will not help you. But when a corporation fails the rules of the game are different we must save the corporations at the expense of the individual.
10. I would do all of these things to convince the population to consistently vote against their own interest.


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At the end of last year, Forbes magazine asked frog to help them envision the future in 2020. In December, we held a workshop in San Francisco that brought designers, futurists and journalists together to think about the current state of computing, how we might experience it 10 years from now and, perhaps most importantly, how we might make the transition into these possible futures.
The day-long event led to an extensive online feature: "Your Life in 2020," a collection of illustrated concepts and videos that envision the future of ubiquitous computing. In that future, your computer is not only incorporated into every aspect of your life but is a part of you. With this in mind, we imagined how future technology would influence the key areas of Social, Travel, Commerce, Healthcare, and Media. Here's what we came up with.
Our Second Brain or "ThingBook"
In the future nearly every visible thing will be cataloged and indexed, ready to be instantly identified and described to us. Want to go shopping? In the future we won't need big retail stores with aisles of objects on display. We'll be able to shop out in the world (see image, above). Do you like that new car you saw drive by? Or those cool shoes on the woman sitting across the room? All you'll have to do is look at it and your mobile handset or AR-equipped eyeglasses will identify the object and look up the best price and retailer.
Like Google for our bodies, future technologies will allow us to monitor our body's vital conditions and compute the outcome of our actions on-the-fly. So you'll know right away what it's going to take to work off that Burger and Coke.
Whuffie Meter
Curious about the future of social networking? Whuffie is a conceptual social Metric based on what others think of you. In the future this Metric might actually be usable as real money. Why not? Celebrities are used to getting things for free based on their popularity. This is the same idea taken to its democratic extreme. Socializing will take on completely new dimensions when we can see everything public about a person right as we are talking with them. Think dating is difficult today? Imagine the hoops we'll have to jump through when everyone in the bar can see your complete dating history the minute you walk into the room.
The term "whuffie," by the way, is a word coined by author Cory Doctorow in his book Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom. It refers to the measurement of respect or karma a person gains or looses in their lives. In Doctorow's future, humans have implants in their brains that visually project their whuffie, which has replaced money as currency.
Sam is the director of publishing for frog where he oversees frog's global content, editorial, and digital publishing strategy. He is also the editor of design mind, frog's print and online media platform. Sam is the author of numerous books of non fiction and has written for Dwell, Metropolis, GOOD, and other magazines.


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Julie Sriken and Jim Vasquez were tired of watching school music programs getting cut for lack of funding.
Rather than complain, they created Jamaica Drum Jam in 2012, a nonprofit music education program aimed at bringing musical instruction and performances to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in New York City.
Sriken said she and Vasquez, her husband, always have had strong ties to music.
"We met when we were 12 years old in band class," she said, adding they they are heartbroken at the economic toll that is being taken on the Department of Education's music instruction.
They bring instruments, genuine and improvised, to give people who attend their lessons hand-on experience.
And Sriken said their demonstrations are more than just an afternoon of lessons and entertainment.
"Children who learn music do better socially," she said. "They benefit neurologically. It's more than just fun."
They have been able to bring in friends who are talented and even professional musicians to work with children and adults in settings such as libraries to bring their mission to more and more people. And they are having a carnival-themed fundraiser in Long Island City on April 27.
The dinner dance will feature a buffet, mini carnival games, with dance classes and performances by Cashel Campbell, Rodrigo Dance Studio and Junyversal Dance Studio; and musical performances by the the Jamaica Drum Jam Drum Corps featuring Sriken and Vasquez with percussionists Mike Veny, Brendan Finnegan and Geraldo Flores.
Other musicians scheduled to appear are Linda LaPorte, Nelson Jenkins, Albert Benscome, Oliver Demetrius, Matthew Marcial and Robin Mitchell.
Sriken said the money raised will be used to strengthen the program.
Acquiring instruments, she said, is the primary concern at the moment.
"We've been able to bring in our friends or sometimes borrow their instruments," she said.
In some cases, things like old buckets are turned into drums that students can practice on before getting their hands on a real, professional set.
"We'd like to start purchasing so that we don't have to rely on borrowed instruments," she said. "And sometimes we are able to recycle other materials into things like small percussion instruments, so we would like to be able to buy things like craft supplies."
The fundraiser will run from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the basement of St. Patrick Church, located at 39-28 29 St. in Long Island City.
Parking is limited to the back of the church, but St. Patrick is accessible by the E and R trains to Queens Plaza and the N to Queensboro Plaza.
Further information on Jamaica Drum Jam, its workshops and instructors, as well as the April 27 fundraiser, are available on the organization's website, jamaicadrumjam.org.
When: April 27, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Where: St. Patrick Church basement, 39-28 29 St., LIC
Tickets: $20 adults; $15 students; age 12 and under free.


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Copyright isn't dead just because we're not willing to let it regulate us
The "copy" in copyright is there because of an accident of history: once upon a time, to "copy" was to do something industrial. Copying required physical plant, employees, premises, trading. While not everything industrial could be reduced to "copying," all copying was presumptively industrial. There were ways of non-industrially copying things – a sculptor could copy another sculptor's work by application of her eye and hand and chisel, a writer could dip his quill and set out the lines of another writer – but it wasn't really necessary to explicitly declare that this wasn't the kind of thing regulated by copyright. Such activity was almost always invisible to rights-holders, and even if an individual work happened to rise to the attention of a rights-holder, he would seem like a bit of a fool trying to apply industrial rules to individual actors. It's like asking your neighbours to register as a bed and breakfast because they've got guests in for the weekend who've chipped in for groceries.


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Student Expelled From Indiana High School For Tweeting Profanity
Good schooling. (349 comments)
Sounds like good schooling (if by schooling I mean preparing him for the real world).
The same thing would probably happen if he used a company computer to post profanity: the company would probably be within their legal right to fire him.
Their compuer, their rules.


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David Lampo
Publications director, Cato Institute, Washington D.C.
Age: 53
Vice president, Log Cabin Republican Club of Virginia
Will vote for President George W. Bush in 2004
How long have you been involved with Log Cabin?
I'd heard about it for years, and came on board right around the time of President Bush's first inauguration, in January 2001.
What made you join at that time?
I've always been an activist and a small L libertarian. Then I became a Republican because I saw it as the only realistic outlet with a belief in libertarian principles. Albeit an imperfect outlet.
What do you mean by 'small L libertarian'?
One who believes in a consistent philosophy of limited government, personal responsibility, and applies these principles across the board. Unlike liberals, who may believe in personal freedom in certain aspects of one's life, like sexual orientation or smoking marijuana or things of that nature, but favor big government in economic areas. Versus conservatives who are usually the reverse. That is, they typically believe in a free market and say they believe in limited government, but so many of them completely abandon those principles when it comes to personal freedom like sexual orientation, drugs, and a variety of other personal freedom issues. So a libertarian is really just a consistent conservative.
What's it like coming out as a Republican among gay people?
You really can face as much hostility in that coming-out as you can with sexual orientation. [But] I have an excellent relationship with Equality Virginia (a nonpartisan group) and the Virginia Democratic group. Even though a certain segment of the gay community despises gay Republicans and Log Cabin, mainstream organizations realize we're a valuable part of the community, and we work increasingly well together.
Did you support President Bush in 2000?
I did.
And now?
I still support him. I certainly have reservations. I don't see how you can be a gay man, a gay Republican, and not have reservations. My biggest reservation is his support of the Federal Marriage Amendment, even though it's a modified version that's not as harsh as the original one proposed. We are adamantly opposed to it; we're adamantly campaigning against it. It's in spite of his support of the marriage amendment that I will still support him.


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Mike McIntire joined the New York Times's national investigative desk during the 2008 presidential campaign. He has also covered City Hall for the Times, where he has worked for the past seven years. Prior to that, McIntire served as an editor at the Hartford Courant.
CJR staff writer Liz Cox Barrett spoke with McIntire about his coverage of campaign finance issues, particularly his recent reporting on the anonymously funded "shadow army of benignly titled nonprofit groups," in his words, spending millions to influence this midterm election. This is an edited transcript of that conversation.
Earlier this month, you wrote a Week in Review piece in which you took readers along with you as you tried and ultimately failed to find out much of anything about who is behind the 501(c)4 group, the Coalition to Protect Seniors. Can you describe how that story came to be?
I had done a piece which ran on the front page about a week before that that looked at a different group, Americans for Job Security. The genesis for that is we wanted to take a look at some of these third party groups that are spending phenomenal amounts of money in the election and try to figure out a little more about how they work and who is behind them. That particular story was an attempt to show the mechanics of [one group], what's going on behind the scenes, and it essentially showed that [the group] was run out of a Republican consulting shop.
So that story ran and got a lot of attention and the thought from the people at the Week in Review was, why don't we try to do a piece that shows the difficulty in getting at who is behind these groups? That's how it started. OK, let's pick a group and do what I think the average person might try to do if they were so inclined: just use whatever tools are publicly available to try to figure it out. And as you pointed out, it didn't ultimately answer the question.
How can reporters figure out who is behind these groups and what their motivations might be?
It's hard. And part of the reason is simply that the donors that gravitate to these groups do so because they want to remain anonymous. Unless you have subpoena power there's no way to force these organizations to reveal anything about their finances other than what they have to reveal to the IRS, which is an annual tax return that does not include details of their donors.
What you're left doing is trying to use one of the two tools available to reporters, documents and people. To the extent there is a paper trail, you can get some broad outlines of who may be behind these groups. The Week in Review piece I did about the Coalition to Protect Seniors, it did sort of bring me right to the doorstep of health insurance companies. It looked like if you were able to take the next step, you probably would find that somehow, to some extent, some health insurance providers are involved with that organization. But as I said, the paper trail only takes you so far, so then you also have to talk to people who might know something about it. That's tough. Unless they have an incentive to help you, you're only going to get so far.
The short answer is it is very, very difficult to crack that veneer of secrecy that covers these organizations. Because that's exactly the reason they're set up the way they are, to keep those details secret.
In your Week in Review piece, you concluded that "it is clearly going to take a lot more work to see through an organization that is about as transparent as a dirty diaper." Are you doing anything further on that, any "more work?"
I've kind of moved on to some other things. First of all, you kind of have to pick your target as to how much energy you're going to expend and there are so many groups out there doing this type of thing. You probably want to look at the ones that are most effective in terms of the money they're spending. Coalition to Protect Seniors, although $400,000 seems like a lot (that's the amount they'd spent when I wrote about them), it really doesn't compare to what some other organizations are spending, millions upon millions. We have to kind of choose where to focus our resources. Right now I'm looking at some others.


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The French Room Restaurant
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Nationally recognized and critically acclaimed, The French Room restaurant at The Adolphus hotel has been described by the New York Times as "a Louis XV fantasy on the prairie . . . indisputably the most striking and sumptuous restaurant in Dallas." Featuring a menu rich in fresh seasonal ingredients and an award-winning wine list, it has garnered Gourmet magazine's top ranking as the best Dallas restaurant for three consecutive years. Under the direction of our Executive Chef, an inspired culinary team of internationally trained chefs and cooks has taken classic techniques and adapted them to ever-evolving American tastes. Guests of this rococo restaurant enjoy modern American cuisine prepared using classical French cooking techniques.
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Marcos Segovia has been with The Adolphus for more than 20 years. He began his remarkable journey from war-torn El Salvador to The French Room in the early 1980s. On reaching Dallas, he applied for a job in The Adolphus's stewarding department. He was immediately hired as a dishwasher. Soon after, Chef Segovia set his sights on the hotel's celebrated dining room and worked relentlessly to realize this goal through a series of hourly positions. In 1992, he joined The French Room kitchen as entre métier. Within a year he was named a line cook and, then, lead cook. In 1994 he earned the title of sous chef of The French Room. He was named chef de cuisine of the dining room in 2000.
Chef Segovia's outstanding work in The French Room – his concepts, his execution, and his presentations – have helped earn the restaurant three consecutive "America's Top Table" awards from Gourmet magazine, superior food ratings in the annual Zagat Surveys, and recognition in publications from Bon Appetit to the New York Times. The French Room is now the only AAA Five Diamond restaurant in Texas.
Chef Segovia began his culinary journey under the tutelage of Jean Banchet, when Chef Banchet was The French Room's consulting chef in the 1980s and early 1990s. His education continued under Chef Banchet's protégé Philippe Mouton. He trained under a Who's Who of America's top culinary talent, who oversaw the dining room, including Kevin Garvin (now a vice president with Neiman Marcus), Daniel Porubiansky (an acolyte of Bruno Menard and Guenter Seeger – and now with the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead in Atlanta), Brent Wuest, Richard Hebben, William Koval and most recently Jason Weaver (now executive chef at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas). Chef Weaver said of Chef Segovia, "I wouldn't trade him for anyone in the industry. In the years I've worked at the top hotels in America, I never met anyone who could equal him. He is that talented."
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In an effort to increase awareness of mental illness and eliminate the stigma, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Billings is raising the profile of its signature fundraising event.
The 11th Annual NAMI Billings Bike Ride, for the first time, will begin and end at ZooMontana, one of Billings' most visible and family-friendly landmarks. In the past, all routes began and ended at the Molt Community Center.
The venue change is tailored in part to attract more families with children. For the first time, there is a 2-mile Family Fun Loop.
"With mental illness awareness, it's great when you can start the education process at a younger age," said Kenneth Dean, community outreach coordinator for NAMI Billings, who began duties in June.
Last year's event drew about 100 riders; organizers are hoping for at least 150 participants for the Aug. 3 event. The tagline for this year's event is, "Pedal Past Stigma."
NAMI Billings' mission is to support, educate and advocate for those affected by mental illness, including major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder. It offers support groups, education classes and other programs for people with mental illnesses, their families and the general public. Services are provided at no charge.
NAMI Billings operates solely from donations and the annual bike ride is the organization's only fundraiser. All contributions go directly to providing services and support for people affected by mental illness. The fundraising goal for this year is to raise at least $45,000 through registration fees and sponsorships.
Dean, 33, had a breakdown in 2010 while working on his bachelor's degree. He suffered with anxiety and depression but with the help of medication, counseling and the support of friends and family, he is now working toward his master's degree in rehabilitation and mental health counseling at Montana State University Billings.
Mental illness also runs in his family. Two relatives committed suicide and a third relative was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
"It's a truth," Dean said. "You can't be afraid of the truth. My mission is to let anyone who lives with mental illness know that they are not alone — and that there are resources available."
This year's event features five route options ranging from 2 miles to 62 miles.
The Billings affiliate of NAMI, the nation's largest grass-roots mental health organization, was founded in 1995 and has grown to support more than 2,000 people each year struggling with mental illness.
Trained volunteers with personal experience either in recovery or as a family member of someone with a mental illness provide NAMI Billings' services.


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Olivier Libaux is a prolific songwriter, performer, and producer, but he's probably most known for Nouvelle Vague, a project that took punk and New Wave classics (like Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and the Clash's "Guns of Brixton") and reworked them into awesomely lounge-lizardy grooves.
Libaux's latest project is called Uncovered: QOTSA, which takes Queens of the Stone Age songs and gives them the Nouvelle Vague treatment. Singer/songwriter Inara George has the privilege of taking on what is probably the band's best known hit, "No One Knows," and inspiring a faceless, langorous girl to strip down to her birthday suit in the video, which you can watch exclusively below.
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Although there don't seem to be any MOOCs on the major provider platforms for learning languages, Coursera does offer courses in Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Italian that you can use to help you learn the language. Most, if not all of them, provide subtitles for the videos so you can watch and read at the same time (and also learn some physics or Egyptology!)
The great thing about Coursera is how easy it is to download all of the videos and subtitles at once. After joining a course, go to the Videos page that lists all of the available lectures. Using the free DownThemAll add-on for Firefox, you can download all of the files by using the Fast Filtering option to select only the videos and subtitles. (The subtitles are in .srt format and not hard coded into the videos so you can turn them off to test your comprehension.)
FYI: Even if a course has already finished, sometimes you can still enroll and have access to the videos within the class archive.


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Butterscotch.com Sends Mixed Message from Tucows
Tucows launches Butterscotch.com. Why?
I'm a bit confused. Yesterday Tucows (AMEX: TCX) announced it entered into an agreement to sell its stake in domain registry Afilias for $7.4 million. Investors cheered, sending the stock up 25%. In the press release, Tucows CEO Elliot Noss said:
"This sale is another step in our stated goal to divest non-core assets in order to unlock hidden value for shareholders. The proceeds of the sale provide additional funds that will be used to fund further share repurchases."
Tucows has definitely been on a path to simplifying and focusing on its core strengths. It sold its web hosting business earlier this year.
So one day later I am baffled as Tucows announces the launch of Butterscotch.com, "a new online video network that offers educational and user-friendly instructional shows designed to demystify technology for the average technology consumer."
Tucows isn't just a domain registrar. It is a popular software download site. But creating a site like this is expensive and lots of work (if you plan to execute on it). It certainly seems like a diversion from Tucows' focus. There's even a general manager of Butterscotch.com, which scares me. Hopefully he has other jobs within Tucows, too.
It looks like Tucows picked up Butterscotch.com in its NetIdentity acquisition.
Perhaps a Tucows representative can chime in with just what the company's core mission and objective is right now. Because I certainly can't figure it out. Here's the company's description in its latest press release:
Tucows is a global Internet services company. OpenSRS manages over 8 million domain names and millions of email boxes through a reseller network of over 9,000 web hosts and ISPs. Our Retail group sells services directly to consumers and small businesses through Domain Direct, It's Your Domain and NetIdentity. YummyNames owns premium domain names that generate revenue through advertising or resale. Butterscotch.com is an online video network building on the foundation of Tucows.com.
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The popular download site is a core business.
Butterscotch is part of Tucows.com moving forward in time. Don't understand that you can see that yourself. -
and by the way it surgted up teh stock price by 33%
I don't think many people have accused tucows of making many great decisions.
Hi Andrew –
Leona, from Tucows here.
Our core mission is to provide simple, useful services that help people unlock the power of the Internet – this mission extends across all our services and lines of business.
More detail about our company is available here: http://tucowsinc.com/
I hope this helps.
erik – The stock price went up because they sold the Afilias stock, which was sold at a very low number based on what I have heard.
Tucows is a great company, but they are starting to remind me of another once great company, Yahoo!
they should have just bought software.com of partnered with those guys butterscotch? Duhhhhm
Still donn't understand how you can write an artcile like this and claim that you are a serious site.
If you read Tucows own PR you see that it is part of their core business.
So do your homework first than think about it and last you write an article
On the surface it seems like a company in desperate need of cash (selling Afilas), and one that will now blow it on a manager for Butterscotch.com
Year 2000 anyone?


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Artist and writer Don MacDonald attempts to repair the image of popular political philosopher Machiavelli in this Historical Leader Keynote. MacDonald states that "Machiavelli was not particularly Machiavellian." Trying to get beyond this caricature painted by popular culture, MacDonald hopes to offer people a better understanding of the important philosopher.
One of the many phrases taken from Machiavelli is that "it is much safer to be feared than loved"—a saying that is often taken out of context. This is problematic, especially for those following this mantra, because as MacDonald explains it, Machiavelli believed the ideal leader is both feared and loved. The worst possible thing for any regime is to be hated by its people.
In this historical leader keynote, MacDonald provides a much needed perspective through true Machiavellian principle, perfect for anyone in a leadership position.


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KEOKUK — An overflow at the Roquette America plant in Keokuk sent about 40,000 gallons of process wastewater into the Mississippi River Saturday morning.
The tank overflowed about 1:30 a.m. Plant officials are not sure what caused the overflow, speculating that a slug of process wastewater may have caused the problem. Plant workers reset the breakers and restarted the pumps, ending the overflow in about 15 minutes.
Large amounts of wastewater can deplete oxygen in the water needed by fish and other aquatic life.
The DNR did not require Roquette America to take or test water samples because the discharge lasted such a short time. Given the volume and speed of the river, the wastewater would have been down river before staff could collect samples.
Roquette manufactures cornstarches, corn syrup and other products using a corn wet milling process.


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To provide basic knowledge of Soil and properties.
Soil and soil-mass constituents; and weight volume relationships, index properties, classification of soils, soil structure and clay minerals. Capillarity, permeability and seepage through soils, shearing strength of soils, determination of parameters by direct shear box, tri-axial and unconfined compression test, vane shear test, typical stress-strain curves for soils; stress path concept, determination of pore pressure coefficients. Liquefaction of soils, Soil compaction, laboratory tests and field control, Engineering properties of rocks and classification system. Testing of rocks; laboratory and field tests. Ground improvement techniques: mechanical stabilization, cement lime and bitumen stabilization.
1. Modern Geotechnical Engineering by Dr. Alam Singh.
2. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by B.C. Punmia.
3. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by Dr. K.R. Arora
4. Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering by Dr. Gopal Ranjan
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DARPA Giving out Money to Develop Electronics That Kill Themselves on Command
About a year ago, we mentioned that DARPA was working on a plan to develop electronics that would destroy themselves on command. The idea was to get devices that soldiers could take into battle that could be destroyed if lost or left behind. I have a hard time keeping up with my smartphone in the house, I can only imagine how easy it would be to lose one when someone is shooting at you.
DARPA has now started giving out millions of dollars to companies to develop these electronics. DARPA gave $2.1 million to PARC to develop a program called DUST. That program involves electronics with dummy circuits that can dissolve into sand-like particles with an electrical trigger.
IBM was also given $3.5 million to develop strained glass substrates that can explode when triggered. That would result in CMOS sensors in electronics that can be destroyed using radio signals. Another firm has been given $4.7 million to develop a battery that can self-destruct. The goal is to leave the devices non-usable and any information on them non-retrievable if the device is lost.
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Breakfast Topic: Which race has the best racial ability in the game? {WoW}
Jan 16th 2012 3:01PM I'm partial to my Draenai Dk Tank. I have the 4 set bonus raid finder tier which gives raid wide Vampiric Blood, which I almost always pair up with gift of the naaru on myself. With death strikes, and all my other healing... I have out healed healers. Since my racial heal is percentage based... using it while Vampiric Blood is up... gives me a massive self heal every cooldown.
Tho my druid has survived A LOT of badness with shadowmeld... I like my Draenai.
Drama Mamas: Love and marriage and WoW {WoW}
Nov 29th 2011 8:08AM Whats bothering me about this is this. I'm in 3 different guilds on my 3 mains. 2 raiding guilds, one far more serious than the other, and one that I co-gm with my boyfriend its a go at your own pace kind of guild for the few of us left over from an old guild that fell apart.
When I started dating my boyfriend, he was not interested in raiding and I was in one of the top raiding guilds on my server. When I told them my boyfriend was stuck in a dead guild, but wasn't interested in raiding due to his school schedule they OFFERED TO LET HIM IN AS A SOCIAL MEMBER because the guild is comprised of ADULTS who understand that couples want to be in the same guild and spend time doing the same things! WTF is wrong with this guild?!?!
That being said... the fact that he's ALLOWING (let alone my theory that he is behind the reason they didn't invite her, my guess is he doesn't want to share raiding time) his guild to snub his wife is unacceptable. And he needs to think about where his loyalty in and out of game lies.
Breakfast Topic: Design your own level 90 spell or ability {WoW}
Aug 10th 2011 9:58AM Update the moonkin form or allow the player to not be in it! I HATE staring at the back of that thing! Not to mention small rooms when I can't see past myself!
Drama Mamas: The case of the guild bank thief {WoW}
Jul 15th 2011 7:44PM Destroy SNOWBALLS?!? the humanity!!! (ok. i'm addicted to anything that can be thrown at another player)
WoW Moviewatch: How to Tell If Your PUG Will Fail {WoW}
Jul 15th 2011 1:33PM I have come to the habit of voting for the groups I lead (as I'm usually tanking). "type 1 to kill [enter boss name here], 2 to skip" a couple pulls before the boss, if people haven't voted by then I assume they are passing the right to vote (or are not of legal age) and majority rules. I then say "motion to kill [insert boss name here] has passed/failed with # of votes. we kill/skip [insert boss name here]." it usually gets a chuckle, and allows the group to collectively decide.
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Jul 12th 2011 8:45PM Lemme guess. Its the email account that you use for joystiq/wow insider. I too had troubles with that email.
More than a year ago I got all kinds of email returned to me, that was gold farmer spam. Meaning it was sent out from my gmail address. Google contacted me saying that my email account was accessed from an ip address in China. I totally checked out my phone and computer to find absolutely no malware or viruses. It was my main address which included wow, bank accounts and several other things attached to it. I moved everything but wow insider off of that account (it was the only one I couldn't figure out how to change the address on) So, I occasionally check in on that account when I'm commenting here.
A week ago I got an email from ACTUAL blizzard, that said "Thank you for opening a battle.net account, Zhang"... I am not Zhang... in any way shape or form. So in fear of them getting my other account since that email had previously been on my current account, again, I ran a complete virus/malware scan coming up empty handed, and I've changed that password at least 6 times (yes I have good passwords, not retarded ones) since the last time it was hacked. So nervous for my actual account (since it was attached to that email originally) I called Blizzard.
He said, that gold farmers hack into popular gaming sites and get email addresses from them to see if the email is available from battle.net. He didn't explain why. I asked if there was anything I could do to protect myself from these gold farmers using my email, he said use a junk email address for gaming websites. He assured me that no one would be allowed to open a battle.net on that email unless I confirm that it is actually me opening it.
I have never gotten a spam mail on the new email account I opened with my battle.net on it. Just had troubles with the one I use for this site. So forewarning. Be careful, gold farmers are watching.
WRUP: March 24, 1984 {WoW}
Jul 9th 2011 6:54PM I was 4 years old, so it probably was a combination of playing with barbies, listening to sesame street records, and annoying the crap out of my big sisters, on that particular day.
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Breakfast Topic: What will you do after WoW? {WoW}
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Typing this hurts, because after the first week of football that featured amazing finishes and numbers usually only achieved in Madden, we all want to focus on football highlights, football matchups, and anything else that involves the use of the word "football" in a positive, exciting context. We want to forget about the lockout, and those hellish days.
So I'm just going to close my eyes and do this: at what point does the lockout begin to get blamed for the rash of Week 1 injuries?
Anyone who's cool is in the St. Louis training room. A nasty collision with the turf dislocated Danny Amendola's elbow, and Steven Jackson continues to be talented but old and creaky. Now Denver's MRI room is equally congested following their loss Monday night to the Raiders, with important position players on both sides of the ball making appointments.
Defensive end Elvis Dumervil, who missed all of last season with a torn pectoral muscle, left the game with a strained shoulder. He returned later and cycled in and out during a rotation that developed with Jason Hunter. Although that indicates the injury isn't serious, Dumervil was clearly slowed and bothered by a nagging strain. He later told the Denver Post that he first suffered the injury earlier in the week during practice.
Champ Bailey also strained a muscle and left the game, pulling his hamstring while chasing Darren McFadden in the fourth quarter. Brandon Lloyd suffered a similar fate and was seen stretching out a tight hammy. Lloyd insisted that he isn't hurt, but his name still landed on John Fox's post-game injury report. Lastly and mercifully, starting running back Knowshon Moreno joined the latest Denver trend in the fourth quarter, leaving the game with a hamstring strain. He jogged lightly after being examined, but didn't return.
All four players will have MRIs today, and it's likely the Broncos will discover that the injuries are minor and are of the nagging, hobbling variety. That's the worst kind though, especially one week into the season when there's plenty of time left for that small tweak to grow into a more serious injury that zaps a player of his burst and athleticism.
What's troubling about the rash of Week 1 injuries is that many of them have been strains, pulls and muscle problems, which can be avoided or at least minimized through offseason conditioning and general preventative maintenance with team trainers. That's the case with all four Denver injuries, while Jackson may miss a week or more from a quad injury that occurred when he wasn't touched by an opposing defender.
Jon Beason's offseason surgery may have been a factor in his torn Achillies, but that's also an injury that would have received more attention in the offseason if players were allowed to have contact with trainers and access to team facilities. Same goes for Dez Bryant, the Cowboys receiver who was brilliant Sunday night before getting a helmet to his quad in the first quarter during a punt return and then spending more time stretching than catching for the rest of the game. Bryant struggled with injuries and conditioning throughout his rookie season, and needed an offseason around team headquarters for more than just disciplinary reasons.
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Who are the most valuable Seahawks?
We're still months away from the start of the NFL season. But with the Seahawks taking part in OTA's, there's no shortage of stuff to talk about. A popular topic of conversation this week is which player's are most valuable in 2014 to the team's quest for a Super Bowl repeat.710 ESPN's Brock and Danny came up with their own lists, inspired in part by the NFL Network's big Top 100 players of 2014 special airing Wednesday night.'What really jumped out at me was after I put the list together is how many skill position players there are in the top 10 for a team built to run the ball and around the line of scrimmage, how few linemen there are,' Danny says.
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Founder(s) | Bob Rosenschein |
Key people | David Karandish (CEO) |
Industry | Computer-related services |
Products | 1-Click Answers Software 1-Click Answers Wikipedia Edition |
Services | Giving answers |
Revenue | US$20.75 million (2009) |
Owner | Summit Partners |
Employees | 88 (As of February 2011) |
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Alexa rank | 156 (June 2012[update])[1] |
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Available in | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Tagalog |
Launched | January 2005 |
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Answers.com is an Internet-based knowledge exchange, which includes WikiAnswers, ReferenceAnswers, VideoAnswers, and five international language Q&A communities. The Answers.com domain name was purchased by entrepreneurs Bill Gross and Henrik Jones at idealab in 1996. The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet. The website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation (previously GuruNet), an Israel-based Internet reference and Q&A company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem, founded by Bob Rosenschein in 1999. The site supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Tagalog. WikiAnswers is a community-generated social knowledge Q&A platform, using wiki-based technologies. [2] Many of the site's pages are overloaded with advertisements to the point where performance is heavily impacted making it look cluttered, unorganized and forever to load.
GuruNet was founded in Jerusalem, Israel in 1999 to develop technology that intelligently and automatically integrates and retrieves information from disparate sources and delivers the result in a single consolidated view to the user. GuruNet initially displayed its information through a downloadable software product, today known as 1-Click Answers. The product was launched as a free product in 1999. Beginning in 2003 it was sold to users on a perpetual license base and later as an annual subscription.[3]
On October 2004 GuruNet had an IPO on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) under the symbol "GRU" and also acquired the Answers.com domain name early the same year for $80,000.[4]
On January 2005 the company moved to a new business model of a free-to-customer product, Answers.com and 1-Click Answers software, containing practically all the content that was sold via subscriptions. The new model is based on generating advertising revenue.[3]
On August 2, 2005, the company's shares started trading on NASDAQ instead of AMEX under the symbol "ANSW".[4]
On October 17, 2005, GuruNet changed its corporate name to Answers Corporation, unifying the company's name and its website, Answers.com.[4]
From 2005 to late 2009, the Google search engine definitions feature, in the top-right corner of the site, was linked to Answers.com.[citation needed]
On July 2, 2006, Answers.com released a trivia game known as blufr.[citation needed]
In the fall of 2009, Answers.com launched a revamped version of their website, which combined wiki-style contributions with expert resources.[5][6]
At Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters Conference in New York City in April 2010, Answers.com launched its alpha version of a Twitter-answering service nicknamed 'Hoopoe.' When tweeting a question to the site's official Twitter account, @AnswersDotCom, an automatic reply is given with a snippet of answer and a link to the full answer page on Answers.com.[7]
Aside from providing community-generated Q&A and reference information for published titles, Answers.com began offering videos as part of its VideoAnswers library, in July 2010. This was part of a partnership with video site 5min.[8]
In September 2010, blufr was relaunched with new design, game modes, and social features. It is available on the web and as an iPhone/iPod Touch app in the iTunes app store.
It was announced in November 2010 that the Answers.com Q&A wiki community reached its 10 millionth answer.[9]
At the start of 2011, the site surpassed 11 million answers. Shortly after, on February 3, Answers.com announced in a press release that it had agreed to be acquired by AFCV Holdings for $127 million in cash. AFCV Holdings, LLC, is a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners. Bob Rosenschein was quoted: "The acquisition price of $10.50 per share represents a significant cash premium of approximately 33% over our 90-day volume-weighted average closing stock price."[10][11][12]
On April 23, 2012 TA Associates announced that it was joining as an additional private investor in Answers.com and on May 1, 2012 laid off the remaining development staff in the Jerusalem office as a first step in fully assimilating the company.[13]
On August 8, 2012, reports surfaced that Answers.com had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire About.com from The New York Times Company for $270 million of debt and equity.[14] However, it was thwarted by IAC, who countered with a $300 million "clean cash" offer.[15]
Spam Controversy[edit]
The website was recently brought under scrutiny by online web marketers and developers who noticed the site employing 'under-hand' tactics to get their adverts to users who previously blocked their content. [16]
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As of December 2010[update], the site had the following ranking:
- Unique monthly visitors 52.3 million in the USA and 86.8 million world wide[17]
- Rank in top Web properties:
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- ^ "Company Overview". Answers.com.
- ^ a b "GuruNet Corporation 2005 Annual Report". ir.answers.com.
- ^ a b c Festa, Paul (January 3, 2005). "GuruNet launches new search service". CNET News. Retrieved 2010-05-13
- ^ "New Answers.com Launches First Site to Combine Community with Hundreds of Editorial Resources under One Roof". businesswire.com.
- ^ "Heavy Answers.com censorship". blog.wired.com.
- ^ "Answers.com Starts Answering Questions On Twitter". techcrunch.com.
- ^ "Exclusive: Answers.com Gets 200,000 Video Answers From 5Min". techcrunch.com.
- ^ "Answers.com Hits 10 Millionth Answer, Launches Its First iPhone App (blufr)". techcrunch.com.
- ^ "Answers.com Agrees to be Acquired for $127 Million in Cash: $10.50 per Share". ir.answers.com.
- ^ "Q&A Site Answers.com Acquired By AFCV Holdings For $127 Million In Cash". techcrunch.com.
- ^ "Answers.com Acquired For $127 Million". searchengineland.com.
- ^ "Answers Receives Minority Investment from TA Associates to Further Enhance Value Proposition Million". ta.com.
- ^ Kafka, Peter. "The New York Times Is About to Say Goodbye to About.com". All Things Digital. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ^ "Barry Diller Shows Up Late, Gets What He Wants: IAC to Buy About.com From New York Times for $300 Million". All Things Digital. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
- ^ "Answers using spammy techniques". jamdonut.com.
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ok i know how much hardware question threads suck, but if any of you know anything which will help me i'll greatly appreciate it.
im looking at buying the ASUS A7N8X/Deluxe motherboard, this is where the problems begin; firstly it uses an nvidia nforce2 chipset, i was planning on using a radeon 9600xt as my graphics card would this be an issue? would i get better performance if i used a Geforce graphics card ? and what is the rough equivalent of the 9600 ? secondly, i know very very little about ram; i want one gig of ram, but am unsure what to get full stop, all this ddr sd ram stuff makes no sence to me whatsoever. 2 x 512 would be the cheaper option, but is it worthwhile getting a single 1 gig strip of ram? can i even run a pc with just one strip of ram ? if i can obviously this would be best for upgrading in the future, but ive also heard stories of the nforce 2 getting better performance of paired ram or something ? all in all i need some help badly... thanks. |
28th Jan 2004, 12:20 PM | #2 |
There wouldn't be any obvious problems with the 9600xt on that board, but i've heard many problems about it in general -link-, the nVidia equivalent is a Geforce FX 5700 Ultra. Your board has agp 8x, which both of these cards have.
As for RAM, if you want 1GB go for DDR, the speeds never really matter unless you want that precious 0.5fps more for 500$ more. It is easier to add more from a single stick, but make sure you check your mobo's memory limit (i know it has 3 slots, but how much memory max). Whereas splitting up the memory won't make much difference other than that you can give half your RAM to a friend. |
28th Jan 2004, 12:31 PM | #3 |
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There's a little thing called Dual DDR where you get more peformance if you have 2 memory sticks. I'd say it's worth it, seeing as though 2x512 will cost you less than 1x1024. As for speeds, get something that matches your CPU's FSB.
You should have no issues at all with the Radeon 9600 XT. Be sure you have the latest drivers for everything, and a decent power supply (a good branded 350W PSU is probably better than most cheap 450s). Last edited by Crowze; 28th Jan 2004 at 12:37 PM. |
28th Jan 2004, 02:48 PM | #4 |
The onboard GPU is strictly optional. You can run whatever you like instead of it. It's just a nice thing to have if you have trouble with your real graphics card.
You should also have a first rate 5.1 capable sound chip built in. As Crowze says NForce boards have a feature that allegedly improves performance if you use two identical DIMMs. You can also put them in differently and get some sort of parity feature. Allegedly. I don't think it gets you a whole lot compared to other chipsets but at the same time it can't hurt any, can it?
28th Jan 2004, 03:50 PM | #5 |
I have this mobo.
Well, I can say: the ram(266, 333, 400) you will get depends on the processor, but 2 x 512, you will use the dual channel thing, and the performance will be astonishing. There are no problems with ATI gpu and nVidia chipset. It works fine, no sweat. This mobo is a very good (not exellent) OCer, so you will get some more Mhz squished anyway and easily. Just have in mind that the bios is not very good, like ABIT mobos... I did not get an ABIT due to $$$, but all nForce2 mobos are good(performance and stabilitywise), anyway. There is not a bad board, but all them need some refinements... Just see one that is more "my way" and get it. Derelan: nforce2 has 3GB mem limit.
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29th Jan 2004, 12:16 AM | #6 |
Dual Channel is only 2-3% more memory bandwidth than single channel. Saving some money is always a good thing, though, so go for the 2x512. By the time you need more than a gig of memory the stuff you bought will be obsolete anyway.
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