text: Short Course | December 1999Making Sense of Directional Microphone Hearing Aids Todd Ricketts and H. Gustav Mueller Author Notes Corresponding author: e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com © American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Article Information Hearing Aids, Cochlear Implants & Assistive Technology Short Course | December 1999 Making Sense of Directional Microphone Hearing Aids American Journal of Audiology, December 1999, Vol. 8, 117-127. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(1999/018) History: Received June 10, 1998 , Accepted July 19, 1999 American Journal of Audiology, December 1999, Vol. 8, 117-127. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(1999/018) History: Received June 10, 1998; Accepted July 19, 1999 View Article Figures Tables PDF Supplemental Data Supplements Multimedia Share Email Twitter Facebook Google Plus Pinterest Tools Get Citation Citation Ricketts, T. & Mueller, H. G. (1999). Making Sense of Directional Microphone Hearing Aids. Am J Audiol, 8(2), 117-127. doi: 10.1044/1059-0889(1999/018). Download citation file: RIS (Zotero) EndNote BibTex Medlars ProCite RefWorks Reference Manager © 2015 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association × Alerts User Alerts You are adding an alert for: Making Sense of Directional Microphone Hearing Aids You will receive an email whenever this article is corrected, updated, or cited in the literature. You can manage this and all other alerts in My Account The alert will be sent to: Confirm × Sign In or Create a free account to receive alerts. × We have witnessed a large increase in the availability of directional microphone hearing aids over the past few years. Directional microphone technology is now available in analog, digitally controlled analog, and digital hearing aids, and has been implemented into both behind-the-ear and in-the-ear styles. This Short Course reviews basic design differences across directional microphone hearing aids. A number of different laboratory and clinical evaluation methods used for assessment of both electroacoustic and behavioral directivity are then reviewed. In addition, the potential impact of test conditions such as room reverberation and type and position of competing noise(s), on listener performance when fit with directional hearing aids are considered. Recommendations and suggestions relating to the clinical and laboratory assessment of directional hearing aids are provided. Subscribe to view more For full access to this article, log in to an existing user account, purchase an annual subscription, or purchase a short-term subscription. Order a Subscription Subscribe Pay Per View Entire American Journal of Audiology content & archive 24-hour access $30.00 Buy Now This Article 24-hour access $15.00 Buy Now Become a Visiting Scholar Sign In or Create an Account Please sign in using your ASHA.org login. If you do not have an ASHA login, you may register with us for free by creating a new account. Sign In or Create an Account Related Articles An Evidence-Based Systematic Review of Directional Microphones and Digital Noise Reduction Hearing Aids in School-Age Children With Hearing Loss American Journal of Audiology, December 2012, Vol. 21, 295-312. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2012/12-0014) Ear Asymmetries and Asymmetric Directional Microphone Hearing Aid Fittings American Journal of Audiology, December 2011, Vol. 20, 111-122. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2011/10-0035) Comparison of Performance on the Hearing in Noise Test Using Directional Microphones and Digital Noise Reduction Algorithms American Journal of Audiology, June 2006, Vol. 15, 81-91. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2006/010) The Effects of Changes in Head Angle on Auditory and Visual Input for Omnidirectional and Directional Microphone Hearing Aids American Journal of Audiology, June 2003, Vol. 12, 41-51. doi:10.1044/1059-0889(2003/009) Hearing Aid Signal Processing for Children: When and How to Use It SIG 9 Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, September 2010, Vol. 20, 63-69. doi:10.1044/hhdc20.2.63 Related Topics Hearing Aids, Cochlear Implants & Assistive Technology


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New opportunities found to generate electricity from waste heat
Zhifeng Ren, left, and Qian Zhang
Physicists at the University of Houston's physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity are working on an innovation that could boost vehicle mileage by 5 percent and power plant and industrial processing performance as much as 10 percent.
Their research uses non-toxic materials – tin telluride, with the addition of the chemical element indium – for waste heat recovery.
Telluride has been studied for years, said Zhifeng Ren, M.D., professor of physics at UH and lead author of a paper describing the work…
But earlier work faltered because lead-containing telluride, despite its strong thermoelectric properties, can't be used commercially because of the health risks associated with lead, Ren said.
That has sparked the rush for a similar, but safer compound…
Qian Zhang, a research associate in Ren's group who designed the experiment, said she ultimately decided to add another element, known as a dopant, to alter the electrical properties of the tin telluride. In this case, she added indium to boost its conducting properties.
In one example, the device could capture heat from a car's tailpipe and convert it to power the car's electronics, improving the car's mileage by about 5 percent, Ren said.
"Even 1 percent, every day, would be huge," he said, considering how much crude oil is consumed worldwide…
But capturing car exhaust and converting it to electricity is only one example of how the process can be used. It could also be used in power plants – Ren suggested it could boost the conversion rate of coal-fired power plants from 40 percent to as much as 48 percent – and other industrial plants.
In some cases, Ren said, the efficiency gain could reach 10 percent.
Every little bit helps. In this instance, a small portion equals an enormous quantity of wasted energy and heat pollution.
Wind turbines DON'T lower property values – Gasp!
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, as Bob Dylan said. But whether or not it's a good idea to build wind turbines to harness wind energy has been a matter of some debate in communities throughout the country and world.
One of the main arguments used by those who oppose the turbines is that they decrease property and home values. But a new study effectively puts that argument to rest.
The study, published this month, looked at more than 50,000 home and property sales near 67 wind facilities in nine U.S. states and found no average decrease in home properties when windmills were built nearby. Study author Ben Hoen, a policy researcher…at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said it's the second large-scale study he's been involved with that's shown such a result.
"Regardless of the home's model and construction, regardless of how we slice the data set, we still ended up with the same result: We cannot find evidence of an impact that turbines have on nearby property values," Hoen said…
Most windmills aren't placed in densely populated areas, however. In this case, the argument can become a matter of aesthetics, with some claiming they are eyesores. But many also see them as beautiful kinetic sculptures, John Rogers, a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told LiveSience.
The fact that windmills usually don't affect home prices suggests that the other concerns (annoyance, potential health effects, etc.) aren't widespread enough to have an economic impact, Hoen said. Or widespread enough to detract from their environmental upside.
Studies have shown, however, that windmills may in some instances have significant impacts on birds and bats. Usually, though, "there are ways to find proper sites for wind farms to avoid, minimize or compensate for the impact it might have on wildlife," Rogers said.
Some of the new coastal offshore wind farms have become tourist attractions. Of course, the answer to that from some Luddites is that "those people" haven't good taste. Uh-huh.
World's wind turbines will pass the 300 gigawatt mark this year
The world will have enough wind turbines to generate more than 300 gigawatts of power – the equivalent of 114 nuclear power plants – by the end of the year, industry figures show.
As Brazil, China, Mexico and South Africa add turbines, the figure represents modest growth compared with a year ago, when the overall total capacity was just over 280 gigawatts…
Europe, which has led the world on wind, still represents around a third of all capacity, with more than 100 gigawatts, but its growth has been stalled by uncertainty as financial crisis has meant abrupt changes to subsidy regimes…
The most heated debate has been in Germany, ahead of elections in September, where the cost of energy and progress of implementing the nation's Energiewende – or transition to green energy and away from nuclear fuel – are election issues.
Heavy industry has attacked renewable subsidies, arguing they add to costs and damage competitiveness, especially when the United States benefits from cheap shale gas.
Representatives of the renewable industry say they are working to produce energy that can compete economically with traditional sources, which would lower political risk.
They say they have made progress on onshore wind and solar, but for the huge scale of offshore wind, a technology still in its infancy, subsidies are essential, probably for the rest of the decade…
Wind energy executives note conventional fuel sources have long benefited from support in the form of tax breaks for oil and gas and government help in disposing of spent nuclear fuel.
State and federal subsidies have been part of construction costs for every kind of power station built in the last century. Not that the fact isn't brought up as a special case by know-nothings who oppose reductions in the consumption of fossil fuel and the inevitable effects that has on environmental quality. Sometimes, subsidies are also added in to defray fuel costs, as well. Something never going to be needed by renewable sources like wind, solar and hydro.
Dairy powers itself with cow poop — including 42 tractor-trailers
Here at one of the largest dairy farms in the country, electricity generated using an endless supply of manure runs the equipment to milk around 30,000 cows three times a day.
For years, the farm has used livestock waste to create enough natural gas to power 10 barns, a cheese factory, a cafe, a gift shop and a maze of child-friendly exhibits about the world of dairy, including a 3D movie theater.
All that, and Fair Oaks Farms was still using only about half of the five million pounds of cow manure it vacuumed up from its barn floors on a daily basis. It burned off the excess methane, wasted energy sacrificed to the sky.
But not anymore.
The farm is now turning the extra manure into fuel for its delivery trucks, powering 42 tractor-trailers that make daily runs to raw milk processing plants in Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Officials from the federal Department of Energy called the endeavor a "pacesetter" for the dairy industry, and said it was the largest natural gas fleet using agricultural waste to drive this nation's roads.
"As long as we keep milking cows, we never run out of gas," said Gary Corbett, chief executive of Fair Oaks, which held a ribbon-cutting event for the project this month and opened two fueling stations to the public…
The American Gas Association estimates there are about 1,200 natural gas fueling stations operating across the country, the vast majority of which are supplied by the same pipelines that heat houses.
But the growing market is also drawing interest from livestock farmers, landfill management companies and other industries handling methane-rich material that, if harnessed, could create a nearly endless supply of cleaner, safer, sustainable "biogas," while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
To be sure, no one is pretending that waste-to-energy projects will become a major part of the larger natural gas vehicle market. But supporters say it could provide additional incentive to make biogas systems, which have lagged behind other sustainable energy solutions, more commercially viable.
RTFA. Partnerships are growing between dairy farmers and NatGas industry providers. They say we'll be surprised how much they will grow over the next five years.
I'm ready to be surprised. In fact, I'm looking forward to it.
Milestone: Nuclear plant closing because of low natgas prices
Dominion Resources plans to shut its Kewaunee plant in Wisconsin next year, the first U.S. nuclear plant to fall victim to the steep drop in power prices as rising natural gas production makes some plants uncompetitive.
After claiming hundreds of coal-fired plants, the boom in U.S. shale gas output is now starting to grind down the nuclear industry, with smaller older plants like the 566-megawatt Kewaunee plant first to be affected.
The surge in U.S. shale gas has upended the domestic power market, and this year combined with flagging demand due to the struggling economy to send prices to near 10-year lows. For the nuclear industry, it means the Dominion plant…will be the first U.S. reactor to shut since the late 1990s.
The closing, which did not catch many in the industry by surprise, highlights the struggle of the U.S. "nuclear renaissance…"
Natural gas' share of total U.S. generation has increased to 30 percent this year from about 20 percent in 2006, while the percentage from nuclear has held steady at about 20 percent.
Power prices in the PJM grid, the nation's biggest power grid, for the first nine months of 2012 were down almost 30 percent from the same period last year and the lowest since 2002.
While nuclear plants can still produce power more cheaply than natural gas, analysts say future capital investments, which could run into the hundreds of millions or more at existing reactors, might prompt operators to shut some units.
"A number of nuclear units won't run their 60-year licensed lives if current gas price forecasts prove accurate," said Peter Bradford, a former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
"The determining factor is likely to come at the point at which they need to decide on a major capital investment."
Anyone who measures the construction cost of a modern nuclear power plant – built in the United States – in millions of dollars instead of billions, is smoking the seeds. Medical marijuana or otherwise.
Escalating costs – for all the reasons that come easily to mind – are the essential factor that turned my support for nuclear power generation in directions like solar power generation. A process which is gradually diminishing in cost.
That natural gas is booming in availability and prices continue to drop or stabilize at historically low levels – is a great reason to hasten conversion of existing coal-fired plants to NatGas and to concentrate on NatGas-based new construction.
Wave energy project ready to go online off the Oregon coast
When the pilot operation is up and running…
About 15 years ago, this environmentally conscious state with a fir tree on its license plates began pushing the idea of making renewable energy from the ocean waves that bob and swell on the Pacific horizon. But then one of the first test-buoy generators, launched with great fanfare, promptly sank. It was not a good start.
But time and technology turned the page, and now the first commercially licensed grid-connected wave-energy device in the nation, designed by a New Jersey company, Ocean Power Technologies, is in its final weeks of testing before a planned launch in October. The federal permit for up to 10 generators came last month, enough, the company says, to power about 1,000 homes. When engineers are satisfied that everything is ready, a barge will carry the 260-ton pioneer to its anchoring spot about two and a half miles offshore near the city of Reedsport, on the central coast…
Adding to the breath-holding nature of the moment, energy experts and state officials said, is that Oregon is also in the final stages of a long-term coastal mapping and planning project that is aiming to produce, by late this year or early next, a blueprint for where wave energy could be encouraged or discouraged based on potential conflicts with fishing, crabbing and other marine uses.
The project's leader, Paul Klarin, said wave technology is so new, compared to, say, wind energy, that the designs are like a curiosity shop — all over the place in creative thinking about how to get the energy contained in a wave into a wire in a way that is cost-effective and efficient…
Energy development groups around the world are closely watching what happens here, because success or failure with the first United States commercial license could affect the flow of private investment by bigger companies that have mostly stayed on the shore while smaller entrepreneurs struggled in the surf. Ocean Power Technologies also will be seeking money to build more generators.
Here in Oregon, the momentum of research appears to be increasing. Last month, the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center — financed by the United States Department of Energy in collaboration with Oregon State University and the University of Washington — deployed one of the first public wave energy testing systems in the nation, called Ocean Sentinel, about two and a half hours from Portland, in Newport. The first device tested was a half-scale prototype from a New Zealand company…
"Wave energy is essentially an accumulation of wind energy," Charles F. Dunleavy, the chief executive at Ocean Power Technologies, said in a telephone interview. In the northern Pacific, he said, consistent winds fuel consistent waves, and the distance they travel in their rolling line creates a huge area of wave energy, or fetch, that a bobbing buoy can capture…
But the project also hinges on squeezing out the tiniest of incremental efficiencies in tapping the waves as they come. On the Ocean Power Technologies buoy, which looks like a giant cannon stuffed with electronics, company engineers pursued an insight that sailors have known in their sea legs since the days of Odysseus: every wave is different.
RTFA for anecdotes, examples and the predictably cpu-based tech essential to developing flexible power production. Poisonally, I'm looking forward to learning how this project does at producing sustainable electricity generation.
Waves are like wind. We ain't going to run out anytime soon.
Fuel cell could turn wastewater plant into electricity producer
Research at Oregon State University by engineer Hong Liu
In the latest green energy – or perhaps that should be brown energy – news, a team of engineers from Oregon State University (OSU) has developed new technology they claim significantly improves the performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) that can be used to produce electricity directly from wastewater. With the promise of producing 10 to 50 times the electricity, per volume, than comparable approaches, the researchers say the technology could see waste treatment plants not only powering themselves, but also feeding excess electricity back to the grid.
The electricity-generating potential of microbes has been known for decades, however, it is only in recent years that efforts to increase the amount of electricity generated to commercially viable levels has started to bear fruit. In MFCs, bacteria are used to oxidize organic matter – be it in wastewater, grass straw, animal waste, and byproducts from such operations as the wine, beer or dairy industries – which produces electrons that run from the anode to the cathode within the fuel cell to create an electrical current.
By adopting a number of new concepts, including reducing the anode-cathode spacing, and using evolved microbes and new separator materials, the researchers say they have been able to produce MFCs that produce more than two kilowatts per cubic meter of liquid reactor volume. The researchers point out this power density is much higher than has been achieved previously and could see the new technology replacing the widely used "activated sludge" process that has been used for almost a century…
The team has proven the system "at a substantial scale in the laboratory" and is now seeking funding to scale things up with a pilot study. A contained system that produces a steady supply of certain types of wastewater that would provide significant amounts of electricity, such as a food processing plant, is seen as an ideal candidate for such a test…
"If this technology works on a commercial scale the way we believe it will, the treatment of wastewater could be a huge energy producer, not a huge energy cost," said Hong Liu, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering. "This could have an impact around the world, save a great deal of money, provide better water treatment and promote energy sustainability."
Bravo! I have to track down the email address for Santa Fe's wastewater treatment plant up north of us on county road 56. They're already powering basic needs with solar panels; but, I'm willing to bet they'd be interested in something like this.
CO2 levels from generating electricity fall to lowest in 20 years
Carbon dioxide emissions from energy use in the first quarter of this year fell to their lowest level in the U.S. in 20 years, as demand shifted to natural gas-fired generation from coal-fired electricity due to record low gas prices, the energy department said.
Energy-related carbon emissions fell 8 percent from the same period a year ago to 1.134 billion metric tons according to the latest monthly energy review by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) – the energy department's statistics arm.
In the U.S., the first quarter usually represents the time of year when greenhouse gas emissions are at their highest because of strong demand for fossil-fuel generated power for home heating…
Emissions from coal use fell sharply by 18 percent to 387 million tonnes in the January-March 2012 period – the lowest-first quarter tally since 1983 and the lowest for any quarter since April-June 1986.
The contribution of coal in U.S. energy use is likely to continue its demise, with plant owners and operators reporting to the EIA last month that they plan to retire 27 gigawatts of capacity, or 8.5 percent, at 175 coal-fired facilities between 2012 and 2016.
Looming federal carbon and mercury regulations being developed by the Environmental Protection Agency are also likely to force the retirement of more coal plants.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of greedy, polluting, extractive-industry, corporate barons.
As Robert Muller noted in his OP-Ed piece in the NY TIMES over the weekend, one of the simplest critical steps to take in reducing our political lemming march to the abyss of climate change – is to convert power generation from coal to natural gas. Up front, it reduces CO2 two-thirds from power plants.
FDA approves a sensor you can swallow
You say you keep hearing Billy Idol tunes from your navel?
Taking a pill seems like the easiest thing in the world. Pill, glass of water and swallow, right? For many people, however, it isn't that simple. For them, it's very easy to take the incorrect dosage at the incorrect time. To help prevent this, Proteus Digital Health of Redwood City, California has developed an ingestible chip that can be embedded in pills and other pharmaceuticals.
Taking pills on a regular basis requires a lot of discipline or a really obsessive use of text alerts. Many modern medicines can't do their job properly if they're not taken at the correct time, in the correct dosages and in the correct manner. Unfortunately, over half of all patients don't follow their prescriptions consistently.
Many patients, such as cancer sufferers, transplant recipients and those with HIV must take batteries of medicines that are hard to keep track of. For the elderly, failing memories make it just as difficult. They make errors or fall into bad habits and don't get the full benefit of their pharmaceuticals. This is where Proteus Digital Health's ingestible sensor comes in.
The sensor, called the Ingestion Event Marker (IEM), is a sensor chip that can be embedded in a pill and then swallowed by the patient. When the chip reaches the stomach, the stomach fluids start powering it and the chip sends out an ID signal complete with time stamp. This is picked up by a special patch worn by the patient. The patch notes the ID and time stamp, and wirelessly transmits this to a mobile phone application along with data collected directly by the patch such as heart rate, body position and activity.
This information can, with the patient's consent, be shared with doctors and other caregivers to see if the medication has been taken in at the right time, place and manner and to help the patient develop healthier habits.
My sense of humor gets the better of me sometimes. All I can think is – our government figures we'll swallow anything.
Prototype floating wind turbine affirms offshore wind potential
Windfloat prototype anchored off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal
Floating wind farms could soon be powering thousands of European homes after a prototype seaborne turbine sailed through technological trials off the coast of Agucadoura, Portugal.
The 54-meter tall renewable structure sits atop a semi-submersible platform known as a WindFloat situated five kilometers from shore…It has been manufactured by WindPlus, a consortium of energy and clean-tech companies including Principle Power, Energias de Portugal and Vestas.
The group hopes their primary success will help secure European Union funding to add another five turbines alongside the existing model, engendering greater electrical production…
Unlike existing offshore wind farms and underwater tidal turbines, floating structures do not have to be permanently fixed to the ocean floor…Instead they are kept in place by a drag embedment anchor, much like the devices used to moor oil rigs in deep ocean environments.
This means WindFloat structures could theoretically be transported to any ocean location where there is a strong wind resource, says Alla Weinstein…
Weinstein highlights lower construction costs — the WindPlus turbine cost €20 million to build and install — as a major advantage the technology has over existing offshore wind farms.
The fact that turbines and their platforms can be assembled on land…means "the cost and risk profile … is significantly reduced," she says.
But while bullish about the technology's potential, Weinstein admits there remains a way to go before floating turbines become profitable enterprises.
The initial structure off the coast of Portugal is merely a pilot installation to prove the device works and is viable…
One of my favorite future means of producing electricity. Offshore is a great location – especially utilizing equipment like this which merely needs to be towed into position 12-18 miles at sea. Far enough to counter that whining sound that accompanies resistance from NIMBYs worldwide.
There ain't about to be any shortage of offshore wind. Maintenance and durability are the only significant design questions. Given appropriate materials and corrosion-resistant coatings, production should extend well beyond payback time.


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By Carl Jackson Saturday 05 January 2013 Updated: 08/01 11:01
BROMSGROVE District Council has announced it will be extending the public chamber to maximum capacity when the decision is taken on the controversial housing development for Hagley on Monday (January 7).
The application for 175 homes on land at Kidderminster Road is set to be determined at the first planning committee meeting of 2013.
Temporary walls will be removed in the main chamber at Burcot Lane, and extra seating will be provided with room for up to 125 members of the public to attend.
A council spokesperson declared officers would operate a one-in-one-out system if the main hall reached full capacity on the night.
More than 3,000 residents have signed a petition against the proposal and more than 1,200 people have officially objected to the plans on the council's online planning pages.
Dozens of protesters turned up at the last planning committee meeting in December only to be turned away by council staff because the item had been removed from the agenda, following an 11th hour legal challenge from Hagley Parish Council.
Claire Felton, head of legal and democratic services at Bromsgrove District Council, said: "We've done everything we can to push the capacity of our public meeting rooms to their absolute legal limit for this meeting, in case there is a high turnout.
"Should more people come on the night than can fit in the room, please understand the restrictions that are placed on us.
"We are legally responsible for ensuring people are safe on our premises and we will follow the law, having to turn anyone away is the last thing we would want to do."
The Hagley application is the first main item on the agenda on Monday, with 90 minutes allocated for a discussion due to its high interest.
With the meeting starting at 6pm, anyone attending in relation to other applications set to be discussed on the night has been advised to come to Burcot Lane just before 7.30pm.
For anyone who is unable to attend the meeting, minutes will be published at www.bromsgrove.gov.uk afterwards.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Throttle Games™, a new video game publisher and maker of the upcoming Atlas wireless game controller, today announced it has secured $6 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures with participation from DCM. Ajay Chopra, general partner at Trinity Ventures, joins the Board. The investment will be used to develop internal games, support external development, and advance software services as Green Throttle reimagines mobile gaming on big-screen TVs.
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Green Throttle Games was co-founded by Charles Huang, co-creator of the legendary Guitar Hero video game franchise, and mobile industry veterans Matt Crowley, former Palm and Nokia product lead, and Karl Townsend, lead engineer for the first two generations of the Palm Pilot.
The global video game market is roughly $60 Billion per year and games played on TV (mostly via current consoles) make up about half of that. Green Throttle aims to bring the excitement of side-by-side multiplayer gaming to the family room, using the rapidly expanding power of mobile devices.
"We believe a large percentage of consumers will use their phones or tablets to play games on a TV, and mobile-to-TV gaming could quickly grow to surpass the console market," said Charles Huang, co-founder and CEO of Green Throttle Games. "By building a straightforward way to enjoy mobile games together with your friends, we hope to revolutionize how mobile games are played."
The Green Throttle Arena app will provide a central hub to find and highlight games developed both by Green Throttle, and other independent developers and publishers. Green Throttle is already working with emerging and veteran development studios including nWay, Free Range Games, Mercenary Technology and Monstrous.
"The ability to play mobile games on a big screen TV is very attractive, and Green Throttle's leadership is well poised to bring in the kind of top quality games and industry connections that are needed to turn the Atlas controller and Green Throttle's solution into a household name. I have always surrounded myself with entrepreneurs who know how to delight their end users and Green Throttle aims to do just that," said Ajay Chopra, general partner at Trinity Ventures.
"Advancements of the last several years have redefined consumers' experiences on mobile devices. I believe that in the next 24 months, the smartphone will reach beyond the few inches of its own display to massively disrupt and cross over to previously independent platforms. I am thrilled to be working with such experienced innovators in reinventing the living room gaming experience," said Jason Krikorian, general partner at DCM.
Green Throttle Games was founded by three executives experienced in creating industry-changing innovations in mobile devices, video games and game peripherals. CEO Charles Huang popularized the rhythm game revolution by creating a wireless guitar controller that made it possible for people to unleash their inner rockstar with their friends playing "Guitar Hero." Guitar Hero became a $1B franchise under his leadership. President and COO Matt Crowley helped to bring the Palm Pre to life, along with leading innovative teams at Nokia. CTO Karl Townsend was one of the original creators of the Handspring and Palm Treo smartphones, some of the first devices to bring mobile email to a mass market. Together, these three founders bring experience in gaming, hardware and software to create a winning combination for Green Throttle Games.
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Founded in 1986, Trinity Ventures is a boutique, early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seed technology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, SaaS, and cloud and infrastructure.
Trinity Ventures has invested in more than 100 ventures, including such leading companies as 21Vianet (VNET) Affinity Labs (acquired by Monster.com), Aruba Networks (ARUN), BeachMint, Bix (acquired by Yahoo!: YHOO), Blue Nile (NILE), Crescendo Communications (acquired by Cisco: CSCO), Extreme Networks (EXTR), Forte Software (FRTE), Infoblox, IntruVert Networks (acquired by Network Associates: NWK), KIXEYE, LoopNet (LOOP), Modulus Video (acquired by Motorola: MOT), Network Alchemy (acquired by Nokia: NOK), Photobucket (acquired by News Corporation: NWS), SciQuest, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies: AKAM), Starbucks (SBUX), Sygate Technologies (acquired by Symantec: SYMC), Trion Worlds, Wall Data (WALL), and Zulily.
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DCM is an early stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo with more than $2 billion under management. DCM has investments in more than 140 technology companies across the United States and Asia and provides hands-on operational guidance and a global network of business and financial resources. DCM has backed industry-leading companies such as 51job, About.com, Clearwire, eDreams, Foundry Networks, Kabu.com, Sling Media, SMIC, and VanceInfo as well as upcoming startups such as Bill.com, Bridgelux, Happy Elements, PapayaMobile and Trion Worlds. Recent successes include China-based IPOs: Renren, BitAuto, DangDang, Luxin and VIPShop and US-based M&A and IPOs: Fortinet, PGP (Symantec) and Sandforce (LSI).
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Green Throttle Games, Inc. is a Santa Clara, CA based company that develops high-quality, innovative games and hardware for mobile devices. The company's founders Charles Huang, Matt Crowley and Karl Townsend, visionaries from the video game and mobile industries teamed up to unlock the potential of mobile on the big screen, connecting people and platforms in a way that is simple and fun. More information about Green Throttle Games is available on the company's website at www.greenthrottle.com.
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Date of Stay: March, 2015 - $36.00
Your average park with a great majority of long timers/ permanents with rigs in varying states of repairs and attached plastic carports and other structures. Wouldn't stay more than a night. Some road noise. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: January, 2015 - $25.00
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Date of Stay: August, 2014 - $45.00
This was just an overnight/in-out stay, our first time at this park. The office staff was very helpful and even switched our site when it became clear that, with our overall length, the original one assigned wouldn't work as a pull-thru. As an older park the sites are narrow (designed for the old shorter rigs with no slide outs). A lot of the sites have obstacles (trees, light poles) at the entrance to the site. That was what happened to us. There is a long dog run that is well maintained. Day rate calculated with Good Sam discount. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2014 - $40.00
Nice park but if you have a larger RV over 36' beware. There are so many full time "residents" that the cars and pick up trucks parked everywhere. I couldn't pull through 2 sites and had to back in to a site and I barely made it and was charged a pull through rate. OK for 1 night. Wouldn't stay any longer. PS I have over 75,000 miles in this 38' RV and never have a problem. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: June, 2014 - $45.00
Easy in and out. Shade as well as satellite friendly sites. Friendly staff. Well stocked store for an RV park. Adult only as well as a family pool plus separate spa. Reasonable mix of full time and daily/weekly guests. We have stayed here several times and it is certainly satisfactory. Very close to Magic Mountain. Well maintained and pet friendly. We have stayed here several times visiting family and will be back. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2014 - $45.00
Camped for 1 night. Had a level, gravel site. Grass on both sides. No picnic table. WiFi very slow and kept disconnecting. Good stop before driving into LA basin. Good park for dogs. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Fifth Wheel.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2014 - $45.00
Nice park with huge trees and grassy areas. Pools and hot tub are clean. Fenced dog area is one of the nicest we've seen with grass and shade. Big rigs and long trailers might have trouble negotiating the narrow roads around the trees. The showers had peeling paint though look like they're working on them. We have stayed there before and would again. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: July, 2013 - $45.00
Great park, good service, nice pool(s), great dog area(s) and everything you need is there. But, the Internet almost isn't. It is sporadic at best. Doing more at another park in 10 minutes than in four days at this nice park. Other points off for the high price and inadequate showers for the price. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2013 - $25.00
Used PPA for 3 nights. Close to everything we needed. The short term sites are pull-through, but you need to unhook because all utilities are in the back of the site, plus the roads are narrow and not much turning room available into the site. Will stay again when we are in the area. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2013 - $25.00
The park roads and the turn into my site were rather tight. I had to move a picnic table and be guided past the poles by the electrical & water which sit at the back of the site. Had a few inches between my neighbors awning & my slide. The cable was fuzzy and over 3 days I was only able to access their internet once. The road noise was bothersome as well. On a positive note, the pool area was very nice, the crushed gravel site was level. You do have grass and a picnic table. There are places to walk your dog besides the dog park. There appears lots to do for kids. My Verizon MiFi worked fine, as did my Sprint cell. I would probably not return, I am very noise sensitive and the traffic died down around midnight but was back again very early, plus the cable and internet didn't work well. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: April, 2013 - $39.00
This is a great park. It is very clean and tidy. It has excellent amenities. It has a huge pool, spa, laundry, store, street lights shuffleboard, and more. It is north of LA, so its not so hectic. There is road noise, but it is not extreme. The staff works hard to keep it clean. My only complaints are, the slow WiFi and fuzzy cable signal. I stayed in a motor home and would stay again. Nice park!! We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2013 - $25.00
Nice park (make sure to bring your ant poison). Wish it was more child friendly. They have pools that warn in many ways that kids are only welcome in the kids pool and the very shallow kiddie pool. When we were here the kids pool was not filled and we were told it was OK for the kids to be in the adult pool when no adults wanted to use it but that if any kids went in the hot tub we would be asked to leave (leave the entire place) immediately. Plus they charge extra per person after the first two. Our rate reflects two nights on the Passport America rate which is only valid Sunday through Wednesday nights. Since its the only place in the area we really have little choice, but I'll keep looking in the hopes of finding a better place. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2013 - $25.00
This is a huge RV park with a bunch of western character. The spaces are pretty nice, and from the looks of things, they are constantly updating spaces with new gravel, etc. There are a lot of what look to be full-timers here, and some of the full-timer spaces look a bit shoddy. But that wasn't a huge issue for us. They have a huge off-leash dog park, which is really nice when you a traveling with two Great Danes. The staff was friendly, and the pool areas looked very clean and nice. I read comments about kids not being allowed in the adult pools, but in my opinion, that is a good thing. To be truthful, I find it refreshing to find a park that has areas like the Jacuzzi that kids are not permitted in. No offense, but I don't want to try to relax with a bunch of kids messing about. So major kudos to this park for making kid only pools, and other areas so us adults can have some peace and quiet. All-in-all, we liked the atmosphere and would stay here again if we were in the area. We got the Passport America rate. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
Date of Stay: March, 2013 - $44.00
Large, flat, gravel, pull through site. Traffic noise from Highway. Not bad traffic noise, just noticeable. Free Wi-Fi very slow. Good place to stop when traveling through area. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Travel Trailer.Undo
Date of Stay: February, 2013 - $45.00
Nice, clean, older park; again, lots of full time rigs on site. Too cold to use pool, but looks clean. We camped at Valencia Travel Village in a Motorhome.Undo
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Editor's note: As part of his research on odorous house ants, Purdue's Grzegorz Buczkowski reported that house ants form supercolonies and prosper in urban settings. This article appeared on www.ag.purdue.edu.
It's a tale of bright lights, big colonies: Rural ants go wild in the city.
The first systematic lifestyle survey of odorous house ants confirms how much a modest country dweller can change habits in the big city, according to urban entomologist Grzegorz Buczkowski of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
In the forests of Tippecanoe County, Ind., he found odorous house ants, Tapinoma sessile, in colonies with just one queen each. With no more than a hundred ants, each colony could live in a single acorn.
Ants from city parks and other seminatural areas formed somewhat bigger colonies, he says. But in West Lafayette and other urban zones nearby, Buczkowski found that nests of odorous house ants connect via bustling ant trails to form supercolonies. Each of the 15 colonies he sampled typically held some 58,000 ants and 238 queens, he reports online February 26 in Biological Invasions. One supercolony across the street from Buczkowski's office covered more than a city block and held 6 million workers and thousands of queens.
"In the forest, these odorous house ants have a pretty tough life," Buczkowski says. Plenty of other species compete for food and shelter, and ants living in unheated acorns go dormant during the winter. But Buczkowski has documented that urban colonies stay active all year by retreating to warm refuges. "Even when it's snowing outside, they can be happy inside reproducing," he says.
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