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From Gerald F – Mr. Pop – James Bond creator Ian Fleming had to have this car – first launched back in 1961. What was it?
From Dean I – Is it true that "American Idol" began with different age limits for contestants?
From Madeline H – Mr. Pop – Hard to believe it was seven years ago. Our daughter was born in 2002 and, since it is the holiday season, could you tell me the top toys that Christmas?
From Rich A – When did Vee Jay records finally shut its doors (exact day please?). There seems to be mis-information out there.
Mr. Pop History – Vee Jay Records – Once home to the 4 Seasons and… The Beatles. Long reported to be in trouble financially, the American Federation of Musicians severed its licensing agreement with the label on October 12, 1965 and the very next day, Vee Jay Records – then 11 years old, died.
Vee Jay started out in Chicago, but with all the Beatle activity and a flood of cash, moved to Los Angeles in 1964. Beatle activity? It wasn't supposed to happen – but it did as this small label was thrust among giants in early 1964. Vee Jay – for all practical purposes, released more than several Beatles records, plus an album (which was re-packaged at least five times). It's an amazing story – one of my favorite in the colorful world of record labels – and pop culture history.
From Frank L – Mr. Pop – Can you tell me anything about Colgems Records – the label "born" when the Monkees formed? Thank you.
Mr. Pop History – Originally, it was headed by Don Kirschner, in a three-way corporate parlay with RCA Victor, Columbia Pictures and Screen Gems. Kirschner of course, was fresh off his "Brill Building" success and this would be his second major coming in the biz. His Brill Building partner – Al Nevons, had already passed away by this time – Summer of 1966.
The label was operated much like an independent – with Kirschner working closely with Steve Sholes – an a&r executive with RCA. After the Monkees broke with "Last Train To Clarksville" and "The Monkees" album, Kirschner primarily focused on signing songwriters for the TV quartet. At first, things went great. The single and album were selling lot hot cakes and follow-ups had big advance orders.
As all things must come to an end, it wasn't long before Don Kirschner was out. It had to do with group dynamics and power plays. You can read that here on the Net, I'm sure.
From HT – Mr. Pop – The song "For What It's Worth" by the Buffalo Springfield is about the legendary riots on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Was this a big deal?
Mr. Pop History – It was. But the problem seemed to be ongoing – not just a one or two-shot event. This was back in the fall of 1966 and the Sunset Strip was getting a bad reputation. Real bad. So much of it had to do with the area's hotbed of music places and how teens were ticked off because they weren't allowed in some of these places.
And, it had to be worked out by authorities from local businesses, real estate, even a local Reverend. They all came together to call a "truce" in December 1966. And, a lot of the events – rioting and such – were overblown, so a West Hollywood and Sunset News Bureau was set up – just to be sure.
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From Lee N – Who was the only band ever thrown off the "Tonight" show?
Mr. Pop History – This one's easy. It was the Australian band "The Vine" back in December of 2002. Why you ask? From the Mr. Pop archives:
Rowdy Australian band – "The Vines" are jettisoned from the Jay Leno "Tonight" Show after lead singer Craig Nichols began trashing the group's equipment during a sound check, just before the show's taping. He went into a tantrum – throwing around things – and then they were asked to leave.
From KM – I'm enjoying a Stax Records CD compilation. Could you tell me when the label closed its doors?
Mr. Pop History – Stax was as legendary and influential as Motown – make no mistake. It was an incredible label – giving us hit makers such as Sam & Dave, Staple Singers, Mel & Tim, Booker T & The MG's and so much more.
Stax went into bankruptcy back in 1976. At its peak, Stax employed more than 200 persons including (around) 60 musicians. The rest you can read on the Net, but this should be a good start.


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How A Redesigned Meal Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions
Virgin Atlantic reminds us that even when measured in grams, the dividends of good design can pay off big.
At 35,000 feet, small design decisions have big consequences. Ounces saved, in the design of aircraft equipment, can vastly reduce carbon emissions for an airline's entire fleet.
Case in point: U.K. industrial design consultancy MAP was able to help Virgin Atlantic save an estimated millions of dollars in fuel prices over the next decade, just by designing a better economy-class food tray. And they did it while improving service to customers while also making meal service easier for flight attendants.
In 2011, Virgin Atlantic came to MAP with a problem. They wanted to make in-flight meals for economy-class customers more like courses in a restaurant. Instead of serving their passengers everything on a single tray, as in a cafeteria, they wanted to serve them their meal, and then dessert and coffee. The benefits for passengers? More room while eating, and less unnecessary stuff bouncing around trays during meals.
But there were considerable challenges to making this vision a reality. In-flight service on an airplane is heavily optimized for compactness and weight. In-flight meals, for example, are loaded up into industry-standard meal carts at airport catering facilities, which means that any new design has to fit into this existing cart.
The biggest advantage of MAP's newly designed tray for Virgin Atlantic is that it's more efficient than older trays. While only three trays could fit in every row on the old carts, the new Virgin Atlantic trays can squeeze four fully loaded trays in per row, allowing each cart to hold 33% more meals. From a practical perspective, it's the equivalent of Virgin Atlantic only having to load three food carts on a flight instead of four. In addition to these trays being lighter, MAP's redesign is saving Virgin about 53 pounds of weight (and its associated fuel costs and carbon emissions) per flight. Over millions of flights, that's a lot of fuel.
In addition to designing a more spatially efficient meal tray, MAP also improved it in other ways. Old Virgin Atlantic trays were lined with paper; the new trays use a spongy plastic instead to keep food items in place and to cut down on waste. In addition, MAP designed a two-tiered plastic stand for first-class customers that could hold a sandwich on one level and a piece of cake on another—an invention that can be snapped together in less than 11 seconds.
But the design work MAP is really proud of is the new coffee pot. For the last 20 years, Virgin Atlantic has used a simple, industry standard pot for serving tea and coffee to passengers. But while these pots stacked well inside the small storage spaces of the average Virgin Atlantic jet, they presented a number of problems for flight attendants. First, there was no way to tell what was in a given pot, leading to clumsy hacks where stewardesses would write "Coffee" or "Tea" on the pots in felt-tip pens. Second, the handles on these pots proved to be poorly designed, so after pouring hundreds of cups during a single flight, flight attendants experienced wrist pain and injuries.
In response to Virgin Atlantic's needs, MAP created an attractive round design with an ergonomic handle and a clever lid with an arrow on it that can be twisted to show what's inside: tea, water, coffee, or hot chocolate.
Only time well tell how many cases of RSI Virgin Atlantic's new coffee pots will prevent. The value of the new trays are much easier to quantify: The airline expects that across the lifetime of the new trays, they will see a 45% reduction in greenhouse gasses (and associated fuel costs) compared with the old trays. It's a good reminder that, even when measured in mere grams, the dividends of efficient design can pay off big.
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Nice ideas in Economy for sure, but frankly I don't think they should be serving anything on plastic in First Class, no matter how attractive or clever the design. You'd never see something like that on the world's top carriers like Singapore Airlines or Cathay Pacific, even in Business.
"save an estimated millions of dollars" ??? Seriously?
At this point I don't care if someone has an English degree, I just WANT SOMEONE WHO CAN FUCKING SPEAK AND WRITE IN ENGLISH!!!
One word: Creative.
Too bad that their food offering is horrible.
Creative thinking put to good use. I have a question however regarding the ability to insert 4 fully packed trays instead of the old 3, into the cart, allowing 33% more food per cart. Does this mean: A) They need fewer carts per aircraft, which would make the overall aircraft lighter, and yes, save fuel long term. OR B) Just pack more food into the same number of carts, thereby making the plane's food content 33% heavier?
I have a much simpler solution. Ask every passenger to vacate their bowels BEFORE flight, and this alone will save millions of dollars in fuel annually.
They should charge passengers for total weight, i.e. weigh passengers together with their luggage.
Quite often with extra fees charged at the airport for bags, I've thrown up. Perhaps this is part of that plan.
On a slightly less flippant side, I've flown VA many times and the idea of serving the dessert separately is poor as a customer. You wait and wait and wait and then are rewarded with a tiny little pot. It's wastes time.
You're right. Should have been carbon fiber.

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Health promotion in schools aims to improve the health and well being of students by empowering them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to take responsibility for their own health. We incorporated a malaria component to an established peer health education programme in schools in The Gambia, and evaluated its impact on knowledge attitudes and practice (KAP) of school students and their families using a cluster randomized design. Since malaria is a particular problem among children under 5 and pregnant women, students were encouraged to explain what they learned to their families, and we sought to evaluate whether the malaria messages were taken up by the students' families. Evaluation endpoints are KAP in students, and KAP in women living in the school students' home compound.
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Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
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|Cluster Randomized Trial of the Impact of a Peer-Health Education Programme on Malaria Knowledge Attitudes and Practice in Students and Their Families
- 1. Bednet use among children under 5yrs of age living in the household of peer health educators 10 wweks and 6 months after the start of the intervention
- 2. Malaria knowledge attitudes and practice among women in the family of peer health educators 10 week and 6 months after the start of the intervention
- 3. Malaria knowledge attitudes and practice among school students 10 weeks and 6 months after the start of the intervention
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12 communities in The Gambia, each including an upper basic and/or a senior secondary school, were pair-matched on urban/rural location and school type, and one community in each pair randomly selected to receive the peer-health education programme immediately or after a delay, to permit evaluation. The intervention programme comprised training of peer health educators, teacher coordinators, and members of drama troupes, in key malaria messages and principles of health education. The peer educators then conducted a rolling programme of presentations to children and youth in their own schools using drama, puppetry, small group and in-class presentations about malaria, as well as community outreach programs targeting out-of-school youth and the general public. In each school a systematic sample of 75 students were interviewed 10 weeks and 6 months after the start of the programme, and in each school catchment area a sample of 80 women were interviewed at the same time, and bednet use by children under 5 yrs in their care was recorded. From the interviews scores were derived for knowledge about malaria treatment and prevention and knowledge scores and net coverage in children compared between intervention and control schools.
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- Woman caring for a child under 5 years of age, living in the compound of one of the peer health educators
- Student attending school
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not caring for a child under 5 years (for women)
- Not living in a compound of a peer health educator (for women)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00269178
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|Paul JM Milligan, PhD
|London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Keywords provided by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine:
knowledge attitudes and practice (KAP)
peer health education
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Parasitic Diseases
Protozoan Infections
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That's when the man's two sons got out of the house, said Sgt. Curt Theune of the Spring Lake/Ferrysburg Police Department.
While emergency officials shut down the area near 16187 Suffolk, neighbors saw police with guns drawn surrounding the house.
Dispatchers reported that they'd contacted Fairbairn on the phone, and were attempting to build a rapport with him when he hung up the phone at 5:29 p.m. When he walked out of the three-story white home, police tackled him as he tried to go back inside, neighbors said.
"He wanted to get something, but we weren't going to let him go back inside," Theune said.
Police had him in custody at 5:34 p.m. and interviewed a young man - identified as his son in police radio traffic - outside the home. The young man described to police a lot of scuffling, and appeared to have suffered bruises and minor cuts.
Theune did not confirm an actual physical fight.
The sergeant confirmed that he removed one handgun and three shotguns from the home.
Neighbor Hilary Grant said she just got home from work and heard yelling coming from the house. Her husband was working in the yard.
"There were some obsenities. It got our attention," she said.
The sons came out of their house and just stood there, she said. Police surrounded the house and Fairbairn came out a short time later, carrying his cell phone.
Fairbairn bought the former Rosebud Bar & Grill in downtown Grand Haven and has been renovating it into Joe's Wooden Nickel.
Fairbairn grew up in Grand Rapids and spent a lot of time at the Rosebud when he boated in Grand Haven with his parents. He most recently lived in Chicago and worked in Internet sales for a telephone book company, then launched two Internet advertising businesses.
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Germany wins Olympic gold in men's 8 rowing
WINDSOR, England (AP) – Germany produced a late burst to win the Olympic rowing gold in the men's eight at Dorney Lake on Wednesday, justifying its pre-race billing as heavy favorite.
Unbeaten since 2009, the powerful German crew crossed the line in 5 minutes, 48.75 seconds to win gold for the first time since the country was reunified in 1990.
Canada captured silver, falling short in its bid to defend its gold medal at the Beijing Olympics four years ago. Britain was level with Germany for much of the race but settled for bronze.
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When Cameron Diaz finds out her "perfect man" is actually a married cheater, she has two options: blame his wife (Leslie Mann) or get even.
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How to Change Date and Time on the iPhone
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Changing the date and time on your iPhone is actually very easy. Just follow the steps below.
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5Select your time zone. Once you've turned off the automatic date and time, you can change your time zone. Tap on "Time Zone" and type in the location you would like to adjust your time to.
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The investment objective of the Junior Oils Trust is to provide long-term capital growth from a global portfolio of small to medium capitalisation companies specialising in oil exploration and production. There may be occasions in light of adverse market conditions where the Investment Manager chooses to hold a high level of bonds and government securities.
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The era of abundant cheap oil is at an end. Even though new reserves are being found in some parts of the world, these are increasingly expensive to deliver to the market due to difficult geological or technical conditions. Growth in reserves in North America, Brazil and Africa is counterbalanced by declines in mature basins such as the North Sea. Global demand, nevertheless, continues to grow at a rapid pace. Emerging and fast-growing economies need increasing amounts of oil to support a rise in living standards. Most forecasters expect that world demand will continue to outstrip supply well into the next decade even though oil-trade flows may change. Furthermore, geopolitical instability, particularly in the Middle-East, upsets some of the world's largest producers of oil. Saudi-Arabia, in particular, states that it would like the price of Brent crude oil, the key benchmark for pricing its exports, to remain above $100 per barrel to enable the kingdom to finance social programmes aiming to maintain social stability. Under these circumstances, it is likely that the price of oil will continue its long-term uptrend with the possibility of super-spikes caused by supply disruption.
The fund is advised by Sector Investment Managers Limited (SIM), and authorised and regulated by the FCA.
Angelos Damaskos who is the Principal Adviser, and Jim Slater, his father-in-law, are the largest shareholders in SIM. The other fund managed by SIM and advised by Angelos Damaskos is Junior Gold which invests primarily in gold mining companies with benchmark the FTSE Gold Mines index.
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Ars electronica symposium "Goodbye Privacy" ended yesterday afternoon. I only attended the last day of the talk but from what i've heard both in the room and in bar discussions, this edition, curated by Ina Zwerger and Armin Medosch, was really good. I'll come back with more notes from the talks but in the meantime, here's the torrent of Pirated Copy, a movie directed by He Jianjun and mentioned by Jaromil during his talk.
First a few words about Jaromil. The artist/activist/programmer/hacker gave a presentation about piracy and privacy.
He talked about IP monopoly, piracy of objects and contents, the IPRED2 Intellectual Property EU directive and the rather alarming analysis of it by Italian magistrate Giuseppe Corasaniti, and ended by presenting dyne:bolic, a tool that allows media activists, artists and creatives to manipulate and broadcast sound and video with instruments to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only free software!
Somewhere among all those facts and reflections, Jaromil showed an extract of the movie Pirated Copy.
The docu-like movie follows several characters involved in selling or buying illegal discs. and looks at the pervasive influence pirated DVDs have on these "ordinary" people in Beijing. They are never going to make a dent when the cops themselves aren't busting the dealers -- unless they've got porn. And if He Jianjun's raw DV feature is anything to go by, all these pirated discs have created a remarkably well-educated society of cinephiles.
Right, another ars electronica. I arrived yesterday and the rain was pouring non stop which was a bit of a bummer not only because i'm wearing sandals and can't find nice boots in Linz but also because many of the art works are scattered throughout the city. No Brucknerhaus thus. The theme of this year's festival being Goodbye Privacy, the organisers figured out that the installations should be exhibited in public space. So downtown you'll find a damp, very damp beach with soaked beach seats and many art installations and projects lined up on a narrow street. Let's start the report on ars electronica nice and easy with one of these works spilled onto the streets: In Your Hands, a performance involving remote control roller skates created by Dash Macdonald.
For the performance, Macdonald places his fate into the hands of audience members by letting installation visitors remote-control the roller skates strapped to his feet.
Where he skates is determined by the person holding the remote. But the spectacle is meant only to divert attention from what's actually going on—namely, a subversive social experiment that critically questions how far people are prepared to go in pursuit of their own entertainment.
The work is inspired by the Milgram (1961) and the Stanford Prison experiments (1971). The Stanford prison experiment was a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. Volunteers played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a mock prison in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. All of them rapidly adapted to their respective roles, leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. One-third of the guards were judged to have exhibited sadistic tendencies, while many prisoners were emotionally traumatized. The Stanley Milgram's experimental found out that people would administer apparently lethal electric shocks to a stranger at the behest of an authority figure. The research remains critical for understanding obedience.
The project comes in fact right from the Royal College of Art's Design Products department (Carey Young and Noam Toran's platform.) I am always delighted to see a design project landing in an art context. Or maybe i should rather say that i only dig design when it has some arty qualities.
Images of the skates.
Watashi-chan, by Tomoko Ueyama, is a garment that visualizes sounds in a space. The balloons attached to the clothing inflate when there is a sound in the space, even if the wearer does not consciously perceive that sound.
How it works: Watashi-chan divides the human audio range into six frequency bands and calculates the quantity and frequency of signals entering each frequency band. An electromagnetic valve is assigned to each frequency band. As a quantity of frequency signals is calculat-ed, a signal is sent to an electromagnetic valve to open it. As a result, air is sent to a balloon corresponding to the quantity of frequency signals. After a balloon has been inflated for one second, air is released again, so that the balloon does not inflate too much.
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Runs on August 24 August and 26, at the Spiral Garden (Spiral 1F) in Tokyo.
More inflatable in fashion: Self-Sustainable Chair, wearable canoe; The Life Dress; the Inflatable Breasts Dress; Fat Suits; Wearable Crisis Management; Modes for Urban Moods and Inflatable wedding dress; SurvivaBall and the Aeolian Ride.
The winners of ars electronica are online. There is this new Hybrid Art i was particularly curious about. I feel that its boundaries should be made a bit clearer but I can't think of many art groups who deserved a Golden Nica more than Symbiotica.
An award of distinction in that category was given to Wim Delvoye for the ultra-famous Cloaca, an installation that gulps food and mechanically processes and produces what is —even under scientific examination—impossible to differentiate from human excrement (not my favourite work in the lot but it is oh so photogenic.)
The other distinction award went to Biological Habitat: Breeding Spaces Technology, Made in Space, by Zbigniew Oksiuta, which explores possible ways to grow new forms of life in outer space. The project is based on the insight that environment and physical laws determine the respective forms of life to the extent that their "experience�? over the course of evolution is implemented in the building blocks of life, the strands of DNA. In the embryonic state, however, life emancipates itself from these guidelines and prescriptions. This is what the biological habitat uses; it provides a biotope that is not determined by gravitation and physical laws on Earth but rather by conditions in outer space. Therefore, biological forms of life also develop differently here and —similar to life on Earth— reproduce themselves over the course of an evolutionary process.
Honorary mentions went to Andrew Gracie (yay! congrarts!) and Brian Lee Yung Rowe of Hostprods for Autoinducer_Ph-1 (cross cultural chemistry); Blast Theory for Day of the Figurines; Masaki Fujihata's Unreflective Mirror; Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand for Camera Lucida; Beatriz da Costa with Cina Hazegh and Kevin Ponto for Pigeon Blog.
and works i just discovered: Latent Figure Protocol, by Paul Vanouse; Nothing Happens by Nurit Bar-Shai; @c + Lia by Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Tudela and Lia; Exploding Camera by Julien Maire; public conVENience, by Tabaimo; Five Pieces of Evidence by Raqs Media Collective.
Image on top corner: GeneMusiK, a project developed under the aegis of Symbiotica.
My three year long interest for new media art has brought me several time to Barcelona. At some point i even started wondering "Isn't there any other city that supports the world of art and technology in the Iberian peninsula?" There is! Gijon recently opened a very swanky exhibition centre for art, science, technology and advanced visual industries called Laboral (head to Douglas Edric Stanley's place to check out the videos and words) and the Spanish capital is getting increasingly busy showing, promoting and creating works of media art.
One of the main protagonists in the area is Medialab Madrid which aim is to bring art, science, technology, and society together. I got the opportunity to know more about it a few months ago when i met Marcos García during the festival Ars Electronica where MlM was exhibiting several projects developed during a workshop called Interactivos?. Together with Laura Fernández, Marcos is in charge of the activities of Medialab Madrid's educational program which they both started 3 years ago.
MLM is launching a second Interactivos? workshop inspired this time by the strategies of magic and illusion (deadline for applications is 27th April at 24h), which provides me with a very good excuse to ask them a few questions:
I've been following the activities of Medialab Madrid from afar for a couple of years but i don't know its history. How did Medialab Madrid start?
Medialab Madrid started in 2002 as an initiative of the Cultural Center Conde Duque and the director Juan Carrete.
From the beginning it was conceived by directors Karin Ohlenschäger and Luis Rico as a transdisciplinary program focused on the intersection between art, science, technology and society. There were four channels of action: exhibitions, learning, support for artistic practice and research.
Under their guidance, four large international curatorial projects brought to Madrid some of the most outstanding new media art projects and the exhibitions were accompanied by an intense program of activities which included workshops and symposia where scientists, communication theorists, artists and activists discussed the themes of the projects and the day. Cibervision 02 (http://www.cibervision.org/), which explored the topic of fluid dynamics as a metaphor of life and communication processes; Banquete 03_Metabolism and Communication, a coproduction between the ZKM, Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona and Medialab Madrid; and Banquete 05_Communication in Evolution, which presented cultural, technological and biological evolution as inseparable processes.
How did Medialab Madrid evolve over the years? Did the programme modified its objectives or fields of research?
Between the large events, we programmed workshops, seminars, presentations and smaller exhibitions were came to be quite celebrated. Through this intense education and community program a local group of curious visitors became regulars.
Our focus now is to create a structure to foster this local community. The orientation is towards research and production understood as permeable processes with the participation of anyone who comes. To make that possible we have started different stable lines of work which incorporate different models of participation – the learning should arise from the processes of research and production and the exhibition is tightly linked to the projects that are being developed.
So the main goal is to attend to the needs of the many different kinds of medialabmadrid users: from professionals to amateurs, from recognized experts to unkown experts, from regulars to first time visitors, and being able to integrate them into the research and production processes.
At the heart, we'd like to foster the figure of the collaborator. To make that possible it's very important to us the role of the cultural mediator, researchers that are always present here, studying the contents and welcoming the visitors, introducing them to the projects and giving them information depending on their demands.
During the last edition of Ars Electronica Medialab Madrid exhibited some of the projects developed over the Interactivos workshop. I heard that you are working on a new workshop. Can you tell us what it will be about, who will be leading it, what typically happens in those workshops and what you'd like to achieve with it?
Interactivos is an advanced workshop for the collaborative development of projects which are selected through an international open call. The topic for this year edition is "Magic and Technology", and deadline to present projects is 27th April. Once the projects are selected, we will issue a second call for people who want to participate in the development team of one of the selected proposals.
The workshop will be led by Daniel Canogar, Simone Jones and Zachary Lieberman.
We did the workshop last year, and in those two weeks, an intense work atmosphere is created. Artists, engineers, hackers, designers, musicians (and wizards in this case) work hand in hand to get the proposals developed with the help of the three teachers. And the whole process is open to the public, which can come into the working space, ask questions, talk to the developers or even join a team.
After these two weeks, the participants themselves set up their results in a full fledged exhibition here at the Conde Duque center. Last year's was a very popular success with visitors.
Another fundamental part of Interactivos? is the social interaction. Participants work together, exchange knowldge and ideas, and at night we take over Madrid as a huge group.
Additionally, the open source approach is an important focus. The workshop revolves around open software and open hardware tools like Arduino, PD and Processing. This year we will also be using openFrameworks, a c++ library that is available in pre-release, but will be released publically to coincide with this year's workshop.
Medialab Madrid is onto new adventures with upcoming new lines of work like a platform for research and production in data visualization. Why did you choose to focus on that particular field?
This platform is entitled "Visualizar�? and it is directed by Jose Luis de Vicente, who has very interesting ideas about the social and communicative implications of data visualization. Data visualization is an area of work that tends to be collaborative. It's easy to see how one project might gather many different fields of knowledge together. It's also very clear that we live in a world that is generating a huge amount of data constantly.
This November there will be a symposium and a production oriented workshop where the participants will propose projects that explore ideas, data sets, design and visualization tools, and coding techniques in order to find new ways to represent and clarify complex systems.
Now there's also a net-culture platform and a Commons Lab in the pipeline. What are the objectives of these two projects?
The net-culture platform is called "Inclusiva-net�? and it is run by Juan Martín Prada. It responds to the lack of theoritcal websites in both Spanish and English, and to the idea of creating a meeting point for the theoretic production at the medialab. It will be presented next week and like the other lines of work, functions with an open call for participation.
The overlaps between these projects are interesting. For example, this month we are celebrating a workshop of OpenStreetMap and cartography is a part of "Visualizar�?, but also brings some questions about geodata's uses, property and licenses. Could the geographical information be considered as a common as well? These overlap are an important part of our programming.
How does Medialab Madrid function (how many people work there permanently or not, how do you get the fundings, etc.)?
Medialab Madrid is financed by Madrid`s City Council. There are seven people working permanently, in planning, administration, graphic design, audiovisual communication and technology. Also, we have two full time cultural mediators, who interface with the public, as well as a dedicated staff of interns and volunteers. In addition, for each line of work that we start, we collaborate with outside experts.
Are there other programmes, events, institutions or organizations in Madrid that do works similar to Medialab Madrid or is your programme unique in the Spanish capital? How does Medialab Madrid fit into the cultural panorama of the city?
Over the last years you can see that a very strong community is growing in Madrid, and it's clear that it's now a very exciting moment where a local community of makers, theorists and acivists are coming together.
It's important to highlight the role of Dorkbot Madrid in making this possible and the organizers Javier Candeira, a truly important figure in the spanish digital culture, and Juan Carlos Alonso, who has led the Arduino community here in creating an education system for secondary schools.
Intermediae is located at the old madrid slaughterhouse and, while recently opened, there are huge expectations about it.
Last week the project Vida started with a new program of workshops with one given by France Cadet, with the notion of supporting more locally produced projects.
Another important media art figure in Madrid is Vicente Matallana, who has been fundamental for media art initiatives during last years in ARCO, like the Black Box and various symposia on digital art and intellectual property.
Finally, there is an extremely active center called La Casa Encendida, which organizes workshops, events, and an interesting radio laboratory.
Could you recommend us a few artists from Madrid who should get more attention from the public?
I would love to mention some collectives, which is a very popular way of producing work here in Spain. SinAntena is a community tv station based in the active neighborhood of Lavapies. That area also is home to Ladinamo, a very active cultural collective that hosts dorkbot.
La Fiambrera Obrera, a Madrid collective, are responsible for Border Games, a community based videogame production platform developed together with a group of young inmigrants to Madrid.
I would also like to highlight Manifestómetro, a group that has developed a very simple and effective way to calculate the number of participants in a demonstration, a very popular practice in the capital during the last years (image). The creators have just launched a new web project called Lo prometido es deuda: a record of polititians' promises in order to see if they are realized. And there's also a collective of architects called Basurama, who are working around creative uses of garbage.
All of these projects and more make Madrid an exciting and inspiring place to be working.
Thanks Marcos!
Hurry up! The deadline to submit projects for Interactivos: 27th April at 24h.
Everything I Do is Art, But Nothing I Do Makes Any Difference is a playable level for Half Life 2 and a performance conceived as a direct response to an installation of his friend Pat Rios.
Rios had filled a Chicago gallery with objects and furniture that suggested his mantra that 'everything he does is art.' Chris Reilly replicated the gallery space and its art pieces in a 3D first person shooter game environment by manipulating its architecture. During the performance, Reilly manipulated the character to "interact�? with the space. Shooting up the room, blowing up Pat Rios' installation, and graffitiing "CHRIS�? on the wall with a machine gun. Reilly was not only paying homage to male adolescents impulses within gaming environments, but also reacting to Rios' artistic vision.
"After all, if everything you do is art, that's kind of like saying nothing you do is art; everything's on the same level," explained Reilly. "That condition goes along well with a video game, where everything is basically without consequence. If you die, just start over and everything's back to the way it was."
In a second version of the work, Everything I Do is Art, But Nothing I Do Makes Any Difference, Part II Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gallery, the 3 floors of an art gallery had been modeled, along with some of the artworks from the show.
The Ai systems of the modified Source engine was unleashing attacks of monsters, aliens, robots and zombies (all of them characters from the original game) on unwitting virtual gallery attendants. Health points and extra ammo could be earned by machine-gunning the artwork. Players/performers were also given a vast arsenal of military-grade guns for "expressive destruction" of the gallery walls. They could also pick up cans of spray paint to create their own art works.
The performance reminded me of Ars Doom that Orhan Kipcak and Reinhard Urban developed for the 1995 edition of Ars Electronica as a satire on the art business.
Using the Doom engine the artists reproduced in 3D the exhibition space. Equipped with their tools—Georg Baselitz' thumbs, Nam June Paik's remote control or Arnulf Rainer's paint brush— the visitor (at the exhibition center or online anywhere in the world) could destroy works of art, other artists and art critics. The favourite victim of players was said to have been exhibition director Peter Weibel.
The work is also said to be the first attempt by an artist to use a computer game as an artistic medium. Other similar game mods followed such as Museum Meltdown (image on the right), by Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup, another first person shooter game mod that allowed museum visitors to wander around a virtual version of the exhibition space killing people and blowing up masterpieces.
Julian also points to Stephen Honegger and Anthony Hunt's Container.
Via the always excellent Videoludica.


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So I attended the EHR Stimulus Tour today in Detroit. (The new Doubletree Suites/Fort Shelby is a great hotel now by the way although a little hard for parking.) It really is a new day for medical and healthcare organizations. Nothing like some good old government money to get the technology juices flowing.
The site above for the EHR Tour has some great resources to understand all there is to know for getting that stimulus money from the government. It will take some planning and now is the time to start.
For our outsourced IT healthcare vertical clients in Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan this should be on the agenda for those quarterly business reviews we will be having. What is the best way to get to that money and how can we start now.
How Much Will They Get?
Starting in 2011 physicians can each get $18,000 for showing they have electronic health records instituted that has ePrescribing capability and connectivity to other providers. This goes down gradually for the next 5 years to a total amount of $44,000.
One 4.5 physician office in Holt talked about what they did to implement and how they spent $131K to implement EHR and practice management. $131K may sound like a lot but consider some of these benefits that I never even thought of:
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One interesting item from this doctor is that their FTE (full time equivalent) of front office staff went down. So their overall savings of salary was $91K/year. That is a huge number.
While EHR will be a pain in the first year having everyone buy in will be critical and understanding the long term benefits. Even without the stimulus money it's a great decision but one now that is a no brainer.
The Holt practice now has 5 Servers to handle their workload and does need some IT support to help their practice here in Michigan.
One other concern was data backup and disaster recovery. The most they have been down has been 2 hours. That's a discussion we'll have with our clients because of our standby server technology we can get them back up and running in 30 minutes if something happens.
A good example used during the tour was that of airlines. You hardly ever talk to someone in person to book your ticket and now even get your ticket or check in your luggage. It's all electronic. Why can't healthcare be the same way? It sure could and needs to be to help lower some of the costs that folks see out there now.


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Traditional craftsmanship of the Mongol Ger and its associated customs
Inscribed in 2013 (8.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Country(ies): Mongolia
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Craftsmanship of the Mongol Ger is a traditional enterprise involving the labour of a household or group, with men carving the wood and both women and men engaged in painting, sewing and stitching, and felt-making. The Ger is a round structure of walls, poles and a peaked roof covered with canvas and felt, and tightened with ropes. It is light enough for nomads to carry; flexible enough to fold and pack; and sturdy enough to be dismantled and reassembled. The Ger can withstand Mongolia's fierce spring winds. The structure is the same across the country: a wooden frame painted and decorated with traditional ornamentation, covers made of white felt and canvas, ropes of animal hair, flooring and carpets of hand-sewn felt, and furniture. Traditional craftsmanship is taught to the younger generations, principally through mentoring by a senior craftsperson. Dismantling and reassembling the Ger are always family operations, with children learning by watching their elders. Cutting and preparing sheep's wool, making felt, stitching canvas and preparing woodwork are usually communal endeavours. As a traditional dwelling, the Mongol Ger plays an important social and cultural role for nomadic families and its makers are highly respected.
- Nomination form: English|French
- Consent of communities: English/Mongolian
- ICH inventory - Snapshot of related webpages mentioned in form_last visit_20130214: English/Mongolian
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Decision 8.COM 8.20
The Committee (…) decides that [this element] satisfies the criteria for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, as follows:
- R.1: The knowledge and skills associated with the Mongol Ger are transmitted through generations; anchored deeply in the nomadic lifestyle, they provide a sense of identity and continuity for their community;
- R.2: Its inscription on the Representative List could contribute to the visibility of intangible cultural heritage by promoting cohesion across society; the bearers' ability to adapt the technique to changing environmental conditions is testimony to human creativity;
- R.3: Proposed safeguarding measures are oriented towards raising awareness, transmission through formal education, capacity building of bearers and the revision of legal frameworks and marked by cooperation between the State and the communities concerned;
- R.4: The nomination was prepared following wide and active involvement of the communities, associations, researchers and individuals concerned, and the communities' free, prior and informed consent is demonstrated;
- R.5: The Mongolian Ger has been included since 2011 in the National Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage that is maintained and updated by the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism.
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1) Google Analytics doesn't report your Return on Investment (ROI). It can only show page views and visitor trending and how well certain pages on your site are performing. It simply cannot connect the dots from a lead to a sale if the sale doesn't happen online. This is not something that only happens with The Knot, this happens with any industry as it's a technical issue, not a wedding website issue."…my intention here isn't to bash Google Analytics, but rather to warn Webmasters that if you're using Google Analytics for your sole source of statistics about your website's performance, you're almost certainly getting only a partial view of the real picture." Connor Young on ynot.com
2) The experts agree that no, one tracking program is enough. You should always use more than one and even then only use it to see trending, not absolute data. This way when you make changes to your website you can see if the new changes are having a positive impact (see the trending from the old to new).This is from a Business Week article back from 2006, "Web Numbers: What's Real? Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even Net companies almost flying blind":"For advertisers, the problem is that while any one method of measurement may capture certain Web technologies or demographics, it misses others"http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_43/b4006095.htm
3) Clicks from The Knot sites, and other sources very often don't show up on a separate line on a Google Analytics or other web tracking report. The clicks are there, they're just not showing up as a separate line item. When someone clicks on a link in your vendor profile and a new window opens, Google Analytics, and some other programs, see that new window the same as if someone opened the window themselves and typed in your URL, which is called a "direct" referral.Google Analytics does provide more accurate ways of measuring clickthroughs than "referral", called "campaigns". If you would like more accurate click data you should tag the URL you provide to us with Google Analytics tracking parameters and use the "campaigns" section to accurately report clicks. Here are instructions about how to tag a link:
4) If they're not on a separate line, where are the clicks from your profiles on TKWN? Most clicks from The Knot sites show up on the line that says "direct", which is the same as someone typing in your URL directly.In the case of one advertiser, there were over 1,000 visits classified as "direct" in one month's time. Does that advertiser really believe that over 1,000 people typed in her web address in one month? If so, where did they get her URL to know to type it in? Possibly her print ad… more likely it was a referral from a site like ours that didn't get categorized correctly, which happens most of the time with Google Analytics and some other tracking programs.
5) There are some clicks from The Knot on the report, what are those? Those clicks are usually from other mentions on the site: Real Weddings, editorial, other links. Sometimes it's some of the clicks from your profile ad, while others are on the "direct" line.
6) The Google Analytics report will almost never match The Knot Vendor Tracking Report numbers. Every measuring tool uses its own methods and data. Our data is the most accurate as it comes from the source, our server logs. No tracking program is going to match source data exactly. Some user's browsers will block the cookies that Google Analytics uses so those clicks won't get classified correctly. As I said earlier, this is not specific to The Knot websites; this is a technical issue that can affect almost any website in any industry.From a blog post: "How Reliable is Google Analytics?" http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-reliable-is-google-analytics "For July, Google Analytics says the same page received only 700 visitors and 900 views -- but my server logs indicate over 8,000 views."
7) Web analytics is a complex topic. Most small businesses that use Google Analytics don't know how to read the report. Therefore they use the number of visits as their measure of how well an ad is working, which is an incomplete measurement. Google Analytics is being misused by these vendors as they need to know what they're looking at to be able to interpret it. Imagine a bride measuring her photographer based upon the number of pictures they take or their caterer on the number of shrimp. Sure, they can be measured but it says nothing about the quality of those photos or shrimp. While they are easy to compare, those too are incomplete measurements.To show how long it's been known that Page Views is the wrong metric, this is from a Business Week article back from 2006, "Web Numbers: What's Real? Competing methods of measuring traffic online leave advertisers, investors, and even Net companies almost flying blind":"To see why there's an opening for new ways of measuring traffic, look at what has happened to the old standard for gauging online growth, the page view. As the Internet evolved during the 1990s, advertisers came to rely on the number of pages a site served up each month as their most reliable metric. With the rise of new programming and distribution technologies, however, page views suddenly look less relevant."http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_43/b4006095.htm
8) The number or visits tells you nothing about the quality of those visits. Someone that clicks through from our sites has filtered themselves down to a more qualified lead. Someone that clicks from a Search engine knows very little about you. Other measurements are needed to complete the picture and accurately show how an ad or lead source is working. How long are they staying on your site? How many pages are they viewing each time they come? Which are the most popular pages?
9) What's the Bounce Rate and why should you care? The Bounce Rate is the people that land on one of your web pages and leave without looking at any other pages. On one customer's Google Analytics report that I saw recently, The Knot clicks had the lowest Bounce Rate of any other source (in this case less than 9%). Facebook and Google direct had the highest at over 30%. I saw another tracking report that showed Facebook with a 78% bounce rate, so even though they had more clicks they were much lower quality, which is seen because they left from the same page they came in on. Knowing that you had a visitor is good. Knowing if they stayed and looked around is better. Knowing how many pages they viewed and in what order is even better. Knowing if they took any action and how many dollars that action brought you is ideal. Is it possible to do that? Sure. Is it up to you to track it and not Google Analytics? Absolutely.
10) Expensive ads are the ones that don't bring you any business, not the ones that cost the most per click, or per month. Unless you're really tracking the business you're booking from each of these sources, a claim that any one source is the most expensive by the cost per click is incomplete. You can't judge the lead on the cost of the lead unless you also track the business booked. The most expensive ad could also be bringing in the most business, thereby actually being the most cost efficient ad.I had a vendor come up to me in Vegas at the Wedding MBA and tell me that we're his highest cost per click, but we also bring him more business than any other source, so we're ultimately not the most expensive ad at all. We are the most effective, regardless of cost. Some sites try to dazzle you with the number of clicks, but more clicks are not good unless they're the right clicks. Unfortunately all clicks look the same to your website tracking since it can't see whether you booked them or not.The most expensive ad is the one that brings you less business than you paid for it. Clearly with the number or qualified leads we're sending to most advertisers, we're paying for ourselves many times over. The number of clicks and the cost per click are useless measurements by themselves. ROI is the only one that really matters. ROI pays the bills, clicks don't.Here's an article on "Revenue Per Click" which is a much more relevant measurement of how your ads are working. Rather than the cost of the click this focuses on the amount of money you are getting from those clicks.Revenue Per Click: The Forgotten Metric, by Joe Teixeira, on the morevisibility.com websitehttp://www.morevisibility.com/analyticsblog/revenue-per-click-the-forgotten-metric.html
Here's another article on why conversion, not clicks, is really where your focus should be. Why conversions are more important than clicks, by Anna Talerico on iMediaConnection http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/26025.asp
I would also recommend that our advertisers watch the webinar I did where I talked specifically about this: "How do I know if my ads are working"http://www.theknotinc.com/tkmi/webinars/how-do-i-know-if-my-ads-are-working-aug-2009.aspx


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The Art of War for Spiritual Battle: Essential Tactics and Strategies for Spiritual Warfare
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This new book by best-selling author Cindy Trimm, The Art of War for Spiritual Battle will become the "go-to" manual for preparing Christians to have victory in todays spiritual battles with the enemy through strategic spiritual warfare and powerful intercessory prayer. Using occasional relevant quotes from the classic book, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, long a manual of wisdom for handling conflict of any kind, Trimm teaches the necessary disciplines for a modern-day prayer warrior. The principles in this book include tactics for organizing prayer, protocols for enforcing your authority as you wage your prayer campaign, and strategies for establishing and expanding Gods kingdom wherever you are.
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