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|Application number
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|Jun 28, 2007
|Filing date
|Nov 10, 2006
|Priority date
|Dec 28, 2005
|Publication number
|John L. Norin, Sean S. Lee
|Original Assignee
|The Directv Group, Inc.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Referenced by (18), Classifications (13), Legal Events (1)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/319673, filed on Dec. 28, 2005. The disclosure of the above application is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates generally to a mobile receiving device, and more specifically, to a method for controlling advertising or other content displayed information according to the location of the mobile receiving device based upon boundaries conveyed to the mobile device.
Satellite television has become increasingly popular due to its wide variety of programming. Entertainment in automobiles such as DVD players has also become increasingly popular. It would be desirable to provide a satellite television system for a vehicle so that the wide variety of programming may be enjoyed by the rear passengers.
Advertising in the television medium is commonly done on a national level. Advertising is broadcast nationwide for most time slots. Local television stations are allotted some time slots for advertising that is directed to a local viewing market. Stores and various other types of commercial ventures buy air time from broadcasters for the placement of advertising. Advertising is typically broadcast as part of the signal and is transmitted to all the viewers in the local market. Thus, the advertising is generated to a wide audience and is priced accordingly. Some businesses are local even within a particular market. Advertising over the entire market may be cost prohibitive. Advertisers would like the option to advertise very locally within a local market.
It would therefore be desirable to provide a system that allows a mobile satellite system to insert targeted advertising or other real-time content to a narrow market within a local market.
The present invention provides a method of operating a mobile device that takes into consideration the location of the mobile receiving device when the content such as advertising is played back.
One feature of the present invention includes a method of operating a mobile broadcasting system that includes determining a location of a mobile receiving device, broadcasting a communication signal having a marker therein, broadcasting location-specific content to a mobile receiving device, displaying the satellite signal on a mobile receiver until the marker, and displaying the location specific content in response to the marker and the location.
Another feature of the invention is a method of operating a mobile receiver that includes determining a location of a mobile satellite receiver, receiving a satellite signal having a marker therein, receiving location-specific content and location information in a mobile satellite receiver, displaying the satellite signal on a mobile satellite receiver until the marker, comparing the location and an area defined by the location information, and displaying the location specific content in response to the marker and when the location is within the area.
Yet another feature of the invention includes a system that includes a high altitude communication device and a network operations center communicating uplinking signals to the satellite. The high altitude communication device broadcasts a satellite signal corresponding to the uplink signal to a receiver. A second communication device generates location-specific content. A location module generates a location signal. A receiver coupled to the location module. The receiver receives the satellite signal having a marker therein. The receiver receives the location specific content to a mobile receiving device, displaying the satellite signal on a mobile receiver until the marker, displaying the location specific content in response to the marker and the location signal.
Yet another feature of the invention includes a receiver having a location module generating a location signal and a controller receiving a satellite signal and determining the presence of a marker, said controller receiving location-specific content, said controller controlling a display by displaying the satellite signal until the marker then displaying the location specific content in response to the marker and the location signal.
One advantage of the system is that the advertising information may be specifically targeted for a particular area. For example, if a certain store is having a limited time sale that real time information may be conveyed.
Other advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent when viewed in light of the detailed description of the preferred embodiment when taken in conjunction with the attached drawings and appended claims.
In the following figures the same reference numerals will be used for the same views. The following figures are described with respect to a mobile satellite television system. However, those skilled in the art will recognize the teachings of the present invention may be applied to various types of mobile reception including land-based type systems. The system is used for transmitting location specific data that may also include real-time data.
Referring now to
The system 10 may also receive location signals from a GPS system 30 that includes a first satellite 32A and a second satellite 32B. Although only two satellites are shown, a typical GPS system includes several satellites, several of which may be in view at any particular time. Triangulation techniques may be used to determine the elevation, latitude and longitude of the system. A locating system may also include cellular towers 34A and 34B that may be used by the mobile receiving system 22 to determine a location. The towers may also be cellular phone, radio or TV towers generating location signals. Cellular phones typically include a GPS locating system. As the vehicle 24 moves, the exact coordinates in latitude and longitude may be used to determine the proper area of interest such as a designated marketing area which will control the mobile device's choices for local television and such broadcasted data.
The system may also receive boundary information such as boundary points of designated marketing area polygons from the terrestrial-based system such as the cellular towers 34A and 34B. In addition, the satellites may also be replaced with another high altitude device such as a stratospheric platform 33 for transmitting the designated marketing areas to the mobile device, transmitting communication signals and transmitting location-specific signals. Stratospheric platforms 33 are manned or unmanned airplanes, airships, or the like that fly above commercial airspace. It is envisioned that stratospheric platforms may fly at altitudes between 60,000 and 100,000 feet from the surface of the earth. Thus, the stratospheric platforms are in a significantly lower position than even low earth orbit satellites.
The present invention may also be used for displaying various wireless communication signals on a personal mobile device 36 such as a laptop computer 38, a personal digital assistant 39, and a cellular telephone 40. It should be noted that these devices and the automotive-based devices may also receive wireless signals having various types of information associated therewith from the cellular towers 34A and 34B. Other types of information in a communication signal may be broadcast from other types of broadcasting areas such as an antenna 42 on a building 44. The building may, for example, generate location-specific signals therefrom. The building 44 may be various types of buildings such as a store and the wireless information transmitted from the antenna 42 may be advertising information. All of the wireless signals preferably include location-specific information transmitted therewith. As will be described below, the information may be coded digitally into the signals. Thus, by reviewing the location information, signals appropriate for the location of the mobile devices may be displayed on the various devices. This will be further described below.
Referring now to
The mobile receiver unit 28 is coupled to antenna 26 with a two-way communication channel such as a wire or a wireless system. The mobile receiving unit 28 may also include a location module or location receiver 52 integrated therein. The location receiver 52 may be a GPS receiver. In a preferred embodiment, only one location receiver 50, 52 may be provided in the system. However, the location receiver 50, 52 may be part of the vehicle 24 or may be part of the mobile receiving system 22, 36. The controller 60 may be coupled directly to location receiver 52 and/or location receiver 50.
The location receiver 52 is capable of providing latitude and longitude to the controller 60. The controller 60 may be used to compare the location signals from the location receiver 50, 52 to the boundaries of the areas of interest such that the mobile device can determine which areas of interest it is within and which areas of interest it is not within. From this determination it can control IRD behavior such as allowing or disallowing display of certain audio or video channels or advertising or the like. One application is to broadcast areas of interest that represent designated marketing areas to determine which designated marketing area the mobile device is within and which area it is not within, which signals the system should be receiving. These signals may coincide with or coordinate to the local broadcasting signals for the specific designated marketing area. It should be noted that more than one designated marketing area may be provided for a particular area. That is, adjacent areas may also be authorized for viewing. Various fringe regions may be used around a particular designated marketing area to provide hysteresis for the system. This function will be further described below.
The mobile receiving unit 28 includes a display 54. The display 54 may be incorporated into the device 36 or within the vehicle 24. The display 54 may include output drivers 56 used for generating the desired audio and video outputs suitable for the particular display 54.
A controller 60 may be a general processor such as a microprocessor. The controller 60 may be used to coordinate and control the various functions of the receiving unit 28. These functions may include a tuner 64, a demodulator 66, a forward error correction decoder 68 and any buffers and other functions. The tuner 64 receives the signal or data from the individual channel. The demodulator 66 demodulates the signal or data to form a demodulated signal or data. The decoder 68 decodes the demodulated signal to form decoded data or a decoded signal. The controller 60 may be similar to that found in current DirecTV set top boxes which employ a chip-based multifunctional controller.
The controller 60 may include or be coupled to a local bus 70. The local bus 70 may be used to couple a memory including dynamic memory 72 such as RAM which changes often and whose contents may be lost upon the interruption of power or boot up. The bus 70 may also be coupled to a non-volatile memory 74. The non-volatile memory may be an in-circuit programmable type memory. One example of a non-volatile memory is an EEPROM. One specific type of EEPROM is flash memory. Flash memory is suitable since it is sectored into blocks of data segments that may be individually erased and rewritten.
Memory 62 may be used to store the boundaries of various areas of interest received from the antenna as broadcast by one of the devices 32, 33 or 34 described above. An area of interest is a fixed geographic or cartographic area bounded by a closed shape such as a polygon, circle, curved or straight line segments, or the like. The fixed area or closed shape has outer boundaries that do not move on the surface of the earth. As will be shown below, areas may be excluded (island-like) within a closed shape. Although the areas are fixed, they may be, from time to time, redetermined and rebroadcast to the mobile device for usage. A key feature is that as the vehicle or mobile device moves, the area of interest remains fixed on the surface of the earth and thus the device may enter into another area of interest. Boundaries of certain areas of interest such as a designated marketing area (DMA) may be defined by Nielsen and may be pre-programmed into the memory 62 as a number of polygons wherein each point of each side is defined in cartographic coordinates of longitude and latitude and fractions of degrees. As will be described below the polygons may be formed of corners whose latitude and longitude are stored within the memory.
Other memory devices 76 may also be coupled to local bus 70. The other memory devices may include other types of dynamic memory, non-volatile memory, or may include such devices such as a digital video recorder. The display 54 may be changed under the control of controller 60 in response to the data in the dynamic memory 72 or non-volatile memory 74.
The controller 60 may also be coupled to a user interface 80. User interface 80 may be various types of user interfaces such as a keyboard, push buttons, a touch screen, a voice activated interface, or the like. User interface 80 may be used to select a channel, select various information, change the volume, change the display appearance, or other functions. The user interface 64 is illustrated as part of the mobile receiving unit. However, should the unit be incorporated into a vehicle, the user interface 80 may be located external to the mobile receiving unit such as dial buttons, voice activated system, or the like incorporated into the vehicle and interface with the mobile receiving unit.
A conditional access module card 82 (CAM) may also be incorporated into the mobile receiving unit. Access cards such as a conditional access module (CAM) cards are typically found in DirecTV units. The access card 82 may provide conditional access to various channels and wireless signals generated by the system. Not having an access card or not having an up-to-date access card 66 may prevent the user from receiving or displaying various wireless content from the system.
One user interface is a remote control device 98 having a key pad 100, an arrow key pad 102, and a select button 104 may also be provided. Inputs to the receiver 28 may be provided by the remote control device 28 or through another type of user interface 80.
Referring now to
The data 206 may be various types of audio signals, video signals, data signals, or the like. In one preferred embodiment, the data 206 may correspond to satellite signals received from a satellite or other high-altitude communication device.
Referring now to
The advertising data 234 may include various types of audio signals, video signals, data, or the like.
As will be described below, the advertising data 234 may be displayed in place of other general advertising based upon the location of the receiving device in response to the location information 232.
The advertising signal 230 may also append a set of instructions to be evaluated by the mobile receiving device such that behavior can be controlled as a result of the evaluation. An example instruction is to state that this advertisement should only be displayed if the user is located within a certain geographic area described in location information 232 and if the user is tuned to a sports channel. The sports channel category could be a code associated with the communication signal 200.
Referring now to
In step 302, advertising signal 230 is received. The advertising signal may be generated from various sources including terrestrial-based sources such as a cell tower or an antenna on a building, or from a high-altitude communication device such as a satellite or stratospheric platform.
In step 304, the advertising signal may be saved within the mobile receiving device for eventual playback.
In step 306, the location of the mobile receiving device is determined from a location device such as a global positioning system or by triangulation from cellular towers, or the like.
In step 308, content is played back from the received signal.
In step 310, the signal is monitored to determine if a local advertising mark or identifier has been reached. If no mark or identifier has been reached, step 312 continues to play back the content.
In step 310, if a local mark or identifier has been reached, step 314 is performed. In step 314, the location information received with the advertising signal is used to determine the area suitable for the stored ads. Also if the mark contains other codes or instructions it can be evaluated at this point in addition to the location information to determine which local ads should be displayed.
In step 316, if any ads stored in the system correspond to the location of the mobile receiving device, step 318 is performed. In step 318, the display is changed to display the location-specific ad (or other real-time information) in place of the regular advertising or real-time information. Optionally if extra instructions or codes are placed with the ad it can be evaluated at this point to determine if that particular ad should be displayed.
In step 316, if no ads for the specific location are available, the regularly broadcast ad or real-time information is displayed in step 320.
Although the embodiment set forth above is for advertising, various real time content may also be provided in place of advertising.
While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, numerous variations and alternate embodiments will occur to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, it is intended that the invention be limited only in terms of the appended claims.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Nov 10, 2006
Owner name: DIRECTV GROUP, INC., THE, CALIFORNIA
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Beekeepers face a complex future
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Thirty-five years ago it cost him $35 to $40 to run a hive of bees. Hansen says it's now $250-$300 per colony per year to keep them healthy through good nutrition, medicine and other inputs. He also changes the 50 combs in each of his 5,000 hives every five years because of pesticide buildup. He also has 10 full-time workers, with full benefits. All of this costs a "fortune," but it is Hansen's formula for success.
It also means that beekeeping isn't highly profitable.
"Pollination rentals do not fully pay the bills, though prices have been rising, and honey profits are thin," says Dewey Caron, an entomologist from the University of Delaware who has researched bees for more than 40 years and has written on the economics of beekeeping. He recently retired to the Portland area and is working gratis with OSU's Sagili.
"The 'good years' are only every five to 10 years," Caron says. "Loans are hard to get. Hives aren't standard collateral. Often it is a family operation." OSU's Burgett estimates that the amount spent by growers on pollination services is about 2.3% of the total crop value. He says honeybee colony rental was for many decades an underpaid service to the ag industry and that only within the past decade have rental fees begun to reflect the enormous value-added service of managed pollination.
Burgett estimates it costs an average of $173 to run a hive, and the average pollination income is $164 per hive. Profits come from honey and other sales, such as beeswax and surplus bees. Beekeepers last year made between $125-$155 per hive for California almond pollination. Hansen says it's the largest paycheck, "but it is the most difficult to cash in on. Bees are not at their largest or most productive [during almond season]. They should be hibernating then. And yet, we get paid to trick our bees into being opposite of what they would naturally be. And that's not easy."
Putting bees into situations that are not optimal for their health is what allows beekeepers to make more money renting hives to pollinate crops such as carrot seeds, which do not offer much nutrition to the bee. Central Oregon Seeds in Madras spends $750,000 annually to rent the hives needed to pollinate its hybrid carrot seeds. Managing partner Mike Weber knows all the beekeepers in the state and how they do their business.
Weber and other growers had pushed for years to get the OSU bee researcher replaced after Burgett retired; when CCD came along, it finally became a priority and got funded. Weber puts in $20,000 a year to help fund research; many growers and associated groups also donate. He, too, is not overly worried about bee health. "Our beekeeping group is taking care," he says.
In Oregon, prices range from $25 per hive to pollinate blueberries to $72 per hive for carrot seed pollination. Weber pays that higher price gladly. "I'm very open with the beekeepers. I will flat out tell them, 'We need you, we can't do without you.' Normally you never tell somebody those kinds of things in negotiations. If we can't get the bees, there's no need to grow the crop. You need to keep the beekeeper in high regard, and pay them fairly. The growers recognize that a healthy beekeeper means we will stay in business."
Staying in business is also of great concern to Oregon's commercial beekeepers. "Beekeepers are wondering whether they are economically viable," says Anita Azarenko, head of OSU's department of horticulture. "That's the biggest concern. It's more than colony collapse."
Like all farm work, commercial beekeeping is unrelenting and physically demanding. Oregon beekeepers are on the road most of the year, running to help pollinate the almond crop in California in the winter months, a job that brings in about 60% of their income, then it's back to Oregon for the spring and summer pollination of cherries, pears, blueberries, carrot seeds and meadowfoam around the state. The costs of labor (a beekeeper needs about one employee per 1,000 hives), transportation, restocking, new queens, medicine and feed are constantly rising. To be a good beekeeper, you have to be a jack of all trades, good at mechanics, biology, botany, geography and, yes, PR. You've got to convince landowners to let you use their property for bee pasture, land that is becoming increasingly rare because of urbanization and farming. The willing landowners are paid in liquid gold.
"We don't have our own land to keep our bees; nobody does," says Lohman. "You couldn't keep 2,000 colonies. Your neighbors would kill you. We bring our bees into 12 yards, people with 20 acres. People are kind about letting us use their property, but it is getting harder to find those yards."
It requires tenacity and vigilance to make this all work. "A beekeeper has to be willing to stay on top of his program," says Dave LeFore of LeFore Honey Farms in Milton-Freewater. "Always monitoring, looking for mites and disease. If the bee is not doing well, looking at options. In the difficult years when production is low, surviving can be challenging."
Growers also realize there is a scarcity of bees. Beekeepers are able to get some better prices than before. But that doesn't diminish the problems of keeping a healthy colony. It's a big challenge to create high-quality hives to offer for pollination.
So a few more answers on how to be a better steward are greatly needed because success is never a sure thing, even for superior beekeepers like Hansen, who despite his vigilance lost nearly everything in 1997 to the tracheal mite. He and other beekeepers have put their own money in to help fund OSU's research.
"A lot of problems we have are due to exotic pests, changes in the environment. All wild pollinators are in decline: birds, bees, bats. It is a serious problem that isn't going to go away," says Hansen. "If 40% of all the cows in the U.S. died every year, like in some bee hives every winter, there would be some serious money being spent to solve the problem."
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It seems like we've waited an age for the new night tube service, and now we're having to wait even longer because aptly, the service has been delayed from its original September 12 launch date, probably until the spring. But before you cancel all those big nights out you had planned for the weekend, and curse yourself for all that money you're going to spend on Ubers, let us play devil's advocate. We're actually kind of relieved. No, seriously. Here's why. 1. No night tube = less pressure to stay out The possibility of partying until the wee hours without having to shell out for a cab or roughing it on the bus might seem like a plus, but what about when you really want to slip out after a few pints and just go home, curl up and rest your weary head? You've still got the lack of transport options to blame. 2. And an excuse not to go out in the first place Come on, we've all said we've 'missed the last tube' to bail on a night out, when in fact we've been tucked up in a blanket watching Netflix all evening with no intention of leaving the house. 3. Plus when you do go out, you'll end up being really, really late Londoners just love to procrastinate, so we don't need another excuse to be late to another big night out. With no curfew we'll undoubtedly end up stringing out getting ready and nailing pre-bar tinnies for even longer. And by the time you get to the club those entry prices will be through the roof and the queues won't bear thinking about. 4. You've still got an excus
17 stupid questions Londoners always get asked
How do you afford to live? Isn't it so expensive?It's FINE – we get paid more than you country types, remember. Couldn't spare 50p for a cup of coffee, could you? Can I come and stay?Oh sure – of course! I'll just freshen up the linen in one of my many guest suites. Is it safe to go to Hackney?The only thing you need to worry about taking a battering in Hackney is your wallet when you're splashing out on flat whites and artisan sourdoughs. Do you ride around on a unicycle, wearing a top hat and vaping?Very good, country boy. You realise you're wearing a gilet, right? Do you see celebrities all the time?If you count seeing ex-'Big Brother' contestants in Tesco then yes, we're like fricking Heat magazine over here. Doesn't the tube confuse the hell out of you?Don't be daft. Although I did get heart palpitations the last time CityMapper was down. What's your favourite bar in Leicester Square?Hah – that's a good one! SHIT. You're serious. My cousin Geoff lives in Tottenham – do you know him?Oh Geofffffffff, love that guy – what a ledge. No, of course I bloody don't. Why don't you move to the suburbs – you'd get way more for your money.Yes, but then I'd live in the suburbs. Have you ever been mugged? That happens to everyone in London, right?Well I did pay £5.50 for a pint of Meantime the other day, so yeah, I suppose so. Have you met the Queen?Yes, we have tea and scones and a game of Scrabble every Thursday. She always tries to slip in swearwords, the filthy bitch. W
Quit your job, become a... helicopter pilot
Andy Thompson, 36, pilot for London's Air Ambulance Is your life exactly like 'Airwolf'? 'I'm one of five full-time captains at London's Air Ambulance. I've been with them just over three years. As a pilot, it's my job to fly doctors and paramedics to the scene of a serious incident as quickly and as safely as possible. We're largely charity-funded - as are most air ambulances - so we get most of our money from the people of London and charitable donors. What training is needed? 'To be a commercial pilot it can take you between nine months and a year to get your pilot's licence. The air ambulance sector tends to take pilots with more experience. Most of us have been flying for ten years or so.' What does a normal day involve? 'We start in Northolt and fly into the Royal London Hospital. When we're activated we're normally airborne within three to four minutes. We can get the team to the patient within about ten minutes. When someone has 15 minutes left to live, it makes all the difference having the helicopter. We usually get four or five calls a day.' You must have to deal with some extreme situations in the field... 'On one job we went down to help an injured person off a bus. But as I got there, I saw 30 or 40 people bleeding by the side of the road because the bus had crashed into a tree. What was initially thought to be a single casualty was actually a massive incident.' It must be really rewarding though? 'It's tremendously rewarding. Some patients come back a
Best of the west: Southall's top spots for Punjabi food
Roopa Gulati finds Punjabi street food, spicy tandoori meats and pitchers of lassi out west. At Moti Mahal [1] (94 The Broadway) on Southall's main drag, I secure a ringside view of the halwai-wallah (sweet-maker) as he presides over jalebis cooking on an outdoor stove. After being fried in hot oil, these whirls of batter are dunked in rose-scented syrup and served straight from the pan. Other gems include explosive golgappas - hollow pastry spheres filled with chickpea - and tamarind water seasoned with black salt and mint. Bring your own bib. For milk-based sweetmeats, head across the road to Ambala [2] (156 The Broadway) - it's the go-to shop for my favourite fudge-like pistachio burfi. The samosas are also first-class, and made with thick buttery pastry stuffed with ginger-spiced potato. Although The Broadway attracts the lion's share of tourists, I prefer to stroll to the New Asian Tandoori Centre [5] (114-118 The Green) for my serious eating. Don't let the functional appearance put you off - the cooking here is top-drawer. Expect crunchy snacks dressed with mint chutney, garlicky curries and meaty grills, all washed down with pitchers of frothy lassi. If the street scene is proving too hot to handle, family-run Madhu's [3] (39 South Rd) provides an oasis of calm with its stylish granite interior and upmarket menu of Indo-Kenyan dishes. The heat of nyhama choma (tandoori lamb ribs in lime juice) makes a great match for an icy beer. I buy Indian fruit and veget
The National Gallery has been named the best museum in the UK
Founded way back in 1824, The National Gallery is an oldie, but a goodie - and its just been named the best museum in the whole of UK. The gallery scooped the number one spot on a list of UK museums as part of TripAdviser Travellers' Choice awards. And if art isn't your thing, four other London museums also made the top 10 list in the UK, including the British Museum, the V&A, the Natural History Museum and the Churchill War Rooms. TripAdviser measured the quantity and quality of reviews for museums across the world and also put together a global list, where The National Gallery came in seventh place, losing out to New York's Metropolitan of Art and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, which came in first and second. But who cares about the rest of the world, number one in the UK ain't too shabby. And can it be a coincidence that The National Gallery also banned selfie sticks this year? We think not. Think London could do better? Read Chris Waywell's column on why our city needs a new gallery. Or take a look at 16 tree-mendous Instagrams of Ai Weiwei's 'Tree' installation.
Craft beer, brutalist buildings and Um Bungo cocktails: it's the best bits of Croydon
Croydon is great. No honestly, there's loads of good stuff. Seriously What's the vibe? A disgruntled, much-mocked borough that's now kicking back against the haters, Croydon offers both concrete cityscape and leafy suburbia (in some parts, at least), with more than its fair share of both parks and modernist buildings. For green spaces, head to the top of Addington Hills, where you can survey south London in all its splendour. And for fans of brutalism it doesn't get much better than No 1 Croydon, aka the 'Threepenny Bit Building', which greets you on your arrival at East Croydon station. And where should I eat? While the area may be the victim of a plague of chain restaurants, chicken shops and sub-standard Chinese buffets, there are some gems to be found in the South Croydon 'restaurant district', perhaps most notably the superb Albert's Table on South End. It's the kind of perfect modern British restaurant all towns wish they had, and may well signal the beginnings of gentrification in Croydon... Gentrification? Then there must be craft beer here! What would a London borough be without its own craft brewery? The Cronx Brewery (Vulcan Way) opened in 2012 in New Addington, and regularly hosts open days where you can sample the hyper-local IPAs and porters. If it's got craft beer, it must have pop-ups, right? Reportedly there's a Boxpark on the cards, but don't get too hung up on that: Croydon is home to a bold new breed of drinking experience. Street Cocktails
Cracking stuff: it's your favourite scotch eggs in London
Eggs. Meat. Breadcrumbs. You lot just can't get un oeuf. The Opera Tavern: Covent Garden A photo posted by celina (@mypigggy) on Jul 29, 2015 at 12:45am PDT 'The best tapas I have ever tasted, with a most scrumptious scotch egg. Enjoy, and make sure you order a decent bottle of wine.' Elaine Clerici via www.timeout.com Harwood Arms: Fulham A photo posted by Shu, Two Hungry Girls (@thgsupperclub) on Aug 25, 2015 at 11:59pm PDT 'A Michelin-starred eggy snack. What's not to like?!' Debbie Walpole via Facebook The Bleeding Heart Tavern: Farringdon 'They do a venison scotch egg with a cranberry relish that I can't help but eat with tears of joy in my eyes.' NE via www.timeout.com The Adam and Eve: Homerton A photo posted by The Adam and Eve (@theadamandevee9) on Sep 9, 2014 at 6:14am PDT 'The Cornwall Project scotch egg. Hands down the best (and I've had a lot).' Liz Pie via Facebook The Marquis of Westminster: Pimlico A photo posted by mespi84 (@mespi84) on Feb 18, 2015 at 12:37pm PST 'Does a cracking black pudding scotch egg. With a dollop of mustard and a pint = happiness!' Liam Judge via Facebook Scotchtails: Borough Market A photo posted by scotchtails (@scotchtails) on Mar 16, 2015 at 7:06am PDT 'Marvellous, luscious, unforgettable. With sweet potato chips...sigh.' Catherine Cerni via Facebook Fortnum & Mason: Piccadilly A photo posted by Fortnum & Mason (@fortnums) on Mar 24, 2015 a
Google now shows you how busy London restaurants and bars will be
It's almost impossible to keep a good restaurant quiet in London. Often the queues are as legendary as the food. Luckily, Google can now tell you when the most popular times at London's best restaurants and most prolific dining spots are. The future, eh? Pitt Cue Co Pitt Cue Co is as famous for the painfully long lines heading out the door as it is smokey signature ribs. This non-booking restaurant hits peak queue on Fridays 6.30pm when its audience of social media-savvy twenty-somethings line the Soho street. Head there instead on Saturday when it's a much more relaxed affair, and practically dead at midday. Dishoom Dishoom is the place to head when your gastronomic satnav says no to a Brick Lane curry. The queues at the Shoreditch branch might not be as enduring as Tayyabs but timing your visit is advisable. Grab an early dinner on a Friday at 6pm or soak up the more relaxed atmosphere on a Saturday lunchtime. Meat Liquor Meat Liquor offers next-level queuing to Marylebone diners, ready to wet their elbows with grease. Head down for a late bite on Friday around 11pm to grab one of their infamous burgers and follow it up with a mean cocktail or two until they eventually shut at 2am. Social Eating House Knowing when to
TfL has (secretly) made a geographically accurate tube map
Click here for the full-sized map It's no secret that Londoners love a good map, particularly the lovely folks over at Mapping London blog (the clue is in the name). Thanks to their unfailing enthusiasm for all things map-related, they've managed to dig up a secret TfL tube map that was previously unavailable to the public until its existence was revealed by Freedom of Information request - and it's pretty damn cool. It's the geographically accurate TfL connections map, which might sound boring but bear with us. You know how the tube map gives you an unrealistic impression of how near or far away things are from each other in the real world? This totally solves that problem. The map shows tube lines, overground lines, mainline rail lines, as well as roads, neighbourhoods, parks and rivers. It's from 2014 so it's slightly out of date but it also maps out some future lines, including new Overground branches and Crossrail. If you zoom in on central London, you can see that if there's one thing it ain't short on, it's public transport: <img id="d9fb4ed2-8634-f807-a1ed-a6127448d4a0" data-caption="" data-credit="" data-width-class="" type="image/jpeg" total="469140" loaded="469140" image_id="102864122" src="http://media.timeout.com/images/102864122/image.jpg" class="photo lazy inline"> But once you get out to the sticks in zone 6, you can see there's a lot of green spaces and, er, not a whole lot of transport options avai
Hot stuff: where to get the tastiest curry in Tooting
Guy Dimond heads to south London for fresh mangoes, tasty samosas and some of the best curry in London. Tooting is rightly famous for its 'curry corridor' running between SW17's two tube stations (Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway). But it's not the number of restaurants, it's the diversity of the Asian populations and their regional cuisines that makes Tooting extraordinary. It has a mix of Sri Lankans, Pakistanis, Gujaratis and East African Asians all bringing their masalas to the mix. The best way to explore is by walking down the Upper Tooting Road from Tooting Bec tube towards Tooting Broadway. Just past the handsome Sikh Gurdwara and opposite the mosque are a couple of excellent fruit and veg shops - Nature Fresh [1] (126 Upper Tooting Rd) and Daily Fresh Foods [2] (152-156 Upper Tooting Rd) - where you'll find good Indian and Pakistani mangoes, plus esoteric ingredients such as karela (bitter gourd) and fresh tamarind pods. The colourful Indian sweet shops are more than just eye candy. Pooja [3] (168-170 Upper Tooting Rd) is an excellent place to get vibrantly coloured Indian sweetmeats such as barfi or halwa, while just across the road, Shivdarshan [4] (169 Upper Tooting Rd) is the place for Gujarati savoury snacks such as ganthia (the fried chickpea noodles used in Bombay mix) or samosas. Pass the halal butchers and sari shops, and you hit a long run of Pakistani restaurants. There's not much to choose between them these days, as they all produce decent ve
Top five things to look forward to this autumn
1. Fireworks! The pyromaniac's Christmas, Bonfire Night doesn't involve any unnecessary present-giving, excessive eating or drunkenly arguing with relatives over the control of the remote. Instead, you get to head down the park and watch glittering balls of fire shoot through the skies above the capital, surrounded by the fragrant fumes of candy floss, sizzling hot dogs and singeing beards as hipsters play with sparklers. What a night! We can't wait for London to get her bangers out this November. 2. Bulking up After three miserable months of attempting a 'summer body diet' (counting the fruit in a glass of Pimm's as one of our five-a-day, obvs), it's time to get back on the beige stuff. Hammering the crisps, doughnuts and triple-cooked chips is the only way to prepare for plummeting temperatures and Christmastime stomach-stretching. Come on, your body isn't going to put that extra stone on all by itself! Better start laying the groundwork now and crack open that packet of Hobnobs. 3. Staying in The nights are drawing in so, naturally, marathoning television shows in a darkened room for hours on end is back on the agenda. As this autumn brings us brand-new series of 'Homeland', 'Fresh Meat', 'Peep Show' and 'Downton' (don't pretend you don't love it), you can tell your mates you'll see them some time in 2016. Socialising is sooo August. 4. Indoor drinking If only Glade made an Olde London Boozer-scented air-freshener... going cold turkey on the pub this summer wo
This book of maps shows the damage of WWII bombs on London
London Metropolitan Archives / City of London Police To mark 75 years since the first bombs fell on London in WWII, Thames & Hudson is publishing (as a book) the bomb damage maps which detailed what and where was destroyed. As the bombs dropped – and the houses, shops, offices and factories tottered, collapsed, burned or simply disappeared, along with thousands of their inhabitants – the authorities filed reports cataloguing the destruction. Later, these were painstakingly inked on to large-scale Ordinance Survey maps by the Architect's Department of the London County Council, to record the damage to individual streets and buildings. They used seven colours, from green (clearance areas) to black (total destruction). The result is an amazing visual record of what happened to London in the war, like a bullet-pocked wall on a huge scale. While some areas, especially in the west and north of the city, escaped largely unscathed, in some parts the devastation was appalling, and appallingly localised. So my street in Deptford shows no destruction from bombing at all (postwar developers saw to that), but five minutes' walk away, the loss of homes and warehouses is enormous. When you see the purple ('damaged beyond repair') encroaching around St Paul's Cathedral, it seems more amazing than ever that it should have been spared. The docks look like the year-planner of some megalomaniac CEO. This maybe isn't a Christmas-present book (though I'd be delighted to find it under the tre
London is the ninth most adulterous city in the world
Londoners, hang your head in shame, because apparently we're all a bunch of cheating scoundrels. A group of computer whizzes have hacked into the dating website Ashley Madison to find out more about the kind of people using the site, which specialises in 'casual encounters, married dating, discreet encounters and extramarital affairs'. But if you're one of the thousands of Londoners with an account, you probably already knew that. After some hi-tech digging, the hackers have revealed the top 25 cities where people have signed up to the site and London has just scraped into the top ten, coming in at number nine with 179,129 accounts. The frisky folks in São Paulo came in at number one, followed by New York in second place and Sydney picking up the number three spot. And as if that wasn't bad enough, our City Living Survey also shows that even though 39 percent of Londoners are single, there's a one-in-four chance that you'll be chatted up by someone in a relationship. Our 2015 Dating Survey also found that 17 percent of respondents said they had dated someone who was married. Come on London, try keeping it in your pants every once in a while. Want more of London in numbers? Take a look London's most extreme postcodes or find out what makes us happier than sex. Find out more things we learned in the City Living Survey here.


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Girls Announce Fall Tour
By Larry Fitzmaurice on July 11, 2011 at 11:45 a.m. EDT
Girls' new album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, is set for release September 13 in the U.S. via True Panther (the record comes out the day before in Europe and September 7 in Japan via Fantasy Trashcan/Turnstile). Around that time, they'll also hit the road for a month-long North American tour; check out those dates below, as well as video of the band performing new song "Honey Bunny" live.
Girls Announce New Album
By Larry Fitzmaurice on July 7, 2011 at 8:55 a.m. EDT
The new Girls album is called Father, Son, Holy Ghost, and it'll be out September 13 in the U.S. via True Panther (the record comes out the day before in Europe and September 7 in Japan via Fantasy Trashcan/Turnstile). That seems to be is the album cover above, which bears more than a passing resemblance to a cryptic widget circulating around the Internet in the last few days. We have the album's tracklist below.
Echo Chamber: Girls
By Tom Breihan on March 7, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. EST
Photo by Zach Vowell
"Fuck you CD's. You are trash. You damage easily, take up to much space, are wasteful and sound like shit. What's next?"
-- Girls are finally ready for the Sony MiniDisc revolution. (via @GIRLSsf)
Girls Announce New EP
By Tom Breihan on October 25, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. EDT
Front page photo by Sandy Kim
Last year, the wounded, starry-eyed San Francisco indie-pop group Girls released their debut album Album and made our year-end top 10. Before this year is up, they'll follow Album with a brand new EP. Broken Dreams Club is out November 22 on True Panther.
Photos: Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010
By Pitchfork on October 11, 2010 at 12:05 p.m. EDT
Photos by Zach Vowell; Above: LCD Soundsystem
The Austin City Limits Music Festival went down this weekend at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. It featured sets from LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, M.I.A., Sonic Youth, the xx, the Flaming Lips, the Strokes, Beach House, Girls, and more. Photos by Zach Vowell.
Photos: ATP NY 2010 curated by Jim Jarmusch
By Pitchfork on September 6, 2010 at 9:45 p.m. EDT
Photos by Erez Avissar; Above: Iggy and the Stooges
This year's ATP NY festival was curated in part by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and featured Iggy and the Stooges, Sonic Youth, Sunn O))) & Boris, the Breeders, Girls, Kurt Vile, Fucked Up, and more. Once again held at Kutsher's, an old-school, "Dirty Dancing"-like resort up in the Catskills, the sold-out event was heavy on the rock end of indie rock featuring many of the best noise, drone, metal, avant garde, and indie bands of the past few decades. Sonic Youth celebrated the throwback feel by performing a set that featured nothing recorded in the past three decades; the all-1980s set featured most of Daydream Nation. Weirdest thing of the weekend: Porn star Ron Jeremy attended and introduced Raekwon.
Photos by Erez Avissar.
Animal Collective, Girls, Sleigh Bells, Nick Zinner on Spike Jonze Soundtrack
By Ryan Dombal on August 10, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. EDT
I'm Here is a short robot love story by Spike Jonze-- you can watch it here. To accompany the film, there's a new soundtrack featuring previously-released songs from Animal Collective, Girls, and Sleigh Bells, along with new music from the Lost Trees, aka Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, Flea, and L.A. artist ASKA. The soundtrack is out October 5 via Chocolate Industries. Tracklist is below:
Watch Girls' Christopher Owens Play a New Song: "Oh My Love"
By Tom Breihan on July 22, 2010 at 12:45 p.m. EDT
At this past weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival, Girls frontman Christopher Owens won every conceivable best/worst-dressed award: neon car-crash button-up, pleated highwater khakis, sequined disco socks. A friend and I agreed that all this, combined with Owens' floppy new haircut, made him look like a nerdy professor from an 80s comedy-- one who somehow thinks he's cool and who plays in a band that sounds like Devo. Anyone who can pull off an outfit like that demands your attention, especially if he's writing really good songs.
Girls Contribute Music to Gay Porn Film
By Ryan Dombal on May 10, 2010 at 3:15 p.m. EDT
Front page photo by Sandy Kim; photo on this page by Francis Chung
It's not every day we get an e-mail that starts, "I'm writing to tell you about a gay hardcore short film I directed called I Want Your Love that I think your readers will want to see and hear about."
But that's exactly how filmmaker Travis Mathews tipped us off to his new short film, which includes the Girls song "Solitude" as well as music from the Chromatics, and Glass Candy, who all officially signed off on the usage. This marks something of a logical next step for Girls, who featured a man using another man's penis as a microphone in their NSFW "Lust for Life" video.
You can watch a preview of I Want Your Love at Naked Sword, which is the real name of the website. It is NSFW.
Echo Chamber: Girls' Christopher Owens
By Tom Breihan on April 22, 2010 at 10:50 a.m. EDT
Photo by Chris Tuite
"Dear Dom, I'm glad you listen to my music, I'd just like to say that, about my background - 'It sounds crazy but, believe it or not, it all really happened,' so don't ever doubt my sincerity, thanks. And to all my fans I'd like to say, that I have never and will never lie to you. I'm the real deal."
-- Girls frontman Christopher Owens, responding to Dom's comments, in this Pitchfork interview, that Owens' background is "probably just his publicist's idea, something they cooked up to sell more records." (via a MySpace bulletin)
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Longoria continues winning streak
Stockton, California — HEAD Penn's Paola Longoria — the No. 1 Female Racquetball Player in the World — started the 2013-2014 season on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LRPT) exactly where she left off last season with yet another tournament victory. Without dropping a game during the tournament, Longoria cruised to win the 2014 Stockton Pro-Am using HEAD's Zeus racquet.
The win in Stockton was Longoria's 21st consecutive tournament victory. The last time she was defeated on the professional tour was in May 2011. Her streak of consecutive matches won during her tournament win streak now sits at 84. At the age of only 24, Paola has captured four Year End Titles on the professional women's racquetball tour, 11 gold medals playing in international competitions for her home country of Mexico, and she is the two-time reigning US OPEN Racquetball Champion.
HEAD Penn's Maria Jose Vargas also finished well in Stockton by reaching the semifinals. Like Longoria, Vargas showed success on the court using HEAD's Zeus racquet.
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