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So What Do You Do, Steven Heller?
A New York Times art director is also the most prolific design writer anywhere. But he doesn't want a blog.- January 29, 2007
To call Steven Heller the most widely-published design writer and editor on the planet would still be selling the man short. True, he is a regular contributor to more than a dozen visual culture magazines like Eye and Print. Yes, he's the editor of AIGA's authoritative graphic design journal VOICE. And he has authored more than 100 books about design, illustration, and photography; he guesses his most recent, Stylepedia: A Guide to Graphic Design Mannerisms, Quirks, and Conceits, to be about #105. For nine years he has also had a rather important role at the School of Visual Arts, where he co-founded and is the co-chair of the highly influential MFA Designer as Author program. But all of this has been accomplished, mind you, while holding down a full-time job as art director at The New York Times for the past 33 years, currently as a Senior Art Director.
Heller has recently taken a sabbatical from the Times to work on a book on the history of Totalitarian graphics campaigns and a biography of the designer Alvin Lustig. He conducted a spirited email rally with UnBeige editor Alissa Walker about great interviews, celebrity designers, and why, honestly, he can't wait to go back to work.
Name: Steven Heller
Position: Senior Art Director, New York Times; Co-chair, MFA Designer as Author Program, School of Visual Arts, New York; and editor, VOICE: AIGA Journal of Design
Publications: Writes for more than a dozen magazines on a regular basis, author of more than 100 books.
Favorite writing assignments: Designer and illustrator obituaries for the New York Times
Website: www.hellerbooks.com
Education: NYU (two years), SVA (six months)
Hometown: New York City
First job: New York Free Press (as young adult), Bergdorf Goodman ad dept (at 12 years old)
Last 3 jobs: New York Times for 33 years
Birthdate: 7-7-50
Marital status: married
Favorite TV show: The Twilight Zone and The Simpsons
Last book read: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power, by Lutz Koepnick, about Hitler as an artist and art patron.
Most interesting media story right now: Bush's New Folly, otherwise known as strategy.
Guilty pleasure: Flea marketing
I'm so nervous about asking you questions that I feel like I'm gonna puke. Do you ever get nervous interviewing people anymore?
I don't get nervous, unless I have no interest in the person I'm interviewing, and then I worry about sounding stupid out of malaise. You know, it's like being a guest at friend's son's bar mitzvah and having to talk to someone's boring uncle. Every so often, but not always, I'm stuck interviewing Uncle Mo.
Well, every time I've seen you interview someone, they always say, "Wow, that's a really good question." How does one ask good questions?
Well, it helps to ask questions that people want to answer. You always can tell when someone has been asked the question a million times before. Their eyes roll and they take deep, sighing breaths, and make it seem like you're a know-nothing. So, the more insightful the question — which usually comes from your own basic interest in the subject — the better. Then there are the questions designed to unhinge the interviewee. I don't do that a lot, but sometimes I want to get a "reaction" because that's what will make for a good read or listen.
What about your interviewing techniques, if you can divulge them? Do you ever use an instrument to record and/or transcribe?
For years I would use my trusty cassette player — usually face to face, but sometimes over the phone with my trusty suction cup — until one day I did a great interview with the illustrator James McMullan and when I returned home, nada. Nothing recorded. Embarrassed, I had to ask him to do it all over again, and of course it wasn't as spontaneous. This time I brought two machines and used them both. Good thing too, because one of them actually — believe it or not — didn't work. After the interview, rather than listen to the recording, I sent the tapes to my trusty transcriber — a jazz geek, who was the fastest transcriber in the east. Now I use a digital recorder.
As for techniques, no big secret, when I talk to a subject I start with simple questions then work my way up to the biggies. Sometimes the subjects are effusive, other times they are not. The biggest pain, so to speak, is editing. If it is a long Q & A I always send the edited script back to the subject. Invariably, they try to rewrite it. I remember Maurice Sendak totally rewrote his one time. But the rule is they can fix grammar and punctuation; even rewrite a sentence or more to make the voice smoother, but no deep alterations to the content.
How many interviews do you think you've done in your career? Who was your favorite?
Geez, I have done many hundreds, maybe more. I don't even remember how I started. I've enjoyed a lot of them for different reasons — I like getting the skinny on something I didn't know, or finding I have surprisingly common interests with a subject, and we become kinda like friends. I'm not Barbara Walters so I can't say I've interviewed Mel Gibson, Britney, A-Rod, K-Fed, or Henry K (although I wish, some day I could interview Mel Brooks).
My subjects are artists, designers, and writers — people who don't have to do a PR thing for my benefit. My favorite, however, was a celeb: Hugh Hefner, simply because he was such a figure in my ill-begot youth. I also loved interviewing Bob Downey Sr., a great filmmaker, whose Putney Swope was such an influential picture when I was a teen. But I've enjoyed interviews — or rather talks — with scores of people from David Levine to Shepard Fairey.
Funny you mention celebrities, since this is something that's come up of late — the question being if graphic designers could and should ever be considered celebrities. Should they be?
Frankly, the word celebrity is too charged. A celebrity suggests hype. Should graphic designers be hyped? No. Anything hyped outlives its usefulness pretty quick. Designers should be seen and maybe heard on occasion, but not elevated above their station unless they do more than what they do as mere graphic designers.
"Then there are the questions designed to unhinge the interviewee. I don't do that a lot, but sometimes I want to get a 'reaction' because that's what will make for a good read or listen."
That said, there are some graphic designers who are more celebrated (which is a verb and not exactly the same as the noun celebrity) than others because they do great work, and that's as it should be. If the fame comes from having a savvy PR person — like a couple I know — then, even if the designer's work is great, I think ego has gotten the upper hand. So, you might ask, do I interview designers because they are celebrities? The answer is I try to interview those who I believe have something to impart beyond the artifacts they produce — those who think and speak well about craft or about the culture that influences their craft. Interviews certainly contribute to the cult of celebrity you're asking about, but my intent is not to perpetuate it. Rather I think there are many people in our field who are worth "knowing," either personally or through an interview.
Well, I think people get all riled up about it because they think having design celebrities is the only way design will ever be understood by an audience larger than those who practice it. Which is fed by this design awareness movement that we're currently seeing, where design and designers are being featured in the mainstream media more than ever.
Celebrity certainly draws attention to the graphic designer, but not necessarily to design as a profession. However, designers who create consumables, as opposed to packages for consumables, are more well-publicized to the public at large. Arguably Michael Graves became more famous among the great mass for his teapot than his architecture, likewise Philippe Starck got high visibility for his products. Mainstream media — lifestyle and shelter magazines and supplements — usually focus on design that sells in the marketplace, not the esoteric stuff, unless the newly celebrated designer also does experimental stuff and is championed by some pundit.
If being known to others helps designers gain stature in business or government, that's great. I know that Paula Scher is on the Art Commission of the City of New York and that's wonderful because her position will have important ramifications on the way art and design is addressed on an official level in the city.
And you currently co-chair a new MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, called Designer As Author, which, to me, represents the future of this whole celebrity designer debate. Your students are encouraged to become design entrepreneurs, right?
We're in our ninth year — and I run it with co-chair Lita Talarico. The Designer as Author program is about creating ideas that have some relevance to the culture and the market (I know that sounds like a pat response), but it's much less about forging celebrity than about creating value. Some of our students have achieved a bit of positive buzz, but that's not the goal. We train the students, if that's the right word (maybe encourage is better) to think and do for themselves and create a narrative that underscores a product that builds upon their story. I guess more and more designers will become entrepreneurs simply because the tools are at their disposal — and speaking of disposal, this culture encourages disposability. So we encourage students to make products that have long-term results. Why shouldn't designers invent and discover like all them other inventors and discoverers out there? We have ingenuity, too, don't we?
So you do consider yourself a designer, then. That was actually one of my questions. I always thought of you as design's biggest fan; more of a social commentator. You don't have any formal design training, and as I recall, prior to getting your job as an art director at The New York Times your professional experience mostly consisted of art directing a few sex reviews — when you were 17! How in the world did you land that gig? Were you actually qualified?
I just finished writing a piece for Eye about how, because we are not a licensed profession, we can call ourselves anything we choose. You ask if I am a designer? I am! Am I a good designer? I was! What changed? I reached the end of my skill set as a designer and became an art director, which meant I collaborated with others to get (hopefully) fantastic results. Without schooling — learning on my own — I could not go further as a designer. Maybe even with an education I would not have gone much further either. Yet I have designed many things, from books and magazines to posters and leaflets — even a film title sequence. I used to love designing letterheads (which are in my prepubescent portfolio) and I even designed an entire typeface called Klaus Bubala Bold (because only the K U and B were interesting).
Before being hired at The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1974 I was designer/art director for various underground newspapers, publisher/art director of a couple of small underground sex papers, art director/designer for Screw, as well as Evergreen Review, the Irish Arts Center, and a bunch of other things. Was I qualified to be the art director of The New York Times Op-Ed page? Sure, or the great Louis Silverstein wouldn't have hired me, and the stunning Ruth Ansel wouldn't have recommended me. Am I a great typographer? Not really, and I got worse over time not better. But I know enough to critique great (and bad) typography, and I've written or edited a bunch of books on type. I'm not so much a fan as a wishful thinker. I always wished that by associating myself with great designers something would rub off. I still bask in the talents of designers like Louise Fili and illustrators like Christoph Neimann. I get charged every time designers like Seymour Chwast, James Victore, Hans Dieter Reichert, Helene Silverman, and Mirko Ilic, "interpret" what I do editorially, or when an illustrator like Henrik Drescher or Mark Sumers takes my brief and makes imagistic magic. Yeah, I guess I am a fan. Yahooooo.
Ha — you snuck the incredible Louise Fili in there as just another designer you're basking in the talents of, but I bet some people don't know she's your wife. (No wonder you're such a fan!) You recently collaborated with her on your most recent book, Stylepedia, which you guessed is about your 105th book. You're certainly the most prolific voice for design and its environs, but it's a pretty small space, and 105 books is a lot. Do you worry you're too prolific, to the point where you might be dominating this niche market?
Certain friends (I think they're friends) have cautioned me against being too prolific lest I devalue myself or make others resentful. I've heard it so many times I should have a prepared answer. But I must say I'm always dumbfounded. While I don't think everything I do is as good as it might be (or as good as someone else might do), I believe that I have something useful to contribute to our "niche." But more important, at least for me, I have this boundless curiosity that translates into books and articles. Have I over-saturated the "niche?" I don't know. Probably no more than Rick Poynor, who is just as ubiquitous, or Ellen Lupton, who is just as prodigious. We each have our respective strengths (and weaknesses) that contribute to the design "discourse." Michael Bierut is currently on a roll with his excellent writings for Design Observer and soon a couple of authored books will be out. I'm sure there are some people who might say I'm monopolizing the stage, but I'd counter that I've made a lot of stages for others. What's more, by doing a book on, say, Paul Rand, I haven't stopped others from doing so. And I wager that few people would have wanted to do the book I produced many years back called Not Tonight Dear, I Have a Haddock.
You're right, probably not — but I'd definitely like to read that. You're also right about how you've created stages for other design writers — you've helped bring design criticism, for example, into somewhat of a golden age. But my only question is when? You've managed this freelance career on top of a full time job for 30 years, you're co-chair of this MFA program, you answer emails lightning-fast and I'm pretty sure you have a life, too...can you divulge for freelance writers some of your Steven Heller time management secrets?
I don't think it's a matter of superb time management as much as filling up time. Without getting Freudian or Jungian or Marxian (Groucho that is), I make up for my deficiencies by appearing to be prolific. Everyone works at their own rhythms, which, if we're lucky, is in sync with our interests and curiosities. You at UnBeige post six items a day — and you probably do a lot of legwork to do that — for some that's a tremendous amount of work. But it's your job, and your passion. I simply do what turns me on (and turns off some of the demons and voices raging in my head). I also like being able to tally up accomplishments, and these come in waves. This year my wave is establishing new MFA programs at the School of Visual Arts, like the brand new MFA in Design Criticism (to be chaired by Alice Twemlow) and a few others that are top secret at the moment. Next year, maybe it will be knitting large scarves.
Well, you've just gone on sabbatical from The New York Times so what else are you going to do with all this free time?
I wish it were free, but I'm paying for it. The Times has been my family, and I've ostensibly left home (although I still write for the paper). I'm doing more at the School of Visual Arts, and working on my books, but I pulled up the anchor in my life. You know how they say the "holidays" are always a stressful and depressing time. Well, I never ever used to think so. I've loved New York at Christmas time since I was a wee lad. This year was my first "academic holiday." The school was closed and I had no office to go to. I was adrift. Sure, I finished some articles, read, went to a lot of exhibits, visited a few landmarks, rendezvoused with some people, took a meeting or two, but felt disturbingly unproductive. A friend asked if I had a good vacation. My response was it felt more like a lock out (reminiscent of when the Times went on strike two decades ago, and I was literally "locked out" of the office). I apologize if I am sucking the air out of the room with self-pity, since there is no real reason to be pitiful. Yet to be productive (and therefore feel jolly) the conditions must be right.
"Steven Heller wanders the streets of New York, searching for missing jolly, adrift, making keen observations and sending me photos of brilliant scaffolding." You know what? You need a blog!
Alissa, lest I be a curmudgeonly heretic I must say in jolly fashion, there are too many blogs. Too many opinions, observations, commentaries, drivel-ings (oops, my prejudices are showing). It's not that I don't drivel myself, but a blog would be an open invitation to unrestricted, unedited, and unwanted me. I'd much rather pass a few choice observations to you from time to time. The fact is, and forgive me for saying it, the design field should be about making great work (and smart thoughts, and at times insightful words); design first and foremost is about making functional (often beautiful) objects that make a difference to others' lives — don't you think?
You know, Steve, that's a really good question.
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The Internet now reaches your digital phone -- without wires. But it's not the Internet you know
By now, you're probably already aware that E-mail and Web surfing are available on digital phones and other handheld devices. Well, if the prospect of watching people in restaurants and ticket lines tap away at their mobile phones to exchange E-mail, shop, or trade stocks bugs you, look at the bright side: Would you rather they were talking?
The top two tool-toys of the new millennium -- the mobile phone and the Internet -- have finally melded. Through Sprint's PCS Wireless Web service, the itty-bitty displays of properly equipped digital phones now present live Internet E-mail, news, shopping, and trading.
Sprint's service tips an iceberg of wireless Internet services now coming online not only for phones but for pagers and handheld computers as well. By 2003, according to GartnerGroup's Dataquest, 33 million people will add themselves to the ranks of those in the United States already sending and receiving E-mail and other nonvoice data -- like that airline reservation to Omaha and your sister's E-auction bid on that great Farber Bros. decanter -- wirelessly.
If you need anywhere, anytime access to E-mail and the services of the most popular Web sites (and only the most popular Web sites), Internet-connected digital phones, handheld computers, and other wireless gizmos soon to come promise powerful convenience. But don't take promises of "the power of the wireless Internet in your hand" or "Web w/o Wires" too literally. None of these devices enable you to hop onto the Web and browse around wherever you will, as you can do on a bona fide computer.
The "Mini" in the Browser
Phones equipped for Sprint's Wireless Web feature a "MiniBrowser" program. Pay close attention to the first four letters of that name.
The "browsing" available from Sprint allows you to choose from among a list of popular Web sites -- Yahoo, Amazon.com, CNN.com, and AmeriTrade, to mention a few -- that have repackaged their content in a special text-only, simplified version for display on a phone. At this writing, the list features a few hundred sites, but that number is growing steadily.
You do just about everything on the Wireless Web simply by pressing the phone's dialing buttons to make choices from text menus on the phone's display. Graphics are gone -- including the banner ads that clog many sites. Going graphics-free not only permits practical use of a phone's tiny display but also keeps performance snappy -- which is important, since you pay for Wireless Web by the minute. (See "Early Adopter," below.)
In addition to using the featured sites, Sprint users can sign up for "Web updates" -- data such as sports scores, stock prices, and auction status delivered to your phone automatically. You choose which updates you want to receive from the Sprint PCS site or from the site where the news originates (such as Yahoo Mobile). Unlike Wireless Web, Web updates require no special phone; all Sprint PCS users can sign up for them.
But How Do I Type?
On the wireless Web you occasionally have to do something other than choose from menus. Composing messages, telling Amazon.com which book to find, or selecting a stock all require typing text. And that's when an Internet phone's biggest drawback becomes most obvious.
For activities requiring text entry (such as composing E-mail messages or adding a speed-dial name), each dialing button has four characters assigned to it; for example, press the 2 button once to type a, twice for b, thrice for c, and four times for 2 . Obviously, this is not the means by which you would want to ask Amazon.com to find Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask). But it's tolerable for short search terms, stock symbols, and boilerplate replies such as "Thx 4 msg. Will call u."
There's a stopgap to the text trouble: you can buy a cable ($100 to $200) to connect Wireless Web-enabled phones to a Palm or Windows CE handheld computer or to the standard serial port in a notebook (or desktop) PC. The phone then functions as a wireless modem, enabling the computer to dial up any Internet provider. That's not as perfect a solution as it sounds: current wireless technology limits the connection speed to 14Kb, one-quarter the speed of a regular dial-up 56Kb connection and pretty poky for Web surfing -- though adequate for E-mail. But the pitch is that users can do much of their work from the phone alone and need to resort to the cable scenario only rarely.
Limitations notwithstanding, it's surprising how much one can actually do on these downsized sites through the phone alone. Yahoo, for example, offers access to all its services (other than Web searches), including E-mail, a personal scheduling service called Calendar, and Web updates of scores, auctions, and stock prices. When your E-mail and calendar are on the Yahoo portal, you can access them from any computer (notebook, desktop, Palm, or Windows CE) that has Web access and from your mobile phone. Shopping sites generally offer catalog searches and full ordering capability -- though without graphics, of course, you buy sight unseen.
More Handheld Net Coming
At this writing, Sprint Wireless Web is the only nationwide carrier offering anything approaching true Internet content over a telephone, although a few regional digital-phone companies (like Bell Atlantic Mobile) are rolling out similar Internet phone services. Some other telecom carriers provide limited sorts of wireless Internet-based services. GTE Wireless and BellSouth Mobility, for example, both let you compose a short text message on a Web site or in an Internet E-mail program and then send that message to appear on the display of a GTE or a BellSouth Mobility subscriber who pays for the optional text-messaging service. BellSouth customers can also get automatic news updates from CNN, similar to Sprint's Web updates. But is all this the same thing as getting the Internet on your phone? Hardly.
Other devices also provide their own versions of Web access to a limited number of sites. Some new digital pager models from Motorola and other manufacturers also access Web-portal content and retrieve E-mail from portals. And the Palm VII Organizer can connect to Palm's own Palm.Net wireless Internet service to retrieve live Web content and send and receive text messages. But just like Sprint's Wireless Web, Palm.Net doesn't let Palm VII users wander the entire Web. Instead, Palm users can access only a certain number of sites (about 130, at press time) that employ a "Web-clipping" application. The program delivers selected data to the user in a format that the Palm VII can display.
Of course, it's appealing that you can access Internet services wirelessly at all. But today the lack of flexibility afforded to wireless aficionados is the biggest drawback to these services. At this moment, your choices are pretty limited. If you choose a Sprint phone, you get Wireless Web. If you choose Palm, you get Palm.Net.
Do I Need It?
When it comes to portable communications and the Internet, the "Do I need it?" question is moot. These things really come down to "Do I want it?" And you already know the answer to that, don't you?
But seriously, how useful are wireless portal services? Well, as they're now configured, these services deliver the greatest value to subscribers who already use a portal as their E-mail hub and restrict their Web surfing mainly to such Ã"bersites as Amazon.com or CNN -- at least when they're on the road. If you're dependent on your ISP E-mail account (not a portal) and you really need to surf esoteric sites, wireless portals don't offer you much.
Consider coverage, too, when you're deciding whether to plunge into wireless Internet. Although Sprint's national PCS network covers all U.S. metro areas, many rural areas are not included. If you already subscribe to a digital-voice plan, like Sprint PCS or Bell Atlantic Mobile's SingleRate, you're probably aware that if you travel outside the digital service area, you can continue to chat, thanks to "roaming" agreements that send your call through the networks of other carriers. But Sprint's Wireless Web functions only within the smaller confines of Sprint's all-digital network, cutting out when you stray into roaming regions. Similarly, the Palm.Net network covers more than 260 metro areas but leaves many locations between the cities unserved. (You can examine coverage maps on the www.SprintPCS.com and www.PalmNet.com sites.)
More important, watch for an industry association called the WAP Forum made up of more than 200 companies. The group, which includes every heavy hitter in communications and digital hardware, has developed Wireless Application Protocol, a new global specification that will standardize the way wireless devices exchange and display voice and data. Already in use in Europe and Japan and set to explode in the U.S. market this year, WAP defines a new language -- WML (wireless markup language) -- for creating Web pages intended for use by wireless devices.
What does this mean to you? A variety of digital-phone makers, including Nokia and Ericsson, are building so-called "WAP-enabled" devices that are part phone, part personal digital assistant. When they hit the United States this year (priced at around $500), these hybrid handhelds should be able to display any Web page that's been translated into the new language. To get the goodies from WAP, you must be holding a WAP device -- meaning that virtually every U.S. user of an Internet phone at this writing will need a new phone (pardon, new device).
The full transition to WAP will take several years. During that time companies like Spyglass and Digital Paths are delivering software that automatically converts everyday HTML Web sites into WML. The software promises to enable WAP users to see any Web site online, including the millions of pages that may not have been retooled in wireless-friendly WML.
If you're ready to run out this instant to visit Mel, the take-no-prisoners electronics salesman ("Want the extended warranty on that, pal?"), you're probably also the type who'll be drooling over sexy new WAP devices by year's end. By then, your sexy pre-WAP communicator may seem as obsolete as a CB radio. You may want to hold on to your money until the new toys arrive.
Ned Snell is a freelance writer living in Florida. He is the author of 16 books, including Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours , Third Edition (Sams, 1999).
Who Are the Players, and What's the Cost?
Wireless Internet service is sold in the same sorts of mind-twisting packages in which voice services are sold, although minute for minute it's more expensive.
For example, with Sprint, $50 will get you 500 voice-only minutes, and $60 will purchase 300 minutes that you can use for both voice and Wireless Web.
The information below was accurate at press time, but prices in this market change rapidly. Check with providers for current details, and watch for discounts and special offers, which are common.
Internet-Ready Phones
Digital phones compatible with Sprint Wireless Web start at around $130 and are available from several manufacturers. You can get them in all-digital or dual-band models. Major makers include:
NeoPoint : 858-458-2800
Ericsson : 800-374-2776
Motorola (phones and pagers) : 800-453-0920
Nokia : 888-665-4228
Qualcomm : 800-349-4188
Palm Computers
Palm Inc. : 800-881-7256
Palm VII Organizer: $500 (street)
Sprint PCS Wireless Web : Monthly plans range from $60 for 300 minutes (combo of voice and Internet) to $180 for 1,200 minutes. All such plans also include 200 Web updates. Additional minutes cost 25¢ to 30¢ each, depending on the plan, and additional Web updates are 10¢ each. You can add 50 minutes of data and 50 Web updates for another $10 to your existing voice plan of $30. (No matter how you work it out, adding data to the mix increases the per-minute cost. Sprint's twist of plan options can make that hard to notice.) Finally, you may also sign up for a voice-only plan, purchase no Wireless Web plan, and still use the Wireless Web as needed for 39¢ a minute. (You must purchase a compatible phone for any Wireless Web; Web updates may be received on any phone used on Sprint PCS.)
Palm.Net : Three plans are available, all tying cost to the number of "transactions" performed per month. A transaction is one message, one stock quote, one score, and so on. The basic $10 plan includes 80 transactions. For $25, you get 240 transactions. Up it to $40, and you can tick away 480 transactions.
What's the business benefit of tapping the Internet through a telephone? Well, have you heard about the guy who started a company while riding an airport courtesy bus?
Howard Gerson, president and co-owner of Certified Safety Inc., a 200-employee Kansas Citybased maker of first-aid supplies, was itching for E-mail from a business partner in Israel. Gerson saw getting that message and posting a reply pronto as a vital relationship volley in founding a new "M-commerce" (that's "M" for mobile) venture to be co-owned by Gerson, his family, and TeleVend, a one-year-old, Jerusalem-based company that supplies network services and applications to the vending-machine industry. But by the morning on which Gerson was packing up his family for a trip, the missive from the Land of Milk and Honey hadn't arrived.
After dropping his family at the airport terminal, parking the car, and boarding the courtesy bus to ride back to the terminal, Gerson connected to Sprint's Wireless Web service through his NeoPoint 1000 digital phone. He opened the Yahoo portal from the phone's MiniBrowser menu, retrieved his Yahoo E-mail -- and breathed a sigh of relief. The message he'd been waiting for had finally arrived. Using the phone's keypad, he quickly replied.
Gerson says that the exchange -- with "no cables connected, on a bus in the middle of Kansas" -- was a critical step in the formation of Wirca Inc., which will develop and market wireless cash-transaction technologies. Gerson says Wirca's products will make it possible, for example, to pick up a hamburger and fries at the local fast-food palace without handing over cash or a credit card -- the transaction will take place automatically, wirelessly, as you drive through.
Admitting that text entry is cumbersome, Gerson says it's manageable enough for brief responses. For more full-featured E-mailing, he hooks his phone to his notebook PC through the optional cable and wirelessly dials his regular Internet provider. That comes in handy not only on the road, says Gerson, but also at home, where having four kids can make the availability of an open phone line "a challenge."
Tapping into the Web solely from his phone, Gerson has dipped into the MiniBrowser's other offerings. He has made wireless transactions on AmeriTrade's site and recently ordered a book from Amazon.com during a lull at a breakfast meeting. Though he has been a Yahoo portal customer for two years and an avid user of Yahoo mail, Gerson doesn't manage his schedule on the portal, preferring to keep his calendar in his phone's built-in, off-line scheduling application.
Such phone features, along with the NeoPoint's large (for a phone) display, blur the boundaries between mobile phones and personal digital assistants. The blur has come far enough for Gerson; a longtime Palm user, he has abandoned his PDA in favor of his phone.


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Passivation of localized leakage currents, passing through SFs at the as-grown 3C-SiC surface, by UV irradiation. C-AFM morphology (top) and current maps (bottom) of an as-grown 3C-SiC(111) surface at a tip bias of −2 V (a) showing localized leakage currents passing through stacking faults. The AFM morphology of the UV-irradiated 3C-SiC surface after a wet oxide etch revealed trenches in the SFs, suggesting that their passivation is due to a local oxidation at these defects. The I-V characteristics measured on Au/3C-SiC diodes with a contact radius of 20 μm exhibited greatly reduced leakage currents after passivation (c).
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June 8, 2010
9:00 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.
Commissioners' Conference Room
200 West Oak Street, Fort Collins
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If There is No Public Comment, Administrative Matters will Begin at 9:00 a.m.
*Public Comment
9:00-9:05 a.m.
Approval of Minutes for the Week of May 24 and 31.
9:05-9:08 a.m.
Review of the Schedule for the Week of June 14 and 21.
9:08-9:11 a.m.
Consent Agenda – is intended to allow the Board of County Commissioners to spend its time and energy on the other items on the agenda. Staff recommends approval of the Consent Agenda. Anyone may request an item on this calendar to be ìpulledî off the Consent Agenda and considered separately. Agenda items pulled from the Consent Agenda will be considered separately immediately after the Board takes action on the remainder of the Consent Agenda. The Consent Calendar consists of items of no perceived controversy and routine administrative actions.
* Hoffman Acres Subdivision Final Plat
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9:11-9:15 a.m.
Greeley Stampede Proclamation
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Recognition of the Colorado Boating Law Enforcement Officer of the Year
Gary Buffington, Natural Resources Director and Jim Hawkins, Park Ranger
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Concession Management Policy and Concession Manual for the Department of Natural Resources
Gary Buffington, Natural Resources Director
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Assignment of Private Activity Bonds Allocation
Carol Block, Finance Director
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Funding for Scanning Files Through the Maximization of Space Project
Lorenda Volker, Human Resources Director
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Legislation Update
Neil Gluckman, Assistant County Manager
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I recently took a newly created position as Property Manager at my church and found that we have two water extractors. In the past, they have rented carpet cleaners to clean the carpets. Can you clean carpets with extractors? What is the process and does it do any damage?
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- Lisa Marshall
Answer # 1:
Hot water extraction is the number one process used by professional carpet cleaning companies, machine rental companies, and the method preferred by most carpet mills for restorative cleaning.
The primary concern is cleaning with methods that allow short drying times. Ideally, your church would have two types of extractors. A self-contained unit with autofill/pump out or a power-head brush unit for large rooms, halls, entry areas, and fellowship halls where food is served. Secondly, an
extractor with a wand is ideal for carpeted sanctuaries to clean between the pews and for small areas such as crowded offices.
Here is an abbreviated description of the process which begins with moving required furniture and a thorough vacuuming. Mix, according to instructions, a premium or approved carpet cleaning pre-conditioner or extraction product in a pump-up or electric sprayer. Spray about 15 minutes ahead of the machine operation and apply the solution heavy to heavily soiled and light to the lightly soiled areas. This application process allows for adequate dwell time without drying of the cleaning chemicals.
Extractors should be pre-serviced to ensure adequate pressure and suction. Add an approved carpet rinse additive to the extractor supply tank with extremely hot water. The acidic rinse will flush soap residues from the
carpet and prevent unsuspected browning of light colored carpets.
Additionally, mix the rinse additive product 1:5 in a spray bottle for coffee, tea, and water stains. One other helpful product to have is a solvent spotter for grease, oil, tar, chewing gum, etc. A complete spotting kit may
be helpful, but spotters should be rinsed from the carpet by hot water extraction. Use all required safety measures when handling chemicals.
Begin cleaning in the back of each area, working your way out the door. One or two passes over each area may be required. When using the wand, pull it toward you with the trigger on and shut it off about 2" inches before the end of the pull stroke. Exert heavy pressure as you push the wand back to the starting point. With a self-contained unit, pull up on the handle as you move the machine back. In both cases this will force the vacuum shoe deep into the carpet and create a vacuum seal that will greatly improve the recovery rate and reduce the drying time. Recovery rates should exceed 80% (8 gals. of soiled water recovered for each 10 gals. of clean water applied). Overlap each wand or machine pass by 1-2 inches.
Inspect your results, since soil damaged areas may require a brush pre-agitation or even a bonnet buff pre-scrub prior to extraction. Keep in mind the extractor is primarily a rinse machine. If drying time is critical and carpet mill cleaning instructions allow, consider using a dry bonnet under a rotary floor machine to immediately dry the carpet after the extraction process. Finally, increase the air flow, open windows, reduce A/C temp or place air handler blow driers to improve dry times. Place wet floor signs adjacent to
For a more detailed training, the IICRC now has authorized carpet cleaning schools on-site or on-line for the Apprentice/Basic Skills program. This is a four hour program that leads to a diploma for carpet techs. A web search
should locate this info. If you want to test a new carpet cleaning technician, we have a free test on our web site. However, no one has ever scored 100%. We highly recommend the new approved IICRC schools.
Gary Clipperton
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Answer # 2
Strictly speaking, a water extractor does just that, it extracts water. The usual form is a heavy pickup head on a wand with that attaches by hose to a wet vacuum. Its purpose is to remove flood water or heavy spills from carpets.
The difference between a basic water extraction wand and a hot water extraction (rinse) machine is that the latter has a means of injecting rinse water into the carpet as well as a head for removing the water by vacuum. Look for a spray nozzle(s) as well as a vacuum slot on the wand or on the machine base, if it is self-contained.
A self-contained unit will also often have a moving brush of some sort for working the cleaning solution into the fibers as the machine moves along.
So, if your machine allows you to spray the carpet and then extract the dirty solution, you can use it to clean the carpet.
You may add a shampoo solution to the carpet to loosen soil in a number of ways. Spray it on with a hand-held pressure sprayer, work it in with a small shampooer, or add it to the extractor itself and inject it with the solution. The first two are preferable because they allow the solution more time to work before it is vacuumed out.
After allowing 5 to 10 minutes of soil release time, use the extractor to spray water into the fibers and flush out the loosened soils. You should move slowly to allow the machine or rinse wand to do the job. Extra passes with the nozzle and no spray on will aid in drying the carpet.
If you wish to contact us with more information on the make and model of the devices you discovered, we can be more specific. It seems unlikely that you would have two on hand if they were only for flood water extraction. However, neither type will harm the carpet.
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Call me picky but I just don't like romaine lettuce. Something about its crunchiness (I like iceberg even less) and bitter taste just turns me off. I'll use it in a salad if I can hide it among a lot of loose salad greens and spinach, but I just can't eat it on its own. Or at least I couldn't, until I tried it cooked.
Yes, cooked. Grilled, to be specific. I got this great idea from Ellie Krieger's The Food You Crave; in her recipe, the romaine is cooked on the barbecue grill, but since it's January and I didn't want to wait until summer to give it a try, I decided to see how it would taste grilled on a George Foreman grill. Truth be told, I don't use my new removable plate grill as often as I should, so I've been looking for things to cook on it. As it turns out, it worked perfectly. Two halves of a romaine heart (the inside core of the head, often sold in packs of three) fit easily into the grill, bases placed at opposite ends. After just a few minutes of grilling, the romaine began to wilt and brown slightly and was done. I dressed each head simply with white balsamic vinegar and pepper, and added a sprinkling of sunflower seeds to accentuate the nuttiness that grilling brings out. It's a simple preparation that's made a romaine believer out of me. Plus, it's a great way to enjoy a green salad on a cold day when the thought of iceberg just makes you go, "Brrrrr."
Grilled Romaine Salad
- 1 heart of romaine lettuce (about 170 grams)
- 1 teaspoon white balsamic vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sunflower seeds
- freshly ground black pepper
- Cut the romaine heart in half lengthwise. Trim the stem end a little, if you wish, but be sure not to cut too much–all the leaves need to stay attached.
- Heat your George Foreman grill or a stove-top grill pan. Spray it lightly with olive oil, if necessary. (You know your grill–if you think it might stick, give it a quick spray.) Once it's hot, put one romaine half on it, two if they will fit. Close the top of the Foreman grill or press the lettuce down lightly with a spatula if you are using a grill pan. Cook for about 2 or 3 minutes, until lettuce has begun to wilt and grill marks to appear; then, if you're using a grill pan, turn over and grill for another 2 minutes.
- Place on two plates, cut side up, and sprinkle each with 1/2 teaspoon vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon sunflower seeds, and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Serve while still warm.
Preparation time: 2 minute(s)
Cooking time: 5 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 2
Serves 2. Per serving: 20 Calories (kcal); 1g Total Fat; (33% calories from fat); 2g Protein; 2g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 6mg Sodium; 2g Fiber. Weight Watchers 0 Point.


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Morning all.
Three times we have met Wigan in the Domestic Cups, the last being the Carling Cup semi-final back in 2006.
It was a two-legged affair and not a good one!
Having lost at their place 1-0, we returned to Highbury needing just a victory by two clear goals to see us through.
We scored, taking the second leg into extra time and scored again to take a 2-1 advantage. All we had to do is hold on and we were into the final…
However, Jason Roberts struck with just seconds left and that was enough to send us packing by the away goal rule…
Funny enough, it was a defensive mix up which led to that winning goal, just as it was at Wembley in 2011……
Both sides are very different to what they were back then though and of course, Wigan were a Premier League side whereas now they are fighting hard in the Championship to try and regain that status. We, well things are pretty much the same, still fighting for that 4th spot and hoping our trophy drought will finally come to an end….
Today, we could take a huge step towards making that happen IF every person, player and coaches alike, give 100% from start to finish.
And we are going to have to because you can bet your bottom dollar, Wigan will!
Uwe Rosler has done his homework:
I watched the game last Sunday and it was another very impressive lesson from Roberto, tactically how Everton approached the game.
Not a lot of people focused on how disciplined and how focused Everton Football Club operated in the first 20-25 minutes without the ball.
Everybody knows Roberto is focused on ball possession but how well the team worked against the ball at the beginning of game was very impressive.
There were good pictures for me to learn from and also take one or two things on board, like I did with Manchester City in the last round.
In the last round, Wigan went to the Etihad and withstood everything Manchester City threw at their goal, barring the one blip of course and they managed to do what only one other English club has managed to do all season and that's come away with a win.
That's the FA Cup for you, it's all about one game on one day and giving your all, getting the right result and waiting for the next round, the next chance to pounce and get the unexpected result.
Not only have Wigan beaten Manchester City, they have also beaten PL sides, Cardiff and Crystal Palace in order to get to Wembley today.
So yes, respect what they have done, now let's go and put an end to their great run!!
We have beaten Tottenham, Coventry City, Liverpool and Everton – all tough opponents and two of whom have battered us in the league.
League form goes out the window today, our poor league performances must go out the window, today is about 90 minutes, or 120 if that's what it takes of non-stop 100% commitment, togetherness, organisation and passion.
It's also about our manager having done his homework, he has to know what to expect from Rossler and his team and play in a way which will not only stop their threat but to know how to exploit any weaknesses the Championship side have.
Let's not be another victim of of an FA Cup upset.
This is the best chance we have had in a long while to get to an FA Cup Final.
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Glad that you chose Oly. I prefer mechanical bodies even though TTL/OTF(OM-2sp) is good to have but need constant supply of batteries and after a while I really loose motivation.
I would rather spend money on film/paper then on fast lenses. 28 f/2.8 or 28 f/3.5 is no bad lens at all to print on 8x10 inch paper.


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Google Movies blocked on rooted Android devices
updated 06:35 am EDT, Sun May 22, 2011
Google deliberately block Movies on rooted devices
Google has angered members of the Android community by blocking its Google Movies service on rooted Android devices. Users who have rooted their device and installed a custom ROM are greeted with an error message that reads, "Failed to fetch license for [movie title] (error 49)." Google Support is advising that the block is a deliberate move on its part as "Rooted devices are currently unsupported due to requirements related to copyright protection."
The move is seen as somewhat ironic for a platform that labels itself as "open." By contrast, users of jailbroken iPhones can download iTunes movies and mobile users of Netflix continue to be able to play copyright content on their devices. Users of the Motorola Xoom running Android 3.1 currently have access to the service, as long as their device has not been rooted.
When the service rolls out to users of Android 2.2 devices over the coming weeks, users who have rooted their Android 2.2 (or higher) mobile phones and tablets will not be able to access the service. It will only be open to users running OEM versions of the Android operating system.
While Google is currently saying that is the restriction is in place for copyrighted reasons, another possible explanation is that it has been put in place in order to help reduce instances of Android OS fragmentation. Android OS fragmentation has been an increasingly serious issue for developers who are finding it difficult to provide applications that will work across the Android platform. [via Android Central]