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How Animoto Gets Animoto Wrong
February 5th, 2008 by Dan Meyer
Jason, one of the Animoto guys, responds to my criticism, admitting his utility's limitations as a storytelling medium
… the Animoto presentation is in a style that many students are familiar with (MTV-style videos), I think it adds a great juxtaposition of using an aesthetic with which kids are already familiar, along with learning material than [sic] they are being exposed to for the first time.
Animoto is a staggeringly cool tool which almost everyone — even its creators, off Jason's comment — appreciates for the wrong reason.
Specifically, Animoto creates photo montages better and faster than any other Internet utility but, over the long run, the fact that the montages jitter and bob with the music — its most celebrated and distinctive feature — does nothing for me as a media consumer and less than nothing for me as a educator
This isn't because I like taking shots at the high-flying School 2.0 balloon or even because this is a matter of opinion. It isn't. Nor do I take some old-fashioned exception to the MTV aesthetic.
But the MTV aesthetic, even at its most arresting, spasmodic, and hypnotizingly awful, gives content some consideration
Its z-axis transitions look great but they are selected wholly apart from your content and, several times per slideshow, they obscure it — cropping out your Auntie's face and strobing several shots over the rest of your family — simply because Animoto doesn't know any better
"No two videos are the same," claims Animoto's main page but each slideshow shares in common a complete, 100%, de facto disregard for the relationship between form and content. Maybe it's unfair of me to suggest that educators oughtta know better but I'm astonished that this same crowd which dumped all over MTV in the '90s has missed this, that it has endorsed a tool good only for spackling enthusiasm across a crowd as meaningful learning, as meaningful assessment, as meaningful self-expression.
If you're going to teach this at all, you owe your kids to teach it right. Yet my colleagues' enthusiasm for visual expression has outpaced their understanding of it by several orders of magnitude.
What efforts are you making to get this right?
23 Responses to "How Animoto Gets Animoto Wrong"
on 05 Feb 2008 at 7:52 pm1 Benjamin Baxter
By the video and your description, it looks only marginally better than Picasa's make-movie effect. I don't care so much about the music-sync-ness of it all.
I don't want it to awkwardly pan on group pictures. Especially with sophomores.
I think it probably comes down to time. A lot of teachers don't want to invest the time in learning how to put images together to make a film. Or they don't think they have the visual knowledge and would rather hand it over to a web site and let the site do the work.
As someone who has spent hours physically syncing slide machines to play to narration on an audio tape and several years pressing and unpressing the pause and record buttons on my camcorder and VCR to edit movies in the 90's, this is frustrating to me too…but I'm trying not to be bitter or elitist.
My worry is that reliance on one touch web sites disempowers the user who comes to depend on those sites rather than learning and practicing some simple film techniques. I tried to illustrate a few of them in my post Design and Storytelling in Film.
So I guess there's no harm in Animoto (I might even say it's kind of cool) but I would hope it's only a starting point that leads users to try putting clips together to construct meaning themselves.
As off base as Keen was in his specifics, I think that the cult of the amateur is an enduring meme. To me it has less to do with the internet, and more to do with technology replacing 80% of what it took to be talented many years ago, and at the same time eliminating the impetus to develop a skill when you could let a computer do a good enough job for you, be it music, writing, print production, architecture, or any other sort of creative endeavor.
on 05 Feb 2008 at 10:29 pm4 Stephen Humphrey
I'm with Dan.
Consider if Microsoft had made Powerpoint even more pointless by choosing all your transitions and animations wantonly, bringing in bullet points only so they sync to canned music, and indiscriminately zooming in on random words from your slide that only it could choose.
… wait a minute: I've seen some presentations which seemed to do all these things.
Does Microsoft already have this feature?
on 05 Feb 2008 at 11:44 pm5 Doug Belshaw
I'm not going to defend Animoto, even though I was impressed with it enough to lay out $30 for a year's subscription. Instead, I want to come back to Mathew's point about time.
We all know how much time and effort you put into your lessons, Dan. I wore myself out during my NQT/probation/call-it-whatever-you-like year which led to health problems. Why? Because I have perfectionist tendencies. Many teachers are the same. The reason for this is because we see an immediate impact of what we do on the engagement and progress of learners.
So, Animoto has its uses. It's in my toolbox. But it certainly doesn't replace storytelling – with or without educational technology. It merely complements it. :-)
I like Animoto. Not for school, and certainly not to say "Look what I did!" It is just a nifty little way to preserve some memories and optimize them for a web presentation. Take it for what it is.
Sure sure and I don't want to say — and I'm not saying — that Animoto ain't without uses. Just that, damn, we've got teachers running around lately spraying motor oil on windows, drinking it from glasses, showerin' in it, calling it water, and I'm just standing here feeling like the crazy one.
At some point, don't we also want our students to be thoughtful creators of content? I say this not in an Dan Pink-ish "design is important" kind of way, but in an "ownership is important" kind of way.
If I can dump and choose on Animoto, then I haven't really created anything. I'm teaching my students to craft thoughtful, effective, compelling sentences. When we move to multi-media content creation, I want the same thought and craft in their creations.
An initial temptation was to suggest Animoto provides a good jumping-off point for media design in the classroom, but it's really not much better than the slew of slideshow tools in Myspace and Facebook.
Thanks for making me think.
I have not yet implemented Animoto into my lessons but it did serve as a nice visual for my parents on "Back to School Night" (Thank you Ken Rodoff!). There were several "oooos" and "aaaahs" in the room and I think they appreciated the short snippet of film.
I agree with Matthew and Doug. Time is a major issue with taking a theme – say from hamlet (SEE http://kenrodoff.blogspot.com/2008/01/thou-hamlet-of-most-plain-english.html) – and evolving that theme from storyboard to final cut. However, we want to focus on the process of the storytelling. Do students understand how they arrived at the final product? At this point, does it really matter whether their video is previewed via Animoto or Final Cut Pro? Can students sit back, watch the videos of their peers and simply understand thematic elements within a novel or play? And at the same time, make connections between the text and the video.
Animoto is by no means the pinnacle of video editing, but it does save time and assists students with comprehension.
Andrew, judging by the comments here and there, "wowing the parents on back-to-school night" seems to be Animoto's highest calling. Which is a fine calling but I don't want to pretend I or my students are doing much creatively when we use Animoto. We aren't. The Animoto designers are.
The problem, though, is that, because the pictures are so pretty and flashy, teachers — otherwise critical teachers — are tricked into thinking they and their kids have exercised creativity.
And I can't embrace the rationale, tacitly put out there by so many, that "I don't have enough time to teach the real thing so I'll just teach this cheap substitution and call it the real thing." I can't see any benefit there.
I'm not saying everyone gotta work against the same clock I do (since it's wearing me down right now) but if you aren't gonna teach it well, is it even fun to teach it at all? To play a role in further confusing your students between flash and substance.
Has anyone watched thirty of these in a row? Thirty jittery slideshows detailing tourism in thirty different states, for instance? Even the no-two-videos-alike aesthetic has gotta get numbing by the fifth or sixth. Anyone want to report back from the dark side?
Mr. Chase, exactly right.
I wouldn't advise watching 30 of those Animoto productions in a row, but then again, our students watch us for 45 minutes a day for 180 days.
Talk about tiring.
Hey Dan,
This is Becky. I work at Animoto.
Thanks for your points. We'll definitely take them into consideration.
As for your observation about Animoto cutting off faces or obscuring pictures, we are actually adding (hopefully in the not too distant future) a component to our A.I. which will have face recognition. We'll also be adding a crop feature, internal to our site, so that if we do indeed need to cut off a picture, you get to choose what gets cut off.
We also have a design team that regularly creates new riffs. An underlying objective for all their designs is to find a way to showcase a picture without upstaging the picture. Ultimately, people use Animoto to show-off their images. They don't use their images to show-off Animoto. We get this.
Never did Jason say Animoto isn't a good storytelling device. I think he said it wasn't "in a traditional sense." Which it is not. Animoto is not a documentary. It's not PBS. It takes pictures and showcases them in a way that's more compelling than a slideshow, and hopefully more emotionally compelling. It most definitely can tell a story.
I made one of my sister's wedding, which was 2 weeks ago, and it most definitely was a story. It started off with the chaos of the bride-to-be getting ready at our parent's house and ended with her radiating true happiness as she left the banquet hall with my now brother-in-law. It was 4 minutes long and perfectly summed up the day.
Thanks for your points though. We actively seek out critiques of our service, as we are constantly trying to better it. If you have anymore, never hesitate to reach us at: email@example.com
Take care,
Becky, these comments all hover around what I imagine is one of your smaller markets. I'm sure you'll consider that as you weigh my criticism.
Animoto is strikingly easy to use and ideal for the user you describe — someone with little time or ability on her hands who wants to energize some photos — but that same ease of use makes Animoto poor for education.
The students select a photoset and a soundtrack and you guys do the heavy lifting. What skills do they learn? What skills does Animoto assess? Why should you care about these queries?
The answers are none, none, and you shouldn't. I'm only here to cudgel the teachers who are too seduced by the output slideshow to realize how little effort the user puts into it.
Maybe this is a fun diversion for the students, but past that my people have gotta pull their jaws off the floor over here.
Ken: "Talk about tiring."
Talk about confusing the issue.
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on 06 Feb 2008 at 5:11 pm16 Mrs. Martinez
I used an animoto video to punch up a vocabulary lesson. The novelty of it got the students very excited. I can't imagine it as anything I would use often in the classroom but it is cool for an occasional way to create a lesson that is remembered.
Dan: Part of me realizes that I should just head back to my hole and wait for a new topic that strikes my disjointed fancy, but I keep finding myself asking, what's wrong if something is easy? What's wrong if the uploading of photos to Animoto is easy? Isn't it possible (and I apologize in advance for not having a substantive example to support this) that what goes on before can mean something?
I've had students make podcasts. They are not polished recording artists and their voices surely are not the stuff of fireside chats, but they scripted, researched, revised, rehearsed, considered audience, and the did all of those thing again. I assessed research, writing, quote integration, and so on down the English teacher line of grading, but their constant awareness of an audience greater than a little Rodoff made one hell of difference in their attitude, approach, energy, and output.
If only I could get students to write the bland essay with as much vim and vigor.
I wish my comments here could resonate with the power of your posts and your subsequent follow-up comments, but I write in the moment (see sloppy blog!) and then keep my brain churning long after I've hit the 'submit comment' button.
Does everything have to be 'value-added'?
If you've read Pirsig, then I'm sure you've wrestled with the question, 'what is quality'?
Animoto, Scrapblog, and dozens of other drag-and-drop apps may not demonstrate thinking and all that other fun, assessable stuff, but does it have to?
Thanks for keeping us all on our mental toes.
Please consider this in the "I really like reading your comments" tone in which is it intended:
YES, dammit. EVERYTHING in a classroom must be value-added. Every single little thing. That's the whole point.
Podcasts add massive value because of audience awareness, as you say so eloquently– and I'm coming to realize that this is the most powerful added value of all Web 2.0 tools.
But Animoto? Sure, if you scaffolded the hell out of it, as some commentors have suggested. But then, who is adding value? The tech– or you?
I don't know about you, but I've got enough to do. I demand all the added value from my tech that it can give. And if it ain't adding more value than I am myself as the educator using it, then screw it.
Mrs. Martinez, no one can get it right every time, but my reaction to your comment is that if flashy form was the only way to lodge content into their memories, the content needed enlivening — not the form.
It's the same when someone has a boring slide in PPT and tries to liven it up with some "cool" text effects. Form rarely rarely saves boring content. Good content is remembered regardless of form.
Ken, the difference between your students' podcasts & their (hypothetical) Animoto presentations couldn't be more obvious to me. One required crushing mental exertion both pre-, during, and post-production, deploying old skills and learning new ones, with a hundred assessable shades of gray between a strong project and a weak one. The other is Animoto.
on 06 Feb 2008 at 7:11 pm20 Becky
Hey Dan,
Perhaps I shouldn't care, but I wasn't being the least bit facetious when I said we do value comments from people who actually care enough to make a comment… good or bad.
I think this was a really interesting debate. My sister is a teacher and I sent it to her. She, like you, laboriously devises lesson plans and assignments. She takes her profession very seriously, as all educators should. I find that commendable.
Until next time you end up on our Google Alerts…
— Becky
on 08 Feb 2008 at 5:23 pm21 Bill Ferriter
Whew! Interesting conversation in the comment section, huh?
I'm siding with Dan on this one….even though I hear consensus growing in the conversation. Animoto is a limited "instructional" tool at best. While it has some "whiz-bang" value and is incredibly easy to use, I don't even consider it in the same category as tools like Voicethread or our classroom blog.
And the whiz-bang value gets old quick. My kids liked Animoto for about 10 presentations. Now it's old. We use it to add some new content to our blog every now and then, but it's just interesting filler for readers.
Here's the interesting question running through my mind: Are the teachers who are embracing Animoto as a "digital storytelling tool" the same kinds of people who struggle to piece together a good lesson in any format?
In my experience, it is that crop of educators that latch on to tools for all the wrong reasons.
on 10 Feb 2008 at 8:19 am22 Jason, co-founder of Animoto
Wow, these are all really great thoughts! Never thought Animoto would be the center of such a great discussion. Since you've included me in the discussion, I guess I should weigh in.
I'll just be honest… I totally agree that Animoto has its limitations as something to be presented in schools. When we originally built Animoto we never thought students and teachers would be part of our user base. But we've been surprised (and honored) to learn how popular it has in fact become with schools. Thus, we're just now starting to think about how to incorporate some of the more specific needs and priorities teachers have as they send us feedback.
Regarding how well Animoto presents photos… I'd say right now, it does a better job presenting a series/story of photos versus trying to showcase any one particular photo. When starting to build Animoto, we had in mind the people are starting to use their cameras less like photographers and more like producers/directors… taking dozens, if not hundreds of photos to capture an event. For those who use their cameras to capture that one perfect photo…. we concede… Animoto probably isn't the best. It's not meant to be used for carefully viewing photos one by one. But, we may soon offer a feature to accommodate the spectrum of needs.
We're actually still working on our photo analysis technology so we can better determine where the subjects are in a photo and out how to serve them better with the right motion design, effects, and energy. Obviously we agree certain subjects shouldn't have flashy MTV style effects. (I'd be pretty offended if photos of my dog that just passed away where treated with crazy high energy effects.) Some should be much more soft, elegant, and purposeful. As you can imagine, the analysis behind this isn't simple. And we have a long way to go. But we're excited by what we've accomplished so far.
As we develop our technology, we definitely take into consideration everything we hear from you, so please continue to let us know your thoughts.
Why not stir the hornets nest? So, Animoto has an educator site now, I'm sure this was created in the year since this discussion. So, I was wondering if people had looked at the educator side of it yet to see what it does, and if it does address the issues mentioned here. I'd love it to be more "podcasty," but they haven't approved my registration yet.


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SEBRING — Long-time rivals Lake Placid and Avon Park battled it out in Tuesday night's Preseason Classic volleyball tournament at Sebring High. The Green Dragons defeated the Red Devils by scores of 26-24, 25-21, 16-25 and 25-17 in a hard-fought match.
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By Jack Bass Jack Bass is a former Nieman Fellow who published his own weekly newspaper, covered politics for 10 years and taught journalism for 11 more.
For 114 years, the local paper, the Greenville Daily Reflector, was owned and operated by its founding family, the Whichards. But in 1996, they decided it was time to sell. Recalls Jordan (Jordy) Whichard III, "The family wanted to find a buyer who produced good newspapers, who had resources and could provide good long-term opportunities for our employees, and who had exhibited good stewardship in communities where it owned newspapers." They settled on Cox, a private company whose flagship paper is the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
After the sale to Cox, Whichard agreed to stay on as publisher of the 20,000-circulation morning daily and a companion group of weeklies. His newspapering apprenticeship had begun at age 14 and had touched on virtually every job, from stuffing inserts to writing editorials.
In 1996, Whichard's duties expanded after Cox acquired two nearby dailies from Thomson--the 14,000-circulation Rocky Mount Telegram in an adjoining county and the 12,000-circulation Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, roughly 100 miles in the direction of the Outer Banks.
The transition has gone "better than we expected, as well as we could have hoped," he says. "Cox not only has not interfered in the core group of newspapers and how we operated them, but has contributed significant financial support to secure acquisitions and to centralize and update our computer systems."
A new printing plant will open in October on the outskirts of Greenville. Besides providing a new home for the Daily Reflector, the facility will print both it and the Rocky Mount Telegram, an afternoon paper. It will also permit an already thriving commercial printing business to expand. Elizabeth City, a two-hour drive from Greenville, will continue to publish out of its own plant.
"I'm not sure there's a true model yet for newspaper clustering," Whichard says. "You can translate that concept into a wide array of operation initiatives that meet particular strengths and cultures of the companies. I'm sure we do it a lot different from Dean Singleton in California."
There is no universal copy desk here, and the newspapers run no common sections. Except for accounts payable, each newspaper operates its own local business as well as its own editorial offices. But all operate from a central computer system housed in Greenville, using high-speed telephone lines. The editors meet monthly at rotating locations and alert one another if their staffs are covering a story of regional interest. The sports editors work informally to coordinate and share their coverage of East Carolina University, the pride of Greenville, and Atlantic Coast Conference teams.
The three North Carolina newspapers and four others in east Texas form what Cox calls "regional groups." They are the only such groups among the company's 15 daily newspapers. The North Carolina group has only begun to develop joint "one buy, one bill" advertising sales among its dailies and weeklies.
What is unique about Cox is its areawide computer network, CoxNet, which links all the newspapers together with a common technology and software. It grew out of coverage of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. A team of more than 300 reporters, editors and photographers from all the Cox papers assembled in Atlanta to publish a separate newspaper covering the Olympics. The Daily Reflector used material from this operation to provide special coverage that included a package for advertisers.
The personal relationships and technology ties established that summer evolved into CoxNet, a daily internal wire service that provides the various papers with such material as a food page developed by the Journal and Constitution.
Greenville Executive Editor Al Clark says, "It allows us to use material from other papers regularly. We use a steady stream of material--food pages, for example, and health page material and commentary/insight for Sunday readers. At our staff levels, we're not able to create this material, and it frees up time for our local folks to work on local stories."
CoxNet also transmits editorials from its larger papers, which local editors may use if they wish. "We don't run editorials from other Cox newspapers," Clark says. "We run local editorials on local issues seven days a week. I'm concerned about some other papers that say it's too much trouble, or they don't want to stand the heat. There's a great big silence out there when the local newspaper isn't doing it."
Clark is enthusiastic about having access to a reporter in Washington, Eunice Moscoso. She has been hired to provide stories exclusively for the chain's smaller papers. "It's adding something we never had," Clark says. "It's the first time we've had someone who can go directly to our congressman's office and get reaction on national issues."
Moscoso takes calls from any of the small-paper editors and follows up on local stories that involve federal agencies or Congress. Clark and Whichard hope to develop similar local coverage from the state capital in Raleigh.
Cox has provided no influx of cash for the editorial side, Clark says, "but it's made things available to me, such as the Washington Post and New York Times news services, that we didn't have before. We find them valuable. There's no difference in how we approach community journalism, but there's people we can call on for advice and assistance. The Cox purchase has been positive from the sense of more resources."
In addition to transmitting news and features and a food or book page with a modular design that allows space for local advertising, CoxNet also produces spec ads, created by the 28-person graphic design staff of the Atlanta newspapers. An example might be an ad for an optometrist, which could be sold by a salesperson at any Cox paper. "A reader looks at the whole paper," says Arnold Rosenfeld, Cox's vice president for news, "and a side effect of better-looking advertising is that it makes the whole paper look better."
So why hasn't today's rapid spread of monopoly-like clusters drawn the attention of the Justice Department? Why isn't it an antitrust issue when, say, Thomson ends up owning every daily paper in a dozen adjacent counties of Wisconsin?
It turns out that although the Justice Department rarely challenges the regional consolidation of newspapers under a common owner, it does take a look at almost every deal. And this, in and of itself, has a deterrent effect, some antitrust lawyers maintain.
In the early 1970s, newspapers engaged in what were called "midnight mergers." One paper in a city would buy another, and Justice wouldn't know about it until the deal was done. To prevent that, Congress passed the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, which requires automatic review of almost all daily newspaper sales before they become final.
"Justice is not giving a green light to consolidation," says Alan L. Marx, a former Justice Department section chief responsible for newspaper antitrust matters. Today he advises newspaper companies about mergers and acquisitions. "Private counsel will tell their clients, 'This deal has real problems; do you want to go along?' "
When the owners of the San Francisco Chronicle recently signaled that they might be looking for a buyer, Singleton told me that MediaNews would not be interested because of potential antitrust issues.
Still, some observers wonder how much deterrence there is. The issue, however, turns on whether competition is preserved within a market, according to Marx. Take the case of Thomson's purchase of the Oshkosh newspaper, the deal that gave it a monopoly of the five dailies around Lake Winnebago. Marx says the papers were contiguous, but their individual markets and circulation areas had little overlap. In such a case, he says, "the antitrust laws are not going to cover it."
When Justice talks about competition, it usually emphasizes competition for advertising business, because it's more difficult to ascertain "facts" about news. "When I was at Justice," Marx says, "the theory we always had [was] that if you find commercial competition for advertisers, you get the preservation of editorial competition. Preserving editorial voices was an important consideration, but under antitrust law the only question was whether there was competition" within a market.
Lee Enterprises owns four key dailies in Montana. But even though its Helena bureau dominates the coverage of state government, this doesn't raise antitrust issues. Its papers--in Helena, Butte, Billings and Missoula--have little commercial overlap.
"Justice asks a lot of questions about editorial competition," says Marx, "but has yet to see how to use the answers." The issue involves both First Amendment considerations and political sensitivity. "It would have bothered me a lot to figure out how to use differences in editorial content in deciding what kind of actions we bring."
In 1997, when MediaNews sold the North Jersey Herald & News to Macromedia, owner of the nearby Record in Bergen County, the sale was held up for eight months while Justice tried to determine that both papers would continue to operate separately and that their markets didn't overlap significantly. Charles W. Gibney, a Record executive who was closely involved in the investigation, says the government expressed concerns about whether "an independent voice would be leaving the community." Still, Justice's 19-page request for documents, which filled about 300 banker boxes, focused primarily on the sale's impact on advertisers.
Although the two papers continue to operate separately, they have consolidated their accounting, press and composing room operations, and they cross-sell advertising. The Record, with a daily circulation of 141,000, remains a regional newspaper, while the Herald, with only 43,000 circulation, remains highly local.
The fact that Justice is investigating a pending deal often means little. Usually, Marx says, it means "that some staff lawyer got authority to ask for more information on a deal. Any complaint almost automatically results in an investigation."
A little-heralded 1995 case from Northwest Arkansas, however, forced the resale of a daily paper to its original owner, with the result that newspaper competition there has been preserved. The Justice Department did not initiate this case, but it intervened in a lawsuit brought by private litigants.
Thomson had sold the Northwest Arkansas Times, in Fayetteville, to the Stephens family, whose Donrey Newspapers already owned the Morning News in Springdale. These two small cities adjoin each other in Washington County. The Springdale paper also competed with a smaller paper, the Daily Record, in adjacent Benton County.
In voiding the sale, U.S. District Judge H. Franklin Waters cited a 1953 U.S. Supreme Court opinion saying that for antitrust purposes daily newspapers have two markets: one for readers and one for advertisers. He noted that by owning both the Fayetteville and Springdale papers, the Stephens family would control 84 percent of the circulation and 88 percent of the newspaper ad revenue in the two-county market. This, he concluded, would deter the Times and Morning News from vigorous competition.
Craig Conrath, the current Justice section chief who participated in the case, says Waters' interpretation of market forces "is still the way we look at transactions today." The department, he says, doesn't want "to bring a case...where the evidence is weak."
After the sale was reversed, Thomson sold the Fayetteville paper to Hollinger, which continues to operate it. Since then, the Morning News in Springdale has responded by beefing up its coverage. It now has an expanded five-person news bureau in Fayetteville and an eight-person bureau in Rogers, the largest community in Benton County. A four-person bureau in Little Rock provides a flow of news from the state capital to Springdale and to Donrey's three other papers in the state.
Jim Morriss, the Morning News' executive editor, says the paper has also expanded its copy desk and sports coverage. "We're very strong on political and legislative coverage," he says. "We have improved the quality of our newspaper."
Not only do the Times, the Morning News and the Daily Record compete for local news, subscribers and advertisers, but the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock has installed a printing plant and a fully staffed newsroom to publish a Northwest Arkansas edition that circulates in 12 counties. Its daily Northwest Arkansas section provides strong news coverage for the region.
Unlikely as it may seem, Washington and Benton counties now constitute one of the most competitive daily newspaper markets in the country. Maybe Northwest Arkansas is a unique case, with little impact on the industry as a whole. Still, it does seem to suggest how the preservation of editorial competition can improve newspaper quality and provide for a better-informed citizenry.
And perhaps it's not so bad for business, either. Recently, the newspaper industry learned that for the last reporting period, overall daily circulation slipped another one half of 1 percent. The numbers were down at the Arizona Republic, at the Dallas Morning News, at the Boston Globe. But in Springdale, the Morning News is selling 2,500 more copies a day compared with a year ago. Circulation is 35,858--up 7 percent.


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The Story of HVRA
Good Neighbours Building a Great Neighbourhood
by Rory 'Gus' Sinclair, HVRA Chair, 2000-2009
Beginning in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, Toronto experienced a political sea change and has never been the same since. Those were the days of John Sewell's work in Trefann Court, of our 'tiny perfect Mayor', David Crombie, of the stopping of the Spadina Expressway, of Jane Jacobs' amazing insights into how a North American city can work, and much more.
This was the time when the notion of Toronto as a collection of neighbourhoods took root and has never really left us. Neighbourhoods came to be considered the lifeblood of a liveable city. Here was stability, a place where families felt safe and interacted with their neighbours, brought up children who went to local schools, and supported local businesses. Without stable neighbourhoods, cities faced the spectre of the 'doughnut' — the flight of families to the suburbs, a business core that was occupied from 9 to 5 and then abandoned to the poor and homeless at night, leading to the empty core or the hole of the doughnut.
It was in this atmosphere that Toronto's first residents' associations were born. Note the term 'resident' — no longer were these organizations to be called ratepayers' associations, for the organizations were open to all who were resident, including renters as well as owners. Coupled with this was the support for the founding of such associations by those at City Hall who had become believers in the stable neighbourhood concept. This support was broad-based, encompassing both the political and bureaucratic sides.
One of the earliest of these new associations was the Sussex Ulster Residents' Association [SURA], the forerunner of HVRA. Still resident in Harbord Village are several of those founding members, and you can read about them and the early days of SURA elsewhere on this site.
I moved into Harbord Village in 1990, although I had lived on both Brunswick and Major when I was a student at the U of T in the mid '60s. I became a member of the SURA board in 1991 and remained on the board until SURA folded itself officially into HVRA in 2000. In 1991, Bob Barnett was chair, succeeded in 1993 by Catherine Cragg, who was chair until 1999, when Curt Oliver assumed the position.
At this time SURA was pretty thin on the ground — there were too few people trying to do too many things. In addition, there had been some divisive issues that SURA, and perhaps no one else, could have resolved: the ongoing dispute with Doctors Hospital regarding its construction plans, the introduction of the traffic maze south of Harbord, and the use of the former Doctors Hospital as a temporary shelter for the homeless. There were deep divisions in the neighbourhood on these and other matters. Membership in SURA declined as a result.
In 1999, at SURA's AGM, George Stephenson moved that a committee be struck to write a new constitution for a rejuvenated residents' association and to report back in six months' time to SURA. The committee, comprising David Wurfel, Sue Dexter, Gordon Brown, Celia Denov, Cyril Greenland and George Stevenson as convener, set to work. The committee did an excellent job and wrote the blueprint for what would become HVRA.
In the Spring of 2000, copies of the new constitution were delivered to every residence in SURA, indicating a date for the meeting where this would be presented for adoption.
This general meeting was held in May 2000 at the JCC at Spadina and Bloor. It was well attended — just short of 80 people — and the constitution was vigorously and robustly debated. In the end, it was adopted by a large majority of attendees.
A second motion, that SURA fold itself and its assets into the new Harbord Village Residents' Association, was also passed by a large majority.
A slate of officers was presented and elected, with Curt Oliver as president, David Wurfel as secretary and Margaret Smith as treasurer. Finally, the first area reps were elected and the new board officially constituted. The first meeting was set for September 2000 — HVRA was on its way!
Birth of HVRA
We began with 30 paid members from the former SURA and about $800 in the bank. Now, in January 2007, HVRA has just short of 400 paid members and about $16,000 in the bank. In the intervening six years, we have always had a full and active board. The list of our initiatives and achievements is ambitious, but more important, HVRA has a culture not just of enthusiasm but also of getting things done.
What are the ingredients of this success?
How we work
The most salient and innovative points of the new constitution are the following:
1: The Area Reps
The neighbourhood was divided into five geographic areas, which would become the backbone of how HVRA would organize itself. Each area sends two representatives to the board, and those area reps plus the executive ARE the board.
This geographic arrangement has made running the organization much easier — for each part of the catchment area is represented on the board — and we have eyes and ears throughout the Village. This is useful for practically anything we do, from zoning issues to delivering flyers about upcoming meetings.
Out of this organization grew the concept of neighbourhood caucuses, now an important part of every HVRA general meeting. Members from each area meet and discuss their local issues with the area reps chairing the caucus. All concerns are compiled in a list, used to guide the board in setting its various initiatives in the coming months.
2: The Constitutional and Nominations Committee
The CNC comprises four members of the community at large who are generally recognized as having been involved in our community over the years. No two members can be from the same geographic area. The CNC is responsible for two very important things:
3: The Committee Structure and Conveners
A third and last feature is the way the constitution allows for various tasks to be done by committees of the board. There is provision for the board to establish committees for various tasks within the board, i.e. made up of members of the board and reporting to the board. In addition, the board has the power to appoint individual members of HVRA who are not board members to head committees to and report back to the board. Individuals so appointed are called "conveners." Such extra-board initiatives have been: the heritage conservation committees, The treeing the village initiative, and various submissions to OMB.
Goals and Aspirations of HVRA
Here is what our Constitution has to say on this subject:
Gord Brown, our Treasurer for 6 years, summarized this well in our slogan Good Neighbours Building a Great Neighbourhood. How does HVRA carry out this mission statement? What are the things we do that reflect these goals? Here are a few thoughts:
1: Building Community and Sense of Community:
Every time we put people together, whether it be for the semi-annual neighbourhood clean-ups, the committee-work for the Fall Fair or attending the Fall Fair itself, local meetings with residents on local development/permit issues, the Heritage Conservation process - and many more.. relationships are necessarily forged between and amongst members of our neighbourhood. HVRA instituted the Neighbourhood Builder Awards which have recognized various aspects of working for and with the neighbourhood, namely: negotiating difficult development issues, the most beautiful gardens, the most sensitive renovation.
2: Improving Safety in the Neighbourhood
Such initiatives might include having experts come to our General Meetings to discuss Fire Safety, Policing issues, Insurance coverage.
It might be the introduction of pinch points on Robert Street at Russell; Robert Street at Bloor;
3: Considerations for the Stability and Enhancement of the Assets of Our Community


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Explore the outer limits of the imagination with the GrandMaster of American Literature, Ray Bradbury, in a dark and disquieting descentinto The October Country. Readers of The Martian Chronicles and TheIllustrated Man, as well as fans of H. P. Lovecraft, Rod Serling, Bram Stoker, Stephen King,and writers of other classic horror stories, will be captivated by TheOctober Country's nineteen astonishing tales. From drowned cities tofrantic carnivals to forgotten Mexican villages, Bradbury offers anunforgettable journey into mystery, shining brief lights upon the darkestcorners of the soul.
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The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
Lucy Deane Timeline and Summary
- Lucy visits the Tullivers as a little girl. She loves her cousin Maggie.
- During a visit to the Pullets Tom pays more attention to Lucy since he is angry with Maggie. Lucy still tries to include Maggie.
- While playing near a pond, Maggie shoves Lucy in the mud. Lucy is horrified and cries
- Lucy is taken home by Tom and the Pullets comfort her.
- Years later, Lucy's mother has died and she has invited Mrs. Tulliver to live with her.
- Lucy has a suitor, Stephen Guest.
- She invites her cousin Maggie to come stay with her.
- Lucy is thrilled to learn about Maggie's past relationship with Philip and is determined to play matchmaker.
- Lucy tries to intervene on Maggie's behalf with Tom but is unable to get through to him regarding Maggie and Philip.
- Lucy is largely oblivious to the growing romantic tension between Stephen and Maggie.
- Lucy plots to help the Tullivers buy back their mill.
- Lucy enlists her father and Philip in her scheme.
- After Maggie and Stephen elope, Lucy goes out of town with the Miss Guests.
- Later, Lucy sneaks over to see Maggie at night and forgives Maggie for eloping with Stephen.
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The suspected thief was driving a 2000 Mercury Marquis that went north at a high rate of speed on California Avenue around 6 p.m. Friday, according to a Redlands police news release.
The Marquis crashed into another car at San Bernardino Avenue and California Avenue.
The driver, identified as 28-year-old Terrell Anthony Harper of Highland, ran into a warehouse in an attempt to elude authorities, leaving a passenger in his vehicle who was injured, according to the release.
One person in the other car was ejected and reportedly suffered moderate injuries.
Redlands Fire Department paramedics treated the injured before taking them to the hospital.
Police evacuated employees of the warehouse and placed it on lockdown.
Search dogs from the Colton and Fontana Police departments along with air support from the Fontana PD helicopter were used but were unable to locate Harper.
Harper has a $100,000 arrest warrant stemming from the incident.
The vehicle he was driving was reported stolen out of San Bernardino ,according to the release.
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The Charlotte Bobcats have been reportedly shopping Ben
Gordon this season, but their desire to ship out the guard "has deepened" following
a bout of disruptive behavior targeted at head coach Mike Dunlap, according to
Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports.
Wojnarowski describes the incident below:
As Dunlap led the Bobcats in a morning shootaround on Monday before a victory over the Celtics, Gordon refused Dunlap's request to stop bouncing a ball as the coach spoke, sources said. Before long, Gordon began baiting Dunlap, telling him that he needed to "humble himself," sources said.
Gordon then refused to give Dunlap the ball and instead tossed it toward the ball rack. General manager Rod Higgins was sitting in on the practice and had to intervene. One source described the scene to Wojnarowski as "beyond disrespectful."
Charlotte didn't suspend Gordon at the time, as they believed the attention would cause the guard to lose trade value with the deadline approaching. It was reported that the Brooklyn Nets had interest in a Gordon-for-Kris Humphries swap, but the team is now said to be looking elsewhere.
So far this season, the eighth-year pro has totaled 12.6 points, 2.2 assists and 1.9 rebounds per game for the Bobcats.
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The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle—they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together.
Both Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days—but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his "little gray cells." However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-time murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder beforethe curtain falls. . . .
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"First rate Christie: fast, complicated, wryly funny." — Time magazine
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Roger improved to 56-1 in his last 57 North American hardcourt matches by trouncing Chinese Taipei's Yeu-Tzuoo Wang 6-4, 6-1, 6-0 in 100-minute fashion at Ashe Stadium. He swatted seven aces and broke Wang's serve eight times in a routine outing.
Brimming with confidence, Roger overpowered Wang with his superior shot making, and never allowed the Taiwanese to settle into the match at the Arthur Ashe main stadium. "I tried to play my game by being consistent and making him work hard," said Roger. "It really went well so this is a good start for me."
He next plays the winner of an all-British veterans battle between Greg Rusedski and Tim Henman. Roger, who waited until the third day of the tournament to hit the court, seemed to strengthen as the match progressed. He won 90 percent of his first serve points and hit twice as many winners (44-22) as Wang.
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President Obama about Syria and chemical weapons (today at Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Symposium) -
"...And today, I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and those under his command: The world is watching. The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable. And if you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there where be consequences, and you will be held accountable..."


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I have lost a gold ring. It has a tansonite stone (bluish-purple color) and has diamonds in it. I lost it on Aug. 28 and I went to three places today, Lowe's, Judy's Clothing and SEMO Glass (I don't think it's at SEMO Glass). It slipped off my finger and I have no idea where. It is very important to me. If anybody has found it, please call me at 472-1909 where I work. I would really appreciate it. I might be able to give some sort of award.
I'm not advocating a prom. I was answering the ad about a place for teens to go, a Teen-Town or something like that. They already have a prom at high school. Teens need a place to go and hang out with each other, somewhere besides a parking lot.
To the hit-and-run driver in the green van in Lambertville on the afternoon of Aug. 23, the little white Spitz dog you hit is alive and well, no thanks to you. Had it not been for my thoughtful, caring neighbors, she would have lain out in that 95-degree weather with a broken pelvis, unable to move until we found her. They saw you hit her and said you didn't even stop. It's true that she should not have been near the highway, but she does get out of the fenced yard on occasion. In the future, when you know you have struck someone's pet, do try to get help for the helpless animal. They have feelings too. And that's the least anyone should do.
I am calling about a lady I know who is in need of clothing. She wears plus sizes and needs clothes for church as well as every day clothing and underwear, but cannot afford to buy them. If anyone can help, call 667-5221.
Your friend can visit the House of Prayer General Baptist Church in Grant City, who has a thrift store which sells used clothing. The store is thinning out its inventory this week. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, clothing and household items are being given away free of charge to make room for new supplies. The number there is 472-0406; or you can contact Bethesda Fellowship at (573) 545-3104, which has stores in Benton and Cape Girardeau where clothing is donated every Tuesday to anyone in need free of charge.
This is for "Neighbor to neighbor." I wish I was your neighbor. I would help you. I can do you one better. I was an employee for the last 13-14 years for a local Sikeston business. We employed about 50 women employees. Almost every day for the last 14 years there has been a collection taken up for something. Someone's cat got sick or the neighbor's dog died, or something, some kind of collection. I'm on limited income. That was my only job to raise my family. Every day I'd try to put in my $2 worth. I was injured at work about nine months ago now. I have been home flat on my back after undergoing major surgery for a 10-day ICU stay. To this day, to this very second, I have not heard or received anything from my fellow employees. I guess they quit taking up the collection for food, flowers and housekeeping services and errands and whatever you needed done. I haven't heard a word. Not even a little 35-cent post card. Not anything. So it just shows you that there's nobody in this world who takes care of anybody but themselves. So keep your chin up, take care of your kids. Hopefully you won't be laid up with broken legs and back and arms and everything else. That's just the way it is anymore. You just try to be the better neighbor.


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By Katherine Rosario, Fort Riley Public AffairsSeptember 24, 2010
FORT RILEY, Kan. - Soldiers were transported back to ancient Greece Sept. 16 at Barlow Theater, as part of a reading and panel discussion presented by Theater of War.
Soldiers watched actors perform Sophocles' "Ajax and Philoctetes," a Greek play about a fierce warrior who takes his own life at the end of the Trojan War after attempting to kill his senior commanders.
The play, performed in front of the Greek warriors when it was written, also delves into how the warrior's wife and his troops attempted to comfort and stop his suicidal thoughts.
Though it was written more than 2,500 years ago, the play resonated with Soldiers in the audience who are or know someone who struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or has been wounded in combat.
After the play, a panel of five local speakers told their stories of war, the depression that came after and how their friends, Families, doctors and brothers in arms helped them make it through.
Capt. Joshua Mantz, the aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. David Petersen, 1st Inf. Div. deputy commanding general - rear, told his story of how he was shot during a vehicle search in Iraq on April 21, 2007, and flat-lined for 15 minutes before medics were able to revive him.
Mantz recovered and deployed to Iraq just five months after the incident.
"I arrived at Walter Reed, where they sent clinical psychologists into my room about every four hours to simply try to get me to talk about what happened. What that did is completely prevent any form of PTSD occurring within me whatsoever. It goes back to a very basic principal of psychology, and this is something you guys have to take with you, the earlier and more often you talk about a traumatic experience, the faster you will heal from that experience," Mantz said.
He said a lot of Soldiers have trouble seeing through traumatic experiences and fail to focus on the good that may come out of it, such as medics who work efficiently to help as many people as possible.
"I was Ajax," he said. "I had everybody trying to talk me out of going to Iraq and everything they were saying made absolute perfect sense. I did whatever it took to get back to Iraq."
He asked the Soldiers in the audience to keep any eye out for other Soldiers who have the same mentality he did after he got hurt and to help them through the decision of returning to war so soon after an injury.
"We've all heard that we call counterinsurgency the graduate level of warfare. I would submit to you that helping a Soldier recover from emotional distress is the graduate level of leadership," he said to the audience.
John Musgrave, a veteran, told his story to the Soldiers of when he was deployed as a rifleman during the Vietnam War with Company D, 3rd Platoon, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division.
"That was my Family," he said. "I had learned more of what it meant to be an American from those guys than I ever learned at home."
After his eighth day in Vietnam, he killed someone for the first time.
"I made a deal with the devil that day," he said.
He watched hundreds of thousands of people get killed every day on television, he said.
"I went to the movies. All my heroes killed people. All the cool, bad guys killed people," he said. "Real men kill people."
He said his first encounter was intimate, and at the end of it he "didn't feel like a real man."
He swore he would never kill another person as long as he lived, and in order to stay alive during his time in Vietnam, he made his enemy non-human.
"Hatred became my tool, my shield," he said. "You see I was an Eagle Scout and a Christian, and I had to kill with a clear conscious because if I couldn't kill, I was a threat to my buddies."
He said he was scared all the time.
"When nothing was happening, I was scared of what was going to happen. And when it hit the fan, I was terrified," Musgrave said.
He was wounded during an ambush in his 11th month of service and was brought back to the states.
"I was sent home alone in a hostile society that either thought I was a murderer or a coward," he said. "The World War II generation thought we were a bunch of cry babies that couldn't win our war, and our own contemporaries called us baby killers."
He said no one knew what PTSD was then.
"We were just (considered) weak," he said.
After he returned, he said he had a drink every night for a few years and a date with his gun.
It wasn't until he held his new baby son that he stopped and realized his children had a future and he needed to live for them, he said.
He told the Soldiers in the audience they were fortunate to have an Army available to them.
"There would be tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans alive today if only someone would have (cared)," he said.
He cautioned the Soldiers not to let another Soldier survive "only to die from the peace."
Bryan Doerries, founder of Theater of War, said of the 111 performances he has, the panel at Fort Riley was one of the most powerful he has ever heard.
He asked the audience why a general would have written this play for his officers and had it performed more than 2,500 years ago.
"The point of the play was to open the dialogue," said Pvt. Branden Robles, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. "For the general, to get up and (speak about deployment distress). He was trying to name something no one had said out loud yet."
Capt. John Enderle, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th IBCT, said the play helped reduce the stigma associated with stress.
"As a leader of Soldiers, in his era, he faced some of the same challenges we face today, which is bridging that gap," he said.


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SIKESTON - Phillip M. "Bud" Evans, 67, died at 7:42 p.m., Dec. 1, 2006, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Born May 29, 1939, in Sikeston, to the late Spirling S. and Eva Marie Harden Evans, he served in the U.S. Navy and had attended Bethel Baptist Church and Emmanuel Baptist Church. He had worked for Seven-Up Bottling Co. in Sikeston, at Anchor Toy Factory as a supervisor in the shipping department, at Reiss Dairy and at Cecil Holman Construction Co.
Survivors include: two sons, Phillip Wayne Evans of Moberly and Bryan Lee Evans of Des Moines, Iowa; three sisters, Barbara J. Moore and Joann Brown of Sikeston and Kay Morton of Kewanee; and four grandsons.
One daughter, Twila Jo Evans; one brother, James Larry Evans; and one sister, Peggy Sue Praul, preceded him in death.
No visitation is planned. Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens near Morley. The Rev. Mike Quillman, pastor of the Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church in Malden, will officiate.
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comme je l'ai déjà dis,AW est entêté…il s'obstine à vouloir gagner des trophés avec 16 joueurs!!…
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Augusta, GA (July 10, 2013) - The Augusta Sports Council has announced the preseason watch list for the 2013 Ray Guy Award, which honors the nation's top collegiate punter.
The 25 candidates on the list incorporate a broad spectrum of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) punters. Returning Ray Guy Award semifinalists from 2012 include Kyle Christy (Florida), Steven Clark (Auburn) Tyler Williams (Marshall) and Kirby Van Der Kamp (Iowa State).
The number of eligible candidates for this season will grow when the award opens for nominations in September. The complete list of candidates will be released on October 25. In early November, the Ray Guy Award committee will meet to select the ten semi-finalists, who will be announced on November 8. A national body of Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sports information directors, coaches, media representatives, and previous Ray Guy Award winners will then vote for the top three finalists, to be announced on November 25. After the finalists are named, the voting body will cast ballots again to select the nation's top punter. The winner will be announced live during The Home Depot College Football Awards airing on ESPN on Thursday, December 12, 2013.
2013 Ray Guy Award Preseason Watch List
· Steven Clark (Sr.), Auburn
· Pat O'Donnell (Gr.), Miami (Fl.)
· Darragh O'Neill (Jr.), Colorado
· Will Monday (So.), Duke
· Trent Tignor (Sr.), East Carolina
· Kyle Christy (Jr.), Florida
· Richie Leone (Sr.), Houston
· Justin DuVernois (Jr.), Illinois
· Kirby Van Der Kamp (Jr.), Iowa State
· Anthony Melchiori (So.), Kent State
· Landon Foster (So.), Kentucky
· Tyler Williams (So.), Marshall
· Colter Johnson (Sr.), Massachusetts
· Tom Hornsey (Sr.), Memphis
· Mike Sadler (Jr.), Michigan State
· Ben Skaer (Sr.), New Mexico
· Cayle Chapman-Brown (Sr.), New Mexico State
· Thomas Hibbard (Jr.), North Carolina
· Keith Kostol (Jr.), Oregon State
· Cody Webster (Sr.), Purdue
· Harrison Waid (Sr.), San Jose State
· Mike Loftus (Jr.), SMU
· Ethan Perry (So.), TCU
· Hunter Mullins (Jr.), UAB
· Michael Bowlin (Sr.), Washington State
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The Augusta Sports Council created the Ray Guy Award in 2000 to honor Thomson, Georgia native and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Ray Guy. The Ray Guy Award winner is determined by a national voting body of sports writers, college coaches, sports information directors, and past Ray Guy Award winners. Among the statistics used to identify the winner is net punting average, number of times a punt is downed or kicked out of bounds inside the opponents 20-yard line, total yardage punted, average returned yardage, and percentage of punts not returned. The winner must display team leadership, self-discipline, and have a positive impact on the team's success.


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I'd appreciate some feedback on the new Lunar Solo. I had the old Solo some years ago. I liked the tent except for the condensation problem in certain conditions. I think the reason that the old Solo had more problems than my TT Contrail was because the fabric of the Solo was so close to my face when sleeping. The new upgrade claims to keep the tent farther away from one's head while sleeping. Has that been the experience of those of you who have the new model?
I purchased the older model last year and liked it but i found that their wasn't much room above my head and it was very difficult to get the net sides taunt. I desided to get the new model and so far, set it up once on the back yard it appear they have solved the issues i was having. Net sides are alot tighter and the higher pitch seems to give alot more head room. I am glad i tried the new model. Can't wait to get it out onto the trail.
Please let me know what you think after getting out on the trail. How many inches would you estimate the fabric is from your face when lying down?
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If you need/want a little extra headroom with the Lunar Solo keep in mind that there's a tie-out right above your head. With your second trekking pole, some guyline, and an additional stake you can easily give yourself a couple more inches…
Kevin, is that tie out also on the 2012 model? I know that Ron wanted to eliminate some tie outs with the redesigned model.
I finally got a round to taking some pictures of the 2012 set up
so its about 18inch from the floor to the top around the head area
I also found that adding 9inch of line to each of the tie outs allow me raise the whole tent up a little
Victor, thank you for the pics. I'll be curious about your opinion after you get a chance to take it out a few times.
Are there tensioners/lineloks included on the tie-outs?
I like the weight on the old one but the set up is a bit too tedious and I'm getting rid of mine. Hopefully the new one is easier.
How do you think this would fit a 6'3" person, it looks pretty good from your pictures? Is the 18" height at the end of the 90" floor, or back a bit?
yes there are tensioners on the tie out lines
The 18" is right where my head is when I lay down on the 72" neoair. There is still room behind my head and below my feet. I'm 6feet tall and have been trying a lot of different tents over the last year. With this design tent the key for me is to have a high peak (sometimes even higher than recommended 50-51") creating steeper wall. Nerd alert::: do what I did and look up right triangle calculation on google and you can determine the height at any point along the floor:::
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Morning Roundup: Roman Polanski Takes a Sick Day From Jail; New Marijuana Guidelines; 'Simpsons' Cast Expanding
Polanski Exits Jail, Briefly: Director Roman Polanski, who was arrested in Switzerland to face extradition to the United States, was recently removed from jail for treatment of an undisclosed medical condition, according to his French lawyer. In 1978, Mr. Polanski, the 76-year-old director of such films as "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Pianist," fled the U.S. before his sentencing after pleading guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. [Reuters]
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Medical Marijuana Gets Green Light: In news that will make the Showtime series "Weeds" seem a lot less edgy, the Obama administration is issuing new guidelines pertaining to medical marijuana. Federal drug agents will no longer target those who use or supply medical marijuana in states like California and Maine that allow its use. The policy is a reversal of the Bush administration, which arrested owners of marijuana dispensaries, even if they were operating within the laws of their state. [AP via Yahoo]
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The opening reception for Nik Dudukovic's gallery takes place this Saturday January 11, 2014 at the Scion AV Installation located off of Melrose in Los Angeles, CA. His work features cartoon illustrations and graphic compositions and we have a preview of some of the things that will be available for purchase at the show. Some of the products include tee shirts, ink paintings, acrylic paintings, lighters, hats, jackets, blankets, and notebooks. Artwork pieces are 16×12 inches on wood panel.
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obligation, constraint, coercion, duress, pressure, intimidation
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