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Rachel Hinman – Creating Great Mobile User Experiences
February 10th, 2012
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Mobile is greatly influencing the user experience community. It's challenging traditional approaches to design, but also bringing with it a host of new opportunities. Being a user experience practitioner in this changing environment is a bit scary. Yet coupling existing skill sets with the constraints of designing in the mobile space makes for an exciting world full of possibility.
The transition from designing for the desktop to designing for mobile can be a daunting one. Rachel Hinman of Nokia had her own experience with this challenge back in 2005 when the mobile world truly was a scary place to live in. Back then, the mobile web was little more than an afterthought. The experience of using the web on a mobile device was painful. With advancing technology and the advent of the iPhone and Android devices, mobile is becoming easier for users. Rachel considers that personal feeling and concreteness to be one of the exciting things about working in the mobile space.
The very nature of mobile offers opportunities that the desktop doesn't, but also brings with it problems you don't encounter on the desktop. Rachel thinks that it takes some "unlearning" to position yourself in the mobile context. Embracing the constraints of mobile and taking full advantage of capabilities such as voice and built in cameras are key. This allows you to leave the desktop mindset and design for the context.
Check out Rachel's full-day workshop from UX Immersion 2012, now in our All You Can Learn Library.
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Recorded: January, 2012
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Jared Spool: Welcome everyone to another episode of the SpoolCast. I'm Jared Spool and I am your host for today.
We have with us Rachel Hinman, who is going to be speaking at our upcoming UX Immersion Conference, which is going to be April 23-25 in Portland, Oregon.
And Rachel is going to be doing a fabulous workshop that will help everyone, who is just getting into mobile design understand exactly what they need to do and how they need to approach the problem of designing great experiences for mobile devices. Rachel comes to us from Nokia and we have her here today.
Hi, Rachel!
Rachel Hinman: Hello!
Jared: Hello! You've been working in mobile now for a really long time, right? You were one of the first to really start designing in this space that I knew about.
Rachel: Yeah, I started my career in mobile in 2005. I had just gotten a job at Yahoo and, at the time, Yahoo was really interested in figuring out how to get Internet content on mobile devices. This was way before the iPhone was around or Android phones or Windows Mobile phones, so getting Internet content on a mobile device was a pretty difficult experience, difficult user experience. I was hired to help them figure that out and help them make that a better experience for their users.
Jared: And so back then, it must have been hugely challenging to do this. The browsers weren't on every phone and the phones that had them, the browsers were really crippled in what they could and couldn't do, right?
Rachel: There were a lot of sort of pain points for users at that time. There was definitely issues around the browsers and there was also this really big chasm between smartphone users and sort of basic phone users. And there was also sort of, people knew the Internet access was potentially a feature for their phone, but they weren't even sure if their phone was capable of doing that because that language really wasn't in people's sort of mindset at that point.
I think another big problem that we saw, was that data plans was something that was a huge issue for people back then, as well. So even people who did understand and "get it" that they could get Internet content on their phone and were interested in it, then they would get these horrible bills because there really wasn't a lot of clarity around how much it would cost and what the pricing was, what was driving the pricing. There were a lot of really significant user experience hurdles for folks in those days. My, how times have changed!
Jared: Yeah! Yeah, I remember back then having this little LG flip phone. We had a Verizon business account and they gave us six months free of a data plan, just so we'd get hooked on it.
I remember trying to use it and it felt so impossible because it wasn't a smartphone. I had to do everything through typing in the letters with the number pad, so if I wanted a "C" I hit the "1" key three times. Just typing in a website was like this major, major effort.
Rachel: Yeah, I have this great video clip that I remember from one of the research studies that we did where we asked the participant to… She had mentioned how one of the things she had done is that she would look up movies at blockbuster.com to see if a new title was available at the rental store and I asked her, "Could you demonstrate to me how you did it?" It was seriously like a four minute video clip of her typing in on T9, www.blockbuster.com and then, waiting for the page to fully render in the browser. It was a great clip because it really communicated just how something so simple that we take for granted on a PC, is so very challenging in the mobile world.
Jared: So it must've been, you know, here you are, hired into Yahoo and you're tasked with making a great experience in those conditions. That must have been really scary because nobody knew how to do that back then, right?
Rachel: Yeah, I was really terrified, I would say, for the first three to five months of my time there. Because my experience before Yahoo had really been in the web — when I say web, at that time it was more the PC web — and I felt really comfortable in that space. I felt comfortable designing websites that were really for the PC context.
I had gone to graduate school at the Institute of Design and learned about user research and all that stuff, but I really didn't have a lot of specific knowledge around mobile. In fact, a lot of people at that point didn't. I think that I had done a project or two in my graduate program that involved mobile devices and I think that is why I got the job. But the first three to give months of that job, I was just really terrified by the fact that I didn't really know a whole lot about mobile. I really didn't know how to — I guess I would say — engage with it, if that makes sense.
Jared: Yeah, I mean at that point, it was really a different thing. So it took you a good long time, at that time, to sort of get comfortable. What were some of the things that stand out that were like "Aha!" moments for you back then?
Rachel: Well I think even knowing how to design for a small screen like, what are the design constraints? What are the typical design constraints? What's the screen size? You know, I think with a website, you have a sense of how browsers work, and how page loads work, and sort of how to create a web page that, you know, it was of the medium of HTML and it would work. You know, it wouldn't really choke the browser or be really difficult for a user to download or be really difficult to construct and build.
I think I didn't really know a lot about that stuff and I got really caught up in sort of the technical parts of it. I think that that was probably for me, one of the things that really terrified me the most. Yeah, I would say that was the thing that probably terrified me the most. [laughs]
Jared: As you started to work in it, how did you start to get so you weren't as scared of it and terrified any more? What sort of happened to get you there?
Rachel: I think, for me, one of the things that really kind of kicked me into it and really got me excited about it was doing user research because I was seeing firsthand how people were experiencing the stuff that was currently being built for mobile. I saw how poor it was. I just realized — here I am — I'm almost paralyzed in terms of my design skills, or being able to sketch out ideas and start to be able to put them together and build them.
And I'm seeing what other people have done and how really horrible it is for other people and I'm like, "I can't do any worse."
That was what caused me to just realize that I have these skills. I can empathize with users. I can draw and sketch. The technical skills that I don't have, there are plenty of people within my group that I can look to, to help me with that. I realized after going out into the world and talking to people and seeing some of the broken experiences that they were having, that it was [inaudible] of me not to just jump in.
I found that to be just really something that made me just get beyond my fear.
Jared: It's interesting that you said that the things that got you beyond your fear are basically, proven time-tested usability and user research techniques — just you know, sitting and actually watching people, seeing how bad the status quo experience was, realizing that you could sketch out your ideas and put them in front of folks and see if you could incrementally improve that experience over what was out there. I mean, that's not new. That's not new to mobile. There's nothing mobile-specific about those things, right?
Rachel: Right, exactly. I felt like it was also interesting because going out into the world and talking to people, observing them and observing how they were using their mobile devices was something that was surprising that more people in the organization hadn't already done that. There were some really significant issues that they were trying to solve and they were struggling with, and were trying to find good solutions to, but going out and actually watching people, and sort of understanding how they understood their mobile devices, was not something a lot of people felt comfortable doing.
I think from a user experience perspective, that ability to empathize with the user and observe that and sort of be able to come up with design solutions based on those observations and those insights, is something that like you said, it's a tried and true, proven skill that sort of applies to a lot of things.
Jared: Let's fast forward to today. Now, you're working at Nokia. You're sort of neck-deep in mobile experiences all the time, right?
Rachel: Yes.
Jared: We have the iPhone has come along and the iPhone 2, and the iPhone 3GS, and now the iPhone 4. We've got Android phones, and last I heard, Nokia has some awesome new phones running Windows Mobile 7. And so there's all sorts of new experiences today. Does all this stuff make it harder or easier, than what you were dealing with way back in 2005, you think, for people who are just getting started?
Rachel: Well, I think it's a kind of a combination of both. I think it's easier because I think, you know, mobile's not this sort of side thing, side interesting thing, it's really something that's I think become front and center, both in the user experience world, as well as the business world, technology world and it's something that people are a lot more aware of.
That's definitely a big change. I think that awareness and excitement around it — you're not the mobile team of maybe three or four people kind of cobbling something together that not very many people use — there's a lot more people now doing pretty sophisticated things with their mobile devices.
There's a visibility now, and I think, a user group now, just in the general public that's a lot greater than it was seven years ago.
But I think in some ways there's kind of a… I don't want to say that there's a dark side to that. But I think one of the things that makes that challenging is, there's a lot of noise. I mean I think that an image that comes to mind is — I use it in my book — was this image of the Oklahoma Land Rush. You know it's like all of those horses running! There's a sort of fervor around it. I think that energy can be not always the most productive for people.
I mean, some people work really well in that kind of a space, around that kind of energy, but not everyone does. I think in that some ways that can kind of get folks into trouble.
Jared: Say a little bit more about this "land rush" thing that's happening.
Rachel: Well, I think people just feel like mobile is really hot right now and it's just kind of like the Land Rush. They want to figure out their place in it. They want to get their piece of that opportunity. I think people are just sort of rushing in and trying to figure that out.
And I think, you know like I said, the positive side of that is that sort of optimism and sense that anything is possible is there. I guess I try to embrace that positive part of it. Like, "Anything's possible! Infinity and beyond! Hooray!" It's a nice thing to be around.
Jared: It is! What's really fun for me is, I see clients who get really excited about the possibilities of mobile and start to say, "Oh, and we can give them status updates on where things are. We can let them check the progress of their deliveries. We can skip things in the user experience. They don't have to check in with us anymore. They can now just do it on their phone and go straight to the gate or just take off." Those things become simpler to imagine because they have so many experiences to compare to.
Whereas back in 2005, I think it was hard to imagine all the things you could do with your phone. It was much more "sci-fi-ish" back then.
Rachel: Yeah, I think that's one of the things that has been really exciting about the last I would say two to three years of being involved in mobile. Is, I think, like you were saying, with the release of things like the iPhone and the Android phones and touchscreen devices, as well as tablets, I mean I feel like there were a lot of conferences and academics and people in research labs, who were talking about ubiquitous computing, but it's almost like these devices and tablets have really become an almost gateway drug to what's possible. Right?
It's not something that's this sort of wonky, abstract thing that people can't relate to any more. The ability to access information from anywhere, from almost any context, it's really sort of allowing people to experience that firsthand and make that type of experience concrete and more tangible.
And so it's exciting because it's no longer this kind of weird, abstract thing that most people can't relate to, it's something that is a lot more near and dear to them. They can experience it. They can get glimpses of that future.
Jared: Yeah, I mean if you'd asked me in 2005, what would be some of the neater apps, I wouldn't have said,"Well, I'll just point my camera at my W-2 form and Intuit's tax product will read the form and fill out my income tax 1040 based on what's right there." But that's done now. Then once you realize, "Oh, if we can do it that," then Walgreen's realizes that, "OK, well, I could just point the camera at a prescription bottle and make it a refill request." All of a sudden, all this stuff just happens. It's like, "Oh, that's easy."
So it's almost like the palette of colors we have to paint with has just gotten hugely bigger.
Rachel: Yeah. That's a great way to put it. It really is this sort of green field. I think that it's almost like this golden age now, where these sort of wonky things that we thought would be so impossible, it's like, "Wow, it's really not." It's not impossible anymore.
Jared: So, given that, and all these cool things are there, there are still some challenges that people today deal with on a regular basis. What are some of the challenges that you're seeing when you talk to folks who are trying to design for mobile today?
Rachel: Well it's interesting, because I think a lot of times when I talk to people, a lot of the fears that people have are the same fears that I had when I first started, which was, I got really caught up in the fact that I didn't have any experience in mobile. I got really caught up in the sort of technical aspects of it that I didn't completely understand.
I know that those are valid fears. I've experienced them myself, but I also have experienced firsthand I can move up and out of that. Because most people, if they're involved in user experience and have some sort of user-experience projects under their belt, they have developed some skills that will serve them very well in designing mobile stuff, mobile applications, mobile websites and whatnot.
It's really around sort of recognizing that and having confidence in the skills that you have, and the contribution that that can make to whatever mobile projects you're working on and for your team. I think that confidence issue is definitely one challenge that I see a lot of people having.
And the technical stuff, I think that that's becomes a weird thing too, because when people ask, "Oh, should I make a native application, or a web-based application? Should I make a mobile website? Should I make an Android application? Should I make an iPhone application?"
To me, those are important questions to ask, but I think it's really more of a timing question. I see people asking that question right away, like at the very beginning of their design process. I just feel like that's not really the right time to be asking that question.
The right time to be asking that question is further along, after you've allowed yourself to explore and see what might be possible, and just let yourself explore what could be possible, explore what mobile experiences might make sense for your users, and then make your decisions, your sort of execution decisions, based on those ideas.
Jared: All this technical stuff, it sounds to me like, while it's really important, what I hear you saying is that a lot of the issues that come up when you're designing, there's a way to do it most of the time, and if not, you'll find it out pretty quick. So don't worry about it too much. Chances are you have a group of people around you who are going to be able to guide you through the, "Oh, that's easy" or "Wow, that's going to be really hard."
But the things that make a really good experience typically are not things that are technically difficult to do. Is that true?
Rachel: One of the things that I think is really important to remember with mobile is that even a beautifully executed bad idea is still a bad idea. Right? Execution is important, but it's really around what your idea is.
I think one of the things that's super exciting about mobile is the fact there's still so much about it that we don't know, and we don't understand. And that's why I really encourage people to allow themselves to explore that preliminary blue sky idea space, and give themselves a generous amount of time to do that, because there's really a lot of room in mobile user experience to innovate.
I think it's important for everyone to allow themselves to just take that time to come up with a bunch of crazy ideas, and really save the execution decision making part of the project for a little bit later in the process. Because who knows who's going to come up with the next new interesting idea, right?
Jared: Yeah. Some of the coolest stuff in mobile has been really out of folks that you wouldn't think of as a particularly innovative organization or group. I mean, take the prescription bottle thing from Walgreen's. I think before that, if you had asked me, "Who are the top technology innovators in the world?" Walgreen's wouldn't have come to mind.
Same with the folks over at Bank of America. I think it was Bank of America. Who was it who made it so you can take a picture of your check and deposit it without having to be at an ATM?
Rachel: I think it was B of A, but I think actually, I want to say it may have been something government oriented, because I thought that the first people who were doing that, it was designed for folks in the military.
Jared: Oh, yeah. I think I might have heard that, too. But even so, neither of those organizations you would put at the top end of technology innovation. It's not like they had some special incubator, or some think tank that was coming up with this stuff. It was just a bunch of guys that, "Hey! What if we took a picture of it? What could we do with that picture?"
So it's sort of that playfulness that I think really makes mobile stuff really, really interesting.
I'm curious. You spend a lot of time helping people, and you're writing this book for Rosenfeld Media called "The Mobile Frontier." What are some of the traps that you see folks running into when they start, that it's like, "Oh! Dude! You should be reading my book! You should come to my workshop, because you would so not have done that."
Rachel: I almost think of it more as unlearning. But I think one of the things I see a lot happening with people is that it's very difficult to recognize and be conscious of the fact that a lot of how we think about computing experiences and technology today is really based on the PC experience and the context of the PC.
So a lot of ideas, and even solutions that people come up with are very much sort of entrenched and tied to that legacy.
And I think it takes some unlearning to recognize that mobile is just a very different context to design for. There's limitations to that that can be somewhat frustrating for designers, but there's also a lot to it that's kind of, like you were saying, taking a photograph of something and using that as a way to trigger an interaction. That's something that you really don't see a lot of with the PC.
Voice is another one, another input that has been explored somewhat on the PC, but mobile's really taking that baton and running with it. I think also just playing around with information, information access in a different context. What does that mean? How do you depict information? How do you convey it in a way that is glanceable, is not annoying, is valuable to a user in a variety of different contexts?
Those are things that become interesting design questions for mobile, that I just don't think the PC has ever really explored. I think that it's that unlearning of the PC, and really allowing yourself to kind of cast off that anchor and explore a different way of doing things that really becomes a challenge for people.
Jared: This getting away from the PC. Are there tricks that you've been teaching people, to sort of divorce themselves of that thinking?
Rachel: One of the exercises that I tried kind of early on in my career and I was just so surprised at how excited people got as a result of that exercise, was… You know, a lot of times at the beginning of any project, you'll have a brainstorming exercise. I think there's a typical scenario for that brainstorming exercise, and that is, your team sits together in a conference room, maybe have a bunch of hash sheets, and you come up and you start brainstorming ideas. That's the sort of scenario.
I was working on a project, and we were thinking, "Hey, instead of sitting around this conference room, let's actually get out into the world and start coming up with ideas that way." And it was actually sort of, we could have termed in "brainstorming in the wild," but people going out into a variety of different mobile contexts, and using that as sort of fodder and inspiration for their ideas.
And I think what the result of that is is that your ideas can actually have a kind of empathy and sensitivity to some of the contextual issues that you encounter when you're designing for mobile.
Even some of those challenges just become this sort of inspirational fodder for a kind of clever and interesting way to solve a problem that someone might have, or just think about access to information in a completely different way.
So I think that it's that idea of getting out of the static context, is one really great way to kind of shake yourself out of, "Wow, I'm not designing for this sort of, I'm sitting at a computer with a keyboard." Put yourself in a typical user's environment and try to come up with some ideas.
Jared: Are there other traps that people run into too?
Rachel: I'd say that I've really found that prototyping is… I think for any user experience activity has been evangelized as really important to prototype, but I think in mobile, it's like, three or four times more important to really give yourself the time and the space to prototype your ideas. I think for the PC, it's really considered a luxury, but I think for mobile, it's just, it's essential to really just bust out and really get your ideas on paper, and find a way to really test out your ideas early and often.
Jared: What is it about mobile that sort of forces your hand on the prototyping thing?
Rachel: I always think of the design process you think about it in sort of four phases, like discover. You're sort of in that big idea space and come up with lots of ideas. Then there's that define, which is the second phase. It's where you say, "OK, this is what we're going to make, this idea." Then you develop that idea, and you fine tune the design. Then you deliver. That's sort of the fourth phase. So it's discover, define, develop, and deliver are the four phases of design process.
I find that the place where things really fall off the rails for a lot of folk when they're new to mobile is it's really in that develop phase, where you've actually taken a couple of design ideas, or one design idea, and you start to develop it. It's really because people lack the skills to make really good, educated decisions, because they're new to the design space.
Something that maybe sounded really good in their head, or maybe like there was an interesting drawing, or a few rough prototypes of it, once you really start to develop it, you start to see some of the flaws. Then it just becomes like a pain parade till the end of the process, because you just really didn't have a great idea that you could develop and deliver on.
If you start to prototype those ideas at the very first stages of that design process, in the discover and define phase of a design process, I just really prototype the heck out of all of your ideas. I find that it helps you make those decisions better. You're not just relying on an idea in your head, or a really rough idea that you maybe lightly sketched out, or made a really rough prototype of. It's like, if you vigorously kind of pursue that idea, and embodying that idea in a prototype, it helps you make better design decisions.
Jared: Well this has been really interesting. I'm really excited to see your workshop at the UX Immersion Conference, and the book, "The Mobile Frontier," is coming out, and I know you're going to be doing one of our Next Step Virtual Seminars with us, that we do in conjunction with Rosenfeld Media, that sort of celebrates the book and talk. We're going to be talking to you a lot.
Rachel: Will be exciting, yeah. It's going to be a fun spring, that's for sure. 2012 is going to be a good year.
Jared: It is, it is. And it's just in time, because I think this mobile thing is finally about to take off.
Rachel: I'd say.
Jared: Yeah. I predict all sorts of people will be using their phones. [laughs]
Rachel: Yeah. I mean, I don't know, I've talked to a lot of people lately, and I'm super excited for the future and what's happening, because I think there's just so much possibility, and so much space for innovation and invention. It's like I said, I've been in this industry for seven years, and I'm still excited by the possibilities of it.
I just see a lot of designers who are intrigued by mobile, but I can also sense that sort of hesitation and fear that they have. I hope that people just are able to move beyond that sort of hesitation and fear, and just jump in, because it's a fun place to be. It's where the action is.
Jared: Well, at the UX Immersion Conference in Portland in April, you're going to be helping people get over their fear, with your full day workshop. I think people are going to really love it.
Rachel: Yeah, I do, too. I promise there will be no trust falls.
Jared: No trust falls. OK. Excellent. Well, Rachel, thanks for spending the time with us.
Rachel: My pleasure. Thank you.
Jared: And if you want to see Rachel, you'll want to come to Portland, to the UX Immersion Conference. Again, that will be April 23-25. You'll also want to be checking out her book that's going to be coming out from Rosenfeld Media later this year, called, "The Mobile Frontier."
That would be an awesome way to get a great introduction into how to design for mobile. I want to thank everybody for listening, and as always, thank you for encouraging our behavior. We'll see you next time.


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DIY STI Diagnostics From the Privacy of Your iPhone
Researchers in London develop a DIY STI test that you can use through your iPhone.
In response to a 36% 'epidemic' jump in reported cases of STIs over the past nine years, the UK government has invested nine-million dollars to develop an easy, on-the-go STI test you can take from the privacy of your iPhone.
Researcher Tariq Sadiq and his team at St. George's University of London, along with partners at a number of other UK universities, are currently working out a prototype for the hardware, but the goal is for users to be able to plug the eSTI² device straight into their smartphones and computers to get instant results.
Hoping to improve the U.K.'s sexual health using nanotechnology similar to that found in home pregnancy test kits, the current eSTI² will recommend a 'course of action' after making its diagnosis, with future prototypes set to automatically make appointments for the user at local sexual health clinics.
The research team is envisioning having test devices made available to the public through pharmacies and even vending machines.
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Replacing 2000 WJ Tail lights
Hey guys, i need to replace my Tail lights, would like the LED lights if possible, to avoid getting another fixture with that dang bulb-socket burning issue. I am writing to see who your recommendation for an LED fixture would be. Thanks,
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There is a thread somewhere on the board in which someone installed these on their WJ. I cannot find it at this time. They look really nice and plan to go with them when finances allow.
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so if you put these in you can run LEDs without wiring a resistor in for the turn signals???
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You still need a resistor if you want to do LED turn signals. I have these tails and love them! Highly recommended. However, they use a standard filament bulb for turn signal and reverse, bulb #1156. I have left a filament bulb in the turn signal rather than wire a resistor, but I bought a set of 7W high power LED reverse bulbs from VLEDs, they are insanely bright.
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Great set of lights, I had a post about these when I got them for my old WJ.
I would highly recommend them, I would also suggest the "tinted" ones which look better IMO, although they really are not that tinted at all, just the signal/reverse is slightly.
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The boys at Hoffman's were spliipng it out that ther were moving to a new location again and there will be a large sale when they do. Sometime around March '08
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The boys at Hoffman's were spliipng it out that ther were moving to a new location again and there will be a large sale when they do. Sometime around March '08
Glad to see that5 there is a ton of us here from Ct
March '08, huh?
Any update for this blazing-hot-fast-moving state sub-forum?
I was up there a couple weeks ago. I over heard one of the salesman telling another customer about the new location. They're finally getting a range, lol.
A 9 lane range with no caliber restrictions. 9 lanes is not enough for a large place like Hoffman's. Wolfs has 15 I think and I can't get one at times.
When will they be moving and where is wolfs? Yep another from ct.:smt1099
They are building their new building now. Wolfs is an indoor range in Bristol.
Welcome, glad to have another Nutmegger here
Thanks,I'm on a few forums and its nice to know who's close.By the way how do you like your Sig?
I think Sig's are one of the best shooting guns I have found.
I have handeled afew but never shot one.A year or so back I wanted a hi -cap 9,I went with the Glock 19 fit my hand and eye better. I looked at the sig ,just wasn't me and I only heard good things about them..
Wonder when and where they're moving to. Was just there the other day.
It will be just down the road a little bit and on the other side.
Anybody know when thier finale move will be?
where do you guys shoot at ? I'm in north haven / wallingford and all the ranges around here seem to have been shut down recently. also, wondering what the laws are for target shooting on private property...
This will be the third move I know of. Guns for the good guys. Sure miss that place.
i really like the slogan
rvl8, I shoot at Wolfs in Bristol. About 20 minutes from Wallingford.
thanks 220, I'm gonna check it out. do you know what the range fee's are?
does hoffmans sell any class 3 / NFA items ? I didn't notice anything there.


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This is a discussion on .357 mag or .45 ACP within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by user Why? If this is for defensive purposes, well, like Frank Zappa said, regarding that certain part of a woman's body, "anything ...
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110Gn cor bon 2in 929 FPS/4in 1286 FPS
Someone Said you don't gain that much from 2 to 4 in BARREL
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Instead I bought the SP 101. The S&W (and I luv my S&W's) is too light in the frame for heavy or full-time use of SAMII spec .357 rounds. The S&W frame stretches under this use and the Ruger shrugs it off. Plus the blue tends to rust fast under clothes while the SS doesn't seem to care.
Also, I could have bought a GP 100 but chose the smaller SP 101. One more round at the expense of 1" more bbl length and being much harder to conceal in office-wear clothes or not able to buy a good concealed holster killed the reason to go to the larger weapon. The smaller SP conceals better and has accessories on the market to make it better than the GP for my intended purposes.
For any who have not experienced it, I suggest that you find a SAFE enclosed area to fire your 357 snubbie in low/limited light..........you will feel the thump of the concussion, be deafened by the noise and blinded by the muzzle flash....try it but wear good ear protection. In fact, you should fire any defensive gun in this fashion, why you may ask? Most shoots occur in low/limited light, at short range, often inside a building. Shooting a gun inside of an enclosed area like a room or car is VERY Different than day fire on an open range.
"Most shoots' occur when "most shoots' occur. Time of day or lighting isn't part of the equation except to say that predators tend to prefer low light areas. However, that doesn't make it an "universal truth" to the point of saying that this is the case "most of the time." There are plenty of full daylight incidents to back this up.
Further, in self defense situations I want to do whatever it takes to be POSITIVE of my target before I pull the trigger. So, I'm going to light up my "attacker" if possible by turning on lights, using a flashlight, or running into a lit area. I DO NOT EVER shoot in the dark at an unidentifiable target. Nor should you.
Shooting in low light situations is tough REGARDLESS of what weapon is being used. My 3" bbl S&W 9mm has a pretty good muzzle flame. It's not as bright as my SP 101 but it WILL affect my night vision just as much in the dark. The answer is point shooting practice and hitting your identified target with the first shot instead of spray and pray.
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Just not a new head coach.
Wednesday afternoon, Georgia Tech announced that Ted Roof, who spent the 2012 season as PSU's defensive coordinator, had agreed to take the same position with the Yellow Jackets. Roof is a Georgia Tech graduate who played from the Ramblin' Wreck.
"I am very appreciative of Ted's contributions to Penn State," head coach Bill O'Brien said in a prepared statement. "Ted and I have known each other a long time and coached together at Georgia Tech, his alma mater. Ted is a great coach and person. He earned the respect of our players and they enjoyed playing for him. We wish Ted and his family well."
Shortly after that was announced, the Penn State athletic department tweeted that secondary coach John Butler, 39, has been promoted to defensive coordinator.
"John did an outstanding job with the secondary this past season and brings tremendous experience, energy and a passion for tenacious defense to the field and in the meeting room," O'Brien said in the release. "John quickly developed a great relationship with all our players on defense and special teams, and his ability to teach and relate to the players on and off the field will greatly assist in making this an easy transition."
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Caring for elderly parents catches many unprepared
Last July, Julie Baldocchi's mother had a massive stroke and was paralyzed. Baldocchi suddenly had to become a family caregiver, something that she wasn't prepared for.
"I was flying by the seat of my pants," says Baldocchi, an employment specialist in San Francisco. Both of her parents are 83, and she knew her father couldn't handle her mother's care.
The hospital recommended putting her mother in a nursing home. Baldocchi wasn't willing to do that. But moving her back into her parents' home created other problems.
VIDEO: Tips on how to help care for your elderly parents financially
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Baldocchi, 48, is married and lives about a mile away from her parents. She has a full-time job and has back problems that make it difficult for her to lift her mother. "I couldn't do it all," she says. "But I didn't even know how to find help."
With help from the Family Caregiver Alliance, she eventually hired a live-in caregiver. "But even if you plan intellectually and legally, you're never ready for the emotional impact," Baldocchi says. In the first two months after her mother's stroke, she lost about 30 pounds as stress mounted.
More than 42 million Americans provide family caregiving for an adult who needs help with daily activities, according to a 2009 survey by the AARP. An additional 61.6 million provided at least some care during the year.
And many are unprepared.
Starting with the paperwork
While many parents lack an advance care directive, it's the most basic and important step they can take. The directive includes several parts, including: a durable power of attorney, which gives someone legal authority to make financial decisions on another's behalf; a health care proxy, which is similar to the power of attorney, except it allows someone to make decisions regarding medical treatment; and a living will that outlines instructions for end-of-life care. (For example, parents can say if they want to be kept alive by artificial measures.)
|Ask your financial advisor these questions, which could impact your future:
1) What should I know about long-term care expenses?
2) I don't want my parents to outlive their savings. How do I start that conversation?
3) Is it too late for my parents to consider additional insurance?
"It's invaluable for the kids, because it's hard to make those decisions for a parent," says Jennifer Cona, an elder-law attorney at Genser Dubow Genser & Cona in Melville, N.Y.
An advance care directive is the first line of defense if a situation arises, says Kathleen Kelly, executive director of the Family Caregiver Alliance, which supports and educates caregivers.
Without an advance directive, the family will have to petition the court to be appointed the parent's legal guardian, says AgingCare.com.
It's important for families to talk about long-term care so the adult children know their parents' preferences, wishes and goals, says Lynn Feinberg, a caregiving expert at AARP. But it's not an easy conversation.
Elderly parents are sometimes suspicious of their children's financial motives, says Susan John, a financial planner at Financial Focus in Wolfeboro, N.H. One client asked John to hold a family meeting because they needed an intermediary to talk about financial issues, she says.
And when there are many siblings, the family decisions can become a three-ring circus with much acrimony, says Ann-Margaret Carrozza, an elder-law attorney in Glen Cove, N.Y.
Families who need information and help sorting out disagreements can call on elder-law attorneys, financial planners, geriatric care managers and caregiver support groups. In February, AARP said it will offer its members a new caregiving support service through financial services firm Genworth.
Navigating the long-term care system
Many families are unprepared for quick decisions, especially when they find out that Medicare doesn't pay for long-term care, Feinberg says.
The median cost of a year in a private room at a nursing home in 2011 was $77,745, according to Genworth. And only those who have spent most of their assets can qualify for Medicaid to pay for the nursing home.
Assisted living is another option. Residents can have their own apartment to maintain some independence. But the facilities generally provide personal care services, such as meals, housekeeping and assistance with activities.
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- NOT A PIGGY BANK: The home's changing role in family finances
- FORMING A FAMILY: Wide range of households require different types of financial planning
- PAYING FOR COLLEGE: Older students, part-timers flock to higher education
- PROTECT YOUR MONEY: Retirement planning mistakes that threaten your income
Still, it's not cheap: The national median cost in 2011 was $39,135, according to Genworth. Assisted living isn't covered by Medicaid.
If they have a choice, at least 90% of elderly parents prefer to stay at home as long as they can, according to AARP research.
But if the parents can no longer safely live at home, it can be hard for children to move them into an adult care facility.
There may be another option. Sometimes the home can be modified so a parent can stay there. For example, Baldocchi put in a chair lift for her mother. She also arranged for a home caregiver.
The job of family caregivers
Family caregivers take over many responsibilities. One might manage a parent's finances, while another sibling will take the parent to doctors' appointments and shopping. Those who move in with a parent take on a significant and sustained burden of care.
Jan Walker moved into her mother's home in Leesburg, Fla. After her mother, who is 83, had fallen, she wasn't able to get around as well.
Walker, 55, has three brothers. But she is the only daughter, is divorced and has no children. "I always knew that this was the role that I would have, and I guess my mind was prepared for it," says Walker, who now is a full-time caregiver and works from home as a tutorial instructor for a digital scrapbooking website.
"When you get into the trenches, it's literally baptism by fire," she says. "New things come up. It's not just about advance planning for finances or medical care. It's everything," she says.
Caregivers need to also watch their own health. "There is such a thing as caregiver burnout," Cona says. Among female caregivers 50 and older, 20% reported symptoms of depression, according to a 2010 study on working caregivers by MetLife.
"It's a hard job," Walker says. "But most worthwhile things are hard. She was always there for me when I needed a helping hand. It's only natural that I be here for her now."
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Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson 'Stay' at No. 1 for a Third Week
Jason Aldean once again tops both the Mediabase/Country Aircheck and Billboard country charts for the third week in a row with his 'Don't You Wanna Stay' duet with Kelly Clarkson. Billy Currington's 'Let Me Down Easy' rises to No. 2 on both charts, followed by Thompson Square's 'Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not' at No. 3.
Fans may be surprised to find out 'Don't You Wanna Stay' was actually written for one singer, not two. "The song wasn't written as a duet," Jason tells The Boot. "It was written by Jason Sellers, who was one of the writers and sang the demo on it. So, the song was great the way it was, but it's a lot cooler having [Kelly] on it."
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JJLL wrote:Hi Woodshed,
I'm in the same boat you are.
I live in SW PA, five minutes north of downtown Pittsburgh. Coal prices here are outrageous!
My supplier wants $7.00 a bag for a 6 ton order! That comes out to $350.00 a ton and that's not delivered.
If anyone out has a good supplier in the south western/western part of PA, please speak up.
JJLL wrote:I just did a search for "bagged coal" on Pittsburgh Craigslist and found this - **Broken Link(S) Removed**
I ended up buying 3 skids from the seller. Nice guy, easy going. Being located only 10 minutes from my home made my day!!! He only sells full skids though, no individual bags but for me, that was fine.
The seller is in Gibsonia, PA which is right next to North Park. I'm in Pittsburgh so I just took Route 8 North, made a left off of Rt 8 and it took only a few minutes. I made three trips (one for each skid.) He loaded each skid with a forklift and with each trip it took maybe 5 minutes to load. I'm so happy I don't have to drive so far to get my coal now.
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Tinker finished his senior year with 28 receptions over 450 yards and nine touchdowns.
Tinker now favors Colorado, which has been in the lead since early September, solidly over Louisville, West Virginia and Michigan State. All of his favorites have offered.
He says there's an "80 percent" chance he'll choose the Buffs, although he doesn't plan to make his final decision until after taking all of his visits. "I'm gonna go through the rest of the recruiting process," Tinker said. "I want to take the rest of my visits and see how it goes."
Tinker already officially visited Colorado on Sept. 15 and says the Buffs are recruiting him the hardest. "They said they're going to come to one of my basketball games during Christmas break," he said. "I like Colorado because they play a really tough schedule and always hang in tough. They played a lot of top teams this year and made it to a bowl game, which I don't think many people thought they would do. It's a great program and I think they'll be getting even better."
The only other official visit that Tinker has already set up is to Michigan State on Jan. 11. "They have a pretty good team that is still improving," he said. "I also really like the coaches and they always have good quarterbacks and I like their offense."
Tinker plans to visit Louisville and West Virginia in January as well. "I was supposed to visit Louisville this month but had to reschedule," he said. "I'll definitely still visit them. I really like the offense and how explosive it is."
With the recent news of coach Rich Rodriguez leaving West Virginia for Michigan, Tinker admits there's a bit more uncertainty surrounding his Mountaineer visit. "I was really surprised that coach Rodriguez decided to take the Michigan job," he said.
"I really didn't think he'd leave because I remember reading how much he loved West Virginia, so it took me by surprise," Tinker said. "But I don't think it'll affect the program too much. I don't think they'll be making any major changes and hopefully they hire a good coach that can just continue what coach Rodriguez started. They still have a lot of talent and are recruiting really well. I think they'll turn out a good team next year."
Tinker says that his comfort level is going to be the most important factor in his decision. "The distance and location don't matter as long as I'm comfortable," he said. "Even my mother said that I can go anywhere, which is surprising because mother's usually want their sons to stay close to home. She said she'll come see me wherever I go."
The final obstacle for Tinker is making sure he qualifies. He has a 2.4 core GPA, but says this winter semester he earned a 2.8. He scored a 740 SAT and is retaking the test on Jan. 26. "I'm taking SAT prep classes because I really need to get my score up," he said. "I know I need to get around a 910 (SAT) to qualify."


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NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
The NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms features 8,119 terms related to cancer and medicine.
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A pea-sized organ attached to the part of the brain called the hypothalamus. It lies at the base of the brain above the back of the nose. The hypothalamus sends signals to the pituitary gland, which then makes hormones that control other glands and many of the body's functions, including growth and fertility.


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Adorable Birdie Necklace by Sugarraindrops on Etsy
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Thread: Have you hosted a R100 shoot?
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Have you hosted a R100 shoot?
If you have hosted a R100 shoot would you do it aging?
How many shooters show up?
What are the pros and cons?
How many people do you think to run the shoot?
We are thinking about putting in for one in New Jersey and just trying to get a feel for it.
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We've run one R-100. It was a really good experience. We had about 250 shooters (including many families). We are running a R-100 again this year. The guys from Reinhart were great to work with, very helpful and very personable. We were fairly nervous about the layout and operation of the first shoot but once you get through the first shoot the next shoot seems much easier to run because you know what to expect.
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I am going with the screw down kind. I don't trust the adhesive to hold, I read some various studies done about different methods for attachements, and most of the adhesives did not fare well.
There is a special type, but it needs like 45 days of warm temps to cure, and its too late in the season to do it. You don't have gutters on that section, I ust put gutters on mine, and have heard of the snow/ice falls ripping them off. Hopefully I'll be putting them on tomorrow, or at least starting them, and I'll let you know how they go.
Gutters 'may' survive but I've heard avlanches coming off my roof @ the 37-39* temperature range that sound scarry! I'm sure that if the lip was high enough to stop the slide it would probably start to create a freeze backup into the roof structure. With the snow jacks AND gutters you'll probably be ok. I woudn't do one without the other.
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Ocean Blue trim and Light Grey sides. I've been ordering the material through Menards which comes from Midwest Manufacturing out of Ohio. It takes 10 days to get an order processed including custom bent stuff.
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I had issues with the little bastards. All I has to do was change to a different stain and they quit pecking at the house.
Tried that a number of times including an additive that was suppose to detour insects and as a result the woodpeckers would some looking for bugs. However, woodpeckers sense 'hollow' or echoing when they peck. Hence they think there is a stash of insects so they keep pecking. The dam peckers bored a hole in my attic area which was a PITA to get corrected.
Good luck on the stain route. What kind was it that you used. I used Thompsoms for nearly all my work.
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While I'm not the biggest fan of the steel siding; I have to say, this color combination is growing on me. I have seen some really ugly steel cladded houses, and this isn't one of them. Looks cool.
We looked at 10 or so different combinations including tri-colors. Red turns to pink, so that color came off the top for consideration from the get go, plus it looks to 'barn-ish'. We also looked at some of the greens and tans. We decided to keep it fairly clean. I wanted a darker grey but kinda glad we pick the lighter one. We'll accent the stone and lighting fixtures with the darker tones of grey.
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I am 24 and i bought it myself. But some of you who brag about bying it yourself live rent free (parents left you a house, or still living with your MAMA)....rent cost $$$ So, it really doesnt matter.......One person could be making $25,000 and still drive an M3 cause he is not paying RENT.
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Burton Snowboards is pleased to announce that Matthew Ross is coming on board this week as the company's firstVP/Creative Director of Apparel & Bags. Matt is based at Burton headquarters in Burlington, Vermont where he reports directly to Greg Dacyshyn, Burton's Chief Creative Officer.
"We are totally committed to elevating our offering of year-round apparel and bags, ensuring that the design and quality reflect Burton's long heritage of innovative products," said Greg Dacyshyn, Chief Creative Officer at Burton Snowboards. "After an extensive search, I definitely feel that Matt is a great fit for this role. He brings some great experience with him to Burton, and I am very excited to have him leading up our design team."
Matt has an impressive background that includes senior design roles at major action sports brands. Most recently the head of design at Vans Inc., Matt created and conceptualized the direction for the Vans men's collection. Prior to Vans, Matt was the Design Director for Nike Sportswear, and before that, he was a senior designer at both Volcom and Hurley.
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Cultural symbols and landowners' power: the practice of managing Scotland's natural resource
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This article deals with the claim that Scottish landowners' power is directly related to their status in law, by arguing that it is, in fact, much more to do with their (inter)relationship with particular cultural symbols that can be associated with the land. However, this presents a sociological problem, for the dominant sociological purchase on land is one which routinely interprets it as a social construction. The paper presented here differs, as it focuses on particular cultural symbols which have a socio-historical resonance in relation to land, and makes the argument that they maintain this presence because of their (inter)connection with particular social groupings, notably landowners. Therefore, it is simply not enough to identify landowners' status in law as the root cause of their power, but instead it should be seen as only one facet of it. I conclude by suggesting that just as important is the way in which landowners have appropriated cultural interpretations of the land to forefront their powers.
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Buzzer beater gives MCHS girls basketball team 61-60 victory in Delta
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Box score from the MCHS girls varsity basketball team's game Friday at Delta High School:
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• Moffat County — 11 — 16 — 12 — 22 — 61
• Delta — 16 — 11 — 10 — 23 — 60
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• Melissa Camilletti — 27
• Annie Sadvar — 18
• Makayla Camilletti — 6
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Box score from the MCHS girls varsity basketball team's game Friday at Delta High School:
(Team — 1st — 2nd — 3rd — 4th — final)
• Moffat County — 11 — 16 — 12 — 22 — 61
• Delta — 16 — 11 — 10 — 23 — 60
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• Melissa Camilletti — 27
• Annie Sadvar — 18
• Makayla Camilletti — 6
The Moffat County High School girls varsity basketball team needed a win Friday night in Delta.
The Bulldogs trailed the Panthers in the Western Slope League by two games a week ago, but following Delta's first league loss to Glenwood on Feb. 4, MCHS had a chance to pull even with their league foe with a victory.
The MCHS seniors made it happen.
Melissa Camilletti led MCHS with 27 points and Annie Sadvar scored 18 as the Bulldogs pulled out a 61-60 win in a thriller that saw Melissa hit a driving lay-up as the buzzer went off to give her team the win.
"The girls played really well," coach Norm Yoast said. "They took the things they had been doing in practice all week and showed a lot of composure in a noisy gym on Delta's senior night.
"The seniors stepped up and led this team."
Yoast, who coaches the girls freshmen team, filled in for an absent Matt Ray, who could not be at the game because of a personal matter.
Delta (16-4 overall, 8-2 WSL) beat the Bulldogs, 54-39, in the two teams' first game Jan. 20 in Craig and to start Friday's game, it looked like MCHS was going to play their way out of another game.
Yoast said the Bulldogs (14-6 overall, 7-2 WSL) came out flat in the first quarter as the Panthers took an early 16-11 lead.
However, the Bulldogs found their stride, tying the game 27-27 heading into halftime.
"Delta jumped out to a big lead early, but the girls played smart," Yoast said. "We struggled with turnovers and fouls early on, but the girls kept coming back with their best effort."
The game went back and forth throughout the fourth quarter, Yoast said, with the Bulldogs taking a five-point lead with about a minute remaining.
But, the Panthers took the lead back with 8 seconds left, forcing an MCHS timeout.
"We drew a play up on the board and got the ball in hoping they would foul Melissa because we were in the double bonus," Yoast said. "But, Melissa drove the length of the court and hit a lay-up as the buzzer went off. It was one of those plays you never see happen the way you want to, but it did this time."
Yoast said the Bulldogs played patient offense all night, working the ball inside to Sadvar, who earned a good chunk of her points from the charity strip.
"Matt (Ray) worked with the girls all week on being patient and reversing the ball," he said. "Besides the first part of the first quarter, I don't think I have seen the girls play a better three-and-a-half quarters of basketball."
The Bulldogs knew a key to victory would be slowing Delta junior Skylyn Webb, who scored 26 in the first game.
Yoast said MCHS didn't give up any easy shots and had a hand in Webb's face all night.
"We played soft man-to-man and got good help-side on Webb," he said. "We did not give up any uncontested shots and gave (Delta) nothing easy. We controlled the boards and didn't give up second shots."
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Samsung Miniket VP-X220L
An unashamed 'sports' product (shudder), the VP-X220L is part of Samsung's Miniket range, and hides a whole lot more than just camcorder functionality under that sleek and absolutely tiny frame.
Not just a camcorder then, the X220L also offers still-image shooting, voice recording and MP3 playback, all content stored on the 2GB of internal memory. Designed primarily for activities that tend to feature the word 'extreme', it features a tough rubberised weatherproof housing and external lens, so the likes of snowboarding and general outdoor pursuits pose it no problem.
Alongside these sporty credentials comes the Samsung's killer application: a wired external camera that you can mount remotely from the body using the supplied 1.5m cable, though the lack of a wireless hook up is a real opportunity missed. It comes with its own power/record button, and a head and armband too, so you can mount it where you see fit to shoot the most radical action. Dude.
The trouble comes, however, with the quality of footage - and we're not talking your dubious skills as opposed to the distinctly second-rate specifications. The X220L shoots MPEG 4 video at 720 x 480 pixels using a paltry 0.8 megapixel sensor, and when you're throwing fast-paced action at it, the resulting footage is mostly blurred and uninspiring, despite the efforts of the electronic image stabiliser. The 0.3 megapixel still images are laughable too - worse, in fact, than pretty much every modern mobile phone - particularly when displayed on the 2in LCD monitor. The MP3 player is decent though, and coupled with the not-bad-at-all supplied earphones, it certainly increases the overall appeal of the X220L as an all round action man' mate on the mountain. A good try, Samsung, but no cigar.
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Sony DCR-SR72E
For pure convenience on the move, you can't beat the simplicity of a hard disk-equipped camcorder. Sony's DCR-SR72E sits smack in the middle of its HDD line up, and offers superb features and functionality at a surprisingly acceptable price point.
Employing a hard drive means Sony can keep the dimensions to a minimum and the styling to a maximum, which has resulted in what is probably the best looking camcorder in this test. The SR72E features a 60GB hard disk drive - enough for 41 hours and 50 minutes of footage or 9,999 still images. Plenty then. Coupled with an eight-hour battery, the DCR-SR72E is a superb long-use camera where recharging options aren't at a premium.
The Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar lens houses a 25x optical zoom, relaying images to the 16:9, 2.7in hybrid LCD screen with touch panel, a tidy system that lets you navigate the simple and unmistakably Sony menu system with little difficulty.
The hard drive - fitted with a drop-detection system to reduce the effect of sudden falls - allows for pretty simple viewing, searching and downloading of your footage to a PC, but the now bundled HandyCam Station makes things even simpler. Leave it hooked up to your TV or PC and when you're done just drop the SR72E into the cradle and download or view away, while the Handycam recharges.
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The HV20 is Canon's all-new flagship model, a High-Definition HDV1080i camcorder with 2.96Megapixel, 1920x1080, True HD CMOS sensor designed to kick out pictures so clean you could eat your dinner off them. And that's exactly what it does (though we obviously haven't eaten our dinner off them, that would be stupid).
Where Canon is really looking to steal the march over its competitors is with the HV20's 25p Progressive Scan shooting, a unique camera system which combines the True HD CMOS sensor with specialist Canon optics and an HD-optimised DIGIC DV II processor to create as good an HD image as is possible to get from any camcorder – 'cinema like progressive recording' in fact. Throw in a Super Range Optical Image Stabiliser (OIS), Instant AF system and the a direct HDMI connection for optimal HD image and audio quality and you have a machine that takes it image recording duties very seriously.
The HV20 is barrel like in design and looks every bit the traditional camcorder. Canon has opted for the tape-based HDV recording format, which means a bulkier body then the SD card and hard disk recorders elsewhere in the test, but it claims this is still the most reliable format for transfer and editing on a home computer. Hmm.
The specially engineered for HD 10x optical zoom lens is a cracker, especially in conjunction with the Super Range OIS and works brilliantly with both moving footage and the 2Mp still image recording direct to MiniSD memory card. If you're looking for the very best in image quality above all else, the HV20 is the answer.
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Cervelo makes high performance road bikes, triathlon/TT bikes, and track bikes. It focuses on engineering in order to produce the best possible bike, and produces just four models - the R Series, S Series, P Series, and T Series. You can find them all on BikeExchange in listings from private sellers and independent retailers.
Cervelo is a Canadian manufacturer of high performance bikes. It boasts that it has more engineers than bike models, a fact that demonstrates its focus on squeezing out every last fraction of performance from each frame and component that it creates. It is a bike manufacturer that puts engineering at the core of everything that it does.
The company was founded in 1995 by engineers Phil White and Gerard Vroomen, both of whom had experience in the bike manufacturing industry. They initially set out to develop a time trial bike that was faster than anything else on the market.
It was a bumpy start, though. The first bike was produced at the request of world champion cyclist Gianni Bugno. He wanted the two Cervelo engineers to make the world's fastest time trial bike, which they did. His sponsors didn't like the design, however, so it was never raced.
For Cervelo, it was back to the drawing board, but they soon developed a new style that would be more appealing to the commercial side of cycling, while still delivering the best possible levels of performance. Their first two bikes were launched at the Toronto Bike Show in 1996. Within a few short years, cyclists riding Cervelo bikes were winning competitions, and the company went from strength to strength.
Their focus remains on producing bikes that perform exceptionally well aerodynamically, while also being light, stiff, comfortable, and easy to handle. They support a number of professional cyclists in a range of disciplines by providing equipment and other support, and they continue to innovate and push the boundaries of the performance bike-making industry.
Today the company is owned by the Pon Bicycle Group.
Many of Cervelo's bikes come out of an initiative called Project California. It is here that the limits of bicycle engineering are pushed beyond what was thought possible in order to squeeze a few more seconds of performance with every innovation. Project California demonstrates Cervelo's commitment to an engineering-first philosophy.
The company has just four models of bikes, which is much fewer than many of their competitors. The models are:
• R Series - lightweight road bikes that are strong, stiff, and comfortable to ride
• S Series - another range of road bikes with exceptional aerodynamic capabilities
• P Series - Cervelo's triathlon and TT bikes – these bikes have won more professional races than any of their competitors
• T Series - Cervelo's range of track bikes
Cervelo is involved with a number of cycling teams and individual athletes, providing support, equipment and sponsorship. These partnerships also feed back into the research and development process of the company, with the athletes contributing to the next evolution of bikes through their feedback and experience of practical use.
Cervelo supports athletes in road cycling, track cycling, and triathlon. This includes one of the newest road cycling teams to compete in the grand tours, MTN-Qhubeka. It is also the first African-based team to see success in the big European races.
Other athletes whom Cervelo supports include Caroline Steffen and Rachel Joyce, who both compete in Ironman and triathlon races.