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Not a 'problem' anymore, just a scare...
Last night, I started downloading a ffew things with FrostWire. No big deal. Everything was going fine until I started another download and suddenly I get a little popup from the system that I'm running low on disk space.
I figured that's okay because I've done that before, so I started to backup the dir's I keep big chunks of stuff in...like my built srcs, and all the installed builds.
Kept getting back the space becausekrusader was showing it, but within 10 seconds I look again and it shows only a few KB's of space left.
Now I'm beginning to fret a little bit.
I open up ksysguard but whatever it is that's eating up the space on my hdd has now got it so ksysguard can't show me anything...it opens up but doesn't 'do' anything, and top was no help.
Now I'm worried and I figure a shutdown and reboot might 'fix' the problem. Nope...system's so busy eating up space that it pops up the little window telling me I'm out of space and won't let me shutdown or logout.
I grit my teeth and do a button shutdown.
Reboot and the filesystem had a buttload to go through doing whatever it does in those situations...I really mean a lot!
The rest of startup is also extremely slow and I'm worried now that I'm out an hdd I cannot afford monetarily.
It finally gets to the login screen (I always set my system for a graphic, because I have a poor memory and severe ADD...it just makes things a lot easier for me, heh). It also is taking its time.
Finally I'm back to my desktop. I open up krusader and voila!...I am back to having 125GB of my 150GB hdd!
I have absolutely no clue what happened, why it happened, how it happened. Never had that happen in 14 years of using linux (3 of those Slackware). I honestly don't think it was FrostWire, because it seemed to be happening *during* the time I started a download and FrostWire came back with an 'error' because the hdd was too full.
Anyway, all seems back to normal, but it was a heck of a trip while it lasted!
Have you checked your hard disk for errors?
Yes, showing all is well.
The system is running better than ever at the moment, nice and fast (the things I backed up on a dvd and then deleted to make space on the hdd only added up to 2GB, so it's not like that should make the system faster than it was *before* the system started the strange filling-up thing).
Just plain weird, lol.
One of the advantages of having multi-filesystem layout is it protects you from run away processes like this.
BTW, reaching for the power button should be an absolute last resort. You might want to read up on "Magic SysRq". alt+SysRq,k would likely have saved you in this case.
And yep, I know hitting the power or reset button are a last resort, but since I had no idea what to do since nothing was responding to *anything* I was doing, it was my last resort. And yes, I just looked into the MagicSysRq thing as you suggested and will be setting that up on my system right after I post this, heh. Thanks for that info too on the Magicness.
Usually it's /tmp or / filling up that brings a system to its knees like that. /home filling doesn't normally have such an impact. Nevermind, as there's no evidence as to what was actually happening, it's pretty much all conjecture anyway. I was probably wrong. Forget I mentioned it. ;)
It was definitely the strangest thing that's ever happened to me since I've been using Linux since 2000, heh heh.
The space won't be available until the file is closed by all the processes that has it open.
Rebooting is one way to ensure that has happened.
Yep, /tmp on tmpfs is my choice too. Just out of interest where are you symlinking it to?
Just add the following line to your /etc/fstab.
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
Do you have a way to automatically spill over to /var/tmp for anything that won't fit in /tmp, GazL? Or is that something you do on a case by case basis, manually or scripted?
Nope, there's nothing automatic I'm afraid. Most well written scripts/programs will respect $TMPDIR so it's usually a case of just setting that before invoking anything big.
Putting /tmp on a tmpfs isn't a silver bullet for tempfile management (especially so if you don't reboot often). The main reason I do it is to avoid unnecessary disks writes, and though it does mean /tmp gets cleared out at every reboot, one has to be mindful that it's still a limited resource that will need to be managed while the system is up.
It works for me though.
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A survey conducted by Sherwood MP Mark Spencer has shown that so far 80 per cent of constituents would like the UK to withdraw from EU membership.
The MP received several thousand responses to the survey, which asks the same question the country could see in an official referendum in 2017 over whether we should stay in the union or leave.
Mr Spencer said it was fantastic that the issue had caught people's interest within Sherwood.
He added: "I was very happy to see that people seem to be genuinely engaged with the issue of our EU membership, with many attaching additional notes and talking about a potential renegotiation of the terms of Britain's involvement."
The results of the referendum showed 80 per cent of people felt we should come out, while 20 per cent thought we were better off in. Mr Spencer said the results showed the Prime Minister was pursuing the right course of action.
Campaigners against the union say the UK would have greater freedom to make stronger trade deals with other nations but many business leaders say staying in the Single European Market is vital to remaining competitive.
"It is very clear from these results that most people are unhappy with the current situation," said Mr Spencer. "It just shows that David Cameron is right to try and change our relationship with Europe.
"We have to work hard to swing things in our favour and make sure that we get what we need from the EU.
"If there is a Conservative government after 2015 we will have a referendum and people in Sherwood will be able to take this decision.
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Ahead of Tuesday's release of President Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2015, the White House is drawing attention to the tax cuts that will be included in the plan.
The White House announced Monday evening that the budget will include an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, as well as other tax changes to aid college students and help promote retirement savings.
Although the White House did not specify the budgetary cost of its proposed programs, it said in a release that the tax breaks would be offset in the budget by raising taxes on certain high-income earners.
The administration has offered hints to the effect that its budget this year, an election year, will focus more on proposals geared toward its Democratic base, and less on achieving debt reductions that have become less urgently needed.
The main feature of the White House's plan would be to make permanent the expansion of the EITC to families with three or more children from the 2009 stimulus, and to increase the tax break even further by expanding it for childless workers.
The EITC is intended to aid poor people while also encouraging work. It is a refundable tax credit that accrues to low-wage workers, phasing out with income. At a cost of $58 billion in 2013, it also does more than cash welfare to lift Americans out of poverty.
The EITC is also thought of as an alternative to the minimum wage that doesn't have the negative employment effect that a minimum wage does. Nevertheless, it's politically more difficult to increase than the minimum wage because taxpayers, not businesses, foot the bill.
Obama would boost the EITC by increasing the size of the credit for workers without children. Currently, according to a report on the EITC released by the White House alongside the announcement, the maximum credit for childless workers is about $500, and a single worker with income at the poverty line qualifies for less than $200.
Arguing that the EITC would encourage work for childless workers in the same way that it does for single parents, the White House would double the maximum benefit to $1,000 and have it phase out at higher income levels.
Increasing the EITC is an idea with support across the ideological spectrum among experts. And some GOP officials have expressed support for the idea. In a recent speech on poverty policy, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a conservative Republican, advocated a "federal wage enhancement" that would be similar to the EITC, but managed differently to cut down on fraud.
Fraud is a major problem with the EITC. A 2013 Treasury inspector general report found that up to a quarter of EITC payments in 2012 were improper.
Other Republicans have raised separate issues with the program. A report on the welfare system released earlier in the day by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., noted that the EITC has increased employment for single mothers, but pointed to studies showing that it is "less effective at increasing hours worked."
Separately, a tax code overhaul proposed by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., last week would scale back the EITC and implement it through the payroll tax.
The White House budget is not expected to be taken up by Congress, which already set spending levels for 2015 in the deal hammered out in December by Ryan and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington.
It would pay for the expansion of the EITC, child tax credit, and various incentives for promoting college by closing what the White House identified as two loopholes.
One would be the "carried interest loophole," a feature of the tax code that results in certain investment managers' earnings being taxed at the rate of capital gains, rather than as ordinary income.
The other is sometimes referred to as the "Gingrich-Edwards" loophole (the White House identified it simply as the "Gingrich" provision). It allows some professionals with their own companies to avoid payroll taxes by structuring their income as distributions from a pass-through business.


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Dear Kate,
Yesterday you were 19 months old. A little more than one and a half but this letter has been brewing in my mind for weeks but I just haven't managed to write it. I think that I am struggling a little with the fact that you are growing up and changing so fast. I will be honest when I have heard people say things like that in the past I have inwardly rolled my eyes and thought how silly is that. But, oh. I think because we expect that you are our last baby that every new thing you learn to do is also the last time we will teach and watch a new little person learn something new and with that comes a certain sadness. But mostly I think it is because eighteen months old is a pretty amazing age.
And you are our very amazing girl. You are loud and funny. You love shoes and slippers (slippys). You can take your own shoes off and can put Piran's shoes on your feet. You know where to go and find your shoes and you will tidy them and put them away. You ask us for your Gruffalo hat (AT. Uffalo). You love being outside even though it is freezing. If Piran leaves the house and you don't go with him all hell breaks loose. You have perfected puppy dog eyes (or Shrek eyes as your Dad calls them, he means Puss in Boots eyes really) and the wobbly bottom lip when you do not get your way. You say NO. A lot. Sometimes you say yes. You have so many words I am constantly amazed but with your new found ability to communicate with us comes massive frustration if we just don't understand what you are talking about. You put words together too – Get Down, What's That (Wasss Dat), Got it, Done it.
There are so many little things that you do that we love so much. How you immediately climb the stairs if I say the word 'bath' in front of you. How you like to pick up a bag and say 'Byeee' and if we ask where you are going you say 'shops'. You really like books. You are very good at going to bed at night, we ask you if you want to go to sleep and you say yes and we lie you down and that is it. Sadly, you usually wake in the evening or night for some reason or other and at the moment you just sob "no, no, no, no, no" over and over and it is heartbreaking.
Your brother is your favourite person and you follow him faithfully no matter how much he lays on top of you. Quite often he no longer wants a cuddle from me when he is upset, he will ask for one from you. You love to play with him and the love on your face when you are with him just makes me want to pop. I know that he thinks that his "Katie" is his world too. One thing though. If the two of you could stop having arguments that just go like this "AAY" "AAY" "AAY" "AAY" "AAY" "AAY" that would be great. You sound like the Australian crabs on Finding Nemo and after a whole day of it I want to poke things in my ears. In fact, if you could work on your volume levels over all that would be great, you can be very loud.
You are fearless and it amazes me. You make your brother much braver and that is a good thing, but you scare me daily as you try to clamber up and over things and copy Piran and just do things that you are not quite ready for yet. You are constantly tumbling and wailing and then after a few seconds of a cuddle you are off doing the same thing again. You are strong minded and it is very hard to get you to do something you don't want to. Which makes me feel good about the future as I don't think you will be easily led. That said, you could well be the one leading others astray – it really wouldn't surprise me.
You are curly and crazy and funny and loud. Your mouth is usually wide open and you are usually shouting or laughing or chatting. You are full of energy and rarely sit still. One thing though, if you wouldn't mind letting me have a cuddle every now and again I would be very grateful. Love you baby girl, a little ore every time I look at you.
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More than 280 miles from the nearest ocean, Mike Parsons spins around as a gutless right-hander rises up before him. Nearby, more than eight lifeguards — red rescue tubes in hand — stand ready to save one of the most famous big-wave surfers in the world as he drops into a two-foot dribbler. The sun reflecting off the 400-foot-high hotel bathes the entire scene in an artificial golden glow as instructions from central command are beamed into the earpieces of the half-dozen suit-wearing security guards standing poolside.
It's just another surreal day in Las Vegas.
But the announcement that brought Parsons, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Deffenbaugh, Jodie Nelson, and a handful of observers from the surf industry to the 1.6-million-gallon Mandalay Bay wave pool in Sin City was no mirage. On February 26, Foster's used the made-for-media Las Vegas event to announce a multiyear commitment to American pro surfing that will include sponsorship of twenty contests this year. In effect, Foster's has become the umbrella sponsor of ASP North America.
"This is the most important sponsorship opportunity in the history of American surfing," says Peter Townend, president of Surfing America and a Primedia publisher. "Not only will this relationship strengthen the tour administratively, it's a breakthrough for the athletes since the majority of Foster's funding goes straight to increasing the surfer's prize money."
Townend was instrumental in closing the deal, which will infuse more than 300,000 dollars of direct support into American surfing, as well as opening up the possibility that surfing could benefit from the multimillion-dollar promotional budgets of Foster's regional bottlers.
Townend says that not since the days of the Bud Tour has American surfing attracted a sponsorship deal of this magnitude. "This is a huge opportunity for surfing as a sport to raise its profile again. Foster's has committed a lot of backend money to promote the tour — including great signage promoting the tour at bars and at retail stores, and also some surfing versions of the 'Foster's: Australian For Beer' TV campaign."
According to Foster's Marketing Director Jim Mullahy, "If you look at surfing and what it represents to consumers and then compare it to the 'Foster's: Australian For Beer' campaign, I think you'll see what a great fit it is."
Mullahy noted that in a recent poll Australia was one of the top dream-travel destinations for Americans. "Ninety percent of Australians live within 60 miles of the coast," says Mullahy, "and surfing and the surfing lifestyle play an important role in defining the character of Australians."
Townend says that in many ways Foster's is like a surf company. "They are currently ranked sixth in the import-beer market, which constitutes ten percent of the entire beer market, much like surf-apparel industry probably constitutes less than that in the overall apparel market. They've developed a core beer strategy, and surfing is a big part of their overall marketing plan. Because of their strategy this is a perfect fit for us."
This sentiment is echoed by Foster's General Manager Michael Johnson: "It's a natural fit for the Foster's brand. It captures the beach lifestyle straight from the beaches of Australia. We plan on establishing a long-term association with the ASP to maintain a deep involvement with the surf lifestyle in North America."
According to Mullahy, "We view this as a long-term partnership that will help increase the sales of Foster's across the United States."
Townend says Surfing America will provide support funding for the existing events and backend promotional support in exchange for Foster's signage at the events. "This will raise the profile of these events," says Townend, "making them more valuable to the independent event promoters. The promoters should also have an easier time securing title sponsorships to their events because of the added exposure that Fooster's support will bring."
Townend says he expects Foster's commitment to American surfing to increase — perhaps dramatically — if the surf industry can prove its worth to the Foster's brand. "If we prove that surfing can sell beer, I believe we will see an increased commitment from Foster's — maybe faster than we think.
"But we should remember what happened with the beach volleyball tour and Miller Brewing Company back in the day of the Miller Light AVP tour," continues Townend. "A bunch of athletes took the money and ran with no consideration for why Miller Light was sponsoring their tour. The same executives who were involved with that debacle are now the heads of the Foster's brand. They're not going to let that happen again, and the surfing industry should also make sure it doesn't happen again."
To keep things on track, Billabong Odyssey mastermind Bill Sharp has been hired to be brand manager of the Foster's Tour. "His job will be to manage what happens on the tour and generate media coverage — but not do it in a standard way," says Scott Daley, a Surfing America committee member and Body Glove's V.P. of marketing.
"I think they're testing us," says Townend, "and if we deliver, we'll be rewarded." — Sean O'Brien
Men's and Women's 2002 Foster Pro Surfing Tour Schedule
March 15¿17: Billabong Pro, Costa Rica
March 22¿24: Billabong Pro, Panama
April 23¿27: Foster's Pro, Lower Trestles, California
May 23¿26: PSTA, Imperial Beach, California
May 24¿27: Local Motion Surf Into Summer, O'ahu
May 29¿June 2: PSTA, Oceanside, California
June 13¿16: PSTA, San Clemente, California
July 11¿14: PSTA, Huntington Beach, California
July 27¿August 4: U.S. Open Of Surfing, Huntington Beach, California
August 14¿18: ASP North America, Newport Beach, California
August 21¿25: East Coast Surfing Championships, Virginia Beach, Virginia
August 28¿September 1: National Kidney Foundation, Florida
September 5¿8: Heritage Rip Curl Memorial Pro, Sea Isle City, New Jersey
September 5¿14: WCT Event, Trestles, California
September 11¿15: Unsound Surf Shop, Long Beach, New York
October 5¿6: Mexican Surf Fiesta, San Miguel, Mexico
October 10¿13: PSTA, Morro Rock, California
October 23¿27: O'Neill Cold Water Classic, Santa Cruz, California
October 30¿November 3: Hansen/Machado Surf Classic, Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California
November 6¿10: PSTA National Championships, Ventura, California


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Alesana's EP, Try This With Your Eyes Closed surely impressed a lot of screamo and emo fans with their terrifyingly awesome music. A dude screaming his lungs out, a high pitched vocalist having a nervous breakdown, awesome riffs fried by guitar dudes, impressive lyrics and more. That's what you get from Alesana. The album is a combination of noisy heartfelt songs like Apology, screaming and frantically disturbed ones like Red And Dying Evening, and sentimentally crying-time stuff, specifically Early Morning. It's just all you need if you're a fan of the genre. 3 thumbs up.
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The lyrics were sentimentally frantic and poetic. They really did a great job on the lyrics, and were very expressive. Most of them depicts regret, frustration, anger and vehemence(and the adjectives synonymous to those that I've mentioned). The vocals of Shawn was pretty great stuff, and I believe was very perfect to the music they're into. And another thing, the screamer(Dennis) is also very lovely and I have to admit is also perfect to their music. Deductively speaking, lyrics with vehemence and anger has to go perfect with a whining vocals and a powerful lunatic screamer.
Overall Impression — 9
Very impressive. Apology and Congratulations I Hate You should go up to the best songs in the EP. The last track, "Early Morning" should be recognized as it portrays most of the emotions in the album. I love everything, the voice, the scream, the guitar riffs, the bass stuff, the drummer, everything. Definitely great.


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After long journey in Minors, Harris gets call to Majors
After long journey in Minors, Harris gets call to Majors
SAN FRANCISCO -- Relief pitcher Will Harris prepared himself for another line of work in 2009, when he was about to undergo complicated right elbow surgery that would make him a non-factor in the Rockies' plans for two years. Having recently become a father, Harris promised himself he would not live with any regrets if the operation -- not only Tommy John ligament transfer surgery, but a microfracture procedure to correct cartilage problems with the elbow -- didn't allow him to continue pursuing baseball. He even made plans to return to LSU and earn a degree. "I was in a hotel the night before my surgery," Harris said. "But I kind of came to terms with the fact that I might not be able to continue, or whatever I'd get out of the game from then on was going to be lagniappe -- it was going to be extra. It was a making peace with it kind of moment."
Now Harris, 26, could be getting everything possible out of the game. The Rockies called him up from Triple-A Colorado Springs on Saturday. It wasn't until the fifth inning of Saturday's 9-3 loss to the Giants that Harris arrived at AT&T Park and made himself a player by signing his contract. But he was still focused on his career. He went to LSU for one semester. Although it left him a semester short of graduation, he put school back on the back burner -- he was majoring in general studies, so he hadn't actually picked what he wanted to do beyond baseball -- and worked toward the Majors. Harris hadn't returned to the mound until last season, when he went 3-2 with a 5.55 ERA in 33 games at Class A Modesto. He began the year as one of the old men at Double-A Tulsa. "Playing with the guys in the Texas League this year guys were saying, 'These are your first innings in Double-A,' and I'd say, 'Well, actually, three years ago, I was here, but I didn't pitch,'" Harris said, smiling. Harris caught up quickly, going 4-1 with a 2.08 ERA in 44 combined games at Tulsa and Colorado Springs. He earned the callup by striking out 66 against 13 walks.


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The Victoria Secret model covers her boobs with her arms, but allows peek of her cleavage. Her booty can be seen from the shoot, where she reveals a small tattoo. The black and white photo shows Ambrosio in a seductive pose on the beach.
The sexy photos were taken for the issue of Made In Brazil magazine.
In one of the photos, the mother-of-two is surrounded by male models. Another photo shows Ambrosio wears a white bikini whiles undressing a male model.
The supermodel just gave birth to her second child six months ago, but these photos make it seem like she never had a baby at all. Her strict diet and regular pilates classes have gotten her back into shape.
She said, "Maintaining a healthy diet is a huge part of the battle when it comes to bouncing back after a baby."


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Global warming threat just 'scaremongering' say sceptics who desert mainstream media
CLIMATE change sceptics are snubbing mainstream TV news amid claims they are ramping up fears over the threat of global warming.
American climate sceptics distrust the mainstream media
Distrust of media has hit an all-time high, with many Americans turning over TV newscasts and cancelling subscriptions to newspapers, according to reasech by the Pew Research Center.
The centre found that many are switching to fringe websites to feed their hunger for news.
The group's research concluded 65 per cent of Americans believe the "national news media have a negative effect on our country".
A separate recent Gallup poll said six in 10 of the US public now have "little or no confidence in the national media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly".
The main bugbear appears to be that they see news as opinion columns in disguise, particularly when it comes to the climate change debate.
Rep Lamar Smith is a Republican who has represented Texas's 21st district since 1987.
He said: "If the story does not fit the liberal worldview, then facts are ignored, dissent is silenced, and Americans are told what to think.
"Perhaps one of the worst examples of one-sided, biased reporting involves global warming."
He claimed people who "reject the liberal viewpoint that climate change is the greatest threat to our country are ridiculed and ignored".
He said: "For example, the Associated Press recently amended its stylebook to recommend that those who question the science behind global warming be called climate change 'doubters' instead of 'sceptics'.
"But this is inaccurate, since many "skeptics" don't doubt that climate change has occurred."
He believes a widely reported figure that 97 per cent of all scientists agree that human-caused global warming is real are false and mislead the public.
Climate sceptics say mankind has not has as much impact on climate change as campaigners argue
Americans deserve all the facts that surround climate change, not just those that the national media want to promote.
He said: "The source of this '97 per cent' myth is a discredited study that attempted to categorize scholarly articles on climate change by the position the papers took on the issue.
"But most of the papers never took a position on climate change at all.
"This has not stopped the liberal national media from touting this illegitimate statistic.
"Silencing debate is contrary to the scientific method. If these groups were confident about their arguments, they would welcome more debate to test their theories.
"However, some media outlets, such as the Los Angeles Times, have changed their policies and no longer accept letters to the editor from those who question human-made climate change. That this would happen in a democracy where free speech is enshrined in the Constitution is unbelievable."
Mr Smith claimed some atmospheric satellite data, considered by some to be the most reliable, showed no warming of the planet for the past two decades.
He said: "This fact is well documented, but it does not fit the liberal politics of the administration or the national media.
"Americans deserve all the facts that surround climate change, not just those that the national media want to promote.
"Americans will continue to distrust the liberal national media until the media provide objective coverage of the news."
But in a recent blog post NASA administrator Charles Bolden said: "Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our generation and it affects every person on Earth.
"Nasa's announcement that NASA and NOAA scientists have determined that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history underscores how critical Earth observation is.
"This announcement is a key data point that should make policy makers stand up and take notice — now is the time to act on climate.
"2015's record temperatures are the result of the gradual, yet accelerating, build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere.
"Scientists have been warning about it for decades and now we are experiencing it."


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I'v got this got to work for binary and deciaml by change it to a 2 or a 10 for the base, but when I use 16 for Hex, it doesn't produce the correct results for some reason. Any ideas?
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How my family survived a highway crash
The five occupants of this 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan — my son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren — survived a head-on collision on the TransCanada Highway Thursday evening. I offer the following details in hopes that other families will find it helpful to understand the factors that decisively improved their chances of survival.
Shortly before 5 p.m, August 26, my family was westbound on Route 105 in Lexington, Nova Scotia, just north of the Canso Causeway, when a severe rain squall hit the area. Daughter-in-law Jenn had just slowed down when an eastbound car apparently hydroplaned and spun across the centerline into their path.
Grandson Jacob, age 6, suffered a broken femur. The others — Jenn, my son Silas, Jacob's twin brother Josh and sister Maggie, 8 — were badly bruised and badly shaken. Surgeons at the IWK-Grace Hospital in Halifax repaired Jacob's leg Saturday. Doctors expect all to recover fully. We are grateful to them, and to the EMTs and volunteers who responded to the crash.
The driver and lone occupant of the other car, Marlene MacDonald of Port Hawkesbury and Washabuckt, died at the scene.
I offer my sincere sympathy to Ms. MacDonald's daughters, grandchildren, and siblings. Events like this cause those affected to reflect on counterfactual alternatives; since Thursday, our family and friends have thought constantly of the MacDonald family's suffering, and how easily it could have been ours. I am sorry for their loss.
Death and injuries in car crashes result not from a vehicle's collision with another object but from what's sometimes called the second collision — that of the occupants with the inside surfaces of the car. The second collision occurs a fraction of a second after the first.
Here are some of the factors that made the second collision survivable in my family's case:
- Jenn reduced speed to reflect driving conditions, lessening the force of the subsequent impact.
- In response to legislation, insurance company pressures, and consumer demand, automobile manufacturers have made tremendous improvements in the crashworthiness of their cars over the last decade. Modern vehicles are better engineered to absorb and dissipate the force of sudden impacts while maintaining the integrity of the passenger compartment.
- Jenn and Silas drove a 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan equipped with front and side airbags. The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety gives this model a "good" rating (its highest) for "frontal offset" and "side impact" test results. You can check the crashworthiness of your car here.
- All the occupants were secured with optimal, industry-recommended safety equipment: the adults with standard lap-and-shoulder belts; the eight-year-old with a child's safety booster seat held in place by a lap-and-shoulder belt; the six-year-olds by properly secured child safety seats appropriate to their size and weight.
The last point merits emphasis. For many families, child safety seats are expensive to purchase and tedious to install and use. After Thursday, the expense and inconvenience look pretty small to us, the benefits enormous.
Finally, a word of thanks to the numberless, nameless engineers, auto executives, safety advocates, insurance industry risk analysts, and legislators who helped my dear family survive.
Their survival is not a miracle. It is the result of considered steps by real people to improve highway safety.
Land of orange vehicles
What's up with Queens County, Nova Scotia, and orange vehicles? Top to bottom: Ford Ranger 4×4, Charleston; Harley Davidson, White Point; Custom two-door, Liverpool.
Nyanza cloud boat
Nyanza, 10 a.m., August 23, 2010.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
The New York Times previews a play and a forthcoming children's book about a nearly forgotten travel guide that helped African Americans (and African Canadians) navigate the segregated accommodations that prevailed into the 1960s.
A Harlem postal employee and civic leader named Victor H. Green conceived the guide in response to one too many accounts of humiliation or violence where discrimination continued to hold strong. These were facts of life not only in the Jim Crow South, but in all parts of the country, where black travelers never knew where they would be welcome….
Historians of travel have recognized that the great American road trip — seen as an ultimate sign of freedom — was not that free for many Americans, including those who had to worry about "sunset laws" in towns where black visitors had to be out by day's end…
"The 'Green Book' tried to provide a tool to deal with those situations. It also allowed families to protect their children, to help them ward off those horrible points at which they might be thrown out or not permitted to sit somewhere. It was both a defensive and a proactive mechanism," [said Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture].
In the introduction to his guide, which became known familiarly as, "The Green Book," Victor Green wrote, "There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States."
It ceased publication in 1964, the year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act.
Post-apocalyptic shopping-cart woman shlep
The Herald's Pat Lee has a lovely piece about Contrarian's friend Jane Kansas, currently walking from Montana to Halifax. The layout is also gorgeous, if you can scare up a physical copy of the paper. (Previous Contrarian mentions here and here; Kansas's own blog here.)
Oracle vs. Microsoft
Oh the drama of it all!
(Click here if the video doesn't appear.) Hat tip: Doug MacKay
In response to the fuss over Halifax sewage sludge, Contrarian reader S.P. points out that the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, District Sewerage Commission has been selling processed sludge under the brand name Milorganite for more than eight decades. The name, a contraction of Milwaukee organic nitrogen, was the winner of a 1925 naming contest in National Fertilizer Magazine.
A corporate history on the commission's website explains that product grew out of a pollution control program. Early in the last century, the city formed the commission to clean up organic matter flowing into Milwaukee's waterways. The commission opened a laboratory to study a British chemist's scheme for aerating sludge with oxygen and then allowing it to settle in ponds. It decided to incorporate the system into a new treatment plant on the shores of Lake Michigan.
The only question was what to do with the microbial solids that accumulated during the process. The visionary commission established a fellowship at the University Of Wisconsin College Of Agriculture to investigate the use of activated sludge as fertilizer, and by the mid-1930s, it was selling 50,000 tons of Milorganite a year to golf courses and home gardeners. My parents used it when I was a child.
The process is tightly controlled with daily testing that keeps contaminants an order of magnitude below the EPA's upper limits for "exceptional quality" fertilizer. Further evidence, if more were needed, that the fuss over what we might call Halorganite is ill-informed to the point of silliness, and runs counter to best environmental practices for dealing with human waste. Journalists and city councillors need to start distinguishing between science-based environmentalism and magical belief systems.
The biosolidity of Ellen Page
If the admirable Ellen Page* wants to contribute to the environment of her home province, she might consider pressuring the Dexter government to rethink its politically expedient decision to delay regulations to control mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.
Mercury is a dangerous element with well-known impacts on human health, especially the health of young children. The province and Nova Scotia Power have known about their obligation to clean up mercury emissions for years, if not decades. [Disclosure: both NSP and the NS Govt. have been my clients.] The government's decision to back away from that legislated commitment in the face of a threatened power rate increase came as a huge blow to morale in its Environment Department.
Power rates have been the third rail of Nova Scotia politics ever since they caused the defeat of Gerald Regan's government in 1978. Darrell Dexter is nothing if not cautious, and he made the pragmatic decision to sacrifice a near-term improvement in public health for political longevity. That's real politics, and a figure of Page's stature could make a real contribution by weighing in on the side of health.
That would be a better use of her talents than opposing the productive recycling of biosolids, as she did in this appalling CBC-TV interview. Money quote:
I'm an advocate of hu-manure and utilizing our urine as a great nitrogen source for gardens and plants, but biosolids are very much not hu-manure… I like to refer to it as sewage sludge. It's highly toxic. Look, I'm not a scientist, so I'll say that obviously, but I'm a very concerned citizen and I'm worried because this is highly toxic material that is already being put on our land without the transparency of letting citizens of HRM and of Nova Scoti know.
To paraphrase, Page sympathizes with government's desire to recycle human shit and urine, and she acknowledges that she brings no scientific expertise to the discussion, but she believes Halifax's sewage sludge contains too many toxic contaminants, whose implications have not be fully disclosed to or discussed with residents.
No single word is more misused, in journalism and in environmentalism, than "toxic." It's a relative term that is almost invariably tossed about as an absolute. The public imagines that everything is either toxic or not toxic, whereas toxicologists and serious environmentalists know that virtually everything, including pure water, is toxic at sufficient dose. Dosis sola facit venenum. Dose is what determines risk.
Mercury is highly toxic at low doses. That's why scientific risk assessment justifies spending lots of money (and political capital) to keep it out of our air. Untreated sewage also harms the environment, so most countries have stepped up efforts to remove solids from the waste stream. The question is what to do with them.
To answer the question, HRM built a biosolids processing plant at Aerotch Park to treat sewage sludge using the commercial N-Viro process. The HRM website has a description of the plant and the process, together with a schematic. The N-Viro Corporation website has a more detailed description of the process.
The provincial website offers a list of links on the use of biosolids throughout Canada, and a fact sheet on biosolids [PDF] (though the latter, frankly, is long on reassuring generalities and regrettably short on technical specifics.)
When the use of biosolids in Colchester County touched off a not-in-my-backyard furor a few years ago, the province held a public Biosolids Forum at which a variety of experts discussed their treatment and safety. (View their presentations.) Nova Scotia also established a broad-based committee to review provincial policy on agricultural use of biosolids. That led to revised and stricter guidelines [PDF] for biosolid use here.
The guidelines are worth a quick read. In contrast to the raw cow, pig, and chicken manure farmers apply freely to their lands, the HRM biosolids will be treated to kill pathogens. Samples from the plant will be tested regularly for fecal coliform, salmonella, Arsenic, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Lead, Selenium, Zinc, dioxins, furans, and PCBs. The guidelines restrict the use of biosolids on farmland by proximity to 14 categories of land and land use, including watercourses, drinking water supplies, bedrock outcroppings, drainage ditches, roads, buildings, etc. The setbacks vary according to the slope of the land, and depth to groundwater and bedrock.
Want more information? The Food Action Committee of the Ecology Action Centre (an environmental group I belong to and support) has a short position paper [Word doc] opposing the agricultural use of biosolids, but it's very general, and focuses on an alleged lack of transparency. The Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment's Biosolids Task Force has a website. A search of US educational websites for "biosolids safety agricultural use" yields 42 scientific papers; the same search on Canadian websites turns up 28.
Forums, task forces, stakeholder committees, websites, guidelines: Is it fair or accurate to describe all this as a lack of transparency?
On balance, HRM's biosolids program offers a responsible way to recycle critical nutrients that would otherwise pose a pollution problem. Environmentalists ought to celebrate it, not oppose it.
One final note: Even by the lame standards of environmental reporting in Canada, the CBC's treatment of this story is beyond disappointing. It took this unpaid blogger only a few hours to assemble the information and links included in this post, yet host Tom Murphy appeared to have no research at hand to contest Page's wild claims about toxicity and non-transparency:
Murphy: But you know there is research out their suggesting, hey, it's OK, and in this case the city put on, I think, about 25% of the manure they were using was this, so what do you say to that when they roll out the scientists to say it's OK?
Page: At one point, doctors told us to smoke, so, you know what I mean?
So much for science. So much for journalism. I know television is conflict- and personality-driven, and by its nature must simplify complex issues, but this is negligent reporting by any standards.
* More disclosure: I like Ellen Page. In 2003, when we were just getting our little film series off the ground, she was generous enough to travel to Sydney to attend our Canadian premiere screening of Marion Bridge, in which she had a breakout role. I have tried to write this post in a way she might find persuasive, although I suppose she won't. Should she want to respond, Contrarian's space is hers.
Visual data: seismic forerunners of Eyjafjallajökull
Datamarket.com has animated the earthquakes that prefigured Iceland's unpronounceable volcano. [Embedded below or vis this link.]
Earthquakes and Eruptions in Iceland 2010 from hjalli on Vimeo.


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Despite the absence of a collective bargaining agreement between the team owners and the players, major league baseball was played in 1995, though the season was shortened. The schedule was reduced from the usual 162 games to 144. There was an extra round of play-offs during the postseason, as established in the 1994 realignment of the divisions.
World Series
The Atlanta Braves, who had been on the verge of a championship during the last few years, finally won the World Series by defeating the Cleveland Indians four games to two in the best-of-seven series. The Braves clinched their first title in 30 years, since moving from Milwaukee, Wis., by beating the Indians 1-0 before 51,875 fans in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in the final game on October 28. David Justice provided the Braves' run with a sixth-inning home run off Cleveland relief pitcher Jim Poole. Atlanta left-hander Tom Glavine, the pitcher with the most victories in baseball for the last five seasons, pitched masterfully. He allowed just one single--to Tony Pena in the sixth inning--to the hard-hitting Indians over eight innings before Mark Wohlers closed the triumph with a perfect ninth inning.
Glavine was voted Most Valuable Player for the series. He was the veteran of the vaunted Atlanta pitching staff, which restricted the Indians to a .179 batting average through six games, well below their regular season .291 average, which led the major leagues.
Greg Maddux (see BIOGRAPHIES), the number one starter in the Braves' strong rotation, opened the series with a 3-2 triumph at Atlanta, Ga., on October 21. He surrendered unearned runs in the first and the ninth innings but permitted only two hits in his complete-game performance. The Braves scored their winning run in a two-run seventh inning on a squeeze bunt by Rafael Belliard. Orel Hershiser, who began the inning by walking the first two batters, was the losing pitcher.
The next night the Braves won 4-3 on a two-run homer by catcher Javier López. Glavine yielded a two-run homer to Cleveland's Eddie Murray in the second inning but worked six innings and received credit for the victory.
The series then moved to Cleveland's new Jacobs Field, where an emotional crowd of 43,584 fans cheered the Indians to a 7-6 conquest in 11 innings on October 24. The Indians jumped to a 4-1 lead against John Smoltz, but the Braves went ahead 6-5 before the Indians tied it 6-6 in the eighth inning and won the four-hour nine-minute marathon on Murray's single off Alejandro Pena in the 11th. Cleveland's ace relief pitcher, José Mesa, was the winner.
The Braves, however, assumed a commanding 3-1 lead in games the next night by downing the Indians in Cleveland 5-2. Left hander Steve Avery, the winning pitcher, restricted the Indians to three hits over six innings, while the Braves mounted a three-run rally in the seventh. Ken Hill was the losing pitcher.
The Braves then sent their ace Maddux to the mound on October 26, but the Indians averted elimination. Albert Belle stroked a two-run homer in the first inning, and Hershiser pitched eight excellent innings toward a 5-4 triumph. The winning margin was a long home run by Cleveland third baseman Jim Thome off Atlanta reliever Brad Clontz in the eighth.
The Braves, needing only one victory to clinch, secured it upon returning home to end their recent string of frustrations. They had lost the World Series to the Minnesota Twins in 1991 and the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and then were upset by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1993 National League Championship Series.
With the 1995 season, a new play-off format was instituted whereby a wild-card team with the best second-place record in each league joined the six division-winning teams.
The Colorado Rockies, in only their third year, earned wild-card honours in the National League. But they drew the powerful Braves in the best-of-five division series and were eliminated in four games.
The New York Yankees achieved the wild-card berth in the American League. They won the first two games at home in their best-of-five division series against the upstart Seattle Mariners, but the Mariners swept three games at home to advance in dramatic fashion.
After defeating Colorado, the Braves claimed their third National League pennant since 1991 by sweeping the Cincinnati Reds four games to none in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series. The Reds had swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the division series. The Braves stunned the Reds with two extra-inning victories in Cincinnati and then went home to win twice, by scores of 5-2 and 6-0.
The Indians swept the Boston Red Sox in the division series. They then lost the opener of the American League Championship Series in Seattle and also lost their first home game to fall behind 2-1 in the series. But they won the next three games--by scores of 7-0, 3-2, and 4-0--to seize their first pennant since 1954.
After the Mariners and California Angels tied for first place in the American League West division, they had a one-game play-off, won by the Mariners. The Angels, who had led the division for most of the summer, also lost out on a wild-card spot, because the Yankees posted a better second-place record in the American League East.
Regular Season
The Braves cruised to a first-place finish in the National League East with a 90-54 record, 21 games better than Philadelphia and the New York Mets. Cincinnati won the Central division by nine games over the Houston Astros, and Los Angeles captured the West division by one game over Colorado.
Cleveland posted the best record in either league, winning 100 of 144 games and romping to a first-place finish in the American League Central by 30 games over the Kansas City Royals. Boston outdistanced New York by seven games in the East, while the Mariners, who appeared hopelessly out of contention in August, caught up with the slumping Angels.
Despite the new play-off format, interest in baseball was down throughout the major leagues. Overall attendance dropped about 20% after the strife of the previous season, when play was halted in mid-August because of a player strike.
Individual Accomplishments
The highlight of the season occurred on September 6 in Baltimore, Md., where Orioles' shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. (see BIOGRAPHIES), played his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking the 56-year-old record of New York Yankee Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig. Ripken's streak spanned more than 13 seasons, and he celebrated the historic evening by hitting a fourth-inning home run in a 4-2 victory over California.
Despite the abbreviated schedule, Belle of the Indians became the 12th player ever to hit 50 home runs in a season. He also tied Boston's Mo Vaughn for the American League lead in runs batted in with 126. Edgar Martínez of Seattle won the batting championship with an average of .356, and teammate Randy Johnson led pitchers with a 2.48 earned-run average (ERA) and struck out 294 batters, the most in either league. Baltimore's Mike Mussina won 19 games, one more than Johnson and David Cone of the Yankees. Mesa of Cleveland led relief pitchers with 46 saves.
In the National League, Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres won the batting title with an average of .368. Dante Bichette of Colorado hit the most home runs, 40, and batted in the most runs, 128. Maddux crafted a brilliant ERA of 1.63 while compiling a 19-2 record. Randy Myers of the Chicago Cubs had the most saves, 38. Ramón Martínez of the Dodgers pitched the only no-hitter, a 7-0 victory over the Florida Marlins.
Cincinnati shortstop Barry Larkin was named the National League's Most Valuable Player, and first baseman Vaughn won the honour in the American League. The Cy Young Awards for best pitcher went to Maddux for a record fourth consecutive year in the National League and Johnson in the American. Los Angeles pitcher Hideo Nomo was the National League's Rookie of the Year, and Minnesota outfielder Marty Cordova won in the American. Managers of the Year were Don Baylor of Colorado in the National League and Lou Piniella of Seattle in the American.
Other Developments
The National League beat the American League 3-2 in the annual All-Star Game at Arlington, Texas, on July 11. Jeff Conine of Florida hit a pinch home run in the eighth inning and was named Most Valuable Player. Dodger rookie star Nomo started the game for the National League, marking the first time a Japanese-born player had ever appeared in an All-Star Game.
In January former Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt was the only player elected to the Hall of Fame. Mickey Mantle, the former New York Yankee star, died in August of liver cancer. (See OBITUARIES.) Sparky Anderson, who had managed the Detroit Tigers for 17 seasons, resigned at the end of the year.
Management-Labour Situation
With the impasse still existing after a winter of restless and occasionally acrimonious negotiations, owners opened spring training camps in mid-February to replacement players. Regular players were also welcome, but the union proved strong. Exhibition games began without the major leaguers but were not warmly received by fans.
On March 26 the National Labor Relations Board, which had been investigating unfair labour practices, authorized its general counsel to seek a preliminary injunction against owners for the purpose of restoring 1994 work rules. On March 31, U.S. District Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor issued the injunction in New York City, at which time the union announced it would end its strike.
The owners' request for a stay of the injunction was denied, and shortly thereafter interim commissioner Bud Selig declared that regular players should report to spring training camps on April 2. The start of the regular season was delayed until April 25, when the Dodgers beat the Marlins at Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium.
Latin America
The 1995 Caribbean Series was held in San Juan, P.R., on February 4-9. The tournament, in which winners of the four major winter tournaments in Latin America compete against one another, was played in a round-robin format, with every team playing each rival twice. The host team, the San Juan Senators, swept the series easily with six straight victories before an enthusiastic home crowd. In the final game the Senators defeated the Sugar Growers from Este, of the Dominican Republic, by 9-3.
The Sugar Growers took second place with four wins and two defeats. Mexico's Orange Growers of Hermosillo and Venezuela's Caracas Lions, with identical records of one win and five losses, were relegated to last place.
Mexico's economic crisis affected Mexican League baseball, played during the summer. The season was shortened from 132 to 116 games by eliminating contests between teams from the southern and northern divisions during the regular season. Eventually the Monterrey Sultans won the northern division by virtue of a good performance during the play-offs; they had finished far behind the Reynosa Broncos during the regular season. The Sultans then easily defeated the Mexico City Red Devils, the champions of the southern zone, in four straight games during the best-of-seven championship series.
The Yakult Swallows of the Central League, based in Tokyo, defeated the Pacific League's Orix Blue Wave of Kobe four games to one in the 1995 Japan Series. The Swallow pitchers gave up only 10 earned runs in the five games and had a combined ERA of 1.76, while the ERA for the Blue Wave pitching corps was 3.28. After the Swallows won the first game, the next three went into extra innings, and each was decided by a home run: in game two, by Swallow first baseman Thomas O'Malley; in game three, by Swallow shortstop Takahiro Ikeyama; and in game four, by Blue Wave first baseman Doug Jennings. The Swallows won the fifth game 3-1. O'Malley, who hit .529--including two home runs--was voted the Most Valuable Player of the series.
The Swallows, a preseason underdog, got off to a good start and by the end of April were in first place, where they remained for the rest of the season. O'Malley, with a batting average of .302, 31 home runs, and 87 runs batted in, was voted the Most Valuable Player of the Central League. Hiroshima Carp pitcher Yasuyuki Yamauchi won 14 games against 10 losses and got the Rookie of the Year award.
The Blue Wave floundered during April and May but in June overtook the then league-leading defending champions Seibu Lions and led for the rest of the season. Ichiro Suzuki, an outfielder for the Blue Wave who led the league in stolen bases (49) and in four batting categories--batting average (.342), runs batted in (80), hits (179), and on-base percentage (.432)--was named the Most Valuable Player of the year in the Pacific League. Pitcher Masafumi Hirai of the Blue Wave, with a 15-5 record and 27 saves, was voted the Rookie of the Year.


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Complaint Review: Dr. Jonathan Nebb O.D., P.A.
- Dr. Jonathan Nebb O.D., P.A.
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Dr. Jonathan Nebb O.D., P.A. Boca Family Eye CareTarget Optical - Coral Springs Grossly overcharged Coral Springs Florida
*Author of original report: My issue is resolved with Dr. Nebb
I visited with Dr. Jonathan Nebb of Boca Family Eye Care at his other office location at Target Optical in Coral Springs. The story of my experience with Dr. Nebb is long so I won't go into all the detail here. The short of it is that Target charges $149 for a contact eye exam plus $30 for optional ocular photos if you choose to have them. Dr. Nebb because I had insurance charged $371 and was paid $297 by me and the insurance company before he gave me a refund of $22 resulting in a total of $275 paid to him for a 30 minute exam with no follow-up.
I met with Dr. Nebb and could tell that he became excited when he found out that I had Aetna insurance. He gave me ocular photos without asking if I wanted them (at the time I did not know about the up charge or that this was an optional service). He ultimately billed Aetna $254 of which he was paid $180 and I am responsible for another $20.
He also charged me $117 when I was at his office for a total of $297 for the exam. When I contacted his for overcharging me on my co-pay he only credited me for $22 so his total take on the exam was $275. I believe that he regularly overcharges people on their copayments and most people just don't check their explanation of benefits. This is an unethical business practice. As well, I told him up front that I was not from Florida and that I would not be able to follow-up with him.
He should have declined the business since I have a complicated prescription that would need follow-up. Finally, he prescribed me something called monovision contact lenses which are for when you need both distance and reading glasses. Upon doing some research I found that monovision is not considered a great solution for my issue and that there are much better options. I basically see blurry all day through the lenses he prescribed. If you want the wrong vision solution and want to get overcharged at the same time then Dr. Nebb is the optometrist for you.
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Multicultural QSR Consumer - US - December 2011
The spending power of multicultural consumers is rising as their numbers increase, making them a key consideration for the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry. However, there are significant differences within these groups and "one size fits all" marketing and menu developments will not effectively appeal to their diverse wants and needs.
This report provides insights that will help guide readers appeal to Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, including:
- The importance of children and families in how multicultural consumers interact with QSRs, and how factors such as age and level of acculturation impact interest
- What segments in the QSR market are most appealing to which demographics, and the chains within those segments that are best at connecting with consumers, and how
- Why better for you (BFY) menu options are necessary across the board, and how to best implement them
- A breakdown of each of the three multicultural groups and an in-depth look at the distinct interests and habits within each group
- Marketing messages that appeal most effectively when targeting various ethnic groups
- How mobile technology has emerged as an essential tool for multicultural consumers and how operators can most effectively implement these initiatives
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Table of contents
Scope and Themes
- What you need to know
- Definition
- Data sources
- Consumer survey data
- Advertising
- Abbreviations and terms
- Abbreviations
- Terms
- What you need to know
Executive Summary
- The QSR consumer
- Preferred QSR
- Consumer behavior and attitudes within QSRs
- The Black QSR consumer
- The Hispanic QSR consumer
- The Asian QSR consumers
- Marketing strategies
- U.S. multicultural population
- The QSR consumer
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- Children and families first
- Charity starts at home
- Food enough to feed a family
- Figure 1: Average number of people per family household, 2010
- Healthy food for the youngest patrons
- Overcoming health stigma
- Mobile devices bridge the "digital divide"
- Figure 2: Internet access via phone, desktop, or laptop, by race/Hispanic origin, July 2010-March 2011
- Figure 3: Use of phones or tablets for social networking, by race/Hispanic origin, June 2011
- Figure 4: Weekly use of communication platforms, by race/Hispanic origin, July 2011
- Location-based marketing
- Blended workforce needs blended dayparts
- Figure 5: Employed people by occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 2009 annual averages
- Children and families first
Inspire Insights
- Trend: "Make it Mine"
- Trend: "Life—An Informal Affair"
The QSR Consumer
- Key points
- Blacks the most avid multicultural QSR consumer
- Figure 6: Likelihood of dining at fast food and drive-in restaurants by race/Hispanic origin, February 2010-March 2011
- Asians most frequent QSR breakfast eaters
- Figure 7: Frequency of eating breakfast from a fast food restaurant in the past month, by race and gender, June-July 2011
- Lunch popularity driven by work schedules
- Figure 8: Frequency of eating lunch from a fast food restaurant in the past month, by race and gender, June–July 2011
- Black women over-index on QSR dinner
- Figure 9: Frequency of eating dinner from a fast food restaurant in the past month, by race and gender, June–July 2011
- Spending at QSRs declines for Black women, rises for Hispanics
- Figure 10: Consumer change in expenditure on fast food, by race and gender, June-July 2011
- Use by Hispanics on the rise
- Figure 11: Trended data on the number of visits to fast food and drive in restaurants in the last 30 days, by race/Hispanic origin, Winter 2008-Winter 2011
- Children a regular part of QSR trips, along with friends/coworkers
- Breakfast
- Figure 12: With whom consumers eat out for breakfast by race/Hispanic origin, February 2010-March 2011
- Lunch
- Figure 13: With whom consumers eat out for lunch by race/Hispanic origin, February 2010-March 2011
- Snack
- Figure 14: With whom consumers eat out for snacks by race/Hispanic origin, February 2010-March 2011
- Dinner
- Figure 15: With whom consumers eat out for dinner by race/Hispanic origin, February 2010-March 2011
- Key points
Preferred QSR
- Key points
- Restaurants visited
- Burger
- Sandwich
- Chicken
- Mexican
- Pizza
- Coffeehouse, donut shop, and smoothie
- Seafood
- Fast casual
- Figure 16: Restaurants visited in the last 30 days by race/Hispanic origin and restaurant type, February 2010-March 2011
- Key points
Consumer Behavior and Attitudes within QSRs
- Key points
- Value, convenience, and best-tasting food the leading lures
- Figure 17: What is important to consumers when choosing a QSR, by race/Hispanic origin, June-July 2011
- Healthy options tops for Hispanics and Asians; Black are looking for sides
- Figure 18: What consumers would like to see more of at QSRs, by race/Hispanic origin, June-July 2011
- Asians prime for targeting efforts
- Figure 19: Attitudes towards fast food restaurants, by race/Hispanic origin, June-July 2011
- Hispanics missing the health message
- Figure 20: Attitudes toward food by race/Hispanic origin, February 2010-March 2011
- Key points
The Black QSR Consumer
- Key points
- Black women 18-34 are "super fans"
- Figure 21: Frequency of Black consumers eating from a fast food restaurant in the past month, by age and gender, June-July 2011
- Older Blacks could be better targeted, young Black women show widest use
- Figure 22: Restaurants visited by Black consumers in the last 30 days by age and gender, February 2010-March 2011
- A wide range of factors appeal to women aged 18-34
- Figure 23: What is important to Black consumers when choosing a QSR, by age and gender, June-July 2011
- Opportunity to increase BFY options to increase appeal for Blacks
- Figure 24: What Black consumers would like to see more of at fast food restaurants, by age and gender, June-July 2011
- Key points
The Hispanic QSR Consumer
- Key points
- Lunch the most popular daypart for Hispanics
- Figure 25: Frequency of Hispanic consumers eating from a fast food restaurant in the past month, by household income, June-July 2011
- Spanish-dominant less likely to visit QSRs
- Figure 26: Restaurants visited by Hispanic consumers in the last 30 days by language spoken in the home, February 2010-March 2011
- Fresh, healthy, organic and natural draws for Spanish-dominants
- Figure 27: What is important to Hispanic consumers when choosing a QSR, by language spoken in the home, June-July 2011
- Top six "wants" reflect healthier options
- Figure 28: What Hispanic consumers would like to see more of at fast food restaurants, by the presence of children in the household, June-July 2011
- Key points
The Asian QSR Consumer
- Key points
- Lunch a popular meal at QSRs for Asians 18-44
- Figure 29: Frequency of Asian consumers eating from a fast food restaurant in the past month, by age, June – July 2011
- Women prefer brands with healthier choices
- Figure 30: Restaurants visited by Asian consumers in the last 30 days by gender, February 2010-March 2011
- Youngest Asians most vocal about what they seek out
- Figure 31: What is important to Asian consumers when choosing a QSR, by age, June-July 2011
- Non-English speaking Asians less enthused
- Figure 32: What Asian consumers would like to see more of at fast food restaurants, by language spoken in the home, June-July 2011
- Key points
Marketing Strategies
- Overview
- Television
- Burger King
- Figure 33: Burger King, television ad, 2010
- Jack-in-the-Box
- Figure 34: Jack-in-the-Box, television ad, 2010
- McDonald's
- Figure 35: McDonald's, television ad, 2011
- Starbucks
- Figure 36: Starbucks, television ad, 2010
- Taco Bell
- Figure 37: Taco Bell, television ad, 2011
- Wendy's
- Figure 38: Wendy's, television ad, 2011
- Online
- El Pollo Loco
- Domino's Pizza
- McDonald's
- Overview
U.S. Multicultural Population
- Key points
- U.S. population by race/Hispanic origin
- Figure 39: Population, by race and Hispanic origin, 2000-15
- Figure 40: Population, by race/Hispanic origin, 1970-2020
- Figure 41: Asian, Black, and Hispanic populations, 1970-2020
- Purchasing power by race/Hispanic origin
- The Black consumer
- The Hispanic consumer
- The Asian consumer
- Figure 42: Purchasing power, by race/Hispanic origin, 2008
- U.S. population by age
- The U.S. population by age
- Figure 43: Total U.S. population, by age, 2005-15
- The Black population by age
- Figure 44: U.S. Black population, by age, 2005-15
- The Hispanic population by age
- Figure 45: U.S. Hispanic population, by age, 2005-15
- The Asian population by age
- Figure 46: U.S. Asian population, by age, 2005-15
- Household size
- Figure 47: Average household size, by Hispanic origin/race of householder, 2001 and 2008
- Households with children
- Figure 48: Households with children by race and Hispanic origin of householder, 2011
- Median household income
- Figure 49: Median household income, by race and Hispanic origin of householder, 2008-2010
- Economic factors
- Figure 50: Average unemployment rates, 2007-11
- Country of origin/heritage
- African and Caribbean immigrants
- Hispanics
- Figure 51: Hispanic population by type, 2000-10
- Figure 52: Graph: Hispanics, by country of origin/heritage, 2010
- Asian ethnic groups
- Figure 53: U.S. Asian population, by nationality/ancestral group, 2008
- Key points
Appendix: Trade Associations
Companies Covered
- ABP Corporation
- AFC Enterprises Inc.
- American Dietetic Association (ADA)
- Applebee's International Inc.
- Arby's Restaurant Group
- Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies
- Blimpie International Inc.
- Burger King Corporation
- Captain D's Inc.
- Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc.
- Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
- Church's Chicken
- Del Taco, Inc.
- Domino's Pizza LLB
- Donatos Pizzeria LLC
- Dunkin' Brands
- El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc.
- Facebook, Inc.
- Fazoli's Restaurants, Inc.
- Food Distributors International
- Foursquare
- Godfather's Pizza, Inc.
- Hardee's Food Systems, Inc.
- International Food Information Council Foundation (IFIC)
- International Food Service Executives Association (IFSEA)
- International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA)
- International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA)
- International Franchise Association (IFA)
- Jamba Juice Company
- JetBlue Airways Corporation
- KFC Corporation
- Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.
- Long John Silver's Inc.
- McDonald's U.S.A.
- National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR)
- National Medical Association
- National Restaurant Association (NRA)
- National Retail Federation (NRF)
- Panera Bread Company
- Papa John's International, Inc.
- Pizza Hut Inc
- Pizza Inn Inc.
- Pizza Patrón Inc.
- Qdoba Restaurant Corporation
- Rubio's Restaurants Inc.
- Sbarro, Inc
- Schlotzsky's Inc.
- Sonic Corp.
- Starbucks Corporation
- Subway
- Taco Bell Corp.
- Target Market News Inc
- The Quiznos Master LLC
- The Wendy's Company
- Twitter, Inc.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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- Survive the Canyon: Leave the streets to battle rival bosses in the canyons outside the urban center. All-new Canyon Duel and Drift race modes are the ultimate test of skill and nerve, where one wrong turn could cost you more than the race.
- The City Is Yours for the Taking: Race for control of the city block-by-block by taking down rival crews on their turf, then defeat their crew leaders in life-or-death races in Carbon Canyon.
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- Build Your Crew: Strategically choose your crew members and use their skills on the road and in your garage to help you win races and customize your cars. Designate any member of your crew as a wingman and trigger his special skill to knock out your rivals.
- Over 50 Real-World Licensed Cars: Featuring over 50 licensed cars including the all new Ford Shelby GT500 and Mazda Mazea speed 3. Each and every car is tuneable so you can customize their look and performance to suit your crew.
descriptionThe battle for the city is won in the canyon as Need for Speed™ Carbon immerses you in the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing.
As the police turn up the heat and force the races to the outskirts of the city, the battle ultimately shifts to Carbon Canyon, where territories and reputations can be lost on every perilous curve. Racing has never felt so dangerous where every turn is a matter of life or death.
For the first time in a Need for Speed game, build a crew and race in an all-out war for your city against rival crews and opposing car classes. You'll risk everything to take over rival neighborhoods one street at a time.
Each crew member has unique skills that you trigger during races to give you the winning edge over opponents. Call on a Blocker to create a distraction and slow down other racers or activate a Scout to lead you to shortcuts on the track.
Use your creativity to design your crew's cars with the revolutionary new Autoscuplt™ car customization tool that gives you the power to turn every vehicle into the car you've always wanted. Using next generation morphing technology every car can have its own unique look like never before.
Need for Speed Carbon features a fresh new story line using full motion capture technology. Unlock the mystery of what happened "that fateful night" and reclaim your reputation. The game features star talent Emmanuelle Vauiger as Nikki, your ex-girlfriend who will help you on your journey to uncover the past.
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