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Time, attention, and the content creation curve
Mar 7th
By Srinivas Rao, Contributing {grow} Columnist
If you've read any of my previous posts here on {grow}, you know that I view attention as a form of currency on the social web. In fact it's the most valuable form of currency because it's the start of every single relationship. However as the supply of attention decreases, the demand increases, and the mass attention myth becomes more prevalent, we need to give some thought to how we're going to get people to spend their attention with us.
The Cost of Attention
"A link, a funny photo, a famous quote, or even a recipe or coupon are legitimate types of content, but these are not the types of content that will optimize your social media presence and bring you powerful, lasting results." – Mark Schaefer
Interactions on the web occur across multiple channels and the amount of attention that people spend at each channel varies greatly. For the sake of this post, let's use a rating system that assigns an attention cost (i.e. how much of their attention somebody spends with you). let's take a journey together up the content creation curve:
Tweets/Status Updates
Attention Cost: 1
You'll rarely hear anybody say "that status update changed my life." As my friend Charlie Gilkey brilliantly pointed out, tweets and status updates don't change lives, they interrupt them.
At best we might pique somebody's curiosity with a status update. We might gain a new follower or fan. We'll have their attention until the next shiny thing in the clickstream grabs their attention. The world of tweets and status updates is like a virtual flea market. People move from stall to stall spending tiny bits of their attention.
Blog Posts
Attention Cost: 3
A blog post is where your fans may linger but the attention is probably transient. A rule of thumb is that 80 percent of your visitors have never been to your blog and probably will never be there again.
Most people scan blog posts. But consistent blogging does create a valuable body of work that can lead to dedicated fans and a base of content that can establish a voice of authority. And blog posts can create conversations and engagement like no other content form.
Attention Cost: 3
Newsletters cost more of your attention because you made a choice to receive them. You gave somebody your email address. Access to your inbox is a bit like breaking out your wallet at the flea market and saying you'll buy something small. Even Scott Stratten who is a self proclaimed social media "fanboy" once told me that "social is a terrible pull mechanism." Don't underestimate the power of email as a way to get people spending more of their attention with you.
Attention Costs 4
"Every major religion has a text. Your manifesto or free e-book is that for your blog." – Jeff Goins
Marcus Sheridan is quickly becoming a guru of marketing through this form. He doesn't sell ebooks. He gives away a 250 page bible on content marketing. It's resulted in clients, speaking engagements, and much more. In his words "I'd rather land a $10,000 client or speaking gig than sell a ten dollar e-book."
But the more important thing to observe is why this works. It requires a significant investment of somebody's attention to read a 60 page manifesto or 250 page ebook. It gets them invested in your worldview. It also filters out the people who don't resonate with your ideas. Here are a few other ebooks/manifestos that have catapulted people to prominence:
- Chris Guillebeau's World Domination Manifesto has been downloaded over 100,000 times. Since publishing it, he's gone on to publish two wildly successful books.
- AJ Leon wrote The Life and Times of a Remarkable Misfit. It's been downloaded over 87,000 times since he published it just 5 months ago. The result is a fanatical fan base.
Attention Costs 5
95% of communication is non-verbal. When somebody hears your voice or sees your face you go from being words on a screen to being a real person. Consider the average time spent on most blogs. For me it's roughly 2-3 minutes. Contrast that with somebody listening to a podcast for roughly an hour and it's clear that it requires much more of their attention. It's difficult to "scan" a podcast. As attention becomes scarcer and mobile devices become more prevalent, it's no surprise that some of our greatest minds on the web are diversifying their content efforts.
Attention Cost: 6
When we talk about how someone uses words to impact a tribe, what a manifesto or book book does is show that you're serious. It makes a prolonged consistent argument. It demonstrates a point of view. It's a whole river not a drop of water. – Seth Godin
Why are books so special? A book requires much more effort on the part of the creator and of the reader.
When you write a book it causes people to take you seriously. While there are plenty of people declaring the death of the publishing industry, getting a book deal with a mainstream publisher is still a huge credibility builder. There's something about walking into a bookstore and seeing your book on the shelf that gives it a very special quality. Many authors will tell you their books don't' make money, but rather serve as a business card.
A book cements their authority on a subject. C.C. Chapman said when he asked an organization why they called him, they replied "because you wrote the book on the subject."
The Relationship Between Attention and Effort
As you look down this list there is another important correlation. Each step on the attention ladder represents more commitment to attention, but also more effort on the part of the content creator.
- A blog post requires more effort than a status update
- An ebook/manifesto requires more effort than a blog post
- A traditional book requires more effort than both of the above
When I submitted this post to Mark the first time, he sent it back. He holds us to excruciatingly high standards. But it's tough love because his high standards have resulted in some of my best work. That's the trade-off — The more effort you give something, the more attention it gets. In Mark's email to me he said something that could really summarize the entire the point of this post:
"The most important thing is to create something exceptional, even if it takes a little more time."
Now, I'll leave you with a question. Are you creating something that's going to matter over the course of a lifetime? Are you willing to do the work?
Srinivas Rao writes about the things you should have learned in school, but never did and his the host-co founder of BlogcastFM. You can follow him on twitter @skooloflife
Do you have to cheat to be successful on the social web?
Mar 6th
I spent a great part of my career in B2B marketing positions and the part I loved most was traipsing around the factory floor. I loved watching things work and being with people who were actually "making stuff."
There was one manufacturing manager I knew who seemed to be a wizard. The guy always led the pack and found a way to hit his production numbers no matter what was thrown at him. He seemed too good to be true.
That's because he was. He was a cheat.
Turns out, he would invest to improve his plant's productivity and then purposely understate the manufacturing capacity of his equipment. So he was always holding back — in essence, lying and cheating the company so he could "make his numbers" and get that big bonus check. Of course he was fired.
He moved on to another Fortune 100 company, did the same thing, and was fired again.
You see, it's not just about making your numbers. HOW you make the numbers matters too.
It's all about cheating
This has been one of those weeks when I get really disgusted about the questionable games people play in business. For example, there has been a significant debate about the number of well-known authors who allegedly hire specialized companies to buy bulk copies of their books to nudge them on to the New York Times bestseller list.
I understand why people do this. They cheat, bump themselves on to The New York Times list for a day, and then claim that badge of social proof for their career forever. But it's kind of like calling yourself an "award-winning author" for that third-place trophy you received in high school for the Kiwanis Club essay contest. What did you really accomplish?
The publishing companies apparently approve of this because it moves books. Even the New York Times seems to condone cheating. This blows my mind. I mean, it's the New York freaking Times, the most respected newspaper in America. And they're allowing the editorial section of their paper to be gamed? The fact is, it is possible — maybe necessary — to buy your way on to this prestigious list.
An addiction to social proof
I've written extensively about this idea of "social proof." An indicator like "New York Times bestseller" is a short-cut indicator of quality when we are overwhelmed in a decision process. But this is a two-edged sword. It is undoubtedly a powerful indicator of influence, but it is also increasingly meaningless because nearly every "badge" can be faked.
Today, anyone can manufacture their own image of personal power. In Return On Influence, I wrote about a colleague who admitted to me that his entire social media presence had been faked. He bought his massive Twitter audience. He had somebody ghost-writing his blogs. He made up his client list. And people bought into it.
Another person I know created their own social media award and presented it to themselves so they had something to display on their blog. Nearly every day I get requests from people to vote for them for some crazy, made-up award. What the heck does winning a "Shorty Award" mean? Are you really the "best" of something?
The sad reality is, what you do may be less important than how you appear on the Internet. In a social media world that barks "Authenticity! Authenticity!" … there is precious little of that, in reality.
There was a time I was too concerned with social proof. I didn't cheat, but I spent too much time comparing my "numbers" with other people. It was driving the wrong behavior for me and my business because instead of just doing good work, I was thinking about doing work that increased these meaningless metrics. The social proof on my blog included badges about the awards I had won, Ad Age Power 150, etc. I took them all down about a year ago (which means I am not even following my own advice about the importance of social proof!), but it was the right decision for me because today I am concentrating on business metrics that make a difference.
Leaving success on the table?
I do wonder if the world will pass me by if I don't cheat. Will I ever have a bestseller? Will my publishers even support me any more if I'm not willing to pay a third party to buy my own books? Is it more important to write a great book or have the financial resources to make it look like a great book?
Will my blog readers eventually be more attracted to bloggers who display their awards and badges like a a five-star general?
Will clients hire speakers for conferences and workshops based on the number of Twitter followers or Facebook Likes they manufacture?
Does it matter that I don't make "best of" lists or win social media awards because I don't lobby my friends for votes?
Despite the business realities of social proof, life is too short to compromise myself to make a book list or fake my way to stardom. I feel like I am in a shrinking minority, but I still believe the lesson I learned on the factory floor so many years ago — How you make the numbers is important too. Even if other people can't tell what is real, I know what is real.
Thanks for reading my post today. I would love to hear your thoughts on cheating and social proof in the comment section!
5 reasons you should be in social media, even if the boss says "no"
Mar 5th
Boss driving you crazy? Having a hard time selling the idea that you need to be on the social web?
I know first-hand that there are still many naysayers out there who don't understand why they need to have a social media presence. Here are five reasons that should convince even the last hold-out to get on board …
1. Social impact on search
What percent of your business starts with a search on Google? For many businesses it may be as high as 90 percent. And if any of your business comes through search or your website, then social media is inextricably linked to your future success.
One of the most important and significant changes the search engines have made to deliver meaningful and personal results is to incorporate social media results as part of the validation process for content. Social validation and "authorship" are guiding more search results. To be part of this, you need to be creating and igniting content. Establishing authority on the web through your social media content will dramatically help you improve your organization's search rankings over time. And almost every business can benefit from that.
2. Facebook is the Internet
A common question I receive in my classes and workshops is, "What will be the next Facebook?" A point I try to make is that the emotional switching cost to moving away from Facebook is enormously high. That's where you have all your friends, photos, videos, and family members. It's where you have your Farmville farm for goodness sake!
I've made the argument that it might be easier to change your house than to change your social network.
Research from The Social Habit, a division of Edison Research, reveals that more than 80 percent Americans between the ages of 13 and 24 are on Facebook and more than half are active every day. There is no other brand in the world that boasts that kind of market penetration. To this demographic, who either are, or soon will be, your customers, Facebook IS the Internet.
And the popular social network is rapidly spreading across every demographic and every region of the world. It is the largest media entity in history.
One interesting and significant trend is that the amount of search on Facebook has been rising dramatically, and of course Facebook's new search engine development will further serve this trend. Increasingly, Facebook will be the way people find and connect with goods, service, companies, and brands. It probably makes sense to stake your claim there, right? Who knows where the future will lead us?
3. Social proof
When we don't know the truth, we look for clues from our external environment (like number or "badges" on a website) to help us make decisions.
In our information-dense world of the Internet, we're starved for clues to help us determine leadership and authority and we readily turn to "badges of influence" like number of Twitter followers or even a Klout score as convenient indicators of power.
Perhaps the most prestigious symbol of social proof today is the Facebook "Like." Among many companies, there is a Facebook arms race in progress as competing brands do anything necessary to gain the upper hand on this important metric. I recently wrote a post describing a company who has an internal marketing metric of "cost per like." On the surface, this seems ludicrous but it demonstrates how strategically important this symbol has become.
This might seem a little "icky," but it's real. Don't overlook social proof of authority as a legitimate reason to have an active social media presence.
4. The Trade Show Dilemma
Have you ever had to sit at a booth during a boring industry trade show?
I did, and I hated every minute of it. It was nice to network with people in the industry and maybe even chat with customers, but it was certainly not a very effective use of my time! Despite spending tens of thousands of dollars on this marketing event, we rarely sold anything, learned anything, or created any new value beyond handing out nice pens.
So why did we do it?
Because if we weren't there, people would think something was wrong. We would be ostentatiously absent.
In this day and age, not being on Facebook or Twitter sends the same message. "Ajax Printing isn't on Facebook? I guess they just don't get it." Even if you DO get it, it tells a story that you don't get it. Having those social sharing buttons on your website is the new trade show. You better be there, even if it may not be the best use of your time.
5. Social media is the future of communications
The Net Generation – your next pool of employees, customers, and competitors – prefer to use text messaging and the social web over any other form of communication. It is the natural evolution of communications. You might enjoy reading a paper copy of The Wall Street Journal each morning, or even looking at an online version of your favorite news site. Nearly half of Americans under the age of 21 cites Facebook as their primary source of news.
The social web is where a generation is going to connect, learn, and discover. Ignore this at your peril!
So there you have it. If your CEO is still haggling with you because you can't prove the ROI of social media (don't get me started) show her this article and say, it's not just about ROI … it's about relevance!
I'd love to hear your comments about these observations. Fire away in the comment section!
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No word yet on what sort of character shed play, though this is a superhero movie which means shoehorning in some sort of female love interest is of course, obligatory. In Hollywood thats really all women are good for. Nobody seems to want to watch female-led movies, so the best an actress like Cameron Diaz can hope for anymore is to moon over some muscle-bound dude in spandex.
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Also known as the Palais Corbelli, the IES Abroad Vienna Center is an elegant 18th century palace in the heart of the city and is just minutes from many of the museums, theaters, and other major cultural attractions that have bestowed international fame on Vienna.
Features include:
An international scholar, Dr. Solvik holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Music and Intellectual History from Cornell University. Born in Norway, he speaks Norwegian, German, and English fluently, and uses French as a research language.
Dr. Solvik was instrumental in setting up the IES Abroad Vienna Music Program, which he has coordinated since 1999, and has also designed and taught numerous courses in Music History. In addition to his work with IES Abroad Vienna, Dr. Solvik has served as lecturer at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (The University for Music and Performing Arts). His teaching and administrative experience is augmented by his active and productive scholarly career as an expert on Gustav Mahler.
IES Abroad Vienna Staff
Kendall Burgess, M.A.Academic Registrar / Assistant to the Center Director
Kaja CiupinskaInstitutional Relations and Events Coordinator
Helmut SummesbergerManager of Student Affairs
Meral KölblingerStudent Health & Safety Coordinator / Student Affairs
Mathias SchmerbachAccounting and Finance Manager
Tobias SigmundStudent Housing Coordinator / Student Affairs
Dieter StroblFacilities Coordinator / Library Services
IES Abroad Vienna Faculty
Tanja AdamGerman
Mag., University of Vienna
Agnes Adensamer(-Znamenskiy)German
Mag., University of Vienna
Gabriele AmonStudio Art
Mag. Art, University for Applied Arts in Vienna; Univ.-Lekt. University of Applied Arts, Institute for Art and Technology – dept. of Textile
Ulrike AntonMusic History
Music Performance
1er Prix—Degré Superieur (Conservatoire Hector Berlioz, Paris); Professional Performance Diploma (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester); Master of Music (University of Manchester); Ph.D in musicology (University of Vienna/University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna); International concert flutist
Roswitha BeneschArt History
Doctor philosophiae, Lektorin Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Deirdre BrennerMusic Performance (Coaching staff)
BA, Dartmouth College (USA); MMus, Royal Academy of Music (London, UK); Master's in Lied and Oratorio, Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversitaet (Vienna, Austria)
Bianca CalinescuMusic Performance (Coaching staff)
Diploma in Piano Performance, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Ciarán Cassidy Finance, EconomicsPh.D., University of Manchester (UK); Professor and Finance Dept. Head, University of Applied Sciences, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Philine (Scherer-)DresslerPolitical Science, Interdisciplinary European and International StudiesDLG, MAIS-Mag., University of Vienna (Diplomatic Academy of Vienna)ICAN Austria (NGO)
Peter FischerInternational Law
Dr.juris Vienna University Dr.juris honoris causa Bratislava University Professor emeritus Vienna University Professor Bratislava School of Law
Tibor FrankHistory, Cultural History
MA, DrUniv, PhD, DLitt
Corr. Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Professor of History
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Michele FriedmanMusic Performance
B.M., M.M., California State University; Lehrauftragte—Universität Mozarteum Salzburg; Lehrauftragte—Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst; Lehrende—Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität
Dietmar FrieseneggerMusic History (Summer)MA; Ph.D Candidate, Cornell University
Peter GerlichPolitical Science
Doctor rerum politicarum, Master of Arts, Ordentlicher Professor, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Wien
Barbara GorzynskaMusic Performance (Coaching staff)
M.A. in Music Performance (violin), Academy of Music in Lodz, Poland; Adjunct, Academy of Music in Lodz; Visiting Professor, University for Music and Performing Arts in Graz
Gerold GruberMusic Theory
PhD Musicology, University of Vienna; Univ. Doz., a.o. Univ. Prof. Musicology at the Institute for Analysis, Theory and History of Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Saskia HaagTheatrePh.D, Universität Konstanz (Germany)University of Innsbruck
Carolyn HagueMusic Performance (Coaching staff)
BM, Stetson University; MM, University of Louisville; DMA, University of Maryland at College Park; Lehrende—Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität
Günter HaikaLiterature, Culture and Gender Studies
Mag. phil., Professor University of Vienna; Wake Forest University Vienna Program
Peter HaissEconomics
Doctor rerum oeconomia, Dozent, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Karl-Franzens Universität Graz und Universität Innsbruck
Antonia HanreichHistory, Cultural History
Doctor philosophiae, University of Vienna
Freiberufliche Vortragende der
Veronika HaunoldPublic Service Internship CoordinatorMA, University of ViennaEU Environmental Bureau; TINA Ltd, Vienna
Monika Johnson-SchönstädtGerman
Mat., Akademia-Vienna
Géza KállayLiterature
Ph.D., Doctor de Letteren (Leuven, 1996); professzor, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest, Hungary
Miguel Kertsman Music ProductionBM – Music Production & Engineering/Composition, Berklee College of Music, Boston; Program Director, Master's of Arts Program in Music for Film and Media, Danube University, Austria.
Katharina KlettermayerPublic Service Internship CoordinatorMA, University of Vienna
Romano Centro, Vienna
Doerte KuhlmannArt History, ArchitecturePh.D., Bauhaus University in Weimar; professor of Architecture Theory, Gender Studies and design, Institute of Architectural Sciences,Vienna University of Technology
Janina KurzmannPsychologyMag.rer.nat, University of Vienna; Mag.rer.soc.oec., Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.Lecturer, VHS Vienna; freelance psychologist (Schmetterlingsperspektiven)
Erik LeidalMusic History
B.M. in Music History, B.A. in English Literature, Rice University; M.A. in Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; independent international performer
William McElheneyMusic Performance (Coaching staff)Indiana University (Bloomington); diploma in Trombone Performance from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna; Vienna Philharmonic
Dardis McNameeJournalism
Graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Music and Political Science and a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna in Contemporary History, Editor in Chief of the English-language monthly, The Vienna Review
Monika MeyerGerman (Intensives)
Mag., Universität Wien
Wolfgang MoelzerBusiness, Management
Ph.D, University of Economics and Business Administration; Managing Partner of BKB Management
John MoraitisMusic History
Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MA in Musicology, University of Georgia
Katalin OrbánCommunications
Ph.D. in Literatures in English at Rutgers UniversityLecturer at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies at Eötvös Loránd University
Beatrice OttersböckArt History
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
Freiberufliche Vortragende der Kunstgeschichte
Renate Philapitsch-AschoberGerman (Intensives)
Ph.D, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Sprachtrainerin
Frank PokornPsychology
MSc, MA, University of Vienna; Lecturer for German Language, University of York, Psychologist, Vienna grammar school teacher
Gabriele ProyMusic Composition
Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts
Lisa ReganArt HistoryPh.D University of Calfornia Berkeley, Instructor at UC Berkely and Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz
Tamás RétiEconomicsKözgazdasági és Piackutató Intézet (Kopint-Datorg), Budapest, Hungary
Daniela RiedlGerman
Mag., University of Vienna
Heidi RoesslerSupervised Teaching Internship Coordinator
Magistra philosophiae, University of Vienna
Lehrerin, Bundesgymnasium Wien XIX
Anna RonaiMusic Performance (Summer)
MA, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Russell RyanMusic Performance (Summer)DMA, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna; Professor of Collaborative Piano, Arizona State University
Margarete SchachermeierGerman, Cultural HistoryAkademisches Übersetzerdiplom, University of ViennaSprachtrainerin
Nadja SchmidtPolitical Science, Interdisciplinary European Studies
Mag., University of Vienna, Mag. College of Europe in Natolin/Poland; Phd student and lecturer, Political Science, University of Vienna
Director, ICAN Vienna (NGO)
Miyuki SchuesslerMusic Performance (Coaching Staff)
Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo); diploma in Piano Performance from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna; Lehrende – Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität
Martin SchwarzBusiness Internship Coordinator
Master of Art, University of Southern California-Los Angeles; Direktor
Martin Schwarz G.m.b.H.
Birgit SchönyGerman
Mag., University of Vienna; Sprachtrainerin
Andrea SernettGerman
Dip, University of Vienna
Morten SolvikMusic History
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania,
IES Abroad Vienna Center Director
Reinhold StipsitsPsychologyPh.D. Dr.phil. ao. Professor; Institut für Bildungswissenschaft (Dept. of Education); University of Vienna
Eva StraussGerman
Mag., University of Vienna
Charlotte SummesbergerGerman
Doctor philosophiae, University of Vienna
Gudrun SwobodaArt History
PhD, University of Vienna
Curator Curator of Italian, Spanish and French Baroque Painting, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Lecturer, University of Vienna
Karl VocelkaHistory
PhD in German philology from the University of ViennaProfessor für österreichische Geschichte, Univerität Wien
Stefan WedracHistory
Ph.D., Universität Wien
Austrian Academy of Science
Natalia WächterSociology, Anthropology, Political Science
Dr. phil., Mag. rer.soc.oec, University of Vienna; senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna


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Firehouse 12 is part recording studio, part jazz venue, part record label, and part swanky lounge. Basically, it's one of the coolest spots in New Haven. Local bartender at the GPSCY Scott Hoch gave us the heads up on this one, and recommends dropping in to catch an intimate performance at their unique, acoustically balanced, soundproofed space.
Owner and chief sound engineer Nick Lloyd collaborates with Taylor Ho Bynum to offer locals an authentic experience like few others, earning the praise of the New York Times, who declared Firehouse 12 "The pre-eminent spot for improvised music in the region."
Whether you're looking to lay down some tracks, take in a show, or simply sample their diverse range of classic cocktails and hand-picked craft beer selection, Firehouse 12 is in a class all its own.
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03/10/2009Dr. Rajiv Datta Listed Again in "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area Guide"Prominent surgical oncologist Rajiv Datta, MD, has been selected for inclusion in the 12th edition of Top Doctors: New York Metro Area. This is the second consecutive year that Dr. Datta will be included in the acclaimed guide from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which spotlights the top 10 percent of primary specialty care physicians in the tri-state New York area.
"I am honored to be selected by my peers to be listed in this well-respected guide of the very best doctors in the area," said Dr. Datta, who is listed in the "General Surgery" section of the guide. "This achievement and the quality of the care my patients receive is directly attributable to the Cancer Program's team of oncologists, nurses, technicians, and administrators as well as South Nassau's commitment to providing the communities it serves with world-class, compassionate cancer care."
Dr. Datta, who was recently appointed president of the Nassau County Surgical Society, is medical director of the Cancer Program and chairman of the Department of Surgery at South Nassau Communities Hospital.
Doctors listed in Castle Connolly's "top doctors" series of guides are selected after peer nomination, extensive research and careful review and screening. The Castle Connolly physician-led research team reviews the medical education, training, hospital appointments, disciplinary history and more of each nominee. Doctors do not pay to be included in a Castle Connolly guide or list.
"Dr. Datta has an unparalleled level of surgical expertise and is recognized for the rapport he establishes with patients and his attentiveness to their needs and concerns," said Joseph A. Quagliata, president and CEO of South Nassau. "I am certain that under the leadership of Dr. Datta the Nassau Surgical Society will achieve its objectives and fulfill its mission."
Dr. Datta's areas of expertise include cancer of the breast, colon/rectum, endocrine system and head and neck; soft tissue sarcoma and melanoma; upper gastrointestinal and colorectal procedures; tracheal and esophageal surgeries and radio frequency ablation for liver tumors. Dr. Datta also participants in extensive clinical trials that are both federally and privately funded. The focus of his research is finding promising new investigational drugs that will effectively treat many forms of cancer, including melanoma as well as those of the breast, lung, colon, prostate and pancreas.
Dr. Datta joined South Nassau in 2001 and is recognized as one of the leading head and neck surgeons in the U.S., as well as an internationally known leader in surgical oncology. He was awarded the 2006 Cancer Liaison Physician Outstanding Performance Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. In 2005, he was awarded a Fellowship in the International College of Surgeons and served as South Nassau's Cancer Liaison Physician to the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. Prior to joining South Nassau, Dr. Datta was director of surgical oncology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
A graduate of Grant Medical College in Bombay, India, he has trained at some of the most prestigious surgical oncology and head and neck surgery programs in the world, including Tata Memorial Hospital, the largest cancer center in Asia; and England's Royal College of Surgeons, where he achieved Fellowship. Following his stay at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr. Datta continued his training with a Research Fellowship at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This was followed by a rare opportunity for a dual Fellowship in head and neck oncology and surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. Dr. Datta is a resident of Muttontown, NY.
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Monday News, March 3
Le Mars Fire Department Files February Report
(Le Mars) -- February was an extremely busy month for the Le Mars Fire and Rescue Department. Responding to a total of 30 calls, of which there were 15 fire calls, five rescues, seven investigations, one mutual aid to Merrill, and two requests for services. The local fire department also conducted 18 meetings and programs during the month of February.
Car Hits House In Sioux City
(Sioux City) -- A car that hit a house in Sioux City last evening caused a natural gas line to break forcing the evaculation of several people within the immediate area. The accident occurred at about 5:35 p.m. when a 47 year old female driver lost traction while attempting to go up a hill in the 2600 block of Wall Street. The car slid on the ice backwards and slid into a house. The damaged home was located at 1223 26th Street. The car left the roadway, traveled through the yard, and struck the home. Sioux City police and Sioux City fire departments responded to the accident scene. Mid-American Energy was also called in to help with the gas leak. No one was injured in the mishap, and residents were able to return to their homes later in the evening. The driver identified as Huong Thi Nguyen was issued a citation for "failure to maintain control".
Pheasants Forever Banquet A Success, Despite Bad Weather
(Le Mars) -- Despite the bad weather on Saturday, the Plymouth County Pheasants Forever 29th annual banquet was a big success, according to chapter president, Chris Anderson. More than 400 people attended the event, which was slightly lower than previous years. Anderson says the auction of guns, vacation destinations, paintings, jewelry, metal sculptures, taxidermy, and other items sold brought more than $26,000. When you combine the auction with the various raffles, the local pheasants forever chapter earned more than $35,000. The money will be used to purchase land and to maintain existing land for pheasant habitat, youth programs, and educational programs.
Weekend Snow Blankets Iowa Followed By Deep Freeze
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Another round of snow blanketed Iowa this weekend with parts of the state receiving as much as five inches, and bitter cold temperatures have returned.
The National Weather Service says 3 to 5 inches of snow fell Saturday across most of central Iowa and in the southeast corner of the state.
The southwest and northeast corners of Iowa received 1 to 3 inches of snow.
Subzero temperatures followed the storm, and forecasters are warning about dangerously cold wind chills overnight into Monday.
The Weather Service says wind chills as cold as 40 degrees below zero are likely in northern Iowa through Monday morning. Central Iowa will see wind chills ranging from 20-to-35 degrees below zero.
Is This The Year Iowa Sends A Woman To Washington?
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - With six women running in House and Senate primaries in Iowa this year, some are starting to wonder if 2014 might be the year that the state finally sends a woman to Washington.
Women's groups have long bemoaned the fact that Iowa is one of just two states - the other being Mississippi - that has never elected a woman governor or member of Congress.
Just why Iowa lags in electing women remains unclear. One likely factor is the state's limited number of seats and low turnover in those jobs. But this year is different, with an open Senate seat and two open House seats.
Some more high profile candidates opted out of these races last year, but a diverse group of women are now seeking the seats.
Economic Index Shows Decline From January, But Still Growing
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A monthly economic index for Iowa and eight other states has dropped slightly but still suggests growth over the next three to six months. The overall Mid-America Business Conditions Index fell to 57.4 in February from 57.7 in January. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth.
Asbestos Inspectors Overloaded
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa has only two inspectors to make sure thousands of asbestos-removal projects each year are being done properly in the state.
The lack of inspections at asbestos removal projects was highlighted by problems at a downtown Des Moines renovation project.
A contractor who had worked on renovations to a former Younkers department store in Des Moines complained to the state in January about improper asbestos removal.
An inspector visited the site but didn't find anything wrong until returning to the site later. Now the project will face more scrutiny.
The Environmental Information Association says enforcement of asbestos laws is a concern nationwide because there are so few inspectors.
West Des Moines Wants To Hire Forester To Combat EAB
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - West Des Moines wants to hire a full-time urban forester to oversee removal of about 1,200 ash trees from city property, anticipating the spread of an insect pest that is killing ash trees by the millions.
The supervisor will be charged with overseeing an emerald ash borer management plan. The city allocated $370,000 for the plan for fiscal year 2015, beginning July 1. The full plan is expected to span six years at a cost of roughly $1.7 million.
Officials issued a statewide quarantine in early February that restricts moving certain woods from Iowa into nonquarantined areas of other states. Eight counties in Iowa have confirmed infestations of the emerald ash borer.
Van Meter Man Accidentally Shoots Himself While Target Shooting
VAN METER, Iowa (AP) - A 29-year-old Iowa man is recovering after accidentally shooting his own finger during target practice.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating the incident that happened Sunday afternoon at Badger Creek State Recreation Area in Madison County.
Authorities say Zach Sainz inadvertently let one of his fingers get in front of the 9mm handgun he was firing.
Sainz was taken to a Des Moines hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening injury.
His condition wasn't immediately available Sunday evening.
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ZF-10587: oauth requests are not signed correctly when request method not specified.
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Error 401
My assumption is the request is changing after it is signed if the method is not specified, or something along those lines?.
Can you print out and paste the value of $client->getLastRequest(); after each call so we can compare the requests?
In each of the two cases they have the print out from getLastRequest(), then following is the response.


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Q&A: Roger Baker on the future of VistA and VLER
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Public debate over the electronic road ahead for the Veterans Affairs Department is often informed by a series of high-profile information technology project failures at the department. VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker has told Congress and other officials the VA is changing its ways for the better.
FierceGovernmentIT caught up with Baker at the Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg, Va. on Oct. 24; below is a transcript of the interview.
FGIT: Where do things stand right now with the VistA replacement process?
Baker: So, let's be clear, in my view, VA over the last 10 years has tried to replace VistA. I don't think that's possible. It would be like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) trying to replace Windows with not an evolutionary product, but with something brand new, but it has to come out and it has to be better the day it's introduced. That, basically, was the criteria for what VA was trying to do. That program was called HealtheVet. I have stepped VA away from HealtheVet, and what we're now looking at is how do we continue the evolution of VistA.
It is the best electronic health record system in the United States, at this point, especially if you focus on it from a patient-care standpoint. So, how do we then get back to moving the innovation forward in VistA, and that's really what the whole open source campaign is all about.
Medical records systems have moved forward a tremendous amount, in the United States, since the time that VistA was started. And the private sector is doing a lot of stuff that we need to be able to incorporate into VistA. So, our thought is that by being part of an open source community based around VistA, the VA can encourage private sector folks to either directly contribute the open source--you know, make improvements. Or integrate their products with the open source, so we can very easily buy a working product, instead of having to go down the government route.
The reason that, I believe we've got to go the open source route, is that we have two important projects to integrate private sector packages into VistA going on inside the government right now--one is for laboratory and one is for pharmacy. Both of those projects are going on five years, to integrate the private sector product into VistA because we're doing it the government way.
That is far too long. We need to be able to go out and say, I'm interested in a pharmacy package, in six months I'm going to buy one that I prefer, from all the ones integrated with the open source--let's go. And when an organization like VA says it's going to buy, that could be 200 or 300 million dollars. So, you know generating the private-sector interest in it.
I just think we're going to move VistA innovation forward much more quickly if we go the open source route.
FGIT: MUMPS has been very well received from a care perspective, and as a medical informatics tool. But it's been criticized for not being very interoperable. Would a move toward open source mean a deviation from MUMPS, so something more standard could be used by open source developers?
Baker: We have 15 million lines of MUMPS code. It's unlikely that it will, in bulk, get translated into something else. But what's likely to occur is that an open source community will take a look at that and decide that there are certain things in place they'd like to improve the functionality. So, they'll ask: 'Do I want to learn MUMPS and rewrite it in MUMPS so that I have reusability? Or do I want to just use C++, or some language that I prefer to build a new version of that module?'
I mean, any language can be interfaced with other languages; there are a variety of techniques for doing that. And the community may focus on, for the core pieces, let's create wrappers that do all the hard work for the interface and make it easy for the co-writers to interface with that model. There are a variety of approaches.
One of the interesting things I've found is, this whole argument about: To MUMPS or not to MUMPS, that I've heard from folks, is indicative of folks that don't know computer languages well. There are at least hundreds if not thousands out there and in the end, they all speak in ones and zeros.
It's a question of the mode that you want to express the logic in, from a human perspective, is what the language is all about. MUMPS has been proven especially effective, as you said, on the medical side and interestingly enough, also on the financial side and the airline side.
So, there's a lot of good legacy, well-proven pieces of software out there that are written in MUMPS. In the end, I think your question is exact and the most pertinent one, both from putting new innovation into the open source platform and I don't think MUMPS is going to be the decision piece there. The question is going to be, do they see their work contributing to either the VA or the national, electronic health records debate. That's what's really going to be a good decision piece in there.
FGIT: What does open source really bring to the table? You were talking about how it will benefit development and the private sector. It'll help vendors, definitely. How does open source benefit clinicians?
Baker: Three pieces of it. The easy one is much broader availability of commercial products for use on top of the VistA platform.
Goal number two is the way VistA was developed was with the clinicians in the loop. One of the things that has slowed down innovation is that about 10 years ago, VA centralized development of the VistA applications in a software development group.
It kind of pushed the clinicians out of the future of VistA. This will allow them to get back into it and contribute their own work into the open source for consideration by the governance board.
The third piece and the part, if you will, is in the nirvana of how successful this could be is if clinicians across the country start using VistA as a way of discussing what's the right process, what's the best evidence-based process for us to follow is treatment of some disease, or some human issue, then that will have achieved the ultimate.
If you looked at VistA the way IT people look at software development processes, VistA could be a CMMI Level 5 type process. It really is a learning system, and we're constantly improving its processes by feedback from the folks who are managing those processes.
If we can do that not just at VA, but let's say across government or nationally, even if hospitals aren't using VistA, if we end us saying 'Okay, we've agreed on process X and exemplified in the VistA open source,' and the private sector incorporate that into their product, that's a great solution. That means we're getting optimal care studies and analyzed across the country, argued by clinicians across the country, based on evidence across the country and figuring out what the right approach to care is. I think that's when we might make a real leap forward in the result of patient care.
FGIT: Speaking of VistA as an evolution, what are the inherently good aspects of VistA you want to be sure to maintain in this next iteration?
Baker: There's one fundamental goodness in there, and that is that VistA was designed by the clinicians, for the clinicians. It is an example of how doctors want to work with an electronic medical record.
As far as I'm concerned, probably everything else is up for grabs--you know, as alternatives, making changes. But, if we fail to incorporate that, if we turn this into an IT system built by IT people, then it will absolutely out in the general marketplace. If it retains its basic goodness of it's first a medical system and it's second an IT system, then we will have succeeded in where we need to go with it.
FGIT: There's been a lot of talk about AHLTA in DoD, and that overhaul--is that something you're taking notes from?
Baker: We're working very closely with the DoD on how do we have a joint way forward for the modernization of the two electronic health record systems. The missions are somewhat different. VA does not have a requirement on the warfighter front. DoD doesn't have a requirement on the elder-care front.
But, by and large, 80 to 90 percent of what the systems do is exactly the same thing. There's a real argument for us to be working together, because it'll provide better care through the lifetime of the service member and veteran--and because it just makes financial, logical sense. But in the end, we both have to meet our missions.
And so, while we want to have as much commonality as possible, I'm not having a presumptions about how that's going to end up. We're just going to keep working together.
FGIT: Switching gears away from VistA, I'm curious what's going on with personal health records and measured use of that. Is it just on Blue Button downloads that you're basing that on?
Baker: The VA's version of personal health record is the MyHealtheVet website. Over a million veterans register on that. They can see a lot of their medical record on that. We're just continuing to add new things they can see of their medical record directly out of the VistA system. It's also a personal health record. They can upload lots of information on their own, so that it's available both to them and their doctor.
What the Blue Button does is take everything that's on the MyHealtheVet website and turn it into an ACSII file that allows you to download it. The best part of that is the number of private sector organizations that are not saying 'We're going to take that download, and turn it into interesting things that either the patient or the doctor can do with that information.' It's a fundamental example of what can happen when you free the information.
A patient downloading an ACSII text file of their information doesn't sound really interesting. But when another application developer can pick that up and do interesting things with it, that can turn into something amazing. From our standpoint, we're not going to develop those apps, that's not our specialty. But allowing that download should turn into a very powerful application.
FGIT: Where does Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record fit into this?
Baker: The way to look at it is that VLER is the umbrella for all of this. The president's vision and the two secretaries vision is that from the moment a service member raises his or her hand to swear in, to the moment when they're honored in National Cemetery, there is one record of their information. At the point of service, when a service provider has a service to provide them, they're able to access all information that could be pertinent to that.
One of the things we recognized very early on--we started with the philosophy of what the president didn't say is as important as what the president did say. It's not for some veterans, it's not for only active duty, it's not for only DoD and VA, it includes private sector.
When we look at that virtual lifetime electronic record, the word "lifetime" takes on a very strong meaning. You can look at all of these things we're doing--working with the DoD on electronic health records, bringing information over and strengthening commonality, getting rid of the chasm between you leave the DoD and when you come into the VA and making that seamless--all of those things are components of the entire VLER strategy, including component of the Nationwide Health Information Network, to reach out to the private sector and bring that information back in to be part of the veterans record, from our standpoint.
We look at VLER as a guiding philosophy, an architecture, and in the end, the ultimate goal is that lifetime electronic record. There are a lot of components that go into feeding that.
FGIT: Besides data sharing, is there anything further VA is doing to make VLER a national program, as far as reaching out to physicians' offices, small hospitals and clinics, things like that?
Baker: The Direct Connect piece is really oriented around--if you think of the NHIN, it is really oriented around large scale entity to large scale entity and an exchange of records like we're doing with Kaiser Permanent and Health South and various other large entities. But there are tens of thousands of small practitioners out there that we've got to bring into this. That's what the Direct Connect piece is--it's not oriented around the heavyweight implementation of the NHIN. It's oriented around information of patient X, and I know they're seen at the VA, and here's that information. And then we can incorporate that into that patient's health record, and vice versa--getting authorization from the patient to deliver that information back to that health provider, potentially by fax or by some secure method that we trust for protecting the information.
The important thing is that the provision of healthcare is really a community thing. We're part of that community. For many veterans, we're not the sole provider, and we've got to work with their health care provider, both to get information back and to provide information, to make sure they get the maximum quality healthcare.
FGIT: If VLER is the all-encompassing standard of where VA wants to be, where do things stand right now with all these pieces that are under development?
BAKER: I'm amazed at the progress so far. We're in pilot on the NHIN. By 2012, we'll have it roll out across the country. Every VA hospital will be connected to the NHIN by 2012.
We've done things like move to a common individual identifier between DoD and VA and implement that throughout our systems.
Once we took the view of 'We're going to do this' and the president and the secretaries are no longer going to accept the 'It's too hard,' a lot of things just started falling over at that point.
The progress on VLER has been very substantial over the last year. The e-Benefits portal has been stood up, where every service member leaving the DoD has a log into the e-Benefits portal, and when they leave the DoD, they retain that login. They don't have to change their ID and password to come in and look at their VA benefits and their legacy DoD benefits. They can come into that same portal--it's a big piece in that seamless transition.
If you add all those things up, we see a tremendous amount of progress for the first year on what has to be a very, very long term project. When you talk about the breadth of something like the lifetime electronic record, it's huge.
I think we started out down the right path: Let's remember that the 'V' stands for 'virtual.' We're not going to try and replicate all this data all over the place, we're going to know where the sources and uses of the data are and be able to map those together and make them available to the service provider, wherever they are. That's the philosophy for every system going forward. The system will eventually get all the way to that, but in the beginning, you start with the small steps and you move to the completeness a few years down the road.
FGIT: Anything you'd like to add?
Baker: We are making an incredible amount of progress on the benefits side, too. The Veterans Benefits Management System, which will turn the whole compensation and pension process into an electronic system is moving forward well. We're managing it under, if you will, the VA way: Short milestones, managed tightly to the dates. It has the promise of being a key part of meeting one of the secretary's and president's main goals and that is breaking the back of the benefits backlog that veterans have had to put up with for so long.
I feel very, very good about that one and it's just fun to see the progress.
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You can't have a motorbike without a motor, and over the decades there's been some truly glorious bike engines. This is our Top10 list of the greatest, most important and most innovative bike engines ever made, as we pay homage to horsepower.
Year: 1986
Horsepower: 125bhp @ 8,750rpm
Torque: 62ft.lb @ 7,800rpm
Layout: 1,052cc, DOHC, parallel-four
The most inspired bike of the Eighties was Suzuki's GSXR750, whose ultra-light, aluminium-framed chassis and unprecedented race-replica aggression took high-performance motorcycling in a radical new direction on its launch in 1985. But the decade's most impressive engine arrived a year later, when Suzuki fitted a strengthened version of the same frame with a 1052cc four-cylinder motor to create the GSX-R1100.
Like the smaller powerplant, the slab-sided GSX-R was a dohc 16-valve unit, oil-cooled by Suzuki's SACS (Suzuki Advanced Cooling System) arrangement of underpiston lube jets and tightly packed cylinder fins. The larger motor had a lower 10:1 compression ratio, used CV instead of slide carbs, and was far more flexible. Its peak output of 125bhp at 8,500rpm was a gain of 25bhp, but the real advantage was its massively increased midrange grunt.
That helped make the light and fine-handling GSX-R1100 by far the world's fastest and best sports bike on its launch in '86, and its advantage did not end there. In contrast to the fragile 750 motor, the GSXR1100 was so tough that it rapidly became the powerplant of choice for drag racers and builders of radical specials, many of whom kept it remarkably stock despite outrageous power outputs. 500bhp was achievable.
In 1989 Suzuki enlarged it to 1127cc to power the GSX-R1100K, which was even more powerful, equally robust and even better suited to tuning. In 1993 Suzuki finally joined the liquid-cooled masses with the GSX-R1100WP. But for many, that unburstable oil-cooled Gixxer was the best big motor all. To this day, it's still the most infamous big-capacity sportsbike engine ever made.
Click here to read Suzuki GSX-R1100 owner reviews.
Posted: 13/03/2010 at 06:54
Good to see that this was not all about max horsepower and nothing else.
Don't see how a Harley engine can be in the top 10 but anyway.
Very pleased to see the C90 and the GSXR1100 in there though. Good stuff.
Posted: 15/03/2010 at 16:20
C90 is the most produced engine ever (I think)
I have number 4 - GSXR1100 it's a superb engine!!!
Posted: 17/03/2010 at 11:45
Posted: 15/04/2010 at 06:07
some great engines in there.
how about the 1100cc honda 4 (blackbird, x11)?
Posted: 12/07/2010 at 13:56
The Harley engine was posted for several reasons
1. It brought HD out of the slump created by AMF
2. Say what you will about the engine, it was far more reliable than it's predecessors, along with increased power to boot.
3. With that engine Harley asked the powers that be to remove the +750cc tariff that was meant to protect them. The brand succeeded on it's own terms, so historically it is significant enough to warrant inclusion in this article.
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Posted: 16/07/2010 at 02:15
I have the final 2006 Oil Cooled bandit with the 1157cc version of this engine in it. Although detuned, it is a beautifully grunty motor , and still sounds good with a decent can on it. ... Love it
Posted: 20/07/2010 at 15:04
A provocative subject and even with a top 50 it would be hard not to leave out some good ones. However, devoting almost half of them to the usual across the frame 4s, which while undoubtedly are popular for the reason that they work well, they are not that dissimilar from each other. It is a pretty easy jump from Z1 to GSX-R to R1 to 675 (Not exactly like developing a rotary) and this leaves precious little room for some truly great engines.
Seems like the list was more drawn up to make the current generation of readers feel their bikes are the ones that count, when in reality most of the great ideas and configurations had already been tried before the second world war and while many were not reliable, in the context of their day, some were truly great (JAP in the Brough Superior for example) and became the new benchmark. I think this list will not stand up to the test of time. Obviously there are some future engines worthy of being added, but I can't see a 675 engine or an R1 engine being considered particularly notworthy in 20 years or so and being in an all time top 10 (instead of the 2010 perspective top ten) The NR should definitely have been here because it was and possibly still is at the pinnacle of the greatest motorcycle manufacturer's technological capability and I am sure they would be dismayed that the C90 or even the NSR500, for all their successes, be included but the NR not.
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Posted: 26/07/2010 at 21:36
The Harley Evo engine was significant in that it was good enough to save the company from extinction. I would agree that if that's the criteria for selecting a great engine you might consider one or more BMW boxer engines.
And now for my $.02. Why not reference the latest version of the KTM LC-4 engine? 65 honest horsepower from a 654 cc. single is record breaking, as is the counterbalancer, the six speed transmission, and the low overall weight and bulk. I suppose this engine will never be "significant" as it's so advanced that it's being banned from competition. Dakar being the latest sanctioning body to cave in to the demands of lesser manufacturers. The Honda alternative makes all of 39 horsepower. Otherwise, the LC-4 broken in and installed in an '08, '09, or '10 Duke 690 certainly meets the criteria for launching the bike towards the horizon whenever the rider twists the right grip.
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Posted: 03/08/2010 at 05:18
Such small number & so many could have made it into this list
this list is stonking!! Well chosen, well ridden!
Overall, the inclusion of triples (2T & 4T) is refreshing. I can't get enough of triples, followed by twins, V's and finally straight 4's. I've never ridden a straight 6, sadly, or ever ride a Z1/Z900, but if a ZX9, or ZX12 is anything to go by... they are still blinding!
Posted: 10/08/2010 at 19:06
Ooo, Ooo!
Ahem, on the subject of triples, did I miss the Triumph Trident? Also, the XS750/850 - they were floored, but still deserve a mention because Yamaha were brave enough to try to palm...sorry, attempt to sell us a 'new' design at a time when 4's & twin 4T's were the norm.
Anyone for a reversed crank 900 triple?
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What is the H1 motor parallel to? Shouldn't it be described as a transverse inline and not a parallel?
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MV Agusta V-8, RD 350 that won Daytona, little 125's that spawned a new
Life for the ISDT and all the FIA MotoCross variants of big singles ?
Street fighters abound, boxers, vertical twins, v Twins, etc.
No mention of Economics of the Industry, Honda 350 was cheap, powerful
and afforable and brought the Future to Honda, 750 was a good choice !
Cylinder Head design was a milestone for Ducatti. Bike engines generally
were ahead of the Formula 1 Shops, they all loved to write a deal with
Yamaha for consulting on various ideas. Still Do !
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In the Family Zone
by safc.com
Family Zone fun planned ahead of Fulham game.
Don't forget the Black Cats Family Zone will be open again before Saturday's clash with Fulham.
With penalty shootouts, dancing, music, gaming consoles and free prizes on offer as always it's an event no young Sunderland fan should miss.
Sunderland mascot's Samson and Delilah will be on hand to entertain the young Black Cats ahead of another big game at the Stadium of Light.
Youngsters can practice their goal-scoring skills in the penalty shootout, before taking part in the Family Zone competition with the chance to win great Junior Black Cats prizes including a school bag, Meerkat, DVD's, and sports bottles.
Other fun activities include Samson and Delilah's match day dance to PSY's Gangnam Style, renamed 'Mackem Style'.
The popular face-painting is also available for you to be painted red and white ahead of the Lads' game with the Cottagers.
The Family Zone has five PS3s where you can practice your virtual footie skills on FIFA 13 and also the popular one-on-one interactive virtual football.
Real Radio are also in the Family Zone providing musical entertainment and quizzes for those keen to show they know all when it comes to Sunderland AFC.
Every match kids can win some great Family Zone freebies. The prize tin contains flags, bang-bang sticks and stickers and if you're extra lucky you might even find some Real Radio sweets.


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Sitting, Waiting, Wondering, and Not Moving
I'm one of those unfortunate folks who has a long distance commute. I drive through four counties, five freeways, and cross two bridges everyday in the morning and evening. My commute, if I'm lucky, will take 90 minutes in the morning and another 90 coming home. I'm an avid listener of morning traffic radio, television and internet in hopes that I can bypass the accident just announced and wondering about the ripple effect it will have on my commute.
Why Traffic Gods? Why????
Unfortunately, accidents on the road are a given any time of the day, but particularly during commute hours. We all know that if there is an accident up ahead we should expect a slow down coming our way. But what about those times you're driving and all of a sudden, BAM, congestion. There is neither rhyme nor reason to it. Even traffic radio doesn't pick it up which means that you will be completely unprepared for that 5 mph ride you're about to embark on. That happened to me this morning, again. Being the inquisitive information nerd that I am, I searched the Internet to see if anyone else had answers as to why this sudden traffic situation phenomenon happens. According to the Freakonomics blog, we cause all of that damage. All it takes is a few slow drivers and then all of those behind are stuck. I've seen this with trucks carrying heavy loads and, yes, slow drivers. As soon as I pass them, I'm good. I might also find answers in the book, Traffic : Why We Drive The Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt. Unfortunately, given the amount of time I spend on the road, I don't have time to read this book. Fortunately, I can listen to it because the library has the book on CD.
All of this stress makes for a very grumpy me by the end of the day. Sadly, it's my partner who bears the brunt of my bad mood. Because I don't want to spend all of my family time feeling grumpy, stressed, and exhausted, I've come up with a list of solutions that may help.
- I give myself some extra time when leaving home. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Hey, at least I tried.
- Changing what I listen to in the morning. I'm investing in a car stereo so I can plug in my iPod or an MP3 audio book from the library. I want books in the morning.
- I need to add some unwind time to my daily schedule. Whether I'm taking some time to stretch at my cubicle or going on a family walk when I get home, I always feel better.
- When all else fails, I watch the famous traffic scene from Office Space to remind me that I'm not alone.
I know there are other solutions such as carpooling and public transit. Believe me, I have investigated. Due to our less than desirable public transit system and the lack of carpoolers going in my direction, neither option is viable right now.
Please feel free to share any other solutions you might have and/or traffic horror stories.
Author Bio:
Rebecca A is still waiting for her jet pack. Until then, you can find her crawling down 880, her worst nemesis.


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The Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship,The Woman in the Zoot Suitis the first book focused on pachucas.Two events in wartime Los Angeles thrust young Mexican American zoot suiters into the media spotlight. In the Sleepy Lagoon incident, a man was murdered during a mass brawl in August 1942. Twenty-two young men, all but one of Mexican descent, were tried and convicted of the crime. In the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943, white servicemen attacked young zoot suiters, particularly Mexican Americans, throughout Los Angeles. The Chicano movement of the 1960s1980s cast these events as key moments in the political awakening of Mexican Americans and pachucos as exemplars of Chicano identity, resistance, and style. While pachucas and other Mexican American women figured in the two incidents, they were barely acknowledged in later Chicano movement narratives. Catherine S. Ramiacute;rez draws on interviews she conducted with Mexican American women who came of age in Los Angeles in the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s as she recovers the neglected stories of pachucas. Investigating their relative absence in scholarly and artistic works, she argues that both wartime U.S. culture and the Chicano movement rejected pachucas because they threatened traditional gender roles. Ramiacute;rez reveals how pachucas challenged dominant notions of Mexican American and Chicano identity, how feminists have reinterpreted la pachuca, and how attention to an overlooked figure can disclose much about history making, nationalism, and resistant identities.
Author Biography
Catherine S. Ramirez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Table of Contents
|p. ix
|p. xxi
|A Note on Terminology
|p. xxv
|Introduction: A Genealogy of Vendidas
|p. 1
|Domesticating the Pachuca
|p. 25
|Black Skirts, Dark Slacks, and Brown Knees: Pachuca Style and Spectacle during World War II
|p. 55
|Saying "Nothin'": Pachucas and the Languages of Resistance
|p. 83
|La Pachuca and the Excesses of Family and Nation
|p. 109
|Epilogue: Homegirls Then and Now, from the Home Front to the Front Line
|p. 137
|p. 149
|p. 197
|p. 225
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