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How To FailScrew ups, disasters, misfires, flops. Why losing big can be a winning strategy.Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing UpStay in the Game: The Fall and Rise of Alec BaldwinLearn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke NukemTime Your Attack: Oracle's Lost RevolutionMy Greatest Mistake: Learn From Six LuminariesAccidental Art: Three Alternate Histories Just after midnight on August 24, 1995, a student named Jonathan Prentice walked into a bookshop in Auckland, New Zealand, pulled out 200 New Zealand dollars, and became the first owner of Windows 95. Turning to a reporter, Prentice declared: "I will be able to play solitaire and send faxes at the same time." And with that rallying cry, the Windows 95 craze exploded. Lines formed around the world as consumers jostled to buy copies; journalists in Poland prepared to take a Microsoft-sponsored submarine ride under the Baltic Sea; The Times of London handed out free papers wrapped in a Windows ad; and the Empire State Building lit up in Windows' signature colors. Within a month, Microsoft's new operating system had sales of more than $250 million and Bill Gates went from being a nerd to ... well, he was still a nerd, but an invincible rock-star nerd. The future was very clear: PCs — running Microsoft software — would be the single most important device in our lives.
In Silicon Valley, Larry Ellison followed the glowing press coverage and fumed. He had lived in Gates' shadow since March 1986, when Oracle, Ellison's database- software company, had gone public just a day before Microsoft. Gates got attention for everything he did, but barely anyone knew Oracle. Windows 95 was the last straw. "There was peace in the Middle East and war in Bosnia the same week," he later groused. "And all that the major networks seemed to cover was people in parking lots waiting up all night to get their first copy of Windows 95." His grudge wasn't just about ego; Microsoft had already begun nosing around the database- software industry, and its mounting war chest meant that it could easily fund a push into Oracle's territory.
Immediately after the Windows 95 launch, Ellison called one of his lieutenants, Farzad Dibachi, to his mansion in Atherton, California. For years, Dibachi — who was responsible for brainstorming new business strategies — had urged Ellison to think more broadly about his company's potential. Now, the two discussed a vision for Oracle that would neutralize Microsoft's main advantage: the dominance of its operating system. They imagined a simple machine that would eschew software installed on a hard drive in favor of accessing applications online. Data — videos, documents, pictures — would be stored in Oracle databases instead of on the computer itself. In place of a robust operating system, this machine would work with programs and files through browsers like Netscape Navigator. Ellison liked the idea, and he and Dibachi started working on a speech so the CEO could share it with the world. The device would be called the network computer.
It was a powerful idea, one that would enchant companies and analysts throughout the IT industry. But it would ultimately fail. In 1999, after spending four years and losing nearly $175 million, Oracle pulled the plug, changing the name of its network computer spinoff to Liberate Technologies and focusing its business on set-top box software for interactive television. (Ellison personally funded another network computer startup that didn't fare any better.) Journalists referred to the idea as "embarrassingly wrong." Gates called it "a fantasy." Even Ellison distanced himself from the debacle. (He declined to discuss it with Wired.) And yet, while his computer may have failed, Ellison's grand vision did not. Just as he predicted, a wave of cheap, underpowered computers with small hard drives and omnipresent Internet connections did challenge the traditional PC. Ellison's vision of widget-based online software has become conventional wisdom. The network computer failed as a product and as a business, but it seeded an idea — and a group of technologists — that would go on to remake the computing world.
We typically think about failure in one of two ways: It's either something to avoid or something from which we can learn simple personal lessons about perseverance and character. Silicon Valley has long patted itself on the back for its acceptance — even promotion — of failure. By encouraging risk-taking, the tech industry allows bad ideas to get out of the way so good ones can take their place. But failure is not just the negative space surrounding success. Failures, too, can change the world — just as fundamentally as successes. They can serve as the necessary first round of innovation, the sacrificial lambs that bleed out an insight or vision or breakthrough before perishing.
Everywhere you look, our world has been shaped fundamentally by failures. North American farmers in the early 1920s failed to cure their hay properly, causing an outbreak of internal hemorrhaging in cattle but eventually leading to the discovery of warfarin, an anticoagulant that has saved countless lives. Preston Tucker produced only 51 cars, but many of his ideas about safety prefigured the era of airbags and three-point seat belts. Xerox PARC invented the modern personal computer but was unable to capitalize on it, letting others take the technology — from the graphical user interface to the word processor — in thousands of different directions.
In a way, seen through a long enough lens, everything is eventually a failure. Every innovation will ultimately be usurped by something that does the same thing more cheaply or more effectively or more elegantly. Everything is failing all the time; it's just a matter of how quickly and how devastatingly. In his 1964 book, The Nature of Design, industrial designer David Pye attempted to lay to rest the very notion of success: "Nothing we design or make ever really works. We can always say what it ought to do, but that it never does," he wrote. "Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional."
The network computer was the embodiment of that: It didn't work as promised, it was too early, and it cost too much. But looking back now, it's hard to see it as anything but a success.
Ellison unleashed his concept on September 4, 1995, just days after he and Dibachi had come up with it. The setting was ironic: Ellison was serving as a warm-up act at International Data Corp.'s European IT Forum in Paris. The headliner? Bill Gates. Some of the analysts and techies in the room didn't even seem to know who Ellison was. It was a familiar if frustrating experience for the Oracle CEO; his company wasn't even close to being a household name.
Ellison refused to be a second-stringer. "A PC is a ridiculous device," he said, launching an attack on Microsoft's core business. He ran down a list of the desktop's deficiencies: It was hard to learn to operate, expensive, overpowered, and — thanks to the arrival of the World Wide Web — increasingly irrelevant. That's why he was ushering in the post-PC era with the network computer, or NC, which Oracle would help build within a year. The simple $500 box would be a stripped-down unit that served one purpose: to connect to the Internet. For the NC, the Web wouldn't be a mere feature but a utility, as fundamental as water and electricity. "What the world really wants," Ellison told the crowd, "is to plug into a wall to get electronic power, and plug in to get data."
Soon, software and hardware manufacturers around the world had signed on to help make Ellison's vision a reality. British computer maker Acorn began ferrying executives to California to discuss the possibility of an Acorn NC. IBM executive Bob Dies persuaded CEO Louis Gerstner to start building the bare-bones machines, eventually establishing a network computer division. "I explained to him that this could mean companies would not have to update every single desktop around their company," Dies says. "He saw the light quickly." Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen declared the NC "a pretty major new business opportunity," predicting that hundreds of millions of the machines would be in homes and offices within 20 years. Frank Gens, an analyst at IDC, foretold a day when banks would give them away to attract new customers. "Once that happens, it becomes a completely different PC industry," he told BusinessWeek. "If I were Compaq, IBM, or Dell, I'd be thinking hard about that."
Perhaps nobody was as excited as Eric Schmidt, CTO of Sun Microsystems. Within months, Sun built an NC prototype and began developing a lean operating system to run on it. Speaking to U.S. News & World Report, Schmidt couldn't stop raving about the idea's potential. Of course, the NC could greatly benefit his business: As the company responsible for the development of the Java programming language, which would power the Web applications, Sun and its work would gain new relevance. But the ramifications went way beyond Sun, he told the reporter. The NC would usher in a whole new world of computing, setting off a wave of innovation. "The implications are serious," he said. "If this takes off, it will have enormous impact."
Consumers were just as captivated. Oracle executives received voicemails from strangers expressing interest in the machine. The company's salespeople fielded more questions about the NC than about the databases that constituted the bulk of Oracle's business. Internal support teams geared up to prepare for an onslaught of new customers once the rollout went global. In his attempt to take down a competitor, Ellison had stumbled upon a groundswell of pent-up demand. "The NC story just exploded beyond anything I imagined," Ellison said later. "It took on a life of its own."
Obsessive competitiveness may have inspired Ellison's idea, but it also contributed to its downfall. His turf battle with Redmond ended up kneecapping his product. Looking to stem the momentum of Windows, Ellison promised to release low-cost machines within a year. That meant rushing out computers before they were fully developed. When it hit stores in the fall of 1996, the Acorn NC — commissioned by Oracle to be the model around which the new market would coalesce — had an underpowered ARM processor that produced blocky graphics and strained to render a Web page in less than four seconds. IBM's Network Station computers — the flagship corporate version of the NC — didn't fare much better. They were too slow, too limited, and too complicated to coordinate with company servers. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, who ran the Internet division at IBM and ultimately oversaw its NC project, was embarrassed. "We thought we had a full product," he says. "But when we took it to market, we realized it was an alpha."
Oracle's rush to market also meant that the NC hit shelves before the infrastructure existed to support it. The machine was supposed to run lightweight Web applications instead of installed software — and everyone believed Java would be up to the task. But it was never able to support powerful-enough applications. And with wide-scale broadband penetration still many years away, Internet apps didn't stand a chance against local software.
In the run-up to the release, Ellison's Ahab-like obsession with Microsoft fueled his need to be kept apprised of every development. Nonetheless, the globe-trotting CEO would often shift his focus to other projects, leaving his staff to make major decisions about the NC. ("Mr. Larry is near Australia in his sailboat and can't be reached," read one email from an Oracle employee to a member of the Acorn team. "The feeling on the staff here is that the case designs won't fly.")
By 1999, the NC was basically dead. IBM had sold only 10,000 or so of its version and eventually shuttered its NC division; RCA had developed an NC as well, but it, too, sold only about 10,000, nearly all of which the company later recalled. Acorn imploded, and Netscape was crushed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Gates delivered his own, gloating coda in late 1998, speaking at the same Paris IT conference where Ellison had first announced the NC. "The network computer is pretty discredited," Gates told the crowd.
False Start
In 1995, Larry Ellison began his network computer crusade. The effort failed, but the concept would spark what became cloud computing. —D.R.
__Newtwork Computer__Low-cost boxes with tiny operating systems and read-only memory. Internet apps that are accessed via browser and dialup modem.
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The NC offensive may have failed to create a new product category, but Ellison's primary motivation was not to sell millions of computers; he wanted to damage Microsoft while improving his own reputation. And by those standards, the NC was a rousing success. One of its main draws was price — for a fraction of the cost, NC customers would get everything they needed from a home computer. But almost immediately after the NC was announced, PC prices began to plummet, partially in response to Ellison's threat. From the 1970s to the early '90s, the cost of desktop PCs — adjusted for performance — dropped an average of 15 percent a year. Between 1995 and 2000 — the NC era — PC prices fell at an annual rate of 28 percent. By the late '90s, consumers could get a full desktop computer for less than $800. For just a few hundred dollars more, the PC could do everything the NC could, and much more. This was bad news for the NC, but it was also bad news for Microsoft's main allies, the PC makers, who had to slash their margins to compete with the phantom product.
Even more important, the NC initiative put Microsoft on the defensive. Instead of pushing into new areas — like Oracle's database-software business — the company was forced to safeguard its own business model. After initially downplaying the threat and importance of the Internet, Gates became obsessed. Rather than attacking Oracle, he went after Netscape in what became an all-consuming fight that nearly drove Microsoft to a government-imposed breakup. Oracle may have spent a ton of money on its NC gamble, but its now $112 billion database business never faced a serious threat from Redmond.
All the excitement about the NC had also raised Oracle's profile. Ellison was no longer an also-ran; he was lauded as a seer and started getting the same kind of press adulation as Gates. In April 1995, Charlie Rose had Ellison on to talk about the Internet for just a few minutes — sandwiched between discussions of the O. J. Simpson trial and Pope John Paul II. By 1996, Rose had Ellison on as a featured guest. Soon after the NC failed, Ellison spoke with his biographer to revisit the initiative. All in all, he said, he had gotten what he wanted out of it. He was more famous and better respected than ever. He had brushed back Microsoft and established Oracle as a peer and formidable competitor. Sure, the NC itself never caught on, but Ellison didn't seem too concerned. He summed up the entire project in a typically blusterous quote: "As for the network computer, I don't care about it at all."
But many of Ellison's cohorts weren't so quick to dismiss the NC vision. In the following years, they would continue to pursue it. And their efforts would change the computing landscape and ultimately fulfill Ellison's vision — whether he cared about it or not.
In 1997, Eric Schmidt was lured away from Sun to take over ailing enterprise-software company Novell; four years later, he was brought on as CEO of Google. Yet he could never let go of the NC concept. In 2005, he noticed the emergence of Ajax, a technology that enabled Web-based applications to run as smoothly as their shrink-wrapped, locally installed counterparts. It enabled programmers to develop and deploy software in ways that Sun had only dreamed about when creating Java. Almost instantly, Google engineers began building software — most notably Google Docs and Spreadsheets, direct competitors to Microsoft's flagship Office suite.
Last summer, Google announced an even more ambitious project: a lightweight operating system engineered to power inexpensive portable computers that lack hard drives. Called Chrome OS, the software is designed to be barely noticeable. Its sole function is to connect the device to the Web. Sound familiar? "I've been giving the same speech for 15 years," Schmidt says. "But ultimately, the reason the NC didn't work was that the technology wasn't mature enough." Now, he says, that's no longer true. "Chrome is the consequence of the network computer vision."
In 1999, senior vice president Marc Benioff left Oracle to create Salesforce.com. Benioff had been enthralled by the idea of the computer as an "Internet terminal" since 1995, when Ellison discussed the notion with him on a trip to Beijing. Salesforce provided a Web-based alternative to bulky, installed enterprise software — programs that could run on an Internet terminal rather than a full-powered PC. As Salesforce grew more popular in the early 2000s, Benioff became more belligerent, even Ellisonian, in his description of the company's potential impact. He declared Salesforce to be the angel of death for the installed-software industry and ran an ad showing an F-22 emblazoned with "Salesforce.com" shooting down a biplane that had "software" inscribed on its wing. His cockiness would prove merited. Within the past few years, many of Salesforce's competitors — including such powerhouses as SAP and CA — have built their own cloud-based offerings, and cloud has become a Silicon Valley buzzword. (Ironically, Ellison has recently taken to bemoaning the popular but ill-defined term. "Maybe I'm an idiot," he told an Oracle conference in 2008, "but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.")
Now that the Web-software environment has been established, NC-like hardware has begun to proliferate. The first example, of course, is netbooks. Debuting just two years ago, they currently account for more than 20 percent of PC sales. In the 12 months ending in September 2009, sales jumped 77 percent. Yet while the netbook may be the direct descendent of the NC, its cousin, the smartphone, is seen by most alumni of the NC movement as the more powerful force. Every day, iPhone and iPod users download 4.5 million applications — grown-up versions of the widgets that Ellison predicted would run on the NC. "Ellison is often time-dyslexic — right about the fundamental trend but wrong on timing, " says David Roux, a partner at private equity firm Silver Lake and a former Oracle executive vice president. "It's hard to look at a $299 netbook and not see the NC vision come to life."
We tend to think of technology as a steady march, a progression of increasingly better mousetraps that succeed based on their merits. But in the end, evolution may provide a better model for how technological battles are won. One mutation does not, by itself, define progress. Instead, it creates another potential path for development, sparking additional changes and improvements until one finally breaks through and establishes a new organism. In his 1988 book, The Evolution of Technology, historian George Basalla argues that machines develop in the same way. "Only a few variants," he writes, "have the potential to start a new branching series that will greatly enrich the stream of made things, have an impact on human life, and become known as 'great inventions' or 'turning points in the history of technology.'"
In October, Microsoft unveiled Windows 7, the latest version of its operating system. This time around, there were no lines in parking lots, no breathless press coverage, no sense that a new computing era had begun. Indeed, some 40 percent of businesses said they had no plans to upgrade. Accessing the Net is what's most important, and no one needs the latest Microsoft OS to do that. But Ellison himself provided the most glaring sign that the computing landscape had changed. Fourteen years earlier, he had reacted to the Windows 95 launch by becoming one of Microsoft's loudest critics and most ambitious would-be competitors. This time, he said nothing. There was no need. The fight was over.
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Feel like something from the realm of world history today. Must be thinking about my father, Douglas Anderson Hladik who served in the ETO in WWII. ( look up ETO if you don't know what that means). Was awarded the Bronze Star. More on this later-it's a great story of personal initiative and the bravado of youth.
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Single mom Christy has her hands full with two children, Violet and Roscoe, and maintaining newfound sobriety, when her passive-aggressive, recovering-alcoholic mother re-enters the picture, brimming with criticisms about Christy's life. As the daughter works to be the best mother she can and to overcome mistakes she made, she must also navigate dysfunctional relationships with romantic interests, and with her irresponsible ex-husband, Baxter. Despite the uphill battle, Christy tries to remain positive and stay on a path to help her reach her goals.


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Though Baylor's Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy this weekend, he probably hasn't been the most captivating player in college football this year. That distinction belongs to LSU's Tyrann "Honey Badger" Mathieu, a sophomore defensive back and returner, who finished fifth in the Heisman voting.
If he wants to win the trophy next year, explains Josh Levin, on this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen podcast, Mathieu should take some cues from his father, who campaigned his way to the top of New Orleans' parade circuit.
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A proposal to divert a share of state gasoline taxes to Chicago's mass-transit systems was rebuffed Wednesday by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who said he still prefers a regional sales tax hike to prevent service cuts and fare hikes planned for early next month.
A proposal to divert a share of state gasoline taxes to Chicago's mass-transit systems was rebuffed Wednesday by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who said he still prefers a regional sales tax hike to prevent service cuts and fare hikes planned for early next month.
Meanwhile, the Chicago Democrat said he will not link a transit bailout with a capital-construction program, as some Republican lawmakers have insisted. A Senate-approved bill would fund schools, roads and bridges with three new casinos, including one for Chicago.
"I will not hold hostage transit riders for casinos," Madigan said after emerging from a three-hour meeting in Chicago with House Minority Leader Tom Cross, R-Oswego, and other House members.
Madigan's remarks cast into doubt whether he and the three other legislative leaders and Gov. Rod Blagojevich — his political nemesis — can reach agreements on transit funding and a gambling-fueled capital program. The cash-strapped Chicago Transit Authority, which faced a more than $100 million budget shortfall this year, plans to begin phasing in "doomsday" cutbacks and fare increases Nov. 4, with more severe measures set for January.
Cross, like Democrat Blagojevich, does not support Madigan-backed legislation that would increase (by 0.25 percent) the Chicago-area sales tax that helps finance mass transit. The Republican unveiled an alternative idea that would give the CTA and its sister transit agencies, Metra and Pace, annual infusions from the state sales tax on gasoline that is sold in Cook County and the collar counties.
The strategy, however, would shift hundreds of millions of dollars from state coffers. Cross said the hole could be filled through a combination of taking money from special-purpose funds and increasing state fees on items such as car titles.
He also advocated a "reasonable" transit fare increase of 10 percent or 15 percent.
Blagojevich spokeswoman Abby Ottenhoff said the governor supports the proposed gasoline tax diversion but is cautious about how to offset the transfer. She said the governor does not want to raise taxes on working families.
"Our hope would be the speaker would set aside his tax-increase plan and give this plan consideration," Ottenhoff said.
Madigan's preferred option, the Chicago-area sales tax increase, was included in a House bill that failed in his chamber earlier this year. He said the plan represents a regional solution to a regional problem, whereas shifting gasoline tax money creates the need to find replacement funds from statewide sources.
"There's a significant difference," Madigan said.
Cross said he and Madigan will meet again over the weekend. In contrast with Madigan, Cross said a transit-funding plan and capital program should "go hand in hand."
Madigan's camp has said the Democrat could support a Chicago casino. Madigan was mum Wednesday on whether he would support additional casinos as part of a capital program.
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If one word could describe Mendy St. Ours, it would be "eclectic." An actress, mother, and bus driver for University Transit Service, St. Ours has decided to add to her list of accomplishments this summer by honing her directing skills at the ruins in Barboursville. She's the director of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which opens July 22.
"It's going really well," says St. Ours. "I love the diversity of the cast members. We have some seasoned actors, a few fresh graduates from James Madison University, and six children performing."
At 24, she's already a veteran of the local theatrical scene, having most recently played the angel in Live Arts' performance of Angels in America.
"The most memorable theatrical performance I've ever participated in," St. Ours calls Angels, "mainly because I got to fly across the stage."
Such hi-jinks must have impressed Tracey Seiger, the producer of A Midsummer Night's Dream, when she tapped St. Ours to direct the play in Barboursville four weekends this summer [see "Day-by-Day" for times and prices]. When she's not zooming around theaters, St. Ours is jetting across the country. She recently traveled to Honolulu to compete in the National Society of Arts & Letters' comedic acting competition.
"When I left for Hawaii," she says, "I told my family to be prepared, because if I returned with the top prize, they'd have to refer to me as the 'funniest person in the world'."
She took fourth place overall, and first among all female entrants. "It's quite an honor," says Corky Sablinsky, president of the Virginia and North Carolina chapter of the National Society of Arts & Letters. "And she deserves it."
What's the secret to her success? "The best thing an actor has going for her is a vivid specific imagination," says St. Ours. "I was an only child raised on a 600-acre farm in the middle of nowhere, south-central Virginia. There was nothing else to entertain me but my own fancies."
For the rest of the summer, St. Ours' feet will be planted firmly on the ground. The actress, who already has a four-year-old stepson, Aesop, is expecting another boy in September.
That's not to say she won't remain active in Charlottesville. She's currently working with her husband, Johnny St. Ours, and brother-in-law, Philip St. Ours, on several short films and commercials and recently participated in a UTS bus-driving competition.
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The relationship is not between the individual and society. It is between two people of either gender. Male and female, or male and male or female and female And within that relationship whatever the gender mix there needs to be an equal footing in order for it to be truly consensual .gregkavarnos wrote:Men and women are not 100% equal in our society, does that mean that a heterosexual relationship can never be consensual?Lobsang P. wrote:I note your view but do not accept it. Consensual sexual relationships are only truly consensual between equals.
Between student and teacher that is highly problematic. Whether that teachers subject is math, languages or Dharma.
Even secular colleges recognise that and bring sanctions to bear on teachers that cross the line.
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Zombie Elvis Found is an in-game newspaper article, and possibly an Easter Egg in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
"Zombie Elvis Found!" is a headline on a newspaper that is found blowing around on the ground throughout Liberty City and Vice City. The newspaper is named Liberty Cock. It depicts the headline, along with a black-and-white photograph of late Elvis Presley's face. The headline can also be found on a banner which is attached to the DeadDodo plane, which can be seen flying around Vice City. Also seen on the newspapers, below the headline, are the words "Win shit", possibly advertising a competition or sweepstakes held by the Liberty Cock.
This is an in-game joke towards the hysteria that revolved around the alleged "sightings" of late Elvis Presley during the '70s and '80s after his death. The newspaper and banner have no relation to the games' storylines whatsoever. There is no other mention of Elvis sightings in any of the games.


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Oh, the infamous freshman 15. High school graduates hope that it's just an urban myth, and their weight will stay exactly as-is, but unfortunately it is all too real. Anyone who has stepped inside a college cafeteria will tell you that there are many not-so-healthy food choices that can lead to weight gain.
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In the latest campaign, the ads feature real-life couples who think their "old" PC -- bought four years or more ago - is "good enough," according to the Register. Although the Register said ads would hit Monday, I already saw them this weekend.
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The 1812 Chapel Pond (Old Military) Road
Several years ago I came across this article entitled: "The Old Military Road and the Laurel Bed" in a 1900 Elizabethtown newspaper:
It made me wonder - was this 200 year old road still visible? Could traces have survived the great fires, logging operations and general decay of more than 200 years? I spent the better part of 2 years rummaging around in the woods, using clues from the article, systematically searching for section after section, looking for tell-tale traces. Ultimately, I found the route in its entirety and had a great adventure doing so.
In a nutshell, the road was cut in 1812 offering a short-cut from Keene Valley to the original state road (Platt Roger's Road - 1789) that provided passage to the south. It was 9 miles long and began at the head of Keene Valley and ended at the current Sharp Bridge Campground on route 9 in North Hudson. Leaving from the old Otis Farm/village baseball field (this location now serves as the Ausable Club hikers parking lot), the road headed up the ridge just south of route 73 towards Chapel Pond on what later became the Sunset Ridge Trail maintained by the Ausable Club. At what is now the Chapel Pond camping area, the Sunset Ridge Trail joined another Ausable Club trail called the Artisit Brook Trail which followed the outlet stream of Chapel Pond in a downstream direction.
The road continued past this trail junction, headed uphill through the Chapel Pond camping area (on the current steep dirt road there), past Chapel Pond where route 73 currently passes the pond, past the sandy beach/southern end of the pond where Colonel Loring built his summer camp/cabin in 1887 (it burned in the great fire of 1903), past the Lee Garfield Logging Camp (built approximately 1910) which was located on the south side of route 73 about 100 yards before the Round Pond Parking Lot (upon the flat plateau which can still be seen), and on up what is now the Round Pond hiking trail. One can see today that heading straight into the boulder-choked pass as route 73 does just past the Round Pond trail-head, would have been out of the question in 1812.
The old road leaves the Round Pond Trail approximately half way to Round Pond, joins the East Dix herd path briefly near the well used Shoebox swimming hole (crossing 100 feet above this swimming hole on a "long, high, rudely constructed bridge"), and then heads along the hogback leading to and passing Rhododendron Pond. It continues past this picturesque pond (where 2 Rhododendron bushes can still be found at the site of the old sportsman's cabin), eventually passing a few large, beautiful, hidden beaver ponds. It then crosses the South Fork of the Bouquet River, passes a rather large hunter's campsite, and heads towards Lindsay Brook which it follows downstream past another one of Garfield's logging camps (and old dam). Finally, it crosses the Northway (under which is the old Sharp Farmhouse foundation) and down the current trail past the large, Old Goewey Place cellar hole, finally popping out onto route 9 at Sharp's Bridge and campground.
Needless to say the newspaper article by W. Scott Brown (first superintendent to the Ausable Club) is historically inaccurate but the route description was spot on. The road is hard to follow but in the right season and with tremendous persistence, it can be traced...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The falloff in visits to U.S. stores the week after Thanksgiving was not as steep this year as last, as retailers appear to be doing a better job of luring shoppers during the holiday season, the founder of shopper counting firm ShopperTrak said.
So what exactly is ShopperTrak? Its data is often quoted by media and analysts during the holiday shopping season. But to the shoppers it is tracking, the company is all but invisible.
ShopperTrak uses foot traffic from stores outfitted with its monitors, sales data from those retailers and algorithms of historic government sales data to come up with sales growth figures, founder Bill Martin explained while touring stores on Chicago's State Street with Reuters on Wednesday.
"We're not quite sure what value the numbers have," Martin said, referring to the overall tallies and estimates distributed during the holiday season. However, the data generated nightly for retailers has "high value" for the chains, he said.
What the most recent numbers showed was that foot traffic in stores rose 3.7 percent in the week ended on December 1 - the week after Thanksgiving, traditionally the start of a lull for retailers - and sales increased an estimated 2.3 percent.
That is a stronger showing than the comparable week a year ago, when ShopperTrak said traffic fell 6.4 percent and estimated sales rose just 0.2 percent. During this year's Thanksgiving weekend, traffic rose 8.2 percent and sales increased an estimated 2.7 percent, the firm said.
Martin has been tracking the number of shoppers at stores since 1995, when the firm began with four people. It was then - while standing in a Pier 1 Imports store in New Jersey watching "people walking out and not being converted" into buyers - that Martin says he coined the retail phrase "conversion rate," or the rate at which shoppers become buyers.
Today, companies as large at Wal-Mart Stores Inc use the term "conversion rate" and Wall Street analysts use the term in the notes they publish.
Chicago-based ShopperTrak, whose long-time clients include Payless ShoeSource, American Eagle Outfitters Inc and Disney Stores now has more than 200 employees and measures traffic at more than 50,000 locations in over 70 countries.
Walking through a mall on State Street, just blocks from his condo, Martin pointed out his firm's small boxes at various stores. Shoppers probably would not even notice the counters, which matched the ceilings, black at the Disney store and white at Sunglass Hut. Many stores use such devices to track shoppers, though chains such as Target Corp use cameras.
ShopperTrak then helps retailers use the data for such things as evaluating the performance of promotions, determining how to change marketing to lift results at stores with low traffic and managing staffing for busy and off-peak times.
To succeed, stores must provide an experience that is not available elsewhere to "convert a shopper into a buyer," Martin said. "Right here is where the money is made."
Standing near the entrance of a Puma store, Martin pointed out sneakers in bright colors, such as red. Shoppers can see the exact hues of the shoes and try them on, rather than trying to determine their colors online, where trying shoes on is impossible. If the hue they want is in stock in their size, the store is more likely to close the sale. If not, perhaps a helpful associate can order the shoes, keeping the shopper from going elsewhere.
The National Retail Federation predicted that holiday season sales, or sales in November and December combined, should rise 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion this year. ShopperTrak expects 3.3 percent sales growth, down from 3.7 percent in 2011.
The two groups measure different sets of sales data, with ShopperTrak monitoring general merchandise, apparel, accessories, furniture and other specialty categories, while NRF includes non-store, auto parts and accessories stores, discounters, department stores, grocery stores, and specialty stores.
Though his firm only tracks traffic at stores, Martin says retailers must marry their stores and various online channels, or use what is called an "omnichannel" approach.
"You can't even say that's coming anymore, that's here," Martin said.
Online spending for the first 32 days of the season was up 14 percent to $21.4 billion, according to comScore Inc.
For online data, Martin said comScore is the one to watch.
"To me, they're the gold standard," he said.
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When YA Sports a Crew Cut
At this year's BEA, an editor told me, "In YA, I'm sick of dystopia and vampires. I'm looking for emotional YA for boys." At the time, I thought, Emotional books for teenage boys that they'll actually read? Yeah, sure. I'll get right on that…just let me feed my unicorn and plant my magical beans.
But I've given it some thought, and I think I know what she meant. Boys don't read nearly as much as girls do and it seems that this is due to a back-and-forth volley of unfortunate circumstances between readers and publishers: boys don't read much, so publishers are sometimes unwilling to take a chance on a book exclusively for boys. They try and add some element that girls will identify with so that they can market the books to both genders, making more money. This is, after all, a business. Consequently, the boys have a really small selection of YA books exclusively for them…so they look to other media like video games and TV for entertainment, even if they kinda sorta like to read.
Boys are a tough market because fiction necessarily involves the emotions and, let's face it, guys usually aren't as emotional as girls. While girls will get really involved in the lives of a novel's characters—their popularity in school, their love lives, their self-esteem—a guy is more likely to shrug and move on, leaving the book about self-esteem or that cute girl collecting dust next to his stamp collection.
Is it a lost cause, then? Why write books for boys if they're unlikely to read them, and publishers are reluctant to give them attention? Because some boys want to read and crave situations, characters and themes to which they can identify tightly—and, just as importantly, some publishers (like the editor I met with at BEA) crave an emotional book for boys that's spectacular enough to take a chance on.
Boys' tastes differ greatly from girls'. They don't really want to hear about mean girls (terrifying) vampires (really? This again?) or romance (ugh). Then again, stereotypical subjects for boys like sports or military fighter jets that have little value beyond those hooks can be just as unsatisfying for them. The following are some trends I've picked up on in the past few years…
Walk Like a Man
Being a teenager—either gender—is hugely about identity. Young adults are trying to get a firm handle on who they are, where they belong, who they aspire to be. For boys, defining what it means to be a man is a big piece of the confusing identity puzzle for teens. Books give them a private place, within their own mind, free from humiliating talk of feelings and emotions, to explore who they are, where they fit, and who they might become. Books also hold a type of silent authority, so that boys can really trust the morality and the themes within its pages. Reading books like Holes by Louis Sachar, for example, helps boys to informally reflect on elements of the idea of manhood, like strength, perseverance, assertiveness and doing the right thing. Holes (and many other books) created an environment in which boys could think about these elements without feeling preached-to and without that feeling that some old guy is trying to "relate" to them. Boys are not capable of or comfortable with discussing what it means to be a man with adults or with each other, and certainly not with girls, so this private environment for them is something they want, even if they don't know that.
Romance, Schromance!
Teenage boys like women a whole hell of a lot, right? Wouldn't they want some type of romance in their books? Shouldn't there be a hot girl somewhere with really big boobs? No, not really. Every time I've asked a teenage boy anything about a teenage girl the response was the same: a disinterested shrug or a monosyllabic answer. Boys are tactile. They want to go out and experience women in real time, in their real lives, not sit around and analyze it, talk about it, or read about someone else's experience of it. A boy won't stop reading at the mention of a female, but if she comes to the forefront of the book, a boy is very likely to consider it the literary answer to chick flicks and move on.
That's Bad Ass!
As in most YA, there must be some extremely compelling or edgy element. Books about drugs (Crank), violence (The Outsiders), sexuality (Geography Club), jail (Miracle's Boys) danger (Brian's Winter), controversy (To Kill a Mockingbird, Stuck in Neutral) and completely new and undeniably cool worlds (The Giver, The Hunger Games) appeal more to boys than themes that have become almost standardized or stereotypical, such as popularity in school, vampires or romance.
There needs to be an element in YA for boys that is so compelling—like the world in The Giver—that it becomes less of a chore for kids to read through all the text to get the movie in their mind, and more of an awesome journey created just for them that delivers a message they're actually willing to hear.
After writing this, all of that sounds like a pretty tough racket. But when someone comes along and does it right, it's always unforgettable.


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The Republican presidential candidate with the line of credit at Tiffany's is making fun of the candidate with the Swiss bank account. The one who got wealthy working the inside Washington game is whaling away at the one who got wealthy working the angles of high finance. The economic diversity at the top of the Republican field runs the gamut from A to B.
In the 2010 election, Florida was the epicenter of the struggle in the Republican Party between insiders and outsiders. Tea Party insurgent Marco Rubio won a Senate seat by trouncing establishment candidate Charlie Crist. But despite the outsider movement that briefly emboldened the Rick Perry and Herman Cain candidacies, the Republican primary has come down to a battle between two insiders. Whether Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich wins the Florida primary on Jan. 31, it will be a triumph for men who have profited from knowing how to work the system.
All politicians who run for president have some sort of insider connection. Barack Obama owns a house that is the product of a cozy deal with convicted Chicago real estate mogul Tony Rezko. He has stocked his administration with Wall Street insiders. The public has grown increasingly suspicious about any kind of insider taint, believing that those with favored positions both fail to see what is wrong in Washington and on Wall Street, and unfairly benefited from bailouts.
Newt Gingrich has as much of this insider taint as he does personal taint. He was a longtime politician. Bad. He traded on that political experience to make money helping companies work the system. Bad. One of the companies was Freddie Mac, a villain for Tea Party Republicans in the 2008 economic collapse. Bad. It's no surprise that Mitt Romney has been hammering Gingrich on this front since the campaign moved to Florida.
Mitt Romney's career in private equity: Also bad. It makes him vulnerable to the charge that he is a part of the system that led to the economic collapse. Disclosure of his tax returns also highlights his insider status. He can afford to work the system to his advantage through tax avoidance in a way that very few ordinary Americans can.
The Gingrich campaign circulated an article this week arguing that Romney's insider status meant he'd never be able to go after the troubled banks that caused so much economic distress. On Thursday, Gingrich made that attack himself:
Let's be clear, you're watching ads paid for with the money taken from the people of Florida by companies like Goldman Sachs, recycled back into ads to try to stop you from having a choice in this election. … What level of gall does it take to think that we collectively are so stupid that somebody who owns lots of stock in Fannie and Freddie Mac, somebody who owns lots of stock in Goldman Sachs, who is insistently foreclosing on Floridians, who is surrounded by lobbyists who are already protecting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, can then build his entire negative campaign in Florida around a series of ads that are just plain false?
Yet neither candidate thinks his own insider status is a problem. Indeed, they're each running on it. They just call it "experience." Gingrich argues that his time in Washington gives him special insight how to turn his grand promises into effective action. Romney argues that even his failures in the business world help him understand how to turn around the economy.
Why is Gingrich getting the better of this insider battle at the moment? Appearing to be an outsider is more important than actually being one. Newt Gingrich is vastly better at this than Romney. There is nothing conventional or establishment about the Gingrich campaign. It's messy and rugged and risky. Gingrich consistently trounces his opposition among Tea Party voters in polls and exit polls.
Gingrich is also helped by attacks on him by establishment figures: John McCain, Trent Lott, and a parade of former and current officials who populate the daily Romney campaign conference calls savaging Gingrich. Thursday afternoon, even Bob Dole took a swing at Gingrich. Dole is like many in Washington who grumble about Gingrich, can't believe he's doing so well, and don't want him to be president, but had assumed he'd collapse from his own hubris. "I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich, but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway."
Bob Dole was the Mitt Romney of his day, an establishment figure the grassroots didn't like much. Same with John McCain. George H.W. Bush dislikes Gingrich intensely and has unofficially endorsed Mitt Romney. If Gingrich is really lucky, Bush will make his endorsement official.


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So, you finally decided to join your local fitness/pool center. Congratulations! Specifically, you joined the water aerobics program, and because you are serious you even purchased new water aerobics swimwear.
You understand the benefits of joining a class and look forward to improving cardiovascular health and increasing your strength. You are intrigued with the idea that most forms of land exercises can be done in the water with virtually no impact. This is great news for your joints. But, the question now is how to determine which class is right for you. You want the maximum results for your fitness level.
Well, before you take the plunge check with your doctor before you begin any activity. Some health insurers will cover the cost of aquatic programs if your doctor recommends it.
In helping to manage symptoms of osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia you may want to start out with a Beginners class to determine your comfort level and what you can tolerate and gradually work your way up. If you need to lose weight and don't have any other health concerns then consider a more vigorous routine where you can expect to burn a higher amount of calories. If you are pregnant you may also want to consider taking the "water therapy" class that incorporates slow, easy movements which is great for you and baby.
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Beta version of yura.net Domination for Android now available From Google Play!
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The Atlantic City Casino Reinvestment Development Authority has placed six charging stations in a new parking garage to show their committment to renewable energy. It's a prominent placement that lets the world know they mean business.
Good thing they placed it in a garage that has no overnight parking. Oh, and is prone to flooding.
Now, people who own electric cars are kind of like the motoring equivalent of gamblers. They're betting on new technology. They're also betting that the car will go the distance each time they drive it.
But they aren't usually betting their lives on it.
The National Fire Prevention Association, in a statement that even Captain Obvious would avoid, says that "a flood-prone area is a bad spot to put stations pumping out up to 240 volts of power." Really? Hmmm, we thought that would be fine.
Here's a tip Atlantic City: technology is great, and we're happy that you're committed to it. But maybe in the future do it where people can use it, not where you think people will see it.
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(CNN) -- A New Hampshire man proposed to his girlfriend, but not before involving the town's police chief and giving the bride-to-be one unforgettable run-in with the law.
In September, Matt Van Vliet and his now-fiancée, Samantha Labo, were on their way to a farewell dinner with friends when police pulled them over. The bride-to-be will never forget what came next.
In a dash-cam police video that recorded the encounter and was posted by the couple on YouTube, New London, New Hampshire, Police Chief Edward G. Andersen and his partner approach the vehicle and ask Van Vliet for his license and registration.
Labo said her boyfriend didn't ask why they got pulled over when they were going the speed limit, so she was curious, because it was her car. In the background on the video, Labo can be heard asking the officer why they were being pulled over. The officer responded with a rude remark.
"He was just really rude to me the whole time, so I started, like, crying because I didn't understand why he was being so mean," Labo said.
When the officers returned from their car, they told Van Vliet there was a warrant for his arrest.
"I bawled," said Labo, who told CNN that the night before she went out for a girls' night outand her boyfriend had a night out with the guys.
"I had no idea why. They weren't answering my questions. They made me step out of the car, too. It was just crazy, the whole experience," she said.
"In my mind I was so scared I didn't know if this was a mistake," said Labo. "But then again, I was like, what did you do last night? What did you guys do? It was just like absolutely terrifying."
While the police officer was handcuffing Van Vliet, the officer did a quick pat down and found a ring box. The video shows him taking the box out of the Van Vliet's pocket and asking him what it is. Van Vliet then takes the ring from the officer and walks over to Labo, who is crying hysterically. Van Vliet gets down on one knee and asks her to marry him.
Van Vliet and Labo met when they were arrested at an underage drinking party in their freshman year at Colby-Sawyer College. After a Breathalyzer test showed no alcohol, they were let go, but they continued talking and began dating a month later. So, when he decided to propose to his girlfriend of four years, Van Vliet reached out to the officer who arrested them.
"At first I was going to say no, because it's not something you would typically do or get involved in, but because of the involvement of how they met I felt compelled," said Police Chief Andersen.
Anderson said when Van Vliet called with the request, he told Anderson that if the two hadn't been arrested, they wouldn't be together. When Anderson agreed to help, Van Vliet also asked the officer to get Labo wound up.
"I felt honored to do it for them; it's nice to do something fun," said Anderson, who made the "arrest" on his own time.
Anderson said he's never done anything like this in his 20 years on the forceand it would take a unique situation to do anything similar.
"I was just in shock, I wasn't expecting it at all," said Labo. "He just put so much planning into it and the fact that he planned everything with the cop was just amazing, I was completely ecstatic."
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When planning what species to display in Jellies Invasion: Oceans out of Balance, we knew it would be important to include species found in local waters. To keep our exhibits full of jellies, National Aquarium staff venture out to the Chesapeake Bay throughout the year to collect the following local species: Atlantic sea nettles (Chrysaora quinquecirrha), Leidy's comb jellies (Mnemiopis leidyi) and Lion's mane jellies (Cyanea capillata).
Our most frequented spot for jellyfish collecting is on the Eastern Bay, off the southeast end of Kent Island. This past weekend, we launched from my family's waterfront property located in the southeastern region of the island. My nephew, Joe Cover, Jr., a resident of Kent Island and an avid fisherman, is my unofficial jellyfish monitor/assistant. He keeps me posted on when and where he is seeing groups of jellies.
Ideal jelly-collecting conditions include a moving tide (to raise jellies to the water's surface), little to no wind and a cloudless sky (the mostly transparent Leidy's comb jelly is almost impossible to spot when the sky is overcast). There are times when you believe the conditions are ideal, yet few or no jellies are found at the surface. When this happens, my standard line is, "You know, we have just been outsmarted by an animal that has no brain."
Equipped with collecting bags, five-gallon buckets, glass beakers and special plastic jelly-collecting nets, we motored out to the middle of Eastern Bay. The water was a bit choppy, but I stopped the boat as soon as I saw a "slick," a narrow band or area of still water among the light waves. Natural slicks are sometimes formed when concentrations of microscopic diatoms gather at the surface and release natural oils that change the surface water's density and retard the formation of ripples and small waves.
As we slowly drifted along with the wind and tide, we started to see Atlantic sea nettles and large Leidy's comb jellies (a whopping 3 to 4 inches long) pulsing along the surface. We were in the right place at the right time! Upon further examination of the water's surface, we saw thousands of tiny copepods (zooplankton) gathered – another great sign! Jellies continued to surface to feed on the copepods and, in some cases, each other. Yes, some jellyfish (like Atlantic sea nettles) include other jelly species (Leidy's combs) in their diets.
I started filling collecting bags placed in five-gallon buckets with Bay water.
Jellyfish have no bones and little body structure. In fact, 96 percent of a jellyfish's body is water! A delicate jelly can easily be injured if it is removed from the water or rubs against any abrasive surface. To avoid injuring our specimens, we used smooth-sided beakers to corral the jellies. The jelly is then moved, in water, to one of the water-filled plastic bags in a bucket. The beaker is submersed into the bucket and tilted to gently release the jelly.
Care must be taken to prevent the creation of air bubbles, which can get trapped in the jelly's tissues and injure it. This is why beakers containing jellies are not poured in from above the water's surface. Leidy's comb jellies are especially fragile and must be transported with extra care.
In addition to their delicate body structures, quick temperature changes can be detrimental to jellyfish. It was relatively cool on this sunny afternoon, and the water in the buckets was staying close to the temperature of the Bay water. In a relatively short period of time, we filled six five-gallon buckets to capacity with jellies.
We headed back to the dock to prepare the buckets for transport to the Aquarium's Jellies Lab. Prior to loading the buckets into the car, air is removed from each bag, which is then sealed with a rubber band. After loading up the car, I headed back over the Bay Bridge to the Aquarium. The car's air-conditioning kept the jellies at their preferred temperature.
Once at the lab, the buckets of jellies are unloaded and the rubber bands are removed to allow gas exchange to the water.
The final leg of the jelly-collecting process is to slowly acclimate these jellies to the water in an exhibit or holding tank. I hand this part of the journey off to the Jellies staff. All incoming jellies need to be slowly acclimated to both the temperature and the salinity of our exhibit water. This process can take several hours or several days depending on how the salinity of the Bay and our exhibit waters compare.
Jellyfish continue to fascinate and amaze our visitors. We're glad to provide our jellyfish gallery as a wonderful resource to connect people with our local jellies!


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Flickr Faves on Fridays: Bringing the Leaves Indoors
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Once again, a flickr favorite came from Flickr member Saidos da Concha, who added them to our Fresh New Spaces Group. Blogger Concha has moved from Lisbon Portugal to Staffordshire England. She's obviously finding some beautiful leaves around the countryside to bring into her English home, adding organic autumnal style. What I really like is that rather than going for the typical firey red and brilliant orange leaves we're used to seeing in fall decorating, she included leaves that were still half-green and light yellow. I never would have thought of this:
Don't you just want to plan a room around the colors in those leaves on the left side of the mantle? It's such a beautiful color palette! I also love the way she's tied in the sweet little gourds, the bird prints, and the books in this mantle arrangement. Simple clear glass vases let the leaves be the stars.
A master of tablescapes and shelf arranging, once again Concha has created a beautiful and fun composition here. The grahpics on the posters are crisp, more intricate little works of art are mixed in, stacks of books that could be total pulp (though I do spy some literary classics) add another layer, and a mustachioed rabbit and a fun little car top off the piles of books. It's so much fun! I also love the way she tucked these leaves behing the sconce. They will cast interesting shadows at night when the lights are on.
If you're struggling with ideas for your Thanksgiving decorations, why not take a look around at the leaves outside, grab a pair of pruners, and swipe a few?
Read Concha's full blog post here
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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