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In reading about the Netflix/library hubbub[1], the issue in my mind is not how Netflix was used. I believe that the actions of these libraries and librarians are a symptom of a larger issue for the profession: the coping (or non-coping) with the expansion of licensed content as part of the collection.
This run-in with Netflix is just the tip of the iceberg that is slowly bearing down on the libraryland ship. We are moving from a collection model where we would purchase and lend materials to where we act as an access point for leased or licensed content. The relatively safe model protected under the first sale doctrine is being eroded and replaced with agreements where ownership rights stay with with the provider. In forgoing ownership, libraries must abide by a series of contractual rules and terms that have been created by an outside entity. As the number of vendors offering these kinds of business increases, librarians are obliged to enforce a variety of contractual clauses, terms, and conditions.
Libraries are surrendering content ownership at an alarming rate in exchange for convenience. In doing so, the library moves toward a future where the collection is no longer owned and maintained but leased and licensed by entities that operate in the best interest of their shareholders, not the patron community. It's a future in which final determination of access is taken out of the hands of librarians and placed into that of outside third parties.
If this doesn't bother you, it should.
So what can be done? Just as business models regarding digital content are being shaped in the marketplace right now, the library has a role in what that model will look like. Libraries are no longer act as a receptacle at the end of the information production line; they are now active and involved in content creation. In addition, we retain a very important business model chip: money. As it becomes a rarer commodity due to budget cuts, it becomes a more valuable one in terms of buying power.
So, this begs the question: why aren't companies like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, or Sony working with libraries? (Redbox does; Starbucks does; I am eager to find other examples but I wanted to post this sooner.) I have a couple of answers in mind, but the one that strike me as being the best is this: companies don't want to give up any level of control of their content. In creating terms for libraries to use their content, they would have to cede some level of control to us in order to make their product available to our patrons. With the current bevy of EULAs, TOSs, and other agreements that allow them to retain absolute ownership, there is no reason to make a any sort of accomodation or deal with libraries.
(Still not convinced? Check out the quote in the ReadWriteWeb article from Steve Swasey, Netflix' vice president of corporate communications:
Netflix "frowns upon" this type of use, said Steve Swasey, Netflix' vice president of corporate communications, but indicated no plans to enforce the rules. "We just don't want to be pursuing libraries," he said. "We appreciate libraries and we value them, but we expect that they follow the terms of agreement."
"Appreciate" and "value" sound like the words used before that boy or girl you have a crush on in high school tells you that they just want to be friends. They won't sue libraries for misusing their service, but they sure aren't lining up to come up with something that is a better deal for both parties[2]. And that's a problem that libraries need to address and quickly. Libraries risk losing out on the next generation of content management and the ability to write their own destinies when it comes to collection development. We need to renew our efforts to take control of our content as well as to work with businesses in creating new opportunities and ventures.
The clock is ticking.
[1] In roughly this order: Tame the Web, Chronicle of Higher Education, Information Wants to Be Free, Read Write Web, Fast Company, LibraryLaw Blog, with a good overview from Librarian.net.
[2] Here's an idea off the top of my head: Netflix creates a site license for libraries, up the number of DVDs that can be borrowed from Netflix by a library, and give Netflix a share of overdue fines collected from their DVDs. Libraries move less well known movies off of the shelves of Netflix, Netflix gets nearly free advertising as a service within libraries ("we don't have it, but we'll Netflix your request"), patrons get movies, libraries share overdue fees with Netflix, everyone wins. (Yes, I know I just railed against licensing and not owning content, but since Netflix is in the business of lending and not retailing, I think this better fits their current business model.)


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This is an addendum to the multi-part Backpacking Training series "Hiking and Fitness: Training to go-big" Pt1–Pt2 by Bob Doucette at ProactiveOutside:
Any of us who have been out on the trail for more than a few days understand that backpacking is an endurance sport. Whatever your reasons for being out there, whatever your mindset or perspective regarding the activity, your body understands backpacking as an endurance activity. Most backpackers, and trainers who work with backpackers, focus on 5 primary fitness aspects: Aerobic Endurance, Anaerobic Endurance, Upper Body Strength, Lower Body Strength and Flexibility. In his previous posts, Bob has focused on cardio training and weight training as it relates to hiking and backpacking…but I want to talk about the benefits of Yoga.
Yoga Breathing and Aerobic/Anaerobic Endurance
Aerobic exercise is typically lower intensity, higher endurance type work and uses available oxygen in the bloodstream as fuel. Anaerobic exercise is higher-intensity, but significantly shorter bursts of activity usually recruiting much more overall muscle fiber and feeds primarily on glucose (and glycogen reserves). Both Aerobic and Anaerobic endurance rely on the body's ability to access fuel (oxygen and glycogen) more effectively and to use the fuel more efficiently.
Controlled, focused, mindful breathing is an integral part of any Yoga practice. Yogic breathing teaches us to control our breathing throughout the physical exertion of holding and transitioning between postures. With regular practice it opens the lungs, chest and diaphragm and deepens our breathing capacity. In a study of the cardiopulminary effects of Yoga published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine in 2002, it was reported that,
"The intense stretching and muscle conditioning associated with attaining and holding yoga postures increases skeletal muscle oxidative capacity and decreases glycogen utilization."
The reason behind this increased efficiency was described here, "The slow breathing rates associated with yoga breathing have been shown to substantially reduce chemoreflex response to hypoxia, probably through the improved oxygen delivery to tissues…" and "The slow increase in lung capacity associated with well-practiced yoga breathing recruits normally unventilated lung and helps to match ventilation to perfusion better, thereby increasing oxygen delivery to highly metabolic tissues (e.g., muscle)."
The findings in these studies (referenced below) show that regular Yoga practice, when combined with proper Yogic breathing techniques, increases lung capacity and muscle efficiency. Allowing your body to not only store and deliver greater amounts of oxygen to the blood stream through more controlled and deliberate breathing, but also reduce the amount of glycogen your body needs in Anaerobic metabolism. In short, Yoga breathing adds fuel to the fire and your fire burns less fuel.
From her article, Going the Distance, published at YogaJournal.com: Nancy Coulter-Parker says,
" The greater your aerobic and anaerobic endurance, the better able you are to sustain exercise for a prolonged period of time. Improving your endurance can make your cardiovascular and respiratory systems more efficient and decrease both your resting heart rate and stress levels…
…one of the keys to endurance is to better utilize your oxygen intake."
Clayton Horton, director of Greenpath Yoga Studio in San Francisco and a former triathlete and competitive swimmer suggests,
"Being conscious of the breath allows our body to breathe better. Conscious breath teaches you to pay attention to the quality of your breath, and you learn to observe and perhaps even manipulate your breathing during physical activities."
For improving endurance through better breathing, Horton suggests asanas that enhance both range of motion and lung capacity by opening the chest and rib cage. These include Urdhva Dhanurasana (Upward-Facing Bow Pose), Ustrasana (Camel Pose), Urdhva Mukha Svanasana (Upward-Facing Dog Pose), as well as Eka Pada Rajakapotasana (One-Legged Pigeon Pose).
Yoga and Strength Training
Upper and lower body strength is also highly important in endurance training. Not mentioned, but implied, is the development of a solid core. We are not talking about muscle development and growth necessarily, too much muscle can be a liability in endurance sports. Large amounts of muscle mass require large amounts of fuel and are, typically, less efficient. What we want to develop is the ability to recruit more muscle tissue in each movement. This delivers more power, with less muscle mass, utilizing less fuel.
Body weight exercises are especially good when it comes to engaging more overall muscle during your workout. A simple push-up, as most of us know, not only works the chest and triceps but also works the legs, abs, back and shoulders. Further, performing asymmetrical push-ups throw your balance off and engage even more of your core muscles. Many Yoga postures are designed specifically to engage multiple muscle groups and fire your stabilizing muscles at the same time. Holding a typical standing pose like Warrior I or II, will engage almost every muscle in your body and holding the posture challenges the smaller core stabilizing muscles used to maintain your balance. This whole-body muscle recruitment, combined with the deep breathing, builds stronger, more efficient muscle tissue.
"Challenging arm balances and inversion poses are very effective for building muscle strength," says Yoga Expert Rodney Yee, "because they flex groups of smaller muscles — not just the major muscles you work with a weight machine — to support the body's weight during the pose."
"Holding standing poses such as the warrior poses and triangle pose," he adds, "is great for strengthening the leg muscles. And in balance poses such as tree pose, one leg has to hold up your entire body. So you're increasing your strength just by putting your weight on that leg."
When it comes to using yoga to improve muscle strength and endurance, Horton (mentioned above) recommends focusing on any asanas that promote a lengthening of muscles in the body, such as Parsvakonasana (Side Angle Pose), as well as stabilizing and strengthening poses that develop core strength, such as Navasana (Boat Pose).
Yoga and Flexibility and Balance
The idea that Yoga can improve our flexibility is pretty common knowledge. Even those with no Yoga experience at all would tell you that Yoga can improve flexibility. Yoga asanas work by safely stretching your muscles, releasing the lactic acid that builds up during intense (Anaerobic) exercise causing stiffness, tension, pain, and fatigue. In addition, yoga increases the range of motion in joints reducing the risk of injury. Yoga stretches not only stretch your muscles but all of the soft tissues of your body including ligaments, tendons, and the fascia sheath that surrounds your muscles. According to a WebMD article on the Health benefits of Yoga, "…you most likely will see benefits in a very short period of time. In one study, participants had up to 35% improvement in flexibility after only eight weeks of yoga." (Personally, I have seen improvements in my flexibility after only a few sessions)
This from an article on Flexibility Training at RunnersWorld.com,
Yoga involves static-active stretching, making it a hybrid of the other forms of stretching. As in static stretching (whose proper technical name is static-passive stretching), you assume and hold positions in which certain muscles are lengthened. Like CR (Contract-relax), yoga also involves isometric contractions, but with a crucial difference: In CR, you contract and relax the same muscle in a coordinated sequence; in yoga, you hold one set of muscles in isometric contractions while relaxing and stretching the muscles opposite them.
Yoga is seen by many as a complete form of exercise. It increases passive and dynamic flexibility as well as balance and coordination…
Balance is a particularly important asset in backpacking and is often overlooked in training. Good balance out on the trail can be the difference between an innocent stumble and a serious injury. I've seen many hikers/runners take a spill simply due to poor balance. Many of the standing postures in Yoga are performed on one leg (or some other isometric position) for the purpose of practicing balance. Yoga also teaches the mental side to maintaining good balance, achieving some standing postures takes great focus and control (Mindfullness). If you haven't worked on your balance in a while, try a posture as basic as Vrksasana (Tree Pose)and see how long you can hold the pose. For most it's a matter of seconds. When you feel comfortable balancing in Vrksasana, try to transition directly into one of the more challenging standing poses like Utthita Hasta Padangustasana (Extended Hand-To-Big-Toe Pose) or Natarajasana (Lord of the Dance Pose) without letting your raised foot touch the ground.
The amazing thing about Yoga is, for all it's fitness benefits, it's also restorative. Many elite athletes and trainers have incorporated regular Yoga into their fitness training because it helps restore flexibility, speeds muscle recovery, reduces stress and helps prevent injury. If you haven't incorporated Yoga into your training, you are missing out on an amazingly fruitful fitness resource.
- Article written by JAMES A. RAUB, M.S. for the THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
1) "For example, Joshi et al. (1992) followed lung function in 75 males and females with an average age of 18.5 years during yoga breath-control exercises. After 6 weeks of practice, they reported significant increases in forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1), peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR), maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV), as well as a significant decrease in breathing frequency (fB), and prolongation of breath-holding time."
2) "Rai and Ram (1993) compared an active Hatha Yoga posture (Virasana or Warrior pose) to chair-sitting and to a resting, supine posture (Savasana) in 10 healthy men, 25 to 37 years of age. The active posture induced a hypermetabolic state, as indicated by increased minute ventilation, heart rate (HR), and oxygen consumption (V.O2), compared to either the chair-sitting or resting posture. In a similar study, the same authors (Rai et al., 1994) compared an active sitting posture (Siddhasana) to chair-sitting and supine relaxation and found the same results, indicating that the yoga "activity" and not the body "posture" was important for cardiovascular "conditioning.""
3) "Telles et al. (2000) reported that a combination of yoga postures interspersed with relaxation improved measures of cardiopulmonary status in 40 male volunteers to a greater degree than relaxation alone. Cyclic meditation (stimulation plus calming), consisting of yoga postures and periods of supine relaxation, was better at decreasing V.O2 and fB, and increasing tidal volume than sessions of Savasana (calming) alone. Konar et al. (2000) reported that the practice of Sarvangasana (shoulder stand) twice daily for 2 weeks significantly reduced resting HR and left ventricular end-diastolic volume in 8 healthy male subjects. Birkel and Edgren (2000) reported that yoga postures, breath control, and relaxation techniques taught to 287 college students (89 men and 198 women) in two 50-minute class meetings for 15 weeks significantly improved FVC of the lungs measured by spirometry. In a similar study, 1 hour of yoga practice each day for 12 weeks significantly improved FVC, FEV1, and PEFR in 60 healthy young women, 17 to 28 years of age (Yadav and Das, 2001)."
4) "Finally, a number of published studies have reported significant improvement in overall cardiovascular endurance of young subjects who were given varying periods of yoga training (months to years) and compared to a similar group who performed other types of exercise."
- Going the Distance By Nancy Coulter-Parker
- Using Yoga To Prevent Injuries And Accelerate Recovery By Sabrina Grotewold Published Feb. 28, 2012

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We heard about the Tata backed and French developed Air Car back in January and are intrigued by the brilliantly simple concept. It seems the Beeb has caught wind of it too and recently ran the coverage you see above. The numbers on it are pretty exciting for something running like an air compressor with its valves reversed. A top speed of 110 km/h and a range of 200 km makes it seem almost useful. Predictions on production dates are to be taken with a grain of salt, but claims of the end of the year are bandied about. Wonder if it will be an available option on the Tata Nano?
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A view of the hills near Oberwolfach. There is no doubt why the Black Forest is called the Black Forest
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yquem46 (38752) 2014-01-20 9:05
Hi Wolfgang
I like a lot this kind of picture with alternating layers of black/gray silhouettes of mountains and layers of white fog
It's certainly rather classic but It's really splendid
have a nice day, best regards
mrichat (1755) 2014-01-20 9:07
Hi Wolfgang,
A nice drama on earth!! the darks layers of mountain and the white clouds,the light orange sky. love that all.
Good photo.
dta (97764) 2014-01-20 9:17
Hello Wolfgang ,
Your pictures of Schwartzwald are allways impressive . No exception here , with the superb effect of the mist playing with the dark crest lines .
Splendid .
siudzi (34141) 2014-01-20 12:53
Hi Wolfgang,
Wow! What a stunning scene you have photographed! Absolutely amazing post full of interesting layers, colors and lights. Love it! An artistic work.
korbee (6619) 2014-01-20 14:26
hallo Wolfgang,so glad to see this superbe shot,great contrast!
this is inpiring me for this summer when Im going to visit the eifel and Rhein area.
dkmurphys (77866) 2014-01-21 0:22
Hi Wolfgang,
Superb capture, I love the mysterious atmosphere created in your image. Well done.
SnapRJW (31631) 2014-01-21 6:19
Hello Wolfgang - An impressive landscape where the forested hills seem to go on for ever. Beautiful layers of detail where the mist creates the contrast and the soft sky injects a gentle colour splash. Very lovely. Warm regards Rosemary
willperrett (13923) 2014-01-26 9:31
Hello Wolfgang
Another of your beautiful German mountain landscapes. As ever the high vantage point and this time the mist have given you superb aerial perspective, and the slight warmth in the sky balances the blue chill of the rest of the scene. The choice of the right time of day to shoot is so important for a scene like this: you've nailed it. Hope you got down again before nightfall!
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A Nightmare on Elf Street
The big news to be had at performances of "A Nightmare on Elf Street," this year's holiday show by the Gold Dust Orphans, is that Machine (or the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts as it was cleverly nicknamed), will be going the way of the rest of the Fenway in the near future. The space has been sold for development, which means that this could be the last holiday show that this company will be presenting in the venue they have called their Boston home for 20 years.
It won't be their last, that will be "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Thing," scheduled for the Spring; but if you can't wait till then to bid adieu to this surprisingly resourceful space, which has been an apt venue for the freewheeling theatrical antics that Ryan Landry and the Orphans put on, catch this inspired bit of lunacy that runs through December 23. (And if you know of a dive for them to move to, let them know.)
This one parodies those slasher movies that have persisted in culture since the 1980s, specifically the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise with its creepy, razor-fingered villain Freddy Kreuger. Here teen students at Elf Street Academy, where reindeer are trained to lead Santa's sleigh, are being terrorized by a Freddy Krueger-like killer who attacks while they sleep. The reason they are being targeted is explained in a video prologue (part "Mean Girls" and part "Carrie") in which a claque of mean girl reindeers, led by Velma Vixen (Scott Martino), bully and taunt Rudolph (Tim Lawton) because of his red nose pushing him over the edge (quite literally). Before he departs he puts a curse on his tormenters and their offspring. Flash-forward a generation and it is those offspring who are being sliced and diced in their sleep.
From here Landry weaves a sweet-tempered holiday fable that cleverly satirizes slasher movies with its busy plot. His villains not only includes Freddy Krueger but the more recent holiday ogre Krampus who is out to destroy Christmas and destroy Santa Claus whose head he wants served him on a plate. What this has to do with the curse of Rudolph is eventually resolved, but not before some nicely textured songs, bitchy dialogue, and some hilariously gory sight gags that get even more graphic as the body count mounts, which is pretty high for a holiday entertainment.
Of course lampooning slasher movies gives Landry ample opportunity to spoof his teen victims, who include the bad girl Vicki Vixen (Ruthie Fontanella), studious Dani Dancer (Taryn Lane) and Gloria Steinem-reading Claire Cupid (Kiki Samko) — each spot-on in their characterizations. As in slasher films, the suspense comes with wondering who is going to be the next victim, which in this case also includes the male students: chauvinist bro Dash Dasher (Sam Terry), ultra gay Percy Prancer (Matt Kyle), clean teen Chris Comet (Jeff Blanchette) and the often incomprehensible Blitz Blitzen (Sam Thornhill), whose motives may not be all that pure. As with the female peers, these actors nail their teen types.
The murders bring to the North Pole the famous, if inept detective Shirley Holmes (Ryan Landry) and his "just the facts" sidekick Dr. Jodi Watley (Qya Cristal), who does most of the investigation while Holmes bears the brunt of her withering one-liners. Landry revels in a performance that is part Benedict Cumberbatch and part Coral Browne; for her part Cristal plays it straight, saving her considerable vocal gifts until the end when she leads the cast in a resounding "Do You Hear What I Hear?" joined by the cast. (If there is a criticism to be made, it is why doesn't she sing more?)
As Velma Vixen, whose vicious prank sets the story in motion, Scott Martino is something of an over-the-top Real Housewife of the North Pole. Also as the show's costume designer he provides the cheeky, glitzy costumes, which includes a sleazy cocktail ensemble right out of a Jayne Mansfield's closet for himself. The show's playful look is enhanced by Windsor Newton's production design, dominated by a black-and-white mural that features familiar holiday personalities and cartoon figures in a crowded, witty configuration. The fast and furious direction by Kiki Samko starts on a comic high note and really never lets up, that is until Landry slows the show down to end the show with a welcome expression of holiday cheer.
As in other Orphan shows, there is clever use of puppetry — here two rows of mouthy elves, zany sound design (by Roger Moore) and goofy (and gory) props. One in particular provided the evening's biggest laugh when an attempt to throw it offstage failed, leading the actress to improvise. Her quick decision was both wildly inappropriate and hilariously funny, a joke that not only broke up the audience but the actors on stage. That moment really caught the irreverent spirit of the Orphans, for whom chaos offers invitation for a hilarious gag shared by all. And who can't use a communal laugh at this point in time?
"A Nightmare on Elf Street" continues through Sunday, December 23 at Machine, 1254 Bolyston Street, Boston, MA. For more information, visit the Gold Dust Orphans Facebook page.


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Barron's Bounce: Fat Profits from the Food Network
Jack Hough and Alex Eule discuss stocks moving after a mention in Barron's: TV network owner Scripps, miner Barrick Gold and IT outfit Computer Sciences.
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I ... we don't have any cooking tips for you today but we do of a look at Scripps owner of the food network its stock is up about three percent comments in Barron's ... this is Barron's bounce on Jack Allen with the Alex fuel ... Alex what's to like about scripts ... so this week anywhere to store and Scripps is benefiting from a few things one is the ... increasing level of out of affiliate fees from the cable companies are keen these content owners ... that's helping Scripps ... out but it's also benefiting more broadly from the economy they own in addition to network best-known HGTV which then you would describe this for a way to play the improving economy that's homes and Gardens Rising Gardens that comes from Iowa to play the rekindled desires of consumers I ... and these channels are amazingly I know all you do I know people who will watch forty hours of food programs for every one hour they spend coconut attention so I think that that they get there it is that ... the matter as it standpoint these these companies in their properties remain under threat ... on the stock looks to the stock looks cheap about anything says about twenty to thirty percent upside for ... Scripps Networks ... great so we go from there to gold of their or their goal ... mentioned on the paper and it's up about three percent read ... Gold's been something of what what's going on with their calls this campaign Barrick is for stopping the most ... it's down fifty percent this year ... and a very positive store and then ... he says in the most are the ... biggest upsets in areas that can go from seventeen fifty to forty four men that would come from there really taking some steps to unlock shareholder value including selling its less attractive ... mining operations in the Pacific Rim and an Australian really focus on its North and South America operations I'm ... and then there's the map that this ... grew it out there who would really like see the company focus more on ... share buybacks and buy back debt ... and cut its costs a little cause it sells those mind so that it was outside the Americas I guess it's left with ... the choices properties that have the lowest costs of reduction in the spring are ready to free up some cash rate at Ahmad Andrew says that in the ... in the in the U S Senate in South America these mines can ... be attractive at ... all levels of six fifty seven hundred and thirty six people ... were still well above that mentions also it is the stock with elevated risk of them a lot of dead and gone all will happen to the price of gold but that the leverage works both ways if you see gold rising from the ... government stopped ... by the story to it in the magazine about the Computer Sciences it's up about two percent it tells what was attractive ... was it provides the services company and ... I in in the past the really hasn't been ... particularly well drawn one the most important things need to do when you're selling actually serves as accurately predict how much stomach was due to deliver jobs and you can get bids ... nor to make profits on those jobs the companies are more job that path ... new management came in last year while their top priorities is identifying these forty ... humongous ... underperforming contracts the irresponsible for about a fifth ... of revenues ... are doing is a carving out costs of the ... contract renegotiating scaling some of them down ... approving some of their own fees ... so we look the stock is now a revenue growth for it but there is tremendous potential for margin improvement ... and cost them are still high relative to peers so we think that one is going ... to continue to climb to ... their peers ... Accenture is a stout with a of the most salient no pain at any of the eccentricities of the Independent Scott has not selling its own you're selling other people's here so ... so aam you don't break sensor is much lower costs and as a as it moves down to discern if I'm a surprise climb so who was inspiration much upside ... twenty five percent from a year if they get ... wet and and so will see what happens ... Alex thanks for joining us thank you for watching ...


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I just learned from Dan Kelly that Bruce Elving passed away last month. Details are thin, but here's a short list of links:
- Scott Fybush's Northeast Radio Watch Augut 8 issue
- A facebook "public figure" page
- Bruce's own Facebook page
- An obituary in Media Confidential
- Notice in the Worldwide TV-DX Association site
Bruce and I were frequent correspondents for many years, starting the early '70s, when Bruce began publishing his FM Atlas, an authoritative compilation of technical details for every FM station in the U.S. — and an essential handbook for everyone who loved to listen to far-away FM radio stations. Those people are called DXers, and I was one of them.
From my homes in New Jersey and North Carolina, I logged many hundreds of FM and TV stations whose signals skipped off the ionosphere's sporadic E layer. If you've ever been surprised to hear on your FM radio a station from halfway across the country, you were DXing.
For DXers, catching far-away stations is kind of like fishing. You don't want to catch just the easy ones. That's one reason FM and TV DXing was more fun than AM and shortwave DXing (at least for some of us). AM and shortwave depend on the ionosphere for distant coverage as a matter of course. Back before the AM band became a crowded mess, "clear channel" stations like WSM in Nashville and KSL in Salt Lake City could be heard all across the continent at night, because there was nothing else on their frequencies. WSM's Grand Ole Opry, heard every night on radios in rural areas throughout The South, literally made country music. (I listened in New Jersey, carefully turning my radio to "null out" interference from New York's WNBC, now WFAN, which was right next to WSM on the dial.)
In its heyday (or heydecade), DXing on FM was about hooking relatively rare and slightly exotic fish. The best months to fish were in late spring and summer, when warm calm summer mornings would bring tropospheric (or "tropo") conditions, in which FM and VHF-TV signals would travel greater distances than their normal line-of-sight propagation provided. Thus my home in Chapel Hill, NC was often treated to signals from hundreds of miles away. I recall days when I'd pick up WDUQ from the Pittsburgh on 90.5 with the antenna pointed north, then spin the antenna west to get WETS from Johnson City, Tennessee on 89.5, then spin just north of east to get WTGM (now WHRV) from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on the same channel.
Tropo is cool, but the best FM fishing is in sporadic-E "skip." This happens when the E-layer becomes slightly refractive of VHF frequencies, bending them down at an angle of just a few degrees, so that the signals "skip" to distances of 800-1200 miles. This also tended to happen most often in late spring and summer months, usually in the late afternoon and evening. Thanks to sporadic-E, we would watch Channel 3 TV stations from Louisiana, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Cuba and various places in Canada. But, more often, I would also carefully log FM stations I identified in Bruce Elving's FM Atlas. From 1974 to 1985 (after which I lived in California), I logged more than 800 FM stations, most of which came from more than 800 miles away. Bruce said he'd logged more than 2000 from his home in Duluth, Minnesota. I'm sure that's a record that will stand for the duration. (Bear in mind that there were only about 10,000 FM signals in the U.S. at the time.)
We're talking about obsession here.
For Bruce, FM was a cause, forever the underdog, even after it became an overdog with his help. See, up until the early '60s, FM was the secondary radio band in the U.S. The sound was better, but most cars didn't have FM bands, and most cheap radios didn't either. Transistor radios, which were the iPods of the '50s and '60s, were mostly AM-only. Bruce championed FM, and his newsletter, FMedia, was a tireless advocate of FM, long after FM pretty much won the fight with AM, and then the Internet had begun to win the fight with both.
I remember telling Bruce that he needed to go digital with PCs, and then take advantage of the Net, and he eventually did, to some degree. But he was still pasting up FM Atlas the old-fashioned way (far as I know) well into the '90s.
I pretty much quit DXing when I came to Silicon Valley in '85, though I kept up with Bruce for another decade or so after that. Learning about his passing, I regret that we didn't stay in closer touch. Though we never met in person, I considered him a good friend, and I enjoyed supporting his work.
With Bruce gone, an era passes. TV DXing was effectively killed when the U.S. digital transition moved nearly every signal off VHF and onto UHF (which skips off the sky too rarely to matter). The FM band is now as crowded as the AM band became, making DXing harder than ever. Programming is also dull and homogenous, compared to the Olde Days. And the Internet obsoletes a key motivation for DXing, which is being able to receive and learn interesting things from distant signals. A core virtue of the Internet is its virtual erasure of distance. Anybody can hear or watch streams from pretty much anywhere, any time, over any connection faster than dial-up. The stream also tends to stay where it is, and sound pretty good.
What remains, at least for me, is an understanding of geography and regional qualities that is deep and abiding. This began when I was a kid, sitting up late at night, listening to far-away stations on the headphones of my Hammarlund HQ-129X (hooked up to a 40-meter ham radio dipole in the back yard), with a map spread out on my desk, and encyclopedia volumes opened to whatever city or state a station happened to come from. It grew when I was a young adult, curious about what was happening in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Texas, Winnepeg, or other sources of FM and TV signals I happened to be getting on my KLH Model 18 tuner or whatever old black-and-white TV set I was using at the time.
When it was over, and other technical matters fascinated me more, I'd gained a great education. And no professor had more influence on that education than Bruce Elving, Ph.D.
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I was a Ham Radio fan and FM DXing enthusiast from the age of 11 until 23 when I moved to England 10 years ago. I somehow lost contact with this hobby when life gets too 'busy'. I stumbled upon this post by searching radio DXing and try to get feeling of what DXers are doing these days when internet and mobile phones have replaced almost every other forms of communication.
I think I still have a copy of FM Atlas 8th edition sitting in my parents' loft back home in China. It was hard to get hold of such thing, I spent all my pocket money for a couple of months to buy the copy. But it was "useless" for me in the end. The furthest FM station I've listened to was a Japanese one from 5km away with a diy 8 unit yagi. Sorry for the rambling.
RIP Bruce Elving
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Potatoes with cheese
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1lb of potatoes
1/2 pt of chicken stock
1 egg beaten
salt and pepper
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
2 ozs grated gruyere cheese
1 clove of garlic
1 oz of butter
Peel and slice the potatoes finely. Put them in a bowl and add the stock with the beaten egg into it.
Season with the nutmeg, salt and pepper add the grated cheese and mix thoroughly.
Grease an ovenware dish and rub it with a clove of garlic.
Add the potato mixture and dot with small pieces of butter.
Cook in a moderately slow oven 325f gas 3 for 35 to 40 mins.
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If you've spent 5 minutes on Etsy or Pinterest or even Amazon, you've seen the now infamous subway art Family Rules. They are lovely and precious and available in 92 varieties and every color and font imaginable. We have the vinyl version over our piano. In black.
But if your family is anything like mine, these aren't the real rules in our home and they aren't always true.
Because I don't always laugh out loud or hug often and I for one am glad there isn't a rule making me to do. People in my house don't always share or love one another. Sometimes we yell at each other on the way to church and when I ask them to help, they hide in the bathroom. And sometimes when we try something new, we really hate it and cry in the middle of the lake.
That's our reality.
I think the grass-is-greener mentality is an age old problem, but with instant access to technology, someone else's grass is filtered to look much greener on our screens, in our feeds and tempting us to change our status to match.
It's dangerous business altering a picture to perfection before we snap it. The bottom line, technology has made it easier to give us a prettier reality, but the truth is, it's never as perfect as it seems. Or real.
I'd like see Pinterest boards filled with disastrous recipes gone wrong, outfits from the clearance rack that don't perfectly coordinate, real hair tutorials that involve dry shampoo or a dirty pony tale, and pictures of first day of school breakfast feasts that involve eggs on a paper plate.
While I'm interested in pretty pins on a screen, when I try replicate them in my real life, it's more of a Pintermess.
Live your messy life and don't apologize for it. Don't scrub the ink off your toddler's arms before you Instagram it or move the dirty pile of laundry in the background. Because your real life moments are a beautiful mess. And they are more encouraging to your friends than you know when they show up on their screens and feeds.
Here's what the real family rules in our house are:
- If your sister pushes you, do not lick her arm in retribution.
- When you whine, you make your mother twitch and (bonus), you get to go to bed early.
- Always do your best, but if your best is a 64 average in math, you're going to tutoring.
- Be kind with your words. Talking back is a bad idea.
- Apologize when you've done wrong, but please don't yell "I'M SORRY!" across the house in an angry tone.
- Share stuff (except don't remind me of this rule when I won't let you drink out of my sweet tea glass).
- Have fun. But if you have too much fun, you might have to mop it up.
- Be Happy. And remember it has nothing to do with getting your way.
- Try new things, unless it's mom's razor on your tongue. That will hurt.
- Be grateful. Ingratitude will be a red flag to momma that you need a chore or two.
- Hands are for hugging or giving wedgies, wet willies, what have you.
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For the first time in more than two years, the US has failed to rein in the hordes of botnet computers that made it the source of 23.2 per cent of the world's spam in Q2 2006.
Its closest rivals are China and South Korea, although both of these countries managed to reduce the amount of spam they were responsible for between the first and second quarters of 2006, according to an analysis of the top 12 spam relaying countries by UK-based net security firm Sophos.
Sophos says the prosecution of spammers under the US's CAN-SPAM Act needs to be accompanied by improved home security if hopes of reducing spam are to be realised.
During Q2 2006, Europe overtook North America as a spreader of spam, with an increase of 2.1 percentage points over the quarter leaving it responsible for 27.1 per cent of global spam in Q2 2006.
Although Russia does not feature in the dirty dozen of spam relaying countries, Sophos reckons Russian spammers control vast networks of compromised (zombie) PCs in other countries.
Sophos notes an increase in spam containing embedded images, up from 18.2 per cent in January to 35.9 per cent in June, a ruse designed to fool some anti-spam filters that rely on the analysis of textual spam.
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With mercy, truth, and light.
2. As humble followers of Jesus,
We love to share His gospel truth.
With eager hearts we'll preach His message
While we are in our youth.
3. As faithful workers in the kingdom,
With gladness we will serve the Lord
And bring salvation to His children,
According to His word.
Oh, we'll raise our songs of praise and glory to His name;
With the strength of youth His truth we will proclaim.
As the mighty priesthood of God,
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The Central Michigan Chippewas—they of the 41-7 home loss to Michigan State—went on the road to take on another Big Ten foe today, stealing a miracle win in Iowa City by scoring a touchdown and field goal in the final minute after the Hawkeyes took a late lead of their own.
Iowa extended a 24-23 lead to 31-23 when Mark Weisman rushed for a touchdown with 2:18 remaining. CMU then marched the length of the field in just over a minute, Titus Davis hauling in a Ryan Radcliff pass with 45 seconds left to narrow Iowa's advantage to two. The two-point conversion to tie went incomplete, and it was looking like the Hawkeyes would escape with a narrow win.
After a bizarre delay of game on the kickoff, the Chips managed to recover the onside kick—and with the help of a boneheaded Iowa personal foul, found themselves in field goal range for kicker David Harman. Actually, that's not true. They set up a 47-yarder, but Harman had never actually hit one of those in a game before.
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The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security surrounding the move, says the shift does not necessarily mean a decision was imminent on announcing formal criminal charges against the suspect.
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Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a way to cleanse the blood to treat kidney failure. It uses a natural membrane inside your body and a special solution (dialysate). The solution needs to be changed several times a day. This can be done as part of your home or work routine. Or it can be done at night by a machine. Dialysate is put inside your belly (abdomen) through a plastic tube (catheter). This catheter is surgically placed into your abdomen. It takes the catheter about 3 to 4 weeks to "mature" and be available for use. Your doctor may tell you to have this catheter put in place before your kidneys fail completely.
PD uses the natural lining inside your abdomen called the peritoneal membrane. The abdomen is filled with dialysate through the catheter and allowed to remain (dwell) for 3 to 5 hours. The membrane and dialysate then work to clean the blood. The dialysate needs to be changed every few hours. This is called an exchange.
PD is done at home.
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Meet the Wood-Fired Pies at Via Tribunali's NY Outpost
Pizza reviews in NYC.
On a Monday night not long ago, I popped into Via Tribunali New York, the sole East Coast outpost of the Seattle-born pizza chain. My companion and I were taken into the dining room (about the size of a rich man's tool shed), and seated under a picture of the Bay of Naples. The vista depicted the Naples of a bygone era—a nostalgic vision of the old country.
Looking around the Lower East Side space, you'll find that image to be just one of several signifiers that tastefully insist upon the little pizzeria's Neapolitan credentials. High shelves hold canned tomatoes and tins of olive oil; a hand-cranked meat slicer sits on a table that hugs one of the earth-toned brick walls. To-go boxes are stamped, in the mother tongue, "True Neapolitan pizza." And, of course, there's the giant Galapagos tortoise in the room: Via Tribunali's wood-fired pizza oven, manned by a long-haired pizzaiolo.
With the scene thus set, naturally I entered the meal with high hopes. If all went well with the dough, sauce, cheese, and oven, I thought, this picture hanging overhead would cease to be just a picture; it'd become a real-life thought bubble, a magic school bus to old-school Napoli!
Yes, I realize how silly that sounds.
Anyway, back to the serious business at hand: how does Via Tribunali stack up? The nearly two-year-old spot is a worthy addition to city's pizza scene, but falls short of unseating any presiding royalty. Joints like Franny's and Motorino are notches more sublime. But what Via Tribunali does well, it does very, very well. The (few) missteps and inconsistencies I noticed amounted to minor infractions against what were largely delicious and deeply satisfying pies.
The Quattro Formaggi ($16) is well-served by a masterful selection of cheeses, delivering a rich harmony of big, savory flavors. The VTNY menu has undergone a tune-up lately, which at the time of this writing isn't reflected on the website. The four-cheese pie was evidently one of the menu items updated, as the toppings now include basil, locally smoked provola, gorgonzola, fresh mozzarella, and Parmigiano-Reggiano (the menu currently posted online lists fior di latte, provola, gorgonzola, ricotta, and basil). The gorgonzola lent practically every bite a mouth-watering brightness and complexity. However, I'd love to see this pie dressed by a slightly lighter hand. An entire pie's worth of dairy-driven richness, dispensed at these levels, may prove tough to stomach for some.
The crust is about 80 percent pleasurable—and that's a by-area figure. Pockets of the undercarriage, concentrated toward the center of the pie, were somewhat tough and chewy, while the rest of the crust was delightfully buoyant. (The same consistency issue also turned up in the Margherita pie, which I'll turn to shortly.) And if you're anything like me, you'll love the cornicione; the oven graces the lips of VTNY's pies with smoky, crispy, addictively full-flavored spotting.
Always a reliable benchmark of quality among Neapolitan pizza spots, the Margherita ($14) does a good job showcasing Via Tribunali's vibrant, well-balanced tomato sauce. Once again, with a touch less muzzling cheese, this pie would be singing an even more dulcet tune. I favor a healthy dose of basil on my Margs; that inky, fragrant, herbaceous element adds all-important complexity. I wish I could have discerned more of that flavor here.
Thankfully, though, Via Tribunali New York's authentic Neapolitan bona fides aren't limited to the decor or, say, their handy pizza scissors. From the tasty tomato sauce, to the wonderful cheeses, to the at-times dazzling, at-times volatile oven, there's genuine, wistful pleasure to be found.
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