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I left the gym this morning and got in my car just in time to hear some author speaking on public radio. I can't remember who it was or what the name of his new book is but he was talking about regret. "I always hear young people say that they want to live their lives with no regrets, " he said (something like this). "If you can't look back at your life with some regret, some ability to know how you could have done something differently, how will you ever grow?"
I want to grow. I am working on growing.
I've been thinking about that all morning. To say that I have a few regrets would be a gigantic understatement. Obviously, my biggest regret in life is dropping Max off at daycare on the morning of July 19, 2011. If I hadn't, who knows what would be different today. Maybe he still wouldn't be here - but I'll never know - and so I regret it.....with everything that I am I regret it. The question then is - how can I grow from that regret? Should I never leave my child with anyone ever again? I tried that for the first year of Mo's life and at a certain point, it just doesn't work anymore. And, of course, I've noticed that nobody else seems to be worried about leaving their babies with other people. Hell, nobody seems to be worried about their babies really at all - except for the stuff I find myself completely not worried about - "screen time", milestones, sleep habits, breastfeeding. So, I leave Mo with people. I do. And, I am not sure how to feel about it. I try not to do it very often because it still scares me. It feels completely reckless - every. single. time.
This isn't what the author was talking about though. He was talking about how we treat other people - how we behave in business and in our marriages and to our family and friends. I regret being unable to see clearly in my early grief. I regret depending on other people to help me get through the searing pain. I regret not being able to help my husband because I was (and often AM) too consumed with my own grief to see and support his. I regret spending time with people who didn't care. I regret getting angry at people who couldn't empathize. I regret having any expectations at all. I regret not being the bigger person. I regret telling people I shouldn't have told. I regret explaining and explaining and explaining why I felt devastated. I regret snapping at people who "meant well". I regret responding to "anonymous".
There is a lot that I regret. And, I also can't help wondering if there are people who regret the way that they have treated us. Maybe they are dealing with pride on top of regret and that is keeping them from saying anything. That has generally been what has kept me from apologizing to people that I should have. While regretting, recognizing and moving forward creates growth - carrying around the anger and pride keeps you stuck. I should know.
Regret can feel like an emotion that you are holding hostage at times. The best way to learn from your regret is to apologize to the one who you behaved regretfully towards. But there are people that I know won't give me the trade I am looking for (which is an apology in return) and so I've held off.
This isn't the case with everyone. I apologized to a lot of people recently who treated me pretty poorly, who didn't apologize for their part. I don't regret those apologies - because they made me feel lighter. Staying regretful and angry only hurts me.
But there are a few regrets that I am still holding onto. They are apologies that I worry if I made, wouldn't bring me much peace. The very worst behavior that I've come across in these past two and half years. Memories of my interactions with these people cause me uncontrollable anxiety at times. It is one of the most difficult things I am facing these days. One of the things that I worry I might carry around with me for the rest of my life.
I hope I will get there someday....to the place where I can forgive those who have mistreated us the worst and make apologies that I am not certain are deserved. I am starting at the bottom and working my way up. Perhaps the evolution comes when I finally forgive/apologize to the worst offender. It will be a while I think but when it happens - I will let you know.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
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Aeneas ceased. The other long had scanned the hero's face, his eyes, and wondering viewed his form and mien divine; in answer now he briefly spoke: "With hospitable heart, O bravest warrior of all Trojan-born, I know and welcome thee. I well recall thy sire Anchises, how he looked and spake. For I remember Priam, when he came to greet his sister, Queen Hesione, in Salamis, and thence pursued his way to our cool uplands of Arcadia. The bloom of tender boyhood then was mine, and with a wide-eyed wonder I did view those Teucrian lords, Laomedon's great heir, and, towering highest in their goodly throng, Anchises, whom my warm young heart desired to speak with and to clasp his hand in mine. So I approached, and joyful led him home to Pheneus' olden wall. He gave me gifts the day he bade adieu; a quiver rare filled with good Lycian arrows, a rich cloak inwove with thread of gold, and bridle reins all golden, now to youthful Pallas given. Therefore thy plea is granted, and my hand here cl
But Lausus, seeing such a hero slain, bade his troop have no fear, for he himself was no small strength in war; and first he slew Abas, who fought hard, and had ever seemed himself the sticking-point and tug of war. Down went Arcadia's warriors, and slain etruscans fell, with many a Trojan brave the Greek had spared. Troop charges upon troop well-matched in might, with chiefs of like renown; the last rank crowds the first;—so fierce the press scarce hand or sword can stir. Here Pallas stands, and pushes back the foe; before him looms Lausus, his youthful peer, conspicuous both in beauty; but no star will them restore to home and native land. Yet would the King of high Olympus suffer not the pair to close in battle, but each hero found a later doom at hands of mightier foes


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Dear reader, welcome, so now were going to test Twitter intents. Simply click on this image.
Read all about displaying Tweets ready for action (Retweets, Replies, Follows), here.
Now Twitter must just add the ability to embed these Intents, that would be even better.
Facebook Targeted Ads
Apparently Facebook is testing targeted ads based on the content of your status updates and wall posts. This has sparked mixed feelings in the user community. On one side, marketers are drooling over the possibilities, on the opposite side, users feel their privacy is being compromised.
We don't get the privacy issues. When it works on GMail, which operates in a way more private space, surely it shouldn't be a problem on a public timeline, should it?
There is, however, a third issue that's more important. Status sentiment is very difficult to analyse. This means that if a user complains a lot about Tesco's range of wines, they're quite likely to be served up ads for Tesco's range of wines.
And that would be a bit crap, wouldn't it?
Comeback kings
This week we saw an interesting quote through our friends at Rabbit. A study showed that prompt replies to customer complaints online makes a significant and measurable difference.
"a Harris survey showed that 18% of those who posted a negative review of the merchant and got a reply ended up becoming loyal customers and buying more."
Talking of the value of Social Media, in 2010 Coca Cola cut their ad spend by 6.6% and started investing more in Social Media.
What's the role of Augmented Reality in Social TV?
That's one of the subjects that came up in a conversation we had with some tv execs this week. And boom, here's an interesting case-study.
As part of a re-launch, NBC Univeral have created The Witness, an interactive film that integrates Augmented Reality. For Social Media points, we don't think it can compete with the immediacy of Twitter (one pitfall – you'd have to be in that location), but as far as exploring new formats goes (and the PR value that comes with it), it's definitely an interesting example.
The in-crowd
Unlike Google, Facebook has not made many false starts with products, Facebook Questions being the notable exception. It launched last year to much fanfare but never took off to compete with the likes of Yahoo Answers and the fast growing Quora.
But as always they have gone back to the drawing board to refine their product. The result is different reports RWW. The new version is not so much about finding the experts, but more about tapping into the knowledge of your crowd. Why can this be good? Says RWW:
"While everyone on Quora may agree on the best restaurant in my neighborhood, the service suffers from the same issue as something like Yelp – maybe I don't agree with the masses."
My utopia & your dystopia
We've written about all the weird and wonderful hacks people are doing to the Xbox Kinect. Officially now the fastest selling consumer electronics of all time, Mashable speculated this week that it the next place where marketeers need to boldly go to boost their brands. The technology can tell players apart, recognise movement in 3D, do voice recognition – in short it's the next great leap in user interfaces.
Microsoft's Avatar Connect allows you to control your Avatar through movement. Mashable conjures up customers test driving cars or trying out interior decoration using Kinect. That's a little too obvious. We think Kinect could drive major innovations in products themselves through new ways of interaction. And then there is the nightmare scenario of Minority Report-like ads, jumping up at you at every turn. It's Back to the Future stuff.
Pimp your WordPress
Did you ever think your WordPress blog needs some gloss and perhaps some sexy motion, languid but snappy transitions? You're lucky, because soon iPad-glamour will be available to ordinary WordPress publications thanks to Onswipe. It includes features such as loading screens, Flipboard-like image effects and more. Nice one. Our hint? By all means go for it – after you have made sure your content is actually good. Just ask Wired magazine.
In other tablet news, the first music video shot on the iPad 2 has just been released.
Twitter by numbers
In case you haven't heard, Twitter was 5 years old this week. In the last year, the amount of Tweets per day has shot up from 50 million per day to 150 million. More interesting stats behind this link.
In related news: LinkedIn has (finally) reached the benchmark of 100 million users.
Groupon is going hammer & tongs
Or is it? Techcrunch reports a massive dip in sales in February. In an interesting post they also reveal that Groupon has not yet cornered half of the US group buying market. There is still a lot to play for.
Creatives of the week – Breakfast
Breakfast is an interactive design agency from New York. Apart from the usual stuff for their clients, it's their self-initiated projects that are getting us excited. And more specifically their attempt to be creative with Instagram.
Based on the API, they've developed a location-based photobooth called Instaprint. For example: as an event organiser or pub owner you can program the device with a certain location and a hashtag and the box will start printing all your lovely Instagrams taken at that location.
Tech insight of the Week – Node.js: The death of PHP
The server side of AJAX is still in most cases handled by PHP, causing most web developers to, apart from markup languages HTML and CSS, having to code in both Javascript and PHP. (PHP could be replaced here by Python, Perl, or any other server-side language).
Well, those days might be over, thanks to a nifty little (and I mean litte, as in extremely lightweight) engine called node.js, which not only runs javascript on the server, but actually uses javascript as the server.
A Javascript webserver? What are they smoking?
My initial rection to this is a bit similar to seeing someone building a palace out of ice, or a steam locomotive out of sand. Amazement at the amount of effort and creativity that's being put into the idea, but very little for its actual usefulness.
Wake up and smell the future.
If this google trends graph is anything to go by, I'll have to rethink my attitude a bit:
Let's have a look at the Javascript engine under node's hood: an engine written by Google, called V8.
Why did Google write their own Javascript engine?
Performance was not a big issue.
Javascript is an integral part of the AJAX revolution, which was largely driven by Google. They quickly realized the severe shortcomings of most Javascript engines, and wrote their own: the V8 engine, highly optimized for speed and memory consumption.
Given the way the V8 engine was written, and the asynchronous nature of Javascript (which basically means Javascript multitasks by default), It suddenly becomes clear that Javascript, given the right implementation, could be better suited to the server side of AJAX than PHP, Python or Perl. That means, in the GMail example, that both the part that reads the new mail on the server, and the part that shows you your new mail in your inbox, could written in Javascript.
Seeing the light
Node.js extends the V8 engine with a set of libraries that makes building a simple web server as simple as this:
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello Worldn');
}).listen(8124, "127.0.0.1");
You don't have to understand Javascript to see that that is really simple. Given that Node is installed on your server, you simply have to run a .js file with the above content with Node, to have a working (though basic) webserver.
On top of that, as highlighted in this article on Mashable, node's footprint on the web server is extremely small, up to 1000 times smaller per connection, compared to Apache (the most commonly used web server on the Internet). This means, as your site accumulates concurrent users, your server could take 1000 times longer to run out of memory.
Apart from this, users are more likely to experience a smooth, fast user journey, because of the fact that so much less server oomph is needed to process and deliver the same data.
Node is not the be-all and end-all of server solutions – it has a very specific use, which happens to fit a common trend today: providing a lightweight server infrastructure to serve up large amounts of small chunks of data to large numbers of users.
This makes node a perfect match for the realtime web, for gaming apps, for collaboration: basically all applications where speed and concurrency of data transfer matters.
Where does this leave PHP, Python, and their counterparts?
PHP will remain to be the best Hypertext Preprocessor there is, until further notice (which is what it was built for – generating and manipulating HTML). Python will remain the language of choice for building very complex server applications quickly. Perl will remain … well, Perl.
I do think, however, that PHP, Python or Perl's role as server-side language in AJAX communications could diminish into obscurity. Let's wait and see.
Meanwhile, if you like to dive into Node, check these out:
Twitter wakes the Dragon
To start off this week Twitter celebrated its fifth birthday with the obligatory first tweet meme. To make it extra special, it also registered its 1billionth tweet. Woohoo!
And then, on a roll, it aroused the scorn of its API consumers by announcing that people should stop building Twitter Clients. According to the API Terms Of Service: An example of a Client is a downloadable application that displays user timelines and allows users to create and search for tweets. In other words, a Twitter app that creates competition for Twitter.com.
This evoked a plethora of responses from the developer community, ranging from emotional, rational and violent, to this one from Adam Green on the twitter-development-talk google group, which probably does the best job of summing up the debacle.
"Here is a simple way this could have been prevented. If you had a developer relations person with experience and skills in dealing with third party developers, who have completely different motivations from in-house coders, he or she could have quietly passed around a draft of what you wanted to say. This would have gotten very strong negative reactions. You would have been able to reformulate it to strip out the implied threats and turn it into a positive roadmap. It could have been framed as "Here are some areas we promise to leave open for developers. If you work here, we will give you all kinds of extra support and promotion"
Microsoft launches IE9
IE9 sees the light of day, officially (and finally). And as we amusingly pointed out last week, they are flogging it by apologizing for IE6.
Welcome to the real world, Microsoft! It's built out of HTML5 and CSS3. Sorry, say what? Oh no, seems they're not quite here yet … sorry about that.
VW app
Volkswagen is a brand that understands the power of added value in advertising. Last year VW Sweden had lots of success with the rather abstract Fun Theory. This week it's their Norwegian brethren that are going beyond the billboard. Combing a print ad with an Augmented Reality app, it allows people to get an interactive experience with the product and do a virtual test drive.
As they say in the film:
"Innovations can be difficult to explain in an ad. they must be experienced. Therefore, we created an app for readers to download so they could try it out for themselves, using the print ad to test drive."
Sony Ericsson teams up with Foursquare
To complement their sponsorship of the Miami Open tennis tournament, Sony Ericsson is experimenting with a Foursquare gaming mechanic. When people check into the tournament they get the chance to win autograph sessions and the chance to toss the coin before a game.
Pretty straightforward stuff, but combine these incentives with the new features of the Foursquare app, and the location service might become quite useful.
Woos.at: PeerSquare – just better, faster, and mobile
On the subject of making Foursquare more useful, we've done an update of PeerSquare. Actually, we've completely scrapped it, and we bring you: Woos.at (mobile only).
Less than a month ago we launched PeerSquare, our attempt at turning Foursquare and PeerIndex into a wonderful Serendipity platform. Since then, we've moved it to the next level: mobile. It is now called Woos.at, and by default it shows you interests of people who are checked into the same venue as you on Foursquare. We believe Serendipity to be a very hot topic in future, so do watch this space.
Facebook Cinema
Facebook has made another step in becoming the Facebook-wide web, by wooing the big film studios. Warner Bros is going where the people are and has announced it is making some of its films available for streaming on Facebook. US only for now.
We're not convinced, however, that providing a store inside Facebook is the best way to sell movies. It's not even the best way to sell movies using Facebook. If they used Facebook Connect outside of FB they could provide a much better user experience. How is being on FB itself in anyway closer to having your own site? Both are one click away, but one has bad user experience.
Interesting detail: you have to pay with Facebook Credits.
Google Maps Navigation offers turn by turn navigation with live traffic conditions, but it is still only available on Android devices and in perpetual beta, which is the Google way.
Waze aims to do the same, socially. By analyzing users' locations while using it in real time, Waze knows what their traffic conditions are, and make it available to all users. Kind of like crowdsourced traffic data. Brilliant!
Creative of the week – the guy behind Moviebarcode
It seems this creative isn't interested in revealing their identity, but his/her project made us smile all week.
We're not 100% sure how it works, but using some sort of compression technique, Creative X turns classic movies into barcodes. Not of the functional kind though, but of the creative. Apparently each frame of the movie is compressed into a very thin line, which combined, creates these abstract colour patters, which are truly mesmerizing.
Tech insight of the Week – Foursquare Venues on Steroids
A few weeks ago we were about to do a piece on how useless Foursquare's venue data is, from the perspective of an API consumer. That's all changed now.
Our tech insight this week looks at the latest changes in the Foursquare API, promising to change the way developers will look at venues forever. This is not press release marketing drivel, it is our own researched opinion. Read More »
In a very inspiring announcement that reads like a rags to riches classic, Foursquare got on the SxSW train this year with a brand new client, containing an impressive list of functionality that has the potential to boost it from mere Social Game status to the Serendipity Platform that everyone's waiting for.
This is what happened in their shop window. As it turns out, a lot more was happening in the engine room.
Foursquare BC
Before launching their new venues API (beta), finding something useful to do with Foursquare's data was notoriously difficult.
Let's take, for example, the problem of finding only venues with lots of checkins, in real time. This proved to be a major problem for us while building WOOS.at (mobile only)
These are the limitations:
- Foursquare's normal API calls are rate limited to 500 calls an hour.
- Because of the low barrier to creating venues, the checkin-to-venue ratio is ridiculously low.
- A maximum of 50 venues can be queried from Foursquare per venue search on the API.
- There is no control over which venues are returned. If a venue is not in the 50 returned by a venue search, there's no definite way of getting it.
- The search radius for venue searches on the API is 40km.
Given these limitations, it is possible to process 50 venues, 500 times an hour. This sounds like a lot, but 25000 venues an hour is not that much when you're trying to discover trending venues in real time. Especially if you're firing shots in the dark, and hoping for the best (hitting the same empty venues over and over).
In steps the new venues API.
Foursquare AD
At face level, it doesn't look like much, until you give it a second look, and read the fine print:
- The new API is meant for userless access. This means it is built for bot usage, as opposed to front end usage. Ideal for determining venue trends in real time.
- The new API is rate limited at … 5000 calls an hour!
- There is a new API call, venues/trending, which automatically returns only the trending venues within a configurable radius (up to 2km)
Suddenly, even 500 calls an hour would've been enough.
Foursquare Beyond
Foursquare has a very vast location database. They have achieved this by making it extremely easy to create venues, and by being the first to do so. That is a very valuable resource, if dealt with correctly.
Up to now, Foursquare's venues database was kind of proprietary, in the sense that its usability did not allow it to easily get a life of its own outside of Foursquare itself. It was mainly used for checkins.
By making their venue database accessible and usable, Foursquare have increased the value of the database by an immense amount. Add to this their actual reason for launching the new venues API: Mapping Foursquares venue data to other venue databases, like Facebook, Twitter and Google places.
Suddenly the future looks a lot brighter for Foursquare (and its API consumers)!
Foursquare III
We've always said we think Foursquare's game mechanics are not interesting enough on its own. But on Tuesday evening Foursquare released version 3 of their app and made it quite a bit more appealing. One notable feature is that Specials will be extended beyond the Mayor mechanic. Businesses will now be able to offer Specials to swarms, groups of friends, regulars, newbies, Mayors or to everyone.
But what about those users waiting to find a reason to use Foursquare? Well, we have the stirring of more compelling use cases that make Foursquare genuinely useful. It's called Explore and recommends venues to you based on a number of metrics, including the check-ins of your friends. We have played around with it and it gets the RAAK thumbs up! RWW explains it all.
Foursquare also announced that they now stand at 7,5 million registered users compared to January's 6.4. Not bad. But they really need to try and accelerate and hit at least 20 million by the end of the year.
Facebook introduces real-time analytics
While Twitter and the likes of Foursquare make occasional big releases, Facebook has been extremely busy of late. Their latest release? Real time analytics. Now you can know how many Likes any of your blog posts, apps or whatever has received.
We use anonymized data to show you the number of times people saw Like buttons, clicked Like buttons, saw Like stories on Facebook, and clicked Like stories to visit your website.
Oh, and did we mention the analytics includes information about demographics, such as age, country, gender?
Canada Tourism makes Twitter mural
Here's a nice example of bringing Social Media offline to create awareness. To show their southern neighbours that Canada was a destination worth considering, the tourism board created interactive installations in big American that displayed tweets and photos in real time from people enjoying Canada.
Twitter saved the video star
A lot is being said about the future or not of the intersection between TV and social. We tend to think that Twitter is the killer app to accompany TV. Al Jazeera, has however put some more thought into TV and social. This week they launched the Al Jazeera Twitter dashboard, that tracks unrest across the Middle East and Africa. And they are launching a show with social media at its centre.
Group coupons – an interview
So what exactly is Groupon? And how is it social? We went to visit our hyper successful neighbour to find out. The main take-away: see Groupon as an alternative way to spend your marketing budget.
There's an API for that
It took 3 years for 1000 public APIs to be available, but in the last 9 months we went from 3000 to 4000. RWW reports on the incredible growth of interfaces and how it is becoming a mainstream business practice.
It notes that some APIs are launching without a legacy service. The API is all there is. Others, like Twitter, promote internal usage. Twitter.com is built on the same API that's available to developers.
APIs are part of what Jeff Jarvis calls a new business practise where you should either be part of a platform, or be one yourself. One thought we have had a for a long time: why has Ebay not turned their reputation system into an API?
Android sound and fury – iPad not so much
This week Android became the top smartphone in the US. While Apple released the iPad 2, which led to much ado about not so much. It's not that we think the iPad is not a great device, we just don't think the new one offers much new.
In other news, 22% of US doctors were using iPads at the end of 2010.
This poster would have been hilarious, if the whole IE6 saga was not so tragic. This dysfunctional but widely used browser has held the web back for years. Now Microsoft has climbed on the anti-IE6 bandwagon and offers groveling apologies.
Authenticity – what is it?
A war or words erupted this week as websites like Techcrunch introduced Facebook comments. Facebook famously requires users to use their real identities. For some people, accustomed to a web that first prided itself in anonymity, this was a bridge too far.
People yearn to be individuals. They want to be authentic. They have numerous different groups of real-life friends. They stylize conversations. They are emotional and have an innate need to connect on different levels with different people.
Robert Scoble provided a passionate counter argument. It was precisely the fact that users put their lives through real identities on the line, that was driving impetus, the power of the Egyptian Facebook protest. That was the power of real authenticity.
These "authenticity is dead" people are cowards. See, where I ONLY post opinions I'm willing to sign my name to, lots of people are actually cowards and just not willing to sign their names to their mealy-mouthed attacks.
Creative of the week – Mike Lacher
Ever wondered what your lovingly designed website would have looked like back in 1996? Check out Mike Lacher's Geocities-izer and a few other of his cheeky online 'products'. Read More >>
According to Forbes, social buying site Groupon is the fastest company from zero to 1 billion dollar in revenue in history. Still many people do not know what it is and how it works and whether it was for them.
RAAK spoke to Hristina Hristova of the Groupon social media team and asked her a few pointed questions. What was obvious to us when we visisted their London HQ was that the company is bristeling with energy, quickly filling up every floor of the building they occupy near Liverpool street.
Our main take-away – for most business Groupon is not really a way to make money directly. Rather it should be seen as a marketing spend. It is a way to drive massive amounts of new custom to your business. What interested us is the extent to which Groupon helps businesses prepare for the waves of customers they drive to them.
As a bloke, I am struck by the nature of the deals they offer. Facials and the like seem to be the order of the day. And yes, the typical customer is female, young and tech savvy. But I have the feeling Groupon will ,like to change that.
Groupon sees their main competitors as Facebook Places. I asked them about Foursquare, but no. Facebook is the threat, even though Places are yet to see much traction.
Part 2 deals shortly with Groupon's European history.
Mike Lacher desribes himself as a designer & writer. But really, he's a funny man. And he uses his design, writing and programming skills to do funny stuff on the internet.
Under the WonderTonic moniker he's made quick, rough and cheeky 'products' like the Steam Powered YouTube and A href="http://wonder-tonic.com/wolf1d/">Wolfenstein 1D, which turns the classic game into a 1-pixel high 'environment;, but the one project that made us smile this week is his Geocities-izer.
If you want to see what your website would have looked like if it was designed by a 13-year old back in 1996, then
Facebook launches new commenting system
People are saying this could be a game changer. Facebook's new commenting system still keeps the capability of sending your comment to the Newsfeed, but if a friend comments on that inside Facebook, the friend's comment goes back to the site on which the comment was made. Another new feature is the ability to float comments by friends to the top.
There is another reason media owners might be persuaded to go for this button. Because it requires real (or Page) identities, abusive comments will be severely reduced. Check the link above for an implementation on Techcrunch.
Facebook Pages an option for deep integration after all?
Just last week we dissed Facebook Pages as an option for deep integration of functionality. But, argues Econsultancy, the introduction of iFrames gives us much more functionality to play with and opens up exciting possibilities.
In essence, the move to iframes means full CSS, Javascript and standardised HTML can now be used when creating and editing pages, giving many businesses the opportunity to directly import their existing websites into Facebook.
Whether more capabilities will solve Pages' poor usage remains to be seen. We are still fans of the taking-Facebook-to-you model, rather than you going to Facebook.
UNIQLO launches Facebook-powered lookbooks
Like UNIQLO did. Contagious Magazine reports that the Japanese fashion brand has tapped into the taking-Facebook-to-you model to build Uniqlolooks.
…a website and global communication platform run on Facebook that enables people all over the world to share their UNIQLO style.
We predict a significant uplift in traffic from Facebook to UNIQLO, similar to what the Huffington Post and Spotify experienced when they followed this model.
Facebook having a whale of a time, buys Beluga
RWW had a good article on Facebook's buying of the mobile group messaging app Beluga:
Beluga launched less than six months ago, started by ex-Googlers Lucy Zhang, Ben Davenport and John Perlow. If you haven't yet used Beluga, it's a simple app for communicating with multiple people at once. You create a "pod" (Beluga's name for a group) of people and each time one of you sends a message, everyone else gets it. It's a bunch of custom-created group chat rooms. In these "pods", you can not only share text but also pictures and locations. And not everyone even needs to have a smartphone, as the app accounts for your feature-phoned friends by sending them SMS instead of in-app content.
SXSW is coming
Some reckon Beluga will be the standout service at this years SXSW festival. The annual knees-up is the place where Twitter came good and Foursquare was launched.
Another service that is looking to break through obscurity at SXSW is Hashable. This app allows you to easily keep track of people you have met through Twitter hashtags. While it has some interesting new interaction features, we are not convinced that it has strong enough utility value on its own.
Interested in SXSW? Quora has good lists of non US start ups going to SXSW, interesting panels, hotels and parties.
Social Eyes launches
Another service that harnesses the power of Facebook's social graph has launched. But SocialEyes does it using video. Writes GigaOm:
The service, which will live as its own site and as a Facebook application, allows users to carry on multiple chats throughout the day and lets people tap Facebook's social graph for conversations. Users can pop in and out of individual chats or combine them together in group sessions called scrums. Users can also join or start their own private groups among friends or participate in public groups based around hobbies and interests.
The NYTimes are excited too:
Users can leave the windows open so the friends can see and hear one another even when they're not chatting. They can mute or pause certain conversations if they don't want their friend to see or hear them, but it can be a little creepy, especially if someone forgets that a chat is still going on.
Facebook Like = Share = Like
Facebook is apparently killing the Share button, but integrating its functionality into the Like button. So when a user 'Likes', it will pop up a dialog giving them an option to enter some text that will accompany their Like into their Friend's Newsfeeds.
This will probably cause higher engagement, but it might also discourage people to Like, now that they can easier comprehend what their Like will do.
Measuring the value of Twitter
Econsultancy has an in-depth post on how they measure the value of Twitter. Here is just one excerpt with regards to their Econsultancy Twitterfeed account:
Further analysis shows that 'Twitterfeed' referrals have a higher average order value than both 'Twitter.com' (which can be defined as non-'Twitterfeed' links on Twitter.com) and also – perhaps surprisingly – customers referred via natural search. This backs up my hunch that customers who have clicked on our Twitterfeed links are far more highly engaged than those who visit via 'Twitter.com' (ditto search). And also that it pays to engage, as the theory goes.
Facebook Places bigger than Foursquare?
Robin Wilson seems to have gotten the inside track on UK Facebook data. They told him the following numbers:
That would probably make Facebook Places much larger than Foursquare in the UK (Foursquare claims 6.5 million registered users worldwide.) A note of caution however, as this Tweet indicates: Foursquare seems to still outstrip Facebook for actual checkins.
PeerSquare and the serendipity platform
We knew it was a good idea, but when we launched PeerSquare last week we had no idea it would be so well received. Om Malik's GigaOm linked to it in an article titled The Race to Build a PageRank for the Social Web Continues.
Techcrunch also covered PeerSquare in How smart is your startup incubator? Check in on PeerSquare and find out.
We think there are two main reasons why PeerSquare is a good idea. It allows you to see who at a venue has authority. But on a more basic level, because of Peerindex's topics, it gives a fuller picture of who the people are. As it happens Google's Eric Schmidt gave a fascinating speech at the Mobile World Congress. In this video at 9:10 he makes the following point:
"We are used to the phone as a communications platform, and increasingly so as a data / browsing platform and computational device, which everyone is excited about now, but what about the phone as a serendipity platform? What about your phone helping you learn new things and meet new people you would not otherwise. That is the future…"
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In the same video Schmidt makes a startling admission (5:48). Every ambitious target they have set for the adoption of mobile technology has been exceeded. Last year he predicted that within two years smart phones will outsell PCs. But that came to pass – on a quarterly basis – in mid February! The changes that are happening are so fast he says, that many people do not appreciate how profound these changes are. Developers now think mobile first, because this is where scale is.
Creative of the week –
Finding the phantoms, Timo Arnall, tries to make visible our ever increasing but invisible radio wave driven world. In his latest project he visualised wifi signals. Read More >>
In South Africa, where I'm from, dancing is often referred to as throwing shapes. On the other side of the planet Fin Timo Arnall does not throw (or make) shapes. He tries to discover hidden ones. That's cool!
With his project Immaterials (video) he tried to discover the active signals of RFID tags – and yes he also did it with London's beloved Oyster Cards.
Now, working with Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen they have visualised Wifi signals – Immaterials Wifi light painting.
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi from Timo on Vimeo.
Here is how they describe the project:
A four-metre tall measuring rod with 80 points of light reveals cross-sections through WiFi networks using a photographic technique called light-painting.
We built the WiFi measuring rod, a 4-metre tall probe containing 80 lights that respond to the Received Signal Strength (RSSI) of a particular WiFi network. When we walk through architectural, urban spaces with this probe, while taking long-exposure photographs, we visualise the cross-sections, or strata, of WiFi signal strength, situated within photographic urban scenes.
Based at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design he leads an international research project on the applications of various technologies in consumer products.
His PhD project 'Making Visible' investigates the use of visual media to explain emerging technology. Here he is discussing his Making visible theme, including where his research might lead, including the impact on interface design.
IxD Spring Summit 2009 – Timo Arnall from Umeå Institute of Design on Vimeo.


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FOXSports.com - Once-storied programs are poised for return
| Yoni Cohen / Special to FOXSports.com
In the early and mid-1980s, Georgetown, Houston, and Indiana were college basketball's elite.Twenty-some years later, the Hoyas, Cougars and Hoosiers are primed for a return to glory ... or at least to the NCAA tournament.
In 1981, Indiana won the national championship. In 1982, Georgetown was favored, but fell in the final seconds. In 1983, Houston was favored, but lost at the buzzer. In 1984, Georgetown defeated Houston and cut down the nets. In 1985, Georgetown again lost in the finals. In 1987, Indiana once more won the national championship.
In the process, Georgetown's Patrick Ewing and John Thompson, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler and Indiana's Isiah Thomas, Steve Alford and Bobby Knight popularized the NCAA tournament.
Houston's surprise loss in 1983 and Georgetown's shocking defeat in 1985, perhaps the two greatest upsets in college basketball history, established the NCAA tournament as the most exhilarating event in sports. Never again would the national championship be broadcast on the same night as the Academy Awards.
More recently, all three programs have fallen on hard times. "Phi Slamma Jamma" has been grounded since 1992. "Hoya Paranoia" has not overtaken March Madness since 2001. The Hoosiers have not had a season on the brink since 2003.
This year, however, Georgetown grey, Houston red and Indiana crimson should be back in style come March Madness.
In his first year on his father's throne, John Thompson III all but made the "Princeton Offense" a misnomer. Though last season's Hoyas played at a pace marginally faster than did the Tigers, Georgetown scored more and gave up fewer points per possession than Princeton. Not only did last year's Hoyas shoot from behind the arc with greater accuracy than did the Tigers, Georgetown also distributed more assists per game than did Thompson's alma mater and former employer.
The result of the Hoyas' steep learning curve? Sixteen victories before Valentine's Day ... but only one conference win thereafter. Last year's club hit a wall, one that this year's edition will run right through.
Stud forward Brandon Bowman re-thought his early entry into the NBA draft and is back to score in bunches. Versatile Big East Co-Freshman of the Year Jeff Green returns to serve as a role model for young players everywhere; last year he shot 40 percent from behind the arc, 50 percent from the field and 70 percent from the charity stripe.
Senior point guard Ashanti Cook, a double-digit scorer, practiced with 7-2 center Roy Hibbert this summer, further acclimating each to the other's game. Hibbert, fast becoming a Thompson favorite, should be much more of a factor. Swingman Darrel Owens was granted an additional year of eligibility. After collecting nearly as many points in the Big East tournament and NIT as he did during the rest of the season, Owens could well be poised for a breakout campaign. Add four well-regarded recruits to the mix and the Hoyas have the makings of a Big East contender.
Need additional evidence that what's old is new at Georgetown? Pat Ewing Jr. recently opted to play for John Thompson III. (The school from which Ewing Jr. transferred? Indiana. The hometown of KRIV, the television station that first reported Pat's relocation? Houston).
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Synology Drive question.
Ok so I just want to make sure I'm not screwing things up with my Synology. I've installed Drive on two Synology. I want to be able to sync a couple of Shared folder between the two NAS. Currently, I'm using Shared folder Sync, which works fine, but is one way sync.
I want to do two things. One, use Drive to sync or backup a Remote Company NAS, to my Local Company NAS. This would be the same as what I currently have with Shared folder sync. The kicker is that ideally, I would need two-way sync so that I could connect my mac Drive client to the Local Company NAS, edit files, and have it sync back to the Remote NAS.
I've tried to setup a Team Shared folder in drive and get the following warning, which I don't understand.
"Please do not mount remote folders or virtual drives on the Team Folder you are about the sync".
The Remote Company NAS uses Shared Folder, which are than mounted at the remote site by about 10 users using AFP. I will NOT change how they work since this is the way it's been done at the company for like 25 years, so I'm sticking with what works.
So the warning about not mounting the drive leaves me on edge, do they mean I can't mount it on the Synology it self, like in File Station, mount drive? Or do they mean I can't have the Shared Folder mounted via AFP AND also use it in Drive? This is confusing. Maybe it's just the terminology they are using but I can't figure this out. And how do you "link" the two NAS together? I can't figure that one out either. On the client, I can't connect to different NAS, but on the NAS, how do I connect two team folder?
Also, is anybody doing this, the sync two NAS with Drive? how many files folders can you sync on a DS1813+? I can't find the info, it's like it's too old and the removed the info.
Hmm... good question. This sounds like the scenario that High Availability is built for, except that only works with two NAS models that exactly match.
As for using Drive on a folder that you're also connecting to directly via SMB (or AFP, or whatever), I've certainly done this without issue, and have never experienced any kind of error message.
Oddly, the only other place I can find that error/phrase mentioned is on in the Team Folder section of the Drive Management knowledgebase article: https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/help/SynologyDrive/drive_admin_console
Odd that this limitation would only specifically apply to Team Folders, but that's at least consistent with my experience: As I said, I've done this but never seen an error message of any kind.
I'm trying to think of what would be unique about Team Folders in this regard that would mean syncing and mounting simultaneously would cause issues. Nothing (yet?) comes to mind!
@davehamilton thanks for your feedback. I've figured out how to sync my two NAS. You have to enable Drive on the "Master" AND download Cloud Station ShareSync on the "slave" for it to work. Found an article that described the whole thing very well here. Still not sure about mounting the drive with AFP or SMB but I've seen a lot of picture where Synology refers to having a solution to sync different NAS, and still being able to work locally on them, so I'm assuming that they work by mounting the Network drives and not synching with Drive or Cloud Station on a local NAS. I've done a quick test with a empty shared folder, copied a couple of files and folders. The speed was abysmal at first because I had set it up with QuickConnect. So I started from scratch and made a connection with our fixed IP at work. That work super, great speed, faster than the VPN setup I have.
Now I'm waiting on the DS1819+ to be available and we'll buy that to speed things up:-)
Oh and I'm trying to move 6.5TB from one Shared Folder to another within the same Volume and its SUPER sloooooowwwwww. Anyway to speed things up? I just dragged the a folder from one to the other in a safari connected to the web interface, so it's not going through my Mac to do the move, don't know why it's so slow.
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i've 2 x terabyte difficult drives in my bay synology diskstation and after filling it with about 1.8tb or so it is announcing that it is full. This seems to me like one of the difficult drives is complete and the opposite is not being used at all.
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Alderman Walter Burnett, Jr. (27th Ward) and the West Loop Community Organization (WLCO) are hosting a Community Meeting for a proposed development at 123 S. Peoria.The proposed development is a new 79-foot-tall, 6-story residential building with 25 residential dwelling units and 25 automobile parking spaces.TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019AT 6:00 PMREVEL FULTON MARKET1215 WEST FULTON MARKET, CHICAGO, IL 60607
The developer will present its plans and answer any questions you may have about the project.
A Reminder on the Importance of Community Development MeetingsThe West Loop continues to experience a development boom within our community. Each development must undergo a public review process, which involves a presentation of the project to the community at an open meeting. Attendance and participation at these open meetings is crucial. It is an opportunity for the developer to hear the comments and concerns of the community, and it is a powerful format through which your voices can be heard.While we stream each meeting online, your presence at community development meetings is more impactful and meaningful to the developer presenting. Strong public input can change the course of a project, and we strive every day to represent the needs and goals of the West Loop community. Please consider attending and participating in community development meetings as frequently as possible. We email notifications about each review, and a listing of each event can be found at our online calendar. We look forward to see you there!Please contact Carla M. Agostinelli, Executive Director, at email@example.com or via telephone at 312.666.1991 with any comments, questions or concerns about the proposed development.
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The Leicester School of Architecture at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is part of an exciting new public lecture series launching on 26 January.
The Leicester School of Architecture is based in DMU's spectacular new Vijay Patel Building
The free 'City Series 2017' lecture programme will explore issues affecting our cities, including Leicester's urban planning journey.
The series is being organised by the Leicester Urban Observatory, a group of planning professionals and academics which includes DMU and Leicester City Council.
Leicester School of Architecture senior lecturer Neil Stacey, co-founder of the group, said: "Leicester Urban Observatory has been established as a collaborative forum with the intention of establishing Leicester as an important voice in the discussion of urban challenges and opportunities.
"Leicester has a history of quiet innovation in city planning and thinking. Amongst other things, the Observatory will do its bit to better champion that story and be at the forefront of the new chapters in that story.
"The Observatory's launch of 'City Series 2017' is an exciting development – we hope the first of many initiatives. This first lecture also offers an opportunity to visit City Hall and its new lecture theatre and associated spaces."
The iconic Leicester Clock Tower at the heart of the city
City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby, who is a former student of what is now a part of DMU, will deliver the first lecture in the series at City Hall in Charles Street, Leicester, LE1 1FZ, on Thursday, January 26, at 5.15pm.
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Sir Peter said: "This is an exciting collaboration that will bring together a wealth of local expertise in urban studies, architecture and Leicester's planning story and I am delighted to be giving the inaugural lecture.
"We have some outstanding experts across the three local universities and we are looking forward to working closely together to share learning with the wider community through this new series of public lectures."
The lecture will explore the historic and future development of Leicester. It is free to attend but places are limited and must be booked in advance.
Architecture at DMU has achieved unconditional revalidation from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and is ranked in the top 10 for research quality in The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2017.
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Yup. I'm stalling. Honestly part of it is the fact that for a few weeks now I've had a lot of pain, and today is the first day it's down to a mild roar. I don't want to get swept up working and find myself hurting later.
So where have I been? Well Let's see since the last post I've been busy. A project has consumed a lot of time, and I am working on a slew of others right now but work, pain, work, sick fam, work, pain, stress, tired. So – semi normal 😀
Honestly lately I haven't done much in the way of relaxing doing something other than computers. It's been work or on my back lately, but I have been wanting to write. So later this month maybe a birthday post? Silly post? Still not 100% sure what I want to write, but I'd like to write. So we shall see what happens.
Re-themed things a bit, but all in all, probably won't fiddle too much unless inspiration hits! So for now, stalling stops, and back to it! Happy February!


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Reuben Kindred is a second-generation coffee roaster, national barista champion and the former head roaster at Industry Beans. Together with his business partner Nikki – who also happens to be his mum – Kindred has opened Methodist Coffee, a new roaster and cafe on Burwood Road.
"The quaint, country image people conjure up when they hear about a family-owned cafe, with the mum rolling pies out back – that is something we definitely don't want," Nikki says. "We've gone from a mum and son connection to simply becoming really good friends. We're really serious about what we do and there's a genuine sense of professionalism."
The Kindreds enlisted Andrew Grantham, former head chef at Melbourne's Bistrot d'Orsay, to run the food program. The menu ranges from the decadent – try the buttermilk chicken and rosemary cheese waffle – to lighter options such as a citrus-cured ocean trout with green pea fritters.
Reuben has been roasting coffee since he was 15 years old – his father owned a small roaster in Launceston, where he grew up.
"Every morning I would go out there and smell the green coffee," he told Broadsheet in July. "I was drinking coffee from about 12 years old. Me and my sister would go around Launceston and have a shot of espresso and a latte and people would look at us like, 'What the fuck?' We loved it. I was probably a bit young to start drinking coffee in hindsight, but I think it worked out alright."
The Kindreds took nearly two years to settle on a location and build it out – they were looking for a space that would be big enough to house the roastery, while also providing a warm, welcoming space for customers.
They eventually chose a heritage-listed, 300-square-metre building in Hawthorn, which would allow the pair to showcase the coffee-roasting journey from roast to cup.
Customers can wander through the immaculate, white-walled cafe and into the roastery, where they're encouraged to ask as many questions as they want – Reuben is happy to talk all day about what he calls a "gift from the gods".
The cafe is "a quiet, warm and vibrant area where customers can sit back and relax," Reuben says. "But then you go out back to our roastery, and that's where people can see the real technical side of the process."
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Report Published: "EVs, EV Component & EV Infrastructure Market - Global Forecast to 2021"
Fast Market Research announces the availability of the new Markets and Markets report, "EVs, EV Component & EV Infrastructure Market - Global Forecast to 2021 ", on their comprehensive research portal
Boston, MA -- (SBWire) -- 03/09/2017 --EVs, EV Component & EV Infrastructure Market by Govt. Regulation, Vehicle Type, Components (Battery, On-Board Charger, Infotainment System, Instrument Cluster), Propulsion (BEV, PHEV, HEV, FCEV), Recharging Station, and Region - Global Forecast to 2021
"Availability of government support such as subsidies and tax rebates, increasing consumer awareness, increasing vehicle range and low charging time has driven the demand for EVs globally"
EV sales is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 20.68% to reach 5.76 million unit by 2021. Government subsidies and tax rebates, variety of EV models, increasing vehicle range and improving charging infrastructure are the factors responsible for the growth of in sales of EVs.
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Electric passenger car segment is the fastest growing segment
Electric passenger cars are the fastest growing segment in the EV market as they are showing a significant growth as compared to the commercial vehicle segment. Availability of broad range of models, upgraded technology, increasing customer awareness and availability of subsidies and tax rebates are the major factors driving the market.
Asia-Pacific dominates the EV market in terms of sales
The Asia-Pacific is the largest market for the EVs followed by North America. Existing grants and subsides, tax rebates, and availability of charging infrastructure are contributing to the growth in EV sales in this region. Japan and China are emerging as the biggest markets for EVs and production and many OEMs have setup production facilities to cater to the growing demand.
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Hamas, the Palestinian islamist group is begging for donations in Bitcoin inorder to survive the financial isolation and deprivation its suffering from due to the economic sanctions slapped on it by the US and Israel.
A Hamas representative accused of Israel of attempting to cut off funding from the group from sources all over the world.
In a plea to their supporters all around the world, the Hamas rep said "Support the resistance financially through the Bitcoin currency,"
The Times of Israel went on to Mock the plea by Hamas by jokingly reporting that "There was no immediate reply from Bitcoin,"
The pleas by Hamas were precipitated by the Palestinian National Authority (interim body that governs the west bank and Gaza strip-cut off much of its funding to the strip.
A tweet from a Hamas rep Ahmad Matar read;
"#Hamas invites the ppl around the world to support #Gaza by sending Bitcoin in order to break the Israeli siege since 13 years "
Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni-islamist network funded mainly by Iran. The funding has been drying up though, since Iran is going through some financial turbulence of her own due to crippling sanctions imposed on it by the US.
In response to the sanctions, Iran is now looking at crypto as a possible avenue for financial freedom. Iran is now using crypto-currencies with a state-backed crypto reportedly set to be unveiled, and is also mining Bitcoin, in an attempt to go around the sanctions.
The Bitcoin plea by Hamas has pumped widespread belief among those outside the crypto community, that virtual currencies are mainly used for illegal activity such as tax-evasion, money laundering, and terrorism financing.
A 2017 report from the University of Technology Sydney Business School stated that "Bitcoin has become the PayPal of the dark web," an assertion that was quickly countered by Quebec government's Chief scientist's office. The chief scientist said;
Bitcoin is not above the law, nor is it a magnet for illicit transactions. It forms only a tiny part of the criminal money circulating around the planet. The reason: it is less attractive for anyone who wants to make transactions without leaving a trace.
The assertion that Bitcoin as well as other virtual currencies are illegitimate will only be fueled further by this plea from Hamas. My take is that pro-Israeli crypto cynics may just cite this as another reason why crypto is not to be trusted.
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An annual fundraiser for an Ohio town's youth football and cheerleading teams is making headlines after a concerned mom spoke out when her three daughters were asked to sell tickets for a gun raffle. This year's second-place prize is a semi-automatic AM-15 rifle.
Heather Chilton told local news outlet WCPO that she felt it was inappropriate for her daughters — ages 7, 8 and 10 — to be promoting a gun raffle, particularly in light of the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. The latter city is just over an hour-long drive from her home in New Richmond, Ohio.
"They should do brownie bakes and cakes and bikes and 'Go Team,'" she told the station of the New Richmond Junior Lions fundraiser, which is intended to cover the cost of uniforms and equipment. "Not, 'Hey, you want to buy a gun? I know I'm only 7 years old, but that's what we're selling!'"
"They should just be able to be kids," she added.
And while she and her husband are gun owners, the latest news headlines have given her pause.
"I had the tickets laying there, I was watching the news, and they asked if these mass shootings were becoming a sport," she said. "And I'm looking at these gun raffles that my little girls are supposed to sell, and I'm thinking, 'This can't be right.'"
In a separate interview with Fox 19, Chilton expressed her fears about having her family linked to the gun.
"This is absurd, you're having elementary kids sell your AR-15. Why?" Chilton said. "I highly doubt that something would happen with the gun, but say it did. Say one of the kids in the high school got a hold of it — got the AR-15 or AM-15 and shot up a school with it, and I'm the one that sold the raffle ticket to his dad?"
Robert Wooten, president of the New Richmond Junior Lions Football-Cheer Program, told Chilton that her daughters could opt out of selling the tickets. But the prize of a rifle will remain, as it has for the past four years. He told WCPO that the winner will be subject to an FBI background check.
But Chilton would like to see the gun raffle be shut down rather than have it associated with a group of young girls. Wooten said the league may consider that for next year.
"I'm sure they do all the appropriate things," she said of the potential winner. "That's not the point. The point is that our little girls should have nothing to do with it, period. They should be cheerleaders."
Chilton's story has elicited strong opinions on both sides of the gun control debate. Some praised the mom for speaking out.
"If I had the means, I would buy every ticket just so I could destroy the grand prize," wrote a Facebook commenter. "This is absolutely disgusting!"
"I'm as pro-gun as they come but this is not an appropriate raffle item," read another comment.
Others accused Chilton of sabotaging the fundraiser, with cheerleading coaches and other parents offering to sell raffle tickets to those who disagree with her stance.
"As a mother who has children who are a part of the CCYFL, our team has been selling raffles for a firearm for some time now," one mom wrote. "Not sure why this is such BIG NEWS! I feel the world we live in now someone is going to get butt hurt. Here is a SIMPLE thing, if you do not agree to the fundraiser then SIMPLY do not partake in it and just make a donation to your team!"
"You sell your gift basket tickets, and I will sell the gun tickets, and we will see who makes the most money," added another commenter. "Just a tool that a lot of people would love to have."
Yahoo Lifestyle was not immediately successful in its attempt to locate Chilton for contact.
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It's great to have Bison back in Calgary, though they aren't the hairy four-legged ones. Bison B.C. is a band who can appreciate mosh pits while still seeing the value in something less traditional like a hug pit, head-banging and high fives.
Being in Bison probably saved the guys from having typical white picket fence lives and working somewhere nine to five. Their music is about struggle in society and the world and the inner struggles they've had. They aren't a Norwegian Black Metal band with crazy feuds or just an act.
"Absolutely everyone is entitled to be into what they're into and that's fine but it's not my kind of thing," guitarist Dan And says. "I'm not trying to slag anyone but sometimes a lot of people take a lot of things too seriously. It is what it is and it's just music at the end of the day."
Made up of And, James Farwell, Masa Anzai and Brad Mackinnon, the group plays crossover metal and has a bit of everything. Sometimes they like to think of it as doom thrash just to give it a name. A wide range of backgrounds and inspiration ranging from punk to classical gives Bison B.C. an equally wide range of sound and style.
The group has become well-known for the bearded cyclists in plaid who follow them around their home province of British Columbia.
"We just happen to have a lot of friends who are bike couriers and a lot of them just happen to have beards and plaid shirts," And explains. "I think it's just one of those cities that you can pretty much just ride your bike all year. It's a pretty bike heavy city."
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Four men were injured after a masked gunman opened fire inside a barbershop in the Logan section of Philadelphia on Thursday night.
It happened around 7 p.m. inside Jay's Shear Magic located on the 4500 block of N. Broad Street.
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Borrego Springs, Calif. , April 14, 2015 (Newswire.com) - In the desert, one thing is certain – sunshine is never hard to find. So when upscale Borrego Springs resort La Casa del Zorro sought a way to improve sustainability practices throughout its 42-acre property, leveraging the power of the sun was a natural choice. The hotel recently completed a two-month, $150,000 "solar farm" development, the first of two major projects to advance energy independence and more eco-friendly initiatives for the iconic hideaway.
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