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Are you thinking of doing a bus travel in Ecuador? When I first arrived in Ecuador and took a day bus to Mindo, I was shocked to find my beloved Canon G7 missing from my backpack even though I'd been keeping a very watchful eye on my bag.
Six years later, while sitting at a foreigner-friendly café in La Floresta, I overhear people lamenting over lost possessions all the time.
Petty theft is, unfortunately, a part of life in Ecuador, especially if you're a tourist (aka a walking target…).
Especially if you travel by bus and don't quite know the tricks to staying safe in Ecuador.
And, while bus travel through Ecuador has its "ugly" side, for every drawback you might encounter, there are innumerable benefits to journeying onwards and exploring this incredible land.
In the following blog, we'll discuss some of the pros and cons to bus travel in Ecuador, ways to mitigate disaster, as well as an excellent alternative to bus travel in Ecuador that EVERY traveler should know about.
As a travel company in Ecuador, Wanderbus has no interest in scaring visitors off with stories of theft and safety hazards. We adamantly believe Ecuador is a safe travel destination.
That said, we must also acknowledge the risks that do exist, especially those associated with bus travel in Ecuador.
If you're planning to travel by bus, be weary about your documents (passport), money and valuable possessions in bus terminals and buses. These are the places where you're most likely to "lose" items.
In bus terminals, there's usually a lot of commotion and it's easy to get distracted, providing a perfect opportunity for opportunistic individuals. If you're ever at a bus terminal, try to be alert, erring on the side of paranoia, for a while at least!
Don't slip your phone into your back pocket, always keep it in a pocket with a zipper and, if possible, in your hand (inside your pocket).
Don't take out large bills. Keep a $10 and a few coins handy. Whatever else you have should be stashed away deep in your pocket or money belt.
Don't take out cameras, passport or anything else of value while in public.
Always keep your bags with you, even if you're going to the bathroom.
Don't assume your possessions are safer on you. Sometimes things are safer in the storage compartment below.
If you have a typical backpacker's backpack, consider camouflaging your bag by wrapping it in a trash bag or putting it in a regular looking duffel bag.
Although this should be avoided, if you bring a smaller bag (or other possession) onto the bus, place it in the above storage compartment, across the aisle and a few seats ahead of you so you have a clear view of your bag during the trip.
If the bus starts to get too crowded (people standing in the middle aisle), your bag is safer in your hands, but NOT below your seat.
From Quito, there are two main bus terminals: Quitumbe and Carcelén.
Quitumbe is a larger terminal in the South of Quito and over 120 bus companies depart from here to dozens of destinations around Ecuador (and internationally) on a daily basis.
If you're not sure which terminal to go to, go to Quitumbe. You might have to wander around for a while and even wait for several hours, in some cases, but you'll eventually get on a bus to your destination.
Here's a likely outdated bus schedule for Quitumbe.
Carcelen is located in the North of Quito and is a much smaller bus terminal with fewer companies and destinations, but it's much less chaotic and still offers a variety of options.
Here's a likely outdated bus schedule for Carcelén.
The disadvantage to all of this is that you can't purchase any tickets in advance or online.
Even the most popular bus companies, like TransEsmeraldas, don't let you reserve your ticket by phone. You literally have to go to the bus terminal to buy your ticket, and since both of these terminals are all the way north or south, you'll probably end up waiting around until your bus departs. Waiting around in a bus terminal is not only uncomfortable, but increases exposure to safety risks.
In a recent Q&A interview, Wanderbus Owner and Founder Nico Ponce described Ecuador's transportation system as "geared to locals", not tourists.
From Carcelén or Quitumbe you can basically get ANYWHERE you need to by bus. However, most tourists want to get to specific destinations, like the entrance to a National Park or a small surfer town.
Though you'll get there eventually, the journey may require hopping on/off 4 different buses and long waits in isolated bus terminals at ungodly hours. I won't comment on the potential state of the bathrooms.
Ecuador is probably one of the cheapest countries in South America to visit and travel through by bus. For every hour on a bus, you're paying around $1-$1.50.
In fact, it's so cheap, traveling by bus through Ecuador is usually worth the chaos and wait times at the bus terminals (That is, until your phone gets stolen!).
Bus travel in Ecuador is SO cheap, you'll probably spend more money getting to the bus terminal by taxi than getting from the bus terminal to your destination.
I think I've made my point: It's cheap, so take advantage of it!
Travelers come in all shapes and sizes, and the ones that travel by bus are, by far, the coolest.
Some travelers land at the airport only to hop on another plane to get to their next destination. They buy luxury, packaged tours and never interact with local Ecuadorians (apart from their guide). These travelers aren't really experiencing Ecuador or departing from their comfort zone.
Then there are those that dive in deep. They're picking up new phrases in Spanish or Quechua, they're eating street food (#sorrynotsorry) and traveling to all their destinations by bus. By doing so, they're defying their comfort zone and experiencing the real Ecuador.
Bus travel in Ecuador lends itself to a more authentic experience, despite the associated risks. By traveling by bus, you're exposing yourself to uncomfortable experiences and interactions, but you're also accessing conversations and friendships you might otherwise never experience.
Traveling by bus frees you of responsibility. Yes, it can be annoying sometimes, but who cares?! All you have to worry about is where your stuff is and what you put in your mouth (referring to street food, again).
If you were to rent a car, you'd be concerned about how to get to your destination, where to park and what to do if it gets robbed. Whereas, if your bus breaks down, you'll probably grumble and then just get on the next bus.
While you're on the bus, you have time to spare. You can read, journal or talk to the person next to you. And by bus, you can get to almost ANY destination. In Ecuador, the government is required to provide transportation wherever there is a community of families. And since there are people almost everywhere, there are buses almost everywhere.
A certain degree of flexibility may be required to travel by bus, but ultimately, it's a liberating, responsibility-free experience.
Now it's time to weigh some of these pros and cons.
Actually, what if I told you there was a wanderful alternative you wouldn't be able to pass up that will give you the best of both worlds?
The Wanderbus addresses nearly all the problem areas around bus travel for tourists in Ecuador. It provides a safe, hassle-free experience while also getting you directly to your top destinations.
You can book online to skip wait times and, most importantly, you'll still have an authentic Ecuadorian experience. On the Wanderbus, you'll visit markets, eat cheap, regular food and interact with locals. That is, if you want. You can also just keep to yourself while still taking advantage of this affordable, safe bus travel option.
Forget about having to look over your shoulder while hanging around bus terminals for hours on end. The Wanderbus has a handful of centrally located hop on/hop off locations in each city, saving you time and stress.
Safe. Convenient. Fun. Have we sparked your curiosity?
Check out some of the Wanderbus passes here to see if it fits with your travel plans.
Hi Chuck, this is Diego from the Wanderbus Team. If you like train travel, you should definitely want to check the Devils Nose Train Adventure, check our article: 5 things you should know before riding and feel free to chat with our team if you need any assistance planning your trip.


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(For the 1929 talkie see The Isle of Lost Ships (1929 film))

The Isle of Lost Ships is a 1923 American silent adventure/melodrama film directed and produced by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by Associated First National Pictures. The film is based on Crittenden Marriott's novel The Isle of Dead Ships c.1909. The story was re-filmed in 1929 by director Irvin Willat.

Tourneur himself made a different story with similar theme called The Ship of Lost Souls (1929) which had a young German actress, Marlene Dietrich, in the cast.

The 1923 film has long since been thought to be lost.

Cast
Anna Q. Nilsson as Dorothy Fairfax
Milton Sills as Frank Howard
Frank Campeau as Detective Jackson
Walter Long as Peter Forbes
Bert Woodruff as Patrick Joyce
Aggie Herring as Mother Joyce
Herschel Mayall as Captain Clark

Story
People and ships trapped in seaweed infested section of the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the Sargasso Sea.

See also
List of lost films
 The Lost Continent (1968). Also set in the Sargasso Sea.

References

External links

L'lle des Naivres Perdus (The Isle of Lost Ships); allmovie.com
Lantern slide for The Isle of Lost Ships...retrieved version from Wayback (archived)
Consortium of advertisements for the film, lobby poster, slide, issue of Photoplay magazine

1923 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Maurice Tourneur
Lost American films
1920s adventure drama films
First National Pictures films
Films based on American novels
Films about survivors of seafaring accidents or incidents
American adventure drama films
1923 drama films
1920s American films
Silent American drama films
Silent adventure drama films

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Steven Lester has worked as a commercial sports illustrator, advertising art director, and creative director for more than four decades. A few years before his recent retirement from that career, he began focusing on his own paintings. His sports background has led to projects for the Georgia State University Stadium, REI Co-op, and the American Sports Art Museum. Steven also attended seminary and pastored churches, pioneering numerous ministry-related initiatives.


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Padrón: The Origin of the Jacobean Legend
Very close to Santiago, Padrón
Very close to Santiago
Very close to Santiago: Padrón
Duration: Half-day tour
Itinerary: Padrón - Iria Flavia - A Escravitude - Bastavales
Description: Padrón is the first place name that appears in the Jacobean legend. In Padrón's old town, it is worth visiting –apart from its "rúas" or streets- the "Pedrón" (large stone) that is mentioned in the legend, where the Apostle's boat was moored, the Convent of El Carmen, with a viewpoint overlooking the town, and the house of the Romantic poetess Rosalía de Castro. The route is marked by two rivers, the Sar and the Ulla, and by their pleasant and productive "vegas" or meadows, where the famous Pimientos de Padrón (small green peppers) are cultivate.
Padrón-Iria Flavia-A Escravitude-Bastavales
Padrón is the place where it all allegedly started, the first place-name to appear in Galicia's most fundamental legend: the Jacobean. It has left its imprint on the sanctuaries, on the names of places and on the very atmosphere of this land.
The route is marked by two rivers, the Sar and the Ulla, on the confluence of which is the town of Padrón, known for its fertile and productive vegas, where the exquisite and celebrated Padrón peppers grow.
The town of Padrón, 20 kilometers from Santiago, has always had very strong ties with Compostela. It seems possible the name may come from 'pedrón' (big stone), a rock where they would have tied the boat that allegedly brought the Apostle's body from Palestine to the coasts of Galicia. The Sar, the river of Compostela, is also the river of Padrón, so they are both linked by this stretch of water. For its nearness to the mouth of the Ulla, Padrón was during the Middle Ages an unavoidable stop for Compostelans heading for the sea, and also the port of entry for pilgrims arriving by it. Given its location between Santiago, Pontevedra and the ría of Arousa, Padrón is since Roman times a crucial point of the Galician road network.
One inescapable visit is the Casa Museo de Rosalía de Castro in the ouskirts of the town, opposite Padrón train station. It is also known as Casa da Matanza. The poetess Rosalía de Castro, the most important figure of Galician letters, spent the last years of her life there. Apart from memories of the writer, the house offers the opportunity to get acquainted with the interiors of the areas traditional architecture.
Only a couple of kilometers from the house of Rosalía is the Franciscan convent of Herbón. The monastery is next to a leafy oakwood and the river Ulla, famous for its lamprey, trout and salmon. From Herbón came the first pimientos de Padrón, (Padrón peppers) which were apparently brought from Mexico by Franciscan monks in the sixteenth century. These small green peppers are one of the best known products of Galician gastronomy, and the saying goes, roughly translated, 'some are hot, and some are not'.
Next to the writer's house are the artistic and botanical gardens, pride of the Padronese.
Padrón, originally a medieval town, still has the charm of the past lingering in its corners: the pazo of the Bishop of Quito, plaza de Macías O Namorado (El Enamorado in Spanish), a legendary local troubadour who died at the hands of the angry husband of the object of the impossible love he was wailing about.
The pedrón that the Jacobean legend mentions is under the altar of the parish church of Santiago, commissioned by the archbishop of Compostela, Xelmírez, and which stands on the banks of the river. Just opposite, the Espolón, a treed promenade along the Sar which every Sunday is busy with a much visited fair, proudly offering among other articles the best fruit and vegetables from the orchards and gardens of Padrón.
Crossing by the Santiago bridge, the fountain fuente del Carmen is reached. On its arch, carved in stone, the boat in which the disciples transported the body of the Apostle. Following the steep stone pavement we reach the convento del Carmen, erected upon the granite rock of the slopes of monte de San Gregorio. The church, all that can be seen, is distinguished and beautiful. From the atrium, a planimetric view of Padrón and its surrounding area.
Iria Flavia, A Escravitude and Bastavales
Iria Flavia is a strongly evocative place-name, yet one that is difficult to explain. Quite close to Padrón, it was the seat of the bishopric until it was moved to Santiago in the eleventh century. Santa María de Adina is today a parish church. The pyramid-shaped towers and the façade, a combination of Romanesque and Gothic styles, speak of its past splendor.
In the area surrounding the church, and outdoors, there are interesting anthropomorphic sepulchres from the time of the domination of the Suevi. The graveyard of Iria, next to the church, was faithfully described in nostalgic terms by poetess Rosalía de Castro. The remains of another great writer rest here: Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela, a son of Iria Flavia.
In front of the parochial temple, an interesting group of eighteenth century buildings known as Casa de los Canónigos, contains the small Museo de Arte Sacra de Iria Flavia, John Trulock's train museum and the Camilo José Cela foundation, with different memorabilia and personal belongings of the author. In the garden are the locomotives Sarita and Sestao, pioneers upon the rail network of Galicia.
The sanctuary of A Escravitude, marking the limit of the lands of Padrón, looks over the road almost like a watchtower. Legend has it that an ill man on his way to Compostela was suddenly cured after drinking water from this fountain. Thankful, he praised the Virgin for freeing him from "the slavery" of his ailment, which explains the name of the place. This beautiful building, a combination of baroque and neoclassical, was built to watch over the miraculousfountain that is at its feet.
On the right side of the temple there is an uncommon village of small lined up and almost homogenous houses peering into a single street, and that leads to a hillock from which you can see the fertile banks of the river Sar. On the left, there is a path that leads to a small and solitary parish church, with a Romanesque apse. From this raised platform, another panoramic view of the area.
The valle de Bastavales, green, smooth looking and fertile, is presided by the slender baroque tower of the church of San Xulián, immortalized like all of these lands by the romantic Rosalía de Castro: Bells of Bastavales / When I hear you toll / I die of solitude...

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Dynaudio Unveils Its First Intelligent Wireless Multi-room Music System – MUSIC
New Dynaudio family of four stylish speakers automatically adapts to your taste, home and lifestyle
Singapore, @mcgallen #microwireinfo, September 13, 2018 – Dynaudio, renowned for its heritage of handcrafted high-end loudspeakers for professional recording studios, cars, and living rooms, launches Music – a family of four intelligent wireless speakers with one-touch simplicity. Each of these speakers adapts seamlessly and automatically to any room or position, and to ambient noise levels for music to always sound pristine. They can also intuitively personalise playlists featuring only the music you love, at the touch of a button.
Intelligent Performance Optimisation Anywhere in the Room
The built-in RoomAdapt technology senses where you place the speaker, whether it is in a corner, against a rear wall, or in free space, then automatically adjusts itself to each new position and optimises performance to always deliver the best sound possible. You can now move your music whenever and wherever you want. RoomAdapt is not simply a "loudness" control or bass-cut filter. The technology optimises volume and tone simultaneously, sensing the room through an on-board microphone and calibrating as it is moved.
Essential musical details will always be clear too, thanks to NoiseAdapt. Even when conversations get louder, the room gets noisier andthe speaker volume is low, there is no need to turn up the volume or tweak the tone controls to hear tunes properly – the important details in your songs always shine through. Sudden silence? It can handle that too, without you touching a remote control of fiddling with any button.
These are all based on Dynaudio's expertise in DSP (digital signal processing), gained from researching and developing high-end active speakers, professional studio set-ups and cutting-edge in-car hi-fi systems.
Intelligent playlists
The accompanying free app for iOS and Android uses Dynaudio's sophisticated MusicNow algorithm to learn up to five users' musical tastes and play automatically generated playlists with one touch of a button on the speaker.
It means there is no need to scroll through endless playlists, only to get bored trying to find something to listen to. It is just like turning on a radio – and the station is guaranteed to play music you want to hear. (The added benefit? No unwanted dialogue from DJs.)
Each Music speaker has five presets. These can be filled with anything accessible from the app: Smart MusicNow playlists (from multiple user profiles), internet radio stations, albums, artists and more. Online content from selected services can be accessed straight from the app too, making things even more convenient. Now, whenever you want music, all you need to do is press the button on the speaker.
All four speakers in the Music family are active (each driver has a dedicated high-performance class-D amplifier specifically tuned to match it), and they all have slightly different features to suit different lifestyles and situations.
Traditional Dynaudio craftsmanship
All the speakers use Dynaudio's proprietary MSP cone material in their woofers and midrange drivers. MSP has the ideal combination of stiffness, light weight and excellent internal damping to produce music without distortion. The same material is used across the entire product family in Dynaudio, right up to the range-topping Evidence Platinum series. Their soft-dome tweeters are based on Dynaudio's high-endspeakers, tuned by the same team that works on its "money-no-object" hi-fi speakers and "zero-compromise" pro studio systems.
Music 1 (S$849 incl. GST) is battery and mains-powered. It has one 4-inch woofer and a 1-inch soft-dome tweeter. Total power is 80W (each driver has its own 40W amplifier), and its battery lasts up to eight hours. Bring it anywhere!
Music 3 (S$1,099 incl. GST) is battery and mains-powered. It has one 5-inch woofer and two 1-inch soft-dome tweeters. Total power is 120W (each driver has its own 40W amplifier), its battery lasts up to eight hours, and the unit comes with a remote control. Bring it anywhere!
Music 5 (S$1,349 incl. GST) is mains-powered. It has one 5-inch woofer, two 3-inch midrange drivers and two 1-inch soft-dome tweeters. It delivers a total of 250W (each driver has its own 50W amplifier), and the unit comes with a remote control.
Music 7 (S$1,649 incl. GST) is mains-powered. It has two 5-inch woofers, two 3-inch midrange drivers and two 1-inch soft-dome tweeters. Total power is 300W (each driver has its own 50W amplifier), and the unit comes with a remote control.
All the speakers in the family can stream via Wi-Fi, aptX Bluetooth and Apple AirPlay (AirPlay 2-ready), and can access DLNA devices on your home networks. They all have USB inputs for iOS audio and charging iOS devices, and can accept 3.5 mm analogue inputs. The Music 5 and Music 7 add digital optical inputs to the mix (both support signals up to 24-bit/96kHz), while the Music 7 has an HDMI connector with Audio Return Channel to turn it into a soundbar.
Up to six speakers can be connected at a time and arranged into multi-room groups, or controlled individually from the Dynaudio app.
Each model is available in Dark Grey, Red and Blue. With high quality, 3-dimensional cloth finish custom-made by the acclaimed Danish textile house Gabriel, the speakers look different in different lighting and from different angles. The family of Music speakers are constructed from honest, high-quality materials, including a one-piece brushed aluminium surround on the Music 5 and Music 7. It is a product built to last, both in terms of style and wear-and-tear. Both the Music 5 and Music 7 can be wall-mounted using a dedicated steel wall- bracket.
And that design? It is quintessentially Danish, high quality and innovative as you would expect from Dynaudio, plus some added inspiration from origami, traditional Chinese boat sails and even stealth fighter jets.
Malte Köhn, Design Director of Dynaudio sums up the look of the product, "Everyone can make a box and put it somewhere in the house, but making a product that looks nice on the table from all angles is really difficult."
The entire range is now available at AV One Showroom (1 Coleman Street, #01-01/10/21/22, The Adelphi, Singapore 179803) and Stereo (68 Orchard Road, Plaza Singapura, #04-06, Singapore 238839). For a limited time, each new Music speaker comes nine months of free TIDAL streaming.
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About Dynaudio
Dynaudio was founded in 1977 in Skanderborg, Denmark. Today, Dynaudio is recognised as one of the leading manufacturers of high quality audio systems and one of the world's most distinguished high-end audio companies. Dynaudio develops and manufactures dedicated audio systems for the professional markets as well as car audio and home audio consumer loudspeaker products at the company's state-of-the-art facility in Denmark. Dynaudio is particularly recognised for its advanced driver technology designed, engineered, and continuously developed in-house, and its furniture-grade, handcrafted Danish cabinetry.
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Parachelifer hubbardi es una especie de arácnido del orden Pseudoscorpionida de la familia Cheliferidae.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Arizona (Estados Unidos).

Referencias

Hubbardi
Arácnidos de Estados Unidos


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Texas Migrant Facility Was Severely Overcrowded, AP Reporter Says
NOEL KING, HOST:
What is it like inside of the facilities where thousands of children who traveled alone to the U.S. border are being held? Yesterday, the Biden administration let a small group of journalists into a Customs and Border Protection facility in Donna, Texas. It opened last month, and this is the first time the media has been allowed inside Elliot Spagat is a correspondent with The Associated Press. He was there, and he joins us now from McAllen, Texas. Good morning, Elliot.
ELLIOT SPAGAT: Good morning, Noel.
KING: What did you see yesterday inside this facility?
SPAGAT: Lots of people, lots of kids. This was a facility designed for 250 children under CDC guidelines, and it had 4,100 people, 3,400 of those were unaccompanied children and the other - the rest - the other 700 were parents with their children. We just saw just some numbers. I mean, more than 600 in one room, people, children, unaccompanied children in a space for 25 people - 32 people. Excuse me. So this is - these are just, you know, walls. And you'll remember in the Trump administration, the Obama administration, there were chain-link fences. They have plastic walls, partitions, separating people. But what really struck me is just how close together they were.
It was - I had visited personally one place in 2018. And it was, you know, they're very - the conditions were very cramped, but nothing like this. And this is, of course, just what I saw. I don't know what was going on that I didn't see, but just a lot of kids sitting very, you know, inches together, inches apart with foil blankets sitting on the ground and really doing nothing. They were just kind of listless, not a lot of energy. Of course, they can't - you can't do much, you know. We can't play or run around.
The doors were open, we were told by the Border Patrol, but there was really no where to go, just the hallway. There's a sort of a hallway where this plastic partitions lead out to. And it was packed when I was there with a lot of, you know, children getting ready to go to lunch. So that's what we saw and sort of the main - that was what's most striking. But there was also another area for tender age children. This is 3 to 9 roughly. So there was an - there was a little more room. It was like a walled playpen that had more room than you saw in what I just - the place I just described. But 11-year-old boy caring for his 3-year-old sister, a 17-year-old mom with a newborn, so these were just, you know, just much younger kids, very sensitive. And those were the main things we saw.
We also saw - the rest of it was really was a giant facility with, you know, white - these huge white tents. And it looked, the Border Patrol official described, like a conveyor belt. This is outside of the areas I just described. You get in and they check you in and move you from one place to another, kind of like a - some of these rooms reminded me of, like, a DMV facility where you just have a lot of people, a lot of children, waiting on these metal benches. And then they get called up to the table. There's a plastic shield due to COVID separating them from the agent. And they get - kids who are 14 and up get their fingerprints and photos taken, those who are younger don't. And they just kind of go through. They get their court papers, notices to appear in court. They get asked about their - any health issues, asked if they have any suicidal thoughts. There is no COVID testing unless you're symptomatic.
KING: OK. Elliot, in the seconds we have left - and I wish we had more time - did you talk to any of the kids?
SPAGAT: No, we didn't talk to the kids. We did speak with the Border Patrol agent but not the children, no.
KING: Elliot Spagat of The Associated Press. Elliot, thanks for your time this morning. We appreciate it.
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Home > Focus > Judith Estrin: Closing the Innovation Gap
Judith Estrin: Closing the Innovation Gap
by Jeff Ubois [1], 30 January 2009
Judith Estrin is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy, the Chief Executive Officer of JLabs LLC in Menlo Park, Calif., and serves on the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation.
Best known for her work as an entrepreneur, and for her tenure as Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems, Closing the Innovation Gap focuses on systemic approaches to improving and protecting the eco-system of innovation.
In this wide ranging interview, Estrin explains how business and political leaders can embrace policies that embody the values associated with innovation - openness, risk, questioning, persistence, and trust. And she warns that recent changes in business and government practice are putting innovation in the U.S. at risk.
Ubois: What led you to write the book?
Estrin: I had a growing concern that started out focused on the entrepreneurial ecosystem here in the Valley, as well as the broader business community that I was exposed to through my board seats. There was increasing pressure for business people to focus on shorter and shorter term innovation, more incremental innovation, less disruptive innovation. I believe you need both: you need disruptive innovation to kick off new economic cycles, and to solve some of the really major problems we have, but usually the initial innovation is rough and needs incremental innovation to improve on soluctions and extend market cycles.
Many people say to me, "Judy, there's innovation all over the place," but I say, "Yes, but we have an innovation deficit, in that we are reaping the benefits of seeds that were planted 10, 20, 30 years ago. And we are not planting seeds at the right rate to be able to have ongoing, sustainable innovation."
So, my focus was more about what I call sustainable innovation, which is the ability for a person, a company, a country, the world to have the type of environment that allows them to have a capacity for change, an ongoing innovative environment. It applies to businesses, but it also applies to individuals and society.
Ubois: There many definitions of innovation. Can you define what you mean by innovation, and talk a bit about the factors that influence innovation?
Estrin: Many people's definition of innovation does actually not include basic science, yet I think basic science and research is such a fundamental cornerstone of innovation that I decided that I needed to - we as a society and as business leaders and as government, needed a common language to describe innovation more broadly.
So there were really two key constructs in the book as part of that framework. One is the notion that we should think about innovation as an ecosystem with three communities: research community, development, and application. The key part of that is it's not a line, it's not research - development - application. It is a circle, and they all interact with each other.
Communities of innovation (research, development, application) in the context of a broader environment (leadership, culture, education, policy, and funding).
Five environmental factors influence innovation: leadership, funding, policy, education and culture. And of those, leadership and culture are the most important because if you have the right leadership, you end up with the right funding, policy and education. Innovation is this interesting combination of top down and bottom up in the right way. Leadership needs to set out grand challenges, inspire, rally, and then, make sure that the environment removes barriers to innovation.
In the end, innovation is bottom up, it comes from individuals. And so, the culture is really, really important. So, that was one part of the construct.
Ubois: You spend a lot of time examining the values embraced by innovative persons and organizations.
Estrin: I started to think about what really makes an innovative culture? How can I describe the right soil, the right culture for innovation? Is there a way to explain the Gestalt behind innovation? That's where I came up with this notion that there are five core values. Everybody I interviewed, every company I've built or been part of, everybody I've met who is really innovative as a leader or as an individual contributor, has these values. It may seem simplistic, but they really encompass what you need.
Ubois: Let's step through those - Questioning, Risk, Openness, Patience, and Trust.
Estrin: Let me say three things about questioning. One is that curiosity drives innovation. That's the most obvious part of this core value; people know that innovation usually starts with how can I do this better, why doesn't this work, why don't we have this - those types of questions. But another very important part is the framing of the question. If you frame a question broadly, you will more likely get more broad or disruptive innovation that will be longer term. If you frame a question that makes someone defensive, you will get less innovation than if you frame a question in a way that is inquisitive. There's a big difference between inquisitive and judgmental questioning.
There is a third thing about questioning, and that's self-assessment. People normally think innovation is examining something else, but innovative people also examine themselves. Everybody has a bias, and self-assessment is what allows you to keep thinking about that bias and changing it if new data comes in. Questioning is not just curiosity, but self-assessment. And it's so easy - we can get down to the killers later - to create an environment, where subtly, self-assessment is discouraged. And a lot of people have a hard time with self-assessment.
And that's why in the book, I talk about innovators needing to be critical optimists. You need to be optimistic about getting over hurdles, but you always have to be having that sense of enough self-doubt to say not only am I going in the right direction, but could I think about this differently, or is there a surprise over here?
Ubois: The unexamined life won't be innovative. And risk?
Estrin: Risk is the capacity to be vulnerable, a willingness to fail. Unless you have an environment in which failure is treated as something to learn from and a step to success, then people won't try new things. They will take the safe route. You really cannot have broad-based innovation unless failure is something that is admitted, discussed, learned from. What you really want to do is have an environment where you fail early.
A great example is the pharmaceutical industry that has gotten itself into this mode of blockbuster drugs. One of the reasons they're in that mode is they don't have good technologies to detect failure early. One area of research that I think is really important is something like biomarkers, so that we could learn more about drugs earlier. Then, you wouldn't have to put so much money into the development of drugs before you knew whether or not they were going to fail.
Ubois: Openness?
Openness means open to imagine, open to surprises, open to other people's ideas, to collaborate and to change. There are some people who will listen and gather lots of data, organizations that analyze and they gather all this information, they're open to information. But, in the end, they don't have a culture of being able to change the way they do things or people. So, the openness, the collaboration, the open to surprises, everything from penicillin to Viagra to the Ethernet came about because somebody actually was studying one thing, but something happened over here, and they were open enough to look at that surprise.
Ubois: It seems closely related to self-assessment.
Estrin: At one point, I had self-assessment as part of openness, but self-assessment is questioning yourself and being able to question yourself in some sense. Openness is open to other people's assessment but also open to new data, but also includes collaboration and kind of just an open mind. So, the questioning and openness go together, but you can question and not be open, and you can be open and not questioning.
Ubois: Patience?
Estrin: This one is controversial. In an innovator, that means tenacity. In an investor, it means patience. In a leader, let things grow. And very often, I have entrepreneurs say to me, "But, wait a minute, start-ups need a sense of urgency; that's where a lot of innovation comes from." My answer is patience is relative. The type of patience you need for research is different than the type of patience you need at the beginning of a start-up, where you're trying to try different things. And then, once you know what product you're building, OK, you go for it.
So, it's relative patience and understanding the right level of patience that you need for different types of innovation in different types of environments.
Ubois: Or calibrating the risk given different time horizons. And trust?
Estrin: Without trust, people aren't willing to be vulnerable. Without trust, they don't self-assess, they don't acknowledge failure. You are not as open when you're not trusting.
The thing about these core values is you're not allowed to just pick one, they go together. If you have trust without questioning, that's blind faith. And blind faith is not encouraging of innovation. Another great example is if you have risk without questioning and without openness, you end up with today's economic financial crisis; people took risks, but they didn't ask questions. There wasn't transparency as to what they were taking risks on. Then we lost trust, and everything froze. So, that's actually an interesting example of how the values play together.
Another way to summarize why I think we are where we are today is that in the years leading up to the bubble, so the late 90's, we lost our patience. And between the bursting of the bubble, the corporate scandals, 9/11, we lost our willingness to take risk. We overreacted to those events and lost our willingness to take risk. And then, the psyche of the country, the way the leaders reacted to 9/11.
Ubois: Questioning became unpatriotic.
Estrin: Questioning was discouraged, [so was] openness. We closed in and we lost our trust. And so, really what's happened is we've undermined all of these core values and we really need to actively get them back. And it happened as a country, I think it happened to people individually.
Threats can motivate innovation, or they can turn off innovation. If you're the type of leader that takes a threat and uses it to create fear in people, but you do not ask people to get involved, then you have people who are afraid and helpless.
If, on the other hand, you take a threat and you turn it into a challenge and you rally people with that challenge to help them get involved, you turn on the leader in each individual, which actually encourages innovation. And after 9/11, we were made to feel afraid, but we were told to go shopping.
Ubois: There is a mindset in Silicon Valley that is fairly Libertarian, and any kind of policy-oriented initiative is to be viewed with suspicion, because if we let policymakers have a hand in the innovations they don't understand, they can only make it worse. Maybe every once in a while, it's OK to take government money, but basically, policies around innovation are bad. That's one perspective here that I think runs through the Valley.
Another one would be innovation, of course, needs to have political engagement because it has political effects. I'm wondering, you've been in the Valley for a while and seen both and in reading your book, you're clearly arguing for some policies around innovation, so I'm wondering if you could talk your way through that tension. . .
Estrin: As I was interviewing people, I talked to some who would tell me that the market takes care of itself. [But] the market has become so short-term focused that it's broken. It can't take care of the problems that we have.
Not only has the market become too short-term focused, Washington has become too short-term focused. And those two things combined have created a real problem. But, I think the government, even in normal times, has several roles. It has a role, in terms of inspiring and using the bully pulpit of leadership to throw out grand challenges. Look at what JFK did, in terms of the space race. That was in response to the Cold War and Sputnik, but we didn't just decide to go build a bigger rocket.
Ubois: You have four "Sputniks," urgent grand challenges, described in the book. Can you talk about those?
Estrin: Energy, climate change, healthcare and our standing in the world -- each one is a serious challenge. Government has a role in research and education because those are things government needs to do for society what the private sector cannot do. Basic science makes returns to society. It does not return to any one business. And so, it has a role to play, in terms of funding science and research.
Ubois: When you are talking about returns, you open up questions about intellectual property.
Estrin: I don't spend a lot of time on intellectual property issues in the book, but that's another interesting discussion is who benefits from the basic science and the university technology transfer offices.
This is a good example of unintended consequences. The Bayh-Dole Act was intended to open up transfer of technology from universities. It backfired, and many universities started focusing too much on IP. Basic science and the early stages of research should be as unencumbered with as much sharing and openness as possible. Where you want to start putting on restrictions, whether it's classification for government or commercial secrecy, or patents, is later on in the process, when you start thinking about actual development of technologies. It's too bad that we have started either classifying or commercial secrecy or IP protection too early in the process, which, then, stifles that sharing of basic science.
Ubois: One of the mechanisms around responsibility is open access. If you're trying to gauge unintended consequences of innovation, it's helpful if people outside your field have a chance to look at what you're doing. It's often that single-minded focus that causes an oblviousness to consequences.
Estrin: Especially as our problems are becoming more interdisciplinary. That's why the more sharing you can do throughout that early stages of the process, the better off you are.
Ubois: Can you expand a bit on what you said earlier about funding, and the role of government?
Estrin: First, government should not pick winners, but should have a strategy of investing along a broad range of fields and areas of science. The type of subsidy you might want is a credit on anything new, not picking solar over wind power over plug in hybrids, but trying to figure out a way to encourage people to take risks on new technologies to see what ends up being the best.
Government has an inspirational role, a funding role when it comes to research, and when it comes to education because those are things that people can't do by themselves. Government has a role in policy, in terms of oversight, where oversight is needed. It needs to be very careful about regulation that when it's too tight, it can stifle innovation, needs to be very careful about market shaping, i.e., subsidies.
There are times when you do want some market shaping done or some barriers removed. For example, the choice not to tax Internet was a very important decision, and immigration policy can cause openness or closedness. One way to decide is think about whether it negatively impacts any of those core values. Does it encourage risk or discourage risk? Does it encourage risk without questioning? So, the lack of regulation in the financial industry encouraged risk, impatience and lack of questioning. That's a place where we needed some oversight.
Ubois: You're talking about government's role as advocate or guardian of certain values.
Estrin: Yes. And also, the government needs to be there to provide a safety net for society. I wouldn't have said this five years ago, but in writing the book, it became very clear to me that if you don't have some basic safety nets in society, education for your kids, healthcare, people won't become entrepreneurs, won't become innovators. They're more likely to become an entrepreneur, leave their company and go start another company, if there is a safety net for their family. I'm not talking about welfare, per se. I'm talking about quality education for everybody in the country, affordable available healthcare for everybody that's not tied to having to work for a big company, in order to get it.
Ubois: One of the things we're trying to focus on is the dialogue between technical experts and policymakers. Everybody can partake of values discussions, but when you start getting into some of the implications and particular technologies, that gets a lot harder for policymakers to follow. Climate change is a perfect example. What set evidence do we believe about what's happening to the climate? There are lots of ways in which that dialogue breaks down, but I'm wondering if you see some bridges between policy makers and the scientific community . . .
Estrin: One of the problems that we've had over the last eight years in the U.S. is that there is an increasing disrespect for science and scientific evidence.
There is a period of time in the discovery of anything where there's some debate going on. Unfortunately, this kind of coincided with this period of time where the country was not self discussing, was ignoring a lot of data. And so, it got turned into more of a debate than it should have as data was increasingly coming in.
The question is maybe how fast or how, but the fact that the data was showing that change was going on and human behavior was causing that change was increasingly clear, if you believe the science. But fewer and fewer people were willing to listen to the science, to the point that it became a crisis, it became polarized. Any field of science should be open to debate, but this polarization that resulted from the political process and the blurring of the separation of church and state and all of that that kind of came together, whether it's climate or stem cell research, is where it gets dangerous because then, you can't have healthy science debate.
You end up with the partisan debate or the religious debate influencing the science debate. One of the most important things we have to do in this country is to get back to the idea that science is a political interest group. Now again, not all scientists are going to agree, and there needs to be forums for debate, but they have to be scientific debates and not political debates, which is what we've turned them into.
Ubois: That's a nice segue into the politicization of science, and resistance to innovation ...
Estrin: We had years of lack of funding in physical sciences, and we probably had too few people working in this area, and so the actual gathering of the data and understanding took longer than it would have been if we were more focused and if the government had reinforced data gathering in this area.
There are lots of ways to kill innovation, and one is through how you allocate funding. If funding is too scarce, people will take the safest choice as they're applying their grants, they won't apply for risky things. Peer review is a very important process, but it's better for less risky research because there are no peers for the really crazy ideas. That was one of the reasons ARPA was so important - it was focused on finding great people and funding high-risk, high return research.
You have to be very careful about your incentive systems. Researchers are often incentivized by increasing their ability to get additional grants (which allow them to continue their work) and by recognition. And so, you just have to think about how you're handing out these grants and make sure that they are balanced and that you have enough for young researchers and more mature researchers, for new ideas, and for incremental ones. We've gotten off balance in the last eight years.
Another way to discourage new ideas is in the whole attitude towards science. If people get to the point where they don't believe anybody's going to listen or it's going to be too controversial to get funding for, they'll go look at some other problem. There are lots of problems to look at as a researcher. And so, it's not just the funding, but it's the attitude, it comes back to that openness. If the funding agencies and the leaders are not open to ideas of any sort, then that will restrict innovation.
Ubois: One of the things that we touched on, had running through this discussion is this notion about unintended consequences, and who bears the risks of innovation. When you talk about risk in the corporate setting, for a company, it's almost a duty to externalize costs, right? So, if there are risks associated with innovation, companies want to push those out onto customers or competitors, everyone else. And I'm wondering if you've come up with any ideas about that.
Estrin: Yeah, I disagree with that premise.
Ubois: Good!
Estrin: People now think like that because businesses today are pushed to believe that their job is to maximize earnings and maximize shareholder value in the short term. The job of a company is to maximize shareholder value over the long-term, which requires investment for the future, in addition to reaping the benefits of prior investments.
Companies can't invest in basic science. I mean, some do, but that doesn't really make sense because, again, basic science benefits society on a whole. But, they can invest in applied research, and they can invest in future growth initiatives and they should. And those companies that are really here for the long term do, even in down turns.
Ubois: Will it require changes in government policies to cross that gap or is a cultural, social thing?
Estrin: It's cultural. I think it comes from Wall Street being so focused on short-term earnings.
Ubois: What are the incentives you can offer to encourage that sort of long-term thinking?
Estrin: Right, there are some things that the government could do. We ought to look at the R&D tax credit and we could do some things with the capital gains tax in terms of a graduated longer term benefit. Long-term capital gains is one year, but one year is not long-term.
The harder part is that culturally we have come to value trading and flipping over creating and building. Twenty years ago, many of the people who made money were people who built things, they built companies. A friend said to me the other day, "Come on, Judy, it's the people who have money that create jobs."
My reply was, "That used to be true. It's not true, anymore. Now, most of the wealthy, who were the people on the top, the richest people last year? Most of them are hedge fund managers. And hedge fund managers don't create jobs; they actually do the opposite."
We need to go back to a culture that has respect for creating and building. And that's hard, but that, in the end, is what we need to try to do to turn this around.
Ubois: Yeah, what I heard coming through in your book was concern for the next generation. It seemed that was actually one of the things that was really driving your research and your perspective and your thinking. It was kind of, well, how can we plan out over decades?
Estrin: I was focused on the unintended consequences of how leaders and policy and people stifle innovation. There's a whole separate issue, which is not all innovation is good, and even some good innovation leads to unintended consequences that you have to be thinking through, and how do you deal with that? Somebody was telling me, and I can't remember the numbers, but they were teaching a class on innovation, and they said, "If I were to stand up here and say I just came up with an invention and it was a phenomenal invention but X number of people would die a year from it, would you let it go?"
Ubois: Cars.
Estrin: And it was cars, right. In science and technological training, there are two things that don't happen today that should happen. One is we don't really talk about innovation process, how do you frame questions, how do you identify needs in our scientific training, so that we are really training minds to think innovatively.
Ubois: To recognize problem quality.
Estrin: Right, how you find problems, how do you identify them? But the second part that should run through our education system is a set of examples and ways of thinking through the consequences of how science might be used, where it overlaps with other disciplines, where it overlaps with unintended consequences, and at least being able to, as a scientist is doing their work, to think about where those consequences might be.
For that, you want to encourage scientists to be open about their work, get transparent, discuss with others, so that a debate can come early on about how it might be used for bad, as opposed to good. And you want to be careful not to stop the research or the science. But, there's a point at which if you've had that debate, you might think about whether you take that science and allow it to . . .
Ubois: A bright line around the lab is something that several people have brought up.
Estrin: Right, yes, for instance, the whole issue of cloning, you know, it's something we should understand, it's something we should in science, but you might want to put regulations on whether you can actually do it at scale.
Also, does there need to be some potential self-regulation by industries or regulation by government in some areas that when you have a new technology? Unfortunately, legislation is always retroactive. Once we had cars, we had to decide, OK, at what age do you have a driver's license and what are the rules of the road and what are the things that need to come into play?
Ubois: The precautionary principle is one of the approaches that in its strong form, it's requires innovators to prove a negative ...
Estrin: There's no technology and there's no science that doesn't have potential for application in a negative way.
Estrin: I might mention, the innovation gap is not us versus other countries. The innovation gap that I'm talking about is the gap between where we are and where we were. But really, the gap between where we are and where we need to be and where our potential is, that's the gap I'm talking about. And I actually think that the whole world, you want the whole world to be innovative.
Ubois: Yes.
Estrin: But, the same way when you build teams, the best way to build a team is with cognitive diversity. Not just diversity in race and gender, but also cognitive diversity. One of the interesting things about the world, if you think about a global innovation ecosystem is that we have cultural diversity. So, the people always ask me to compare, tell them a country that is doing it right.
Ubois: Little pieces are getting done right all over the world.
Estrin: That's right, and in the end, that's how the world works. But what educationally is going to work in China or Japan, you do not want to import that to the U.S. Our society and culture are based on a high level of freedom and individuality, and a more hierarchical approach that might be taken in China or Japan won't work here. On the other hand, a country like Denmark, that decided to become energy independent and just is now the biggest exporter of wind power elements, was able to do that because of their culture.
We shouldn't think that we have ownership of all ideas. We should collaborate and be open and allow those ideas to flow. But, we need to be very, very careful about this notion that because we're good at bringing products to market, we should let other countries take over the responsibility for investment in research and basic science. It'll be the death of this country if we do not re-ignite our commitment to all three communities of the innovation ecosystem.
Ubois: Thank you very much for taking this time with me, I really appreciate it.
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Celebrate Father's Day with These Swoon-Worthy Dads
by Karen Green
There's nothing sexier than a man who values his family, and these swoon-worthy dads are no exception.
Dedicated and protective, these are the men that step up, step in and do what needs to be done…for the kids, of course. From the single dads to the dads-to-be, this is the time of year to pay tribute to the fathers of romance; to the men whose genes look as good as their jeans, and who give new meaning to the phrase dad bod.
The Rancher's Surprise Baby (Blue Falls, Texas) by Trish Milburn
Mandy Richardson has always wanted a husband and lots of kids. She knows Ben Hartley isn't a forever kind of guy, but one night their relationship blossoms into more, and soon Mandy discovers she's pregnant. When Mandy tells him he's going to be a dad, he worries he won't measure up. After all, his own father was far from a role model. But he's fallen hard for Mandy, and now it's up to him to prove he's a better man—a stronger man—than he thought.
Branded as Trouble (A Wrangler's Creek Novel) by Delores Fossen
When his son's mother skipped town after the birth, Roman decided to do the same, baby Tate in tow, hoping for a fresh start. Now Roman fears his teenage son is following in his wayward footsteps, so he returns home to Wrangler's Creek, aiming to set him straight. It's there he encounters Mila Banchini, the good-girl opposite of Roman who's had a crush on him since childhood. But if falling for Mila is such a bad idea, why does everything about holding her feel so right?
Their Double Baby Gift by Louisa Heaton
Widower Major Matt Galloway came to London Grace Hospital for his tiny daughter. But he finds himself facing a barrel of emotions on meeting beautiful Dr. Brooke Bailey—his late wife's best friend and single mother to her own baby girl. Brooke can't believe Matt is her new boss. But the feelings she has for him are even more troublesome. Brooke swore she would raise her baby alone, but loving Matt melts her heart and Brooke starts to hope… Could they really make one big happy family after all?
A Second Chance for the Single Dad (Matchmaking Mamas) by Marie Ferrarella
Ever since her mother died, nurse practitioner Kayley Quartermain has been searching for somewhere to belong. Thankfully, her matchmaking godmother offers a solution: a career match—and hopefully a romantic one, too—assisting recently widowed Dr. Luke Dolan at his clinic. Still adjusting to life as a single dad, Luke is reluctant to accept Kayley's help. Sure, she's great at her job, and five-year-old Lily adores her, but Lily's sake, he needs to be careful about whom he lets in. But with Kayley fitting in so perfectly as they rebuild their lives, could she be the one piece they've been missing?
The Dad Next Door (Family Blessings) by Stephanie Dees
Lawman Joe Sheehan is desperate to bond with the daughter he's just discovered he has. But as a virtual stranger to twelve-year-old Amelia, the task seems impossible. Until Claire Conley moves to town. A social worker renovating a mansion into a foster home, Claire is the first person to get through to Amelia. Falling for the single dad was not on Claire's to-do list. But with Joe and Amelia around, the house finally starts to feel like home. Claire's ready to fight to convince Joe that together they've done more than fix a house…they've built a family.
Montana Cowboy's Baby (Big Sky Country) by Linda Ford
Conner Marshall knows the baby on the doorstep isn't his—despite what the note says—but little Ellie needs a protector…and urgent medical care. Turning to the doctor's daughter and capable assistant, Kate Baker, for help, he keeps the truth to himself. Why should he care if Kate believes the worst of him? The wary rancher can't afford feelings for a woman who'll soon be moving east for medical school. But the littlest matchmakers can sometimes make the biggest dreams come true…
The Cowboy's Baby Blessing (Cowboy Country) by Deb Kastner
Rachel Perez needs a handyman to spruce up her in-home day care. So when she "wins" ex-soldier Seth Howell in a bachelor auction, she's glad he can swing a hammer. But when freewheeling Seth suddenly inherits a two-year-old and a sprawling ranch, he's got to grow up fast. Seth admires Rachel's kindness and easy way with kids, so he seeks her help in finding his footing as a father. And single mom Rachel sees how determined Seth is to do right by little Caden. Between his toddler and her teenager, they've got plenty of responsibilities. Finding time for love seems out of the question—but soon they're forging a new family…together.
The Ten-Day Baby Takeover (Billionaires and Babies) by Karen Booth
One look into his infant son's trusting blue gaze and Aiden Langford knows his wild, carefree days are over. If only he can get Sarah Daltrey, his son's temporary guardian, to give him daddy lessons… Certainly the softhearted entrepreneur will agree to his ten-day proposal to stay as the nanny. Being in the handsome tycoon's arms puts up Sarah's emotional defenses even as her body begs her to let go. But being a babysitter with benefits isn't on her agenda—especially for a father and son who might steal her heart…
Which of these men would you like to celebrate Father's Day with? Let us know in the comments!
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FigurePrints® Frequently Asked Questions
What are FigurePrints?
FigurePrints are one-of-a-kind, custom statues or busts of your World of Warcraft® characters created using high-tech 3D color printing machines. Our artists pull your character from the virtual world and bring it to life.
How are FigurePrints created?
Our servers grab your latest character data from the World of Warcraft Armory, create a custom 3D model, and then let you pose it any way you like. Once you are happy with the way it looks you simply hit "Print" and our proprietary software prepares the model for printing. Our artists finish the process, turning your selection into a high-quality collectible. Once it has passed our artists' inspection, your print is packaged carefully and shipped directly to your home.
I was with you up to the "printed" part. How do you print a statue?
We use technology previously reserved for the manufacturing industry, called rapid prototyping machines, to convert three dimensional computer models into physical objects. The electronic version of your FigurePrint is cut up into more than a thousand very thin slices. The printer creates a slice at a time and the slices are stacked on top of each other to form the final three dimensional statue that we call a FigurePrint Statue. We remove it from the machine, hand finish it, mount it in a glass display case and it's ready to go.
What are FigurePrints made of?
They are built out of a plaster-like powder that is then bonded and sealed to make it strong and colorful.
Will the character be exactly as I see it on the screen?
It will be very close, but not exactly the same. Please remember that to create these pieces of art, there are several stages that our artists and machines must complete to translate game data to a physical model. Our custom software, along with our art team, interprets the model data from the game and transforms it into a physical representation of the character. This interpretation includes increasing the resolution, identifying and thickening certain aspects of each model that are too thin to print, brightening the colors, and sharpening small details to enhance your individual FigurePrint.
During the final pass our artists may tweak the angle and position of the weapons and armor to make a stronger and more aesthetically pleasing final statue. They may also need to add additional support elements to make sure that the print is stable given the gear and/or pose you have chosen.
How big are FigurePrints Statues and Busts?
We print all FigurePrints Statues in scale relative to each other so depending on the race of the character and the pose chosen the resulting statue can be as large as eight inches tall. Smaller characters have the option to be printed on larger bases to give them a boost. FigurePrints Busts, on the other hand, are all about the same size, roughly 5 inches tall.
How much do they cost?
FigurePrints Statues cost $129.95 plus shipping for characters on the U.S. and Oceanic servers, 129,95€ plus shipping on the European servers. FigurePrints Busts cost $69.95 plus shipping for characters on the U.S. and Oceanic servers, 69,95€ plus shipping on the European servers. Please note that European deliveries may be subject to additional VAT taxes, brokerage fees, and duties on delivery.
How long will it take after I order to receive my FigurePrint?
While our goal is to complete each print in less than one month, it can take several months in cases where we have a particularly difficult character pose or weapon choice. This is a new technology that's being applied on a mass scale for the first time. We appreciate your patience; we think you'll be pleased with the results when your World of Warcraft FigurePrint arrives.
Why can't I get it right now?
As a work of art, the FigurePrints® product requires a great deal of individual time and effort. Trying to rush the process would be detrimental to the quality of the product.
Because FigurePrints are considered customizable art pieces, they are non-refundable items. Should a FigurePrint break prior to you receiving it you must contact FigurePrints® (send email to support@figureprints.com) as soon as you have received it and noticed that your print has been damaged in shipping. If possible, please document the damage by taking a few digital photographs. We will get a replacement out to you as soon as possible.
What are the plans to make this available to players in Asia?
Now that we are delivering to Europe, our next step will be to make our service available to customers in Asia. Please stay tuned as we work out the details to bring FigurePrints® to gamers around the world.
Are characters on Oceanic game realms going to be able to purchase a FigurePrint, or will that territory be rolled out later?
Yes, characters on Oceanic realms will be available at the launch of the service.
Why can't I get my guild name or PVP rank on my FigurePrint? Do you have plans to do this in the future?
Due to the length of many of the guild names/ranks, we are unable to offer them at this time. Offering these as customizable aspects in the future is something we are exploring.
As a Hunter, my pet is an important part of my character, can you print it too?
Unfortunately we do not support printing anything other than characters at this time. This includes hunter and warlock pets, druid animal forms, and other non-combat pets. We have had many requests for this feature and we hope to add it at some point in the future.
I just placed an order. How long do I have to wait until I can change my gear in the game?
Once your order is placed we have all the data we need to create your FigurePrint, so after you order you can do anything you wish with your character in the game including name changes and changing servers.
What are FigurePets™?
FigurePets™ are limited edition FigurePrints depicting the in-game companion pets from World of Warcraft®. They are produced using the same high tech process as FigurePrints and are released in limited edition sets, three pets at a time.
What do you mean by limited edition?
Any given FigurePet is only available to be ordered for a one month period. After that period has ended, the same pet in the same pose will never be offered again. That makes each pet a limited edition collectors item which are likely to increase in value over time.
How much do FigurePets™ cost?
FigurePets™ are available for $29.95 (24,95€) plus shipping or you can buy a set of three for $74.85 (59,85€). European deliveries may be subject to additional VAT taxes, brokerage fees, and duties on delivery.


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Did you know that data sharing between the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the U.S. Postal Service is critical to the everyday demographic data we see from the Census?
The Census and much of it's related data are address based. That is, in order to get accurate, complete, and detailed data on the population, the Census Bureau needs addresses. Where do they come from – you guessed it, for many areas it's the U.S. Postal Service that is a major partner in the effort. While the Postal Service needs to know how to get mail to you, the Census Bureau needs to know exactly where your physical dwelling unit is. That creates some difficulties for rural areas and areas served by post office boxes. These types of addresses don't help the Census Bureau much since they don't identify where you actually reside.
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4 Reasons Local Government Kicks Washington, D.C.'s Butt
ByOla Abiose
A recent widely-circulated Atlantic article about millennials is a current source of fear for many members of older generations. According to author Ron Fournier, young people born between 1985 and 2003 are highly cynical about the political process, to the extent that they have little to no desire for a career in public service. In Fournier's view, this all seems to spell very bad news for Washington, which could be potentially destroyed. That's a lot of doom and gloom about the potential collapse of our government, but it raises an important, even scarier question: Have we no conception of politics or government outside of Washington?
Fournier only extends the implications of millennials' disinterest in public service as far as its potential impact on the state of our nation's capital, and indeed, many of the millennials he interviewed did also. Which began to sound eerily familiar.
Over the summer, I worked as an education policy fellow for Michelle Wu, a candidate for Boston City Council. It was an incredibly exciting time to be involved with Boston's political scene, and at one such lively political event, a rally for now-Senator Ed Markey, headlined by President Obama, I ran into an acquaintance who happened to be interning for Markey's campaign. After exchanging pleasantries, I mentioned that I was in town to work on a city council campaign, to which she responded:
"Oh. That's nice. I've never been as interested in smaller government, but that's nice."
Besides a patronizing tone, her words revealed a dismissal of civic engagement not directly relating to Washington present in The Atlantic article. Which is a pity, considering what a space "smaller government" can be for creativity and innovation, and what immediate effect it has on individuals' day-to-day lives. Here are four reasons why no one, especially millennials, should overlook state and local government:
1. Boston Politics is the Business
I know, I know, this is supposed to be a piece about the importance of local government in general. But I'd be completely remiss to not mention that Boston is one of the most interesting places to witness politics unfold on a local level. From Dorchester to the North End, Jamaica Plain to Hyde Park, the "City of Neighborhoods" is home to 21 distinct neighborhoods, each with its unique character. At the same time, there's incredible diversity within Boston neighborhoods. Once, while door knocking in South Boston, Michelle was able to utilize her English, Spanish, Mandarin, and French language skills, in a single precinct. To be there in the midst of the most hotly contested mayoral race in decades, which has paved the way for one of the most competitive City Council races in years, both crossed with a whirlwind special election for former Senator John Kerry's open seat, all preludes to the beginning of a sure-to-be exciting Massachusetts gubernatorial election in November 2014. Boston residents do local politics like it's their job.
2. The Need For Representative Government
However, even though Boston neighborhoods have "wicked" diversity, this hasn't completely translated to their representative bodies, and Boston isn't alone in this respect. We already know that Congress has this problem: In this 113th Congress, 67% of seats are occupied by white men, who made up only 34% of voters in the 2012 election. But our cities are faring no better. For instance, there are only five people of color sitting on the Boston City Council currently and only one woman (also a person of color). In the race for mayor, one of the most hotly contested in recent history, half of the candidates are non-white, but again, only one is a woman, former State Representative Charlotte Golar-Richie. At only 28, Michelle Wu is certainly one of the youngest candidates in the field and one of the only people paving the way towards millennial representation in Boston local government. Across the country, countless voices are going unrepresented in their local and state governments. This is not a time for Millennial disinvestment.
3. How the Best Policy is Set
One of the most profound lessons I learned this summer was one about comprehensive, nuanced policy-making. One of the first things Michelle and I did, before writing any position papers or crafting any platforms, was to was to go on almost a dozen school tours near the end of the school year, where we spoke with teachers, administrators, and educational partners to hear what their greatest needs were, and how they could be best served by their elected officials. From public to charter to pilot schools to their educational nonprofit partners, we saw at least one thing in common: dedicated people working tirelessly for the good of their students. We got a sense of shared best practices, as well as ways in which the local government could be modified to best fit the needs of the people. It wasn't gleaned from removed policy briefs or removed statistical analysis, but from this grassroots approach to policy that, in my mind, was an embodiment of public service.
4. To Be the Leader they Wish to See in Government
This was perhaps the most profound lesson I learned over the summer. Part of the reason I was so inspired to work for Michelle was because of her story. The oldest child of Taiwanese immigrants, Michelle went to college at Harvard University and was originally set to work in Boston's Financial District. But after her mother was diagnosed with a mental illness, she moved to Chicago to care for her and become the legal guardian of her younger sisters. She opened a small teashop and experienced the impact of local government while applying for a restaurant permit, navigating the education system, and generally caring for her family. After getting admitted to Harvard Law School, she moved back to Boston with her entire family and grew even more connected with the community, serving as chair for her sister's school, working with domestic violence survivors, and advising entrepreneurs through a legal services center. She's worked for Mayor Menino in City Hall, before finally serving as constituency coordinator on the senatorial campaign for her former law professor, Elizabeth Warren. Her approach throughout the campaign, whether during her field effort or trying to inform policy, is to connect with and hear from as many voices as possible. It's an embodiment of politics as public service, and it's perhaps best realized on a local level. As she's said, "My goal is always to have in mind the big picture, long-term, ideal solution, and be working toward that, but in the meantime identify little things that can be done to make people's lives better immediately…. If my only role is to help shape the conversation, and bring some of the ideas that I'm hearing in the neighborhoods into the public sphere, I think that will be a positive contribution."
Let us not underestimate the power and significance of local government. Whether you're a New Yorker canvassing for your favorite mayoral campaign, or a Bostonian voting in your local government primaries on September 24, or elsewhere, remember: You don't have to wait for Washington to enact the change you want to see in your community.


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Clifton Park warehouse project takes step forward | The Daily Gazette
Clifton Park warehouse project takes step forward
Plans call for a large combined warehouse and office space project
Kassie Parisi
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CLIFTON PARK — A large-scale warehouse project slated for Route 9 in Clifton Park was advanced to a preliminary review state by the planning board at its Tuesday meeting.
The plans call for a large combined warehouse and office space project, with two buildings totaling 160,000 square feet.
The proposed project site is located on a parcel split between the towns of Halfmoon and Clifton Park at 1902 Route 9, on the road's west side, near its intersection with Leibach Lane.
The entire parcel measures over 57 acres. Approximately five of those acres fall in the town of Halfmoon, while the remainder are located in the town of Clifton Park.
The entire parcel is zoned Light Industrial.
The applicant, M.J. Properties of Clifton Park, also owns the parcels located to the north, west and south of the project site, documents submitted to the Planning Board indicate. Tenants for the proposed project were not named nor described in the documents.
The proposed project will be developed in phases, according to a submitted project narrative. Phase one would involve the construction of two structures combining warehouse and office space: one measuring 60,000 square feet, the other measuring 100,000 square feet.
The larger building would house 90,000 square feet of warehouse space and 10,000 square feet of office space, while the smaller building would house 54,000 square feet of warehouse space and 6,000 square feet of office space. The site that will house the first phase of development measures just over 13 acres.
The warehouses would include loading dock space as well as room for tractor-trailers to maneuver. There would be 197 parking spaces.
At peak hours, according to project documents, there would be at most 72 employees in the warehouse areas.
The applicants also are seeking to subdivide the parcel into three sites: one piece will be home to the new development, one set aside for future development, and the third will remain untouched.
The entire site is currently vacant and mostly wooded, though some areas already have been logged, according to project documents.
Water service will be provided by the Clifton Park Water Authority with hookups to the Saratoga County sewer system.
The project is being designed by Malta-based Lansing Engineering.
The project will head back to the Planning Board for further adjustments at a later date.
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