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If you missed it, Google's free photo organizer, Picasa, received a minor but interesting update. We give you a tip on how you can use Picasa to build online photo albums for the holidays.

Believe it or not, we're beginning to wind down the year here at CNET. Before your eyes is the final Download Dispatch of 2009. We've had a pretty busy year, reporting on everything from new security apps (incidentally, check out our Security Starter Kit) to complete coverage of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system. We even launched a Windows 7 blog.

But before we leave you to the merriment of the festive season, we wanted to give you a tip about organizing your holidays photos. If you missed it, Google's free photo-organizing app, Picasa, recently received a minor update to version 3.6. What is it? The capability to invite others to work on your online photo albums, which in turn means that your pals can invite you to help build their collections.

Backing up, if you have a Google account log-in, you can start using Picasa Web Albums, a free online repository for up to 1024MB in photos, from which you can easily share links to your favorite pictures with others (relax, you can always buy more storage). While you can manage and upload photos from your desktop folders, feeding the Web album from Picasa is far easier, as Picasa has the power to index every photo on your hard drive. Picasa adds a variety of tools too, including a decent photo-editing tool kit.

Now when you share an album in Picasa, you'll have the opportunity to let the people you share with contribute to your album. When you upload images from Picasa to the Web, you may likewise be granted permission to deposit your pictures in someone else's album. We're envisioning a half dozen uses here, including disparate branches of the family tree merging their holiday snaps into a single album from various locations across the country, and friends collaborating to tackle the daunting process of captioning kooky New Year's Eve pictures. We're sure you'll find more purposes, too, as you play around.

You'll find more details here on Picasa's new collaboration feature.

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A drawn-out evaluation could lead to a patent barrier around Google's Web video technology. Now 12 unnamed organizations have told MPEG LA they believe VP8 violates their patents.

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Twelve organizations have concluded that Google's VP8 video encoding technology violates their patents, according to a group called MPEG LA that's considering offering a license to those patents.

"Patents owned by 12 different patent holders have already been found to be essential to VP8," MPEG LA said in a statement to CNET yesterday.

This is a concrete data point in a debate that's lasted more than a year so far about how safe Google's technology is to use without fear of infringement litigation. Previously, MPEG LA had only offered the more limited statement that it believed VP8 violated others' video patents. MPEG LA declined to name the companies or patents involved.

VP8 is a codec--technology used to encode and decode streams of data such as video and audio--that Google released in 2010 as an open-source, royalty-free product that could be built into software such as Web browsers and hardware such as mobile phone processors. Google obtained VP8 through its $123 million acquisition of On2 Technologies in 2010; when paired with the Vorbis audio codec it forms the WebM video technology with which Google hopes to liberate Web video from the patent-encumbered incumbent called H.264 or AVC.

In particular, Google wants to find a royalty-free codec that can be used in conjunction with the HTML5 video technology, a move that could help advance Web video to make it as straightforward to use on a Web site as a JPEG graphic is today.

MPEG LA is in the business of licensing collections of patents relating to H.264 and to several earlier video codecs. These patent pools are actually owned by numerous companies, universities, and research institutes that set MPEG LA's licensing terms, collect some of the revenues, and choose to sue parties believed to infringe the patents. MPEG LA argues that it merely provides a one-stop mechanism to license intellectual property that's much more convenient than licensing patents from a multitude of individual organizations, but Google wants VP8 to steer clear of patent licensing restrictions altogether.

Earlier this year, MPEG LA issued a formal call for organizations to come forward if they believed VP8 violated their patents. Twelve now have done so, but it's not yet clear whether MPEG LA will offer a VP8 patent pool license or how the licensing costs might compare with those for H.264.

"A principal consideration for essential patent holders in determining whether to form a patent pool is whether offering a pool license alternative--a license to essential patent rights owned by multiple patent holders under a single license as an alternative to negotiating separate licenses with each--would be of benefit and convenience to the market," MPEG LA said. "MPEG LA is currently facilitating that discussion among them."

The Streaming Media blog reported the emergence of the 12 patent holders earlier this week.

Google is working to form a program called the Community Cross-License to allay fears of VP8 patent infringement suits. Through it, each member of the group "grants to the other members a patent license for any patents that may be essential to WebM," Mike Jazayeri, Google's director of product management for WebM, said in an earlier interview.

In a statement today, Google reiterated its hope to create a royalty-free Web video technology:

MPEG LA has alluded to a VP8 pool since WebM launched--this is nothing new. The Web succeeds with open, community-developed innovation, and the WebM Project brings the same principles to web video. The vast majority of the industry supports free and open development, which is why we formed the WebM CCL enabling member organizations to license patents they may have that are essential to WebM technologies to other members of the CCL. We are firmly committed to the project and establishing an open codec for HTML5 video.

Google has felt confident enough in the intellectual property purity of VP8 to ship it in its Chrome browser and offer it as an option on YouTube. It has attracted a number of allies, too: Mozilla includes WebM support in the Firefox browser, and Nvidia's Tegra 2 mobile processor has hardware support for VP8 encoding and decoding.

Patent lawsuits are generally expensive, protracted ordeals uncommon in the technology industry, but many parties, including Google, have been swept up in a spate of such lawsuits involving the hotly competitive mobile phone market. It's not just competitors suing one other: so-called non-practicing entities whose sole business is licensing patents have been suing as well. Because such entities don't make or sell tech products of their own, they can't be countersued for infringement when they file suit.

Just having a patent isn't enough to win a lawsuit, though. Defendants often challenge a patent's validity, sometimes successfully, and companies often argue their own products don't infringe in the first place.

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Low-cost color-coded sensor out of the U.K. could let doctors in developing countries detect the presence of viruses including HIV at a glance.

British scientists have come up with a super-sensitive prototype sensor that lets doctors detect early stage diseases with the naked eye, an innovation that could prove valuable in countries that lack the resources for expensive diagnostic equipment.

The sensor, created at Imperial College London, relies on nanotechnology to analyze serum derived from blood samples.

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A positive reaction to p24, a protein that indicates early HIV infection, or PSA, a protein that at certain levels can indicate prostate cancer, generates irregular clumps of nanoparticles that emit a blue color in a solution kept in a disposable container.

A negative reaction, however, causes the nanoparticles to separate into ball-like shapes, creating a reddish hue. The colors are easily distinguishable at a glance.

While simple and quick HIV tests are already used to test saliva, they can only detect the virus when it hits relatively high concentrations. Concentrations of the p24 antigen are high in the first few weeks after infection, meaning an easy-to-administer test that recognizes it could be used for early diagnosis when antibody levels are still low.

Scientists have previously looked for p24 to detect HIV in newborns, Molly Stevens, an Imperial College London professor of biomedical materials and regenerative medicine who headed the research team, told Crave. Newborns with infected mothers can inherit the antibodies but not be infected, a circumstance that can yield a false positive.

The U.K. scientists say their technology is 10 times more sensitive than current methods for measuring biomarkers, and in fact showed viral loads in HIV-infected patients that were undetectable by the popular enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test, as well as a gold-standard nucleic acid-based test.

"Our approach affords for improved sensitivity, does not require sophisticated instrumentation, 10 times cheaper, which could allow more tests to be performed for better screening of many diseases," Stevens said. The team's research appears in the latest issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

In addition to HIV detection, the test can be employed to spot the presence of prostate-specific antigen at ultralow concentrations, according to Stevens. This is useful for the diagnosis of prostate cancer recurrence after a total prostatectomy. (Once the prostate has been removed, the PSA should be absent; detection of ultralow levels of the antigen therefore suggests the cancer is growing again.)

Stevens said the test could also be modified to test for additional conditions, such as tuberculosis or Leishmaniasis, a disease spread by the bite of the female sandfly.

She and the study's co-author, Roberto de la Rica, now plan to approach nonprofit global health organizations to ask for strategic direction and funding for manufacturing the sensors and distributing them in low-income countries.

The sensor joins an ever-growing roster of recent health diagnostic technologies being developed for low-income countries. These include, among others, the CellScope, a small, portable microscope that attaches to cell phones, and a blood-analysis chip that detects disease in minutes.

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The sun is getting seriously busy, erupting in its first X-class solar flares — the most powerful flares it can emit.

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The sun is getting seriously busy, erupting in its first X-class solar flares — the most powerful flares it can emit.

We knew that the solar maximum was going to be some heady stuff, and the sun is not disappointing us. Last week, we saw a solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) as seen by NASA's entire Heliophysics satellite fleet; now, the sun has erupted in a pair of the most powerful flares of which it is capable.

The flares are the first two X-class flares of 2013, the first at a magnitude of X1.7, the second even bigger, at X2.8. So far, this year's solar flares have been M-class or weaker. The first flare occurred on Mother's Day, 12 May, peaking at midnight and accompanied by a CME, sending solar particles into space. This CME, even though it occurred on the side of the sun facing away from Earth, caused an hour-long high-frequency radio blackout.

The second occurred just 14 hours later, with the accompanying CME erupting from the sun at a speed of nearly 2000 kilometres per second. So far, it is the strongest flare of 2013, and the third-strongest flare of the current solar cycle — the first being an X6.9 in August 2011, and the second an X5.4 in March 2012.

Neither flare was directed toward the Earth — in fact, no planets were in the line of fire for either. However, NASA's Epoxi and Spitzer spacecraft may be in the firing line in the days ahead. They should be safe, though; NASA's operators can put the spacecraft into "safe mode" to protect them from solar material.

For us here on Earth, the radiation from the flares cannot penetrate the atmospheric layer, especially since the ozone strengthens during the period of solar maximum. However, GPS and radio signals may be disrupted — and the flares are likely to supercharge aurora displays, so photographers and sightseers are in for a treat.

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Biology is the study of life in all its diverse forms:  bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa, plants and animals.  The Department of Biology at Coastal Carolina University gives students opportunities to explore these various life forms at molecular, cellular, organismic, and ecological levels.  In addition to core curriculum requirements, a biology major includes 38-40 credit hours in upper-division biology courses as well as related courses in chemistry and physics.

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Use labelFunction when you want to simply format the text (i.e. a phone number, product ID). Use an itemRenderer when you actually want to use an object of some sort in place of the label and text that is used by default (i.e. a checkbox, or button, or a custom component that you created).
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The label function is called once for each cell in the data grid. In other words, if two of my columns specify this label function, and I have 20 records, my function will be called 40 times. My label function needs to look like this:
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  • "currencyLabelWithCents" is an arbitrary name I chose. It's a little long, but descriptive.
  • "item" is the set of data used to populate that row. It might be pulled from an XML node, or an ArrayList-- whatever. because you get all the columns' data that allows you to combine one or more columns together in a single cell. For instance, concatenating first and last name.
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What research or projects are you currently working on with Coe students?
I'd like to involve students in a new area of research exploring about how adolescents and young adults think differently about problems than they will in their early thirties. For a long time, psychologists thought that our ability to solve complex problems change very little after about age 12. Until a few years ago, most researchers thought brain development was largely complete by age 16 or so. However, newer research suggests that a person's ability to think about a problem shifts about age 25-30. At this time in life, it seems as if people develop a new-found ability to reason about emotional issues much more effectively. This improvement in dealing with multiple, controversial topics mirrors results that are emerging from brain imaging studies that show a rapid period of brain development and refinement that occurs in the late teens to early 20s. I think it will be fun for students to explore the limits of thinking in college-aged populations, especially about emotion-laden issues such as relationships, drug use, and so forth.

What is your favorite class to teach and why?
I like to teach all of the classes I offer, but I suppose my all-time favorite is Intro Psych in the Fall term. I really enjoy the excitement that new students bring to the class, and I like to think that I can make a difference in helping students adjust to college-level work and to college life and expectations.

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An Inheritance of Loss

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I like to garden in the spring and summer. I play the piano for relaxation (but never in public)!

What is the best getaway location, local or abroad?
I love downtown Chicago. It's easy to get to and has become a familiar destination over the years my husband and I have been going there. New York City is great, too.

What is your favorite thing about Coe?
The students, without a doubt. Each one brings such a different perspective.

What is your favorite Coe tradition?
I love to hear the organ music in Sinclair and, although I can barely carry a tune, to sing the College hymn. The Christmas Convocation is also something I always look forward to.

What makes Coe stand out from other schools?
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It’s no secret that we are living in a time where chronic disease continues to rise at an exponential rate, especially within the past couple of decades. New evidence continues to mount suggesting that Genetically Modified Organisms (more specifically GM food) might have played, and do play a key role in those statistics.

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A new study  recently published in the Journal of Organic Systems last September examined US government databases, researchers searched for GE (Genetically Engineered) crop data, glyphosate application data, and disease epidemiological data while performing a “correlation analysis” on a total of 22 different diseases.

Researchers reached an alarming conclusion:

“These data show very strong and highly significant correlations between the increasing use of glyphosate, GE crop growth and the increase in a multitude of diseases. Many of the graphs show sudden increases in the rates of diseases in the mid-1990s that coincide with the commercial production of GE crops. The probabilities in the graphs and tables show that it is highly unlikely that the correlations are a coincidence. The strength of the correlations shows that there is a very strong probability that they are linked somehow.”  (1)

If you’re thinking correlation doesn’t mean causation, you are right, but it’s important to consider taking into account the multitude of studies that clearly indicate the potential dangers associated with ingesting genetically modified foods . There is a lot of information out there, and our lack of support for GE foods comes from examining a multitude of information instead of just “a study.”  It’s always important to look at a wide variety of data and evidence when trying to make the best possible decisions for you and your family when it comes to GE foods. The science suggesting that they should not be deemed completely safe for consumption is quite large, and goes beyond the correlation analysis that was performed in this study.

If you take glyphosate, for example, it was introduced in 1974 and its use is accelerating at an alarming rate. Over the decades, strong scientific evidence has shown how glyphosate disrupts the endocrine system and the balance of gut bacteria, that it damages DNA and encourages cell mutations that can lead to cancer. It’s also been linked to autism, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and various other detrimental human health ailments. This fact alone gives more credence to the main study mentioned in this article.

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The actual study contains more information and visuals for anybody who reads it, you can access it within the sources.

With all of the information and science that’s now been published, more specifically with regards to glyphosate, it’s absolutely absurd, dangerous and irresponsible for any biotech corporation who manufactures these substances to tell the world that they are completely safe and harmless, yet they do. Don’t you think? How could a corporation like Monsanto (a corporation charged with regulating our global food supply) claim that glyphosate is safe despite all of the evidence that confirms that it’s not?

“It is commonly believed that Roundup is among the safest pesticides… Despite its reputation, Roundup was by far the most toxic among the herbicides and insecticides tested. This inconsistency between scientific fact and industrial claim may be attributed to huge economic interests, which have been found to falsify health risk assessments and delay health policy decisions.” – R. Mesnage et al., Biomed Research International, Volume 2014 (2014) article ID 179691

Keep in mind that the use of glyphosate rose 1500% from 1995 to 2005, and that 100 million pounds of glyphosate is used every year on more than a billion acres. (Cherry B. GM crops increase herbicide use in the United States. Science in Society 45, 44-46, 2010)(source)

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New Study Links GMOs To Cancer, Liver/Kidney Damage & Severe Hormonal Disruption.

This is exactly why a number of countries across the world have completely banned GMOs and the pesticides that go with them. The number of countries that still import or use these products is rapidly declining, The most recent country to introduce severe restrictions (and make a lot of noise in doing so) regarding GMOs, is Russia.

“Any politician or scientist who tells you these products are safe is either very stupid or lying. The hazards of these foods are uncertain. In view of our enormous ignorance, the premature application of biotechnology is downright dangerous. By slipping it into our food without our knowledge, without any indication that there are genetically modified organisms in our food, we are now unwittingly part of a massive experiment.”David Suzuki, CC,OBC,PH.D LLD, Geneticist

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What Every Parent Needs To Know About Monsanto

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Jan 27, Chennai: The officials and the representatives of fishermen of Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu got together in Chennai this morning to hold discussions on resolving the fisheries issues.

A Sri Lankan delegation led by the Director General of Sri Lanka Fisheries Department Nimal Hettiarachchi and comprising four other officials and 18 fishermen from the fisheries organizations in Northern and Eastern Provinces is participating in the discussions.

The meeting is presided over by Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister K.A. Jayapal and attended by Suchitra Durai, joint secretary, of Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Additionally, 24 Indian fishermen are also taking part in the discussions.

The discussions are aimed at reaching a solution to the nagging issue of fishing rights in the Palk Bay and arrests of fishermen who invades each other's territorial waters.

The Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner at Chennai Sabarullah Khan also participated in the talks, The Hindu said.

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DENVER -- Poisonous messages laced the Broncos' insatiable quest for peak performance.

The toxins first leaked in from the wise guys in Las Vegas who made the Broncos a whopping 26 1/2-point favorites on gameday.

The given was the Broncos would beat the Jacksonville Jaguars. The question was at what point in the game the Broncos would cover.

The Broncos did win. Even if they may have played one of their worst games and Jacksonville played one of its best, the Broncos had enough margin for error to prevail, 35-19, on a perfectly cool fall afternoon Sunday at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.

But they didn't win.

Peyton Manning threw two early touchdown passes to set another NFL record, and Knowshon Moreno set a personal record with three second-half touchdown runs.

The Broncos improved to 6-0 as expected. The Jaguars fell to 0-6 as every breathing human presumed. What surprised many, however, was the Broncos had to sweat. Far as the gamblers who took Jacksonville and the points are concerned, the Broncos got whipped.

Do you believe in gimmes?

Not in the NFL. The Broncos entered this game with a 5-0 record, averaging 46.0 points a game. Jacksonville was 0-5 having scored 51 points all year.

The virus attacking the Broncos ability to execute spread during the week with the conversation from the left side of the radio dial to the right. There was so much chatter as to what point Peyton Manning would be pulled with victory assured.

The odds were stacked against the Broncos, funny enough, in their quest to play their best game.

Whenever supposed mismatches become competitive, though, turnovers committed by the heavy favorite are usually a factor. Manning gave the Jaguars six points on a pick six and lost two fumbles on the snap exchange with center Manny Ramirez.

Midway through the third quarter, when there were projections of Manning's departure, the Broncos were only up, 21-19.

Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno (27) reacts after scoring a touchdown against the Jaguars in the third quarter on Sunday in Denver.
Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno (27) reacts after scoring a touchdown against the Jaguars in the third quarter on Sunday in Denver. (Jack Dempsey/AP)

Early on, the Broncos fed into their overconfidence by taking a relatively easy 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Manning threw a touchdown pass to Julius Thomas on his first drive and a second scoring strike to Wes Welker to finish the Broncos' second possession.

It gave Manning 22 touchdown passes on the season, the most ever by an NFL quarterback through six games. Manning has set or tied a league record through every game this season. He had seven touchdown passes to set the one-game mark; nine to tie the second-game record; then established new bests with 12 touchdown passes through three games; 16 through four; 20 through five and 22 through six.

He takes that unprecedented prolific start into game 7 next week at Indianapolis, where he spent the first 14 seasons of his terrific career.

Manning can go home again, so long as he doesn't take Sunday's second quarter with him. In the quarter, Manning fumbled a snap exchange from Ramirez. There were two three and outs. Manning threw a pass into the middle part of a Jacksonville zone where linebacker Paul Posluzny rambling and cutting past the fallen Broncos quarterback before completing his 59-yard return.

Midway through the third quarter, Manning was not pulled because victory was secure. It was 21-19 Broncos.

But off days for Manning are not so bad. A 42-yard catch-and-run to Demaryius Thomas late in the third quarter was a big play in the Broncos' finishing off an 80-yard touchdown drive to go up 28-19.

Manning and Demaryius Thomas connected for a 31-yard completion that set up a final touchdown in the fourth quarter.

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The push to reform the country's immigration laws, launched last week by a group of Senators, will continue full steam ahead tomorrow at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, which handles immigration laws. Eyes are fixed on House Republicans to gauge their temperature on immigration, and this morning the Committee released a roster of speakers who will set the tone.

Tomorrow's hearing will have two panels of witnesses, one on the "current legal immigration system and ways to improve it," and another on "the extent to which our immigration laws have been enforced."

Both panels include a mix of voices--the full list is posted below--but the enforcement panel is likely to include significant saber rattling.

Julie Myers Wood will start the panel. She was the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during part of the Bush administration and an advocate for "targeted" immigration enforcement and deportation policies. She's likely to strike a moderate tone. Similarly, Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute who coauthored a recent report documenting that the Obama administration invested more in immigration enforcement than any other president, will probably argue that current enforcement levels are enough.

Then the panel will turn sharply to the right. Chris Crane, the president of the ICE employees union, is expected to say that Obama administration officials have undermined immigration enforcement and prevented ICE agents from doing their job. He's likely to attack Obama for his administrative actions to halt the deportation of people who have not been convicted of a crimes.

Last on the list, the Committee will hear from Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, one of the country's leading immigration restriction organizations. Vaughan and her fellow CIS staffers regularly call for more immigration enforcement and tighter bars on legal paths to immigrate.

From the Committee:

Tomorrow's hearing will have two witness panels. The first witness panel will examine our current legal immigration system and ways to improve it. Witnesses for the first panel include:

Vivek Wadhwa, Director of Research, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Fellow, Stanford Law School, and Vice President of Innovation and Research, Singularity University; Michael Teitelbaum, Senior Advisor, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Wertheim Fellow, Harvard Law School; Dr. Puneet S. Arora; and The Honorable Julian Castro, Mayor, San Antonio, Texas.

The second panel will discuss the extent to which our immigration laws have been enforced. Witnesses on the second panel include.

Julie Myers Wood, President, Guidepost Solutions LLC; Chris Crane, President, National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council 118, American Federation of Government Employees; Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies, Center for Immigration Studies; and Muzaffar Chishti, Director of the Migration Policy Institute's Office at New York University Law School Office.


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Chad Barson
Chad Barson
Columbus Crew SC
Real Name: Chad Barson
HT: 5' 10" WT: 170
Age: 25 (02/25/1991)
Birthplace: Columbus, OH
Hometown: Lewis Center, OH

2016 (Columbus/Pittsburgh): Has made five appearances (two starts) for Crew SC in 2016 ... made one appearance on-loan for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, starting at the Charleston Battery (April 30), registering one shot on goal ... missed Crew SC's match against Colorado after being listed as out (May 14) ... was in the matchday 18 for the Black & Gold's match at Toronto (May 21) ... recorded his first Crew SC appearance of the season by coming on as a substitute against Real Salt Lake (May 28) ... started his first match of the campaign at centerback at Philadelphia (June 1) ... was in the matchday 18 for the contests against Montreal (June 18) and New York (June 25) ... came on as a substitute at centerback at Sporting Kansas City (July 3) ... started at centerback in the match at New England (July 9), playing 90 minutes ... was in the matchday 18 vs. Toronto FC (July 13) ... made a substitute appearance vs. D.C. United (July 16) ... was in the matchday 18 vs. Orlando (July 23) and at Toronto (July 31) ... was loaned to Pittsburgh on a game-by-game basis and started for the Riverhounds at FC Montreal (August 10), his second Pittsburgh appearance of the season ... was in the matchday 18 for Columbus at New England (August 20) and vs. Philadelphia (August 24) ... made two appearances in the 2016 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup ... started at centerback against Tampa Bay (June 15), playing 90 minutes as part of a shutout win ... again started in the Round of 16 at Chicago (June 28).

2015 (Columbus): Barson made 10 appearances (four starts) in 2015, with nine appearances coming at rightback and one at leftback. He came on for his first appearance of the season at rightback at Vancouver (April 8). In the club's international friendly vs. Valencia CF (May 27), he came on at halftime. Barson made his first start of the season at rightback at Philadelphia (June 3). He recorded his first assist of the campaign on Ethan Finlay’s 83rd-minute goal after coming on as a substitute vs. Chicago (July 19) at rightback. Barson started in Crew SC’s 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Fourth Round contest at Richmond (June 17), helping the club earn a 3-1 victory. He again started in the Round of 16 at Orlando (June 30).

2014 (Columbus): Barson made 13 appearances -- including eight starts -- on the backline. He started five matches at rightback and three at leftback. He made his season debut as a sub against Philadelphia in Columbus’s 2-1 home-opener win (March 22). He made his first start of the season in the match at Portland (May 17), starting at leftback, and started there again in the next match in the 2-0 shutout victory against Chicago (May 24). He started at rightback in the Columbus’s international friendly versus Crystal Palace FC (July 23). Barson did not dress for the club’s postseason opener against New England (November 1) and he was an unused substitute in the second leg at the Revolution (November 9). Barson made two appearances -- including one start -- on the backline in the 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup tournament.

2013 (Columbus): The Homegrown Player made 20 appearances, including 18 starts, and recorded one assist for the Black & Gold in his rookie season. He made his MLS debut in an appearance at leftback at Toronto (May 18) and made his first MLS start at rightback at Houston (June 1), becoming the third Homegrown Player in club history to start. Barson started 15 times at rightback and made three starts and two substitute appearances at leftback. He started eight consecutive League matches from June 1 to July 20, including three consecutive starts at leftback beginning with the match at LA (July 4). After starting in the international friendly against Wigan Athletic (July 13) he returned to the starting lineup at rightback for three straight matches against New York (August 10), Toronto (August 17) and Real Salt Lake (August 24). He then returned with a start against Houston (September 4) and made a sliding goal-line clearance in the first minute of action en-route to a 2-0 victory. Barson later recorded his first career assist in the 4-2 win at FC Dallas (September 29). He made five starts on the backline in MLS Reserve League action and recorded one assist on Ben Speas’ goal against New York (May 4). In Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup action, he started once at rightback in the Third Round win against Dayton Dutch Lions (May 29).

The defender appeared and started in all but two matches of his college career (93 of 95 games) in four seasons at the University of Akron and was a part of the 2010 National Championship squad in 2010. In his second season as team captain as a senior in 2012, Barson earned NSCAA All-America First Team, Top Drawer Soccer's (TDS) Team of the Season Second Team, All-MAC First Team honors and was one of four Zips to be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-American team for the second straight season with a 3.99 GPA as a biology major. Barson finished his career as a three-time Academic All-American, which matches teammate David Meves as the most honors in program history. The veteran was a  leader on a unit that produced 16 shutouts in his final season, including eight straight from September 14 to October 16, the second-highest total in school history and tied for the 13th-highest total in NCAA history. As a junior he was also All-MAC First Team, Academic All-MAC and All-Ohio team honors in 2011. Barson started all 23 games for the Zips at central defender as a junior, helping lead Akron to 11 shutouts on the year while limiting opponents to one or fewer goals in a game 19 times. As a sophmore in 2010, Barson earned Academic All-America Second Team, All-MAC First Team and Academic All-MAC honors, starting all 25 games for the Zips. Barson led Akron's NCAA Championship winning squad with 2,254 minutes in 2010. That year, he recorded the game-winning team save in the final minutes of the NCAA Championship game against Louisville; a match UA won 1-0 to clinch its first team National Championship in any sport. Barson finished with two goals and an assist from his center back position in 2010. As a result, he was called up by the U.S. U-20 National Team at the end of March for a pair of competitions. As a freshman in 2009, Barson started all 25 games to earn Soccer America All-Freshman Second Team and College Soccer News All-Freshman Second Team status. He was a key contributer on a defense unit that set school records for goals-against-average (0.27) and shutouts (19) in his first season.

Barson starred on multiple U.S. national teams, including the U-18s, U-17s and U-15s. The Lewis Center native spent two semesters in the U.S. U-17 Residency program in Bradenton, Fla.

As a senior, Barson was named to the 2008 Parade All-American team. The defender was two-time NSCAA Youth All-American and 2008 all-state second team honoree for Div. I at Olentangy High School.

Barson was signed by Columbus as a Homegrown Player on January 10, 2013.

Barson is the son of William and Darlene Barson. During his time off the field, Barson enjoys being outdoors, cooking healthy meals and exercising. His favorite movies include “Happy Gilmore,” “Heavyweights,” “Remember the Titans” and “Zoolander.” If Barson is listening to music, there’s a good chance that he’s listening to his favorite bands: Bruno Mars, Bastille, The Script and Mumford and Sons. The Columbus  native’s favorite place he’s traveled to is Japan, and would like to travel to another coastal country, Greece. The 22-year old has traveled heavily during his life as he’s played soccer on every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Barson is a supporter of La Liga’s FC Barcelona, as well as Ohio State University athletics, and his favorite soccer player is FC Barcelona defender Carles Puyol. His favorite soccer memory is winning the 2010 NCAA National Championship at the University of Akron.

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Career Statistics (Regular Season)
2016Columbus Crew SC5202250003000
2015Columbus Crew SC10404561338020
2014Columbus Crew138076603210010
2013Columbus Crew20180161213014000
Career Totals-48320305929535030
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language
Running Time: 106
Date: 09/30/2005

Going Shopping (2005)

1/2 Star (out of 4)

No Sale

By Jeffrey M. Anderson

Director Henry Jaglom (Eating, Déjà Vu) has worked for 35 years in Hollywood, or at least on its fringes. He is said to be intelligent and well liked and counts among his peers Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and even the late Orson Welles. But one suspects that Jaglom's films are less appreciated or anticipated than they are merely tolerated.

His latest film, Going Shopping, is a case in point. Many reviewers have weighed in with kind, but bored responses to this incredibly tedious and gruesome affair. But the truth is that it's one of the year's absolute worst. Actually going shopping and sitting for two hours while someone else tries on clothes would be far less torment.

Going Shopping begins with a series of testimonials. Women speak to the camera about their shopping habits, making some vague attempt to explain or dissect them, but never actually reaching any revelations.

Shortly thereafter, we meet Holly G. (Victoria Foyt -- who co-wrote the screenplay with Jaglom), the owner of a Hollywood boutique that sells her hand-designed fashions.

Thanks to Holly's selfish boyfriend (Bruce Davison), who failed to pay her rent but also failed to tell her about it, Holly's shop is about to close down unless she can come up with a huge chunk of money. (She learns this while her landlady is shopping!) She asks her friends for money and even goes to the mob before resorting to (gasp!) a 30% off Mother's Day sale.

Holly's teenage daughter (Mae Whitman) and goofball mother (Lee Grant) are also on hand for more tears and drama. Meanwhile, Miles (Rob Morrow) is fed up with his girlfriend, who exchanges every gift he gives her. He falls for Holly and causes a mini-drama on the shop's tea-cozy terrace.

In the midst of this interminable experience, women pour into Holly G's shop and constantly say things like "I love that brooch" or "I love those shoes!" as if they believe they're making some kind of connection. It's hard to muster up enough sympathy to care.

This goes double for guys, but women should also consider their options before buying tickets for Going Shopping. Jaglom only portrays a particular brand of neurotic, painted and plasticized Hollywood woman that most real people won't recognize.

Moreover, he lights and photographs them in such a way to make them look like beasts. They leer at the camera, as if threatening to suck your wallets dry. Not even the beautiful Juliet Landau (who played Drusilla on TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") can overcome Jaglom's unflattering lens.

For some reason, Jaglom shoots Going Shopping in a kind of "cinéma vérité" reality, not unlike Robert Altman's style, but without his craftsmanship or artistic mastery. So when Italian gangsters show up or crowds of nattering women wave their credit cards at Holly G's cash register, it comes across as preposterous rather than amusing.

One thing saves the movie from complete disaster, and that's Lee Grant. An Oscar-winner for Shampoo (1975), Grant has lived this Hollywood life for 75 years, and she knows where the humanity lies within. Even if her character, named "Winnie," is unrepentant and annoying, Grant does an admirable job in bringing some silly glamour to the table.

Grant has logged over half a century in movies, while Jaglom lags nearly 20 years behind her. Even so, that should have been enough time for him to figure out how to make a movie. Perhaps his friends should stop being so nice and give him some tips before he strikes again.

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Issue: Crusades
Writer: Izu, Alex Nikolavitch
Artist: Zhang Xiaoyu
Publisher: Humanoids
Release Date: Oct. 2012
Price: $34.95

"An epic tale where history blends with fantasy to explosive and cinematic results. Follow the Knights Templar’s elite faction as they are sent on a secretive and perilous mission, a crusade to determine the true causes of the 'Plague of Damietta.' An all new take on the time of the Crusades brought to you by top European writing talent and promising new Chinese artistic voice, Zhang Xiaoyu."

Dying Breath: 5.0 out of 5
I am starting to see a reoccurring theme when it comes to reviewing books from Humanoids, they are all freaking amazing! Crusades carries on this tradition by tackling a historical horror religious mystery story that left me wishing more was coming. The artwork by Xiaoyu is GORE-Geous. His panels flew off the pages and slapped me in the face on a continuous basis. With some of the cleanest, most detailed artwork I have seen in a while, this book is just visually stunning. Of course I have to mention his monsters and death scenes, because the made me weep with joy. The story crafted by Izu and Nikolavitch is not overpowered by the fantastic artwork either. Taking place during the time of the Crusades, a great mystery unravels through intense action scenes, legendary fights and some amazing character building. I honestly did not know what to expect from this book, but from what I read, I was as happy as a kid in a candy store. I never wanted to put the book down, and I was sad when it ended. While the story stakes place in the 13th century, it does leave its door open to a possible continuation in present day. I hope that day will come soon, because this book was beyond what I can even put into words. This book will appeal to horror, mystery, religion and history fans the most, but everyone should go check it out. Amazing, just flat-out amazing

Artwork: 5.0 out of 5 • Story: 5.0 out of 5

If you would like to buy or know more about Crusades you can find it at http://www.humanoids.com

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Ok, this is it. Once again this Sunday I’ll be at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention ( 10AM to 5PM. I’ll have copies of The Black Lipstick Curse, as well as prints, T’s and Tanks, and original artwork for sale. It’s going to be a great time, and I hope to see many of you there.

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Check Out a Teaser for the New Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

Yesterday, we ran our interview with Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt from the set of the upcoming Marvel Studios film and it was soon followed by a brief teaser for Monday’s new trailer (check it out right here). Now, Marvel has just revealed a second teaser for Monday’s debut and it features the first line we’ve heard from Bradley Cooper as Rocket! Check it out in the player below.

An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy's fate in the balance.

Written and directed by James Gunn, the film stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Lee Pace, Djimon Hounsou, Benicio del Toro, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Karen Gillan, Gregg Henry, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker and Vin Diesel. Guardians of the Galaxy is set to debut in theaters August 1.

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Production Weekly says that Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) will star opposite Emma Thompson in the Nanny McPhee sequel, titled Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

“Big Bang” is set one hundred years after the first film. The magical nanny deals with city children and country children who are evacuees during World War II. It’s about the war and the war between these two sets of extremely different children.

The film starts shooting next month at Shepperton Studios.

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WASHINGTON - The tides are changing for US-backed financing
institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as regional
lending organizations are offering options without the historical
conditionalities of IMF loans.

President Barack Obama recently wrote a letter in support of
a bill to give $108 billion to boost IMF resources. On Sunday, the
Senate agreed to add it to the military spending bill.

Economist Raul Moreno, from the University of El Salvador, is among
the growing number of people who believe that the IMF does more harm
than good through its loan-giving practices. "Through the loans, the
international financial institutions, like the World Bank and the IMF,
establish a mechanism of conditionality. Governments applied for loans
and immediately their ability to spend was handcuffed by the conditions
of the loan. Through which governments were forced to adopt neo-liberal
policies," he says.

After receiving billions of dollars from G20 countries, Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director says that the IMF has rid itself of the
controversial conditions it imposed in the past. The bank opened up a
new  condition-free option, known as the flexible line of credit.

Reza Moghadam, IMF Director of Strategy, Policy and Research, says
that this option is "[for] those countries, the Fund is prepared to
provide rapid, large financing, based on their track record, without
the normal imposed conditionality during the programs."

The control that the IMF has historically exerted led to a massive
backlash in recent years. Seventeen countries have made new
with the Fund since the crisis hit. The new condition-free option has
only been extended to Mexico,  Poland, and Colombia - countries that
are all staunch US allies with neo-liberal economic policies already in
place. The other fourteen countries did not qualify for the flexible

"What I think you see is a tremendous double standard, when the
International Monetary Fund is calling for a global stimulus, and they
support stimulus policies, counter-cyclical policies in the United
States, the European, and Japan," Weisbrot says. "And yet, if you look
at their arrangements with other countries, middle income countries,
they almost all provide for the opposite, to pursue what Congress calls
pro-cyclical policies, which means cutting spending and tight monetary
policy, often raising interest rates, things that slow the economy."

New lending options have emerged out of the growing global
dissatisfaction with the IMF. Countries like Russia, Iran, and China
have offered crisis-time lending around the world, and there has also
been a rise of regional lending banks in Asia and South America.

These new lending institutions are attractive because most offer
condition-free loans and they are not tied to the United States. Moreno
says that there is an advantage in having alternative lending options
that are regionally based. "It's clear that in the current situation,
with fresh winds rising from the South, there are other options.
There's the Bank of the South project, which arose out of the ALBA [Alternativa Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América]
framework. I believe this is a possible way for the governments and
peoples of the Latin American and Caribbean countries to access a kind
of financing that isn't conditioned to impose the failed policies of
the neo-liberal model."

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Sanders, Reid, DeFazio Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Social Security

WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today introduced legislation cosponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to strengthen Social Security by making the wealthiest Americans pay the same payroll tax that nearly everyone else already pays.

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) introduced the companion bill in the House. He joined Sanders at a news conference in the Capitol to discuss their bill to bolster Social Security without raising the retirement age or lowering benefits.

“Social Security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. Through good times and bad, Social Security has paid out every benefit owed to every eligible American,” Sanders said. “The most effective way to strengthen Social Security for the future is to eliminate the cap on the payroll tax on income above $250,000 so millionaires and billionaires pay the same share as everyone else.”

Reid said, “I want to thank Sen. Sanders for his outstanding leadership in support of Social Security and the millions of Americans who rely on the program.  His legislation should make people think twice before assuming that the only way to strengthen Social Security is to take away benefits that seniors have earned, or raise taxes on the middle class.”

DeFazio added, “Despite the hype, Social Security is not now, and never was, the cause of our deficit. Those spreading these false claims are the same people who have for years been working with Wall Street to privatize the program. We shouldn’t cut benefits or try to balance the budget on the backs of seniors who have earned these benefits. We can just close a tax loophole that allows millionaires and billionaires to pay a lower percentage of their income into Social Security than everyone else.”

In addition to Majority Leader Reid, the Senate measure is cosponsored by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D.-R.I.), Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).

Under their legislation, those with yearly incomes of $250,000 or more would pay the same 6.2 percent payroll tax already assessed on those who earn up to $113,700 a year. Applying the Social Security payroll tax on income above $250,000 would only affect the wealthiest 1.3 percent of Americans, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.  Social Security officials say that simple change would yield about $85 billion a year to keep the retirement program strong for at least another 50 years.

The legislation is based on a proposal that President Barack Obama made in 2008 during his first campaign for the White House. (Watch the video.)

Since it was signed into law 77 years ago, Social Security has kept millions of senior citizens, widows, widowers, orphans, and the disabled out of poverty. Before Social Security, about half of senior citizens lived in poverty. Today, less than 10 percent live in poverty and more than 55 million Americans receive retirement or disability benefits.

The most successful government program in our nation's history has not contributed to the federal deficit. It has a $2.7 trillion surplus, and it can pay out every benefit owed to every eligible American for at least the next 20 years, according to the Social Security Administration.

To read the bill, click here.

For a fact sheet, click here.

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It Ain't Over Till It's Over: Wall Street Gears Up for Austerity Battles of 2013

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It Ain't Over Till It's Over: Wall Street Gears Up for Austerity Battles of 2013

For better or worse, a bill passed Congress in the wee hours of 2013 averting the much-hyped "fiscal cliff" for now and raising taxes on couples making over $450,000 and extending a lifeline of unemployment benefits to 2 million Americans.

But the vote is not so much an ending as a beginning to the austerity battles of 2013.

As the economy continues to stagger, the search for a "grand bargain" on taxes and critical social programs is likely to roll from fiscal cliff to debt ceiling negotiations into the annual budget battles. While some feel that a "grand bargain" is less likely than "death by 1,000 cuts," the ongoing debate will continue to pose serious risks for average Americans who will need to stay engaged.

Those who benefit the most from the status quo are gearing up for a battle royale and are hoping for a helping hand from President Obama's pick for U.S. Treasury Secretary.

Wall Street Backs "Fix the Debt" Coalition

Although the mainstream press has reported that Wall Street was lying low on the fiscal cliff negotiations, nothing could be further from the truth. Wall Street bankers and financiers knew that the fiscal cliff was but a prelude and they have been prepping for the battle ahead.

They recently unveiled a new front group with a clunky name but a glitzy new webpage called "Fix the Debt." The goal of the 95 firms in the coalition? To make sure that as the economy continues to stagger that Congress does not raise taxes on corporations or the rich, but first looks to slash the social supports that millions of average Americans rely upon. Always ambitious, the firms also want to permanently exempt from U.S. taxation all income earned by U.S. firms operating offshore -- a proposal sure to exacerbate the debt problem the firms are all so concerned about.

Pete Peterson Wants to "Fix" Grannie

"Fix the Debt" is the latest incarnation of the many decade long effort of Blackstone billionaire Pete Peterson to destroy social support programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The effort is being organized by Peterson funded New America Foundation and Peterson's son is on the coalition's board.

Peterson and his Wall Street cronies are following their tried and true formula. Gather a bipartisan group of "serious" men, hire a PR firm to place them on TV shows, blanket the media with talk of a looming crisis and pretend to have grassroots support ("chapters" they are called), across the country.

Peterson knew that the fiscal cliff was only the opening foray of the battle of the century. This time around he has created an astroturf "super group" who are looking to raise some $60 million for the first phase of operations.

Obama's Pick for Treasury Will Signal His Approach on Austerity

As the Fix the Debt shills, including Democrat Ed Rendell (who now works for a venture capital firm), Judd Gregg (an advisor to Goldman Sachs), Erskine Bowles (board of Morgan Stanley) and Sam Nunn (board of General Electric), take to the airwaves to try to convince the American people that the time has come to kick grannie out of the nursing home, a critical voice is missing from the debate.

The new U.S. Treasury Secretary will have more to say about the route the United States will take in the austerity debates ahead than any member of Congress. Yet, while Geithner is increasingly anxious to leave, Obama has not yet named his replacement. Obama's choice will speak volumes about his approach to austerity.

If Obama picks a pro-growth Treasury Secretary, one less interested in speed dialing Wall Street and more interested in the type of robust investment needed to put people to work and dig us out of this hole, it would be very reassuring to the unions, community groups and other grassroots activists who worked their tails off for the progressive "we take care of our own" message espoused by the Obama campaign.

But if he continues in the model of Geithner and picks an Erskine Bowles type, who raked in money on the Morgan Stanley board as the firm engaged in all the behaviors that lead to the financial crisis then sucked up billions in secret loans from the Federal Reserve every night to avoid complete collapse, then progressives know we are in for the fight of our lives. Any banker or financier tied to the crisis would be seen as a betrayal.

Fix the Debt's "Magic Moment"

So far, Fix the Debt has got fawning media coverage from outlets like the Wall Street Journal and CNBC. Watch as Bowles and Alan Simpson ("fiscal hawk icons" according to Politico) take to the airwaves today to "tisk tisk" the President for not slashing enough from social programs relied on by millions of Americans.

“Washington missed this magic moment to do something big to reduce the deficit, reform our Tax Code and fix our entitlement programs,” said Bowles and Simpson in a Fix the Debt statement after last nights vote.

The Fix the Debt "magic" means painful austerity for the rest of us. They are ready for the battle ahead, are we?

Mary Bottari

Mary Bottari is the Director of the Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and editor of their site.

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With the introduction of Shimano's new Ultegra 6800 groupset, most people's focus was naturally drawn toward the additional gearing options provided by the 11th cog. But the new group is something more than just added gearing; it represents an entirely revamped drivetrain system that now integrates its top-end Dura-Ace 9000 engineering into every one of its components. The new four-arm crankset displays this most clearly, as it pulls the same striking visuals and functionality that have made 9000's cranks so popular in the pro-tour ranks.

It's quite possible that Ultegra 6800's most stunning and recognizable feature is indeed the FC-6800 crankset, as it borrows the best technology from its Dura-Ace brother. On the surface, the FC-6800 is a complete departure from the traditional aesthetics of prior Ultegra. Gone are the days of the five-arm spider, and the necessity for a separate compact crankset has also fallen by the wayside. Instead, 6800 features a shift to a new four-arm spider design. This occured for several reasons, but most notably it's because the four-arm spider matches rigidity of Dura-Ace cranks while shedding close to 26g of weight over 6700. Also similar to Dura-Ace 9000, the 6800 cranks were built with Shimano's Hollowtech II construction. Over the past few iterations of Dura-Ace, this manufacturing methodology has played an integral role in attaining weight reduction without sacrificing Dura-Ace's superior stiffness. This, again, is a welcome improvement over the previous version of Ultegra.

Shimano has learned what works, and over the years has continually added to, and improved, the ideology of Dura-Ace, which now carries over extensively to Ultegra 6800. Hollowtech II and Hollowglide are prime examples of this. Strategic placement of hollow aluminum throughout the crankset and chainrings allows more structural material to be used, and when coupled with Shimano's integrated bottom bracket, creates an unrivaled weight-to-stiffness ratio.

The four-arm spider amplifies this characteristic, but more important to Shimano, it embodies its 'rider-tuned' philosophy. In this, Shimano created 6800 to work for you, the rider. Case in point, the four-arm design and the 'top-secret' BCD allows for front chainring combinations from 46-36T to 55-42T on the same spider.

The Shimano Ultegra FC-6800 11-Speed Crankset is available in sizes 170, 172.5, and 175mm and in 50-34, 52-36, and 53-39 chainring options. Shimano has also added a cyclocross-specific 46-36 combination in all three crank arm lengths.

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  • Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer

A definite improvement over the previous model in that the shift from the smaller chainring to the larger one is extremely smooth; it's almost as if you have to look down at the chainwheel to see if the shift occurred. More durable but heavier then the dura ace, but at a much more affordable price. No flex in the crank arm, stiff and smooth.

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I have a FSA Gossamer BB30 crank on my Specialized Secteur. Will I need any type of conversion kit for this crank or will it fit without any alterations?

crank arm broke off

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was using it for about a year and it started bending on the weld part where crank arm is connected and just snapped right off on a climb standing. got dura ace instead.happy for now

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I have an old Trek 5200 with a FC-6503 crankset and BB-6500 bottom bracket. I'd like to upgrade to Ultegra 6800 components but not sure what I need to do with the BB. Any advice? Thanks!

Will this work on my BB30? I've read something about some kind of adapter....

You would have to have an adapter. Item # WHL0004

Ultra Hollow Crankset

  • Familiarity: I've used it several times

Last winter, I totaled my 7 year old S-Works Roubaix, and miraculously, it was covered by my homeowners' insurance. I had my local shop build a new bike on a current S-Works SL4 frame, using Dura-Ace Di2, but I used the Ultegra crankset because I just though it looked cooler. I've had no problems with it.
Last week, my stepson salvaged what we could from the wrecked S-Works Roubaix and built a bike for my son using my son's old steel LeMond Buenos Aires frame. Once again, we used an Ultegra compact crankset (the carbon cranks from the wrecked S-Works wouldn't work), and we were surprised to see that the tool that tightens the crankset to the English threaded bottom bracket (cheap piece of plastic) wasn't included in the retail packaging for the crankset. I can understand why shops would have this tool at their disposal, but I cannot imagine any reason not to include it in the retail packaging.

Other than that one little gripe, I'm very pleased.

Can you put the Dura Ace 54t chain ring on this crankset? Or ... Does Shimano make a 54t ring for the Ultegra crank ??

I'm looking for the same, but haven't found that answer here or somewhere else. I'll probably put ROTOR QXL 54/42.

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I'd like to upgrade my mixed Shimano 9 spd drivetrain (ultegra 9spd brifters, 105 9spd front/rear derailleur, 105 5750 10spd compact crankset, ultegra 6500 9spd 12-27 cassette, and LX HG73 9spd chain) to full Ultegra 6800 drivetrain. Due to cost, I'd like to do this in stages, understanding shifters/derailleurs/cassette/chain will need to be done together, at minimum. Question is, can I upgrade crankset to Ultegra 6800 11 spd 52x36 and run as is until I can get remainder of components?

Avg. ride time: 4h 34m per week
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Hello, I have a road bike with a 10-speed Shimano 105 group and want to upgrade some parts to the new 11-speed Shimano. Are the groups compatible, will this 11-speed crankset work with 10-speed components? Thanks

The groups sets are not compatible but the crankset is. I ran the 11 speed crank last year with a 10 speed groupset.

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Any issues putting this on a QR Kilo currently running FSA Omega crankset / MEGA EXO BB? Also running 10-spd SRAM Rival. Any issues with 10 speed? Thanks!

Just want to be sure the Ultegra 52/36 will be compatible with my Trek Madone which has a BB90.

I have Ultegra 6800 on my Emonda, which has BB90. Works great.

My road bike is Ultegra Di 10 spd equipped but the crank is a rebranded SRAM APEX crank. I would like to swap it out with an ultegra 6800 compact 50/34. Will this work? Do I need a new BB as well?

While we have not tested it here, there are reports that you will be fine running 6800 11 speed cranks with the 10 speed group. You will indeed to get a new shimano based bottom bracket. Call me at extension 4769 if you have any questions.

Have found out that ultegra 6750 is still available. That is the 10 sp compact crank. 11 speed cranks are designed for a narrower chain.

A larger chain will work in the 11 sp crank but it may be noisy.

I ran the 6800 with a 10 speed group set all last year with the 6700/7900 chains no issue once so ever the 6800 is stiffer and lighter by far then the 6700 series no reason not to go with the 6800

I have and FSA 11 speed crankset ( stock on my 2014 Felt B14) with a BB30 bottom bracket will I be able to install an ultegra 11 speed crankset.

only with conversion kit shimano 24mm to bb30 or new bottom bracket

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I currently use 105 and wants to upgrade to Ultegra 6800. My Tarmac uses BB30, will I have any issues?

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If you currently have a 105 crank on there, you already have some type of adapter to go from BB30 to Shimano's 24mm spindle. All Shimano spindles are the same diameter, so you'll be fine. Just take the old one off, put this one on, and you'll be good. Remember you'll need the special tool that fits into the black plastic cap that is on the non drive side to loosen and tighten the crank.

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Would this work with my bike (without upgrading other components) if I currently have a triple ring 52/42/30T with a 9 speed cassette. I have a front derailleur shimano sora FD-3403 9 speed, and a rear derailleur tiagra for 9 speed.

I suppose I'm worried about it being compatible with my front derailleur and shifter... Common sense would say that I would need to change them, but I just wanted to check.

I have a 10 speed cassette and Ultegra FC-6750 50/34 compact crank, can I upgrade to the FC-6800 52/36 11 speed crank without having to make any other upgrades.

Yes you can use your existing ten speed chain and cassette with the new 11 speed crankset and chainrings. The outer width of the 11 speed chain isn't very different from the 10 speed and of course the pitch of all bicycle chains is 1/2". Feel free to contact me at if you have any other questions.

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Is the English threaded bb and the installation tool included? I'm guessing No, since you don't ask the buyer to select English v Italian thread...

Please confirm though

You can run a 50/36t, but this is not a standard ring configuration for Shimano. You would nee to purchase an extra ring to make this happen.

Thank you for the question, this crankset does not come with a bottom bracket or instillation tool. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Can you run a 50/36 combination on the Ultegra 6800 crankset?

Yes, the new shimano bolt patterns allow for whatever pattern you want where the old 5 bolts you would have to either get a standard or a compact.

I have just ordered a Jamis Renegade Elite which comes with a mid-compact 6800 52/36 crankset and the bottom bracket is an FSA PressFit 30 with Wheels MFG adaptors. I have just ordered the 6800 46/36 crankset from you and am curious if I need anything else to run this crankset with this BB setup?

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You won't need anything else, you will be able to just swap those straight out


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For those of you interested and unfamiliar with the Grocery Game, it is a web site that paid members may visit and find lists of sale items at their choice of grocery stores and pharmacies. The site boasts great savings for the consumer. The cost to the consumer is $10 for your first store list and $5 for each additional. Feel free to pay them a visit. www.thegrocerygame.com
SO I signed up for their $1 four week trial to see what all the fuss is about. I found during my 4 week trial that I'm finding most of the same information for free online by spending the same amount of time simply reading blogs geared towards sharing this information.
My trial period ended last Friday June 26 at 1am. I missed my end date due to our busy schedules and signed in Sunday, June 28th to cancel my account expecting a partial refund of the $35 I was charge on Friday. I assumed they would prorate my usage for the 2 days that I was late in canceling my account. After all in their words, *You may cancel at any time*.
Instead I find out that they will not refund any of my payment and my account WILL NOT be canceled until August 21st, eight weeks from now.
Now, I may be a simpleton, but they do state, as they say, quite clearly in plain text, not fine print that *You may cancel at any time* and to me that means I can cancel today, tomorrow, or next Tuesday and be reembursed for any future services that have already been charged to me.
Well, no such luck. They refuse to help me with any sort of refund, though they have not posted their policies any where on their site nor have they sent me a copy of my original agreement. In fact they refuse to discuss it. They take the stance that I did not cancel by the end of the billing cycle, so I am obligated to maintain membership until the end of the this billing cycle. EVEN THOUGH THEY CLEARLY STATE *You may cancel at any time* !!

I write this note to share my experience with you, so that you may avoid the frustration that I am dealing with. I think it is misleading for a company to say *You may cancel at any time*, but not have policies that support that claim. In fact, I do consider it lying, by omitting the facts that you may 'schedule' your cancelation at any time, but are acutally LOCKED IN for an eight week period and WILL be charged for the FULL eight week period regardless of whether or not you require the services any longer. If they would have made this policy clear I would concede that I don't have a leg to stand on, but their policies are NOT CLEAR and are NOT ACCESSABLE, leaving me and many others feeling cheated.
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 28th of Jun, 2010 by    0 Votes
A similar thing happened to me. I had signed up for the service a few years ago and wanted to try it again. I signed up for the free trial, I noticed my credit card was automatically charged for $35. I asked why and they said since I had already been a member, I could not get the free trial. (which doesn't say anywhere I can yet find). Since I noticed the error right away, I thought they would refund my money - no such luck and they are very rude about it too! I wouldn't have signed up for all the stores to try out if I knew they would charge me for them! I would have only done one!
 18th of Mar, 2011 by    0 Votes
I have same problem with this company. When I saw that the stores they propose are not the ones I use, I did not use the service and wanted to cancel. They do not answer phone calls and the email address they give on the phone for contacts is not working - I received my message undelivered: customerservice@grocerygame.com
Then, they charged my credit card, and refused to refund me anything. The contact is very rude at this company.
I am filing a complaint with the BBB.
My advice: stay away from them.
 29th of Apr, 2011 by    0 Votes
Pretty much the same thing just happened to me. They are extremely rude and give you cookie cutter responses saying what a great deal you are getting with all these extra weeks...haha. Yeah right. I'll count my losses and move on. Very disappointed in the Grocery Game!!!
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same thing happened to me just now, i found out that you cant cancel your membership. THEY DIDNT EVEN EMAILED ME FOR MY FREE TRIAL OR WARNED ME THAT MY TRIAL IS ALMOST OVER. I thought i hit a jackpot with this site. i didnt even used it. Now I dont know what to do. Can I just cancel my card so they wont bill me constantly???plss reply to my email acoupon1028@yahoo.com, .., .,
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I just noticed that I had a $40 charge on my credit card. Went on the website with the same thoughts as the above people and soon realized I was locked in for another 2 months. I realized after the trial that there was nothing special about this site and everything that I have been getting for free is actually better. When I signed up, I thought the website was actually hard to navigate and I didn't really know what I was doing. I never saw that I would be charged FIVE dollars for each store and they automatically sign you up for numerous stores- most of which I don't shop at. Very irritated that they don't even send an occassional email to you so you can actually remember that you have this stupid subscription or that the end of your trial is coming up soon. These people are scammers!!

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