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A benefit horse show will be held this weekend to help the family of Blaine Little.
The 21-year-old jockey from Enterprise died at University Medical Center, two weeks after he suffered brain injury in a riding accident at the Neshoba County Fair.
Those who knew and loved him are coming together to remember him and to raise money to help his family.
He loved to ride horses and he loved to do this stuff.
"We basically pulled together the horse community to raise money for his family, medical costs, funeral costs, basically whatever they need," said family friend Ashley Bailey. "We are just trying to help them out."
"I call him a kid because I've known him since he was probably three, probably born," said family friend Kandi Holland. "Great kid. Loved everybody. Great personality. Just come from a wonderful family that all the horse community would do anything for anyone."
Scotty Irons, who owns the ranch where the benefit will be held, says the community and companies are donating their time and money to help the family. He also says that the arena was for the kids.
"I built the arena pretty much for the kids in the community to have a place to go and keep them out of trouble," Irons said.
"He was racing a fellow's horse that he wanted to race that day," said Holland. "And the race started and he looked like he was in trouble from the gates."
Blaine was well thought of in the community and grew up riding horses. His friends say his death is a great loss.
"This is about everybody pulling together to celebrate the life of someone who just went too soon, that life ended way before it needed to," Bailey said.
Friends say Blaine would want everyone to celebrate and be happy.
Here are the specifics for the show:
Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
Sunset Arena in Neshoba County
$3.00 entrance fee
Call 1-850-368-8247 for more information.

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Earth : Europe : Germany : Northern Germany : Lower Saxony : Southern Lower Saxony : Schöningen
Schöningen is a town of about 13,000 inhabitants in the district of Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located near the border with Saxony-Anhalt, on the southeastern rim of the Elm hill range. In its current form, it was created in 1974 by joining the municipalities of Esbeck, Hoiersdorf, and Schöningen. Schöningen is a stop on the German Framework Road.
In archaeology, Schöningen is famous for four ancient wooden spears found in an opencast mine near the town (Bamford & Henderson 2003). The spears are about 400,000 years old (Klein. 2005. p114), making them the world's oldest human-made wooden artifacts, as well as the oldest weapons, ever found. Three of them were probably manufactured as projectile weapons, because the weight and tapered point is at the front of the spear making it fly straight in flight, similar to the design of a modern javelin. The fourth spear is shorter with points at both ends and is thought to be a thrusting spear or a throwing stick (Bamford & Henderson 2003). They were found in combination with the remains of about 20 wild horses, whose bones contain numerous butchery marks, including one pelvis that still had a spear sticking out of it. This is considered proof that early humans were active hunters with specialized tool kits.
The first historical mentioning of the Saxon settlement in the Royal Frankish Annals dates back to 747, when the Carolingian Pepin the Short stayed here during the conflict with his half-brother Grifo. Schöningen was the site of a Königspfalz of Pepin's son Charlemagne and later of the Ottonian dynasty. Saint Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz from 975, was probably born at Schöningen about 940.
From the 14th century it was held by the Welf dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who granted Schöningen town privileges in 1332. About 1350 Duke Magnus the Pious had a castle built here to secure the nearby border with the Bishopric of Halberstadt.
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L. Herzig Wilhelmstr. 11 Schöningen 05352 3541
Restaurant "Sportschänke" Inh. Janine Weis Alte Kirchstraße 1 a 38364 Schöningen Tel.: 0 53 52/30 80
Hotel Harmonie Am Wallgarten 12 Schöningen 05352 2023
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Dr. King graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She then completed post-doctoral research training in the area of Viral Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis and Northwestern University in Chicago. She has been an Adjunct faculty member of Georgia Highlands College since 2005.
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FANNETTSBURG — Jodi L. Bowman, 37, of Shippensburg lost control of a southbound 2010 Nissan Maxima on Route 75 due to the snow and ice and an object on the road and the vehicle left the road and came to rest on the shoulder at 4:35 p.m. Dec. 24, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Bowman, who was not hurt, was charged with an unspecified violation.
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The divine Ruth Pretty is a force to reckoned with, and I mean that in the most complimentary way. With her husband Paul, Ruth has grown the empire of Ruth Pretty Catering to an international phenomenon. Which other New Zealand caterer gets to present by invitation at the International Culinary Centre in New York? Ruth's session sold out and she had to put on a second show.
Who else manages to toast New Zealand by serving our food in Nagoya, Shanghai, Valencia and more recently being responsible for all the VIP catering at the Rugby World Cup, where the Government, the International Rugby Board and the NZ Rugby Union trusted her to host a multitude of international visitors?
Only Ruth Pretty, who still has her feet on the ground and is very much in charge of her kitchen.
The thing about Ruth and Paul's operation is that if you engage them, no detail will be overlooked. They have the experience, skills, staff and an office nerve centre (including a test kitchen) to ease a smooth passage. They can take care of everything. While this may sound advertorial, it is the truth.
I have attended Pretty-catered functions on large scale and small, and each has been seamless.
I worked for Ruth during the Rugby World Cup and can attest to the fact that she runs these fabulous events totally hands on. She is in the kitchen with the overview in her head; nothing happens unless she says so. She also has a physical check list to tick off and, as a list maker, I totally get this as a means of organisation.
I loved the opportunity to be part of this this slick operation; it's a joy of working with consummate professionals.
A recent visit to Ruth and Paul's base north of Wellington at Te Horo, Springfield, exemplified her approach . While Ruth hosted, taught and entertained her Christmas class, Paul and the team were working backstage to dispatch other functions.
The Christmas classes are very interactive. The production kitchen is converted into a teaching kitchen. Recipes are demonstrated, tasted then eaten as a slap-up lunch.
Ruth's background as a trained actress came to the fore. She is natural on stage. Later in the class a "wild goose chase" through the Springfield paddocks is led by Ruth, finishing at an outdoor country bar.
Drinks over, a barn door is raised and a Kiwi Christmas scene is revealed. We sit down to enjoy succulent lamb in a parcel, as demonstrated in class earlier, and the best icebox cake ever.
Springfield is Ruth and Paul's home, but merges into a venue. The productive home garden supplies the catering kitchen and a shop. Local growers are enlisted to provide strawberries with stems, and "fresh as" greens.
Ruth's father was a genial local grocer before retirement and I see Ruth channelling him as she fussed around her shop, tidying up displays.
I know Ruth and Paul from old Wellington days. It was such a pleasure to catch up with them. We sat around after the class, ate a simple pasta that Ruth made, drank lovely wine from Paul's cellar, and stayed in one of their gorgeous cottages.
The secret of their success? A totally client-focused approach that is warm, encompassing and hands on. Nothing is too much trouble. Theirs is a lesson to be learned by all service providers.
Ruth jokingly suggests that her empire is based on sandwiches. Mirth aside, who doesn't love a tasty samo? Here she shares some of her favourites from her new book, Ruth Pretty Cooks at Home: Chicken and rocket club sandwiches, salmon and endive club sandwiches, tomato, prosciutto and basil club sandwiches and sandwich mayonnaise.
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Suzume Opening Tonight in Williamsburg
Michael Briones and Sam Barron are opening a humble restaurant on the corner of Devoe and Lorimer. Suzume, which means sparrow in Japanese, is bringing sushi and ramen to Williamsburg via 30 seats set in a cozy room rife with Eastern influence. Barron is a carpenter with two other Brooklyn projects to his name in Maggie Brown and The Emerson. Briones honed his ramen skills in the kitchen at Momofuku Noodle Bar and learned his way around fish filets during his time at Bond St. In addition to sushi and ramen, Briones' menu at Suzume is one of izakaya-inspired small plates and everything on it shares a focus on sourcing the freshest ingredients possible. The restaurant opens tonight at 6pm.
We were lucky enough to get invited to a soft opening earlier this week. Here's a look at what to expect from Suzume.


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Although much of the preliminary process for a living donor is similar to that of the transplant recipient, there are unique elements that are specific to living donation particularly regarding the surgery and post-surgery care. The following are frequently asked questions that may not have been covered elsewhere on this web site:
All clinic, hospital, and reasonable physician's charges from donor evaluation are covered by the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program, whether or not the donor is accepted. You can discuss any questions, at any time, with the Transplant Program's financial coordinator.
As a living donor, you should be aware of the financial aspects of donation. Donors should check with their own insurance prior to donation. Although unlikely, the act of donating a kidney could possibly affect future insurance coverage. We recommend that you have insurance prior to donating a kidney. Some aspects of the donation may be covered by the Transplant Recipient's insurance.
Items typically covered by the Transplant Recipient's insurance:
Items typically NOT covered by the Transplant Recipient's insurance:
*For travel expenses and other funds, the National Living Donor Assistance Center (NLDAC) offers a grant to donors. However, there are income qualifications that both the donor and the recipient must meet in order for the donor to be eligible.
Patients are admitted the day of surgery. Pre-operative testing will be performed approximately 7-10 days before admission to make sure the donor is still in good health. A member of the Transplant Team will also meet with the donor prior to admission. Once admitted to the hospital, the donor will have another opportunity to discuss final concerns with a provider.
Surgery is usually scheduled early in the morning, lasts about three hours and is performed under general anesthesia. There are two surgical options: laparoscopic or open nephrectomy, which will be discussed in detail during your evaluation. Once the kidney is removed, it is immediately transplanted into the recipient. The donor's remaining kidney then takes over the work previously done by two kidneys. After the surgery, the donor is moved to the recovery room for observation, then returned to a hospital room when fully awake.
This depends on the donor's surgical procedure: for a laparoscopic kidney removal the hospital stay is 2–3 days; for an open nephrectomy procedure the hospital stay is 4–5 days. At the time of discharge, a follow-up appointment will be scheduled.
Immediately after the surgery, the donor can expect to be tired from the operation and anesthesia and will experience pain from the incision. Medication will be given to relieve the discomfort, which will decrease as the donor becomes more active. Usually pain medicine is not needed after the first week or two. As the incision heals, the pain will become less severe, but tenderness, tingling, and itching may continue for a number of weeks.
Pain medication may be necessary for several days after discharge, but no other medicine is routinely needed, and no long-term diet changes are necessary.
Laparoscopic kidney donors tend to return to work in 4-6 weeks, while open nephrectomy kidney donors return to work in 6–8 weeks. Restrictions will be discussed based on the type of procedure performed. Generally, sexual activity can be resumed in one to two weeks after discharge from the hospital. There are no long-term restrictions on physical activities, except for contact sports, which could injure the remaining kidney.
There will be a 6 month, 1 year and 2 year follow-up with the transplant team. We recommend that all kidney donors see their primary care doctor once a year for routine checkups. This annual visit should as a minimum include a physical, blood-pressure check, urinalysis, and basic blood tests. It is extremely important for living donors to pursue a healthy life style for the long term (getting regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight) to minimize the risk of hypertension (high blood pressure) and diabetes.


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Skip to comments.Mysterious Hebrew stone depicts archangel Gabriel, called a 'Dead Sea Scroll in stone'
Posted on 04/30/2013 1:16:50 PM PDT by Beowulf9
JERUSALEM An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means.
The so-called Gabriel Stone, a meter (three-foot)-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, features 87 lines of an unknown prophetic text dated as early as the first century BC, at the time of the Second Jewish Temple.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
But, what does the text say? I really believe that ancient Hebrews would not make an image of a heavenly being. Kinda non kosher.
If it is an unknown text, how do they know its prophecy,? Perhaps its just a wanted poster with long instructions on how to collect.
Given the amount of forgery going on in the antiquities trade, I'd hold the excitement until after a number of experts have had an opportunity to examine it.
It is ink on stone text most of which is gone or just barely legible. But it begins "I am Gabriel" and some part of it says "after three days you will live". There's no mention of challenges to it's age (as early as first century BC) but the article implies nothing like this, legible ink on a 3 meter (ten foot) tall ancient smooth stone tablet, has ever been found before.
"Given the amount of forgery going on in the antiquities trade, Id hold the excitement until after a number of experts have had an opportunity to examine it."
It's the only artifact of writing on a stone, I'm wondering about it too. I see it's been around a while, though.
Another artifact from "Antiquities Made to Order"
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Gabriel appeared to Mary (Luke 2). Perhaps this sparked a surge in angel worship?
A previously unknown prophecy about a future Cushite who wants to destroy Israel?
Wish there was some way to enhance the writing so it can be translated.
Father Catich wrote a book about Roman capital letters and how serifs that originated from brushwork by calligraphers painting the letters on stone, later chiseled-out by stone masons. The masons were always careful to follow the painted edges. This book he wrote, called The Origin of the Serif, was published over half a century ago.
During the Roman Republic, official notices were painted on walls by calligraphers, just like show cards were lettered for businesses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in this country. In fact, Father Catich, in his youth, lettered show cards for a living before taking Holy Orders.
This stele found near the Dead Sea could be a piece that simply was never completed by stone masons after the ink was applied by a calligrapher.
That sounds like a very plausible theory.
Although considering the small size of the text the carving would have looked something like cuneiform on clay and been a master work.
Reformed Egyptian ping
Anyone know Mark Hofmann's whereabouts around that time??
Someone alert Salt LAKE city!!!
In conclusion let us summarize this grand key, these Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet, for our salvation depends on them.
1. The prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything.
2. The living prophet is more vital to us than the standard works.
3. The living prophet is more important to us than a dead prophet.
4. The prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The prophet is not required to have any particular earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time.
6. The prophet does not have to say Thus Saith the Lord, to give us scripture.
7. The prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The prophet is not limited by mens reasoning.
9. The prophet can receive revelation on any matter, temporal or spiritual.
10. The prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. The two groups who have the greatest difficulty in following the prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich.
12. The prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidencythe highest quorum in the Church.
14. The prophet and the presidencythe living prophet and the First Presidencyfollow them and be blessedreject them and suffer.
I testify that these fourteen fundamentals in following the living prophet are true. If we want to know how well we stand with the Lord then let us ask ourselves how well we stand with His mortal captainhow close do our lives harmonize with the Lords anointedthe living ProphetPresident of the Church, and with the Quorum of the First Presidency.
Ezra Taft Benson
(Address given Tuesday, February 26, 1980 at Brigham Young University) http://www.lds.org/liahona/1981/06/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet?lang=eng
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Jan 12,2007
State releases outside review of child welfare staffing, organization
by Bend Weekly News Sources
National study supports agency's move toward new child safety model
A federal report released Tuesday by the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) validates the direction the state has been moving to improve child protective services.
At the state's request, the National Resource Center for Organizational Improvement provided technical assistance to ODHS to identify opportunities to improve the safety of children in Oregon's child welfare system.
"We're pleased that the direction we've been moving is supported by the report's recommendations," said ODHS Director Bruce Goldberg, M.D. "We will continue to standardize best practices and procedures, provide additional training to staff and supervisors, and consider a statewide workload study to ensure that staffing is aligned with the new child safety model."
In addition to a review of ODHS policy, procedure, research and data, the NRCOI conducted individual interviews, held focus groups in field and central offices and surveyed more than 680 staff, including supervisors, caseworkers, consultant education trainers and social service assistants.
The NRCOI is an office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The state's request was prompted by a report by the National Resource Center for Child Protective Services that identified staff development and supervision as two of seven necessary elements for an effective child safety intervention system.
In its report, the NRCOI recommended shifting non-casework duties such as those normally accomplished by attorneys or paralegals away from caseworkers. The Legislative Emergency Board last year set aside $2.5 million in General Fund dollars for DHS to access legal representation in child welfare cases. This initiative was implemented May 1, 2006.
The report also recommended creating a procedure manual to guide frontline staff. DHS is finalizing a 10-chapter procedure manual and has trained 1,800 staff on the new child safety model key concepts.
The child safety model, developed by the NRCCPS for Oregon, is the basis for the procedure manual and is a comprehensive, step-by-step child protective services guide.
The report is available on the ODHS Web site: http://www.oregon.gov/dhs/news/2007news/t-a-r_report.pdf


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IBM - International Business Machines - For over 100 years the name has come to symbolize many things. Big Blue - THE company that can get really big projects done. Too big blue. a symbol of "the giant bureaucracy," which almost failed in the 1990's. But over the past 20 years the company is rapidly renewing itself. The purpose is to be essential.
What is the essential "Business Machine" today? Andy Kessler (@andykessler author of "Eat People" Portfolio 2011) writes in the Wall Street Journal (https://ibm.biz/BdR9YL sorry subscription required.) about how the coming smartphone revolution will change every thing as we know it. Apple, Samsung and Google are mentioned many times. Where is IBM?
We speak of Mobility quite a bit this year. Ginny Rometty speaks of is consistently. Since the demise of the IBM PC, IBM has not played in the "consumer" space. Yet when the IBM Selectric typewriter was in it's hey day it was a business machine. As was the IBM PC. We just sold the "low-end" server division. In our public 10-K, the Systems and Technology division (that is the Machines part of International Business Machines) was down almost 19% year over year, with The Power Systems group down over 31%! So what to do about the Machine part of IBM?
In order to be essential, I believe that we need to rethink what a Business Machine is. In the WSJ article Mr. Kessler asks what will happen to profit flows at three billion devices. He conspicuously notes that they will flow to the best services that utilize smartphones. So, what do we do in each of our divisions, departments and groups (that is business partners too) in order to provide our customers with the best services?
Deliver a re-thought model of what a "business machine" is. A machine can be defined "an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work". Since we tend to think of things like a PC or a typewriter or some other hunk of iron, we do not think of software as machines per-se. This is where I think we as IBMers need to change. Rapid and aggressive development of machines that utilize the Mobile platform is what we should reform our mind set about. Software as a Service is a machine. Analytics is a machine, Cloud is a machine. Can these machines work on the mobile platform? Will they work in Africa where Google is deploying drones to provide Internet capability on US$35 Smartphone?
It is our job to ensure that our "International Business Machines" do. This will continue to make IBM essential.


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Two workers suffered minor injuries after a fire broke out at a Waterford business Thursday, June 12.
Waterford Regional Fire Department crews were called to a fire at a pole barn on the property belonging to A&R Sealcoating in the 4000 block of Pontiac Lake Road at 5:45 p.m, according to Capt. Steve Bridger.
The company's website explains the company provides pavement maintenance and preservation.
When firefighters arrived, they found a fully involved blaze in the 30 x 50-foot barn at the rear of the property.
Crews attacked they fire, said Bridger, and had it under control in a short time. One worker suffered minor smoke inhalation and another was transported to a local hospital with minor burns.
"The building was a total loss," said Bridger. No damage amount was available. Firefighters said the fire started after an employee was pouring gasoline into a power washer, and the gasoline caught fire. Crews left the scene at 6:45 p.m.


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A Dixon man has been accused of headbutting and threatening his 1-year-old daughter, according to court documents.
A Dixon man has been accused of headbutting and threatening his 1-year-old daughter, according to court documents.
Kevin R. Yazzie, of Dixon, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and child abuse, both class C felonies, for an incident that occurred last week.
Dixon police were called to a home on the 100 block of Locust Street at around 2 a.m. April 25 when neighbors reported cursing and screaming.
Court documents state that Dixon police saw Yazzie swaying the 1-year-old back and forth while his 9-year-old daughter was trying to grab the baby from him when they arrived on scene. Police said both children were crying and the 1-year-old had bruising on her forehead and a bloody nose.
Yazzie then told police the 1-year-old sustained bruising from when he was getting ready to feed the child and she fell on the carpet, according to police.
He also told a Department of Family Services (DFS) worker, who was assisting the investigation, that he left the kids at home alone while he went to Casey's General Store and the 1-year-old sustained bruises while she was "roughhousing" with her older sister.
Yazzie changed his story again when both police and the DFS worker were present and he said the 1-year-old sustained a bruise when he was giving her a cookie.
The 9-year-old told police that she woke up to her father screaming at the 1-year-old asking her "what arm she wants cut off first" and then witnessed Yazzie headbutt the 1-year-old, according to court documents.
Yazzie then agreed to take a blood alcohol test and blew a .200.
Yazzie is currently in the Pulaski County Jail with a $50,000 bond. He is set to appear in court May 6. If convicted, he could face 14 years in prison.


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Regent Village is an excellent setting for the upperclassman, older undergraduate student or graduate student who prefers both the convenience of living near campus and the atmosphere of a more traditional neighborhood.
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May 13, 2007
God himself couldn't pitch better than that.
By comparison, Papelbon's ERA+ last year was 500.
Pedro's best season was 285 (that is also the greatest full-season of all time).
100 is league average.
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- redsock said...
Also posted in the G36 thread:
According to ERA+, Sexy Lips (66) has been more effective this year than Mariano Rivera (58).
- May 13, 2007 at 9:44 PM
- Sean said...
bahahaha. 902 is ridiculous. I love Okaji, and even when he regresses to a pretty obvious mean, he'll be pretty damn good.
902, wow.
- May 13, 2007 at 10:52 PM
- Zenslinger said...
The bullpen has posted one loss. One. It belongs to Donnelly after Papelbon's blown save.
What's almost more impressive is the fact that they've only had to put up five wins. Which is to say that they've only had to participate in the decision one out of six games.
To take another example -- oh, out of thin air -- the Yanks' pen is 4-8 (with three losses belonging to Rivera). Not only a lot of losses, but a lot more need to be involved in the decisions (i.e., one way or another, not holding an original lead).
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Trained by Jason Servis and ridden by Elvis Trujillo, Christiesborntorun covered the five furlongs over firm turf in :55 2/5 and returned $3.20, $2.60 and $2.60 as the odds-on choice in the field of eight colts and geldings. Wildcat Glory, who finished 3 ¼ lengths behind the winner, rallied to complete the $18.60 exacta and paid $6 to place and $4.60 to show. It was another length and a quarter back to Outstanding Hope, who returned $6.40 to show.
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New Delhi, Jan 19 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday said Rahul Gandhi being named the Congress' vice president was a "mere eyewash" as it was a known fact for long.
BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said: "After hearing the announcement, I felt very amazed that a member of the same family is getting a post in the same party..It is something hilarious."
"BJP does not want to speak about his appointment.. It is their party's decision and they have every right to give a position to him, but it looks like an eyewash," Rudy added.
"The people of the country want to know what is in Rahul's mind for the youth and for the unemployed... People want to know what he has given to them in the party's eight year rule in the country," he added.
Party leader Shahnawaz Hussain said Rahul Gandhi's appointment is "not a big news..This is an old announcement...there is nothing new."
"The BJP thinks it is the Congress party's internal matter… the move (Rahul Gandhi's new appointment) will not help the party or the country.. He was anyway the no 2 in the party," Hussain added.


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Many of us are asking this question "Will the new online standardized tests be different?" and this post begins to explore where things stand at this point. There are two state coalitions that are designing the new tests, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. For a look at sample questions from both sites and a short discussion on what the "computer enhanced" testing may bring to your classroom click through to the post.
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FAIRFIELD'S Lana Tarek is just two steps from being crowned Miss Galaxy Australia.
The 18-year-old was recently declared a finalist in the NSW leg, and that winner will compete against other Australian finalists in March 2013.
The winner will head to Florida for the global final.
"I applied to take part in the contest out of curiosity," Ms Tarek said.
"I thought it would be a good chance to give back to charity and do something different.
"I had also entered Miss Teen Australia previously and was a regional finalist, so this will be my second pageant."
But Ms Tarek isn't just a pretty face.
She's studying law part-time, is an internal recruiter for a security agency and fundraises.
"I'm hoping to raise $3000 for the Make a Wish Foundation, so I'll be holding a warehouse clearance sale at my house from on October 27 and 28 — selling my coats, dresses, shoes and accessories," she said.
"I've also just started sponsoring a child from Zimbabwe.
"The judges will be looking at how much the contestants give back to the community."
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A car and truck collided on a straight stretch of the Princes Highway, 13 kilometres east of Colac, on the Geelong side of the railway crossing, just before 7am.
It is believed the car veered into the path of the truck travelling in the opposite direction.
The car burst into flames and the 23-year-old driver died at the scene, while the driver of the truck, a Colac man, received minor injuries.
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As things settle into place in the fall 2011 semester at St. Catharine College, new students are not the only new faces around campus. There have been several new hires since graduation happened last May.
Melinda Lynch was hired as SCC's new Director of Financial Aid. Stephanie Testa is the new Department Chair of Surgical Technology, while Lisa Taylor is the new Laboratory and Clinical Coordinator for Surgical Technology.
The city and St. Catharine College teamed up recently to move along in the construction of the Emily W. Hundley Library and School of Graduate Studies.
At a Sept. 29 special-called public hearing, the second reading was approved for an issuance of Industrial Building Revenue Bonds of up to $3 million to SCC.
Springfield's Abraham Lincoln bronze sculpture, entitled "In Sacred Union," by Paula B. Slater of Hidden Valley Lake, Calif., has been selected to be part of the Kentucky Civil War Heritage Trails.
Kentucky Civil War Heritage Trails is a new state program to help visitors and residents understand how the conflict shaped the commonwealth as the nation observes the Civil War's 150th anniversary.
Local farmers, listen up. If you grow it, or maybe want to grow it, they will come. 'They' are food distributors that want and need more local food for their clients.
Louisville Farm to Table and Washington County Cooperative Extension are teaming up to put food distributors that need locally grown food in the same room as folks in the state that either are or are willing to consider growing it.
To set the table, a meal of locally grown food will be prepared for those attending the conference.
According to a press release from Kentucky State Police, Trooper Fred Cornett is investigating a fatal collision that occurred at approximately 12:54 EST on Hwy. 55, two miles north of Lebanon.
Monte Edelen, 54, of Lebanon was operating a 1998 Ford pickup. Edelen was southbound on Hwy. 55 and attempted to make a U-turn, pulling into the pathway of a 1993 Ford log truck, operated by 67-year-old John Dowd of Owenton.
Dowd was treated and released at the Spring View Hospital.
After months of no official news from the Washington County Fire Protection Association, news came on Monday during the regular scheduled fiscal court meeting.
John Parker Wharton spoke on behalf of the committee made up of members of the fiscal court, the Washington County Fire Protection Association (WCFPA), himself and Washington County Attorney Hamilton Simms.
Wharton said the committee has not had regular meetings because 'there has been work going on trying to solve items that have stopped us from moving forward.'
A Springfield man has been indicted for allegedly pulling an infant out of a moving vehicle and tossing him into a ditch, and pulling a woman out of a vehicle by her hair into a roadway.
Timothy Lee Yonts, 31, was indicted on two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment in Nelson Circuit Court on Oct. 5. He was also charged with being a second-degree persistent felony offender. Yonts was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in Bullitt Circuit Court after a 2001 indictment.
A project that rolled out in late March is finally reaching its intended audience.
Project Lifesaver, which helps caregivers of Alzheimer's patients and autistic children, has been available for county residents since then.
Randall Chesser, the seven-year-old autistic boy that went missing for nearly two days last month, is the first person to benefit from the program.
The program includes a bracelet that resembles a wrist watch. The bracelet transmits a signal that carries over a 1.25 mile radius.
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Presenting at IP EXpo today Acadia CEO Michael Capellas positioned Intel as an equal partner to VMware, Cisco and EMC in the VCE coalition.
He showed a slide with all four companies contributing key technologies to the vBlock converged compute, network and storage packages.
Intel has made an undisclosed investment in The VCE coalition. In that case it should properly known as the VICE coalition. Our understanding is that although all for companies recommitted to the vBlock idea they are not that committed. A chicken is committed to an egg but it is not such a life-changing commitment as a pig being committed to bacon.
In this sense the VICE partners are chickens; they all have other irons in the fire, with EMC producing its Greenplum Data Computing Apliance on its own integrated hardware as well as making GreenPlum software available to Acadia. Similarly Cisco is playing nice with NetApp, nice enough for NetApp to make marketing hay out of the integration possibilities between Itself, Cisco and VMware - think VNE.
But it beggars belief that, say, Intel, will produce vBlock-specific product not applicable to Intel customers such as Dell, HP, IBM and Oracle.
Capellas is very bullish about vBlock and cloud momentum, saying: "This train has already left the station." He reckons that all great IT transitions happen in economic recovery periods when businesses are looking at new and more efficient, less costly ways of doing things.
Cloud-based computing will be rapidly adopted over the next 24 - 36 months and it will change the way we think about and consume IT. We'll change to a position in which we neither know nor care where the IT resource we are using is located.
Naturally the VCE group, or VICE as it actually is, occupies pole position in terms of bringing product to market. It represents a Collaboration of engineering by the best of the best, and has the most significant research and development power in the industry.
Collectively that must be true but only a fraction of that collective R and D is actually focussed on the vBlocks. Also there are significant R and D boundaries between the four players whereas competitors HP and IBM own much more of their integrated stack technology in house. They should, in theory, be faster and better at integrating stack compute, network, stooge and app layers than Acadia or the four companies playing VICE together.
EMC, with its GreenPlum Data Computing Appliance appliance exactly exemplifies this, having conceived and bought the thing to market far in advance of the vBlock Greenplum implementation and, we expect, with a far higher performance. It doesn't even use Cisco UCS servers, favouring Dell servers instead.
The VICE quartet are inherently limited in terms of the speed of their response and the depth of their integration compared to HP and IBM. EMC's GreenPlum appliance is a tacit admission of that fact. The only way to overcome this disadvantage is for the four VICE players to get even closer together; something they show no sign of doing. ®


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Augustana College will now allow same-gender weddings and "blessings of unions" on campus. President Steven Bahls notified faculty, staff and students of the decision to allow same-sex ceremonies after a recommendation from campus chaplains Richard Priggie and Kristen Glass Perez.
The school, located in Rock Island, Ill., is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which issued its Statement on Sexuality in 2009, leaving decisions on same-sex ceremonies up to individual congregations.
Rev. Priggie tells WNIJ that two gay couples expressed interest in having a ceremony, and that led him to push for the President's approval. The Bishop of the Northern Illinois Synod of the ELCA, based in Rockford, left it up to Bahls to decide whether or not to open the campus to same-sex union ceremonies.
The most prominent venue on campus is Ascension Chapel. Couples wanting to have a ceremony on campus must have some affiliation with Augustana.
Augustana extended health benefits to same-gender couples nine years ago.
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed legislation approving civil unions in 2011. The state currently does not allow same-sex marriage. Couples in Illinois can hold ceremonies including "rites of marriage" or "blessings of unions" by a pastor.
Here is the text of President Bahls's letter to the Augustana community:
Dear students, faculty and staff:
Earlier this fall, RichardPriggie and Kristen Glass Perez, our campus chaplains, recommended that the college consent to same-gender weddings on campus. I agreed to do so, and I would like to provide our students, faculty and staff with my reasons.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), to which the college is related, permits same-gender weddings so long as the local congregation consents. Because Augustana is a church-related institution and not a congregation, the Bishop of our Northern Illinois Synod of the ELCA determined that it was up to me as President of the College to provide or not provide consent. I decided to consent.When I came to Augustana10 years ago, I wanted to give meaning to our existing assurance to students and staff that they would not be discriminated against based on their sexual orientation. To me, it is about integrity. If we say we do not discriminate, our policies and practices should honestly reflect it.
Nine years ago, the college extended our health insurance plans to cover same-gender couples. At about the same time, we affirmed God's love for all people by becoming one of two "Reconciling in Christ" ELCA colleges. As such, Augustana publicly welcomes gays and lesbians to full participation and leadership in our campus ministries.
One of the Five Faith Commitments articulated by the Augustana College Board of Trustees in May 2005 is that "Augustana College celebrates God's regard for the worth of all persons," and the document extends an explicit welcome to "persons of all sexual orientations." Several of our most faithful faculty and staff, who serve our students exceptionally well, are gay or lesbian. We thank God for their talents and service to Augustana.
Though same-gender marriages are not recognized by all states, including Illinois, both Augustana College and the ELCA will now allow public rites that recognize, support and hold accountable lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships. Because it would be inappropriate for the college to dictate to presiding pastors the exact content of these rites, it will be up to presiding pastors and the couples to determine whether to refer to these rites as "marriages," "blessings of unions," or something else.
While I understand that reasonable minds within the ELCA currently differ about same-gender weddings, few would dispute that marriage is a beautiful commitment of two children of God to one another. To make a life-long commitment of love and fidelity is an extraordinary act of faith. We need more of those commitments in this broken world, and I am proud of our campus chaplains for bringing this request forward.
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The Seattle Police Dept has put out a guide to explain what the new laws will be about smoking pot.
Also there is a neat video at the end of it.
Marijwhatnow? A Guide to Legal Marijuana Use In Seattle
Written by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on November 9, 2012
The people have spoken. Voters have passed Initiative 502 and beginning December 6th, it is not a violation of state law for adults over 21 years old to possess up to an ounce of marijuana (or 16 ounces of solid marijuana-infused product, like cookies, or 72 ounces of infused liquid, like oil) for personal use. The initiative establishes a one-year period for the state to develop rules and a licensing system for the marijuana production and sale.


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Victoria Falls is a town in the western portion of Zimbabwe, across the border from Livingstone, Zambia, and near Botswana. The town lies immediately next to the falls, and they are the major attraction, but this popular tourist destination offers both adventure seekers and sightseers plenty of opportunities for a longer stay.
Get in
By plane
British Airways [1] and South African Airways [2] offer daily flights between Johannesburg (JNB) and Victoria Falls Airport (VFA). Air Zimbabwe also offers flights between Victoria Falls Airport and other destinations within Zimbabwe. Cheaper flights from South Africa are often available to neighbouring Livingstone.
By road
The roads within Zimbabwe are relatively good. The most direct way to Victoria Falls overland is from Bulawayo.
It's possible to drive in through Livingstone. Crossing an international border with a vehicle, however, will incur extra costs like carbon tax and insurance. Very annoying is the time consuming and disorganised procedure of obtaining a 'temporary import permit' for the car at the Zambian boarder posts. Once at the Zimbabwe boarder post, the whole procedure is to be repeated, though it is a bit faster but also expensive.
Comming from Namibia or Botswana. the best road is from Kasane in Botswana using the Kazungula border post. Distance to Vic Falls is 70 km.
By train
The classic way of reaching Victoria Falls is by the overnight train from Bulawayo, now back to running daily again. This train still uses lovely but somewhat downtrodden British 1950s coaches. First class tickets are $12 while second class goes for $8, no bed linen included. With old coaches and bad maintenace, do not except everything to work fine or sleep to well. However the scenery is fantastic and during the last few hours before reaching Victoria Falls you're garanted to see alot of wildlife. Depature from Bulawayo is at 7:30PM, arriving the next morning at 9AM, altough delays are rather the norm then the exception.
Get around
If you stay in the swanky hotels downtown, or even some of the budget accommodation options just outside the downtown area, walking is manageable. Most of places are no more than 3 km away from Victoria Falls.
Some of the hotels in Victoria Falls are not really in Vic Falls, but most of these have their own transfer services.
Cabs are plentiful, and should not cost more than $6 for a ride; bargain.
For a memorable afternoon tea pop in to the Victoria Falls Hotel for a 3 tiered sandwich platter and cup of tea: expect to pay $30 for the experience. A first class hotel still seemingly untouched by the country's woes though having lost the shine.
Whitewater rafting day trips sell for about $110. The price includes a full day of shooting some of the best rapids in the world (including some Class V rapids!); lunch, eaten on the water and all the beer you can chug after the climb out.
There is substantial opportunity to shop in Victoria Falls, and you can find a good deal. The curio markets are just behind the post office and has dozens of tourist shops from which you may select wood and stone carvings, jewelry, t-shirts, curios, books, postcards, artwork, etc. (For fun, see if you can find the shop with the pictures of Senator and Chelsea Clinton, from their visit.)
Traders in the sculpture markets are prepared to barter trade: hats, your shoes, T-shirts, pens, batteries are in demand. But think twice before you reduce people to the level of beggars. Just negotiate what you think is a fair price.
The downtown area features a few coffee shops, sandwich shops, and fast food options. For a few US dollars, you can feed an entire family.
All of the hotels have restaurants, and it is common to sample a new one each night. One place not to miss for a sundowner: The Victoria Falls Safari Lodge offers a la carte dinner, and The Boma offers a buffet 'eat as much as you can' buffet dinner with authentic African dancing. The Ilala Lodge has a nice a la carte restaurant (a bit overpriced for the portions served; and the In-da-Belly Restaurant located in the camp site is a nice place to have simple meal and hang out at the pool and meet overland travellers from around the world.
There are a Spar and a Seven-Elevengrocery store in town. Drinks and Food, snacks, camping supplies, are available at almost acceptable prices now that businesses are allowed to charge in US dollars.
There is no food available within the park so bring it in yourself if you need something. Also, the monkeys within Victoria Falls will try to snatch your food if you are not paying attention to it.
Victoria Falls is not known anymore for its tremendous nightlife. There are a few small bars near the downtown area, but they are not well-lit. It might be fun to stop in, but be careful.
Alternatively, all the hotels feature huge, well-stocked bars. However, the prices will be higher, and you might not feel that you are in Africa anymore.
Note that price ranges quoted are in US dollars.
There are many types of accommodation in Victoria Falls. You can certainly find what you are looking for. Some of the accommodation options are not really in Victoria Falls so be careful, if booking in advance.
Farther afield
Stay safe
There is no reason to use black-market money-changers as US dollars, South African rand, Botswana pula and euros are widely accepted. Be careful walking around at night, especially if you've been drinking.
Get out
Victoria Falls is located within 100 km of the four corners of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia and thus provides access to all of the countries, but the only point of any note within a reasonable distance to the park is Chobe National Park in Botswana. It is a common destination, and most hotels will be able to book journey on a day safari of one or two days.


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It's hard to find a cell plan without unlimited minutes unless you're buying a minimal-use, no-frills line...in which case you won't get a BB anyway. Might as well give a corpse a gym membership to stay healthy.
I can see it being somewhat useful in corporate situations where you have many BB users - but you still need to have everyone on WiFi. Sorry RIM, find a better way to stay relevant.
The carriers probably won't care - much - given above but I can't image they will be thrilled about it either. Everyo
Bingo. Useless.
Where you live perhaps.
In other countries unlimited minutes is practicly unheard of even for land-lines, but data-plans of several gigabytes / month for cheap is no problem.
Okay, my family is a bunch of luddites, I'm the only one with a cell phone. Brother would have one, but he's unemployed and had to give it up. Thus, all of my calls are to landlines, thus charged minutes. I do get the standard 'free weekends', and even with my small plan I always have excess minutes.
Unlike AC, I could see somebody 'trading down' plans if they're virtually always within range of wifi good enough for their voice. A number of the points close to me(such as the food court or bowling alley)
I've told lots of friends to get an Android device and use Google Talk / Skype to make calls rather than paying for minutes. Its just logical.
I have only 300 minutes, and often have half of those remaining at the end of a usage cycle. I'm on a grandfathered rate plan I've kept for a decade now because it gives me free first-incoming-minute and 50 free incoming text messages (which I use for automated alerts from my bank mostly).
I sometimes wonder if I should just move a prepaid plan instead.
It's hard to find a cell plan without unlimited minutes unless you're buying a minimal-use, no-frills line.
Yes - I think the carriers did this in response to skype on mobile devices gaining popularity. They jacked up the prices for all smartphone data plans and gave you basically unlimited calling.
It's the same thing for texting, iMessage on iOS gave you the ability to send messages to other iOS users over data, not SMS. So again they just baked unlimited SMS into the price for every smart phone plan.
But Canada == a shit hole. At least when it comes to how carriers are allowed to advertise.
They all loudly announce that they have plans with UNLIMITED VOICE MINUTES and UNLIMITED DATA. Then, in teeny, tiny print, smaller than fly shit, they define unlimited as 100 minutes of voice and 1 GB of data. Telus is a Canadian carrier that is particularly good at lying about the terms of their contracts.
But of course in the US we can use any phone model we want. Unlocked cell phones are easily available off of Amazon or whatever, and if we were to purchase a phone model in a foreign country we could use it in the US no problem, except for some extremely low-end models.
RIM is doing shit business around the world.
I can go to the local grocery store or convenience store in the US and get a limited contract. There's maybe 15 places within 10 minutes of my house where I could get a phone with limited voice ti
In January of this year, RIM put Wi-Fi calling into BlackBerry 7.1 OS. This using the carrier's Wi-Fi calling service (aka UMA-lite or GAN-lite). The caveat on that particular feature is "check with your carrier for availability." Looking forward to this, I upgraded using the Verizon image (if you will). I then did not see that feature. I called Verizon, whose business model is built around pay per minutes used. Th
I'm amazed that US customers put up with the restrictions on the phone models they can use, and the inability to get a decent SIM-only contract.
And what exactly would you expect us to do? Stop using telephony services entirely? Monopolies and cartels are neat like that. Our government has failed us utterly in this respect.
That being said, I buy my phones internationally and I pay for the entire cost up front. Regardless, I am still beholden to T-Mobile as the least abusive, but still very abusive carrier, in America. Their fucking 2 year contracts keep extending and there is no way to stop them. I am honestly considering just paying the $800 early
It's hard to find a cell plan without unlimited minutes unless you're buying a minimal-use, no-frills line...
This is not the case in RIM's home country. That said, this is not a huge selling point; you can do this with stuff like FaceTime, although that's video, or third party apps, although those don't integrate as smoothly (they can on Android though). Apple already did it with text (where when you text a phone number of somebody with an iPhone it automatically uses the free iMessage instead of SMS), they do it with video (where any call can be converted to a data-only video call), it's probably only a matter of
It's hard to find a cell plan without unlimited minutes unless you're buying a minimal-use, no-frills line...in which case you won't get a BB anyway. Might as well give a corpse a gym membership to stay healthy.
I can see it being somewhat useful in corporate situations where you have many BB users - but you still need to have everyone on WiFi. Sorry RIM, find a better way to stay relevant.
The carriers probably won't care - much - given above but I can't image they will be thrilled about it either. Everyone will just bake the cost into the "blackberry data plan" anyway.
Unlimited plans on major carriers like Verizon are extremely expensive. Like close to $200/mo after all the fees get tacked on expensive. That's why most people I know aren't using unlimited plans unless they're with some company like MetroPCS that has lower quality but much cheaper service.
So facetime and gtalk are just figments of my imagination?
I think it's mostly about integration, as in, you'll still go through the wi-fi connection even if you dial the number, as long as the target number belongs to a BB. For those other apps. the other user needs to be using them, along with a separate account, etc.
For gtalk at least it comes with every android phone and logging into the market I think logs you in to gtalk as well.
I still have like $18 in my Google Voice account. I needed to make some calls while out of the country a year ago, I couldn't get it working without latency or echoing. Had to switch to Skype, worked mostly OK. It's like Google is not even trying to fix their VoIP issues, just have it so some manager can check a feature off a list somewhere.
Awesome, if you get everyone BB user online at once you'll have
No, that's basically how FaceTime works, too. You call someone on the phone, and if the other end is an iOS device, there's a button you can push to switch the call over to FaceTime. It might require an iCloud account (I'm honestly not sure), but they're free, so that's not particularly important....
By default FaceTime uses (on iPhone) the phone number and Apple ID as keys to determining if a user can use it. So no iCloud/Apple ID/etc account is required (though I think you need one anyways when you set you
I think it's mostly about integration, as in, you'll still go through the wi-fi connection even if you dial the number, as long as the target number belongs to a BB. For those other apps. the other user needs to be using them, along with a separate account, etc.
Android already has this, it's called gmail.
Through gmail, I can use Google talk, which uses both video and voice, and which also works on mobile data (not just wifi), and I can also use Google Voice, which intercepts my long distance phone numbers dialed on my phone to go over voice over ip.
With Android, the integration is already there. And everyone using Android already has a gmail account, so there is no need for separate accounts.
Perhaps someone could invent a way to modulate a data signal into something that would fit onto a voice channel. Then your phone could call that device and use this voice link for data transmission. Surely one day such a technology will be invented.
Perhaps someone could invent a way to modulate a data signal into something that would fit onto a voice channel. Then your phone could call that device and use this voice link for data transmission. Surely one day such a technology will be invented.
Yes... some sort of MOdulator/DEModulator. Now all we need is a catchy name for it.... (sorry, my capslock got stuck)
Now, if RIM could figure out a way to convert that voice to data bandwidth,
Bell 103 modem modulation with acoustic couplers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_103_modem [wikipedia.org]
This was what my first modem around 1982 used to connect to compuserv. It was a TRS80 "modem 1" direct connect modem and I remember the answer/originate switch. Yes I'm a noob compared to some real old timers.
I had to check to make sure you and I weren't the same person. I remember the dial string just because, in particular case, it rhymed.
So I'm probably a couple years younger than you, because the modem was given to me. I stuck my Radio Shack Model 4P (the luggable with the handle on the top) onto a rolling desk chair, put the modem on top of that, and rolled down the hall in the dorm to get to the payphone. Unlimited local calls for a quarter, right? Worked pretty well.
I'm becoming everything I
Now, if RIM could figure out a way to convert that voice to data bandwidth, then we might have something to talk about.
No need to wait for RIM to do anything.
Get yourself an acoustic coupler [wikipedia.org] and you're set to go.
Ok, speed may be a little sucky by today standards but hey free data bandwidth is still free data bandwidth
Only over wifi, so this isn't much of a feature. And it's only to other Blackberry users who also happen to be on wifi, making it even less useful. And in general, voice is on the decline which is why some carriers are moving to unlimited voice & tiered data. Personally I've had over 4,000 rollover minutes from AT&T for 3-4 years, and that's with many expiring each month and with my wife and I sharing their smallest plan (500 shared minutes/month).
So this is cool, but I can't imagine this will sw
Just want business customers wanted, lower sound quality and congestion issues they can't control!
No one on the planet WANTS VoIP over the Internet, it absolutely sucks. They only use it because some sales person or TV commercial convinced otherwise. When I can't tell within 5 seconds that you're on a VoIP connection, I'll change my mind, but thats not going to happen anytime soon.
Stop trying to produce more low quality crap to retain customers, thats EXACTLY what put you in the position you are in RIM.
RIM did a great job for the time in which they really were market leaders.
Now, the market has moved on. The proprietary technologies of yesterday have open and Windows equivalents.
RIM needs to find a way to bring its unique interface, reliability and software experience to an open smartphone.
I think that smartphones are what they do well, and they should continue to make them, instead of hoping they can make a tablet that will keep them "relevant."
Do what you do. Do it well. Make it open, or Windows-based,
Make it open, or Windows-based, because either one is a market already waiting.
Since when have phones running Windows Phone sold in numbers even close to those of the iPhone or even a single major Android manufacturer, let alone the entire Android ecosystem?
Windows would be a future option that would allow RIM to offload the OS portion of their product onto Microsoft, including maintenance. As to whether Windows phones sell, I don't know. I think I know one person who owns one and they seem to enjoy it.
Ugh - this will do nothing to help RIM.
The only thing that I can imagine RIM doing to stay competitive is to license their Blackberry software while they still can. Dump (or severely reduce) the hardware and OS business, it's clear to everyone (and it should be to RIM) they can no longer compete with manufacturers offering Apple, Microsoft, and Android-based devices.
While RIM still has some foothold in the corporate managed mobile messaging arena, take that software and port it to Apple, Microsoft, and And
BES servers are already disappearing fast. The BES server is a big part of what is killing RIM. Why have another crap product between you and your email?
No one wants to resend servicebooks or have to reboot the BES and disconnect all users when one stops getting his mail.
My IT dept led the charge to kill the BES. We will not support any Blackberry device. We justified this via the man hours spent dealing with the BES.
Did you give your advice to Apple back around the year 2000?
Blackberry hardware isn't bad when you consider where and how it would be used. Non-replaceable batteries and shiny fragile cases are fine for first world people who regard gadgets as disposable. Sub-one day battery life is fine if you are always near a socket. But in large emerging markets, phones are an expensive purchase, long battery life and easy replacement are still important, a degree of drop-proofness is very desirable and the Blackberry data compression represents a significant reduction in outgoings.Putting a BB OS on some generic smartphone hardware is going to result in something that might be a bit cheaper but will cause customer dissatisfaction.
It took too long to get the new CEO on board, but at least RIM has a coherent strategy and a target market - the middle classes in South America, Africa and Indonesia, business users, and people who just do not like giving up all their data to Apple or Google. They may be about to go tits up, but they are at least avoiding your suggestion - which worked so well for Leo The Pharmacist at HP, and which was sensibly avoided by Apple.
The reality is that RIM is not building hardware that people actually want. Further, they are not able to develop on a competitive cycle. You mention two features which are nice (sturdiness and battery life). However, in my opinion, these two hardware features alone do not make a company competitive in this marketplace. This is not what made Apple a commercial success, and is not what caused HP to fail; I do not find these to be analogous. I guess that we'll find out soon enough if what you suggest is
The reality is that RIM is not building hardware that people actually want.
Sorry, are you from the past?
It's actually perfectly valid. Most RIM cell phones have a small screen and a huge keyboard, and in a time when having a large library of apps is a selling point, they don't. They look like such a relic. Nobody's lining up around the block for the latest RIM.
Excuse me? What RIM cell phone has sold well in the past 5 years that I was unaware of?
This actually might be quite interesting if it provides more secure voice communications similar to BBM. Rather than poo-poo'ing on RIM again because it is in fashion, maybe it should be looked at as an alternative to cell communications that the Patriot Act seem to be able to stomp on without any consideration for the rights of citizens. If that is the case, I welcome the alternative.
You mean the company that gladly hands over the encryption keys to every tinpot dictator?
I guaranty they already gave the keys to all the three letter agencies.
I don't have a bb, but I used to support some. If you have your own BES, RIM doesn't have your encryption keys so they can't hand them over. Sure, if you're using the telco provided BES, they will hand stuff over, but that's a given. If you run your own bes, you have end to end encryption controlled by you.
Wow, you're just impervious to facts, aren't you?
If your a BES user, RIM can't hand over the keys because they don't have them.
As always, RIM is the ONLY option for the security conscious.
Go find some new talking points, preferably some with facts behind them.
They've been raging and stamping their feet, because their bloated margins have been propped up by ripoff voice and text traffic charges, and criminal scams like international roaming charges. They wanted to avoid, at all costs, to be a "dumb pipe" where they'd have to live with fair and reasonable margins.
The chickens have come home to roost, the consumer wins, and the telcos get their long-coming, richly-deserved comeuppance.
What is this "voice calling" of which they speak? You mean there's now a way to project voice by cell phone? Stop the presses!
(Not really. Don't stop the presses. This isn't news. Other cell phones have had this "voice calling" feature for years.)
Considering RIM's small and declining market share hard to see how this helps.
It also can be counted as an advantage for RIMâ(TM)s platform over Android and iOS, at least until RIMâ(TM)s rivals begin to roll out similar solutions."
Well, if you want free wifi voice calling from iPhone to iPhone, start FaceTime, and put your thumb over the camera.
Release a new product already.
I would much rather they worked with Microsoft to bring native Skype applications to their platform.
... at least until RIM's rivals begin to roll out similar solutions.
Assuming RIM didn't file a patent for seamless and transparent calling over WiFi/VoIP when available.
I have a box at my house that signs into google voice to do VOIP. you can log into it (if i ever bothered to make the firewall work) with an iOS app and use that to make calls. This can call any phone endpoint, not just BlackBerries.
So, as listed over and over in this forum, there are several different ways to already do this. By baking it into BBM, they're both making it slightly easier (and harder, you ever try to remember a friend's BBM ID?) and slightly less useful - this is limited to the dwindling num
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MTV debuted this new trailer for 20th Century Fox's The Day the Earth Stood Still. Opening in theaters and IMAX on December 12, the remake stars Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, Jon Hamm and Kyle Chandler.
Look for ComingSoon.net's report from the set of the movie next week!


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On the cusp of Opening Day, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today that he is in the final stages of talks with Chicago Cubs owners regarding renovations at Wrigley Field.
"I'll represent the taxpayers in whatever we do to enhance the value at Wrigley Field," Emanuel said. "I will not put my money in their field so they can take their money and invest around the field."
What the recent talks have focused on and how a Wrigley facelift would be paid for remains unclear.
In late 2010, the Ricketts family that owns the ballclub proposed using the amusement tax that the city of Chicago and Cook County levy on Cubs tickets, but the plan received little political support. The family has had ongoing conversations about public financing with Emanuel and members of the Illinois General Assembly.
Today, Emanuel said those talks have gone well, but insisted he will not "subsidize private investors with public dollars."
"They should invest there. We've had good conversations. We're in the final stages of that. But always remember that I'm here to represent taxpayers but I'm not here to subsidize private investors with public dollars."
When asked whether an amusement tax would be part of a plan, Emanuel said, "Every piece fits together. I'll let you know the whole piece when we're ready. That doesn't mean anything but what I said.
"All the pieces have to work together. My job is to represent the people of the city of Chicago and represent the taxpayers so whatever we do we get good value as stewards for the taxpayer investment," Emanuel said.


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One killed, 2 injured at car wash
Updated 5:39 pm, Sunday, September 29, 2013
A shooting in broad daylight killed one and injured two Sunday in Fort Bend County.
Someone fired a gun at the Royal Wash Mobile Detailing & Car Wash on Avenue E near Murphy Road around 10:15 a.m., according to the Stafford Police Department. One died at the scene and the other two were sent to hospital in unknown condition.
Homicide detectives are gathering information. They have yet released the identities of the victims.


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 13071847 | Dated July 18, 2013
AILA is pleased to announce the recipients of the first "Pro Bono Heroes" quarterly awards. For Spring 2013, the AILA National Pro Bono Services Committee solicited nominations of individual AILA members representing AILA Chapters covering four regions. After considering all of the nominees, we are pleased to recognize the following individual AILA member Pro Bono Heroes:
Northeast (CT, New England, NJ, NY, Ohio, and PA):
Jennifer Peyton, Ohio Chapter. Jenna is a solo practitioner in Cleveland, Ohio. In 2006 she was one of the founding members of a committee formed to facilitate pro bono representation for non-citizen clients who were ineligible to receive government-funded free legal services. Jenna regularly represents mentally disabled clients in immigration court and is an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University Law School where she and law students work on pro bono cases together. She is also involved with the clinic at Cleveland Marshall College of Law. She gives back to the immigration community by participating in refugee brief advice clinics, takes on cases pro bono and inspires other attorneys to get involved in pro bono work. She also organized attorneys to provide Christmas presents for local refugee families.
Southeast (Carolinas, Florida, Georgia-Alabama, Mid-South, D.C. and Puerto Rico):
Trina Chu, Midsouth Chapter. Trina, a solo practitioner in Shreveport, Louisiana, generously contributes her time and assistance to the Immigration Integration Program of Catholic Charities of Shreveport, where she is always "on call" to assist and mentor Catholic Charities' accredited representatives. In addition to her active immigration pro bono service, Trina takes on non-immigration pro bono clients handling family law matters through the Shreveport Bar Association Pro Bono Project. She also regularly participates in the Shreveport Bar Association's Ask-A-Lawyer clinics and youth education programs.
Central (Canada, Chicago, Indiana, Iowa/Nebraska, Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota/Dakotas, Missouri/Kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, Bangkok District & Rome District Chapters):
Cindy Medina, Texas Chapter. Cindy is a solo practitioner with Medina Law Group in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to handling pro bono DACA cases, Cindy has been involved in organizing and assisting at DACA seminars. She also does community outreach and education work where she has presented on DACA and VAWA to students and to medical professionals. Cindy also provides pro bono immigration consultations twice a week at a local community center, Avanza Community Center. Cindy's pro bono work also reaches beyond immigration pro bono – she assisted with Avanza Community Center's incorporation and continues to provide pro bono legal services to the community center.
West (Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Northern California, San Diego, Santa Clara, Southern California, Oregon, Utah, Washington):
Stephen Manning, Oregon Chapter. Stephen is a partner in Immigrant Law Group, PC, in Portland Oregon, where he has a hearty pro bono practice focused on policy change through federal litigation and advocacy efforts. He is currently representing three clients pro bono to challenge consular actions and the consular non-reviewability doctrine. Stephen is a member of AILA's national amicus committee and for several years has worked tirelessly authoring amicus briefs on behalf of AILA. Recently, Stephen developed a litigation strategy to challenge the denial of driver's licenses to DACA applicants in Oregon and was part of a small team of advocates who negotiated a resolution without having to file suit. He also worked with local advocates to bring back driver's licenses to people without immigration status in Oregon and then drafted a FAQ to publicize the information to potential beneficiaries of this law. Stephen also promotes a pro bono culture within ILG, and as a result ILG staff frequently volunteer to lead workshops on DACA at local schools and libraries and volunteer at community events around immigration issues.
Please join us in congratulating these true Pro Bono Heroes.
Through the Pro Bono Heroes awards AILA recognizes individuals and organizations from across the country that embody the pro bono spirit, through promoting and contributing to pro bono work, taking on complex pro bono cases or handling a significant number of pro bono cases or pro bono hours.
Nominate your Pro Bono Hero for Summer 2013 today!
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Hello all,
I've just bought an Epson Aculaser C1700 USB colour laser printer.
I've got CUPS 1.4 on Ubuntu and Firefox but I can't find the C1700 and I can't make it find the printer in Admin - it needs me to select some initials, Samba etc but I've tried them all and if I get anything at all I can't see what to do with the information i there is any.
I had thought that Epson were very good in their Linux support - might it be that I didn't do enough research?
If anyone can help I'd be very grateful - there was me thinking it should all be so easy, I had thought that was what CUPS was all about!
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DURHAM, N.C. - Chris Marconcini was named the Ronald McDonald House Charities Duke Student-Athlete of the Week Wednesday after hitting .667 over four games this past week.
Marconcini garnered ACC Player of the Week accolades after going 10-for-15 at the plate with a pair of home runs, two doubles and seven RBI. In addition to scoring six runs and stealing three bases, Marconcini also reached base 14 times in 19 total plate appearances. He had at least one hit in each of the Blue Devils' four games with multiple hits in three contests, including a career-high four hits against UNC Greensboro Feb. 18.
Marconcini and the Blue Devils take on Norfolk State Wednesday at 4 p.m. from Jack Coombs Field.


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Space is the place, They say, and it's certainly popular today. Hot on the heels of Stardock's announcement of Galactic Civilizations III, Double Fine Productions has launched Spacebase DF-9 via Early Access. If you dream of building and running your own space station while peering into the inmost thoughts of its denizens, oh, what fun you'll have.
Starting with just three citizens and a tiny seed pod, you'll mine, build, and expand a space station, while dealing with meteor strikes, parasites, invasions, and other problems. Your space-folks are more than just numbers, with simulated social lives, jobs, likes and dislikes, and space-blogs revealing their thoughts--for example, that they can feel something squirming inside their guts.
Double Fine still has a huge long list of things it'd still like to add, but the basics are playable.
Paying at least $25 will get you a copy of the finished game for PC, Mac, and Linux plus alpha access. If you fancy paying more, more expensive tiers include the soundtrack, a bundle of Double Fine games, and having in-game citizens named after you.
Spacebase DF-9 began life in one of Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight game jams, as one of five ideas the public voted to become prototypes. Curiously, the game's also received financial backing from studios, companies, and folks including Indie Fund, Humble Bundle, and The Behemoth.
Here's a flashy trailer to celebrate the launch, though Double Fine has also put together an in-depth 38-minute gameplay demo with project lead JP LeBreton demonstrating how to start out:


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BVU Partnership Opens Door for Fellowship at Taiwan School
BVU Partnership Opens Door for Fellowship at Taiwan School
Sydney Snyder
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, Buena Vista University is expanding opportunities for students to gain international knowledge and a global perspective.
This summer, Sydney Snyder, a senior elementary education major at BVU, will travel to Taipei, Taiwan, as a recipient of The Dr. Marvin Ho Fellowship for English Teaching in Taiwan, one of the newest international programs developed by BVU. As an international fellow, Sydney will spend one academic year at the Taipei Language Institute (TLI) teaching English and serving as an instructor of American culture for students.
"This is such an exciting opportunity for me," says Sydney, who is from Lake City and is student teaching at the Storm Lake Elementary School. "I've learned a lot of useful strategies from my classes at BVU that I've used in my student teaching placements and will take with me to Taiwan. The experience I will get from this will only help me to become a stronger teacher."
BVU has a relationship with TLI that spans over three decades. Since the early 1980s, TLI has provided instructors of Chinese language for students at BVU's Storm Lake campus. Last year, BVU expanded its partnership with TLI to enable one recent education graduate to teach in Taipei as part of the Fellowship. Dr. Ho is the TLI founder and chairman of the Board of Directors who established the exchange program between BVU and TLI.
"Although TLI has many different partnerships with other colleges, none are quite as unique as the teacher and student exchange program between BVU and TLI. Both parties formed a great friendship over the years," says Camille Lee, assistant director of international communication/public relations at TLI.
"It's important to form partnerships with others globally," adds Lee. "People from different nationalities have different perspectives when looking at the same issue. That being said, it is crucial for us, individuals, to take on this responsibility to widen our limited world views by interacting with different people."
The Fellowship provides travel to and from Taiwan, living accommodations, a living stipend, and free graduate tuition through BVU's online program with coursework for an endorsement in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and training in Chinese language.
"The Fellowship is a way to expand the partnership we've had with TLI and to provide increased international opportunities for our students with an organization that we know and trust," says Dr. David Evans, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at BVU. "At the same time, the fellowship gives our selected student a year of wonderfully valuable teaching experience, intercultural opportunities, and Chinese language lessons."
"The BVU community should be very excited about this because I don't know many institutions that provide a fellowship of this magnitude," says Dr. Robbie Ludy, professor of special education at BVU who has also been closely involved with the Fellowship program.
Ludy, who was recently named as the new director of academic partnerships and coordinator of international education programs for BVU's School of Education, says one of her goals is to increase international opportunities for BVU students and faculty. "I hope this is the first of many fellowships and that we are continually looking at other programs and ways to build other partnerships."
Although the Fellowship is currently only awarded to one BVU education student per year, the program has the potential to expand, says Ludy. "Because there are multiple TLI centers in Taiwan, growth is certainly possible, but first we must determine which locations have the greatest need for people to learn English."
"I'm hoping the TLI experience will change the way BVU students view the world, and that they will learn to look at life through a diverse filter and reexamine their responsibilities to the world," adds Ludy. "Not only does the Fellowship allow them to become stronger educators, but gives them a prolonged and intimate look at another culture."
Sydney says she is thrilled to have the opportunity to teach English to students at TLI. "Professionally, this experience will give me the credentials that will hopefully help me land a job in the school district I would like to be at after Taiwan," she says. "Personally, the experience will teach me about myself inside and out. This will be the first time I am away from my family for a long time and I will miss them, but I know it's something I need to do for myself."