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-- Popular Programming Event Includes Halloween-themed Episodes of
"A.N.T. Farm," "Dog With a Blog," "Good Luck Charlie," "Jessie,"
"Liv and Maddie," "Phineas and Ferb," "Shake It Up,"
"Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man," "Wander Over Yonder" and "Mickey Mouse" --
Disney Channel stars Raini Rodriguez and Calum Worthy from the hit series "Austin & Ally" will host "Monstober," Disney Channel's month-long Halloween celebration dedicated to all things spooky fun. Beginning TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, this year's highlights include the season three premiere of "Jessie," premiere of the thrilling series "Wolfblood," new "Gravity Falls" short-form series "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained," an 'ear-raising' episode of the cartoon short "Mickey Mouse," and a special one-hour episode of "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man," guest starring Ross Lynch ("Austin & Ally," "Teen Beach Movie"). Popular series "A.N.T. Farm," "Dog With a Blog," "Good Luck Charlie," "Liv and Maddie," "Phineas and Ferb," "Shake It Up," and "Wander Over Yonder" will feature all-new bone-chilling episodes.
Rounding out the month is a marathon of fan-favorite Halloween movies, including "Girl Vs. Monster," "Halloweentown," "Twitches," "My Babysitter's A Vampire," and more, and the "Monstober" premiere of Disney
·Pixar's special "Toy Story of TERROR!" FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 (8:00 p.m., ET/PT).
The "Monstober" schedule is as follows (all times ET/PT):
8:00 p.m. - "Wolfblood"
The entire first season will air throughout "Monstober" every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night at 8:00 p.m., October 1 - 24.
"Lone Wolf" - The series follows Maddy Smith, a seemingly ordinary 14-year-old girl with a really big secret -- she is a Wolfblood. Not completely wolves nor humans, Wolfbloods have special powers including extraordinary strength, super speed, heightened senses and they can change into wolves every full moon. In the premiere episode, Maddy realizes she is not alone when she discovers the new boy at school, Rhydian, shares her same secret.
8:00 p.m. - "A.N.T. Farm"
"mutA.N.T. FARM 3" - The mutants are back for Halloween and this time they arrive at what they think is a new boarding school for monsters, only to discover it's actually a prison run by Winter. When they try to escape, they accidently open a portal to the A.N.T. boarding school and meet the human versions of themselves. Enjoying their newfound freedom, the mutants trick Chyna and the gang through the portal to take their places back in the mutant world.
8:30 p.m. - "Dog With a Blog"
"Howloween" - It's Halloween at the James-Jennings house and everyone looks to Avery to plan the family party. However, when Avery finds out that all of her friends, including her crush Wes, are going to a classmate's house Halloween night, she wants to skip the family's party and be with her friends. Meanwhile, Stan sets out to find the perfect costume that will disguise that he's a dog so that he can attend the party and converse with Ellen and Bennett. Guest starring Peyton Meyers (of Disney Channel's "Girl Meets World") as Wes.
8:55 p.m. - "Mickey Mouse" Cartoon Short
"Ghoul Friend" - When Mickey's car breaks down in a spooky forest, a Goofy-looking ghoul gives chase to everyone's favorite mouse.
9:00 p.m. - "Wander Over Yonder"
"The Pet" - When Wander and Sylvia board an abandoned spaceship, they encounter a horrifying alien monster that is set on eating them. While Sylvia sees the wild beast as a threat, Wander takes a liking to the ferocious little monster and tries to train it to be his pet.
9:30 p.m. - "Phineas and Ferb"
"Druselsteinoween" - When Vanessa learns that Doofenshmirtz has inherited a Drusselsteinian castle right next door to her she seizes the opportunity to throw the biggest Halloween bash ever. The whole town is there, including Phineas and Ferb, who act as the event's party planners and DJs. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz enlists Perry to help him find a large, hidden treasure that his Great Aunt has placed somewhere within the castle.
8:00 p.m. - "Jessie"
"Ghost Bummers" - When Mrs. Chesterfield throws a roof-top bash and doesn't invite Jessie and the kids, they decide to throw a Halloween party themselves. But their festivities take a haunting turn when Jessie begins to see ghosts and Emma, Luke and Mrs. Chesterfield are overcome by ghoulish spirits. Now, it's up to Jessie, Ravi and Zuri to defeat the ghosts and save the day and the building.
8:30 p.m. - "Phineas and Ferb"
"Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror" - This new episode of "Phineas and Ferb" features three separate tales. Tale One follows Candace as she accidentally conjures up a spell that turns her Ducky Momo plushie into a living, breathing doll that is set on stalking her. In Tale Two, Doofenshmirtz encounters a mythological, giant floating baby head that grants cursed wishes; and Tale Three pits Phineas, Ferb and their friends against a horde of mischievous, evil platypuses set on destroying the town.
9:00 p.m. - "Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man"
"Blade and The Howling Commandos" - It's Halloween for Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man, but there's no time for Spider-Man and his friends to trick-or-treat when they find themselves attacked by evil vampires led by Dracula himself. Spidey's only hope of stopping a world takeover is to team up with Nick Fury's secret team of super-powered monsters, The Howling Commandos. Led by Jack Russell, aka Werewolf by Night, The Howling Commandos include vampire hunter Blade, The Living Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and Man-Thing. Guest starring are Ross Lynch ("Austin & Ally") as Jack Russell aka Werewolf by Night, Terry Crews ("Everybody Hates Chris") as Blade, Oded Fehr ("The Mummy") as The Living Mummy, Kevin Michael Richardson (Disney XD's "Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja") as Frankenstein's Monster and Cory Burton (Disney Junior's "Jake and the Never Land Pirates") as Dracula.
7:30 p.m. - "Good Luck Charlie"
"Fright Night" - Teddy and her friends go 'Halloween Caroling' to raise money for the drama club. Meanwhile, PJ and Gabe's plans for a simple night turn creepy after a neighboring mom promises to get even with them for not giving her son any trick-or-treat candy.
8:00 p.m. - "Liv and Maddie"
"Kang-A-Rooney" - When Joey is too nervous to talk to a girl he likes, Maddie decides the best place for him to practice talking to girls is at the high school dance - when everyone is in costume. Meanwhile, Parker booby-traps the house to protect one of the family's most prized Halloween decorations from being stolen.
8:30 p.m. - "Shake It Up"
"Haunt It Up" - Rocky and CeCe decide they're too old to trick-or-treat and elect to have a "Mature-o'ween" with more adult activities, such as knitting and watching tear-jerking movies. They soon realize they're just missing out on fun and candy, and scramble to salvage what's left of their Halloween. Meanwhile, tired of being treated like a little kid, Flynn challenges Ty and Deuce to a scare off in an old abandoned house believed to be haunted by a young spirit.
9:15 p.m. - "Phineas and Ferb"
"Face Your Fear" - After studying hours of horror movies, Doofenshmirtz develops a theory that enlarging small, cute animals into giant beasts will help him take over the Tri-State area. But when he puts his plan into action, he soon realizes it might be too much for him to handle. Meanwhile, Phineas and Ferb make a giant revolving foam city so they can safely perform skateboarding tricks, and Candace's tour of the Danville Space Laboratory gives her an opportunity for a high-tech bust.
7:25 p.m. - "Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained"
New shorts premiere each night the week of October 14- 18 at 7:25 p.m.
· Monday, October 14
The new short-form series kicks-off the week with two back-to-back episodes, "Candy Monster" (7:25 p.m.) and "Stan's Tattoo" (7:55 p.m.). In "Candy Monster," Dipper and Mable must go into full on battle mode against a mysterious creature when it leaps out of the rafters and steals their 'Summerween' candy. "Stan's Tattoo" follows Dipper as he devises a plan to unravel the enigma that is Stan's Tattoo.
· Tuesday, October 15
"Mailbox" - Dipper and Soos stumble upon a mailbox in the middle of the forest and make it their mission to discover who (or what) picks up the mail left inside.
· Wednesday, October 16
"Lefty" - Dipper sets out to discover why a certain Gravity Falls resident always faces left.
· Thursday, October 17
"Tooth" - Dipper and Mabel find a gigantic tooth on the shores of the lake, and set out in a rowboat to find out where it came from.
· Friday, October 18
"The Hide Behind" - In hearing of a local lumberjack legend, Dipper investigates a mysterious creature that has been heard, but never seen.
8:00 p.m. - Disney Channel premiere of Disney·Pixar's "Toy Story of TERROR!"
"Toy Story of Terror!" - What starts out as a fun road trip for the "Toy Story" gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate.
4:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Marathon featuring encore presentations of Halloween-themed episodes.


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Gary Scott Smith, Heaven in the American Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Smith is a veteran historian at Grove City College, the author of The Seeds of Secularization: Calvinism, Culture, and Pluralism in America, 1870-1915 (1985), The Search for Social Salvation: Social Christianity and America, 1880-1925 (2000), and Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush (2006). In this new book, he focuses mainly on Reformed and evangelical views of heaven, its inhabitants, and how they spend their time (if time is a word that even applies there). It is a most instructive read—crisply written, largely accurate, and far more narrowly focused than the more famous histories of heaven by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang (co-authors of Heaven: A History, 1988) and Jeffrey Burton Russell (A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence, 1997).
Like most other cultural histories of particular Christian doctrines, this book is rather unsurprising–one might even say predictable. It shows that American views of heaven, though rooted in Scripture and tradition, have also shifted with the prevailing winds of American popular culture. Smith is fairer than most who have followed the well-worn formula for this genre (identify an allegedly timeless Christian doctrine; place it in multiple historical contexts; describe the macro-level cultural values regnant in those contexts; demonstrate the ways in which the allegedly timeless doctrine has actually morphed rather dramatically in keeping with those values; ignore most counter-examples, either of cultural trends or of those who march to the beat of a different drummer). He does not suggest that doctrine is always and only a social construct, or is absolutely relative. But the burden of his book is to show that while "most Americans have claimed to derive their images of heaven solely from the Bible, they also display their dreams, hopes, and visions of the good life. As a result, their depictions of celestial life shed substantial light on what Americans have most treasured and feared in various eras" (p. 7).
Those with a solid knowledge of American popular culture can guess what Smith says has characterized American views of heaven in each of the periods he describes. And in the main, what he says about his subjects is correct. However, adherence to formulaic views of American cultural history and its bearing on religion, seen as they must be with a bird's eye, from 30,000 feet, leads him astray from time to time. When treating Edwards, for example, Smith claims that "[h]e delivered numerous sermons that focused on heaven and only a few that primarily dealt with hell," and thus that "Heaven Is a World of Love" is "much more typical of his preaching" than "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (p. 29). This is largely wishful thinking in the service of his plotline. For though it is true that Edwards was not, pace his critics, obsessed with hell, he preached dozens of hellfire sermons over the course of his career, many of which survive today in Yale's Beinecke Library (and some of which appear to have proven rather more effective in "awakening" his listeners than more pleasing, culturally sensitive sermons on heaven). When treating his legacy, moreover, Smith asserts that "only a few" who led the Second Great Awakening "defended the Calvinist view of salvation" that had prevailed in Edwards' day (p. 56). However, as several scholars have demonstrated in numerous publications (Joseph Conforti, David Kling, Allen Guelzo, myself), this is simply not true. Edwards' legacy endured during the Second Great Awakening. Few would parrot his phraseology, but most within New England adhered to one form or another of his evangelical Calvinism.
This popular genre also abounds with unsubstantiated claims, such as that Edwards' "depiction of heaven has significantly affected the way countless American Christians, especially Reformed ones, have viewed heaven" (p. 45). I'd like to think that this is true, but Smith provides us with no evidence. Much of his narrative seems to suggest, in fact, that Edwards has enjoyed few theological heirs.
But again, such problems attend nearly every book in this genre. They can hardly be avoided. And such books are worth the trouble. They offer little that is original for academic specialists, but much that is informative, entertaining, and even preachable for many other readers.
This is a great general survey of American views of heaven. I recommend it to anyone interested in the subject.
–By Douglas Sweeney, Director of the JEC at TEDS
Tags: gary scott smith, heaven, heaven in the american imagination, heaven is a world of love, second great awakening, sinners in the hands of an angry God


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NEW YORK (AP) — The Spider-Man franchise will detour next with a "Sinister Six" spinoff in 2016, pushing "The Amazing Spider-Man 3" to 2018, Sony's Columbia Pictures said Wednesday in announcing an updated schedule.
By ordering "Sinister Six" ahead of the next "Spider-Man" movie, the studio hopes to expand the franchise with the group of Marvel super-villains.
Released in May, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" accumulated $706 million worldwide and only just surpassing $200 million domestically. That was considered a disappointing result, since it failed to top its 2012 predecessor, which made $758 million. It was also less than all of the box-office hauls for Sam Raimi's trilogy.
"Sinister Six," to be directed by Drew Goddard , is one of two spinoffs planned for the Spider-Man universe. No date has been set for the other offshoot in development, "Venom."
Sony had previously pegged "Spider-Man" sequels for 2016 and 2018, but "The Amazing Spider-Man 3" will now be pushed to 2018. In its place, Sony has slotted in "Uncharted," an action film based on the PlayStation video game.


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Police search for shoplifting suspect in Vidor
Vidor police are currently investigating an attempted shoplifting incident that happened Friday, July 12, at the Vidor Market Basket on Main Street at approximately 4:45 p.m.
According to a witness, a woman attempted to leave the grocery store with a basket full of items. As the woman attempted to flee the store, she left behind her purse. She ran through the parking lot and was able to escape at the time, but the witness speculated she would be easy to find because her identification was inside her abandoned purse.
Store staff detained a man assumed to be her accomplice until police arrived. Two Vidor police cruisers arrived at the scene and briefly questioned the suspected accomplice before leaving in search of the fleeing female suspect. A Vidor police officer said the case is still under investigation and no names or further information could be released at this time.


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New York, May 30, 2012-The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes today's release of French journalist Roméo Langlois who was held hostage for more than a month by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
"We welcome the release of Roméo Langlois, whose captivity signaled a significant setback for press freedom in Colombia," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas. "We urge the FARC to end the unacceptable practice of taking journalists hostage, thus depriving Colombian citizens of vital, independent information about the civil conflict."
Langlois, a Colombia-based correspondent for the international TV network France 24 and a contributor to the Paris daily Le Figaro, was taken captive more than a month ago during a firefight between Colombian troops and FARC rebels. Langlois had joined the troops to cover an anti-drug raid in the south of the country. In the past four months, three journalists have fled their homes after threats by alleged members of the FARC and criminal groups.


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Bank employee hit on head during robbery
Deputies search for robbers
A bank employee was injured during a bank robbery in Port Orange.
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Three armed and masked men entered the PNC Bank on Dunlawton Avenue shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday.
During the ordeal, the bank employee suffered a minor head injury from being hit.
Officials won't say how the employee was injured but say he was not shot, and did not have to go to a hospital.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office helicopter is assisting in the search for the suspects who may be in a silver Nissan Altima.
Police released the following descriptions of the robbers:
Suspect (1) Black male, 5'6 to 5'10, athletic build, wearing black loose fitting hooded long sleeve sweat shirt, black-dark denim baggy jeans, white sneakers, black ski mask, and black gloves. A red bandanna was partially exposed from his left front pocket. Suspect was armed with a silver handgun.
Suspect (2) Black male, 5'6 to 5'10, athletic build, wearing black short sleeve shirt, black-dark denim jeans, dark sneakers, black baseball style hat with white writing on the front, black cloth covering his face, carrying a black bag. Suspect was armed with black handgun.
Suspect (3) Black male, 5'8 to 5'11, thin athletic build, wearing black hooded long sleeve sweat shirt, dark gray long cargo shorts, dark sneakers, black ski mask, and black gloves.
Anyone with information is asked to call Port Orange police.


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Facts: Husband and Wife divorced after approximately 17 years of marriage. During the marriage, Wife was employed as a pharmacist while Husband stayed home to care for their two children and work on their farm. After a trial, the trial court awarded Wife a divorce on the ground of inappropriate marital conduct, finding "overwhelming evidence that [Wife] was subjected to domestic abuse that was on occasion severe physical abuse." The trial court divided the marital property and denied Husband's request for alimony, citing Husband's willful underemployment and ability to find employment outside the farm. Husband appealed.
The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's decision on alimony, finding that Husband suffered economic detriment for the benefit of the marriage. The Court of Appeals awarded transitional alimony of $2,000/mo. for three years to Husband. Click here to read my summary of the Court of Appeals opinion. Wife appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
On Appeal: The Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court opinion includes some new facts relevant to their analysis. First, the Court notes that the marital standard of living was a "modest" one, despite Wife's significant income. Second, the Court devotes several pages to detailing the horrific physical abuse Wife suffered at the hands of Husband over the course of the marriage. While the Court of Appeals acknowledged the trial court's finding of "severe abuse," the Supreme Court gives specific examples, e.g., two broken noses, an earlobe torn from Wife's head, and so forth.
The Supreme Court rejected Husband's argument after making four key findings:
1. "[T]he evidence showed that Husband is capable of working full time and earning a living that will allow him to maintain the parties' [marital] standard of living."
2. "Nor is there any evidence to suggest that Husband suffered an economic detriment of any kind by virtue of caring for the children while Wife worked outside the home."
3. "We also note that there is a complete lack of evidence that Husband needed financial assistance to adjust to life as a single person, which, as already explained, is the purpose of transitional alimony. Although the Court of Appeals found that transitional alimony was appropriate to assist Husband in adjusting to the economic consequences of the divorce, the record contains no proof as to these economic consequences, a point Husband acknowledged at oral argument."
4. "[I]t would be patently unjust to force Wife to continue supporting the person who repeatedly beat her to the point that she feared for her life and fled her home with her children and only the clothes they were wearing."
After noting favorable factual similarities with Gonsewski v. Gonsewski, the Court concluded:
The same can be said of the present case, as there was no demonstrated need for support of any kind. Indeed, the record contains no evidence at all regarding Husband's expenses, and we are not inclined to speculate about such matters. The record does establish that Husband was unsupportive of Wife's career, abusive, and underemployed. The trial court found that Husband can maintain the same standard of living after the divorce that the parties enjoyed during the marriage. Under these circumstances, we conclude that spousal support was unwarranted.
The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals and reinstated the trial court's judgment denying Husband alimony. The property division component of the Court of Appeals opinion was not contested on appeal and, therefore, was affirmed.
K.O.'s Comment: (1) I am glad to see the Court mention the necessity of demonstrating the causal relationship between a party's economic detriment and the decision to benefit the marriage by, for example, being a stay-at-home parent. This was not emphasized in Gonsewski v. Gonsewski, so it is nice to see it recognized here. This is consistent with the alimony statutes and lots of Tennessee case law.
(2) The outcome is not surprising in light of the fact that, according to the Supreme Court, Husband "completely failed" to offer any proof establishing the nature and extent of his need for alimony.
(3) This case does not represent a change in the law. Like Gonsewski, it is merely a highly fact-dependent analysis of the unique facts presented in this particular case. Aside from the fact that the Court reaffirms the points of law discussed in Gonsewski — citing it 24 times — I do not think it is of much substantive significance to Tennessee lawyers.
Mayfield v. Mayfield (Tennessee Supreme Court, December 3, 2012).
Information provided by K.O. Herston: Knoxville, Tennessee Matrimonial, Divorce and Family Law Attorney.


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Campus Safety
At Herkimer College, campus safety and security is our very top priority. Between our outstanding Campus Safety Office staff and other emergency services like the NY Alert System, students and parents can relax knowing we've implemented a wide array of safety mechanisms. From our campus siren to our blue light emergency phones to our nighttime auxiliary program, we're constantly improving our security systems. To learn more about campus safety and how we're doing, check out our Security and Fire Safety Report and our AOD policy.
The Campus Safety Office can be reached by calling 315-574-4020 for non-emergencies. Campus Safety works 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 356 days a year. The main Campus safety office is located in the Classroom Administration building room, 138. This office is not manned at all times and it may be necessary to call prior to going to this office. The Director of Campus Safety is located in CA263 in the Dean of Students office suite and can be reached by calling 315-574-4009 Monday through Friday. The Assistant Director works evenings and provides night supervision for the department. The Assistant Director can be reached by calling 315-866-0300 ext. 8499. Officers are dispatched 24 hours per day through the Herkimer County 911 Center. For emergencies call 911 or non-emergencies 315-574-4020. Campus Safety Peace Officers will provide the appropriate assistance and will as assist you with reporting crimes to other area agencies out of our jurisdiction. The Campus Safety Department maintains a memorandum of understanding with the Herkimer Police Department for assistant with violent felony cases as well as other crimes as needed.
It is also possible to confidentially report a crime.
If you have been the victim of sexual assault, you may report the incident to Campus Safety or to one of the College Counselors. The College Counselors can be reached at 315-574-4034, or in the McLaughlin College Center, room 302. Your well-being is their primary concern. They will treat you with respect, sensitivity and will keep your concerns in strict confidence.
The Counseling staff at Herkimer College is committed to assisting students with their adjustments to college life. Trained counselors are available for confidential individual screening appointments with all students. We encourage you to become familiar with their service and visit anytime you need someone to talk to.
Blue Light Emergency Phones
Outdoor emergency phones are located in various locations on campus. They are marked by BLUE LIGHTS above the phone. Pushing the emergency button inside the emergency telephone box immediately connects you to 911.
Herkimer College Student Nighttime Auxiliary Program
Herkimer College Student Nighttime Auxiliary Patrol (SNAP) is designed to provide additional eyes and ears for the Campus Safety Department, as well as provide safe escorts to students, faculty and staff walking about the main campus after dark. College work-study and criminal justice students are available to provide students, faculty, staff and community members with a walking escort on-campus. The service is available from 5:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M., Monday through Thursday. SNAP members also observe and report incidents that may require attention of an officer via portable radio directly. They do NOT initiate any type of security/safety actions aside from their observations/reports. Members of the campus community are encouraged to use SNAP during operational hours. To request a SNAP escort, call Campus Safety at x8616 or 315-574-4020 from your phone. Hours and days of service may change as needed.
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The selection of a coffin
We supply a wide range of coffins, from the most simple to the truly elaborate, suitable for burial or cremation. We recognise that for some people choosing a coffin may be distressing, but it would be inappropriate for us to make that decision for you.
We are trained to deal sensitively with this part of arranging the funeral and are on hand to deal with any questions or queries that you may have, to help you make the choice.
Enquire about our coffins
Your local Funeral Director will be able to talk you through the range they offer in detail.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility has dropped a complaint of patent infringement against Apple without explanation.
In a brief filing with the International Trade Commission on Monday, Motorola Mobility said it was dropping without prejudice a complaint that Apple had infringed on seven Motorola patents.
Apple did not return telephone calls seeking comment and Google said only: "As we have said many times before, we will continue to vigorously defend our partners".
Google and Apple have been locked in an international patent war since 2010, as Apple has sought to limit the growth of Google's Android system. The fight has embroiled Samsung, HTCand others that use Android.
Reuters reported in August that the two companies were in settlement talks. Google said in its filing, however, that "there are no agreements between Motorola and Apple, written or oral, express or implied, concerning the subject matter of this investigation."
The complaint can be re-submitted.
Florian Mueller, who was first to report the withdrawal on his blog, said he believed that Google withdrew the complaint to prevent it from being consolidated with an earlier case, thus slowing that case down.
In that case, an ITC judge had said in a preliminary ruling that Apple infringed on a patent for eliminating noise and other interference during voice and data transmissions. A final decision is due next April.
"Maybe they ... wanted to maintain their chances of at least getting some win against Apple in the U.S. in 2013," Muller said in an email interview.
The biggest victory in the smartphone patent war so far belongs to Apple. On August 24, a jury in a California federal court ordered Samsung to pay $1.05 billion in damages after finding that Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad.
Samsung was the top-selling mobile-phone maker in the second quarter of 2012, with Apple in third place, according to data from Gartner Inc.
Reporting by Diane Bartz; editing by Leslie Gevirtz and Andrew Hay


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January 15, 2014 by Alex Counts
Just as increasing use of a "gender lens" has transformed thinking about and the practice of international development in recent decades, so too can behavioral economics in the near future. In some cases, this discipline explains and reaffirms current practice. In other cases, the study of behavioral economics provides an alternative explanation of why some things work and others don't. In still other cases, it suggests that current thinking and so-called "best practices" are wrong and counter-productive. Now and then, it prompts us to consider readopting a practice that has fallen out of favor. (For an introduction to the thesis put forward in the book Scarcity: Why Having So Little Means So Much, visit Part One of this blog.)
Now, I will comment on the specific insights and implications I see for microfinance and international development when looked at through a behavioral economics lens.
Implications for Microfinance
Group-based Lending Methodologies. The analysis of scarcity helps explain the power of, and the tendency to use, group mechanisms in microfinance. The frequent contact clients have with staff and other clients has the potential to "get inside the tunnel" poor people often experience, thereby mitigating some of the resulting destructive actions and behaviors. (Perhaps group methodologies should be re-thought through the behavioral lens to magnify this positive influence by refining how those contact points are used.)
It may be that the need to pay off one's loan in public on an agreed-upon schedule incentivizes people to focus more on the medium-term considerations and strategies than would normally be the case for people who are "tunneling." For instance, family members of loan clients may be willing to work longer hours or more productively, and less willing to give in to temptations, such as smoking or consuming alcohol, in order to meet their loan payment obligations. (The reduction in "sin expenses" in families taking a microloan has been confirmed in at least one randomized controlled trial.) Scarcity also gives a new explanation for the importance of frequent loan payments, as the authors say that having "frequent interim deadlines" is a proven way of penetrating the tunnel that a single deadline months off in the future usually cannot. It also raises questions about the wisdom of building in grace periods into loan contracts with low-income people.
The Role of Technology. This analysis has some interesting implications for the use of technology in microfinance. On the one hand, to the extent non-intrusive technology obviates the need in accessing financial products for human contact – contact that has the potential to pierce the tunnel and focus clients' attention on so-called "important but not urgent" matters – it could be a negative influence. On the other hand, SMS reminders to do things that pay long-terms dividends but would otherwise be neglected while tunneling – like saving small amounts of money or taking ones medication on time – have shown promise. I find this a strong endorsement of Grameen Foundation's rejection of simplistic technology solutions to meeting the diverse financial needs of the world's poor, while strongly supporting technology solutions that involve human networks. (See below for some examples of that thinking in action.) The importance of human networks in making technology useful to the poor is something I delved into in my post on the Financial Inclusion 2020 conference held last October on the Center for Financial Inclusion blog. That conference, incidentally, is where I first heard of the book Scarcity, as one of its co-authors gave a very compelling presentation there.
The importance of savings. The wisdom of the recent emphasis of microfinance professionals on promoting savings is confirmed by behavioral economics. This is because accumulating liquid assets tends to reduce or eliminate the harmful impact of tunneling by creating what the authors term "slack." However, it also suggests to me that compulsory savings, which recently has been deemphasized and dropped by many organizations, may deserve another look. (Or at least opt-out savings plans, where clients are required to save unless they choose not to participate.) This is because people exhibiting tunneling behaviors will tend to neglect savings unless it is automatic, which partially explains the phenomenon of dormant savings accounts littering the developing world.
Flexible Loans and Consumption Loans. Easy access to very small, short-term loans from microfinance institutions (MFIs) is another potential source of slack – they mitigate against the tendency of poor people to decapitalize their businesses or take very high interest informal loans to meet immediate needs, or deal with "shocks." At one point the authors reflect on some of their own research in India and state, "[W]e were amazed by the high demand for loans that averaged less than $10. The product does not help build wealth [and] on the surface it does not look like the kind of sum that can transform a life. Yet it might do just that." The authors correctly note that loans can be a tool for reinforcing the negative impacts of tunneling, or for alleviating them, depending on the context and especially how they relate to magnifying or reducing the negative impacts of scarcity and its taxation on bandwidth. This insight forces us to think differently about the stale and perhaps wrongheaded critiques of microloans centered around how some of the funds officially sanctioned for starting or expanding small businesses are in fact used for other purposes, usually defined as "consumption." (In fact, some studies that have found that up to 40% of the funds clients receive in the form of microloans are not used for investment in business – statistics that are sometimes used to undermine the case for microcredit.) This critique loses some of its power when viewed through the behavioral economics lens. If microloan proceeds not directly invested in a business are used to provide helpful "slack," reduce scarcity (and the negative behaviors it leads to), and/or pay off high-interest debts accumulated in the past, they may be as high-impact as the parts of the loans invested in income-generating ventures.
Microinsurance. The potentially critical role of well-designed micro-insurance products is reinforced, as they help people deal with shocks and as such, provide slack, and thereby reduce the need for periodic tunneling. However, getting people operating under scarcity to pay attention to and then agree to pay for long-term risk management is clearly more of a challenge than most have previously understood. Fortunately, behavioral economics gives us some tools to confront that challenge. It suggests that building insurance into loan contracts – something that is fairly widely practiced even though it is increasingly discouraged – deserves another look.
Over-indebtedness. Behavioral economics analysis of scarcity explains and warns against the insidiousness of over-indebtedness, which is a logical consequence of scarcity (particularly for the poorest), especially when access to loans is relatively easy. It also explains why many MFI clients continue to borrow from moneylenders. This in turn reinforces the importance of credit bureaus, self-restraint by MFIs in pushing loans beyond what can be usefully deployed by clients, and client protection principles. The magnitude of people's tendency to focus on alleviating short-term scarcity (which is often through taking a loan regardless of the long-term consequences) suggests that these long-overdue measures may only prove to be partial solutions, especially for those suffering from the most acute scarcity. But clearly they move in the right direction.
The overall importance of microloans. The capacity of microloans to give poor people needed slack is directly related to their reliability. This affirms David Roodman's point about the most important achievement of the microfinance movement being the delivery of loans on a mass scale in ways that are predictable. Reliability may even be more important than the cost of the loans, since even relatively high interest rates are likely to be much lower than the long-term costs of mortgaging one's future by selling productive assets, neglecting children's schooling, or not buying medication recommended by one's doctor – behaviors that are commonly exhibited by all people (rich or poor) who are tunneling.
But perhaps even more important, reliable and appropriately used financial services decrease the need for tunneling through providing slack. In other words, they make it easier to juggle (akin to suddenly having fewer balls in the air) from a cognitive perspective. They can also dampen other negative impacts of tunneling, such as the inability to control temptations or temper, to be pro-active in taking care of one's health, or to remember to vote – behaviors that are consistent with well-being in the long term. But as we saw above, financial services that are provided irresponsibly, or even with insufficient attention to behavioral economics, can also aggravate and worsen these same conditions.
The Concept of the Rational Borrower. Behavioral economics tends to reinforce an important implication of an idea underpinning the approaches many microfinance practitioners take, the one that assumes that in most instances, "borrowers know best." The implication of this assumption is that extensive training of clients is usually not cost-effective, and possibly not useful at all. But behavioral economics arrives at this conclusion for a different reason. The advocates of "borrower knows best" often claim that the poor are best suited to leverage their existing "survival skills" and those can be pathways out of poverty if complemented by responsive financial services. Behavioral economics' explanation for the ineffectiveness of most efforts to train microfinance clients is that their experience of scarcity gives them limited bandwidth to absorb and apply new information. On the other hand, behavioral economics challenges another aspect of the "borrower knows best" school – the part that argues that the poor can properly weigh short and long-term considerations, since people who are tunneling often fail to do this.
Optimizing Staff Performance. In a section dealing with how to apply behavioral economics to organizations, the authors describe and explain why workers, in many contexts, get more done in 40 hours a week than in 60. Basically, "working overtime" can pay short-term productivity dividends, but those dividends are usually short-lived. The cumulative impact on workers' mental bandwidth is one way of explaining why this is so. For microfinance managers, the potential negative impacts of pushing field staff to consistently reach aggressive goals on long-term productivity and even ethical behavior are made manifest. And like many of the observed impacts in behavioral economics, it is not their existence but their magnitude which is most striking and unexpected. In addition, taking into account staff members' "cognitive load" and adjusting their responsibilities accordingly makes good sense. For example, giving staff assigned to troubled, remote or otherwise difficult branches additional annual leave or smaller caseloads would be a wise human resource policy.
Enhancing Social Performance. In an important tangent that relates to the larger question of how scarcity and abundance relate to each other, the authors attempt to partially explain the financial crisis of 2008. They hypothesize that in the lead-up to the crisis, financial institutions were exhibiting the behavior of "tunneling" with an exaggerated focus on short-term profits. They argue that the growing importance of "chief risk officers" in financial institutions is a way to "penetrate the tunnel" and as such, better balance short and long-term considerations. In the microfinance context, some loan officers and their managers have shown a tendency to tunnel by focusing inordinately on short-term financial profits, to the detriment of long-term client relationships, consumer protection, honest and ethical behavior by staff, and organizational social performance (also known as client advancement). Having empowered "social performance" and "client protection" officers is one way to create a healthier balance, as is generating (and, importantly, making visible) real-time data on social performance through use of tools like the Progress out of Poverty Index – in the parlance of the book, they also have the potential to "get inside the tunnel" that the organization and its staff tend to inhabit.
Implications for International Development More Broadly
Let me briefly look at a few issues which have broader application to poverty alleviation efforts beyond microfinance.
Client Training. While behavioral economics does not deny that the poor – like anyone engaged in business or even trying to manage their health – can benefit from learning new things, it concludes that the bandwidth that true learning requires is not something that the over-stressed poor can often afford to give. This certainly explains the phenomena of absenteeism and lack of impact on practice and even knowledge in many training programs. Said another way, training programs, especially traditional classroom approaches, usually fail to "penetrate the tunnel" and thus have minimal impact. Interestingly, research cited in the book shows that financial education training based on simplified "rules of thumb" does have an impact on applying knowledge and increasing micro business performance, whereas more complete classroom approaches do not. Behavioral economics tells us that this is because simplified approaches, while perhaps not ideal from a purely educational perspective, take up less mental bandwidth to absorb and, as a result, are more likely to penetrate the tunnel and lead to practical learning and behavior change.
The study of scarcity also challenges some premises behind many efforts to "educate" the poor. Lack of knowledge, the authors argue, is much less an issue than lack of bandwidth to absorb and apply knowledge. Mandatory training programs tend to take up bandwidth (cognitive capacity) in a variety of ways, and may be counter-productive. Furthermore, training programs are usually too linear and not "fault tolerant" enough, in that they make it hard to keep pace if one's life, complicated by managing scarcity, causes you to miss a class or two (a behavior that is usually explained as a lack of motivation on the part of the poor). Woven throughout the book are the ideas that blaming the poor for their personal failings, lack of willpower and lack of motivation are misplaced and the wrong ideas around which to build anti-poverty programs. The authors note that poverty planners usually wrongly assume that unemployed people are not busy, when in fact they are often busier (especially mentally) than the employed non-poor.
Thinking about the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs. As noted above, the authors were astounded by the demand for – and the potential impact of – very small loans. (They saw them as potentially positive to the extent they are effectively designed to dampen the negative impacts of tunneling by creating "slack" on demand.) One imagines that researchers looking at people using loans in this way often fail to appreciate the benefits involved with creating slack. The authors further hypothesize that the impacts of many anti-poverty programs are underestimated because they do not capture how those programs lower the "bandwidth tax" and the negative impacts of tunneling they usually lead to.
One obvious example is providing subsidized child care. Rather than having to juggle multiple options for having your children attended to while you work – your grandmother when possible, a friend, less than reliable babysitters, etc. – you have something consistently available. As a result, among other benefits, you relax. In others words, beyond saving the parent money and perhaps ensuring better supervision for the children, subsidized child care gives the poor "back all the mental bandwidth that [they] currently use to fret, worry, and juggle these [ad hoc] child care arrangements." People stressed by scarcity typically do not sleep as well as those who are not, which further diminishes performance. Helping people manage scarcity and reduce the bandwidth tax presumably helps people get more and better sleep, which further enables their performance in other areas of their lives.
The authors persuasively argue that researchers often fail to measure these benefits. They conclude by stating, "Some of our pessimism about existing [anti-poverty] programs might come from a failure to appreciate and therefore measure such [positive] impact" on working memory, impulse control and self-control. This is both a call to action to researchers but also to program designers, who should think more deeply about how various program elements tax or free up mental bandwidth.
Conditional Cash Transfers. During Sendhil Mullainathan's presentation at the Financial Inclusion 2020 conference, someone asked a question about the wisdom of conditional cash transfers – fast becoming a fad in international development – through the behavioral economics lens. Perhaps like the questioner, I thought it would get a positive endorsement, as it is a relatively simple and transparent way for people to access cash, which provides slack or at least alleviates immediate scarcity (thus lowering the "bandwidth tax"). Interestingly, Mullainathan seemed to be mixed to negative on CCTs, noting that all the mental bandwidth it takes to comply with the conditions built into these transfers may reinforce more than alleviate the phenomenon of tunneling and its tendency to cause people to neglect actions with long-term benefits.
Practical Insights and Applications: The Grameen Foundation Experience
Grameen Foundation and its partners have some experience applying the insights of behavioral economics. Sometimes those applications have been unconscious, while at other times they have been intentional and included advisers from organizations like ideas42 that was co-founded by one of the authors of Scarcity.
Grameen II. The Grameen Generalized System (GGS), better known as Grameen II, was launched by Grameen Bank in the early 2000s after several years of piloting. When it was announced, it was viewed skeptically by many microfinance experts. Most criticized were the provisions that made it easy for borrowers to reschedule their loans. Professor Yunus termed this element essential to making microcredit "tension-free." In fact, in his long article about Grameen II, Professor Yunus addressed this directly: "There are many exciting features in GGS, but I think removing tension from microcredit … [is one of the] most important features of them all. Tension-free microcredit is a great gift of GGS. Now both sides in the micro-credit system, the lender and the borrowers, can enjoy microcredit, rather than having occasional nightmares created by one for the other."
Through the behavioral economics lens, attempting to take the stress out of taking and repaying a microloan looks farsighted, even brilliant. It explicitly aims to free up much of a client's mental bandwidth so it can be applied to long-term investments of their time and money. Grameen Foundation and Grameen Trust have jointly published a manual, the Grameen Guidelines, about how to implement Grameen II in any country context. It was co-authored by our senior technical expert Muhammad Nurul Alam who has helped advise many MFIs on how to apply these guidelines.
MOTECH. In our Mobile Technology for Community Health program that began in Ghana, we used voice and text messages about good practices during pregnancy to reinforce and amplify what the overstretched nurses of the Ghana Health Service could communicate. While the research on the impact of these nudges to alter behavior (presumably by "getting inside the tunnel" even briefly) is not yet complete, the usage patterns suggest that we are on to something important – and something that the arguments in Scarcity would predict. Another aspect of this program was to allow nurses to digitize information to streamline reporting and make it more efficient and accessible. One hopes that this frees up mental bandwidth and time scarcity of those nurses, thereby allowing them to provide more and better quality services.
Community Knowledge Worker. By the mid-2000s, Grameen Foundation saw its "village phone" programs in Uganda and elsewhere tapering off because shared access models were less viable as personal mobile phones proliferated. We partnered with Google and others to develop content related to health, agriculture and commerce that could be delivered through SMS to cheap phones to people throughout Uganda. We did this because there was so much valuable information in these domains that would benefit the poor if they knew about it and acted on it. When we launched these services, it turned out that we got enough of people's attention – in other words, got inside their tunnels – to get millions of them to download information. We even measured that knowledge increased. But we did not penetrate their tunnels enough to apply the knowledge by changing behavior in the ways we had hoped. So in the end, we did not get inside people's tunnels enough to really matter. With this insight, we created a network of more than 1,000 farmers throughout the country who became the champions of the agriculture tips, and called them "community knowledge workers" (CKWs). Having someone nearby who knows you know that you have information that can help you make better decisions that will help you six months later (at harvest time) turns out to be decisive, as a International Food Policy Research Institute study measured significant increases in adoption of good farming practices as well as better prices for crops sold (due to using information about market prices) in communities served by CKWs compared to those that were not. It turns out the human networks can turn an otherwise ineffective technology solution into one that has high impact, as the former can penetrate people's tunnels and the latter often cannot.
The Impact of Loans in the Philippines. Clearly, all poor households are not alike. While there is evidence that for households with regular income streams (for example, from petty trade) access to a reliable source of liquidity provides security, we have also found that for poor farmers – who may have only one or two income generating "events" a year – credit can be a source of anxiety and can reduce subjective measures of well-being. For example, research conducted by Grameen Foundation in the Philippines found that smallholder farmers with debts were worried about how to pay those off – and reported lower well-being than those farmers who did not take out loans. This highlights the need for risk mitigating tools for farmers such as insurance and savings that gives them financial peace of mind, which that allows them to make better decisions in other parts of their lives. In other words, our research confirmed that for Filipino farmers, the terms of some loans amounted to a bandwidth tax that one can presume negatively impacted them in multiple ways.
Revamping Savings Offerings in the Philippines. Grameen Foundation, working with ideas42 and its enormously talented and energetic Vice-President Alex Fiorillo, recently used behavioral design and a randomized controlled trial to test the effect of applied behavioral economics to the design of savings accounts at CARD Bank in the Philippines as part of a larger project supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. By way of background, after a couple of years working with CARD Bank to develop a new savings program, we were stymied by the fact that many clients weren't saving as much as they said they wanted to. Nor were they building meaningful savings balances. Basically, an alarming number of clients were letting newly opened accounts go dormant, despite their expressed desire to save. It felt like all the effort and money that went into providing the new affordable, convenient and secure savings products and education on good savings habits was having limited impact. We used ideas42's behavioral diagnosis and design methodology to pinpoint psychological and behavioral bottlenecks to account usage among both new account holders and individuals with existing accounts.
The interventions proposed by ideas42 were astoundingly simple and inexpensive to implement. The savings account opening form was made simpler – easier to complete and with a requirement to select how the first deposit will be made. In other words, the cognitive demands of account opening were systematically reduced. Clients were also encouraged to complete a savings plan with the help of CARD Bank's staff. The plan, an effort to "penetrate their tunnel," focused on clients stating in the presence of another human being not only their savings goals, but also committing in writing how much and how often they would save in order to meet that goal. This small but meaningful act of writing down a commitment turned out to go a long way towards ensuring follow through. To support this process, clients were given a calendar to write down how much they saved every day, allowing them to see tangible progress towards their goals. We found that clients in the treatment group were 60% more likely to use new savings accounts and made deposits that were 11% larger than those in the control group. These clients also maintained larger balances. Likewise, clients in the treatment group with existing accounts made larger deposits and withdrawals and significantly increased engagement with their savings accounts compared to those in the control group.
Fonkoze's "Graduation" Program. Grameen Foundation partner Fonkoze was one of the first organizations in the world to adapt BRAC's "ultra-poor" program, with influences from Grameen Bank's "struggling borrowers" initiative and other approaches. It turns out that Chemen Lavi Mio ("Pathway to a Better Life") drew on insights from behavioral economics even without having studied it. For example, teachings about behavior changes ("life skills") are radically simplified. "In CLM, we use the concept of messaging where we identify what we think are the 10 most important messages for the clients and every week ONE of these ten is discussed in all interactions with the CLM members," says longtime Fonkoze executive Anne Hastings. "They are things like 'only drink the water you've filtered with the filter we gave you' or 'wash your hands before eating' – very simple messages. These don't overburden them as they are just struggling to survive."
Years later, after learning about the scarcity thesis, Hastings reflected further: "The whole concept of the way CLM lowers clients' bandwidth tax by removing some stresses from the clients' lives, like the cash payments in the first few months so they don't consume their new assets. Or making sure their house has a decent roof so the rain doesn't pour in during the night, eliminating a chronic worry and also reducing sleeplessness."
A Final Thought
Scarcity challenges us to think differently about what causes poverty, what keeps many poor people in the deplorable conditions they live in, and why many living in poverty do things that not only keep them poor but also make them poorer in the future. It also prods us to get outside our sectoral silos. In one of the more memorable passages of the book, the authors argue that behavioral economics demands "…a radical reconceptualization of poverty policy [by forcing] us to recognize the many ways in which different behaviors are linked… [R]ather than looking at education, health, finance, and child care as separate problems, we must recognize that they all form part of a person's bandwidth capacity." They conclude by saying this about anti-poverty programs that liberate bandwidth: "[they] boost IQ, firm up self-control, enhance clarity of thinking, and even improve sleep. Far fetched? The data suggest not."
What remains to be seen is how program designers, practitioners, front-line service delivery staff, and policy-makers take these insights into account in the years ahead. Grameen Foundation hopes to be one of many organizations that rethink what they do after looking at our pro-poor efforts through a behavioral economics lens.
Alex, you have provided a
Alex, you have provided a very thoughtful commentary on "Scarcity," and the way its insights can be deployed effectively in the microfinance sector. Concrete examples, like the ones you cite from CARD and Fonkonze are indispensable in making the case that behavioral economics can lead to an important "re-think" of some long unexamined assumptions about what constitute microfinance best practices. Some may be way overdue for a "make over."
Thanks for your comment, Josh
Thanks for your comment, Josh. I wonder if some group including CFI and GF could drive a discussion about this "make-over"? -Alex
Dear AlexThank you very much
Dear Alex
Thank you very much for such brilliant narations on ''behaviourial economics'' -- encouraging a wider perspective on issues of poverty than concieved by sectoral interventionist of agric, education, health, ... and in our case 'microfinance''
This reminds me of the other book on Grameen Bank by Asif Dawla & Barua (''The Poor Always Pays Back ...'') which you generously shared me at one of the microfinance conferences in Ghana (???) some years back. ... Asif Dawla similarly refected the unique situations of the 'ultra poor' in Bangladesh context relating to ''Aspiration Failure'', and, borrwing words by Appardurai (2004) stated:
…. while aspirations about the 'good life' exist in all societies, the capacity to aspire is unevenly distributed; the rich are more aware of the various manifestations of the good life, which they use to improve their material conditions, while for the poor, they are likely to be more rigid, and less strategically valuable -- not because of any cognitive deficit on the part of the poor but because the capacity to aspire, like any complex cultural capacity, thrives and survives on practice, repetition, exploration, conjecture, and refutation....
I look forward to reading this important book: Scarcity: Why Having So Little Means So Much ... Is it distributed by Grameen Foundation??
Looking forward to hearing from you back
Getaneh Gobezie (getanehg2002 [at] yahoo.com)


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Front Range chefs to cook for diners at downtown summer market
Here's a new one, at least in Denver. Head to an outdoor market and watch a Front Range chef buy ingredients and then cook a three-course meal – a park-to-table feast.
It's happening every Friday from June 14 until August 30 at Skyline Market in downtown Denver, which is held in Skyline Park. Fifty bucks per person gets you dinner for a party of 10, served in the park at 6 p.m.; beer and wine pairings are available, although not included in the fee.
Not up for the whole $50 shebang? Show up at the park at 4 p.m. and walk around with the chef as she buys ingredients and offers cooking tips. That one is free. And Skyline Market, chefs or not, is another welcome freebie, with ready-to-eat meals for lunch and dinner, farmers stands, a happy hour, and more. The summer market is Fridays between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
As far as the market-chef events, no blade slingers have yet been announced. Better hurry up, Skyline Park people – the first dinner is scheduled for this Friday.


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Foppa skating in Sweden (updated)
Above and below are pictures taken – by Rickard "Frisco" Andersson – of Peter Forsberg over the weekend in Sweden, practicing with his old Swedish team, Modo, along with other Swede NHLers like the Sedin brothers (one of whom is in the picture, and don't ask me which one it is, because I have no clue, they're identical twins!)
This was just a casual skate-around, but Foppa is slated to play in a charity game with a Swedish team named the Icebreakers this week. And, it makes me wonder how bad his foot problems are at the moment, if he's doing this stuff.
*Update: Forsberg scored a hat trick in the game, which was played Tuesday night. Don't forget, Sweden is nine hours ahead of Denver time.
As we noted in a blog and online story last month, Foppa said he probably won't think about even playing in the NHL again until at least Christmas. But, might something happen sooner?
With Foppa, you never know.


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text: It was a large room, and it reeked of synthbeer and pretzels, spiked with a little vomit. "Down in front!" someone yelled behind Lili. She ducked. "I said, 'down in front'!" the person yelled again. "I already ducked!" she yelled back, then turned around and was face to face with a familiar man. He looked like, who was he? The picture on Jenny's desk. Her fiancé. "Frank Ramirez?" she asked. Ramirez didn't hear her. "C'mon, Dr. Morgan!" Morgan turned. "Very well. Cretins." he departed. Lili looked around. Drunks everywhere. Men groping various women. Strange uniforms. Dim lighting. No one seemed to notice her. There was a communications chime, and she awoke. =/\= The main conference room was filled with Executive level personnel. Lili arrived last, still tired, uniform on. It was only fifteen hundred hours, but she wasn't hungry and wasn't sure she could function. "Ah, good." Captain Archer said when he saw her. "On screen." Hoshi fiddled with some controls. Treve and Chawev's faces filled the room's screen. "So you have a proposal for us?" Jonathan asked. "Yes. We have – I will come clean with you, Captain." Chawev said, "By doing this, we are hoping for a decreased punishment from our government." "Well, the motivation is immaterial so far as I'm concerned," Jonathan said. "Captain, we have made, we have made contact with our counterparts." Treve explained. "It is, this is a rare thing. We consider it to be a form of, of incest." "But we have news, and we believe it may be good news." Chawev added. "Treve's counterpart is with a female human. An engineer. And she believes that, in particular due to a boost from the sodium vapor flares between Ub and Fep, this will work." "An engineer?" asked Tripp. "Yes. She said her name was Jennifer," Treve said, "She seems to be a rather old woman." Lili smiled slightly. "Jenny's a lot of things but old is not one of them." "Be that as it may," Chawev said, "she is familiar with both your style of ship and hers. And thinks that a crossing-over is possible." "A crossing over?" asked Malcolm. "Yes," Treve said, "We think it may be possible – with enough power from your ship, the night side's ship, the stellar sodium vapor flares and our resources on the surface, to bring a night person over to your side. Permanently." =/\= "Permanent?" Doug asked quietly. "How so?" "Here's the plan." Tripp said, steering Doug into an unoccupied conference room. "We set the transporter to go to the planet. I don't really care where so long as we don't land in two meters of water or anything like that. Beth and I transport down. You lay charges on the coordinate computer and the transporter pads – any of the pads we don't occupy – and, once you've confirmed we're safely down, you set 'em off. Even though the coordinates are recorded elsewhere on the ship, they'll be in such a panic they won't notice that for a while as they'll be busy putting out a large fire. And shuttles are slower than transporting, so even if they get a shuttle out and pointed in the right direction, we're gone from our landing coordinates. And with most sensors down, and the two most senior engineers gone, no one's gonna be too good at determining where two humans are in a sea of Calafans, who have fairly similar physiology. Blend in with the locals as best we can, you can probably guess the rest." "And my benefit in all this?" Doug asked. "Other than giving the Empress what-for?" "Well, I figure you can shove MacKenzie off to Engineering if you like. They'll be shorthanded there. Or send over anyone else you don't like. Build your team with any new lackeys you want." "No. I got a better idea. I go down too and we set the charges to go off on a timer," Doug counteroffered. "Or that." Tripp said, "There's no confirmation that way. Plus little cover. With my plan, Beth and me, we get some cover." "You're asking a lot of me and not providing a lot of benefit," Doug pointed out. "I mean, what makes you think I don't want to be gone, too?" =/\= "What are the specifics?" T'Pol asked. "The process is three steps." Treve explained. "At least that is how Jennifer sees it, and I think she is correct. The first is collection, the second is amplification and the third is transmission. The collection portion is performed on her ship – which she estimates has about two to three times the power of your own. The, the subject reconfigures the transportation device to accept considerably more power than usual. And then sets coordinates – which we will provide – placing him in the midst of the thickest placement of dishes on Point Abic. Transportation would take longer than usual as there is no room for error and the touchdown has to be perfectly precise." "How long are we talkin'? More than a few seconds in a transporter stream is pretty torturous." Tripp said. Hoshi nodded. "About an hour, but it must be this way." Chawev said, "This is no mere transport; it is moving this man over to the other side of the septum between the two planes. It is going to take some time." "He's a soldier," Lili said, "And strong." "What's the amplification piece?" Jonathan asked. "The dishes will pick up the signal. For the subject, it shouldn't feel any different. The dishes will then project the signal to its final destination, which is your ship." Chawev explained. "How long does that part take?" Travis asked. "Much less time. A few minutes at best," Treve said, "But it's the final piece, transmission, that will take the longest." "Getting the subject from our surface to your ship – I assume to your transportation pad – will take the better part of a day." Chawev said, "Your ship has less power than the other one and, well, as I said, this is no mere transport." "That kind of waiting will be bad." Tripp advised. "I don't think anyone's been in a transporter stream that long without suffering from pattern degradation." "We don't believe that will happen," Treve said, "But of course we cannot be certain." "Did you – have you spoken to Doug about this? What does he think?" Lili asked, daring to hope a little. "Oh, we didn't know which human male he was." Chawev said, "Didn't want to target the wrong one, you know." "So he doesn't know?" Hoshi asked. "Not yet. We will need to make contact and inform him, also give him the specifics," Treve said. "Can't we just give him a PADD with the info?" Tripp asked, indicating his own PADD, which was on the table in front of him. "I mean, you want to see him and all, Ensign, but he should have this info in writing." "You cannot truly just leave equipment on the other side," Treve said, "He would be able to type on the device and read it but not move it anywhere. And the preparation will take a little while and movement to a few places. Plus, of course, we must be certain that the right person knows what to do. And that person needs to have it impressed upon him that time is of the essence. The sodium vapor flares provide enough of a boost to make this scenario possible at all. And they are fading. Starting the process tonight – giving him perhaps an hour to prepare and reconfigure the vessel – is our best possible shot." "I don't know if I can make contact properly anymore," Lili said, "I was just there, before this meeting, and didn't see him and no one could hear me." "It's gone asynchronous," Treve said, "Which happens when a less skilled contactor is asleep and the subject is awake. You'll need a bridge over the septum. I can, my father and I, we can do that, through meditation." "I'm no engineer," Lili said, "I don't know if I'd be able to explain what needed to be done. And, I admit, I'll probably be distracted." "Can, um, can you take a passenger with you when you make contact?" Malcolm asked. "That seems to be what Ensign Crossman was, on the other side. Is that correct?" "Yes. She was a passenger. She isn't a contactor at all. She was making physical contact with my counterpart at all times," Treve said, "A passenger on your side – particularly one who stayed awake – would absolutely need to maintain physical touching with the contactor." "I volunteer." Tripp said. Malcolm gave him the slightest of looks but it was gone in less than a second. "Commander?" Lili asked. "Yes. I volunteer. You said it yourself, you can't explain the nuances. But I can. That all right with you, Cap'n?" "We need to discuss this. Stand by." Captain Archer said. The screen darkened for a moment. "Impressions? And make them quick." Travis said, "I don't pretend to know a lot about this, but I think people should be happy." "He did help us find Lili." Hoshi pointed out. "I think we owe him." "There may be a tactical advantage to bringing Major Hayes here," Malcolm said. "The Major could be a dangerous individual, possibly a criminal." T'Pol said, "And this course of action is risky and unproven, and could damage the ship." "Even if the Major himself is no threat, he could be carrying any manner of microbes that we would have no immunity to. It could be like European settlers bringing smallpox to the Earth's New World," Phlox stated. "You all know my position," Lili said. "I agree that we're risking damage to the ship." Tripp said, "But we're here to explore and to, to take risks. And I don't think this is a foolish one." "Give me a moment to think, then get them back on, Hoshi," Jonathan said. =/\= "So you'll do it the way I like?" Doug asked. "All right." Tripp said, "You got an hour to get ready and pack whatever you want. We gotta take advantage of most of 'em being too drunk to care. And don't forget to pick up the charges." "'Course not, I'm a professional." "Yeah, I know, Old Man." Tripp said. =/\= "Objections are duly noted," Jonathan said, "And we will make sure that Hayes goes to Quarantine immediately upon arrival. No reunions, no talking, no detours. He runs to Quarantine, with Tripp here running the transporter. Tripp will get Hayes to Quarantine as fast as possible. And the Ensign, too, of course." "Thank you, sir. I don't know what to say," Lili said. "Well, we don't know if this will work at all," Malcolm said. "True. But for now, there's but one thing to do," Lili agreed. "Commander Tucker, let's go to bed."


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Some of the most popular annual bedding plants used by gardeners are impatiens. They are ideal for growing where you want color in your yard but you have lots of shade. There are so many types and colors of traditional impatiens. The eye-catching variegated white blooming Painted Paradise White is just stunning, as are the double-bloomed varieties.
Impatiens are generally divided by size into dwarf, medium and tall. And check out all of the colors of this classic shade-lover the next time you visit your local nursery. Currently 15 solid colors and three bi-colors are available. Those that flower with a double bloom resemble a mini-rose.
Impatiens were first found in eastern Africa, and are thought to be native to the island of Zanzibar. According to Gardenguides.com, the Impatiens Sultana is an early type of impatien named in honor of the Sultan of Zanzibar. Years later, the name was changed to impatiens wallerana, after Horace Waller, a British missionary who traveled to Africa in 1861. British physician and naturalist Dr. John Kirk is credited with introducing impatiens to the western world in 1896.
The impatien will love you best if you give it an area with fertile soil, humidity and protection from the most direct sunlight. Some of the newer varieties can handle more sunshine, but even these will shrivel and cower with afternoon sun. According to Gardenguides.com, the impatien is among one of the 500 species in the Balsaminaecae family. This family includes the New Guinea impatien, which is a hybrid introduced in 1989 that tolerates more sun. Known by the nicknames "Busy Lizzy" and "Touch-me-not," they got their name because they so easily release and scatter their seed with even the gentlest touch.
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The iPhone 4 will likely outsell the Droid X given the iPhone's built-in fan base. But I'm guessing the gap won't be as wide as some assume. The buzz I'm hearing about the DX is incredible. In my circle, more people own the DX than the iPhone 4.
Here are 5 excellent free apps/games that I've installed on my DX (install and use at your own risk):
1. LauncherPro – Allows you to view the home screen in landscape mode. You'll have to re-customize your widgets after installing the app, but it's worth the time. You can activate 3D scrolling in the app drawer and "pinch" any screen to see your various home screens. You can add up to 7 screens. The "plus" version (for $2.99) lets you resize widgets and install a nifty people (contacts) widget.
2. Google Voice – For at least the next year, according to reports, you can get free unlimited text messaging on your cell phone with Google Voice. Just sign up for an account, choose a Google Voice phone number, install the app on the DX, uncheck "receive text messages on this phone" on your account page via a Web browser and you'll be good to go. The texts use your data, so you should not incur any text message fees (check your account to make sure you're not getting charged). If you receive duplicate texts, you didn't set it up right. Using Google Voice to make calls will still eat up your phone minutes.
3. Advanced task killer – It's well-known that battery life on the DX is not great. This app will kill all Read more…


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Meet The Dedicated Fan Who Makes Your Broken PC Games Work
from the fan-friendly dept
We've made the argument for some time that a product, service, or company's fans and community are an asset not to be trifled with. If a community is embraced and the company is awesome, the results can be so beneficial as to be downright heartwarming (hattip to our own community, for always impressing me). This can manifest in a multitude of ways, from free and massive promotion to the community actually helping to make the end-product better.
It's that second example that is most apropros for this story. Let me introduce Peter Thorman, who also goes by the handle Durante on the interwebz. Who is he? Well, he's the fan who fixes crappy console-to-PC ports, improving the fan experience. And he does it for free, because he's a fan.
When Rising Star Games released Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut for the PC last month, the port of the Twin Peaks-esque cult favorite horror game had some serious issues. Chief among them was the fact that the game's resolution was, highly atypically for a PC game, locked to 720p. The outcry was immediate and vocal.And he did, in a way that would be impressive in general but is all the more so considering he had to reverse engineer everything without access to the source code.
But in spite of their outrage, many users expressed hope for a savior to come to their aid. "You on it, Durante?" asked one user. Like a Batsignal, the call was out.
The answer came less than an hour later. "I should be able to fix this."
The original port on the left, with Durante's patch applied on the right
As it turns out, Thornton has done this for many PC ports and has become something of a legend to gamers. As I mentioned before, this isn't something Thorman is paid to do. He does it because he's a fan of the game, interested in coding and computer science, and generally seems like an awesome guy. But if you're looking for his prime motivating factor for putting in what amounted to 70 hours worth of work:
"My primary motivation," Thoman said, "is because I don't like playing games at low resolution."You're welcome, everyone else that wants to play the PC version of the game. Here's where this gets really fun: how many people kept the game instead of returning it, or decided to buy the game after finding out the now-famous Durante had released a patch for the game that made it better? It's impossible to know the answer to those questions, but surely there was some impact. The developers of the game had said they'd release a patch as a fix as well, but that the resolution of the game was way down the priority list, leaving fans for whom that was a major factor out in the cold. Until Durante stepped in. They probably owe him a big fat thank you, at the very least. In fact, some fans of Thorman's have suggested he offer his work to companies as a paid service, but he insists it's just a hobby.
"I do this for fun," he said. "The more you do it as work, the less it will seem like fun."And the game companies benefit. Who says free never did anyone any good? Meanwhile, this ought to be a lesson to every producer out there on just how big an asset their fans and communities can be.
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Nobu to Sail in Crystalby Janice Wald Henderson | 2.21.13
Nobody does it better than master chef Nobu - to sail on special Crystal cruises
Nobu is one the world's most famous sushi chefs
Master Chef Onboard Symphony on July 2013 Black Sea Cruise
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Like Barbara or Brad, Nobu need only go by one name. He's that famous, around the world. The masterful Matsuhisa (Nobu's surname), who spearheads restaurants pretty much everywhere - but only at-sea onboard Crystal Serenity and Symphony - is going to join the latter ship's 12-day Rome-Istanbul Black Sea voyage beginning July 13. Hurry and sign up, because, like Brad or Barbara, this star doesn't make that many appearances and they always sell out.
Sure, he will sign cookbooks and stand smiling next to devoted fans for endless photos. But he is also going to cook. Nobu is preparing two "omakase," or chef's choice dinners in Silk Road, the restaurant with which he is affiliated. These dinners are limited to just 70 guests and will showcase some of the top toque's most famous signature dishes. White sturgeon caviar? Indeed.
He will also teach cooking (demonstration-style), sharing secrets behind his delectable dishes. That's a good thing, now that his miso black cod is craved on most continents. And Nobu will pop into Silk Road and the adjoining Sushi Bar during regular hours, to schmooze with guests. That flash you see won't be the famous green one at sunset, but rather, cameras going crazy for Nobu's friendly grin.
Sake tasting sessions should be another cruise highlight. Nobu is sailing with Fumio Hazu, the sake master behind Nobu's exclusive 140-+-year-old sake brand. During the tastings, Hazu will share insights into "live" sake brewing processes, such as playing Japanese music to bottles for three years "to create a smoother taste from vibrations." Huh? Hey, whatever works. And anyway, don't pregnant women play music for babies in the womb?
Not that Nobu's diehard devotees might care, but this Crystal Symphony cruise dubbed "Bounties of the Black Sea" also visits some interesting ports in Romania, Ukraine and Russia. So not only do you rub shoulders with a celebrity chef, but you also visit ports relatively unspoiled by those mobs of Med summer cruisers. Now that's nearly as good as Nobu's tuna tartare. (crystalcruises.com)


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Sunday, 23 October 2011
Toilet Trees
Welcome back. We've all been rather busy here at ZD Towers and can only apologise for the woeful lack of new material, but don't worry: normal service will resume soon. In the meantime, you should check out this work of art snapped by one of our reporters at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. In fact, read the whole of the Privy Counsel while you're there. It's weird. It's wonderful. It's a bog blog.
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Just like fries, but baked :-) My family loves this easy, healthy variation. This recipe is for a small family, easy to increase/multiply as needed.
2 medium Idaho potatoes
2 medium sweet potatoes
¼ cup oil (olive or canola)
1 Tbsp garlic powder (optional)
1 pinch pepper (optional)
1 Tbsp kosher salt
- optional: other spices to taste
Preheat oven to 400 F. (Higher should work too if you're in a hurry)
Peel potatoes. Cut in slices or french-fry style strips. Try to cut as evenly as possible so they will bake evenly (but leave the ends in their natural contours. The tapered ends make a nice crisp.)
Combine oil and spices (optional) in a large mixing bowl.
Toss potato pieces in the oil mixture until evenly and lightly coated.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper (foil will do in a pinch. I prefer paper.) Dump the potatoes onto it and spread to one layer. More than one sheet may be necessary; I have a pretty roomy cookie sheet and there is usually enough room for the stated quantity of potatoes.
Sprinkle with the kosher salt. (It is not necessary to use exactly a tablespoon, but you have to put quantities into the website so that's what I chose. Adjust to suit your taste.)
Put in oven and bake until crispy - they should start to brown and get darker around the tips/edges, but you don't want them to burn. Depending on your oven temperature this should take around 15 minutes. Pierce a couple of pieces with a fork, you want them nice and soft inside.
Remove from oven and serve while hot.


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