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Connecting socially with purpose.
March 21, 2010
©2007 Derek Sivers
This article isn't about strategies for using social media on a branding level. Those plans involve individual situations that are appropriate to the mission of a brand's campaign objectives. This conversation is about using online social networks for building professional relationships. If you're a professional using social media, your best plan is to have a purpose and be consistent.
I've always been a social person and after 15 years in the ad industry I enjoy meeting people and having conversations about the biz. About two years ago I joined adgabber.com, a social community site dedicated to serving the advertising, marketing and media industry – a place to share the latest ads and news. With over 8,000 members, I realized it was a great place to have conversations, post articles and gather content. The site was formed as a sub social group of Adrants.com.
Why am I sharing this with you? Because it's the premise to my purpose for using online social media for professional reasons. Like AdGabber, there are many tools available to establish relationships for building a solid professional network.
Linkedin.com is an awesome tool. It's basically an online resume on steroids – it lists my work history and professional connections throughout my career including associations, books I'm reading and groups I'm affiliated with. This network is probably the most relevant relationship builder for having conversations with other professionals in the industry where you work, or within related industries. In advertising it's especially great for connecting with say, brand managers with whom you don't normally communicate and would want to establish a network with. If you're not familiar with its purpose here's a little info. on it:
Ok, so these social tools were the foundation to my online relationships. Then I joined twitter. Twitter allowed for instant real-time sharing of valuable content from whom I followed: Ad Men, Social Media Gurus, Graphic Designers, Art Directors, etc. I also used this tool to promote content from the ad agency where I worked – as the Creative Director. This was my purpose and I remain consistent with it to this day. Some use it merely as another form of personal socializing, I made sure I didn't follow these Tweeps. The people I followed and still follow are aligned with my purpose and are all associated with advertising in one form or another. And, for the most part, the people who follow me are the same. In short, this is the real beauty of twitter. To boot, it proved to be important in research and keeping current in my industry.
All this may be elementary for a lot of you, just stay with me a little longer, I have a point to make.
Now that I had my three levels of online relationships down it was just a matter of being consistent with the sharing, conversations and contributing. I did this on a regular basis and it was part of my daily plan. If you don't plan your day using social media this way, it can very easily consume your whole day – don't let that happen.
This formula and the certain social networks I use is my personal strategy. There are many other social tools available for you to use. However, based on the personal professional mission I'm talking about here, this plan works pretty well.
Ok, here's why I wanted you to stay with me – I left my job as Creative Director at redpepper. What happened next is how I have positioned myself for further employment and other opportunities with the world.
With the three networks already established all I had to do was: build this site to showcase my work (portfolio) and convey my understanding of advertising strategies; provide relevant content in a blog format to highlight my philosophies (this helps others to get to know me on a different level); share it within my established social networks to get exposure. Next I started a separate blog, I chose postereous, for the purpose of critiquing ads within the industry to stay current and to also share with others – another form of exposure.
All five social network tools allowed the user to connect with each of them – creating a cyclical way of relationship building and exposure. More importantly, having conversations with those who commented or shared on the content I provided, and likewise, doing the same with those who connected with me, gave way to new relationship opportunities.
Here's the key: I still found traditional ways to meet people by using these social networks: I volunteered to judge shows and speak at events; I developed contests and gave away gifts to meet people and share stories to get to know them better and for them to know me.
In the end, it's people that we communicate with. Whether it be for brands or for ourselves, "social media" or better, "social connecting" is all about being purposeful with how you connect with others and have conversations about..well, you have to find out for yourself.
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Landscape lighting adds safety, security and aesthetic appeal. Once your landscape lighting design is complete, you can figure out what size of low-voltage transformer you need. Transformers generally range from 150- to 900-watt capacity. Matching the size of the transformer to the lighting design is important for efficient operation and function of the system. House current, 120 volts, is reduced by a transformer to 12 to 20 volts, the current needed to operate low-voltage landscaping lights. Many transformers come with connections for lights of different wattage for versatility. Other low-voltage transformer features include motion detectors for turning lights on and off, photo cells to turn lights on at specific light levels and programmable timers.
Add up the wattage of each light in your landscape lighting design. For example, if you plan to use 20 12-watt lights, multiply 12 times 20 for the total wattage. In this example, the total wattage is 240.
Multiply the total wattage by 1.25 to adjust for loss due to cable distance. For the example, 240 x 1.25 = 300. The final number determines how large a transformer you need for your system.
Choose a transformer that supplies no less than the required wattage and no more than 33 percent more. Choosing a transformer with slightly more wattage will allow you to add a few more lights in the future.
Low-voltage transformers are mounted outside and plugged into your household current through an outside electrical outlet.
Fifteen-amp 120-volt circuits can carry 1440 watts. Check other appliances or systems already in use by a circuit before adding your transformer to a particular outlet.
References (2)
- Sunset Landscaping Illustrated: Complete Guide to Ideas, Planning and How-to-Do-It; Editors of Sunset Books and Sunset Magazines
- University of Minnesota: Designing and Installing Outdoor Lighting


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Muriel Rukeyser
"It is...hard to write about a city we just moved to; it's not yet in our body. We don't know our new home, even if we can drive to the drugstore without getting lost."
"Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within," by Natalie Goldberg.
And this:
"Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan. I did not know it was too early for that because I did not know Paris well enough."-Hemingway
This may be why I don't write a lot about Yangon. How it feels here. What it smells like. The rhythm of the city. It's because I can't possibly know it yet. It takes time to absorb a new place, to sift through all the new senses.
What I can say, without writing very beautifully about it, is that Yangon is green. It is one of the most striking things about it. It's one of the first things I noticed upon arrival in April. Yesterday, on a flight from a weekend in Bangkok, the plane began to descend and a man sitting next to me commented on just how vibrant and green Yangon is. It's a stark comparison to Bangkok.
The monsoons have opened up her arms and released all her rain. Not rain like I've ever seen. Mini flash floods pop up all over the city. You can smell it. It arrives multiple times a day. Sometimes, it comes quietly and quickly. Other times, it's so loud it almost hurts the ears. It can be rapturous. Windy. And I can tell you that bamboo is incredibly flexible and nimble. (Never seen anything sway like it.) We've found dead tiny, tiny little silver fish under our porch/deck (there's no water there). It's wet.
I can't write about it. I can't even describe it. But, I do love the rain here: it's beautiful and feels magical to me.


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I love my church at The Axis, and I really love when I get the opportunity to photograph members of the same community. I had seen Lacey and Warren around the church but hadn't said hello until a mutual friend introduced Warren and I at Steadfast a while back. A few weeks later I met up with Lacey to talk about wedding photography; fast forward to now and I have two new friends and the pleasure of sharing their engagement photos with you all. Lacey and Warren were so much fun to shoot. Our pastor lives on some beautiful property in White's Creek so we took advantage of it and got some awesome shots in some fields with beautiful golden hour light.
Congrats on your engagement and I look forward to shooting your wedding so soon!


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Since joining DataCore as Technology Evangelist, I have been hearing many in the community asking me, "What exactly is a Tech Evangelist?" "What does a Tech Evangelist do?" I know every company most likely has a tweak or difference in how they articulate a job description or title. However, I believe there are some commonalities, which I wish to address in today's post.
Word Study
It is interesting that many people understand the word, "Evangelist," to have some religious connection to it. That would be true, as I can attest to this first-hand, since my formative years were spent in a Pastor-Evangelist family. This led me later in my life to pursue a "Theology" degree where I was given additional exposure as to how an Evangelist communicates, listens, teaches, preaches, and relates in such a way as to inspire and influence the audience or Community.
The word, Ευαγγελιστής, actually originated in ancient Greece prior to biblical times, where it was understood to mean a "reward given to a messenger for good news" or "bringer of good news." Therefore, I can conclude the way "Evangelist" is used in the phrase "Technology Evangelist," as laden with many values or connotations that I believe are necessary to bring about many positive benefits and results to a company wanting to educate its community.
Another common belief that I have heard is that a Tech Evangelist is just someone in marketing. In my opinion for a Tech Evangelist to become a trusted advocate, he/she needs to have one foot in engineering and the other foot in marketing. This helps build a bridge where a deeper technical understanding of a product and/or service can properly be disseminated to the general public. However, this isn't the only place where a Tech Evangelist roams. It's common to see a Tech Evangelist support the goals and visioning found in Corporate, Support, Sales, Engineering, and Marketing departments. It's important to understand and interface with each area and apply learning's where the most help can be provided. I like "floater" as a term in which a good Evangelist is gifted with listening skills to internally and externally both gain and craft creative content, so as to tell the story most effectively. To be most successful, I believe that a Tech Evangelist needs to work in an organization, hierarchy, or department, that allows for flexibility of thought and experimentation, so as to test the best new ways to communicate the content or message.
I love the lofty Wikipedia definition of a Tech Evangelist:
"A technology evangelist is a person who builds a critical mass of support for a given technology, and then establishes it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects."
I also believe the core part of the role of a Tech Evangelist is not just educating or communicating to the public, customers, or clients, about a particular technology, but about building an army of believers. One person cannot have a big impact in building critical mass in the industry without an army of supporters all passionately preaching the same message. This is one reason why I think one typically observes startups hiring a Tech Evangelist, or even a large corporation hiring a Tech Evangelist to focus on one product or service in a myriad of products or features.
Types of Activities
There are many activities that a Tech Evangelist would be involved with; in fact others perform some of the same activities with different titles. The key is to explain how some form of tech works and why it matters rather than just describing a given feature. Below are just a few examples.
- Speak at technical conferences
- Manage an external technical awards programs
- Produce technical blog posts
- Produce technical informative white papers
- Lead social media engagements
- Participate in the industry community
- Company ambassador at technical events
- Liaison between engineering and external technical experts
- Drive internal awareness and conversation
In order to do some of these things well, I think there are several important qualities that someone needs to obtain or naturally possess. This by no means is an exhaustive list below:
- Informed about the industry and community around them
- Passionate about what they are doing
- Authentic & Humble about what they communicate
- Listening skills to focus on priorities
- Speaking & Communication skills to capture the essence of an exposition
If I missed any important areas that you think would add to this list, please feel free to comment or contact me.
I am listing below in alphabetic order other noted Tech Evangelists who are focused in the Virtualization or Storage industry: If I have missed someone please let me know. I will add them to the list.
Update: Since many of you have sent me names to include, I have decided to create a Google Sheet. This sheet will list those that hold the "Tech Evangelist" title and those that don't hold the title but have been nominated and/or conduct activities of a Tech Evangelist in the community. If you find any errors, please let me know, I pulled details from Twitter and LinkedIN. Click Here...
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The light during the middle of a sunny day in Africa is often too contrasting for photography. If you try to photograph under these circumstances, the light will appear harsh and the shadows will appear as black holes in the image. Follow the example of the animals and take a siesta during the middle of the day.
Beginner tip
A photograph taken in the middle of the day is almost always doomed not to be as you expected it to be. There is no camera or lens on earth that can fix bad light.
Lighting tip
The only time when you can photograph in harsh light and still get a decent result is if there is enough action in the image. In this image the light was terrible, but the action terrific. The interest of the action outweighed the bad light.
How you can take a similar image
Lens: Super telephoto lens.
Settings: Maximum aperture. Low ISO.
How: The only reasons why this image works are because of the action and the fact the light falls on the badger's back foot. When you have to photograph in this light, wait for action or use a fill-flash to fill the black shadows cast by the harsh light.


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American woman - Estelle interview
- Mark Robertson
- 5 June 2008
We cath up with one busy lady prior to her UK tour
When UK R&B tyke Estelle packed her bags and headed for NYC it was assumed she was selling out. She did, as Mark Robertson finds, but not quite as expected
Estelle is a busy lady. It takes three weeks, three reschedules and three attempts at a transatlantic phone call to finally get a word with her.
'Yeah man, its been promo city lately' she giggles from a room in the heart of her US label Atlantic's head office in her recently adopted home town of New York. The day we speak is her anniversary.
'I moved here a year ago today! I should be celebrating. Although I think we are just working.'
The move, far from being her turning her back on the UK scene that supported her and nurtured her debut album and top 20 single, '1980', was purely for practical reasons.
'I moved here when I got signed in America as it was easier to do conference calls without being woken up due to time differences. If I had stayed in the UK I would still be working with these same people around me, I would still have John with me. He was the one who brought a lot of the folks together.'
The John she refers to is John Legend, the multi-platinum selling American soul singer and the man who put pen to paper in signing Estelle to his own Homeschool Records label in conjunction with Atlantic. The genesis of the pair's relationship has been a tale frequently told but bears repeating: a chance meeting with Kanye West at an LA chicken and waffle restaurant saw Estelle front up to West and ask him to arrange a meeting with Legend for her, and when the two finally did meet they clicked musically with Legend ending up executive producing her new album, Shine, which was released in the spring.
'It's just a lot of creative chemistry that works, it's nothing too hard or laboured. It's a great business relationship where we agree or disagree and we keep moving. He gets where my head is at. He understands some kinds of music and if not, then I educate him and if I don't get it, he educates me. It's great to have someone who is not you, but who kinda could be you, who can give you a reference point.'
For many people, the chart topping single 'American Boy', which hit number one in the UK and US earlier this year, was their first exposure to the 28-year-old singer, and where her debut 18th Day was very much her growing up and getting steady on her feet, Shine is her spreading her wings.
Collaborations with Legend, West, Black Eyed Pea Will.i.am, Swizz Beatz and others on the album give her sound a sheen and an American pop/hip hop clarity that few others could attain. Importantly though, it never sounds anything less than her own. More than Winehouse, Duffy, Adele or whoever else, she is in possession of some soulful pipes but not stuck consciously aping the classics. Estelle has the R&B sheen, but underneath, the Ghanaian-Londoner remains feisty and true. And aside from an unashamed addiction to Ribena – the one thing she fills her case with when returning Stateside – she is a rare thing: a credible transatlantic proposition.
Estelle plays ABC, Glasgow, Mon 9 Jun.


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INside the OUTfluence
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Calliope's Call is an arts organization based in New England which is dedicacted to creating exciting and diverse performances of art song for the cultural enrichment of our community and beyond.
This program is an innovative approach to demonstrating the parallel between visual art, music, and poetry through collaboration with Boston-based painter, Bethany Noël Murray. INside OUTfluence joins visual and musical expression through themes of the artist in nature, love and heartbreak, and physical and emotional pain as expressed through art. The concerts will be presented alongside an exhibition of Bethany Noël's paintings at the First Church Boston.


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Do you have what it takes to become the industry's next big porn star? We are always looking for fresh, new, sexy faces with toned/muscled bodies who are interested in joining this exciting trade. Here at Choice Talent Management we take pride in nurturing our models and helping to establish them as strong forces in this competitive business. Many of our models have become porn superstars and won awards for their work within the industry.
Applying to companies can be very stressful. Applications very often get lost in casting director's emails or get overlooked. With a decade of experience in the business, Choice Talent Management eliminates the hard work for our models and makes sure casting directors and producers see our guys and consider them of their upcoming productions.
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With FlawCheck Acquisition, Tenable Adds Container Security
Tenable is synonymous with security, but most widely known for vulnerability management. Now, the company is expanding into the world of containers and container security with its first acquisition in its 14-year history. The purchase of FlawCheck—a company that focuses on helping customers identify and resolve risk within container environments—illustrates the evolution of DevOps and containers into the mainstream and the increased attention on securing and protecting those environments.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am the Community and Social Media Manager for Tenable. That said, even if I didn't work for the company, I would point out that Nessus is a household name and the de facto leader among vulnerability scanning tools. Tenable also pioneered the concept of continuous monitoring before it was cool—and before the rise of DevOps. The FlawCheck acquisition moves Tenable more aggressively into the growing DevOps and microservices world.
Anthony Bettini, co-founder and CEO of FlawCheck, shared a little about the company and its mission in a Tenable blog post announcing the acquisition. "We built FlawCheck to address the difficulty of detecting security risks, at scale, in the world's largest data centers. As we engaged with some of the largest companies on their next-generation data center security challenges, we honed in on container environments as an area particularly fraught with issues."
Security concerns are not new for containers. Following the meteoric rise of Docker and the mainstream adoption of containers, security has taken center stage. There have been many approaches introduced to creating more secure containers, such as Microsoft Hyper-V containers or Intel Clear containers. There is also a growing industry of security tools for containers, such as Black Duck and FlawCheck.
Bettini stressed that with new technologies comes new challenges. "Most notably, vulnerabilities are being inadvertently introduced into production through these nascent DevOps processes—a significant blind spot for security teams. An additional challenge is that in container environments, the role of security operations often changes, with the development team typically taking responsibility for both provisioning and vulnerability remediation."
As it exists right now, FlawCheck is a private registry for container images. It automatically scans images for vulnerabilities and security issues as they're built. FlawCheck integrates with continuous integration and continuous deployment platforms to build, deploy and monitor secure and compliant containers.
An integrated Tenable/FlawCheck solution is not expected until early 2017. For now, customers can register for a free trial of FlawCheck to discover first-hand how the tool helps identify security issues in containers to reduce risk.


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Leaked Verizon document reveals all known issues with the Fascinate
posted by Daniel P. / Sep 10, 2010, 2:07 PM
It is a rather big list, but if you own a Fascinate or are planning to buy one, we are sure you will be interested in what issues might pop up out of the blue. At least until the first software update for the handset arrives. Some are pretty mundane, some are really surprising, in a "how'd they miss that?" sort of way. It looks like the GPS issue that plagues the rest of the Galaxy S gang, has not passed by the Fascinate. They call it latency, but we all know what it is. We post them all on a few pages for your viewing pleasure:
Known Issues
Car Kit Connect:
In some rare occasions when connected to the 2009 Mercedes Benz AMG C63 car kit the car kit will announce "Connect…. ready…. connect…. ready…. connect….".
Short term work around: Power the device off and then back on and pair with the car again
Planned Resolution: A fix for this issue is under review for inclusion in a future MR.
Backlight Timeout:
When on a call using Bluetooth and the backlight times out you have to unlock the screen to end the call
Short term work around: There is no short term work around for this issue
Planned Resolution: A fix for this issue is under review for inclusion in a future MR.
Car Kit Contact Sync:
When syncing contacts to a 2010 Toyota Prius, only phone contacts and not EAS contacts sync.
Short term work around: There is no short term work around for this issue
Planned Resolution: A fix for this issue is under review for inclusion in a future MR.
Known Issues
Alert Notifications:
There is no option to change the Calendar alert notification
Short term work around: There is no short term work around for this issue.
Planned Resolution: A fix for this issue is under review for inclusion in a future MR.
Call Waiting Caller ID
Known Issues
Blank Screen:
If you are on a call and a second call comes in, you get the correct Caller ID information. If you answer the second call, the caller ID screen goes blank and does not show any caller information.
Short term work around: There is no short term work around for this issue
Planned Resolution: A fix for this issue is under review for inclusion in a future MR.
Known Issues
Soft Key Backlight:
The backlight on the 4 bottom buttons (menu, home, back, and search) only stay on for 5 seconds. These do not correspond with screen timeout settings.
Short term work around: There is no short term work around for this issue.
Planned Resolution: A fix for this issue is under review for inclusion in a future MR.
Samsung Fascinate Specifications | Review
source: BGR
18 Comments
1. derp unregistered
looks the same as all the other android phones. i know some whiny little fanboy whos feelings got hurt will come here saying all phones have this many issues, no, they dont. most are half this long, some only 1/4. these phones are terrible. hardware might be good (unless its from motorola), but the OS is complete shit. android sucks.
posted on Oct 20, 2010, 1:48 AM 0
3. Joshing4fun
Posts: 1249; Member since: Aug 13, 2010
Android sucks compared to what? Its one of the best OS out there. Yeah, many of these issues are simply inconvenient and should have been fixed before ever hitting the market but they are not deal breakers. Considering all the things this and other android phones can do, this really isn't all that terrible.
posted on Sep 10, 2010, 3:43 PM 0
10. matistight
Posts: 1010; Member since: May 13, 2009
woah woah woah! guys! remember this is a samsung phone, their touch screen phones are crap remember? and that stupid touch wiz/android mix is ugly! just buy an incredible. the only problem my friend had was that was...well wasnt software...he broke the screen hahah but the cool this is....wait for it....built in memory! no more exspensive phone status and still need atleast a 64 mb(yes mb) to take a picture!
posted on Sep 11, 2010, 10:34 AM 0
13. PapaJay224
Posts: 866; Member since: Feb 08, 2009
thats why he used unregisterd user status to keep himself anonymous, but, this does seems like an extensive list. HOWEVER, atleast the issues are being addressed prior to release to get a jump on the fix, AND they have admitted the problems rather than cover them up and keep shoving the phone down peoples throat. AND YET STILL, they are offering a BOGO on the device! Well, I was thinking just a bumper would have satisfied most customers...(sarcasm obviously) Its clear "derp" wants to get a rise out of Fanboys but it looks like he already batting for the other team, so rather than fuel his need to depress ill simply point out that he is an idiot.
posted on Sep 11, 2010, 12:45 PM 0
15. matistight1 unregistered
im too lazy to sign in haha. they did say that is was "Leaked" you realize that right?
posted on Sep 11, 2010, 1:14 PM 0
2. hawk62
Posts: 320; Member since: Nov 21, 2009
I am not loving Android on my X. I have to say alot of those issues seem common to the Android line. Maybe the "free" "open" Android OS isnt that great or "free" after all to the manufacturers? How much money will Samsung/VZ be spending fixing those issues?
posted on Sep 10, 2010, 3:31 PM 0
4. JWL342 unregistered
At what point did a 3 page list not become a deal breaker, it is crazy to say o yes my phone can do all these great things but its day to day operation is lacking and unfinished. if android is so great and it can do all these things why are there still all of these little issues. this was okay 2 years ago when the os was new but what is the excuse now.
posted on Sep 10, 2010, 3:56 PM 0
5. Whateverman
Posts: 3295; Member since: May 17, 2009
I think you still see a lot of these issues because manufacturers are all trying to make the next Sense UI instead of going with stock Android. That's why there are far less issues with the Droid then there are with many of the other devices that came out after. Of course no OS is perfect, but just as all the iOS users say, it wouldn't sell so many if it were not a great device. That same logic can be applied to the Android OS as well.
posted on Sep 10, 2010, 5:19 PM 0
6. Gan-Grape unregistered
Wow...that list is royally messed-up. Whateverman is right, though...stock Android has few issues. I'd still take this thing over many other phones, though.
posted on Sep 10, 2010, 9:55 PM 0
8. Sniggly
Posts: 7305; Member since: Dec 05, 2009
Considering the original Iphone had a 25 percentish failure rate over the first two years of its existence, I'd say a laundry list of minor software bugs which can probably be fixed ain't so bad. I'm actually surprised, really. It used to be that Verizon had laughably short "known issue' lists, entirely ignoring the long list of problems that phones like the EnV2 had. So phones with complicated software have bugs. It happens. Blackberry has all sorts of crippling problems. Palms (even recent) have issues too. Windows Mobile? Don't get me started. My X is working fine. A little laggy once in a while, but all computers do that. It's frozen...twice, when I was being really hardcore with it. Otherwise, no issues. I'm betting that when the Droid hits the two year mark there'll still be millions walking around with it. How many people do you know who have the original Iphone still?
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11. matistight
Posts: 1010; Member since: May 13, 2009
main issues with iphone was mainly design and user fail. Signal? i have a case on mine. still get signal loss when i grip it, but im left handed and never get that problem either way. Not durable? DONT DROP IT SMART ONE! ITS GLASS ON THE FRONT AND BACK! No customizing? do what most people do and jailbreak. android has rooting. yes, android is less strict about customizing, but they do have restrictions. android is indeed NOT a fail. Verizon is. i'd have verizon if they weren't so expensive, had decent phones, and i could call and surf at the same time(not really but had to say that hahha. i mean come on! my uncle has a droid and over wifi he cant do that! weak!) the only good phone thats android that verizarape has is droid 2. thats it. No, you dont have the right to rate no low because ive used my share of phones, form iphone 3g to blackberry 8900 to blackberry bold to iphone 3gs to htc g1 to htc mytouch to nexus one to htc hd2(weak!) to iphone 4, and im obvoiusly stuck there(microsim). dropped calls? i dont get those cause i have t mobile. they didnt invent the dropped call and neiher did apple---ATT did. Yes, you do have a point though. original iphone is obviously way below the droid. but the droid is getting slow now. and the 3g....i fix phone. doing any software on 2g's and 3g's is like sitting and watching the paint dry. so slow!!!!! but 3gs and droid are tied speed wise, some people take iphone for 2 reasons, fanboy(or fanboi if youre gay) and branding. other than att services in settings, there is absolutely no att branding at all. droid has their 3 trillion verizon apps almost no one uses(similar to sprint, but not as bad) In all this, what i am saying is i have an iPhone 4. I love this phone, ive had it for a month and only froze once(switching from pandora to facebook, while sending a friend a video i recorded and downloading an app. maybe too much aha) Screen is amazing as is the camera. i like the droid, but 2.2 is like an iphone 3g on 4.0(you know how bad that is) but droid 2 fixed that hah. Android is an amazing operating system. iOS....screw that its still iPhone OS...iPhone OS is also amazing. Both have they're flaws (Android-Force Quit, iPhone-Limited Customization), but they are about equal. And android and iphone OS didnt invent the term "issues", samsung and lg did. Blackberry though is STRICTLY BUISNESS. Not a fun OS for an average person. Sorry for any grammar mistakes, i tend to do that on laptops for some reason.
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12. matistight
Posts: 1010; Member since: May 13, 2009
wow i did really bad as for spelling. form is from neiher is neither phone is phones they're is their seems about it
posted on Sep 11, 2010, 11:07 AM 0
16. matistight1 unregistered
hm, his phone must be broken then or something
posted on Sep 11, 2010, 1:15 PM 0
9. cc16177
Posts: 312; Member since: May 09, 2010
I'd rather see tons of known issues than be told there are "no" issues when there obviously are. *cough* Now with that said I really don't see why Verizon launched this phone with this many known issues, if we didn't have the X/2/Incredible I would understand MAYBE but seeing as how we have several other Android options I don't see why they would rush this out the door. Oh well, maybe that's why i'm not running any companies.
posted on Sep 11, 2010, 8:24 AM 0
18. rwolf1984
Posts: 536; Member since: Jun 06, 2009
Why so many issues??? seriously???? VZW ruined a perfect phone with Bing and Get it Now! BS...This should have been just as good as the captivate if not better... Congrats to Sprint...they have the Epic. No issues and didnt screw anything thing up. GPS and everything else works great on mine so far. You figured big red woulda learned from the backflip-yahoo debacle...get it right vzw
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A few exciting things
Discussion Board › Forums › Announcements › A few exciting things
- This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 2 months ago by devoncat.
September 24, 2008 at 6:08 am #22900devoncatMember
You and Marion are amazing. Thank you so much for doing this. It sounds like so much is happening or has the opportunity to happen. It is like the story of the rock being thrown into the water and the ripple effect.
KrisSeptember 23, 2008 at 11:48 pm #1568stacieMember
This weekend we were in Boston for the ASTRO Conference. We had a beautiful booth, provided for free by ASTRO and we were so grateful, we were directly across the aisle from the Lance Armstrong Foundation, can you believe it! We'll post pictures as soon as Marion returns. She is staying through Wednesday to wrap up the conference, my 5 little people needed me at home for school so we did what we could on the weekend.
Although the traffic through the advocacy area was not heavy, we had some very important things happen. We had several nurses stop by, very grateful for the information we shared with them. I visited extensively with the ONS (Oncology Nursing Association) which were present at the conference and the head of the association after talking with me, crawled under the table of the booth and pulled out a directory for me of every active chapter of the nursing oncologist society. She said, here you go, you just send them the information, they'll get it to your patients – I could have cried.
Next a Dr. from the NCI stopped by and chatted with me about what's going on or NOT going on at the NCI. He said, we get proposals for grants for cholangiocarcinoma studies but there aren't enough patients particpating for the research to translate. I asked him what he suggested and how we could go about getting the NCI to take notice. He gave us some helpful insights.
Several radiologist stopped by our booth and could not believe there was a foundation for cholangiocarcinoma. One in particular said, my colleague and I just finished writing a book on it, said he would send me a copy and took a bunch of the literature to share with his patients. He said, we've got to talk when we both get home, we've got to work together. All of them were very happy to know we existed and that we had some things to help the patients and caregivers.
Several nurses stopped by wanting information and talked with us. We visited with Dr's from all over the world.
Marion will share with you some of the other exciting things that happened upon her return. I attended a session where 6 different groups reported on studies they had done in the GI area. One that showed some positive results (extended life about 5-7 months in some cases) came out of France, where they had done surgery, then chemo then addition chemo in conjunction with radiation but this was early data and has not been replicated yet.
There was a poster discussion on cholangiocarcinoma out of the University of Colorado. I wasn't able to locate this Dr. So I tacked one of our brand new brochures and my card at the bottom of his poster Hopefully, he'll find us.
Marion, spent today in several GI sessions and passing out literature afterwards to every attending radiologist.
Cyberknife also had a session on GI cancers and what they are doing in this area.
It was very interesting to talk with the other advocates there. The Wellness Community out of Boston took a bunch of our brochures as they have had two members with cholangiocarcinoma.
All in all it was great to be there, and talk with so many physicians, nurses and hospitals about what we can do and get them information about us.
I know Marion will update you further and I'll post the pictures of the booth later tonight.
Much love to all,
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The All Blues went 6-0 in two days last weekend at Club Nationals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to secure the National Title for 2013. Defeating NOVA 22-5 in the Championship game, the All Blues allowed only 29 points in six games, which averages to less than a try per game.
Standout performances from the weekend include captain and sweeper Irene Gardner, who was awarded the 2013 Most Valuable Player recognition, as well as finisher Erin Overcash who ranked 7th highest scorer of the tournament with 30 points. Play makers Ruth Bryson, Jill Whitfield and Jenn Sever worked tirelessly to create space on the pitch, while Sarah Davis and Jessica Turner put forth impressive defensive work. Overall the squad owes its success to a commitment to team unity and work rate throughout the summer.
With only 48 hours between the championship match and the beginning of 15s practices, the team is ready to keep working for another title. Bring on the WPL season!
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Piezoelectric ceramic materials Material classification:
Inorganic piezoelectric material
Divided into piezoelectric crystals and piezoelectric ceramics, piezoelectric crystals generally refers to piezoelectric single crystals; piezoelectric ceramics refers to piezoelectric polycrystals. Piezoelectric ceramics are polycrystals in which fine crystal grains obtained by the solid-phase reaction and sintering processes between powders and particles are randomly mixed together by mixing, molding, and high-temperature sintering with raw materials of necessary ingredients.
Piezoelectric ceramics are called piezoelectric ceramics, and they are actually ferroelectric ceramics. There are ferroelectric domains in the grains of this ceramic. The ferroelectric domains consist of 180 domains with spontaneous polarization directions anti-parallel and 90 domains with spontaneous polarization directions perpendicular to each other.
These domains are artificially polarized (strongly applied. Under DC electric field conditions, the spontaneous polarization is fully aligned in the direction of the external electric field and maintains the residual polarization after the withdrawal of the external electric field, and therefore has macroscopic piezoelectricity. Such as barium titanate BT, lead zirconate titanate PZT, modified lead zirconate titanate, lead metaniobate, lead niobate lithium niobate PBLN, modified lead titanate lead titanate. The successful development of this type of material promoted acoustic transducers and piezoelectric transmission.
Sensor performance improvement and improvement of various piezoelectric devices.
Piezoelectric crystals generally refer to piezoelectric single crystals, which refer to crystals that grow in an orderly manner in the long-range crystal lattice. This crystal structure has no symmetry center and therefore has piezoelectricity. Such as crystal (quartz crystal), lithium niobate, lithium niobate, titanium niobate and iron transistor lithium niobate, lithium niobate and so on.
In contrast, piezoelectric ceramics have high piezoelectricity, high dielectric constant, and can be processed into arbitrary shapes, but they have the low mechanical quality factor, large electrical loss, and poor stability, and are therefore suitable for high-power transducers and wide-band filters. Applications, but not ideal for high frequency, high stability applications. Quartz and other piezoelectric single crystal piezoelectricity is weak, the dielectric constant is very low, by the limitations of the limitations of the size of the cut type, but the stability is high, the mechanical quality factor is high, used as a standard frequency control oscillator, high selectivity (more It is a high-frequency bandpass filter and high-frequency, high-temperature ultrasonic transducers.
Because of the specific properties of lead magnesium niobate Pb (Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 single crystals (Kp ≥ 90%, d33 ≥ 900 × 10-3C/N, ε ≥ 20,000), this material has been studied both at home and abroad, but Because its Curie point is too low, there is still some distance from the use.
Organic Piezoelectric Materials
Also known as piezoelectric polymers, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) (thin film) and another organic piezoelectric (film) materials represented by it. This kind of material and its material flexibility, low density, low impedance and high voltage constant (g) and other advantages for the world's attention and the development is very rapid, underwater acoustic ultrasonic measurement, pressure sensing, ignition initiation and other aspects of the application. The disadvantage is that the piezoelectric strain constant (d) is low, making it very limited as an active emission transducer.
The third category is composite piezoelectric materials made up of organic polymer base materials embedded in sheet, rod, rod, or powdered piezoelectric materials. So far, it has been widely used in underwater acoustics, electroacoustics, ultrasound, medicine and other fields. If it is made into a hydroacoustic transducer, it not only has a high hydrostatic pressure response rate but also has impact resistance, is not easily damaged and can be used with different depths


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Dan McCready, the Democrat running for Congress in the disputed 9th District, has renounced his concession.
His Thursday announcement came amid allegations of absentee ballot tampering and other interference in Bladen and Robeson counties that appear to have helped Republican Mark Harris, who is ahead by just 905 votes in unofficial returns.
The controversy has raised the possibility that the N.C. Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement will call a new election. McCready issued a forceful statement Thursday, calling on Harris to detail his knowledge of suspect activities on behalf of his campaign.
"I didn't serve overseas in the Marines just to come home to N.C. and watch a criminal, bankrolled by my opponent, take away people's very right to vote," McCready said. "Today I withdraw my concession and call on Mark Harris to end his silence and tell us exactly what he knew, and when."
McCready conceded the race the day after the Nov. 6 election and did not ask for the recount he was entitled to in such a close election.
But last week, questions began about the absentee ballots in Bladen and neighboring Robeson County. The state elections board refused to certify the results, citing "claims of numerous irregularities and concerted fraudulent activities related to absentee mail ballots," according to Joshua Malcolm, who was bumped from the board's vice chair to its chairman by Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, on Monday.
A political operative named McCrae Dowless has emerged as the focus of allegations that he led a network of people who collected absentee-by-mail ballots en masse, which is forbidden under N.C. law. The state Board of Elections and the Wake County District Attorney have launched investigations.
Until Thursday, McCready has been mostly quiet, calling the allegations in Bladen "troubling." Other N.C. Democrats as well as Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have called for a thorough investigation of the allegations and even a new election that could again pit McCready against Harris and Libertarian Jeff Scott.
Since the election, Harris has spent time in Washington attending orientation events for incoming freshman members of Congress. But U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., who will become House majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January, has said Democrats will refuse to seat Harris unless and until "substantial" questions about the integrity of the election are resolved.
The state elections board has twice declined to certify Harris' victory and plans to hold an evidentiary hearing in the case this month.
Top N.C. Republican officials said Thursday they could support a new election in the 9th congressional district only if the board uncovers "an overwhelming amount of evidence" that fraud changed the outcome of the vote or that "there is a substantial likelihood that it could have been (changed)."
The 9th congressional district has been represented by a Republican in Washington for more than five decades. But Democrats believed they had a good change to flip it with McCready, who ran as a centrist, touting "country over party" and pledging not to vote for Democrat Nancy Pelosi as the next speaker.
In the election, McCready carried six of the eight counties in the district, including Mecklenburg. Harris, a Southern Baptist minister who had defeated U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., in the GOP primary, carried Union and Bladen counties.


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Economics terms such as inflation are thrown about by those in-the-know all too regularly. Frankly, it's baffling for those of us without expert knowledge in the subject, and "put simply" explanations are infrequent, to say the least. #LetsTalkPolitics and challenge this.
Inflation can be defined as a sustained or persistent increase in the average price level of goods and services in an economy, or a fall in the purchasing power of a currency. The CPI or consumer price index measures the level of inflation; essentially it is a statistical estimate of prices in the economy constructed by using the prices of sample or representative goods such as butter, cars or soap.
Whilst the government does maintain a target of 2% the current level is lower at 1.2% (Nov 2016). This means that a basket of sample goods and services that would have cost £100.00 in November 2015 would have cost £101.20 in November 2016.
Inflation can be derived from both the demand side of the economy (us as consumers, buying goods and services) or from the supply-side of an economy (high prices of raw materials, increases in labour costs, import prices such as oil).
For example in reference to the demand-side – An increase in total demand in an economy at an unsustainable level will lead to the average price level rising. Causes of this demand-pull inflation could be a fall in the interest rate (the percentage rate charged on a loan or paid on savings), lower taxes (Income or VAT) or depreciation of the exchange rate. This will lead to demand for services and goods increasing, as consumers will be earning more. Hence suppliers will not have increased their output to match demand in the short-run and consequently they have the ability to rise prices of goods overall, hence leading to higher inflationary pressures.
On the supply-side inflation can be caused by a variety of factors. Cost-push inflation is a situation where the average costs for firms rise. This could be due to:
- Prices of imported products a firm needs to manufacture a good rising (Bolts or microchips)
- Wage increases (Trade unions may demand a rise in pay – London underground 2016)
- The average price level of raw materials rising (Oil per barrel)
There are an array of costs inflation has on an economy:
- Millions of people face a freeze in their wages or lower-real wages as costs increase and their wages don't hence they have falling real incomes
- Workers may demand wage increases as they want to protect their incomes and hence this can lead to higher labour costs and lower profits for businesses
- Businesses become less competitive on the global markets if inflation stays persistent for a long period of time and hence less of their services or goods are bought (can also lead to a worsening trade balance)
- If there is high and volatile inflation, business confidence can fall as firms are unsure of their costs and prices – this can lead to less investment in the economy
Ultimately it's interesting to see how inflation affects a substantial portion of the economy and has knock-on effects elsewhere.


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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036| Map |
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The art on view at the LACMA spans cultures, countries, artistic styles and generations. With modern as well as traditional masterpieces of photography, painting, sculpture and textiles, this museum has it all. It provides the perfect introduction to art for the little ones. Being family focused, the museum tries to keep kids entertained and active by including them in important artistic discussions. For instance, the Andeli Family Sunday Tours are designed to be interactive. These tours are given in English and Spanish and encourage families to look, listen and share their ideas with one another. Before entering, kids can even pick up an Art Tote. These helpful companions contain objects for kids to handle and fun educational activities. The building's modern architecture design is a site to see in itself, and the entrances Urban Lights collection is a photo-op hotspot. LACMA is a forward-thinking art museum that sees its visiting children as future artists.
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Pick up Family Guides and Art Totes at the Welcome Center.
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This amazing museum spans three city blocks, so it would be easy to spend an entire day admiring the 150,000-plus art collection housed in six mega buildings. Most galleries are included in the price of general admission but special exhibits require a separate ticket. We get there in the morning and work our way through the buildings, stopping for lunch at noon. There are several good onsite restaurants. Art extends beyond museum walls. There's an outdoor sculpture garden, reflecting pool and Urban Light, a collection of 202 vintage streetlamps lined up in rows. Concerts and classes for kids, teens and adults make LACMA a very family-friendly venue.
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For a clear view of the Hollywood sign, step onto the observation deck of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum's third floor. In the same building, ride the huge elevator the size of two or three rooms.
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Rex was born in New London, Connecticut and raised in Binghamton, New York. Rex moved with his family to Phoenix in 1973. He married Terry in 1979 and they have three children, John, Nathan and Sarah. Rex and Terry were baptized together at Chaparral Christian Church where they were attending until 1985. Rex graduated from Arizona State University in 1980, where his children, Nathan and Sarah also attended. He and Terry came to Cactus Christian Fellowship in October of 2001 after having attended Calvary Community Church for six years. Prior to Calvary, Rex was an Elder at Christian Community Church in Phoenix. He is an Adult Sunday School teacher at CCF and is currently serving as Chairman of the Elders.
Bill Collins
Bill was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, August 6, 1933, and was raised in Illinois and Indiana. He grew up in Rochester, Indiana, and was baptized at the First Christian Church of Rochester in 1950. He served time in the military from 1952-1956 as a Naval Hospital Corpsman. Following his military experience he attended Indiana University where he studied General Science. He married Bonnie Ellen Pattison in August, 1965 in Indianapolis. Bill and Bonnie have three children: Kelly, living in Georgia; Kimberly, living in California; and Kathleen (Katie) in Phoenix. They have four grandchildren: Courtney, Cayla, Kylie and Ryan. Bill attended Traders Point Christian Church in Indianapolis from 1971 to 1989 where he served as Deacon, Elder, and Chairman of the Board. He became part of the Palo Verde Christian Church in 1989 upon moving to Phoenix where he served as Deacon, Chairman of the Steering Committee and Elder Chairman. Palo Verde became Cactus Christian Fellowship and Bill remains as an Elder. Bill is a retired Radiologic Technologist and still works part time in that field.
Bob Umbanhowar
Bob grew up in Southwestern Michigan and attended church in the town of Bangor. He and his family were very involved in the church: both grandfathers served as elders/deacons; an older brother is currently a church elder after serving nine years on the mission field in Thailand; a sister serves on the staff with her husband at Great Lakes Christian College; his deceased mother had a great love for children and his dad still serves the church in a limited capacity. Bob was baptized into Christ at the age of nine. He won a scholarship to attend Great Lakes Christian College but decided after one year that full-time ministry was not his calling. He met Kathie Starkey at a Michigan State University Campus House ministry and they were married on August 5, 1972. God led him into land surveying in 1974 where he has been ever since. They moved to Phoenix in 1984 and started their own business, Location Land Surveying. Bob started playing the mandolin at the same time his son Nathan was learning the guitar. Both served together on the Praise Team at their former church (Community Christian Church) in Cave Creek. His other Son Matt was also part of the Praise Team. Bob says "My heart is with Children's Ministry. I think it is because you can truly be yourself around kids. They are so accepting and so brutal at the same time. I am also a firm believer that the vast majority of people who make a decision for Christ do it before the age of 16. That is where my efforts should be." He has lead worship and worked in children's ministry here at Cactus Christian Fellowship.
Ernie Johnson
Ernie and Kay Johnson recently returned to Phoenix from their residence in Prescott Valley. They also returned to the church family they left behind a few years ago. Ernie has been added to the board of Elders. As a previous Elder, he is returning to the leadership role he exercised among us when he was with us in those earlier years. Ernie and Kay love the Lord and His people and are committed to serving Him and them as a part of the CCF family. We are very happy to welcome Ernie back as an Elder.


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Branding Across Platforms
What makes up the components of a successful brand and how do you get there? As the Sr. Manager of Brand Strategy and Execution for Best Friends Animal Society, Kari's primary role is to not only craft the brand and
Surviving Viral Success
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"I Was Mad!" Cards
Domain: Emotional
In this activity, you and your child will create "I was mad because ____" cards!
Sort, select and plan Bilingual ParentPod™ activities that meet your child's developmental and learning readiness needs
Learning Foundation:
Dramatic Play
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I Need to Use My Words
- Index cards
- Safety scissors
- Washable markers
- Magazines
- Non-toxic glue
- Single hole punch
- String or yarn
Importance of Activity:
- In this activity, you will help your child identify what makes him/her mad and help your child develop ways to calm down. Your child's ability to recognize his/her emotions will also help him/her deal with them. The ability to regulate emotions is an important life skill for children and adults to master.
- knows own characteristics, preferences and experiences
- recognizes own skills and accomplishments and takes pleasure in performing them
- strengthen parent-child relationship
- develops ways to control responses
- develops socially appropriate communications
Suggested Dialogue:
- What makes you mad?
- How do you calm yourself down when you are mad?
- When I get mad, I calm myself down by closing my eyes and taking a deep breath.
- How does your body feel when you get mad? When I get mad my body feels warm and my heart feels like it is beating very fast.
- It is okay to feel mad. When you get mad you have to do your best to use socially appropriate words to express yourself.
- Sing the song, "I Need to Use My Words" with your child.
- Place the mat on the playing area.
- Arrange the craft supplies in front of your child.
- Say, "Today we are going to talk about what makes us mad."
- Use the suggested dialogue to talk to your child about when he/she gets mad. Emphasize the importance of self-regulation.
- To make the "I was mad because ____" cards, look through magazines and find pictures of angry/mad facial expressions.
- Cut out the pictures and glue each one on an index card.
- When you are done, play the game by holding up an index card and asking your child to finish the sentence, "I was mad because ____."
- When your child finishes the sentence, write it on the back of the index card (or help your child write it on the card).
- Repeat the process with each index card. Once you are done playing with the cards, punch a hole in the top left corner of each index card. Put the cards in a pile and line up the holes. Use a string or yarn to tie the cards together. Keep the cards in a safe place, so that you and your child can create more and/or use them again.
- End the activity by singing the song, "I Need to Use My Words" again with your child.
- Fold the playing mat together and put it away.
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Marianna- In sworn statements by the 15 year old victim, she and 32 year old grand ridge middle school teacher Patrick Kyle McDaniel had been involved in a three month long sexual relationship.
According to the affidavit, the victim and McDaniel engaged in oral sex and digital penetration more than ten times at her parents house and/or or McDaniels house. A search of McDaniels cell phone revealed evidence of the relationship.
During his first appearance Friday morning, Honorable Wade Mercer of the 14th Judicial Circuit had this to say:
"In the complaint, the warrant is for one count, but the complaint does allege several instances of second degree felonies and possibly some third degree felonies after the young lady turns 16. And as I understand, according to the State Attorney's office... you made, I don't know if 'confession' is the right word, but incriminating statements."
The victim, now a student of Sneads High School, was once a student of McDaniels at Grand Ridge Middle School.
McDaniel is the son of Jackson County Deputy Superintendent, Cheryl McDaniel and Panhandle Area Educational Consortium's (PAEC) Executive Director, Patrick McDaniel.
"It's a sad situation on both sides of the investigation," Jackson County Major, Donnie Branch said.
According the Branch, the case was still under investigation.
McDaniel's bond was set for $75,000. He accepted a conditional release agreement to pay 10% of the bond to the Registry of the Courts and have no contact with the victim or her family.
Judge Mercer said, "no contact means no contact. I understand this is a young lady and she may initiate contact. If she does, you tell her, i cannot talk to you or i will go back to jail. If I get any reliable information that you have texted her, you have called her, you have Facebooked her, you met her at Walmart- then you will go to jail with no bond and you will stay there."
The McDaniel family and school officials declined to comment.


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Some days I'll exit our office, get about twenty feet from the office door and turn around, because it is roughly 250 degrees outside. Slight exaggeration, but it does get HOT in Calabasas. This summer was actually pretty tame, relatively speaking. We only had a few days of 100 plus degrees, as opposed to, say, Dallas, who had over a month's worth. I won't complain too much.
This particular summer day was unusual in that there were some big puffy clouds up there. As I mentioned before, I really like those big, round cumulus clouds to be floating up there for black and white shots. This building is at one corner of the western town set at Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica mountains. I don't know what purpose it serves as I've never seen the inside, but suffice to say, there are a lot of doors on this thing. The opposite side looks just like this and the ends also have huge doors. I suspect that since the top halves of these doors can be opened independently from the bottoms that these might be stalls. Regardless, they are visually interesting buildings, so I carefully aligned this shot to take advantage of the parallel lines.
I shot this with a Nikon F100. The F100 is a fantastic camera. While it isn't as rugged as the F4 it is rugged enough and much lighter. It has a plastic body without the magnesium/aluminum/unobtainium core which accounts for the difference, also the back door is plastic and the latch is molded in place instead of the sturdy metal F4 latch. This is a common weak spot: the first one I got had a broken latch which is only repairable by replacing the back door. The autofocus is noticeably faster than the F4, however it is unable to meter with my manual lenses while the F4 can, so really, having both is the best of both worlds. (addendum: I discovered that the F100 CAN meter with my old manual lenses. I'm still keeping the F4)
This was shot either with a 50mm f1.8 or a 35-70 f3.5-4.5 set at about 50mm and on Fomopan 100 speed. Fomopan is Czech film and is quite good. Frankly, I'm going to need to go back and re-try all the black and white stocks that I've shot once I get started developing my own.
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Chestnut Paste Bun
I was thinking , I will not try to bake bread at any point. As I knew bread making is not easy, it required skill and time. Yes time is the thing I lack most. I did make bread once when I have my oven back 4 years ago. It was a recipe from a friend sharing with me how she make HK Sausage Bun. However the kneading and waiting sort of put me off.
One should never say never. Here I am the first bun in 2013. I went to Sydney celebrate Chinese New Year. One of the place that must visit to me is the Japanese Big Bookstore - Kinokuniya. There is where I can find some chinese reading material including famous Taiwanese Teacher Meng Bun Making (孟老师的100道面包). It really inspire me. She make baking seem so simple and easy.
However I did try one of the recipe in the book and used another Christine recipe on this Chestnut Paste Bun. This recipe is using cook dough method ( Tang Zong). Which will help to make the bun softer.
Ingredients :
Tang Zong :
25g High Gluten flour
125ml Water
Method for cooking Tang Zong :
1.Slowly mix the flour into the water well. Pour into a saucer pan cook in medium fire.Stir constantly as cooking. When you stiring and see line forming it mean the dough is cooked.
2. Scope the dough in a bowl, wrap it with cling wrap . Make sure the surface of the dough is cover with the wrap. Leave it cool in room temperature. If you not using it now it can be kept in fridge. I did mine one night before.
Bread :
350g High Gluten Flour
55 g Sugar
5g Salt
56g Egg
7g Milk Powder
125g Milk
120g cook dough ( as per above)
5-6g Instant Dry yeast
30g Butter ( in room temperature)
500g Chestnut Paste ( I bought from store )
Method : ( The reason I used this recipe is because is using bread maker machine)
1.Put all the wet ingredient except butter into the machine follow by all the dry ingredient. Leave the instant dry yeast to the last. Make a well in the ingredient and place the yeast in it.
2.Used the dough function in operation. When all the ingredient start to mix and form a dough put in the butter. Let the machine continue it kneading process.
3.When the machine stop, let the bread rest and raise double to the original size.It take about 70min
4.Take the dough out from the machine, press and knead the air out from the bread on a clean surface. Cut the dough into 10 portion. Roll it into individual ball cover with cling wrap and let it rest another 15min.
5.Weigh the chesnut paste 50g each . Roll into a ball as filling for the bread.
6.Use a rolling pin, roll out each dough into flat round shape and wrap the chestnut paste in it. Seal the top by pinching the dough together well.
7.Cover the each bread with cling wrap and rest for the 2nd time and raise double to the original size. It takes about 70min.
8. Preheat oven to 175C. When the bread has raise to its size, brush the bread with egg wash and sprinkle some sesame seed onto the top
9. Put in the oven and bake for 15-20min. Once done take the bread out and let it cool on rack.
This is the warm bread. And it was YUM !! I gave some to my friends as breakfast. However the bread is not as soft as I expected on the next day . Am not sure what was not right.
Will I make bread again ? Is really a time consuming process. Is not about work need to be done. Is to wait for the bread to raise, wait for the 2nd raise. I can not go out to do other things which make me felt a bit annoy . Am learning to be effecient in all my baking which I think baking should be easy , simple and fast.
However is indeed a good baking experience and to enjoy the fruit of your baking is always wonderful ^__^.
Friday, 1 February 2013
Cheese Cookies
This is not the 1st time am baking cookies. Often I do it during Chinese New Year season. Yes is the traditional to bake cookie to present some food when people come and visit during Chinese New Year. I am still in Australia, to get Chinese New Year cookies nowadays is not that difficult anymore,I still would love to do some just for fun ( GOD knows later I realised it was so stress especially you have got everything prepared but NO time to bake it )
Ok to not to get so stress up anymore , I manage to bake a few cookies for this festival. Some of it is those famous one. Since I am submitting this post to Chinese New Year Delights 2013 hosted by Sonia aka Nasi Lemak Lover. I would do post something I think is different .
The recipe is from a magazine and is as below :
Ingredients :
200g butter
100g icing sugar ( I used only 80g)
1 egg
300g plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
20g parmesan cheese
Method :
1. Beat butter and icing sugar until fluffy. Add in egg and mix well.
2. Sift flour add in baking powder, soda and parmesan cheese.
3. Pour the mixed flour into the butter mixture, mix until forms dough
4. Refrigerated for 30min.
5. Roll out the dough on the floured surface. Use cutter to cut out desired shapes. Place onto baking tray.Sprinkle some peanut crumb onto.( Optional)
6. Bake in preheated oven at 160 C for 15-20 min
I love this cookies, it give a fragrance of cheese yet not over powering taste. With some peanut crumb on top of it just give the cookies a bit of nutty taste.
I have to go bake another batch of cookies again . Too much things to do too little time. Oh another year to celebrate :)
Wish you all HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR !!! ^^ all wishes come true .
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Wow. September is here. Man! But I can't wait for XL sweaters, fuzzy boots, sweats and the colors. Ah... and I'm going to make some goals for this September! Happy Happy! Check out my goals for August.
"Make 20 new friends"- Oh my grapefruit! We are so close but the happy side 19 friends! Wow! *cheesy speech* Who know I was so so awesome? Thank you for following me! I never thought that I was going to get at this spot! THANK YOU! *Party with pizza!* Kidding.
"Find 10 blogs and follow"- Well that was TOO EASY! I found like 30! I love meeting new bloggers and friends AND blogs! I love reading what other people have to say.
"Enter a contest"- I feel pretty proud. I enter Jollygirl writing contest for her 15 followers (I think). I didn't win but all my congrats to the winners!
"Do 5 guest posts"- Well um didn't FIVE but I did one. I was so busy on my blog that I didn't have time! This "guest post thing" is still pretty new for me. So ya.
"Try some crafts" So for crafts and diys. I found some great crafts. But I gave my own roll with it.
"Watch TFIOS" Sorry but did not happen! I fell in love with Divergent. Ah. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE 2th BOOK! Someone help me.
"Sew something"- I practice some sewing but not a lot. My Grandma is going to help me tomorrow. Yay!
"Sell cupcakes"- But NO. Period.
"Go underwater with a friend"- I'm
"Have a party or play-date"- Play-date with my awesome cousins. 5th graders this year! Yay!
Okay now that I have this done time to tell my goals for September!


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As a former high school basketball coach when he was at CSU I have to say -- ram-o-litous 03/19/2019 09:42AM
Curious, I've heard he's more persona then Bball knowledge. -- Hopsblues 03/19/2019 3:33PM
Do you ever listen to his post game interviews? -- RammingSpeed 03/20/2019 12:05PM
Not in 7 years.. I don't follow the Huskers. other than I know they're -- Hopsblues 03/20/2019 12:17PM
It's the Huskers. So that matters. I watched most of the Nebraska games.... -- RammingSpeed 03/20/2019 12:20PM
I like Miles the person. His coaching record isn't all that great. ** -- Hopsblues 03/20/2019 12:24PM
Knew his shit in my opinion. So good at teaching good motion offense. -- ram-o-litous 03/19/2019 6:56PM
Look at the building job he did at CSU. You don't take the dump he was -- RamNavy 03/19/2019 5:39PM
Thank you for yer input & valued perspective... share more often. -- ramdom 03/19/2019 12:03PM
Don't know yet. Never met or spoke with him or watched any of his practices ** -- ram-o-litous 03/19/2019 12:17PM


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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (TCS.NS), India's top software services provider, lifted quarterly profit by more than a fifth and painted a more bullish picture for future revenue growth than key rival Infosys (INFY.NS).
TCS said it expects revenue in the current fiscal year to increase more than the 12-14 percent sector export growth forecast by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).
Infosys Ltd on Friday missed expectations with a forecast of 6-10 percent growth in dollar revenue, sending its shares tumbling.
Earlier on Wednesday, fourth-ranked HCL Technologies Ltd (HCLT.NS) said March quarter profit rose 73 percent, beating estimates, although its shares ended 1.5 percent lower.
"There is a wedge forming between performers and not so good performers in the sector. Given the way the U.S. economy is recovering, this augurs well for the performers like TCS," said Anshu Kapoor, head of private wealth management at brokerage Edelweiss in Mumbai.
Infosys, the No.2 player in India's $108 billion IT services industry, has struggled to implement a strategy of generating a higher proportion of revenue from its own software platforms. By contrast, TCS has focused on more traditional outsourcing.
Tata's net profit for the fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31 rose 22 percent to 35.97 billion rupees from 29.46 billion rupees in the year-earlier period, as it won orders from customers including Nokia NOK1V.HE and BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA).
That was roughly in line with an average earnings estimate of 36.2 billion rupees among 20 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Sector investors have been rattled by Infosys' guidance, pending U.S. legislation that would make it more expensive to send workers there on temporary visas, and a rising rupee fuelled by the global slump in commodities, which pushes down overseas revenue in local currency terms.
The BSE IT services index fell 1.14 percent on Wednesday ahead of the TCS results, underperforming the broader market, which was down 0.07 percent.
TCS grew its business volume by 4.4 percent from the previous quarter, compared with 1.8 percent growth at Infosys.
The company said it added 52 new clients in the quarter and that the pipeline of large potential deals has grown.
Additional reporting by Harichandan Arakali in Bangalore and Sumeet Chatterjee in Mumbai; Editing by David Cowell


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"There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness." - Frank Capra
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Kong: Skull Island Review
Kong: Skull Island is dumb, predictable, and often times feels recycled from previous big budget blockbusters. It's also a ton of fun.
It's impossible not to land on Skull Island and think you are about to embark on a journey through a Jurassic Park sequel, as the mix of characters from military meatheads to fish out of water scientists stranded on a dangerous, isolated island full of creatures feels all too familiar. What Kong does well though to make it stand out from the work that director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and writers Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly clearly ape (pun intended) is their dedication to embracing the time period it takes place in, utilizing a Vietnam war atmosphere and a clear nod to Apocalypse Now to bring some batshit crazy awesome visuals to life, so vibrant and ridiculously cartoonish that it's impossible not to grin.
You don't typically buy a ticket to a film like Kong: Skull Island for the performances and that stays true here, although no one is by any means poor in the picture. Lead by Tom Hiddleston and the wonderful Brie Larson, they do what is expected in a movie where the real stars are the action sequences and visual effects, and the supporting performances from brilliant veteran actors like Samuel L. Jackson (although his character is the biggest cliché of the whole movie as he plays military guy who has his own violent agenda on the island that endangers them all) and John Goodman are rock solid but again, you won't walk away from a film like this talking about which actors were the best. You will be talking about Kong and the other creatures and the big, awesome action spectacle moments and the post-credit scene that builds a big monster universe whether you like it or not (I like it).
I can understand and appreciate every different opinion imaginable in regards to Kong: Skull Island, ranging from those that believe it is a terrible disaster to those that had an absolute blast with it on the big screen. I could see all the warts while watching and yet I cannot deny I enjoyed the experience, one of those movies I would turn on years from now in the middle of the night when I just want to lay down and look at something pleasing and fun for a couple of hours.
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Totally agree. Especially when it come to giant monster films, the human characters are never why anyone goes to see this. I loved this movie and saw it twice in theaters. So much fun, but I will say that I thought Sam Jackson's part was a better done of the cliche. I could really see why he'd think and turn like that. I'm pretty sure that Brie and Tom were there purely so that their charaters are now part of the universe and they'll be more important in the sequel (God I hope there's a sequel). Overall, this was what I wanted the movie to be, and I was super pleased that it's one of the few King Kong films that dares to be different. My only confusion for the Godzilla vs King Kong film that will inevitably happen is the timeline. Godzilla first surfaces to the world in present day, while Kong is from the 70s.ReplyDelete
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Glad you loved the film Cody, interesting that I took this damn long to read your comment because now I am able to reflect on the movie rather than base my thoughts on my initial immediate reaction. This one is a blast and yeah, I very much look forward to the next one.Delete
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Michael Rivera and Tribeca Film Festival Friday 20th April 2012 012 Tribeca Film Festival - Supporting Characters Premiere - Arrivals
Jonathan is a young cop with a loving wife and small daughter. He enjoys his job and his life could not be any better. However, as a child Jonathan was forced to make some life changing decisions that have haunted him ever since.
Continue: The Son Of No One Trailer
After a nervous breakdown, Walter (Gibson) is struggling to get back into his role as CEO of a toy company, husband to Meredith (Foster) and father to two boys, smart 17-year-old Porter (Yelchin) and curious young Henry (Stewart).
When Walter finds a beaver puppet, he has an epiphany, letting the beaver say what he's afraid to say. While this helps reinvigorate his business and adds a lively twist to his family life, it's not exactly a permanent solution.
Continue reading: The Beaver Review
It wasn't so long ago when Walter Black lived a happy life, the CEO of a toy company and married with two sons, Walter had it all. Those days now seem so far away, through no real fault, Walter's marriage is breaking down and communication with his sons, who he once knew so well, is at an all time low.
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Michael Rivera Tuesday 13th October 2009 The world premiere of the Ministers held at Lowes Lincoln Square New York City, USA
This film tells a very familiar tale of a talented fighter discovered by an opportunistic but ultimately good-hearted manager/trainer and shoved into a world of money, greed, and empty glory that he may not be prepared for. But Never Back Down, this is not. The moment Shawn (Channing Tatum) enters the screen, it's obvious he is not wise nor even very intelligent for that matter. He's lean and muscular but he doesn't have it over on anyone, and this is partially how he comes under the wing of Harvey Boarden (Terrence Howard), a street hustler who has connections to the world of private boxing. There's a hint of imperialism in the way the very white Shawn squares-off against four fighters, beginning with a brawny Eastern European type and ending with Evan (Brian J. White), a black, brutal fighter who Shawn's father taught and loved more than his son.
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Jonathan is a young cop with a loving wife and small daughter. He enjoys his...
While there are too many carefully constructed moments in this film, it's a remarkably effective...
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