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THE orange message light on my cellphone started blinking as I was getting ready for bed. Barely an hour had passed since our quick kiss goodnight at the subway, and I was surprised to see the screen light up with the initials I'd just entered into my phone. It wasn't voice mail; it was a text message, and it made me smile.
U miss me? ;-)
I'd met him a week before at my usual Wednesday night hangout. He was alone but gregarious, and he seemed to be pals with the female bartender -- a tacit vote of confidence. He chatted with my friends and me and then left with a wave from the door, and when my friend Kate and I ordered our next drinks, the bartender said this round was on the guy we'd been talking to.
Surprised, we debated his motivations. I insisted that perfectly normal people sometimes buy strangers drinks just to be nice. Kate thought he was way too aggressive.
When I saw him at the bar the next Wednesday, I thanked him for the drink. He asked if he could take me to dinner sometime; I said I'd think about it. He walked me to the subway and we exchanged numbers, but I thought it would be days before I heard from him, if ever, making this late-night text message all the more unexpected.
I like text messages. They fill an ever-narrowing gap in modern communication tools, combining the immediacy of a phone call with the convenience of an answering machine message and the premeditation of e-mail. And if they happen to be from a crush and pop up late at night, they have the giddy re-readability of a note left on a pillow.
So did I miss him? Certainly not yet. But I was flying from New York to West Virginia in the morning for work; maybe I'd miss him while I was away? I could already hear my friends citing his enthusiasm as evidence he was coming on too strong, but I'd had enough of aloof. I found his boldness refreshing.
Before I turned out the light and snapped the phone into its charger, I allowed myself one more grin at his message and a grimace at his middle-school style ("U"? A winking smiley face?). Then I deleted it.
He called the next afternoon while I was grounded in Pittsburgh between flights. He kept me company while I ambled down moving walkways and wandered through a loop of food courts. We talked about work for the first time; he said he worked intense hours as a freelancer so he could take months off at a time to travel, and he showed he had been paying attention by asking me about things we had discussed at the bar. He asked if we could have dinner when I got back to town, and I said sure.
A few hours later, as the prop plane taxied toward the gate in West Virginia, I turned on my phone and an animated lighthouse beacon indicated that it was searching for a signal. For three days, the light swept the dark cartoon sea in vain. Every time I saw "no signal" on the screen I felt unmoored and isolated. But as soon as the signal bars sprang to life on my trip home on Monday, that orange light flashed on and, sure enough, it was him.
Miss me now?
I'd missed having cellphone service, and my mind had indeed wandered at times to our airport conversation. But that degree of nuance was too much for the 12-button keypad, so I wrote, Hi! Sure. Talk when I get back.
This set off a volley of texts. Where did I live? What day is good? What about tonight? Tomorrow? We decided on dinner that Thursday and I finally signed off, thumb sore and eyes tired.
At the office on Tuesday, as the light blinked on again (Din in SoHo then drinks in the E Vil, and maybe a kiss), I wondered, Just who is this guy?
Google failed me. One time, armed with only a guy's first name and the fact that he sold sneakers, I had found his full details and photos online. But all I had here was a cellphone number and initials, and Friendster, MySpace and Technorati -- the entire digital detective squad of the modern dater -- were stumped.
I would actually have to learn about him the old-fashioned way, in person. Which is partly why, on a slushy, windy Wednesday afternoon, I liked his next message:
Dinner @ Raoul's 2morrow, I just made reservations 4 7:30.
I couldn't remember the last time I'd gone out with someone who'd made reservations.
Sounds good! I replied.
A message came back as I was leaving the office: Its better than good -- u r with me! Maybe I'll stop by the bar 2nite.
So he remembered I usually went on Wednesdays.
On the way over, feet soaked and fingers numb, I knew that I didn't want him to brave the sleet just to see me, especially since it would be awkward trying to get to know him better while hanging out with people he had never met. And after all, we had reservations for the next night.
Don't come out in this weather! I wrote. Can't really hang out anyway, see you tomorrow.
His reply was impossibly swift for its length: I live 45 seconds from there and I would be doing my own thing. I am not leachy. Very independent boy I am. I may or may not, depends where the wind takes me.
Was it just me, or had things just taken a hairpin turn for the hostile? My message was meant to be friendly. Had it come out that way? Or was I reading him wrong? I needed to find a way to respond that was light, in case I was only imagining he was angry, but not flippant, in case he actually was.
I swallowed my distaste for cutesy abbreviations and tried: LOL! As you like, then. :-) I cringed slightly as I hit send; this suddenly seemed like a dangerously clumsy way of communicating.
Minutes later: Would u like me 2 stay away?
Oh, dear. At this point, yes. Wires were crossing that would probably be best untangled in person, the next day.
Entering the bar, I waved to my friends in their booth and, before joining them, whipped off a quick response, attempting to be polite and clear: Yeah, I guess that'd be better; you'd distract me if you were here.
A minute later, after I'd settled in with my friends, the orange light looked like a warning: 2 late, im here.
I looked up. Sure enough, there he was, talking to two girls at the bar. He drifted closer and hovered nearby but didn't make eye contact. By the time he came over and sat down, a full hour had passed.
He'd clearly had a few drinks, and our conversation went downhill as fast as it had on our phone screens. He said that I'd tried to "control" him by saying he shouldn't come to the bar and added that he hadn't come to see me but to see other people. After going on in this vein for a while, he suddenly softened and asked me to "promise one thing": a kiss before the night was over.
I stammered that I couldn't make any promises. He shook his head and stormed off, sloshing the beers on the table and sending a pool cue clattering to the floor.
Before I could process what had happened, he looked over from his perch on a nearby barstool and smiled, winked and waved over his shoulder as if we'd never met. My friends, wide-eyed, asked what was going on. I wasn't sure, but I did know one thing: reservations or not, tomorrow's date was off.
Not so that evil blinking light. Only half an hour later, with both of us still in the bar, no, was it possible? Another message?
What was that all about? he'd written. R we still on 4 2morrow?
I deleted the message and put my phone away, hoping to erase the whole encounter. Soon he seemed to have left, and as long as my phone stayed in the dark recesses of my purse, I believed that he was powerless to bother me.
But suddenly there he was again, standing a few feet from our booth, smiling and crooking his finger at me.
I shook my head.
"I need to talk to you," he said.
I told him we had nothing to talk about.
Turns out I wasn't the only person who found him menacing; within minutes the bartender took the stocky wine glass out of his hand and told him to leave.
I hoped he would be so embarrassed that he wouldn't dream of contacting me again. But the next morning the blinking orange light seemed louder than my bleating alarm clock. Three new messages. Mailbox full.
From 6:30 a.m.: I am done boozing for a while!! ;-)
From 6:38 a.m.: What did I do 2 upset u? Do u not want to have dinner?
At 6:45, as if he had waited long enough for a reply: Anyway, 2 bad, I would have liked 2 have gotten 2 know u.
I liked the finality of that one.
But had he really given up, or was there simply no more room in the inbox? I deleted those three and got on the subway. I emerged to find: Pls forgive me and join me 4 dinner. ;-(
We are not going out, I wrote.
What did I do?
I'm at work and we're not discussing this.
Whatever, he wrote. U don't have 2 b ignorant. Peace.
I turned off the phone, dumbfounded. How had this happened? How had we managed to speed through all the stages of an actual relationship almost solely via text message? I'd gone from butterflies to doubt to anger at his name on the screen, before we even knew each other.
That was it, I decided: no more text-message flirtations for me. From now on I'd stick to more old-fashioned ways of getting to know a guy. Like e-mail.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are usually the first therapy recommended to people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The medication is effective at controlling heartburn, which is caused by a faulty lower esophageal sphincter that allows stomach contents to back up into the esophagus.
Besides medication, another option for controlling GERD symptoms is surgery, which involves wrapping part of the stomach around the lower esophagus to reinforce the esophageal sphincter.
In a recent study comparing laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery with the PPI esomeprazole, researchers found both treatments brought acid exposure to a near-normal level.
In another recent study, researchers reported long-term results in 100 patients who received a magnetic sphincter augmentation device, a band of linked titanium beads with magnetic cores placed around the esophagus, just over the stomach.
The beads expand when people swallow, and contract after swallowing to prevent reflux. The device, which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, helped patients control their reflux, with few side effects, for five years after placement of the device.
Bottom line
If you take PPIs for GERD but find they don't fully control your symptoms, or if you're concerned about long-term use, talk with your doctor.
Surgical procedures to correct GERD should be done when all else fails or medications are not tolerated. Most long-term studies show that surgery and medical treatment are equally beneficial. And there are potential complications from all types of surgery; some people need to resume medication after surgery.
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Monday morning the Holy Spirit said to me, "The days of trepidation start now."
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Men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. (Luke 21:26)
I don't know exactly how this might tie in, but this was all flowing together yesterday morning. Last year, the Holy Spirit told me, "It will start with a trickle, then a stream and then a torrent."
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Sinangag or Garlic Fried Rice is basically a fried rice infused with lots of garlic. This is a staple in a typical Filipino household during breakfasts where it is usually paired with anything fried like eggs, tapa (beef seasoned in garlic and vinegar), tocino (fried sweet pork), longaniza (Filipino style sausage), hotdogs, daing (fried dried fish) and tinapa (fried smoked fish) to name some. Having said that it can also be enjoyed anytime of the day, like lunch and dinner what's important is that there is always bahaw (leftover rice) to make some.
Cooking this is quite simple and like I mentioned above like any fried rice you need to use left-over fried rice which long grain and not the sticky variant for good results. Once you have it all you need is oil and lots of garlic and you're all good to go. The aroma of this is amazing, the fried garlic in the morning is the Filipino's equivalent to freshly baked bread in the West, and it's such a nice aroma to wake up to.
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- 4 cups leftover white rice
- 6-8 cloves garlic, pounded using mortar and pestle
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- freshly ground black pepper
- Using your hands try to separate cooked rice into individual grains rather than big chunks, this will make your stir frying easy.
- Place a large wok in high heat, add enough oil to lightly cover the surface of your wok.
- If the wok starts smoking, lower the heat then add the garlic and fry until it turns golden brown.
- Add the rice then continuously stir fry for 10 - 15 minutes.
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2017 Six Nations Predictions
The 2017 Six Nations will be the 18th time the tournament has been played in the current format and is set to be one of the most exciting for many years. England come in as defending champions, having taken both the Championship and the Grand Slam last year and Eddie Jones' men are very much the team to beat.
Change to the rules for the 2017 Six Nations
Interestingly, there will be a change to the rules for the 2017 Six Nations as the bonus point system, used in many other rugby tournaments around the world, has been introduced. Any team scoring four or more tries during a match will receive an extra point, as will any team who loses a match by 7 points or less. Three bonus points will also be awarded to the team who wins all five of their matches, thus ensuring they win the Six Nations Championship.
England must come into the 2017 Six Nations as favourites
England enjoyed a perfect 2016 and must come into the 2017 Six Nations as favourites. England are very strong and have a group of world class players, who are operating at their peak and even when missing players through injury, can still field a good team. In truth, the only team who could really trouble them at present are the All Blacks but alas they are not involved and this should see England win the 2017 Six Nations comfortably. The difficult fixtures for England are in Wales and Ireland but they will both be challenges to look forward to for Eddie Jones' team, rather than games they will be nervous about playing.
The battle for second place is between Ireland and Wales. The Irish have a good kicker and a strong looking back line, which should be enough to defeat three of the five teams in the tournament. The victory over New Zealand in Chicago will give Ireland the belief they can win the 2017 Six Nations but England, over the course of the tournament, should prove to be too strong. This will leave the match with the Welsh as being the decisive one in terms of who finishes second and much could depend on the availability of Wales' Leigh Halfpenny.
The reliable kicking of Halfpenny is crucial to Wales and with him in the team, they should be able to defeat France, Scotland and Italy. The Welsh are also capable of giving Ireland a run for their money, especially in Cardiff but with Robert Howley deputising for Warren Gatland, who is concentrating on the British and Irish Lions, they looked a little short in the Autumn internationals.
Scotland are a team capable of beating everyone
Scotland are a team capable of beating everyone other than England in the 2017 Six Nations but they never seem to quite get over the line and this could prove to be a psychological problem. However, they have more than enough to stay clear of bottom place, a position which will be contested by France and Italy.
With the new bonus points in place, France will probably pick up a couple of additional points, even in defeat, whereas Italy may miss out on these and that could prove crucial. France have arguably one of their worst teams for a long time but Italy, despite promising to improve the longer they were a part of the Six Nations, have failed to deliver. Unfortunately for the Italians, another wooden spoon is in the offing this year.
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Agitation large at the opening of "Romanian Boat Show" in 2013! Dozens of boats companies have announced their partnership with this event and the models presented in Constitution Square boasted not only the design, but also recently implemented the latest technology! As expected, the event prtezintă luxury and high quality in all their glory! From yachts up to accessories and water toys, all make their presence felt in this year's exhibition "Romanian Boat Show" 2013. What yachts are on display in Constitution Square?
A small inspeciţie some great photos and important finding! In Romania 2013 in high fashion are small yachts and speed boats! We do not know if the crisis or preferences enthusiasts, but the exhibition "Romanian Boat Show" prevailing small yachts! Among the companies that have folded on the requirements and perhaps most budget customers are found producing companies precuum QuickSilver, Bayliner and StarFisher!
Once you round the exhibition, QuickSilver and realize that firms prevails Bayliner herein. To the center of the exhibition is arranged a long pier, along which on one side is either craft QuickSilver or ambarcaţuiuni Bayliner.Sign that they are the most popular models of 2013.
Luxury and elegance
Center exhibition area has an impressive arrangement as owning luxury yachts Stylish. A wooden pier you go up to their height, where you can admire and comfort offered by each boat test basis. Of course, I did not miss this opportunity, and we walked through Expos yachts to see new details and especially materials that are built interiors. True, many boats QuickSilver caught our attention. Experts sleek leather sofas interior, steering wheel covered with materials such as leather or wood in different shades.
Jewels, from which we abstained hard not to tread on board each boat to test them thoroughly. But promoitem to do next time to come up with impressions and detailed. There were far no exposed Bayliner boats! Attractive designs with Mercury engines! The only problem, most of these boats were covered to protect from dust and dirt. That's because in the early morning, visitors flocked SAA does not appear, and producing forms representatives preferred to find craft only to increase the number of tourists to be seen in all their glory. So if you want to feel the world of yachting lifestyle, visit the exhibition. Who knows what type of boat you go home at super discount ...
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Watching some of the popular dance movie musicals of recent decades—including "Flashdance," "Footloose," "The Cotton Club," "Strictly Ballroom," and "Chicago"—I've been astonished that audiences could endure and even applaud the bizarre way in which they were shot. Again and again, directors like Adrian Lyne ("Flashdance") and Rob Marshall ("Chicago") broke dance movement into fragmentary closeups—furiously tapping feet or thrusting elbows or churning thighs. Dance is devoted to the splendor of the body, but these movies turned bodies into pistons, pumps, cylinders—at times, we might have been watching a Soviet documentary on milk production. The shots yielded repetitive movement for film editors, who, with the directors sitting over their shoulders, rechoreographed the dance into rhythmically stimulating but humanly nonsensical patterns. The impulse to fragment movement came from music videos, I suppose, but videos have a practical purpose—they have to sell music as mood and product—and a dance musical is, or should be, a dramatic form, a special way of expressing emotions too powerful for words.
Thirty years ago, the director John Badham created a sensation by putting John Travolta front and center on a dance floor in "Saturday Night Fever," a movie that crystallized disco madness before the public got bored with it. Last year's "Stomp the Yard" tried to do the same not for a new dance craze but for step dancing, or stepping, a craze that forever renews itself. Cultural historians will eventually sort out the origins of step, but the rough consensus is that it originated in Africa, where it may have served as a means for people without a common language to get to know one another. (It is specifically associated with the late-nineteenth-century "gumboot" dancing of mine workers in South Africa.) Step can be seen as an assertive style of talking through the body—stomping with boots, slapping one's chest, thighs, and legs, whirling and spinning. It's not social dancing; it's a way of saying, "This is who I am. This is what I can do." In the early twentieth century, stepping emigrated to America and settled into the fraternities and sororities of black colleges like Morehouse and Spelman, where it picked up elements of military drill. Set in a black college in Atlanta, "Stomp the Yard" featured a good performance by the dancer and actor Columbus Short as a poor kid from Los Angeles who winds up teaching his élite frat brothers how to dance. Short was exciting, but "Stomp the Yard" turned into a slick piece of commercial manufacture that relied on embarrassingly obvious plot turns and the usual supercharged battery of glib camera tricks—slow motion, fast motion, jump cutting, freeze-frame. The director, Sylvain White, who has made music videos, didn't chop up the dancing, but he was too impatient to hold an image for more than a few seconds. A lot of the dance movement got lost in whipped-up "visuals" and in macho posturing so insistent that even in a football movie it would have been hard to take.
The much greater excitement of the new "How She Move"—a rudimentary but thoroughly enjoyable step musical from Canada—is that you can see the dancers from top to bottom, and they all look great. The movie is about step dancing as a high-school obsession—kids defining themselves personally and then as a group in dance, and matching styles in duels with other groups. The heroine, Raya Green (Rutina Wesley), is a smart, ambitious black girl who's been away at an all-white boarding school. After her sister dies of a drug overdose and her parents run out of money, she returns home, somewhat abashed, to the Toronto projects. At her old public school, she's now resented as a snob. She's not snobbish, but she's frankly opportunistic—she wants to get ahead and leave the projects behind—and her mother, a stern Jamaican, won't stop pressuring her to study hard. The plot elements are formulaic, but they're presented plainly and earnestly; the movie is anything but glib.
In the school sequences, the screenwriter, Annmarie Morais, and the director, Ian Iqbal Rashid, produce the same kind of taunting and jostling and romantic troubles seen in American teen movies—though these kids are Canadian, so they seem saner, or, at least, less violent, than Americans. When Raya and her rival Michelle (Tré Armstrong) snarl at each other, the confrontation turns into a step duel—slap, stomp, thrust—and suddenly the movie sheds its teen clichés and takes off. Raya needs money for college, so, against her mother's wishes, she crashes an all-boy step group that's competing for a cash prize. Like Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer," eighty years ago, the heroine disobeys a parent in order to find herself in performing—this girl gotta dance. Yet the movie is not entirely a celebration of self. The final meaning of Raya's story is: you have a great personal style, but you also have to submit to group discipline—to steps.
Morais and Rashid, who directed "Touch of Pink," were both brought up by immigrant families in Toronto, and the atmosphere of the local step scene feels right. "How She Move" was shot on the cheap in 16-mm. film, and some of it is a little drab-looking, but it has energy and bravado. The filmmakers, including the New York choreographer Hi-Hat, who has liberated women from their backup, sex-toy role in hip-hop videos, gathered dancers from all over America and Canada and trained them for five weeks. Step is muscular and volatile. The women as well as the men are in amazing shape, and can do anything they want with their bodies; Rutina Wesley, leaping on top of cars and smashing windows, brings the same strength to step that the men do. But the feminist charge is only part of the movie's desire to restore dance to its dramatic function. Rashid kept the cameras out in front of the performers (the groups are small—six dancers usually), and, since he doesn't cut too much, the identity of the different groups—some have canes or umbrellas or wear fancy-Dan white suits—comes through as an aesthetic form of power. Step includes many kinds of movement, and the steadiness of the direction and the editing allows you to see the individual variations—especially Wesley's—within the cluster. Like Columbus Short's street moves, her personal flourishes shake up stale step traditions. When she's in the middle of things, the old dream of transcendence through dance suddenly becomes real again.
In "The Witnesses," the veteran French director André Téchiné has tried to capture the uneasy moment when the AIDS virus first hit Paris. The year is 1984, and Manu (Johan Libéreau), a carefree young man from the South, lives at the center of a sophisticated group of friends: a middle-aged gay doctor, Adrien (Michel Blanc), who makes Manu his protégé without demanding anything from him sexually; the doctor's friend Sarah (Emmanuelle Béart), a narcissistic children's-book writer who is looking for a grownup subject, and finally finds one in Manu's life; her husband, Mehdi (Sami Bouajila), a detective on the Paris vice squad who becomes Manu's lover; and Manu's older sister, Julie (Julie Depardieu), an opera singer whose performance of Mozart suggests a depth of feeling missing in the others. The older characters have mixed motives and complicated lives, but Manu is a boy, really, with a boy's candor, willfulness, and occasional cruelty. Slender, with a confident grin, he's attractive but not a great beauty—it's his youth that they're all in love with. When he becomes mysteriously ill, they gather around to save his life if they can.


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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is considering raiding the Bundesliga for two German internationals in Schalke's Lewis Holtby and Bayer Leverkusen attacker Andre Schurrle.
Arsenal already have four German players in their squad with Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski regulars for their country, while Wenger has recently handed debuts to teenagers Serge Gnabry and Thomas Eisfeld.
The Bundesliga has proved a fruitful market for Wenger with all four players arriving from German clubs. Now the Daily Mail has claimed that Arsenal will look to add to their squad in January by moving for Schurrle and Holtby.
Leverkusen forward Schurrle was close to moving to the Premier League in the summer when Chelsea made an offer of £20million, however, the offer was rejected and he has continued to impress in Germany.
The 21-year-old has an impressive record for Germany, with seven goals in his 18 appearances, and has excelled for Leverkusen, playing a crucial role in the 2-1 win over Bayern Munich last weekend.
Schurrle can be used as a forward or a winger, with the Mail suggesting that he could be a replacement for Theo Walcott who has still been unable to agree a new contract and could leave for free at the end of the season.
Hotlby is in a similar situation at Schalke as his contract runs out at the end of the season and he is free to talks to clubs outside Germany from January in order to sign a pre-contract agreement.
The midfielder is just a year older than Schurrle at 22 and he also become a German international under Joachim Loew.
He has often been linked with a move to England as his dad is English and Holtby has admitted that he grew up dreaming of playing in the Premier League.
Earlier this week his agent, Markus Noack, claimed that Holtby had an offer from a English club as he considers whether to leave Schalke.
"Lewis is very good at Schalke but above all there is an English club which has made a very interesting proposal," Noack told calciomercato.com.
Holtby particularly impressed last week when he was instrumental in helping Schalke earn a 2-0 win over Arsenal in the Champions League game at the Emirates.


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Tel Qasile is the first site to be excavated on behalf of the state of Israel. Dug by B. Mazar in 1948, and later by his nefew A. Mazar, the site's most significant finds are a shrine and a living zone of Philistines from the 12th-11th centuries BCE.
Today the site is within the Eretz-Israel Museum .
|Tel Qasile on Wikipedia
|Tel Qasile on Google Maps
|Tel Qasile Website
Points of Interest in the Area
|Eretz Israel Museum
|Tel-Aviv port
|Tel-Aviv Museum of Art


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Recently I discovered that the Toontastic app I reviewed in 2015 has become Toontastic 3D. Google have made it available for free - for tablets, phones and Chromebooks. As far as I'm concerned, what was already a nifty way for kids to tell digital stories has become even better!
From the developer:
3… 2… 1… ACTION! With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. It's as easy as play. Just move your characters around onscreen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. Toontastic is a powerful and playful way to create interstellar adventures, breaking news reports, video game designs, family photo albums, and anything else you might imagine!
• A giant toy box chock full of swashbuckling pirates, transforming robots, nefarious villains, and many more characters and settings to spark kids' imaginations
• Design your own characters with 3D drawing tools
• Add yourself to your adventures with photos and custom colored characters
• Mix your soundtrack with dozens of built-in songs
• Choose from three Story Arcs for digital storytelling (Short Story, Classic, & Science Report)
• Export videos to your Photos library to share with family and friends
• An idea lab chock full of playful stories, characters and settings to inspire new adventures
What I liked:
I downloaded the iPad version, and I've been delighted with my experiments. Toontastic 3D is responsive, intuitive, gives professional looking results and has scaffolding for kids. Basically the app encourages children to make their own little cartoon-style movies. There are lots of pre-made settings, characters and soundtracks for kids to use - they supply the narration, the animation by moving the characters around and can even supplement settings and characters with their own creations. Explanations about story elements - like the middle of a story often having a problem - are great scaffolding for little storytellers who need reminders.
I was particularly pleased with the drawing canvas where kids can create their own backgrounds for their digital stories and draw their own characters - there's a fill tool, a huge range of colours, and an adjustable brush. How wonderful to have this way for kids to tell their own stories, but also to be more deeply involved in the design process! Once a character is drawn in 2D, it is rendered in 3D and becomes one of the many characters kids can choose from.
Children can also export the video to their camera roll, meaning it can be shared or emailed to a different device and saved.
Where do I get it?
Check out all of my iPad App Reviews on Pinterest, and find more apps and articles via my Listly page. I'll be adding this app to my list of Tools to Involve Kids in Digital Storytelling and to the list, Creating with Children and iPad Apps.


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WASHINGTON — A single picture from a cell phone camera may have saved the Gulf of Mexico from a few more weeks — if not months — of oil gushing from the BP well.
A new report from the presidential oil spill commission describes the behind-the-scenes, excruciating tension and mistakes behind the three-month effort to cap the busted well.
Hoffman withdrew $1,200 hours before death: sources
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew a total of $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
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New details include the story of a lone scientist working from a cell phone photo who saved the day by convincing the government that a cap it considered removing was actually working as designed.
The cap that eventually stopped the oil from flowing was almost pulled a day or so after it was installed in mid-July because pressure readings looked so low that they indicated a leak elsewhere in the system. BP wanted the cap to remain and the well to stay shut, but government science advisers were firm and near unanimous in wanting the cap removed because of fear of bigger, more catastrophic spill, the report said.
One scientist took a cell phone picture and e-mailed it to a government researcher in California for advice.
Just using that cell phone photo, Paul Hsieh, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist, created a model for what was happening under the cap. He was convinced that the containment cap wouldn't blow. He got more data, which bolstered his case. He persuaded the other scientists to wait a bit.
The government waited six hours, then a day. Nothing happened. The cap held.
Hsieh turned out to be right.
Hsieh told The Associated Press that he was "flattered that I was portrayed well," but said others including Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who headed the scientific team, deserve the credit.
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The picture Hsieh examined was "a game changer," said University of California at Berkeley professor Bob Bea, who analyzed the report for the AP.
"It also shows how in disarray we were," Bea said, referring to the response by industry and the U.S. government
Monday's draft report said some BP attempts to stop the gusher — especially the efforts dubbed Top Kill and Junk Shot — probably were doomed from the start. That's because BP had underestimated how much oil was spilling. Both BP and the government were unprepared for capping a blowout well and cleaning up the mess it makes, the report said.
But given how unprepared they were, both BP and the government reacted quickly and impressively, the report said: "BP's efforts to develop multiple source control options simultaneously were Herculean."
"It was a marvelous experience in logistics," said Bea, who was not part of the spill commission.
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Also, the oil industry in general and government have not spent the money they promised to improve clean-up equipment and technique for oil spills, a second commission report said.
"We believe the facts illustrate that neither industry nor government has dedicated appropriate resources to clean-up technology since the Exxon Valdez spill, and that the Deepwater Horizon spill response suffered as a result," commission staff wrote. "With the proper combination of dedicated funding and creative incentives, however, Commission staff believes that the existing technology gap could begin to close."
More than anything the commission report on containment didn't blame or praise, but pulled back the curtain on what happened during hectic times as 172 million gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf from April 20 to July 15.
"The containment story ... contains two parallel threads," commission staff wrote. "First, on April 20, the oil and gas industry was unprepared to respond to a deepwater blowout, and the federal government was similarly unprepared to provide meaningful supervision. Second, in a compressed timeframe, BP was able to design, build, and use new containment technologies, while the federal government was able to develop effective oversight capacity. Those impressive efforts, however, were made necessary by the failure to anticipate a subsea blowout in the first place."
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Motorsport - Wet Win For Thorn
Published at 7:04am 1st May 2012.
Whilst the weather ravaged the south west drivers at the first hill climb of the season (Saturday April 28th) at Wiscombe Park battled not only with the rain and high winds but also different levels of adhesion from the track following a total re-surface of the course.
Whilst the weather ravaged the south west drivers at the first hill climb of the season (Saturday April 28th) at Wiscombe Park battled not only with the rain and high winds but also different levels of adhesion from the track following a total re-surface of the course.
The morning practice runs of the Woolbridge Motor Club organised meeting showed that the new tarmac surface was yielding good levels of grip even in the wet conditions but this was not to be maintained as the grip levels were to deteriorate during the morning as competitors dragged debris onto the track as a result of short cutting the first left hand bend at Wis.
This was not to be a problem for Axminster driver Lee Moore who took his Citroen AX from second place at the completion of first timed runs into the premier position in the up to 1400 c.c. division of the Road Going Series Production Car class. Early leader Matthew Searle, in his turbo diesel Volkswagen Lupo, could not match the speed of the window cleaner and eventually finished over 1.5 seconds in arrears.
The Modified Specialist Production Car class saw Weymouth's Geoff Blake trailing the Ginetta G33 of Graham Beale on the first of the morning practice runs but unfortunately the reigning Wiscombe Young Driver Champion was unable to take the battle to Beale when, with his father Graham at the wheel, the Westfield SEi left the track and smote the crash barriers at Bunny's Leap. Fortunately Blake senior was un-injured in the incident but the same cannot be said for the car.
Other local drivers to experience problems were Haley Thorne and Colin Pook. Pook took the first run in the car when the belt to the oil pump broke sidelining the Pilbeam MP43 sports racer and requiring a trip back to Frampton to substitute the Westfield. Hayley Throne took a fifth in class with the car she has campaigned for the last two seasons . Colin Pook however moved over to share the driving duties with Rod Thorne in the single-seater Pilbeam MP58.
The challenging conditions were far from ideal if you were making your debut in a new car, as was Ottery St Mary driver Ed Hollier in his Pilbeam MP62in the afternoon. Having posted the fastest time in the first practice session a spin followed but second place was achieved in the afternoon with the win being secured by previous Wiscombe champion and OMS SF1100M pilot Mike Lee.
Reigning Wiscombe Champion Craig Moore battled with Tim Porter for supremacy in the Rally Car Class. The former, from Lyme Regis, was the quickest in practice but come the afternoon he had no answer to the Porter's well driven Ford Escort who took claimed the class honours with a time of 51.29 seconds, just under seven tenths of a second up on Moore.
The anticipated battle for the overall victory between Rod Thorne (Pilbeam MP58) and Terry Graves (Gould GR37) took an interesting twist when the latter left his braking too late and took to the escape road at the Martini hairpin on his first timed run when he was chasing Thorne's time of 44.26 seconds. On their second visit to the hill it was the MP58 driver who left the course between The Gate and The Esses which left the road clear for Graves. However, the Launceston driver was unable to match Thorne's earlier pace and was forced to surrender the Channon Trophy to the Dorset driver.


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Over the decades, prostitution is still considered as the "quick-money profession" until today. With the prostitution being rampant in some places around the world, it's so easy to be with someone anytime if you wanted to as long as you have money in your pocket. But how about when you are in a relationship? Are you going to tell to your partner that you slept with an escort? In general, I think it is necessary to tell it to your partner so she will know what will be the consequences and the possible health risk that may appear in the future.
When you are in a relationship, you better off sleeping with an escort as it may messed up your relationship but if you had permission and your girlfriend agreed with it then you won't have a problem. Paying an escort is just a usual thing to promiscuous couples. Prostitutes or escorts are known to have high rates of STD's. The fact that when you slept with an escort and you didn't tell to your girlfriend, it is possible that you could get a deadly disease and your girlfriend may get infected.
Some of us preferred not to tell to their partners when they slept with an escort. It will give them a bad image causing to mistrust them by their partners. They can't see the point in hurting somebody over something that may ruin the relationship they had for so long. But some of them ended-up confessing their secret because of guilt. It would have been easy for them to have said nothing, but they wanted to be truthful about what they did. It is a sign of deep faith in the relationship that they have been honest with their partners – as well as a sign of no intention for doing it again.
When a man had sex with prostitute and his condom breaks, his taking that risk, not to mention that his testicles are still unprotected from skin diseases. Does anybody want to catch chlamydia, genital warts, herpes, crabs etc.? If you are planning to have sex with an escort, take every precaution to protect yourself against AIDS and other STD's so be smart – always practice safe sex. Wearing protection is not 100% fool proof protection against HIV, although it is certainly better than nothing.
Society today is very dangerous, having sex with an escort doesn't give you a full guarantee that they don't have any infectious or fatal diseases so if ever you are going to have sex with them, particularly with vaginal and anal sex although there is a rare cases of the disease being transmitted through oral sex, it is still better to make sure you are always using protection. Even you used a condom, you still have to get tested as it is not fully safe because it can break and there's a part that can't be covered entirely by condom.
Majority says that it's better to invest pleasurable sex with a highly paid escort than any other ordinary prostitutes because of their sexual health awareness and being educated about it, they are much safer. They have regular health check-up with medical professionals making sure they are always clean and diseases-free. However, with the nature of their job, there's still no guarantee – you may still have a chance of contracting something you didn't pay for so its best to only have sex with a partner you're in a relationship with.


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Vertigo sufferers look away now. Or anyone of a sensitive disposition. In fact, no one should watch this video. It's too scary.
Two Russian climbers stretched the notion of being a daredevil to its most extreme limits by clambering up the second tallest building in the world… without ropes or any climbing gear of any kind.
Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov filmed themselves with head-mounted cameras breaking into and scaling the Shanghai Tower in China, which at 632m is smaller than only the Burj Khalifa in the UAE.
Getting to the top of the building is not enough for the hoodie-clad adrenaline junkies, whose feet literally dangle above the clouds, as they had to climb up the crane atop the building, meaning they reached a truly dizzying height of 650m.
Their reaction at getting to the top? 'My hands are wet [from condensation].'
Some men just want to watch the world burn.


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Indian Foreign Secretary visits China
Raghavendra in Beijing | April 20, 2008 19:10 IST
Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon arrived in Beijing [Images] on Sunday to attend a meeting of G-8 'outreach countries', becoming the first top Indian diplomat to visit China since the outbreak of the Tibet unrest.
At the two-day meeting from Monday, the countries would discuss their approach at the upcoming annual summit of leaders of G-8 grouping in Japan [Images] in July.
India, along with China, Brazil [Images], Mexico and South Africa, is a member of five 'outreach countries' of the G-8--the world's richest and most industrialised nations.
The G-8, comprising Germany [Images], the United States, Britain, France [Images], Japan, Italy [Images], Canada [Images] and Russia [Images] will meet in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido Tayako. The G-5 is invited when the world's richest nations meet.
The G-5 meeting in Bejing is a multilateral consultation exercise on economic and trade issues and climate change, among others, that major developing nations wish to take up with G-8, official sources said.
Mexico had played host to the previous meeting of 'outreach countries'.
Suggestions have been made to expand the G-8 to embrace 'major threshold nations' as full members but the previous meeting in Germany had skipped the issue, with several members insisting on preserving the exclusivity of the rich nations' club.
Japan would assume the G-8 presidency for the fifth time at the coming summit.
During his stay, Menon is expected to meet Chinese officials and discuss the whole gamut of bilateral, regional and global issues.
Menon's visit also coincides with the successful and smooth Beijing Olympic torch relay in India, after it was marred by protests from Tibetans and human rights activists in London [Images], Paris and San Francisco.
China may make use of the opportunity to thank India for it. The Foreign Ministry has already appreciated the great efforts by the Indian government for the torch's smooth run.
"China expresses its thanks for the warm support and participation of the Indian people and the great efforts by the Indian side," the Foreign Ministry spokesperson's office told PTI on Friday, a day after the relay passed off under a massive security cover in New Delhi.
The visit is the first by any top Indian diplomat since the eruption of the most violent anti-China protests in Tibetan capital on March 14, which spread to nearby provinces and reverberated worldwide.


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: 3D Cube screensaver - useless but nice
From: Daniel Stenberg (daniel_at_haxx.se)
Date: 2002-10-14
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Damien Teney wrote:
> I wrote a screensaver for the recorder; it's a rotating cube in 3D.
I've seen it now. Looks really cool! A few things I personally would like to
1. Why do you need both Sin and Cos tables? They're basicly the same, just
2. Your use of floats in the code makes the compiler/linker add lots of
3. You don't need the Sin table to be 360 values big. I did some basic tests
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Hmmm. David Brooks and Christopher Buckley, both of whom supported Obama last year are now having second thoughts. The indispensable Iowahawk supplies the laugh track these two geniuses require.
Update I: Brooks has now had third thoughts. Hattip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. The value of the support of weather-vanes like Buckley and Brooks is summed up by the comment of Winston Churchill on hearing that Italy had declared war on the Allies: "Seems only fair. We had them last time."
Update II: Buckley says he would still vote for Obama. The money quote: "Maybe I'm obtuse."


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Have fun learning how to make tiny chips and a mini bag of chips to keep them inside to play with your dolls, to decorate a dollhouse, just for fun... or because you like miniatures! This bag of chips also opens and close... It`s really cute! ❤ And I made chips based on organic banana chips, cooked at a low temperature, because that way of cooking is healthier (although I always prefer and love natural homemade food whenever possible!) ❤ (Look down for more details and some tips) ❤
♡ Download the printable of this vídeo here:
Please, ask an adult for help and supervision when making it.
- I use a large, clear and regular one-sided adhesive tape.
- I use clear nail polish to make the chips or crips look more real.
- Follow this video very slowly and, step by step, to know how to cut and stick each side correctly.
- Take into account that you can make a bigger or smaller packet if you want, following this same steps.
Hope you like and enjoy it! ❤


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XOLO Q800 X-Edition price and features make it quite attractive to users who are looking for good quality features on various parameters but in affordable price range. When it comes to photography, it has 8MP primary camera with LED flash and auto focus quality to ensure good quality images and video recording even in low light conditions. XOLO Q800 X-Edition has Bluetooth for sharing files with compatible devices, Wi-Fi for fast speed internet and WLAN support which will enable users to access internet on multiple devices. For users looking for alternate smartphone may look at XOLO A500s IPS price in India also.
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XOLO Q800 X-Edition specifications though match for any other mid price range smartphone in Indian market, it has exceptionally good battery. The smartphone has been powered with Li-Ion polymer 2100 mAh battery which gives talk time support for 16 hours which means non stop usage for 2-3 working days. XOLO Q800 X-Edition is very think in shape with 9.6mm thickness and hence users in fit into any size pocket.
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XOLO Q800 X-Edition price in India is well justified with its string battery, good quality camera features and screen quality. Some of the drawbacks of XOLO Q800 X-Edition is 1MP front end camera which will not be able to give good quality video chatting experience. Read more on XOLO A500L price India also.
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Before the South Kitsap School District Board of Directors makes a final decision regarding any future ballot measure for facility improvements, they wanted to hear from our stakeholders. South Kitsap 360 brought together a large group representing the community including, but not limited to staff, parents, business owners, students, City and County leaders, service clubs, and school support organizations.
1. Educational Presentation - A general overview of school funding, needs, and dispelling common myths.
2. Informational Tours
Participants had the opportunity to select a variety of sites to visit on 90 minute tours held during the school day.
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Participants gathered to discuss a series of summarizing questions and provided valuable feedback on the future of South Kitsap facilities.


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Orchid Conservatory | Belmont-Gaston County, NC
A Crystal PalaceVery near Charlotte, in the charming town of Belmont, you'll find the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden. The centerpiece is their Orchid Conservatory, a massive, 8,000 square-foot, five-story glass building that is the region's only public conservatory dedicated to tropical plants.
Those who love such delicious tropicals as orchids and bromeliads will be enchanted. Check out the Cascade Wall and prepare for amazement as you look up to see perhaps the perfect setting for orchids. Did you know that vanilla comes from a unique orchid, primarily found in Mexico? We didn't either. Look for it when you visit.
Four beautiful arches holding 10,000 tillandsias or bromeliads from South America are not to be missed. And there's more. At any given time, at least 300 orchids are on display. You will find blooms year round. There are 40 different types of begonias living inside the conservatory, as well as 12 different tropical trees.
Ten different cycads, representing all three of the cycad families are on display. (These types of plants have been with us since dinosaur days.) And you can see a lovely representation of national flowers from a number of countries, including Tahiti, Brazil, Malaysia, Indonesia, Libya and Singapore, among others.
While there, plan to spend quality time in various sections of the garden, named one of the nation's "20 Great Gardens," by HGTV. Our favorites include the Cottage Garden, with its scents from generations past, the White Garden, with white blooms all year, and the Allee Garden, with its image-enticing tunnel fountain. (Children love to play under the water. Brides like it for its unique frame for that special dress.)
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Hint: Consider this a year-round adventure, and although you might think it's more for adults, there are great kid-friendly activities, including a children's garden and plenty of space for running. The garden shop often has plants and always features great gifts (for yourself or others).
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You finally finished "Fifty Shades of Grey" and want to commemorate your life-changing reading experience. One way might be to turn your hardback novel into a clock. Rather than having the literature just taking up space on the bookshelf, by re-purposing it into a useful clock can mix both beauty and utility at the same time.
1Choose a suitable hardcover book. Select one that either has personal significance or one that matches the décor or theme of the room. Make sure the book is sturdy and can stand alone without much assistance––a book with between two and three inches (5cm-7.5cm) of pages is your best bet.
- Evaluate your room to determine which colors and style work best. For some rooms, a loud, colorful book cover will enhance your style, while for other rooms, a more romantic, subdued book cover cover will work best. If you're going completely for style, you may want to troll some used book stores for the right fit.
- Consider choosing a book that is symbolic of your life. If a certain book has made a significant impact on your life, it might be the ideal one to transform it into your clock. That way, it will always be on show to remind you of the journey you took with this work of literature.
2Purchase a cheap wall clock. You only want the clock for its motor and hands, so it doesn't matter what the rest of the clock looks like. However, do match the hand size and style to the size of your book - if they're too big, the hands may not fit on the cover.
4Drill a hole into the center of the book's cover. First, open the book cover so that you only have to drill a hole in the cover, and not through the rest of the book. Then, carefully drill a hole large enough so that the clock's motor rod can fit through the hole.
- Alternatively, consider other areas of the book cover than the center for placement of the hands. You don't have to be "by the book" with this clock––creative license is allowed. For example, if you find a clock with smaller hands, you could place the clock portion towards the top of left of center area of the cover. This could create interest and offbeat appeal.
5Prepare the area for the clock motor inside the book pages. The motor will sit nestled inside the pages, so you'll need to make an exact space using the actual motor as your model. To do this:
- Place the motor behind the opened-out cover on the first page of the book, centered directly behind the drilled hole. Make sure that the motor is perfectly centered, as you will want the motor rod to fit through the cover hole.
- Trace the motor with a pencil and then set it aside. Doing this will provide you with your stencil for cutting out the exact shape in the pages. It helps also to measure the motor's depth, so you know how far into the book you should cut.
6Using the X-ACTO knife, cut into the pages so that you create a hole for positioning the clock motor. Carefully slice away at the pages to create a nook for the motor. Drop the motor into the nook from time to time and try to close the book to determine if you have cut far enough into the book yet. Consider cutting fewer pages at first and checking the depth regularly until it's just right.
7Close the book cover and line up the clock motor rod with the book cover hole. Now you can assemble the clock using the hands and any decorative items to accentuate your new book clock.
8Snap the clock hands onto the clock motor rod on the front cover. If the book tells the entire "story" and completes the décor, you may want to stop here. This is the basic body of the clock. You may like it the way it is or decorate it further:
- Match the room décor. Add decorative numbers, jewels or small items to embellish it. You could also decoupage the clock with pictures to follow a theme.
9Place the book clock on display. Check that it sits solidly without being likely to fall. This may require steadying the book or adding rubber feet.
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- Consider using padding if the clock motor doesn't fit snugly into the pages. If you've carved out a section that is either too big or awkward, try wadding up pieces of duct or masking tape and padding the surrounding interior so it holds the motor snugly in place.
- Use a hot glue gun to affix any decorative items to the book clock.
- Insert a fresh set of batteries so you can enjoy the clock the minute after you create it.
- If your child is making the clock, always supervise the entire process and consider handling the cutting yourself.
- Be absolutely sure you can part with the novel before using it this way! You may love the book so much you really can't imagine digging into the contents with an X-ACTO knife. Don't torture yourself; just put it back on the shelf and choose something else. Or, purchase another copy of the book to use as your clock.
- Reconsider any decorations that could be flammable or destroy the integrity of the book's structure.
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- Hardcover book
- Cheap wall clock (try the dollar store or check out sales)
- X-ACTO/craft knife
- Hot glue
- Rubber feet (optional)
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Moped Fail In Key West!
Anytime you go to the beach, you see tourists riding around on mopeds. It's a really popular thing to rent a moped to drive around on when you're on vacation. Unfortunately a lot of times you get people who have never driven a moped or motorcycle before, so they have no idea how they work. This leaves a lot of room for possible accidents.
In this video, we first see a moped driver riding around Key West. This is a popular tourist destination and is full of moped drivers. When the guy driving ends up at a stop light, he's seen stopped behind a Honda Civic. After sitting at the light for a little bit, a lady comes around the corner driving a moped also. Suddenly the lady driving this moped seems to accidentally accelerate the moped too much, which causes her to lose control. She then crashes directly into the guy, knocking both him and his moped over.
The lady keeps apologizing because obviously this was an accident! Thankfully it looked like nobody was injured. This definitely was a fail! Although not as fast as motorcycles, mopeds are still dangerous if you aren't used to driving them. What do you think about this?


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Clive Goodman also admits in court to hacking Prince William and Prince Harry's phones multiples times
A former News of the World royal editor on trial in Britain's notorious phone-hacking scandal admitted in a London court Wednesday that he personally hacked Kate Middleton's cell phone 155 times, including on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 2005.
Clive Goodman was jailed in 2007 for hacking into phones belonging to three high-profile royal aides. Seven years later, the disgraced former editor also confessed to accessing Middleton's voice mails and also hacking into Prince William's phone 35 times and Prince Harry's phone nine times – yet claims police never questioned him about it, reports the U.K.'s The Guardian.
"I'm really not the slightest bit proud of this," Goodman told jurors. "I don't want anyone to think I'm not ashamed."
Goodman made his admission while under cross-examination by an attorney for former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who is also on trial.
"My entire life has been exposed," said Goodman, who returned to the witness stand after an eight-week break due to illness. "I've never been asked these questions … Anyone who wants to ask me questions, they will get straight answers as indeed you are getting today."
Regarding Middleton, Goodman said on the stand that in 2005 Prince William's then-girlfriend was a "figure of increasing importance around the royal family. There were discussions of her and Prince William marrying, moving in, settling down. She had started receiving royal status around the royal family."
Earlier in the trial, jurors already heard that News of the World journalists listened to hacked messages from Prince William to Middleton, in which he called her "babykins."
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A bright, encouraging smile almost never leaves the face of Crystal, the embattled heroine of the fine new drama "Bethany," by Laura Marks, which opened on Sunday night at City Center. Portrayed by America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty") with a warm poise that smoothly masks profound anxiety, Crystal cannot really afford to let doubt or vulnerability cloud her features. She's a saleswoman, after all, and the key to selling is keeping up a shiny veneer of confidence, even when there's a silent screech of desperation threatening to leap into your throat.
Ms. Marks's trenchant, economical drama is surprisingly (dismayingly) rare among new American plays in the clear, compassionate attention it pays to the corrosive effects of the economic downturn on the battered middle class. In this expertly turned Women's Project production, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, the focus is on the rough waters being negotiated by a single mother living in an unnamed exurb of a small American city.
As the play opens Crystal arrives with a small carry-on bag and a few essentials in her new home: a rather beaten-up-looking, recently foreclosed house that still at least has water and electricity. Crystal has no legal right to be there, so she turns on that welcoming smile when she discovers she's not the only squatter. Gary (Tobias Segal), scruffy and possibly emotionally disturbed, has already moved into the bedroom upstairs.
Gary's tendency to rant about the toxins of the "military-industrial complex" and about how the downfall of capitalism will lead to a new, nomadic culture would normally have a sensible young woman like Crystal sprinting for the nearest Comfort Inn. But Crystal has no money and nowhere to go, and more important a pressing need to establish some sort of convincingly stable domicile. A job loss led to Crystal's becoming homeless, which in turn led to the placement of her daughter, Bethany, in foster care.
As played with twitchy, molelike menace by Mr. Segal, Gary definitely reeks of potential danger, but he seems friendly enough. He mostly sticks to himself and is perfectly willing to help out by posing as a plumber when Crystal receives a visit from the social worker (the fine Myra Lucretia Taylor) she hopes will help her get Bethany back. Aside from the false nature of her domestic situation, Crystal must also hide the dispiriting news she has just received: that her new job selling Saturns will soon be going away when the dealership closes. (Emily Ackerman brings some welcome, mordant humor to the play as Crystal's dryly dour boss, Shannon.)
Ms. Marks, a recent graduate from the Juilliard playwriting program, draws a stark, increasingly disturbing picture of the vulnerability of single women (and single mothers) in an economy in which the threads of the safety net have frayed to the point of invisibility. Crystal's enforced cohabitation with the unbalanced Gary is not the only way she finds herself uncomfortably dependent on, well, the kindness of strangers.
At work she is desperate to make one last sale, and she thinks she has found a solid buyer in Charlie (the excellent Ken Marks, the playwright's husband), a motivational speaker who's eyeing one of the higher-end models but can't quite bring himself to sign on the dotted line. In monologues that make for grimly funny listening, Charlie gives us a taste of two of his spiels about achieving financial prosperity, offering comforting, specious platitudes like "the hardest part of making your dreams come true is simply believing that you deserve it."
The smarmy pep talk, with its generous doses of magical thinking, isn't the only dubious line of goods Charlie is peddling. Mr. Marks's genial every-guy exterior hides something far more sinister. In perhaps the play's most chilling scene, Charlie drives Crystal home after taking her to dinner ostensibly to discuss buying the car. Without quite making the terms of the transaction explicit, Charlie suggests that one of "the secret laws of prosperity," as he puts it in his inspirational-speak, is the "law of compensation": the quid pro quo.
As Crystal finds herself under increasing pressure from all sides, "Bethany" takes a turn toward the gothic in its depiction of the lengths to which this intelligent, well-meaning and morally centered woman will go to secure a chance at getting her daughter back. But there's a sad, dark logic to even the most outlandish turns the story takes.
And Ms. Ferrera's performance is beautifully modulated. Pushed to the edge but still determined to keep the pilot light of hope flickering in her increasingly darkened life, Crystal knows she must keep a firm grip on her emotional responses at every moment. This means burying her humane impulses when she feels her future is at stake, and even, at one point, keeping her wits about her — where's that Formula 409? — after a brutal (and literal) fight for her life.
Without stepping over the line into moralizing — or editorializing — Ms. Marks's disturbing, incisive drama suggests that the bruising exigencies of our depressed economy are scraping away at the surface civilities of American life, making it harder for people to heed their moral compasses. Self-reliance may be a celebrated American virtue, but "Bethany" reminds us that the distance between self-preservation and pure ruthlessness can be collapsed with alarming ease.


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I appreciate that you started your first Learned Fangirl post about SXSW writing about increased inclusiveness.
In addition to the panels you discussed, including How to Be Black Online, I was glad that there were varied discussions by and about people of difference, including about how disabled people use technology, women in technology and the glass ceiling, the GLBTQ community and technology, and about Jewish people and technology — including frum (very religious Jewish) participation. Of course, I started SXSW with my first session, a lively discussion about Asian-Americans belying the discussion title of Asians: The Silent Minority! (see also: Redefining Asians and the Internet: I Am Not Your Fetish).
I appreciated that those in the audience for the "people of difference" sessions I attended were genuinely interested in the discussion — both members of the community and those that are not members of the specific community being discussed. And that unfortunately is surprising, so I appreciate the tech community's openness, especially in response to past criticism of lack of diversity at SXSW.
Three of the most interesting panels I attended during SXSW concerned bridging divides between different people — understanding how creative products are used differently internationally (Design, Collaboration, Pokemon: How Not to Offend People Globally), governments helping disseminate accurate health-based information — especially during a bcrisis, and informing a highly educated, tech-savvy/making audience about how and why a digital divide exists in the U.S.
Watching the panelists on When Swine Flew: Embracing Innovation in H1N1 Response reminded me of my long-ago love for public health. Panelists Andrew Wilson of the Department of Health & Human Services, Ann Aikin of the CDC, and David Hale from the National Library of Medicine discussed how they help their government agencies effectively spread accurate information — including via twitter. I appreciated hearing about how the taxonomy of terms being used is based on library abstracts for SemanticTwitter, "which focuses on semantic and natural language processing of H1N1-related Twitter posts for biosurveillance, determination of public sentiment, and targeted information dissemination." And for the analytics lovers out there, there was also discussion of measuring effective media strategies.
But of course, I found How The Other Half Lives – Touring The Digital Divide, as presented by Jessamyn West and Jenny Engstrom, two superawesome librarians, to be the perfect capstone to explaining the ways that some are involved in the tech debates — and some aren't. (And to get all Reading Rainbow, "you don't have to take my word for it" — read the slides and hear the presentation). They presented on the digital divide between those with access to technology (and knowledge about the use of technology) and those without. Jessamyn's focus is on the rural communities (specifically in Vermont) and Jenny's focus is on the urban communities, including immigrants (specifically in New York).
I was impressed not only with the presentation — and that SXSW had such a presentation — but also that the members of the audience , the technological elite, were so interested in the on-the-ground digital divide. I expect that many came away with a greater understanding of not only their role in bridging that divide, but the importance of libraries and librarians in the difficult hand-holding information literacy that takes place in libraries daily.
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