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- Developer: Matthew C Cohen
- Genres: Action, Action-adventure, Indie, CMS, Early Access
- Languages: EN
- Official website: https://twitter.com/MattDementous
Paranormal is a 3D fully dynamic haunting experience. The player takes the role of Mattel Clark, an artist who has a haunted house. Mattel decides to film the hauntings with his camera, which is the viewpoint of the game.The player controls the camera as the hauntings slowly but surely escalate into something far worse and more horrific.
With multiple endings, a different experience every time, top-notch graphics and sound, Paranormal is a constantly evolving indie horror game.
- Dynamic Haunting: I've designed the dynamic haunting system that will allow a randomized experience, adding multiple outcomes, dynamic triggers, countless variables, and an action-reaction system. This will make your experience with the game much more unique and memorable, without missing out on anything important.
- Free Content Updates: Paranormal will receive free content updates that add new locations, stories, scenarios, scares, gameplay mechanics, and more! You will NEVER have to pay for DLC in Paranormal. The game's content is planned to double or even triple with each major content update.
- Sleep System: Sleeping in your bed recharges your camera's batteries and also has a chance of triggering other events.
- Flashlight (camera light): Creates a bright, short ranged light that casts dynamic shadows.
- Insane Sound Design: Paranormal was designed for surround sound and headphones to create the ultimate audio horror experience.
- First-Person Camera (Found-footage style): Much like in the movies 'Paranormal Activity' or 'The Blair Witch Project' (Not associated with those films, just inspired by them), the viewpoint will be that of a camera being held by a person (the player). Effects like camera shake, pixelation, video distortion, audio distortion, and motion blur will all be present thanks to the camera screen-space shader I built for everything.
- Horrific Story: Uncover the house's troubled and gruesome past through hauntings, journal entries from the previous owner, and more.
- Steam Trading Cards: Because one can never have enough of those things!
Planned Future Features
- Mac Version: In the next few months, a Mac version will be made available and will receive updates alongside the PC version.
- Achievements: Steam Achievements are planned for the game and there will be plenty to chase after!
- Full Controller Support: Work has already started on making the game fully gamepad-compatible.
- Oculus Rift Support: As promised as a Kickstarter stretch goal, Paranormal will receive an Oculus Rift version, free to owners of the game.
- Steam Cloud Saves: For those who hop between machines.
- Translations: The game's text is planned to be translated into German, Swedish, and Spanish. If your language isn't on that list, please request it in the forums.
- DirectX 11: For those of you who have powerful computers, DirectX 11 support is planned for the future and will make the game look and run even better!
- Persistence: Some sort of persistent scoring system is planned, adding more replay value.
Posting Videos
All users have full permission to post videos of Paranormal to websites, monetize them, edit them, etc. In fact, I encourage this. The only thing I ask (but don't require) is that you send me a link so I can watch it and share it! A healthy game community encourages shared experiences. If your video gets flagged by YouTube for copyrighted content, Tweet me and I'll do everything in my power to help clear it up--even if I have to call YouTube.
System RequirementsMinimum:
- OS: XP, Vista, 7, 8 (64-bit Recommended)
- Processor: 2.0 Ghz Dual-Core CPU
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB Graphics Memory. Shader Model 3.
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Hard Drive: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Integrated graphics chips are not officially supported yet. They may or may not work with the game.
- OS: 7, 8 (64-bit Recommended)
- Processor: 2.8 Ghz Quad-Core CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1024 MB Graphics Memory. Shader Model 4.
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Hard Drive: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Integrated graphics chips are not officially supported yet. They may or may not work with the game.
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OCTOBO is an interactive storytelling plush octopus companion that will respond to storybook cues and player interactions. He has a tablet display on his head and sensors and RFID integrated throughout his body that feed into an Arduino. OCTOBO is selected into alt.ctrl.GDC 2016.
Curiouser and Curiouser!
An interactive pop-up book based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland". It has a physical pop-up book that controls the digital game. Every page of the pop-up book has a new game to explore on the screen. This project is selected to present in GDC 2015 Experimental Gamplay Workshop and IndieCade E3 2015.
California! is a digital history textbook for 4th graders about California history, the project aims to create an innovative history reading experience that can engage kids for better learning.
Story Walk
Story Walk is a project developed for the Getty game jam. It's about artists from the past talking about their work to a user through a video chat interface.
Glass Genius
Glass Genius is a audio engine (NLP) application designed for Google Glass users.
pocketOULU. is an Augmented Reality ubiquitous urban puzzle game that aims to engage people to interact more with the environment (city) they are in.
This is an experimental film about time, lost, relationships and love. In the story of apples.
Outdoor advertising
Wildlife preserve outdoor advertising project.
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My previous Flash portfolio website, designed and programmed myself.
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Showing the relationships between man and nature.
Bond Girl
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Meridian Automotive Systems hit the market last Tuesday for $175 million of exit financing from Deutsche Bank after a year-and-a-half in bankruptcy protection. The credit consists of a $70 million revolver and a $105 million first lien split into an $80 million term loan and a $25 million pre-funded letter of credit, according to a banker. Price talk is LIBOR plus 2 1/4% on the revolver and LIBOR plus 5 1/2% on the first lien. The deal also includes a second-lien tranche that will fall somewhere in the $80-98 million range that is being considered more of a junior term loan, the banker said. It could not be determined when the exact size would be finalized. Pricing on the second lien is LIBOR plus 8% of payment-in-kind.
"I think the deal is struggling a little bit. It's not an easy deal," said one portfolio manager, commenting on the auto sector. "I think there's some concern over longer-term viability of the deal." Another portfolio manager felt the same. "It's just coming out of bankruptcy why would you do a second tier?" he said, referring to the second lien. With all the auto names out there, "you do Ford and GM right now," he commented.
The auto part supplier has had a rough time since it filed for bankruptcy on April 26, 2005. Meridian planned to receive $375 million of debtor-in-possession financing from JPMorgan, but revisions to its 2005 operating forecasts caused by production cutbacks forced the deal to be shelved. The company worked with an interim $30 million DIP until securing a $75 million DIP from Credit Suisse. It could not be determined why Credit Suisse is not leading the exit financing. Meanwhile, over the summer, Meridian's existing paper continued to tumble, with its second lien finally bottoming out in the single digits after the company pulled its second plan of reorganization in August (CIN, 8/21).
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Pumpkin Drop Scones
Okay, so I already have a pumpkin pancake recipe. What's the difference between pancakes and drop scones? Well, not a lot! Drop scones are a bit more dense. The batter is meant to be a little thicker, and you're supposed to use a spoon or tiny cup to drop the batter into the pan. A pancake ends up runnier, so the batter can be poured more easily.
It's subtle.
These are perfect for making ahead and taking to-go. They are handheld and not a mess. That's always nice when it's for your baby, am I right?
Makes 8-10 scones; Good 6 months and up (see notes)
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup pumpkin puree
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- a pinch each of ground ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice (if you don't have them all, just use what you have!)
- optional – 2 tsp pure maple syrup
- butter or oil, for frying
- Mix all ingredients except for the butter/oil. (The maple syrup is to add a touch of sweetness. Omit that until age 1 or older!).
- Heat a little butter or oil on medium in a skillet.
- Use a 1/4 cup or large measuring spoon to scoop and drop the batter into the skillet.
- After 2 minutes, flip and cook an additional 1-2 minutes. These do not take very long, but you'll want to play around with the cook time to make sure they are cooked through.
BEGINNERS. These do have dairy, egg, and grains. Feel free to swap the egg for a flax or chia egg (just 1 tbsp ground flax or chia + 3 tbsp warm water). You can use a non-dairy milk if you'd like. And if you'd rather avoid white flour, use wheat or gluten-free.
IDEA. Add raisins or chocolate chips to the batter!


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I am tired of being brave.
—Anne Sexton
I angled my body so I could write on the board and still see my students, as we had been taught in training. It was like standing on a surf board, but in heels with a dry-erase marker. This was my first class at ChungDahm Institute.
"Teacher," I heard one of my students begin, that tone in her voice, the one children get when they think they know something.
"Yes … Scarlett?"
"You pregnant with baby?"
Before I came to work, I stood in front of a full-length mirror and adjusted the leather belt cinched around my dress as stories told to me by my sister, who had already been a teacher in South Korea for a year, replayed in my head. Once she was coaxing a student to practice writing descriptive sentences. He stared at Rachel and then scribbled something down. When she looked at his paper she saw his lone sentence: Her leg is as big as an elephant's.
Scarlett, I could tell, was not malicious. But still, as soon as she asked, her eyes, as well as the rest of the class, fixed on my stomach, I was a girl again, not the confident, 29-year-old feminist who uses the term "partner" on Facebook for the man she married.
"No, Scarlett. I'm not."
Her tiny forehead made a crease. She didn't believe me.
During my second class, I explained the homework and asked if anyone had questions.
Jennifer raised her hand. "Do you think you're pretty?"
I had taught at universities in America for seven years. I had a reputation for pushing my students, remaining cool yet fierce, calling them out when they dozed through class, made ignorant remarks, or didn't do their homework. I kept tissues in my office for when someone cried in the midst of a grade dispute. I was used to being stared at, critiqued, accused. An older male student once left a message on my office phone relaying that I was "looking really good up there teaching today. Black's a good color for you." To his credit, he did call back the next day and apologize, claiming he was high. Other male students had referred to me as "cupcake" in class or asked if I was sexually attracted to anyone in the room. And once, while I was walking from desk to desk, checking revisions, I felt someone staring at me. "Is something wrong, Blake?" I asked.
"No," he said. "But you're killing me with those boots."
I let it all slide off me. Too young to realize what was happening I dismissed it as the rampant misfiring of testosterone. Even the women, in their own way, sexually harassed me. I was barely older than them: we listened to the same music, ran into each other at the local bars. They tried to buy me drinks, leaned in close to my ear, touched my shoulder and breathed You are so fucking cool.
Standing in front of a class of silent, obedient Asian children, however, was new to me. They were born after I graduated high school. They had never seen a typewriter, and I caught myself describing one as "a keyboard with ink in it." Their questions were softballs compared to what I was used to, but I didn't know how to deal with them. Was Jennifer asking me that because she thought I was pretty? Or, was I giving the impression I thought I was pretty, but she didn't agree? Additionally, why was I letting this pre-teen with braces rattle me like I was going through pledge week? In America, I relied on a steady blend of profanity and sarcasm. It didn't seem right to tell her to shut the fuck up and get back to work.
"I'm married," was my thoughtless answer to her. "So I don't have to think about that."
"Can I take a picture of you?"
She fumbled with her phone and brought it up to eye-level.
"Smile," she said.
So I did.
My mother grew up working in the sun with her father, her body long and tireless. A tomboy who hated school, he used to carry her, screaming, to the school bus. When she went to college, she majored in Physical Education. In the '80s, she taught Jazzercise classes at night. I remember her pink leg warmers, draped over the rocking chair in her bedroom. I know, when she looks at her four daughters, something pulls at her. Short with blocky thighs, wide feet, our faces often void of expression, we are not what she expected. "I don't know how you all became so artistic," she mused to me once.
I see traces of her in our branch manager, Mira, who asked if I could perform some additional tutoring during the morning hours. "No," I said. "Actually I just signed up for a gym membership and that's the only time I can go."
"That's fine," she said, strolling off.
I had tried other times to say no, but it never worked. I always ended up giving in, agreeing to be the chaperone for a field trip to the art museum, or subbing for the debate class. Tell her that you are trying to lose weight, and she'll never bother you again.
I'd heard there were schools in South Korea that kept scales and mirrors in the hallways, and was grateful Mira's wasn't one of them. In some ways, however, the students filled that void, informing you in the middle of class that there was a pimple on your cheek, your hair looked strange, or you had gained weight. In their culture, this is not rude. It is like performing a service. If you look bad, you should do something about it. They were also just as quick to point out when you looked good, or somehow bizarrely do both, like when one of my Korean friends said I looked nice and then added "What happened?" Initially this unnerved my American sensibilities, but now I prefer it. It is not as passive-aggressive, and I come from a long line of midwestern passive-aggression, raised on a strict diet of guilt, shame, and corn. When I talk to my mom I always make it a point to off-handedly mention my exercise regime. I know she is baffled by the idea of gyms, people driving somewhere, and, even worse, paying, to work out, but in Seoul you had little choice. "It's not like the country," I told her. There were no buckets to carry, no sheep to wrestle to the ground.
"You have a pretty nose," a young girl, English name Eve, told me, even though I don't. I just have a nose with a bridge, which many Koreans lack.
It is easy to like teaching English in South Korea. The younger students gaze at you, dreamy-eyed, follow you around the room, fight to be the ones who sit next to your desk. For some, you are their first foreign teacher. They raise their hands just to say that they love you.
In the hallways during break time, my girls form a semi-circle around me and my partner Todd, another teacher at the same school, pummeling us with questions.
"After you marry, where you go on tour?"
"You have baby?"
"Do you like nuts?"
"What's your favourite colour?"
During the last hour of class, we often did a Critical Thinking Project. One day they had to write a speech detailing who they would be if they could be anyone.
"Let's brainstorm," I sang, teacher-voice in full swing. "Who do you want to be?"
"Megan Teacher!"
They were wound up by this point, howling with laughter, standing on their chairs, screaming. Six girls wrote speeches giving distinct reasons why they wanted to be me.
I want to be a Megan Teacher because she very pretty.
Megan Teacher is very smirt.
She teach me nice.
She doesn't angry many times.
Hee Sun, a student who chose to go by her Korean name instead of picking an English one, thrust her project into my hands. "Don't read it until I'm at my home!" she shrieked, and ran out the door.
If you are a good teacher, you will be loved no matter where you teach in the world. This is part of what a classroom does, after all: create a mood for idolatry. Think of the way a lecture hall is designed. How can you not see that floor as a stage? In Korea, the experience is heightened even more because Koreans are hungry to learn English. My students thought I was brilliant because I could watch CNN and understand what was happening.
"You understand the whole time?" Scarlett asked, floored.
"Yeah," I said. "Every word."
But there are other reasons they love you, reasons that pierced me, made me suck my breath in. One day when I was checking homework, Susan patted her cheeks. "Teacher," she said. "Your face very nice. Very white."
"Thank you, Susan."
I grew up in Ohio on a farm, the same one my mother worked on that has been in our family for six generations. Early on, I learned education was critical. "You have a job," she told us. "You're a student." As a result, we didn't have nearly as many chores as other farm kids during the school year. Sometimes, when questioned about the amount of work we must have to do, what with tending to all the crops and livestock, I lied about how early we had to wake up. It was what people wanted to hear because farm life is romantic to outsiders. I was aware of this, even in elementary school. In reality, I spent most of my time studying and working on school projects. In the summer, we baled hay and took care of our 4-H animals, but I still had plenty of time to read my young adult novels.
It is only now, years later, that it occurs to me why we were told to focus so heavily on our education instead of manual labor. I used to think it was because she didn't want us to struggle like she did in school, but I'm not so sure anymore.
"We aren't as smart as boys," Jeung Eun once told me in a tone so matter-of-fact she could have been discussing rare species of birds.
"Don't say or think that again," I said, trying to remain calm, succinct, not scare her by launching into a rant or reading Hillary Clinton's Wikipedia page. This was the master's class, the highest level offered at the academy. All of the students were female.
She shrugged. "We just aren't good at the things they are." We had been reading Lord of the Flies and I asked what the book would be like if the characters were girls. Everyone agreed they would die of starvation since they wouldn't be able to take care of themselves.
"Women," I began, and took a deep breath, "are so smart. We can do anything we want."
They all stared at me, silent, trying to figure out if we were still talking about the novel. Because their English is limited, I have to pick my words carefully. I pretend that I'm standing before a bin of apples at the supermarket, searching for the ones with the fewest blemishes, the ones that will be easiest to eat.
"Do you understand?" My voice so low I was almost whispering.
Everyone nodded, but I knew they were just doing what they were told, the same way they did when told they were overweight, or the way they told themselves when they watched the newest music video from Girls' Generation, a South Korean k-pop group consisting of eight impossibly slim women.
They had a hard time articulating themselves. Usually they just stared at me, blinking, not used to someone probing for opinions and personal thoughts. The attention also made them nervous, and then I felt guilt for making their day harder. How can you not understand? their dark eyes said. Or, even worse: How can you ever understand?
In South Korea, you can shop in the middle of the night on the side of a mountain. Koreans work and go to school all day, so late night shopping is a treat, especially for daughters and mothers.
They love it, and so did I.
My hips didn't stand a chance in pants designed for a typical Asian woman, but I loved looking at the matching sets for couples, shirts riddled with broken English, and, my favorite, though I definitely did not need it: padded underwear. Koreans streamed around me and my Heartland amble, the women so beautiful it was arresting. At the height of winter, they still wore black skirts, black heels, black stockings. They shopped quickly, perfectly, in and out of a boutique before I could even translate a price tag. I had to learn when I shopped for moisturizer to buy the kind that wouldn't whiten my skin. In America, I was often teased for the pale skin that came with my red hair. In Korea, it was one part of the standard beauty package.
Another teacher subbed for me when I was on vacation. Petite with blond hair, blues eyes, raised in Massachusetts, schooled in southern California, her face bright with sharp, American angles, one of my students, Sofie, was mesmerized by her.
"I look at you," Sofie told her, "and I want to be white."
I can't, for obvious reasons, say precisely what it is that makes such pale skin desirable to my young students and so many others. I only lived in South Korea for a year, and I'm just another white girl, able to pass through a country, a life, with ease because of the color of my skin, a fact that disgusts me. Some will tell you that the reasons models are whitened to ghostly shades and why people, male and female, sometimes use dangerously high doses of skin lightening creams has more to do with class than race, pointing out the long history of peasants baking in the fields while nobility luxuriated inside, away from the sun. I struggle to see, though, how this is better, nor do I think it is the whole story.
Once while sitting outside a busy art museum in Seoul, a Korean mother looked at me and said, in perfect English, she was jealous of me. "Everything is so easy for you," she said, before looking away. "That must be nice."
Here's the thing, the awful truth, about what I called the rampant misfiring of testosterone. Back then, I liked it. To me, it felt so harmless, so casual, I could bask in it. It was like I was finally being told, good job, you made it. You won.
At my first real job after graduate school, I was the youngest woman, and I loved that also. Single, childless, I practically strutted out of my office. Some of the other women were callous toward me, commenting about the sliced vegetables I ate during faculty meetings.
"Oh, look at Meg," one would groan, popping open a bag of Doritos. "Eating something healthy again."
All of this brand new to me, the perpetual middle child, I was convinced no one had ever noticed me before. I drifted through my youth, oblivious, faintly aware that men existed, but more concerned with writing my rhyming poetry, centered down the page of a Microsoft Word document. When someone finally did look at me, I didn't care that I was being objectified.
Someone should have grabbed my shoulders, told me to wake up. Don't you realize how little it takes to impress a man? You're a woman. That's all it takes. That's it.
If you ride a bus through South Korea, you'll take in countless ads for plastic surgery. In a 2009 survey, one out of every five women in Seoul between 19 and 49 said they had undergone some form of plastic surgery. When I first arrived here, I was appalled at the bluntness in the advertisements, the before-and-after images of young girls, barely dressed, showing off their newly arranged jaws or double eyelids.
I didn't just live in Seoul, either. I lived in Gangnam, one of the richest districts in Seoul, brought to fame by Psy and his beloved "Gangnam Style." I walked up and down those streets everyday, watching women shop with one eye while the other one, covered in bandages, healed from surgery.
"America is no different," Rachel said. "Korea is just more upfront about it."
She is right. In America, we make people feel bad if they try too hard to look beautiful, cooing to one another that looks don't matter. In South Korea, everyone, even the children, already know that's a joke.
One of my friends, a young woman from New York who was also teaching in the Korean school system, opted for a surgery that sucked the fat out of her middle and shot it into her breasts. The doctor looked her up and down before he approved her for the operation. "Good," he said. "Two birds, one stick."
I handed Jennifer a chocolate candy for a reward and she turned her head away, held up her hand to stop me. "No, teacher," she said, staring at the wall. "I'm on a diet. Do you know how many calories are in those?"
Jennifer was in sixth grade. If she laced her arms above her head, I could lift her from the ground like she was a bucket of water. I learned very quickly that she asked me if I thought I was pretty because she did, in fact, think that I was. But it doesn't take much to impress them. Once I caught a group of girls staring at a silhouette of a woman on the cover of a textbook. "Teacher, look how pretty she is," Vicki whispered.
"How can you tell?" I asked, fearful but curious as to what they could possibly identify when all you could see was a shadowy figure perched before a computer.
Vicki tapped the woman's nose.
Of course. How did I not guess they would be mesmerized by her nose, the way it jutted from her face at a clean right angle? Even though it depressed me, it was not surprising that little girls were obsessed with appearance. What scared me, though, was the range of their obsession, how young they were when it started.
"I weigh myself in my room every morning so I know my heavy," Nancy, a girl with legs as wispy as a pair of saplings, wrote in an essay. "In the past, I was very fat, and my sister was very skinny. I always had a stress about that. I couldn't eat what I want to, because my parents said not to eat. They said I'm too fat to eat more. Sometimes I cried because I'm fat. When I grew up to third grade I started to exercise. Someday I weight more, that day I exercise more."
Mira told me I needed to be more strict. I needed to yell, louder and with more frequency, so the students knew I was angry. I nodded as she told me this in her office during my evaluation. Yes, of course, you're right. I am too nice. But I will never change. I remember being a child and the fears I had throughout school, and my educational career was nothing compared to theirs. How can I yell at Nancy, who jumps rope in her bedroom if she put on an extra kilogram? Or Hallie, who wrote the answers to the vocabulary test on her hand because she didn't want her mother to beat her if she failed again?
"Come here, Hallie," I said to her in the hallway during break time, and took her by the wrist. "What's on your hand?"
Her lip started to tremble. She was just a girl.
"It's okay." I crouched in front of her, like I was taking her order at a restaurant. She didn't know that I wasn't going to tell on her. I just wanted her to wash the answers off her hand so her mother wouldn't see them.
"Scrub your hand very hard," I told her, mimicking the action on my own hand that I wanted her to do. "Very hard, so you can't see the words anymore."
She was crying, but she went into the bathroom to do as I instructed.
Next week she failed the test, but she didn't cheat.
"My mother is going to beat me," she informed me and the rest of the class.
"I'm sorry," I said.
"It's okay," she said. "It's not your fault."
I wonder if my mother had visions of her sons working the fields, knowing what to do when the tractors broke down. Did she want to call them all in to supper, not be the one still being called in to supper, this time by her daughters, instead of her mother, like when she was a child? She did have one boy, her first. At my worst, I let myself think that's why she kept having children: to get her field of sons.
Everyone wants sons, after all. As a child, I idolized my parents. In my mind, they were the Ohio versions of Gandhi and Mother Teresa. I believed they were different from the masses, that they didn't subscribe to the popular belief that boys are better, stronger. But with a son's ability to carry on the family name and traditionally make more money, I cannot blame my parents, or anyone else. I am two and a half months pregnant, and hope for a son as well, but I like to think my reason is different: I want his life to be easier.
In some ways, being an introvert in Korea worked for me. Since I don't speak Korean, a lot of my days were quiet. No small talk. No strangers came up to me telling me to smile or ask me what's wrong, or if they did, I couldn't understand it anyway. When I ran in to someone I knew, like the janitor at our school, I just bowed my head and moved on. Such was all anyone expected of me.
In other ways, I stood out far more than I've ever wanted to. The students called me "Yellow Teacher" because they claimed I had gold hair, even though I told them in America we labeled it red.
"Teacher," they began, looking at me with pity, as if I never learned my colours. "That no red."
One day I straightened my hair and when I walked in to our class, Matthew looked up at me, startled. "Teacher, where all your rounds go?"
Forced to stare at me for hours, they noticed everything, even the smallest changes. Rachel warned me that if I wore make-up, I had to wear it everyday. They would notice if I didn't, maybe call me soju-face, say I look like their dad after he drinks too much.
The students love you, but, like a parent, they are hard on you. They expect a lot, think we know every tidbit about the English language, when in reality some of them probably know more than us because we are so used to speaking English the rules have faded, if we ever even learned them to begin with.
"Teacher, what's the word for old water that moves in a tree?"
"Teacher, what's the word for the air inside potato chip bag?"
They were never satisfied when I told them English is not like Korean, that those words don't exist and never will. That English is a maze of slang, arbitrary rules, idioms, and nuances. I stood in front of them and turned my palms up, this time them asking me why? And all I could do was shrug and say that's just the way it is.
We held a workshop at my university in Missouri. We talked about what it's like to be a new teacher, and how you can exhibit authority in the classroom. I brought up the time a student called me Cupcake.
"What did you do?" the woman running the workshop asked.
"Nothing," I said.
I can still see that student's face, hear his laugh. He thought he was being so funny, entertaining his friends in the class, by referring to me that way. He kept saying it. Cupcake. Hey Cupcake. But I didn't look at him. I didn't even break from my lecture.
"By ignoring him, he eventually stopped and just looked foolish," I continued. "I didn't want to give him any attention, because that's what he wanted."
The woman nodded slowly. She was a tall, stunning lesbian with long grey hair, and I envied the easy authority that radiated from her. "That's really smart," she told me. Later, she sent me an email, thanking me for my contribution. I carried her praise and assurance with me for years, believing I had done the right thing because she told me that I did.
In my mind, my mother occupies a genderless space. When she was a baby, her dad kept her with him outside while he worked, perching her on the back of a horse so he always knew where she was. When she got older and wanted to learn how to ride, her mother stayed inside with every curtain drawn because it made her too nervous to see her only child galloping in a circle around the house. Mostly in my grandpa's hands, my mother was raised like a boy. She had the structured days that come with living on a dairy farm, full of demanding tasks. When my grandpa killed rats in the hay loft, he would toss them down to her. She was in charge of stabbing them with a pitchfork to make sure they were dead.
At the same time, my grandma also taught her how to sew and together they made all her clothes. This was my mother, fully skilled, a model of self-sufficiency. On the outside, she was hardened and athletic, running her barrel horses at the county fair. When she walked inside and took her boots off, she was in her mother's world. I can't see her this way, quietly stitching. It's too still, too slow. To me, she is always moving, running, on the brink of fighting. A dentist once told her that she brushes her teeth too hard. "Like a man," he said. And it's true. I watched one time and saw a snowstorm take place in her mouth.
For years I grappled with her complexities, confused as to why she still didn't seem comfortable with her identity. Why must she always push herself to the point of exhaustion? Why didn't she ever let anyone else help her? Why did she eat so little? But I understood after one story, brief and unprompted, about the massive, sliding wooden doors she has to pull shut at her sheep barn every night.
"I told my dad they were too heavy," she said. "And he said I wasn't worth my salt."
There it was. Worth my salt. My grandpa has been dead for twenty years, but those words still weigh on her with the same bulk as those ancient, crumbling doors she has to tug across a rusty glider to protect her herd.
Eve sat right by my desk, close enough to touch my hand while I typed so she could get my attention.
"Teacher, you go on diet this week?"
"No way, Eve." I'd been teaching for 10 months. I didn't even break from typing my attendance notes.
"Mm," she nodded.
Eve may or may not have thought I was fat, but this kind of question was just a question from a child. She could just have easily asked if I was a good swimmer or if I've ever killed a man. Still, I decided to make this one of my lessons. It was just the two of us in the room, waiting for class to start.
"I like to eat," I said, turning to her. "I like to eat a lot."
"Me, too," she said, as though she had never said it before.
It looks like I am telling this to Eve. Many of my friends that moved to South Korea from other countries quickly developed some form of eating disorder, limiting the number of raisins they ate in the morning and signing up for overpriced Hot Yoga sessions. Older and married, I fancied myself immune to the culture's strict definition of beauty, but I was barely different from Nancy, weighing herself every morning in her bedroom. Sometimes I long to call myself out, to stand up in front of my friends and say I hate my body just as much as everyone else. My confidence is an act, I'll say. I can't stand the way I look. I'm just pretending to be strong.
On my last day of work, I stood by the door and hugged my girls before they ran down the hallway. Other teachers had told me to lie to them, to not tell them I was leaving and just end the class like any other day, but I couldn't do it. They were lied to all the time, and I wanted to be honest with them. During the last 20 minutes of class, I told them to draw me a picture. All of them took that to mean they should draw pictures of me. They sat me on a desk with instructions to hold still.
It is common for foreigners, waygookin, to stay in South Korea for years, much longer than me and my partner, Todd. Some never leave. Men, especially those who are tall and white, often get asked if they model. Todd was told he looked like Jake Gyllenhaal. When my sisters visited, we got swarmed by a group of Koreans while hiking. At the top of the mountain, in the midst of a summer windstorm, they closed in on us and demanded we take pictures with them. The cluster grew bigger and bigger. Eventually, I couldn't see my sisters anymore. Then I couldn't see the sky. Cameras blazed. Their hands were all over us. We loved every minute of it.
I followed the directions from my students and sat motionless, watching them sketch out a woman's face. All of them were drawing me the same way: a small face with wide eyes, nose like a ski ramp, angular chin, blond hair.
"Teacher, you have yellow crayon? Don't move. I get."
If a student called me Cupcake today, I would halt my lecture. I would stare right at him and start walking toward him in silence. By the time I got to him, my right hand would be level with his throat, and I would wrap it right under his chin, so when I brought my face down to his, he couldn't look away.
"Fuck you," I'd whisper, tightening my grip at his neck, because I'm tired of boys making me feel like I can't breathe.
Meg Thompson is a writer and stay-at-home mom. She has taught English in the United States and South Korea. Her work has appeared in Best of the Net, Modern Farmer, This Land Press, and McSweeney's. She has a chapbook of poems, Farmer, from Kattywompus Press. This year she was a finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards.


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If I had any wisdom at all,
I would walk along the Way,
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Walking along the Way is simple,
Yet people still look for easier paths.
See how magnificent the courts have become?
The women dress in expensive gowns,
The men carry sharp swords.
Everywhere I look,
I see great wealth and splendor.
And in the shadow of this excess,
The fields grow barren,
The storehouses empty.
This is nothing but the boasting of thieves
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In an interview he gave to Outlook magazine, Farooq said that the protesters on the streets of Kashmir are "fourth generation of youth".
The magazine quotes him saying:
"The people of Kashmir will continue their political struggle and the conflict will keep the entire region on the boil, which could lead to a 'nuclear accident'."
He does not elaborate on what he means by "nuclear accident", but it is evident that he is hinting at an all-out nuclear war while blaming it on India.
Farooq, who is the founder of All Parties' Hurriyat Conference, is under house arrest.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been raising the Kashmir issue on the international stage while hiding the ISI-sponsored terrorism in the Valley as well as the atrocities committed by Pakistani forces in Pak-occupied Kashmir.
He has openly extended Pakistan's support to the pro-Pakistani Kashmiris and terrorists in the Valley.
Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has openly stated his country's support to separatist activities in Kashmir. Monika Graff/UPI
Glorification of terrorists has been witnessed in Kashmir ever since Wani's killing. Terrorist attacks have been rising, and when security forces retaliate, stone pelters hinder operations allowing the terrorists to escape.
He accuses New Delhi of trying to avoid talks despite knowing "who to talk to" – Separatists and Pakistan.
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Successor shines as he leaves Sun King's shadow
The Sun King is dead: long live the Sun King - or so it seemed yesterday, as Tony Hayward stepped into the limelight at the BP annual results presentation for the first time since it was announced he would replace Lord Browne as chief executive this summer.
Mr Hayward has revealed little of himself up till now, happy to sit in the shadow of his boss and mentor, and kept his utterances as head of exploration to short and pithy comments when required at briefings.
But the former head of exploration and production ditched the shy and nervous persona - which had gone so easily with his youthful appearance - in favour of a character that resembled, well, a bit of his upbeat and self-confident boss, who was dubbed the Sun King in a Financial Times article.
Mr Hayward declined an opportunity to draw a line between himself and the man who will become his predecessor when asked whether charismatic leadership would be shelved on his watch. "You will have to wait and see, my friend," he declared with a smile. And there was no ducking and diving when asked a straight question about whether he was caught on the hop by Hugo Chávez trying to take back BP oil assets. "I'm never surprised by the things that the president of Venezuela says these days," said Mr Hayward.
He said safety would get number one priority but BP would continue to "push the envelope" and take risks with new technology as had happened on the troubled Thunder Horse field in the Gulf of Mexico, which is behind schedule.
Amid endless speculation about a merger with Shell or others, there was also no hesitancy. Nothing was on the cards right now, said Mr Hayward, but M&A [mergers and acquisitons] was "simply a tool" that could be used to enhance value when the opportunity arose. He would "focus like a laser" on safety for the first six to eight months but after that the bets were off, he indicated.
And there was enough confidence to admit to areas where production under his watch had been failing to meet expectations. He described the failure to keep the newly launched Shah Deniz field in Azerbaijan on stream as "irritating" but said it was neither material nor important "in the grand scheme of things". Mr Hayward had always impressed financial analysts in private meetings as a suitable replacement for Lord Browne, himself regarded by many as the premier industrialist of his generation despite recent corporate traumas in America.
A glimmer of the self-awareness of the BP boss-to-be also surfaced when he told US staff in a closed meeting subsequently leaked to the public that "we have a leadership style that probably is too directive and doesn't listen sufficiently well".
Lord Browne introduced Mr Hayward at the beginning of the annual results conference yesterday as "my friend and successor" and so it looked. There was a compassionate pat on the arm from the younger man as Lord Browne called a halt to a potentially difficult briefing - the first since announcing he was to step down early from a post he had held, until recently, so royally.
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Tony Hayward's career bears an uncanny resemblance to that of his boss, Lord Browne. Both joined BP from university - Mr Hayward from Edinburgh, Lord Browne from Cambridge. Both had a series of jobs with BP's exploration arm. The two have acted as group treasurer and gone on to head exploration and production. Both have one non-executive job outside BP: Mr Hayward at steel group Corus, Lord Browne at investment bank Goldman Sachs. But they differ in at least one respect. In his spare time, Mr Hayward enjoys a triathlon. Lord Browne prefers a cigar.


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Monument Mountain Regional High School students train lenses on Stockbridge
STOCKBRIDGE -- Stockbridge will be on display as previously unseen before -- through the camera lenses of local high school students.
This year, the photography students of the Spartan Launch after-school and summer program at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington formed a new partnership with the Stockbridge Chamber of Commerce, The Red Lion Inn and Lavender Door Gallery of Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge.
Under the tutelage of local photographer Michael Flower, who has taught digital photography skills in the Spartan Launch Program since its inception in 2010, 10 young photographers have documented the markets, local businesses, the people behind the jobs, the natural landscape, and changing seasons in Stockbridge, producing more than 100 images.
Public exhibitions of the students' work will be hosted throughout the town. The exhibit opens today and continues through Sunday at the Stockbridge Library. The Lavender Door Gallery of Austen Riggs will host the work from May 21 to June 7, and the Town Offices, second floor, will host from May 27 to June 7. The exhibits are open to the public for viewing.
"I definitely see things differently now," said Monument freshman Sofié Ruderman. She said she joined the program because she was, "really looking for something to do after school."
Flower provided students with instruction and guidance on photography techniques, including shooting photos, light, composition and also editing. He took students in all kinds of weather on field trips to the Red Lion Inn, Chesterwood, Naumkeag and the archives at the Norman Rockwell Museum, among other places. Students got special behind-the-scenes access at some of these venues.
"It felt like we were really important," Ruderman said.
Students who are also contributing to the exhibit include: ninth-graders Quinn Abrams, Georgia Bass, Alex Furcht, Luke Hildreth, Victoria Ryan, Alianne Schatz, Sydnie Strawn; junior Jamie Martin and senior Hannah Young.
Typically, students are left to their own accord when it comes to producing images. This year, Flower suggested the Stockbridge project as a way to better connect students with their local community.
"It was kind of difficult because we had to think about the buildings and wide-frame angles instead of maybe a detailed close-up of a flower that we might normally take," said Strawn.
"But we're lucky to have the opportunity to take on an assignment like this," Bass said.
The school furnished cameras for the students, while project sponsors helped cover the cost of ink and paper for printing and matting students' photos.
For Ryan, who lives in Pittsfield, the opportunity to explore Stockbridge was eye-opening. "It's old fashioned but unique. You don't really see a town like that anymore," she said.
"It's unique and pretty and there's a lot of cool architecture," said Schatz.
Spartan Launch is funded by a federal 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant, with a goal to help students find and develop a passion for learning through engaging and educational after school programming. Other offerings this year included a culinary program, CrossFit training, karate, storytelling, fashion design, gravity car racing and the multimedia "Music in Common" course. The programs meet twice a week until 5 p.m., and include meeting time and snacks.
"I've seen some friendships grow," said Spartan Launch site coordinator Anne D'Aniello, "Students open up so differently here than they might in class."
To learn more about Spartan Launch programs contact Anne D'Aniello, site coordinator at (413) 528-3346, ext. 113. To learn more about how to support or partner with Spartan Launch, contact Tom Kelly, district program director at (413) 644-2300, ext. 3306.
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A hapenny should live a simple life, but two years ago Maewyn Bridgepost discovered her magick and saved her village from a troll invasion. Now as an official Protector of the Wedge, Maewyn shares in the responsibility of keeping it's residents safe.
When her mentor, the wizard Callum, leads a Great Expedition, Maewyn joins, knowing that to be the best protector she can be, she must be familiar with what the world holds beyond her tiny village.
When you are only 3 foot tall, the outside world can be a scary place, and the hapennies soon find themselves knee deep in troll trouble. Captured by a gang of trolls the group is taken to a broken-down castle to be servants to the troll queen, Huldfrejya. Unfortunately, Callum is cast into a deep slumber. It's up to Maewyn to rescue herself and her friends before they are entangled by a powerful magickal enchantment that will turn them into slaves to the troll queen forever!
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Wildlife centre rescues 278 animals during heatwave
Nearly 300 animals have been rescued by a wildlife charity in Somerset during the recent heatwave.
Secret World near Highbridge, has said bats and swifts have been struggling to feed as insect numbers have fallen due to the lack of rain.
The centre has also seen more than 80 hedgehogs brought in which has included 30 orphaned hoglets.
Centre founder, Pauline Kidner, said: "We've never seen so many hoglets at this time of year.
"We think that the mothers are unable to find food which means they are not able to produce the milk needed to feed the young," added Ms Kidner.
Animal charity, the RSPCA, said its wildlife rescue centre in West Hatch, near Taunton, had 540 herring gulls brought in over June and July.
It says the increase is due to more people being outdoors who have spotted gulls, as well as difficult nesting conditions in the hot weather.
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Chapter 9
Anna wasn't exactly one to over ponder things. She acted—when she was angry, she sulked, when she was happy, she smiled, when she was pensive, she was quiet. Her emotions were clear on her face, her heart on her sleeve—she still had one, even if it didn't function.
She could not determine her opinion of Seth, however, and confusion had never sat well on her face.
"But… I don't understand," she murmured. "How can you put yourself through such a dreadful thing?" She was sitting cross-legged at the foot of his bed, leaning against the wall. His broken leg was propped up on her knee, and his boyish features were avid in his attempt at explanation.
"We don't have a choice," he told her patiently. She tucked a strand of fair hair behind her ear and smiled a little.
"Why ever not?" she asked.
"It's nature."
"Shouldn't you have the right to chose who you fall in love with?"
"I guess. But it just happens."
She raised an eyebrow. "Nature is cruel."
She liked the way his hair sort of fell about his face, and the beginning of stubble—how, in spite of the fact that he was a werewolf, he wasn't absolutely enormous, like the rest of his clansmen. How he smiled, how when he looked at her, she seemed to be the only thing in his world.
"I suppose. But it saves us the trouble of finding a woman ourselves." She did, however, dislike his laziness; the slight drawl in his voice that she knew hadn't been there all his life.
"And have you imprinted yet?"
"No." he said too quickly. She raised an eyebrow, but smiled a little. She'd been painting his cast absently, in swirls of color. There was a pair of octagonal, wire framed, pink-glass sunglasses at the top of her head, and another paintbrush behind her ear.
"I suppose you don't want to?"
"I… I don't really know. I'm worried about it."
"Worried? Whatever for?"
"I get the feeling she won't like me."
She rolled her eyes. "You'll be fine."
"I lied."
"About what?"
"I have imprinted."
"And she doesn't like you?"
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?" she asked, frustrated. "does she dislike you?"
"I don't know. I haven't told her yet."
"Oh God…"
"So I really, truly, have no idea."
"That's ridiculous. You should tell her and she should answer."
"That's disturbing. If a random stranger—or a guy I'd met a week or so ago, that's when I saw her—came up to me and told me he was irrevocably in love with me, I'd run away screaming."
"Well, yes, but that's because a guy coming up to you andtellingyou he is irrevocably—"
"No, you're not understanding—"
"I understand, Seth." She murmured with a slight smile, reaching over to pat his cheek. "I'm just making fun of you."
"Thanks a ton."
They sat in silence for a while, her doodling on his cast, and him watching her through half closed eyes. Then, suddenly he said, "I'm hungry."
"No! You shouldn't be hungry! I fed you thirty minutes ago!"
"But it was soup."
"What's wrong with soup? Your ribs are broken. Stuff that goes down your torso should be gentle."
"Soup, my dear, is totally unappetizing."
"Well, that's all there is, so live with it."
"No food?"
"Soup is food!"
"That's the problem with vampires… you don't understand people who don't need to eat because you eat them yourselves…"
She got up, gently but firmly putting his leg back on the bed. "I don't eat humans, you bastard. I should hit you as hard as I can though, but I have more dignity than that!" and she marched off, paintbrushes and all.


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Android by Microsoft? Supposedly there is an Android powered Lumia in the works, will bear Nokia by Microsoft branding
0. phoneArena posted on 07 Jul 2014, 01:26
If this bit of information proves to be correct, we may be witnessing a "when pigs fly" type of event in...
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81. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
You have a valid point. Android occupies way too much space on the storage.
What a junk.
86. WahyuWisnu (Posts: 1001; Member since: 29 May 2014)
I was thinking the other way around, LOL.
12. AfterShock (Posts: 3698; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
This could be good news for fans of android.
It could be, I'm not sold yet given so little is known.
25. Planterz (Posts: 2116; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
I wouldn't mind a Nokia built Android (a proper one, not the X). Solid construction, great camera, etc.
26. 0xFFFF (Posts: 3806; Member since: 16 Apr 2014)
If Microsoft wants to make any money off their Nokia purchase, this is pretty much what they have to do -- make a real Android phone.
WP is basically a mobile OS that is in a medically induced coma, only kept alive by constant infusions of Microsoft cash. WP may look alive, but take away the Microsoft IV hookup, and it'll die right quick.
30. Planterz (Posts: 2116; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
To me, the death of WP is signaled by the lack of app support, or more specifically, the lack of developers that want anything to do with WP. Major banks have said that they have no plans to make WP apps. It ain't worth it for developers to spend the time/money/resources to make an app for 1% (or or 3%, or whatever tiny fraction WP holds) of the market. And without app support, people aren't going to want to buy Windows Phones.
Yeah, it's a catch-22. I WANT Windows Phone to succeed. I really, really do, despite all the @#$^ I fling their way. Or rather, I fling that $#^% BECAUSE they aren't doing what they could. I don't like iOS, and I hate Apple as a company, but I have the upmost respect for what they do and what they've done. I love Android, and I know that Android wouldn't be remotely what it is today if iOS didn't push them to be better.
But Windows Phone...They're not doing anything to progress smartphones. Yeah, the Nokia cameras are great. But that's Nokia. WP is like the RC Cola of the smartphone world.
36. juandante (banned) (Posts: 679; Member since: 23 Apr 2013)
The real problem on Micro$oft is their sad past. I don't know what age you have, if you where to young to know but the general public remembers.
With all the tyrannic stories behind
M$ Word,
there very bad Windows Update,
what they did to the netbooks,
Windows Media Player,
monopolizing with very vicious tactics the PC market,
all their blue screens on death,
preventing old computers from running new software with bloated closed source code,
Internet Explorer 6,
what they did to Nokia,
I can tell you one thing very few people want to hear today about Micro$oft, starting by me.
I really curse this company being a power user.
You could tell me Google is the same but it is just lying to yourself, starting just by watching the openeness of Android.
74. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
At least M$ knows how to write codes unlike Google.
At least M$ does write the codes themselves instead of relying on contributions.
I'm really getting sick of all those wannabe techies that think it's cool to bash "evil" M$ and Apple.
Android is a collection of opensource projects that come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY according to the license clauses.
Google and the Android vendors make billions of dollars using them without paying the authors a single cent. What's so "good" in this?
What a ripoff. Android phones should cost nothing to customers according to the opensource spirit.
76. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Clearly you're an utter dumbass and don't understand what "open source" means.
84. JakeLee (banned) (Posts: 1021; Member since: 02 Nov 2013)
Obviously, you are the one who knows nothing about open source while I'm a contributor - GPL only, since I absolutely don't want others to make money with my work without contributing anything themselves.
And if you don't know what's so different with GPL, just scroogle for that.
93. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Google doesn't make any money directly off of Android. And the open source software they used was done with the original coders' blessing. In fact, the original CEO of Sun (before Oracle took it over) was pretty jazzed that Google was using his software for Android.
87. WahyuWisnu (Posts: 1001; Member since: 29 May 2014)
M$ really know how to write code with "BACK DOOR"
104. jroc74 (Posts: 6019; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
"At least M$ does write the codes themselves instead of relying on contributions."
In other words.....to hell with open source huh? To hell with Linux huh...
Wow man, wow...
Android the software does cost nothing.....please compile a version of Android and run it on your own built phone, thanks. Guess how much it would cost you to do that....
By your logic, any PC that shipped with with Linux should be free. Tell that to Dell and others...
119. luxzy801 (Posts: 140; Member since: 16 Jun 2010)
Ok, now lets throw this in the opposite direction.
MS Word:
There is a reason why its still No.1
Windows Updates:
Service pack updates kept it away from constant attacks and refreshed the OS, putting it into the realm of current specs and technology
People were buying them, and they worked.. So what did they do to netbooks?
Windows media player:
Yea, that one is kinda crap....
Its not really monopolizing when nobody wants to buy the other crap thats out in the market, its not their fault that people wanted Windows.......
Blue screen of death:
If you didnt run crappy software built by someone in the basement, this would not happen (Given, mainly on NFTS, but W98SE fixed that issue as well, pretty quickly too)...
Preventing old computers from running new software and closed source code..
Apparently you have not tried any of these, if you have, you would not have put it on this list...
Internet Explorer 6:
ok, im gonna give you this one as well, it was pretty crappy....
What they did not Nokia;
They saved Nokia, that is why we are here and still talking about it.
Its great to talk and not realize what the actual facts around you are. Great list, but definately flawed in retrospect.
And dont get me started on the openness of android.
33. fzacek (Posts: 2486; Member since: 26 Jan 2014)
Android on something like the Lumina Icon would be sweet!
35. Planterz (Posts: 2116; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Give me a 1020 running Android. That'd be like a Wendy's triple Baconator with Jack-in-the-Box's curly fries washed down with a Mexican Coke made with cane sugar.
83. Planterz (Posts: 2116; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)
Good god I'm hungry.
37. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1587; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
Folks Windows Mobile smart phone were on the market before Apple Iphones or any Android smart phones came on the market and had enough innovations in it that Android OEMS have to Pay Microsoft Royalties on it's smart pones innovations. Microsoft for whatever reasons stopped investing in smart phone Tech until Windows Phone 7 with it metro tiles which is a great innovation because unlike dead ass icons that are on Apple Iphones and Android screens the Windows smart phone tiles update data with in the tiles.
The tiles are not pretty. I have urged Microsoft to dress them up a little by giving the tiles rounded corners instead of the sharp 90 degree corners they have today but microsoft
interface design engineers are lost they still fail to realize studies show that People prefer the shape of Circles and curvy rounded off shapes more than boxy rectangles or boxes.
OH well at least I warned them. Maybe in Windows 9 we will tiles with rounded off corners or their sides curved outward. The MS interface does need a fresh look. If it get one MS will sell More smart phones and tablets.
50. sks1969 (Posts: 98; Member since: 04 Mar 2012)
Rounded corners for tiles waste valuable screen estate for the sake of looking nice, that is against UI design.
113. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3576; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
You've clearly lost it.. This is what happens when you think too hard about absolutely nothing...
And, you wonder why MS hasn't fulfilled your request... Lol!..;-);-)
39. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1587; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
as for a Lumia Based X Phone is concerned all Microsoft has to do is put their forked Android OS in a Lumia 920 case with different colors than the Windows 8- 920 has and sell them as the Nokia By Microsoft -XL2-. the Nokia Lumia case design is old now. Android Fans would buy It because of it's Camera tech and toughness. MS would not have to invest big bucks and time to make a New case and Electronics ect they would just use what they have already got with an Android OS inside it
40. express77 (unregistered)
Seriously! It would have been great if Nokia did it but MS! They themselves don't trust their own OS and expect it to gain market! Nokia refused to make android phone in favour of MS WP whereas MS is making Android. What the hell! Rather than making Android, they should focus on improving WP.
41. sip1995 (Posts: 1746; Member since: 07 Feb 2014)
And once again Evleaks is WRONG
114. rodneyej1 (Posts: 3576; Member since: 06 Jul 2013)
He's actually got a pretty good track record... Even WPCentral ran an article on this because of his TR.... That's the "scary" thing about it... IDK what to think..
42. volvoV70guy (Posts: 13; Member since: 06 Jun 2014)
Interesting. I'm continually amused by the impassioned hatred for Microsoft by Google fans. It makes no sense at all. That being said, I hope WP sticks around, I just want a simple smartphone that works well and has a good camera. I have a computer to do all the other stuff better than any mobile app, regardless of platform, can do.
44. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
"It makes no sense at all."
I love it when WP fanboys intentionally blind themselves to history so they can keep sucking off Microsoft.
45. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)
Microsoft called this by the campaign Scroogle. Dare you defend now.
53. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Oh, it didn't even start with Scroogled. It started way before that.
But I'm not going to the trouble of explaining it to Volvo. He doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know, the kind of bullsh.it that Microsoft has pulled against Google.
94. elitewolverine (Posts: 5192; Member since: 28 Oct 2013)
educate everyone on the innocent google....
Also the scroogled campaign started after google was found to block companies from accessing their 'free' api's and limiting incoming connections and a host of other things. This was even brought up by other companies.
Of course no company, MS, Google, Intel, AMD, etc etc is innocent, ever.
101. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)