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BROWN DEER, WISCONSIN -- I went to Pizza Hut in Brown Deer, WI to order 2 medium thin crust pizzas to be ready at 6:00 PM. My son-in-law picked them up and brought it to my house. We were late for a birthday party so tried to eat these pizzas that were like eating hard cardboard with very little sauce and almost no cheese.
The result was that my son-in-law's mother broke her denture trying to chew it. I called the store and they said they could only give me a coupon for a free pizza. I need to get this problem resolved. We have never eaten such horrible pizzas. Frozen pizzas are much better.
MAGNOLIA, ARKANSAS -- After just arriving home from a long trip out of town, my family was hungry for dinner. I called Pizza Hut at 9pm and placed a small, non-complicated order. I placed the order for delivery. When my order did not arrive at 10pm, (they said it would take 20 mins), I called them to make sure they weren't having trouble locating my address.
They then had the nerve to tell me that I said I would pick it up (I think I would remember if I said that, because that would mean I would have to load several kids up in the van and drive across town at 10pm). When I explained to them that I clearly said "for delivery," they said, "Well, we're closed now!"! Will never, ever do business with this place again!
PITTSBURG, KANSAS -- I recently went out to eat with my father on Fathers Day to eat at the Pizza Hut on South Broadway. The service was horrible. There was a new employee {whom said she had been there four days} taking our order. Now to start I to run a fast food restaurant so, I know what it is like to have a new employee. What I am concerned about is the lack of help that was given to her. This poor girl was screwing up all of her tables. She asked me what I wanted to drink and said she would come back to ask my father whom hadn't yet made it to the table. It was 10 min before she ever came back. She then asked me what I wanted again and my dad.
I also got drinks for my two children. Ten more min past and she came to take our order. We gave her the order. My dad went to get his salad and she came back and asked me what our drinks were apologizing to no end. She then came back and asked us what our food order was. My dad made it through his salad when she came back and asked us what our drinks were again. Dad went back to get his second bowl of salad a little while later and we finally got our drinks from another waitress. Whom got the drinks backwards. She brought us our drinks a few minutes later.
We sat there awhile talking and the next thing I know she came and asked us for the third time what our order was. We waited a while longer. We watched her run around with her head cut off like a new employee would. I just wonder where was the Manager. People were complaining that they had called in orders and had to wait 45 min. Others walked out, some just waited patiently. Then my dad went up for desert when she brought us our receipt. I hadn't even got my food yet. She then tells me that my order hadn't even been started yet. Well my dad works nights I had told her and I had already been there for 45 min.
I know that it takes a while to make your wonderful pizzas but I don't have all day especially with my kids. I get to looking at the receipt and not that I was unhappy but she undercharged us for the salad meal. I did not wait. My father went to pay for what we had and the manager on duty came out of what looked like an office I am guessing and gave it to us free. Big whup! I would have liked my food.
I am just wondering how is it that the only time in the hour in a half that I was there did I see the manager once. I seen another waitress that had plenty of time to help out that new employee. I was asked what my drinks were three times and then my food three times, it took six tries. Teamwork is what that store needed. My family quit going there many years ago because of health issues but I won't get into that. We decided to try it again on Fathers Day since Pizza Hut has the best pizza. I will always be a faithful customer but I will not return to that store on South Broadway across from McDonalds. Which by the way is what I had to eat.
GREEN BROOK, NEW JERSEY -- We arrived at our Pizza Hut of Green Brook in Route 22 around 6.30 pm on a Sunday night. There were only a dozen of people when our 10 people party arrived. First thing we asked was that if they could do separated checks for us, since we had credit cards and didn't want to take time dividing only one check. Waiter told us he had to check with his manager, when he came back he told us that he wasn't able to do it and that we had to split the check ourselves, we decided it was not big deal.
We ordered our drinks and food and not until 15 minutes later we got our drinks, he brought 1 pitcher of soda for us and after we all tasted it was a big mistake. He gave us Cherry Pepsi instead of regular. When I went to ask him that he gave us the wrong Pepsi, he looked surprised and said: "We are fixing the regular Pepsi now..." which made me think that he knew exactly what he was giving us in the first place. We let it go and wait for the regular Pepsi to work, which we got 5 minutes later.
Then we started checking our utensils and some of them even had pizza residues on them, they were filthy as the whole restaurant was. We got our first order of breadstick 30 minutes later and only 45 minutes later we got the pizzas, after asking for them about 5 times with the same answer "They are coming out now."
Waiter promised a 10% discount for the whole bill, when we got the bill it was a $3.00 discount for a $110.00 bill, we couldn't believed it and when to speak to the manager (who by the way was cleaning up tables), she said she was going to fix it. Then she took $10.00 off the bill, then smart waiter went to try to separate the bill but when he went to separated he charged us the food without the discount...!!! At this point all I wanted is to leave that place... it was 8.30 pm already!!! INCREDIBLE!! This is my case....
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA -- The new $5.00 pan pizza (minimum purchase of 3) is a waste of money due to how terrible they are. Okay. I should know that a $5.00 pizza is too good to be true but I'm single and I thought that by buying 3 of them I could freeze most of it for eating a bit each week.
I normally like Pizza Hut but these pizzas are TERRIBLE! They are as bad if not worse than the frozen pizzas you buy in the grocery stores. They put way too much sugar in the pizza sauce and even though I asked for extra cheese they didn't even put enough on there for a normal pizza. The sauce is so sweet that I will probably end up throwing the three of them (minus a few slices) out. So don't waste your money. Will I ever return to Pizza Hut? Maybe but not for a long, long time. This taste experience has turned me off pizza...
BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT -- When they say "hand tossed crust" you tend to think your crust will be fresh and made the old fashion way. Think again. This is a frozen crust and they don't cook it long enough. Barely brown on the bottom gooey on the top, covered with too much sauce and skimpy amount of cheese and mushrooms sliced thinner than paper. It was absolutely the worst pizza I've ever had. Store bought frozen pizza is even better. I will never go to Pizza Hut again. I can also tell you that the one in Brattleboro, VT has never done well. Must be we have too many other pizza houses around here that know what they are doing.
Remember back in the day when Pizza Hut used to be just a regular sit-in restaurant and during lunch time they had the big buffet? They were doing good back then. Now they've totally sold out by converting most of their old restaurants and building new ones that are set up like a fast food joint where you can order combo meals (i.e. personal pan pizza with a side order of breadsticks and a medium drink).
This was a TERRIBLE move on their part, seeing as they just want to cut costs of doing business and don't give any consideration of what the general public thinks. Alas, there are still some Pizza Huts that actually are still the old style, but you have to search some backwoods town in Mississippi for example. GO BACK TO THE OLD PIZZA HUT! THE NEW YOU SUCKS!
CANTON, GEORGIA -- I called Pizza Hut in Canton Georgia. I was told 1 hour for delivery. An hour and a half later I called back and was told I didn't know my phone number or address. I was also told they did not have an order for me and it was already on the road. I called again another hour later and was told once again I did not know any thing and I canceled my order when in fact I didn't. By the way I do know my name, phone number, and address - they treated me like I had no sense at all.
BANNING, CALIFORNIA -- Preordered 3 large pizza online for pick up. 1/2 way to restaurant, received call from Pizza Hut that they "did not have large pizzas" and that the veggie pizza I ordered could only be filled with olives and mushrooms since they were "out of veggies." I canceled my order and drove over to Papa John's. Since when does a pizza place not have large pizzas? Were they out of premade dough? No veggies? What is up with that? My Papa John pizzas were just fine. In fact, they were closer and $1.50 less...
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA -- I went to the Pizza Hut near my home and order two p-zone - I ask two. This was the first time I ate them. I ask for what was in them. The person told me cheese and pepperoni. When I got home - thin six pieces of meat and all cheese. If this is the way you teach them to lie I will never stop at Pizza Hut for anything. So please stop this if you can. I always stop at pizza but I will not stop if this goes on.


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Top 10 iBooks Sold This Week
iBooks' Official Book Charts for the week ending Oct. 7, 2013:
Top 10 Paid Books
1.Killing Jesus by Martin Dugard & Bill O'Reilly (Henry Holt and Co.)
2.Gone by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown and Company)
3.Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Scribner)
4.The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
5.David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown and Company)
6.The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, Ka Yoshida & David Mitchell (Random House Publishing Group)
7.The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (Penguin Group US)
8.Never Go Back by Lee Child (Random House Publishing Group)
9.Overcoming Fear (Growing Pains #2) by K.F. Breene (K.F. Breene)
10.Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
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DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. - An airman was sponsored to escort a World War II veteran on Honor Flight, Oct. 6-8, 2013.
Staff Sgt. David Wilcken, 612th Air and Space Operations Center air tasking order production technician, was the guardian for Robert Yeschek, a World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veteran, who traveled to Washington with 76 other southern Arizona veterans and their guardians.
Honor Flight is an organization that pays for World War II veterans to travel to Washington to visit the World War II memorial. The inspiration behind this trip came from Earl Morse, a retired Air Force Captain, while he was working at the VA Hospital. Many of his patients did not know that the National World War II Memorial was built and later dedicated in 2004. The first Honor Flight took place in May 2005. Each veteran is assigned a guardian that assists and takes care of them throughout the duration of the trip.
The Desert Lightning Team Top 3, an organization composed of the top three enlisted ranks, wanted to get more involved in Honor Flight by sponsoring a guardian for a World War II veteran, but they wanted to make sure they had the right guardian for the veteran.
"Over two days we interviewed 26 members across D-M," said Master Sgt. Kristi Tellier, DLT Top 3 vice president. "Staff Sgt. Wilcken was chosen because he has a personal connection with World War II veterans since he had two grandfathers that served. We were impressed by his enthusiasm and genuine interest in honoring these heroes."
During the government shutdown, some of the memorials the Honor Flight would normally visit were closed, but the veterans were still allowed to visit the World War II memorial.
"As soon as we showed up and they saw us unloading the veterans, the park rangers actually moved the barricades out of the way," said Wilcken. "They welcomed every one of them in. They shook their hands and took pictures with them. We had free range of the memorial."
Some of the memorials the Honor Flight would normally visit were closed though. Aside from the World War II memorial, the veterans also visited the Women's Military History Museum, the Newseum and were scheduled to visit Arlington National Cemetery.
"When we were supposed to go to Arlington National Cemetery, it rained," Wilcken said. "It was monsoon type rain, so we took them to museum."
The whole plane was full of veterans, guardians and a news crew, all from southern Arizona. During the flight back, there was one final surprise for the veterans.
"On the flight back, we had a mail call," Wilcken said.
Guardians and team leaders collected letters from the veteran's families and schools from around the Tucson area.
"We made a package for them and surprised them with it," Wilcken said. "There was not a dry eye on the plane, and that was funny to me because I didn't see anybody cry at the memorial."
Wilcken was honored to be part of this trip.
"It was the coolest experience I've ever had," Wilcken said. "Those guys are probably the most humble generation out there. Just hearing their stories and getting to know them was really great. I really enjoyed it."
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I have to admit that I am not very good at taking notes. Usually, after I get through I can't make out what I was writing about. When it comes to doing research in family history, I have a tendency to forget what I have seen and done. I do use Research Outlines and keep track of the sources I search, but sometimes I have a hard time remembering what the source looked like until I find myself searching it again. Digital photos have changed all that and cut down the amount of time I spend reading books and records in the libraries and repositories.
This is a downloaded image, saved to a flash drive or to the computer, of a U.S. Census record. I insert this image here to show the quality of downloaded images, so you can see and compare to a digital photo.
This second image is a photograph of a cemetery document. It was taken with a Canon XTi camera at 10.1 Megapixels. I used a camera stand to hold the camera and the image was automatically transferred from the camera to my computer by a USB connection to the camera. The blue lines are the base of the camera stand and used to align the image. I realize this image is a little crooked but I use it to demonstrate the quality of the image, not how straight it is.
The second image is highly readable. If you click on either image, you will get a full size view of the two images. The photograph actually shows more in the image than it does in real life looking at the paper. Since you can magnify the image, details that would be missed on the original paper show up clearly, such as, pencil marks and erasures.
This method of collecting information has a lot of advantages. You can spend more time looking and less time copying. You can copy all of the material and not just make notes. You don't have to pay for copy costs and you can go back and read the original record anytime you want to. You also save space by not having a huge stack of old copies of books and records.
Surprisingly, I have also had good results taking pictures of microfilmed records. I just point the camera at the projected image and click away. I do have to be careful that I am bracing the camera against the projector or using a tripod. I can't say that this type of use pays for the camera, but if you take enough pictures at libraries and repositories, you can certainly save a lot in copy costs.
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Good advice. I am surprised more people don't use their digital cameras to copy documents for all the reasons you mention. I often use a digital camera to copy old family photographs where the person is nervous about letting them out of their possession - you just need to watch out for reflections.ReplyDelete
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Well, I have finially given up my Kubuntu based desktop for my lovely iBook G4 (the last one I could find before everything went intel). To be honest, I am hooked, I have a nice unix based console in it so I can SSH into client boxes. Smultron and vim for PHP development, and builtin wifi and bluetooth that just work so I am on the net at home and on the train.
I still use Linux on my servers and the servers for my clients, I don't think that will change any time soon. But I just can't justify Linux for my desktop any more when MacOS X does what I need. Although I would never convert to a MS based OS yet.
I am also quitting as admin of my LUG for the last 3 and a half years.
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The Eau Claire City Council voted late this afternoon to rezone 209 acres on the city's west side for housing units and commercial space.
The Council voted on the rezoning at their legislative meeting on Tuesday.
The Westridge Village proposal calls for 700 living units, 23 acres of commercial space and about 20 acres of parkland to occupy the space at the intersection of Highway 12 and Kane Road, across from the Menards Headquarters.


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Yale Game Notes | Brown Game Notes
Yale Statistics | Brown Statistics
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Twitter: @YaleWBBdawgz | Yale Basketball On Facebook
Teams To Dedicate Game To Chase Kowalski Memorial Fund
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale returns home to host Brown in an Ivy League contest on Friday night at the John J. Lee Amphitheater. The game is set to tip at 7 p.m. and the action can be followed on the Ivy League Digital Network.
Yale (7-8, 1-0 Ivy League) won the first meeting between the two teams last Friday, 70-53, in Providence, R.I. Janna Graf scored a game-high 16 points, while Emmy Allen added a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Nine players in total scored for the Bulldogs who limited the Bears to 1-of-12 shooting from three-point range.
Graf was named the Ivy League Co-Player of the Week for her efforts, sharing the award with Cornell's Allyson DiMagno. The award marked the fourth Player of the Week award for Graf, who was also a four-time Rookie of the Week honoree in 2010-11.
Sarah Halejian leads Yale in scoring at 15.4 points per game, while Meredith Boardman is the team's top rebounder at 6.5 per game.
Friday's Game
The Yale and Brown women's basketball teams are playing Friday's game in honor of Chase Kowalski. Chase was one of the little angles taken from us in Sandy Hook on Dec. 14, 2012. To honor his memory, the Chase Kowalski Memorial Fund was created.
You can donate to The Chase Kowalski Memorial Fund at the entrance to the John J. Lee Amphitheater. For more information on Chase and the fund created in his memory contact email@example.com or visit:
www.chasekowalskifund.com or www.facebook.com/ChaseKowalskiMemorialFund
CMAK (Chase Michael Anthony Kowalski) Sandy Hook Memorial Foundation is a 501(C)(3) organization.
Scouting The Opponent
Series History: Brown leads series, 43-34, dating back to 1973-74.
The teams split last season's meetings, with each winning on the road. Yale has won six of the last eight meetings in the series overall.
Brown comes into the contest with a 6-9 mark overall and is 0-1 in Ivy League play. The loss to Yale last week was the second straight for the Bears following a 48-43 loss at NJIT on Jan. 11.
Lauren Clarke scored 16 points in the first meeting with the Bulldogs and leads the team in scoring at 17.2 ppg, while Sophie Bikofsky adds 13.9 ppg and a team-high 4.5 rebounds per game.
Brown ranks fourth in the Ivy League in scoring at 64.5 points per game and is first in three-point shooting at 38.1 percent, but is eighth in the league in rebounding margin at -6.7.
What To Watch For
Points In The Paint: Yale was able to take advantage of its depth in the post in the first meeting, outscoring Brown, 42-30, in the paint. The Bulldogs average over 25.0 points per game in the paint and has lost just once this season when scoring more than 30 points in the paint in a game.
Three-Point Shooting: Yale limited Brown, the Ivy League's top three-point shooting team, to just 1-of-12 (.083) from the arc in the first contest. The league's top shooter, Sophie Bikofsky was just 1-of-6. Yale was just 3-of-14 (.214) from the arc, but if it can limit Brown's three-point shooting again it could be a major factor in the game.
Scoring Balance: Three players scored in double-figures for the Bulldogs last week, while nine players scored in the contest overall. Yale's bench averages nearly 23.0 points per game and when a third scorer has stepped up for the Bulldogs in games this year is when the team has its most success.
Next Up
Yale returns to the road for a pair of Ivy League contests beginning with a contest at Columbia on Friday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. The Bulldogs then travel to Cornell for a 6 p.m. game on Saturday, Feb. 1.
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Anonymous Helps Turn In Hacker Who Targeted Charity:
netbuzz writes "A hacker who defaced and disabled the website of a New Zealand film company known for helping poor children could find himself in legal hot water in his home country of Spain after his attack spurred a Facebook/Twitter posse that included members of Anonymous, who the hacker may have been trying to impress. 'Apparently, one of the (Anonymous) rules is you don't hack charity sites, you don't hack sites of people trying to help kids,' says the owner of the damaged site. 'This guy was trying to impress them, to try and get into their group and boasting about what he'd done — but they turned on him, they chased him.'"
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Eversmoking Bottle: This metal urn is identical in appearance to an efreeti bottle, except that it does nothing but smoke. The amount of smoke is great if the stopper is pulled out, pouring from the bottle and totally obscuring vision across a 50-foot spread in 1 round. If the bottle is left unstoppered, the smoke billows out another 10 feet per round until it has covered a 100-foot radius. This area remains smoke-filled until the eversmoking bottle is stoppered.
The bottle must be resealed by a command word, after which the smoke dissipates normally. A moderate wind (11+ mph) disperses the smoke in 4 rounds; a strong wind (21+ mph) disperses the smoke in 1 round.
Faint transmutation; CL 3rd; Craft Wondrous Item, pyrotechnics; Price 5,400 gp;Weight 1 lb.
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French Revolutionary Calendar Converter and Muslim Calendar Converter
New Features on the One-Step website
The One-Step site has had a Jewish Calendar Converter for
some time. Now two more calendar converters were added to
the One-Step site -- one for the French Revolutionary
Calendar and the other for the Muslim Calendar. The French
Revolutionary calendar is unique in that it takes
decimalization to the extreme, and the Muslim calendar is
purely lunar with no synchronization to the seasons.
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I bring greetings to you all on this first day of November. It would be nice if on this day it would be like it was when I wrote this column last week. On that day the sky was blue, there was a slight breeze and the thermometer read 64 degrees at 10 a.m. It continued to rise until it reached 70 degrees. The following day it rose to almost 80 degrees. Since November has arrived, the weather will no doubt be colder soon and we might even have some snow today.
Meanwhile, before that beautiful white stuff arrives, I've found many enjoyable things to watch, experience and as always some outside tasks to be accomplished just outside my door. I can do some of the later, but nowadays I need more help than in yesteryear. Nevertheless, I enjoy being outside during these last autumn days.
Recently I dug up the geraniums in the big black kettle in our front yard. I trimmed them down and put them in a porch box. Bill carried them to the backyard porch where they will stay until it gets too cold. Then he will bring them inside and put them a room in the house which has two large south windows. It won't take long to get them growing and blooming. I got the idea from my mom who had what she called a "sun parlor" inside the house. It had several south windows in it, and her geraniums bloomed beautifully all winter. Periodically she would put some ammonia in the water she used on them. It had nitrogen in it which made them bloom, and we enjoyed them all winter. Usually there were other plants in that room too.
I don't think that in those days when I was growing up there was such a thing as Miracle Bloom which, when used on flowering plants, makes more flowers. In fact I doubt it has been available until at least 20 years ago. I have used it on summer flowering plants for some time, and two years ago I tried it on my Christmas and Thanksgiving cacti and they started blooming continuously. Eventually I quit using it for a while to let them have a rest. It's nice however, to have them bloom more than twice a year.
There's another way geraniums can be kept over winter, and I've also done that. They can be kept in the basement and seldom watered or not at all. It depends on how hot your cellar gets. I have also put them in a cool place upstairs and only watered occasionally. Either way, come nearer springtime, I take them to a warmer place inside or outside and start watering them again. The best part is you can already have some of your flowers cost free for your gardens.
I've learned a lot about gardening and flowers through books and my own experiences over the years, but I have often got it from magazines. If you are interested in gardening indoors and out there are many such sources available on the market today. Don't let their name fool you because they also have considerable other information about birds, construction for garden items such as birdhouses and many other useful items for gardening and more. Some of them offer tips from well-known gardeners or birders. One of them is just about gardening.
A few of them that I currently get are: Bird Watcher's Digest; Birds & Bloom; Bird's & Bloom Extra; Country Woman; Country Gardening - How To. All of these can be found on the Internet. If you can't find them contact me. I have all of their addresses.


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Domini Blythe (Estelle, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW) also passed away in 2010.
I think it's great that you guys are doing this every year.
But I miss Antonie Kamerling in this video. His death was the one that made the most impact on me. Depression is a terrible illness.
Also, you guys used a photo of Wik Jongsma where it should have been Niek Pancras. I understand the confusion, because both of them played the same role on GTST (Pancras replaced Jongsma for a while when Jongsma was sick). Pancras is not a very well-known actor so there aren't a lot of photo's of him online. This is him: http://tinyurl.com/3yvn768
Jongsma passed away in late 2008 and was part of the In Memoriam last year.
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It Must've Been Cold There In Their Shadows: Guess These Celebrity Siblings!
Wouldn't it just suck to be a celebrity's sibling? Always standing in the shadow of your celebrity sibling, never being celebrated for your own (less notable) achievements. Of course, I'm just speculating, because I am not a celebrity's sibling or even a celebrity's distant relative (I don't think…). Being a celebrity's sibling could have its perks: meeting other celebrities, getting invited to exclusive parties, being invited on luxurious vacations, etc. Still, I think I would really hate always being compared to my sibling. Somehow that thought inspired me to do just that. Buzzfeed just compiled a list of "Celebrity Siblings You Didn't Know Existed." We took the most random of the list. See if you can guess which following siblings belong to which celebrities. Answers will be on last slide.[ITPGallery]


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Cooks and busboys foiled a break-in early Tuesday morning at the Island Cow, sparking a Sanibel Police investigation that kept the restaurant closed for most of the breakfast traffic.
At least one person wearing a mask broke a window to get into the restaurant about 6:15 a.m., startling the employees, then fled into the woods behind the property.
"One of the employees was throwing silverware at him as he ran," said Island Cow owner Brian Podlasek.
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Sanibel police responded to a burglary reported at the Island Cow Tuesday Morning. The property was blocked off as a crime scene for much of the morning, but food service resumed mid-morning.
Police tried to track the suspect in the woods for hours without success. A Lee County Sheriff's helicopter circled the sky above assisting in the search.
"It's the second break-in in 10 days," said Podlasek. "We had one in June, too. I made a joke about it saying someone wanted to steal our muffin recipe."
Podlasek said the recent rash of break-ins resulted in having a more top-of-the-line camera and security system installed.
"It's a serious system, and it is up and running," he said.
The investigation into the incident continues as police try to identify the suspect.
"Nothing was taken because there was a cleaning crew inside," said Sanibel Police Chief William Tomlinson.
A rear-end collision was investigated by Sanibel police at about 1:30 p.m. Monday on Periwinkle Way, which added to traffic congestion in both directions around a roadway shoulder construction zone.
According to the report, a 2000 model Toyota SUV driven by Alden Richter of Fort Myers was stopped in the eastbound lane in traffic about 200 yards from the construction.
Ethel Sinow of Sanibel, driving a 1998 model Chevrolet Lumina, crashed into the rear of Richter's vehicle causing the airbags to deploy.
Lee County EMS responded to the scene. Richter complained of minor neck and back pain and Sinow suffered bruising in the crash. Both drivers declined to be transported. Sinow's vehicle had to be towed from the scene.
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Irrevocable Joy
Easter Sunday
You have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your
hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from
I want you to leave this morning with these words of Jesus ringing in your ears: "No one will take your joy from you." I want you to see them for yourselves. Do you see them at the end of verse 22? "I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you." I want you to hear them not as the words of man but as the words of God. I did not make them up to make you feel good. I just read them out of God's Word. If they make you feel good, that's God's idea, not just mine. "No one will take your joy from you." This is the promise of irrevocable joy.
Valentine's Day in Minneapolis
Noël and I went downtown for a special Valentine's Day dinner last February 14. It was one of the many dates I have botched over the 20 years of our marriage. The restaurant I had chosen especially for her was closed. It was cold as we walked around trying to find another one. We wound up at a fast food place in the center of the city sitting by a window overlooking 8th Street.
We sat there looking around at this great city. The street was dark and almost deserted. There was trash in the gutter. The little street level shops seemed worn and chintzy. The few people walking around gave the appearance that made you wonder whether more cocaine might be sold that night than chow mein and egg rolls.
The glitzy hotel facades looked pretty weak against the darkness—like they were hoping against hope that rich people would want to come down and spend some time here. The magnificent new lighting of the Norwest Bank building that gives a fairyland flavor to the Minneapolis skyline sheds no light on the streets beneath. The doors were locked.
I got the eerie feeling that this exploding downtown, this urban pearl and pride of the upper Midwest, with all its upscale shops and classy hotels and stunning skyscrapers, is built on sand. I got the sinking feeling in my stomach that the millions and millions of dollars that have been poured into downtown Minneapolis could, with just the slightest turn of popular displeasure, become a billion dollar boondoggle—a dark, sleazy, dirty downtown slum where nobody wants to be.
The Fragility of This Life and World
I mention this just to illustrate how even the big enterprises of our life and culture are very fragile. We plan and we save and we build, and things look good and successful, and then it starts to collapse. And we can't believe it. Nobody comes to shop. Nobody rents the office space. Retailers begin to leave. The streets are deserted. The hotels can't pull the conventions. Restaurants close. The pushers move in. The gangs take over. And pretty soon the unthinkable has happened. The pearl is ruined. The Timberwolves don't stay. The new convention center can't fill its schedule. And all that's left is cheap sleaze and empty buildings.
It has happened elsewhere. It could happen here. And it can happen in your own life. We are very fragile. Not much is sure and firm and solid in our lives. That's why this word from Jesus is very precious to me. "No one will take your joy from you." You've heard of unconditional guarantees—warranties that seem too good to be true? Have you ever heard of any product that says: "In this you will find pleasure and no one will take your pleasure from you"? If you read that on some box or bottle, you would smirk and call it marketing ballyhoo.
But that's what Jesus says. Minneapolis may come "a-tumblin' down" and all the money be lost and the dreams be dashed, but, "No one will take your joy from you." How can this be? How can such a massive claim stand when the biggest things in our world are utterly uncertain and unstable? Let's look at these words to make sure we understand them and how it can be that Jesus can guarantee our joy with such amazing absoluteness: "No one will take your joy from you."
"In a Little While": Jesus' Death and Resurrection
Jesus is speaking to his disciples on the night before he was killed. He is trying to help them understand what is just in front of them. So in verse 16 he says, "A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me."
The Confusion of the Disciples
The disciples are confused by this and in verses 17–18 they discuss with each other what in the world he means by in a little while they won't see him and then in a little while they will.
Jesus knows they are puzzled and so he says in verse 20, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy." What's he referring to? He's referring to his death, when the disciples will have a deep and anguished sense of loss, and his resurrection, when their sorrow will become joy (John 20:20).
An Analogy to Childbirth
In verse 21 he compares what is about to happen to him and to the disciples with a woman in childbirth. For a little while there is sorrow as a very painful loss occurs—the baby that has been so close and so secure and so comfortable is cast out in a painful, bloody birth. But again "in a little while" the pain is past and the loss is not really a loss at all, but an amazing gain. The child is not lost, but present in a way that can now go on and on and on.
So it will be with Jesus. "In a little while" he will be lost in a painful, bloody crucifixion. There will be weeping and lamenting and fear in the disciples. But Jesus says, look at it like a birth. The child must be lost from the warmth of the womb to be gained as a person in the world. Yes I am dying. Yes it will be painful for you. But "in a little while" you will see me again, and your sorrow will become joy. It's like what he said in John 12:24, "Unless a grain of wheat falls in to the ground and dies it remains alone, but if it dies it bears much fruit." You lose me in one sense, but gain me in one far greater.
Sorrow Now, Then Irrevocable Joy
So when we come to verse 22, we know what Jesus has in mind, namely, his death and resurrection. He says, "So you have sorrow now." And he means that his death is just around the corner and the loss and pain will be great for his friends. Then he says, "But I will see you again." That is, I will rise from the dead. And I will come to you. I will seek you out. (Note: After saying three times in vv. 16, 17, 19, "you will see me," he says in verse 22, "I will see you.")
Then he says, "Your hearts will rejoice." That's just what happened. It says in John 20:20, that on the first day of the week, the day Jesus rose from the dead, he came to them and "showed them his hands and his side." Then John says, "The disciples were glad when they saw the Lord." So Jesus' prediction in John 16:22 came true. "I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice."
And then come the amazing words that we are focusing on this morning, "And no one will take away your joy from you." This joy is irrevocable joy. It cannot be destroyed. It cannot be lost. It is sure and firm and solid and certain even if everything around our soul gives way. This joy will not.
Why Will This Joy Not Give Way?
That's the key question: How can Jesus make such an unparalleled guarantee—unlike anything in this world? "No one will take your joy from you."
Let's look at two answers from this gospel.
1. The Resurrection Means Jesus Will Never Die
First, "No one will take your joy from you," because your joy comes from being with Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus means that Jesus will never die again; he will never be cut off from you.
He says, "I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice." This text doesn't offer any guarantees to people who don't enjoy being with Jesus. If Jesus says to you this morning, "I will see you again," and your heart does not rejoice in being with him, then this text is not a promise for you, it's an invitation. It's an invitation to love Jesus. Because if you don't enjoy Jesus, your joy will be taken from you. Jesus is the only permanent joy.
Notice the sequence of thought in verse 22: "I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice." Why will they rejoice? Because Jesus will be with them again. Then it says, "No one will take your joy from you." What joy can never be taken away? Joy at being with Jesus. That's the joy that's guaranteed forever. No other joy. If you don't have that, the joy you do have is very fragile indeed. More fragile and uncertain than downtown Minneapolis. And so this text is an invitation to people whose joy is mainly in money or success or family or hobbies or sex or being liked or games or sports or church. It's an invitation to see Jesus as the only joy that lasts forever. "I will see you again and your heart will rejoice." Forever.
And why will he last forever? Because he has been raised from the dead and will never be cut off from us again. He defeated death. Now he lives forever and has the keys of death in his own hands. So when he says, "No one will take your joy from you," he means, I will be your joy, and I can never die again, and therefore your joy will never die. As long as I exist in my resurrection life, that's how long your joy in me will be. No one can take it from you, because it is joy in me and I will live forever and ever.
That's the first answer to the question how Jesus can make such an amazing guarantee. Our joy is in being with Jesus, and because of the resurrection he will never be cut off from us again.
2. The Resurrection Means You Will Never Die
The other reason is this: "No one will take your joy from you" because your joy comes from being with Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus means that you will never die; you will never be cut off from him.
You see, two things have to be true if your joy is never to be taken from you. One is that the source of your joy lasts forever and the other is that you last forever. If either you or the source of your joy is mortal, your joy will be taken from you.
And, O, how many people have settled for just that! Eat, drink, and be merry they say, for tomorrow we die, and that's that. Food doesn't last forever, and I don't last forever. So let's make the most of it while we can. What a tragedy!
If you are tempted to think that way this morning, please consider as seriously as you possibly can that if your joy were in being with Jesus, "No one would take your joy from you"—not in this life, nor in the life to come.
For two reasons: One because Jesus will never die again. And the other because you will never die. Look at John 14:18, 19. It is a saying very much like the one we are looking at here. Jesus says, "I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live you will live also."
"Because I live you will live also." The resurrection of Jesus means that not only will he live forever as the source of our joy, but you will live forever if he is the source of your joy.
Jesus said to Martha at the tomb of Lazarus, "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die" (John 11:25–26).
So the two great reasons why "No one will take your joy from you" are that Jesus the source of joy will never die and those who have Jesus as the source of their joy will never die.
Someone may say, "But Christians do die." Yes, in one sense we do. But not in the most important sense, namely, the joy that a believer has in being with Jesus is never broken. "No one will take your joy from you." Not life or death, or angels or principalities, or things present or things to come, or powers or height or depth or anything else in all creation will be able to take our joy from us in Jesus Christ. Joy in being with Jesus is an unbroken line from now to eternity. It will not be cut off by his death or ours.
The Offer of Eternal Joy in Christ
And so I commend Jesus to you this morning, whoever you are. If he is not the joy of your heart, he wants to be. He says in John 6:35, "I am the bread of life, he who comes to me shall not hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst"—NEVER! An unbroken line of satisfaction in Jesus from the now to eternity.
This is the word of the risen Jesus to us this morning—to all of us who will take him as our joy! "You will see me . . . and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you."
Shall we say it together one last time? Only this time let's not say, "No one will take your joy from you," but, "No one will take our joy from us." If you believe that this morning, make it your Resurrection Day confession of faith and say, NO ONE WILL TAKE OUR JOY FROM US!
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This month's surprise guest for Storytime with Mr. Steve & Friends was Lisa Williams, Reading Together coordinator at the Kalamazoo Public Library. She shared her piano playing talents, leading us in story songs that my mom used to play when I was a child.
The kids danced like fairies in a forest, stomped around like giants, and looked for cozy places to hibernate, pretending they were bears just like I used to do in my living room along with my brothers and sisters.
Ms. Lisa also proved adept at balancing bean bags on her head, but fell one short of tying Ms. Waneta's record of 12 set last month.
In addition to the dancing, I read
We sang songs and once again broke out the giant parachute. This time we pretended that we were looking for a bear as we circled with the parachute, crossing a river on stepping stones and hiking around mountains. Finally, imagining the parachute was a cave, all the kids scampered like bears under the chute.
For our craft time, everyone got to decorate a set of fairy wings to take home for more imaginative play until we meet again on Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30 pm at the Central Library.
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(Reuters) - With less than three weeks left before election day, the youth vote has once more come into focus. A student concerned about his future job prospects asked the first question at the Hofstra University presidential debate Tuesday night, and both candidates have set up extensive campus operations in swing states.
In another clear bid for younger voters, President Barack Obama will appear this evening on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," the sort of venue challenger Mitt Romney has avoided so far.
Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a roughly two-to-one margin among voters aged 18 to 29 in 2008. The president's lead is large but less commanding this time around. Likely voters in this age group prefer Obama to Romney by 54 percent to 36 percent in Reuters/Ipsos polling from the week ending October 14. http://bit.ly/QY09hI
The Romney campaign is working to mobilize students unhappy with the president's record, with 188 chapters of a pro-Romney student group on campuses in 11 "target states," according to a campaign aide.
"I don't think you'll see the president enjoying the same amount of support that he had in 2008, very simply because the Obama economy has created a lost generation of young voters," the aide said.
He added that the campaign's young groups have made over 2 million "voter contacts," either by "calling them, knocking on the door, having a friend drive them to the polls."
The Obama campaign has gone a step further, bringing buses to some campus rallies that later take students to register or vote early.
For both sides the efforts to register students living on campus have been complicated in some swing states by new voter ID and verification laws. In Florida, for instance, voters who are away from home on election day will not be able to cast out-of-county provisional ballots.
A list provided to Reuters by the Obama campaign names 26 schools the president visited between the end of March and the beginning of October, while Romney aides estimated that the former governor has visited "roughly 50" campuses.
Obama has largely visited community colleges and big state schools, while Romney's most prominent visits have been specially tailored. His major foreign policy address of the fall was at Virginia Military Academy on October 8. When he was looking to establish his credentials with evangelical voters after the primary season in May, he delivered the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
In Ohio in mid-September, Romney visited the home of the 2011 national intercollegiate dressage champions: Lake Erie College. Romney's wife, Ann, is the owner of a horse that competed in dressage in the 2012 Olympics in London.
The Romney campaign has an uphill climb with the youngest voting demographic. Likely voters overall believe Democrats are better for young Americans than Republicans by a 44 percent to 29 percent margin. For likely voters between 18 and 29 years old, this gap is an overwhelming 53 percent to 19 percent.
Undaunted, the Romney aide said "I don't have a percentage or a volume that's the magic number we're going to win here. Our goal is to go out and talk to every young American."
(The Reuters/Ipsos database is now public and searchable here: tinyurl.com/reuterspoll)
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Gem River Edge - Eco home situated in Kataragama - Yala National Park, which is a small town located 238 km South East of Colombo. It's an eco-friendly home/place for a responsible tourism. We are on the edge of the Gem River (Menik ganga) and on the border of the Yala National Park and very close to the Kataragama complex temple, one of the most visited, sacred multi-religious pilgrimage and here is the largest important annual festival in the island. We are surrounded by beautiful lakes and a large natural biodiversity.
We want to offer to our guests a relaxing experience in harmony with nature.
We organize safaris in Yala National Park to observe the wild life and vegetation; visits to the ancient temple in the jungle Situlpowwa. We have at one's disposal bicicles for tours long the lakes, paddy fields and through small villages on the border of the jungle. We guide the guests to a visit in the multi-religious site and participate in the daily Pooja.
The guest can delight on the Gem River with pleasant clean water and refresh body and mind.
It's an ecological place with 3 comfortable rooms (one is a large family suite) with terrace and sitting area all built in a rustic style using renewable and natural material. Guests can observe in our gardens the daily habits of the animals, lots of birds and natural vegetation. The kitchen and lounge area are made from mud and palm leaves. We serve Sri Lankan cuisine prepared daily (seasonal vegetables), rice and curry, fresh salads, fruit juice, delicious curd and local sweets.
We share a comfortable and traditional atmosphere where everybody are welcome to join for an unforgettable stay and experience.
Gem River Edge Eco home is in Kataragama, located 238 km South East of Colombo and 275 km from Sri Lanka's international airport. We are 3km from the Kataragama town, on the border of the Yala National Park which is about 5km from the Kataragama entrance and 3 km from the multi religious temple site.
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Multitasking on mobile devices is a different problem than multitasking on desktops. With a desktop, the challenges are primarily allocating memory and CPU. With mobile devices, network and battery are the resources that need to be optimized. So with a desktop app, you can shove it int he background, give it limited cpu cycles and memory without any architectural changes. With mobile devices, it is a lot harder to limit because you don't want the CPU running all the time and even if nothing else is using the network connection, letting some background app use it constantly will result in draining the user's battery and potentially costing them data usage fees.
A good example is push based notifications. If applications ping a server regularly to see if they have updates or if there is a message, that uses a lot more of both resources than if it subscribes to a network service that notifies the device when the same event occurs. The problem is, the former is easier to code and the way developers are used to doing things on desktops where they don't have to worry about battery and data nearly as much.
So when Microsoft says they are adding in support for multitasking, does that mean:
In short, multitasking for mobile devices is a difficult problem, with different challenges from traditional multitasking on desktops. Google engineers have repeatedly stated that they consider multitasking and battery life problems to be one of their greatest challenges and current failings. Microsoft announcing that they're coming out with something is, then interesting, although it may be a poor clone of one of the other vendors' implementations.
As Nokia shifts to support Windows Phone, I think that 1% will start to grow considerably. At the very least, people will accidentally buy Windows Phone as they continue their Nokia stable of phones, which still outsells Android. Add to that their very real customer satisfaction rate (a large percentage [reportedly 90%+ in their marketing material] of a relatively small number), and you have a huge problem for Android.
Not to mention, as Android starts to falter based on its inability to force carriers and m
Yes, Nokia sells a LOT of phones. Dirt cheap dumb phones in poor countries. They probably make so much money at it that they aren't at all in trouble. Oh wait they are.
The big money is in the smart phones and there Nokia has lost out.
Same as WM7 has been loosing out. Both have tried competing in this market and Android, iPhone and Rim have left them in the dust.
So now they are going to combine their epic powers of fail for what?
The idea that Android has to look out for Windows Phone is the same idea as MS f
Your entire post seems to suggest that all Android phones are powerful phones. In reality, they fall along the entire gamut of the market. A smart phone does not necessarily have to cost a lot, nor does it have to be a good phone, and Android definitely covers that ground.
Palm is even about to cover that ground with their new credit card sized, WebOS 3.0 phone. The fact that Windows Phone 7 already included a smaller screen size in its specs immediately suggests to me that you not only ignored them because
Same as WM7 has been loosing out.
Well there is no such thing as WM7...but of course WP7 hasn't been 'losing out', it's only been out for a couple of months.
The idea that Android has to look out for Windows Phone is the same idea as MS fanboys had with every previous iteration of MS CE/Mobile and got knows what other names they have used to hide the fact of old vinegar in crappy bags.
Sounds like you haven't even used a WP7 phone.
Whole lotta FUD in there...
"less than 1% of Android users are running 2.3 (the version with the fix that stops texts from going to random people...). Over 10% are still running Android 1.5 and 1.6, combined."
First off, ya, Gingerbread is basically not here. I'll agree on that point. However your touting this sending texts to random people thing as a major issue. I use texting quite a bit on my phone (thanks to a handful of people that I know that use it all the time) and have NEVER had this issue. I'm n
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but I think your blowing it far FAR out of proportion.
Intentionally to make the point. Sure, it happens to a very small group, but the odds of it hitting you probably increase with every text that you send on an Android 2.2 device. My point isn't even that it's the end of the world. Rather, my point is that such fundamental issue could be left unfixed on your phone, and that's a huge deal.
Secondly using your own numbers, your telling me that 89% of Android phones are running
And yes, that is serious fragmentation because what I didn't note was that of that 89%, 31.4% are running Android 2.0, or Android 2.1, which came out well over a year ago. A tenth of the platform is using Android 1.5 or 1.6. Roughly a third is using Android 2.0 or 2.1. About half is using Android 2.2. Less than a hundredth is using Android 2.3.
Oh no, iOS has serious fragmentation too:
4.2.1: 52.89 %
4.1: 27.50 %
3.1.3: 6.43 %
4.0.2: 3.36 %
4.0.1: 2.95 %
4.0: 2.94 %
3.1.2: 2.52 %
3.2.2: 0.49 %
3.0: 0.22 %
3.1: 0.21 %
3.0.1: 0.10 %
3.2: 0.10 %
3.1.1: 0.10 %
4.2: 0.09 %
3.2.1: 0.07 %
2.2.1: 0.02 %
2.2: 0.00 %
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Seriously, targeting multiple OS versions and hardware configurations has been normal through the life of the desktop PC, this is not new.
Why not compare the 'fragmentation' of android against platforms that actually have some history in the mobile game shall we?
1. Android 2.3 is brand new and I think anyone paying attention to Android will know that it takes at least 6 months before any amount of -normal- people can actually start using them. If Google released 2.3 in 6 months with 50% market update adoption, would that somehow change your perception of the OS? For the 10% on obsolete equipment, its your decision to support them or not into
Well, I can say from a support side of things, all those different Droid GUIs makes my life hell. It's not like the iPhone or BlackBerry where the UI is somewhat unified across multiple phones. But the Droid platform sucks for remote support because vendors (and their mothers too) tacks on additional shit. It can become confusing as hell to walk someone over the phone through configuring corporate e-mail.
I don't think anyone in the market for a high end smart phone is going to be unaware what it's running and buy one by accident. More liikely current Nokia owners screwed by this about face and lack of upgrade path are going to look elsewhere next time. I don't think Nokia yet realize the amount of customer loyalty they've just lost. Any Nokia customer who wanted a Linux (Maemo) based phone will now have to switch to Android or even HP (Palm's WebOS).
Fragmentation is certainly an issue for Android, but this
I think Nokia is running a big risk here.
If their position is so strong (outselling Android), then doing any sort of platform burning is sheer madness. So to make this drastic move in the first place, the supporting fact of 'outsells Android' has to be presumed to be faltering.
If they've decided they *are* losing on platform but have good hardware, then binding themselves *exclusively* to the MS offering seems dubious. They said their number one priority is knocking out Android's share. If they aren't pr
MS is re-implementing experience that users are already accustomed to
...and pushing it on their greater yet-unaware market share... in other words: business as usual!
I'm sure original Windows Mobile users were accustomed to multitasking too. I'm not really sure why Microsoft opted not to support multitasking initially on WP7 but it's not like this was their first jump into mobile operating systems and they are just learning this now.
Am I the only one that's really surprised that multitasking wasn't already a feature? I thought it was weird when they announced it for the iPhone 4 like it was some huge breakthrough. Symbian might be a piece of crap as a smartphone OS, but, damn, they've had multitasking for 10 years now. It's not a hardware issue. How did this get ignored for so long in iOS and Windows phone?
It is sad that none of the other Smartphone OSs seem to multiask as well as WebOS. The card interface is actually very good.
Gee so WP7 will someday be as good as IOS, Android, WebOS, and Symbian. Gee sign me up......
BTW Windows Mobile has had multitasking for a long time as well. Microsoft took it out of WP7 because? Maybe because IOS didn't do it and they wanted to copy IOS?
Have you checked multitasking apps for Android? They offer cards and even same kind Ui's as what Maemo has on N900.
You have lots of different ways and gestures to give you possibilities to get wanted.
Microsoft completely wrote their mobile platform starting from a new WinCE kernel. In their eyes, Windows Mobile is no-more.
Therefore, the APIs could note be written and effectively tested in time to ensure performance and battery life were maintained. This is similar to the fact that when WP7 was announced, iOS (then, iPhone OS 3.0) had not announced multitasking, nor had they announced that the original iPhone (2G) would not be supported at all, and the iPhone 3G would not support multitasking.
As it turns
"This is similar to the fact that when WP7 was announced, iOS (then, iPhone OS 3.0) had not announced multitasking, nor had they announced that the original iPhone (2G) would not be supported at all, and the iPhone 3G would not support multitasking."
But Android and WebOS did have multitasking.
I just can not bring my self to praise Microsoft for copying IOS quickly. They had been in the Mobile space for years so there is no excuse for playing catch up. The fact that IOS came out and ate their lunch is reason
BTW Windows Mobile has had multitasking for a long time as well. Microsoft took it out of WP7 because? Maybe because IOS didn't do it and they wanted to copy IOS?
Or maybe they were trying to address certain stability and battery life issues with WinMo.
When it comes down to it, you're looking at a screen smaller than a deck of cards. Multi-tasking on that is pretty much useless.
I commonly run Glympse [glympse.com] while listening to Pandora [pandora.com] on my way home, so my wife knows when to expect me. I also sometime run Trapster [trapster.com] to check for speed traps. None of those apps give a shit about the screen most of the time. That then allows me to run one of many apps that show traffic information on the screen. Running 4 apps at the same time might slow my charge rate to a crawl, but it is extremely useful.
At the same time, the lack of that ability is keeping me from moving from iPhone to WM7. However, t
Are we sure that not doing multi-tasking is at the requests of the Cell Carriers? I seem to remember that each tower can only handle X amount of connections at any given time. By having a multi-tasking OS, that could potentially leave cell phones latched onto the network (data side) 24/7. Eventually, rolling drop offs will occur in densely populated cities. I'm not sure if this applies to both GSM and CDMA or just one of them.
IOS STILL doesn't have actual multi-tasking... it just allows certain threads to continue running in the background.. but the app itself is suspended it's basically just fast app switching +
And and iPhone users are very thankful for the battery life that saves.
Which is exactly what Android does too.
It's not at all a technical issue. Both iOS and WP7 can handle multitasking just fine on OS level, and you can see that in action if you use the stock apps (e.g. media player, which plays in background). It's strictly a limitation on third-party software, deliberately enforced.
Am I reading this right? Windows phones will now be able to do things android and iphones have been doing for years?
... iphones have been doing for years?
iOS has been able to multitask since before it was called iOS. It just wasn't available to third party apps until the phone's hardware caught up (it's just no good on a 3G, which is why you can't officially have 3rd party mutitasking on that model).
Which is the case for Windows phone as well
I remember when my Palm got that feature, in 1999 or around there (I forget the exact year).
Now that was awesome!
If Microsoft released a 3D modeling tool, would it be called Scatchup?
Almost! I think it would be called 'ScatUp'. As soon as I find a link to confirm this, I'll squirt it to you.
Windows Phone 7 was lacking a lot of functionality the earlier Windows Mobile had. It's just a new not-yet-complete OS.
Hey! I thought it was supposed to be hot enough to set your rig on fire!
Am I reading this right? Windows phones will now be able to do things android and iphones have been doing for years?
No. Windows phones will now be able to do something that Windows phones were able to do in 2002, 5 years before the iPhone was invented, 8 years before the iPhone got it, and 6 years before the Android was released.
I never understood the huge step back they took, other than Microsoft Marketing told them to ship before it was ready, a familiar story.
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Yea, except, Windows Mobile had multitasking before Android or iOS were even a wet spot in someones underwear. They just made it unavailable in WinMo7 so they could copy Apple, without actually understanding WHY Apple didn't support it.
This is good.
Before you reach out for the pitchforks and torches, let me finish the sentence: this is good for competition. Now that Nokia will ship WP7, Apple and Google will find themselves with a worthy competitor in the smartphone market. At least when it comes to user experience.
Metro is such a clean, fast interface, lets me see just what I want to see exactly when I want to see it. There's very little hunting/searching for something, as if I use it more than once per day I just pin it to the front page. It just fits extremely well how I want to use a phone.
Although I do have to say, if I couldn't have test-driven it on an HD2 I probably wouldn't have taken the leap to full fledged WP7 hardware. Kudos to MS for not legalbomb XDA from orbit when DFT released the ROM into the wild. If they continue to be smart, they'll let the mod community flourish they way they did with WM6 - that's the only thing that made the platform stay as relevant as it did, for as long as it did.
WP7 has a great solution for avoiding "page after page of little icons": a piss-poor selection of apps to download
Seriously though, iOS could use some shell improvements to help deal with having hundred(s) of apps. I recently condensed 11 pages of "little icons" down to 3 pages of folders. It's an improvement, but I think apple should start looking at new shell paradigms (no, not Metro!)
I recently condensed 11 pages of "little icons" down to 3 pages of folders. It's an improvement
It would help if large folders didn't take 2-3 seconds to open on iPhone, unless you reboot the phone every few days (oh, the irony of doing that to an Apple product!).
WP7 has a great solution for avoiding "page after page of little icons": a piss-poor selection of apps to download
Lucky i've got a whole page of iFart clones on my iphone.
Metro is a UI ripped out from a graphics design mag like "Wallpaper*", "GD USA" or "Print". It's basically something you would find on a MP3 player or game UI. Looks nice, but usability suffers when your interface starts to get busy.
So you didn't like iOS and Android because you installed too many apps and needed a bunch of pages to access them all?
Tell me, how did WP7 work around this? Haven't found any apps worth downloading yet?
I have 6 pages of apps on my iPhone, and I take it off the first page once in
I access games a lot on my Iphone and I dont keep them on the first page because I dont need access to those right this second, I cant take a moment or 2 to find them.
The problem is, now my phone is on page 3 or 4. I would really like it if, whenever you woke up your phone, it snapped back to page 1 and your most important applications. It would at least make a nice setting. That way I would always know how to quickly get to my mail or my camera without having to use up one of the 4 bottom most spots.
I'm a WP7 user, and very happy with my decision. I've used iOS, WM6, and Android - hated iOS and it's page after page of little icons, hated WM6 until HTC Sense (would have stayed with that on my HD2 if apps were coming out), and loved Android (HD2 and a Desire) except it began to feel like iOS+.
May I ask, why have you owned so many phones? Not trolling at all, really just curious. I've seen many similar posts on other stories and it always blows my mind that people seem to have owned like 5 different p
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|Game 13
|Navy (3-9, 1-5 PL) at Johns Hopkins (7-4)
|Date and Faceoff
|April 20 at 4:00 pm ET
|Baltimore, Md. | Homewood Field (8,500)
|ESPNU | Mark Dixon and Quint Kessenich
Game Preview
• Navy (3-9, 1-5 Patriot League) will close out the 2013 campaign on Saturday afternoon when it travels to Baltimore to battle 11th-ranked Johns Hopkins (7-4) … the 87th edition of the Navy-Johns Hopkins game is slated for a 4:00 pm faceoff at Homewood Field.
• Saturday's contest will mark the final collegiate game for Navy's 11 seniors.
• The Mids are coming off a 14-7 loss to arch rival Army last Saturday in Annapolis … the Black Knights jumped out to a 4-1 lead and while Navy would close to within 2 early in the second half, Army's attack combo of Garrett Thul and John Glesener was too much to overcome.
• Johns Hopkins, meanwhile, upset top-ranked Maryland last Saturday in College Park, 7-4, in what is one of the longest rivalries in the sport.
• Saturday's contest will be televised by ESPNU with Mark Dixon (play by play) and Quint Kessenich (analyst) calling the action.
Navy vs. Johns Hopkins – The Series
• Saturday's contest marks the 87th meeting between Navy and Johns Hopkins … it's the 64th-consecutive year the two programs have battled and it is the third-longest continuous series between Navy and another team on the lax field behind Army-Navy and Navy-Maryland.
• The Blue Jays own a commanding 58-27-1 advantage in the series, however Johns Hopkins' amazing 36-game winning streak was snapped in 2010. Navy again surprised the Blue Jays with an 8-2 victory last spring in Annapolis.
• Johns Hopkins owns a 27-7 record in games played against the Mids on its home field … the last time Navy scored a victory over the Blue Jays in Baltimore was May 10, 1969, when the Mids posted a 9-6 win.
• Seven of the last 14 games between Navy and Johns Hopkins have been decided by one goal, including five of the last 10 … additionally, four of the seven one-goal games have gone into extra minutes.
• Second-year Navy head coach Rick Sowell is 1-0 all-time against the Blue Jays.
Scouting the Blue Jays
• Thirteenth-year head coach Dave Pietramala has guided the 11th-ranked Blue Jays to a 7-4 record this spring which includes a 4-2 mark at home.
• Hopkins has losses to 12th-ranked Princeton (11-8), 11th-ranked Syracuse (13-8), 7th-ranked North Carolina (11-10 OT) and 20th-ranked Albany (10-9).
• Despite those disappointing losses, the Blue Jays are coming off a strong performance that saw them upset No. 1-ranked Maryland last Saturday in College Park, 7-4. It was a game Hopkins never trailed in.
• Meanwhile, following its matchup against the Mids, Johns Hopkins will face Loyola next Saturday at Homewood Field before capping the regular season with a road trip to West Point to face Army on May 3.
• Sophomore attackman Wells Stanwick and junior attackman Brandon Benn lead the way for the Blue Jays as both have amassed 20-plus goals this season. Stanwick is atop the scoring leader board with 38 points on 22 goals and 16 assists and owns the nation's fourth-best shooting percentage at 55.0 percent. Meanwhile, Benn has punched in a team-best 23 goals and added just one assist as the team's second-leading scorer.
• Senior attackman Zach Palmer has split his 24 points in half with 12 goals scored and 12 assists dealt out.
• Hopkins stands sixth nationally in extra-man offense, punching in goals on 47.9 percent of its opportunities. The Blue Jays have scored 23 goals on 48 attempts. Rookie attackman Ryan Brown has been the sharpshooter on EMO's, scoring 8 of his 13 goals a man up.
• One of the best faceoff teams in the country, Hopkins is led by senior Mike Poppleton who has won an amazing 66.5 percent (135-203) of his draws and stands No. 2 in the country behind Bryant's Kevin Massa (71.6). As a team, the Blue Jays are ranked third, winning 63.7 percent of their draws
• Senior Pierce Bassett has started all 10 games as the Blue Jays' netminder. He owns an 8.23 goals-against average and a 58.9 save percentage which is ninth best in the country.
Welcome to the Club!
• On March 12, Navy junior attackman Tucker Hull became the 30th player in program history to join the Mids' elite list of 100-point scorers. He is the first player to add his name to the list since 2011 when Andy Warner graduated with 101 points.
• Hull currently stands 24th on Navy's all-time scoring list with 105 points, just one behind 23rd-place Matt Pawlikowski (1990-93).
• Meanwhile, last Saturday junior attackman Sam Jones joined the elite 100-point list with 2 goals and an assist against arch rival Army.
• Jones is ranked 25th on Navy's all-time scoring list with 102 points, just one behind 24th-place Billy Looney (2004-07).
• Hull and Jones are only the fourth set of classmates in program history to reach 100 points. Brendan Schneck (121) and Mike Hannan (101) from the Class of '78, Mike Herger (197) and Brian Keith (134) from the Class of 1990 and Ian Dingman (188) and Billy Looney (103) from the Class of 2007 are the others.
• Hull and Jones are just the 13th and 14th players, respectively, to reach the 100-point mark as a junior in program history. Mike Herger (109), Ian Dingman (102) and Brendan Schneck (121) accomplished it as sophomores.
• Hull led Navy in scoring in each of his first two seasons and is once again one of the leaders this season as he stands No. 2 in scoring with 20 points on 13 goals and 7 assists.
• Jones, who leads the team with 33 points on 21 goals and 12 assists, has reached the 30-point milestone as a freshman, sophomore and junior … he is one of only 7 players in program history to achieve that feat, joining Paul Basile, James Chambers, Ian Dingman, Mike Herger, Jeff Long and Nick Mirabito.
• As a rookie, he and classmate Sam Jones anchored an offense with 38 points on 23 goals and 15 assists. Last season, Hull produced 47 points on 23 goals and 24 assists.
• Hull is the Mids' first 40-point scorer since Nick Mirabito turned in 46 points on 23 goals and 23 assists in 2008 … it's the most points scored by a Navy player since 2006 when Jon Birsner dealt out 36 assists en route to his 54-point effort.
• With his 3 assists against Detroit, Hull joined the Mids' all-time career assists list … he produced his 46th career assist against No. 1-ranked Maryland to tie to tie Owen McFadden (1964-66) for 17th on the list … he needs 2 to tie 16th-place Brendan Schneck (1977-78).
Fast Facts
• Sophomore attackmen Tucker Hull and Sam Jones have started every game (37) they have played in since their arrival in 2011 … junior midfielder Pat Durkin saw his 19-game starting streak come to an end against Holy Cross, however, he has started 24 of the last 25 games … meanwhile senior midfielder Bryce Dabbs has gotten the starting nod in 23 of the 24 games in which he's played.
• At least one Navy player has turned in a hat trick in 36 of the last 58 games (dating back to the 2009 season), including seven of the 12 games this season … Sam Jones has registered a team-high 4 hat tricks this season and 10 for his career, while sophomore midfielder Gabe Voumard and junior attackman Tucker Hull have posted a pair of hat tricks …T.J. Hanzsche and Erik Hoffstadt have also turned in hat tricks for the Mids this spring.
• 48 of Navy's 99 goals (48.5) this season have been unassisted, including 10 of Gabe Voumard's 12 scores. Last year 46 of Navy's 109 goals (42.2) were unassisted. Additionally, 13 of Sam Jones' team-high 21 goals have been unassisted.
• Since 2004, Navy owns an amazing 55-2 record when holding its opponents to six or fewer goals, including a 13-1 mark in the last five seasons combined.
• Navy owns a remarkable 54-5 record when scoring 10 or more goals since 2004, including a 30-4 mark in the last five seasons (9-1 in 2009, 10-1 in 2010, 3-2 in 2011, 5-0 in 2012 and 3-0 in 2013).
• At least one pole has scored either a goal or dealt out an assist every year since 1994. Last year, Pat Kiernan led the charge with 10 points on 7 goals and 3 assists. He extended the Navy point scoring streak with a goal in the Mids' win over Detroit.
• The 20-7 win over VMI in the opener marked the Mids' largest scoring output since dealing Holy Cross a 23-5 loss on April 18, 2004.
• The 13-goal win was Navy's largest margin of victory since beating Holy Cross 16-3 on March 15, 2008.
• The Midshipmen have scored man-down goals twice this season, marking the most man-down goals since scoring two in 2006.


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Get the smelling salts ready! Yet again another contender has stepped into the ring to take on the iconic Apple iPhone. This time it's the Motorola Droid X, a dark horse contestant that seemingly came out of nowhere and threatened to steal away some of the Cupertino cool.
The Droid X is making waves. It's in short supply, and that supply is getting shorter as the clock ticks. But does it have it? Does it have the moxie? The chutzpa? The gusto needed to go toe-to-toe with the Apple iPhone (Four)? The only way to tell is to put these two titans head to head in a battle to the death. We've played with them. We've examined their spec sheets and we've gotten familiar with them. Here we see how the Motorola Droid X and the Apple iPhone 4 stack up when put face to face in a no holds barred steel cage match.
Does the elusive Mr. X have what it takes to finally take down the iPhone (which has taken the crown all three times when it's clashed with other supposed iPhone-killing titans)? The iPhone has already schooled its biggest rivals: It took down the BlackBerry Storm and the T-Mobile G1 in the first round. In the second round, it dismantled the BlackBerry Storm 2. And in the third and most recent round, the Apple iPhone 4 pulverized the HTC EVO 4G.
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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
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WASHINGTON, DC - The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) commends Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for today's announcements that the agency will begin its review of certain currently pending cases before the immigration courts, as well as future cases that come before the Offices of Chief Counsel (OCC). The memos outline a formal process for implementing the prosecutorial discretion policies that were announced last summer.
"This is a really good next step for ICE to take. Today's memos show officials in the field how and when they can prioritize their enforcement resources in a way that will make the country safer," said AILA President Eleanor Pelta.
The review of these immigration cases is set to begin immediately and will continue for two months, at which time ICE will asses the process and make any necessary changes. Additionally, the memos provide guidance to ICE agents and attorneys for handling all new cases that come before them. "These guidelines meet the needs of field agents and trial attorneys who, according to AILA's recent survey, were unclear about how to implement prosecutorial discretion as defined by ICE headquarters," Pelta said.
"However, this process is extremely complicated and may cause confusion in immigrant communities," Pelta continued. "Many people will understandably be worried that they don't fit into the criteria described in the memos issued today, which are more narrow and exclude many with minor immigration law violations. But today's memos describe a fast-track for clear cut cases that can be decided quickly. Individuals whose cases aren't included under this process may still qualify for a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion after their cases are reviewed pursuant to the June memos.
"We hope that along with today's guidelines, ICE will monitor the field so that we finally see action on the ground that matches agency policies from the top," concluded Pelta.
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With only a few days remaining until Tuesday's election, candidates are putting on a full-court press and officials are readying for what is expected to be a high-turnout election.
County Clerk John Acardo estimates about 20 percent of DeKalb County voters have made use of early voting. For those who haven't voted, here's what you need to know:
Q. When can I vote?
A. For those who have yet to register, grace-period voting ends at noon today at the DeKalb County Legislative Center, 200 N. Main St., Sycamore or at the Northern Illinois University Holmes Student Center, 340 Carroll Ave., DeKalb. You must have a photo ID and cast your ballot when you register. The legislative center also will be open for in-person absentee voting from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday.
Q. What if I plan to vote on Election Day?
A. There will be polling places set up around the county. If you're not sure where your polling place is located, call the DeKalb County Clerk's Office at 815-895-7147, or check online at www.votedekalb.com. The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. A signature is the only required identification on Election Day.
Q. Who's running?
A. There are multiple races and questions on the ballot. Voters statewide will consider a proposal to amend the Illinois Constitution to require a three-fifths majority vote for state or local governments to approve any increases in public pensions.
The county's congressional races are contested, with Republican incumbent Adam Kinzinger facing Wanda Rohl in the 16th District, and Republican incumbent Randy Hultgren challenged by Democrat Dennis Anderson in the 14th District.
There is also a contested countywide race for regional superintendent of schools between the sitting superintendent, Republican Derek Avery, and Democratic challenger Amanda Christensen.


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A massive variety of weapons was one of the primary selling points of the first Borderlands, touted in ad campaigns as featuring "87 bazillion" guns. While the game may not have actually invented a new unit of measurement, there certainly was a ton of unique weapons with a wide variety of attributes and functions. If you looked at these guns within your inventory, you'd get to see which manufacturer made them. Despite the inclusion of these brands in the first game, they never really had a distinct personality. With Borderlands 2, Gearbox wants each manufacturer to have a distinct visual ID and clearly-defined characteristics. Read on to learn about some of Pandora's primary gun peddlers.
BanditAnyone who played through the first game is familiar with the bandit foes (hell, a bandit is even the primary focus of the box art). In Borderlands 2, these troublemakers have started putting together their own weaponry. They're not the most organized or mechanically inclined group, so their selection will be notably ramshackle. Instead of a scope, a Bandit sniper rifle might feature a glass bottle. Instead of iron sights, a screw. On the plus side, Bandit guns feature the largest magazines of any manufacturer, though the increased size leads to longer reload times.
Borderlands certainly sticks out from the crowded FPS marketplace, but Dahl's weapons should feel familiar to fans of modern military shooters. These weapons will resemble more realistic gun designs like the firearms from series such as Call of Duty and Battlefield.
Even if you don't remember the Hyperion name from the first Borderlands,
you know their visual style thanks to a certain robotic buddy they
happened to manufacture. Yes, Claptrap's clean yellow-and-white design
is a trademark of the weapons dealer, and their guns will feature the
same look.
These weapons carry a distinctly Russian vibe, with similarities to the ultra-common AK-47. This being Borderlands and all, it wouldn't feel right to not have at least some silliness present. That's why all of Vladof's weapons will have minigun barrels as attachments. In terms of stars, this brand boasts the highest fire rate out of any of Pandora's weapons.


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Joseph Whitman of Warwick has cashed in a winning $10,000 Daily Numbers ticket on St. Joseph's Day. He wagered $2 on a four-digit straight and played 3 8 0 8. The numbers were drawn in that exact order for Monday night's Daily Numbers drawing. He said he's been playing the same numbers for years as they used to be his badge number when he was a bus driver at RIPTA. The win definitely made "his" day! Joseph purchased the winning ticket at Mega Milk Mart, 1243 West Shore Rd., Warwick.
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Egypt: Restoration of the Monastery of St. George in Old Cairo
The major restoration of the historic Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint George in Old Cairo is at its final stage. The monastery is a unique Rotunda in the Middle Eastern, which was a project carried out with the blessing of the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodore II.
According to Greek news, the official opening of the monastery is set to take place with magnificence and splendor, and in the presence of spiritual leading figures of the Orthodox Church and certain leaders of states. The opening will be taking place in the coming months, though a specific date has not been scheduled yet. Furthermore, the official website of the Patriarchate of Alexandria noted: "The renovation of the complex of the ancient Basilica and the Patriarchal Monastery of St George in Old Cairo, which is a Pan-Orthodox and universal shrine of great religious and spiritual importance, is the pinnacle of the multifaceted renovation activities by His Beatitude.
The cracks in the walls, the settling of the ground and the changes in the existing masonry, had rendered the stability of this Eastern Rotunda of the East precarious, as it is based on a three-floored Roman tower of circular ground plan from the 1st century A.D. and which was a part of the fortification of Babylon. This joint project between archaeologists, engineers, architects and conservation workers, includes anchoring and reconstruction of the Roman tower, the newer church, as well as maintenance of the hagiography of Constantine Parthenis."
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