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We Are! Still! Penn State!
Drew Magary witnesses plenty of drinking, chanting, and whitewashing in Happy Valley on opening day of the post-Paterno era
Do you like slogans? Holy shit, do I have the town for you. This past Saturday, State College, Pennsylvania was a town awash in slogans. There were slogans on the windows and on the cars, on shirts and on tents, inside the stadium, and all around outside of it. Slogans, slogans everywhere, from the gentle to the menacing. Everyone had their slogan on Saturday, and that slogan was their personal statement about all this...this stuff that's gone on over the past year. Even the name of the school itself—PENN STATE—was a slogan on this day. If you wore it, you believed it. And if you didn't have a slogan, well, then you were probably me, and you probably felt very much out of place.
GQ sent me to State College this past weekend to get at look at Penn State in person, to soak in the atmosphere in this, Penn State's first home opener without Joe Paterno in over six decades. The game was against Ohio University, and PSU would eventually lose 24-14 thanks to some shoddy defense and a rather nasty habit of dropping the ball (snicker snicker). This was a game many people believe never should have taken place. I wanted to decide for myself if I agreed with them, if I could detect any remaining value in a tradition that led to the worst cover-up in NCAA history, the downfall of a supposedly great man, and the poisoning of an entire community. And I did figure it all out, I swear. But first, we gotta take a drive.
To get to State College from where I live, you have to travel up through central Pennsylvania on Interstate 99, a stretch of road that winds its way along the Allegheny Mountains, past towns with super-American names like East Freedom and Bald Eagle. The views along the road are so nice that you have to fight to keep your eyes on the highway. It's like Peter Jackson is shooting a movie right next to you.
This is a relatively new stretch of road. The last section of it opened in 2007, in part to handle the flow of traffic in and out of State College. So not only can you say that Joe Paterno built Penn State, but you could also argue that he built the roads leading to it. On the way up, I tuned into a kickass Altoona rock station that played hair-metal classics ("Still Loving You" by Scorpions—all too appropriate this weekend) and offered up important local news, including one item about a neighborhood shrubbery that had been vandalized. Ni!
Driving to college is still crazy exciting, even if you're not a student anymore. There's still that funny feeling you get in your stomach and in your loins as you get closer and closer to campus. PRETTY BUILDINGS! HOT YOUNG COEDS! FANCY LEARNIN'! You can't help but psych yourself up for good times. That feeling is probably what keeps many an alum coming back year after year.
I dropped my shit off at the motel and started the walk through town to get to Beaver Stadium. Along the way, I got passed by an RV that was packed with people, and I could see some of the people inside already clutching beers. This was 8:30 in the morning. Beer tastes better the earlier you drink it.
I passed giant frat houses that looked halfway decent on the outside, but it was obvious that the insides were havens of unspeakable filth. You could see the frat brothers pre-gaming out on their balconies. I walked by a collection of brick apartment buildings that a lot of students called home. A drunk chick shouted "WE ARE" from the balcony and a group of guys in front of me offered up a "PENN STATE" in response.
On every window in every shop there was an 8 1/2"1" printout that read PROUD TO SUPPORT PENN STATE FOOTBALL. Apparently, a PDF was sent out a few days prior, encouraging people to print it out and tape it to their storefronts. Everyone complied. A few days later, as a way of counterbalancing all that football pride, another PDF was sent out that read PROUD TO SUPPORT PENN STATE ACADEMICS. Only a few of those signs made it up.
I tried to find the stadium by following around any student who was carrying beer, which was a mistake because most of the students were going back to their dorms first to get shitfaced. It's amazing how hard it is to find Beaver Stadium if you're just relying on crowds and your gut instinct (and if you're too cheap to own a smartphone). It seats more than 100,000 people. It could probably host a family reunion for aircraft carriers. And yet, Penn State itself is so enormous that the stadium can hide with relative ease. I found a route along University Drive by watching three dark blue school buses speed down the road led by a police escort. Every fan cheered and waved to the buses as they flew by. The Penn State players inside didn't wave back. They had shit to focus on.
I got to the front parking lot of the Stadium around 9 a.m., and you could already hear fans inside chanting the "WE ARE" call-and-response from their seats. I came along the first lot of tailgaters, trying to find my host for the day, an alum who asked to remain anonymous for this article. He told me to look for a blue tent. They were ALL blue tents. I walked through the first tailgate lot, and then another, and then another. The tailgaters blanketed the land, spilling past the baseball stadium and around the hills and telephone poles, like rushing floodwaters. They were everywhere: hundreds of fancy RVs (how can so many people afford such nice RVs?), thousands of satellite dishes (how can so many people know how to transport and realign their satellite dishes?), and god knows how many flaming grills (how can so many people transport grills that are larger than their own cars?).
I walked past two men holding a vigorous discussion about the state of the program. "What surprised me is that the state legislature did nothing!" one said, with the other nodding fervently in agreement. There's a rumor going around—still unverified—that the University will foot the NCAA's $60 million fine simply by not going ahead with scheduled renovations to Beaver Stadium's notoriously cramped press box. People here very much approve of that plan.
It felt as if all the tailgaters had been here since the last Penn State home game, against Nebraska in November 2011. They drank and ate and played cornhole (snicker snicker), and their children ran around without any visible fear of anyone coming and, you know, doing bad things to them. It looked like all the other tailgate festivals going on in all the major college towns that day, in Lincoln and Stillwater and elsewhere. There was nothing special about it unless you were a Penn State fan, in which case it was all very special because it was yours.
The only visible difference at this tailgate was the slogans. I saw so many slogans that I wished everyone at Penn State had sat down on Friday prior to gametime and settled on just one. But they didn't, and this was the resulting word soup:
"Penn State Forever" "Joe Knows Football" "We Are" "We Care" "Those who stayed may not be champions, but they will forever be legends." (I thought this one was the stupidest of the bunch.) "Roll up your pant legs. This is JoePa's house." "Still Proud" "Success with honor" "Coach Paterno, only one thing: Thank you!" "NCAA" (with a hammer & sickle replacing the C) "Restore the roar" "Hey media... we know the truth" (Somehow I doubt that Bobby from Delta Upsilon knew more about the Sandusky case than Sara Ganim) "O'Brien's Lions" "We Are... Pissed Off" (It's worth noting that no one who rocked this slogan looked all that pissed off) "More than a man, more than a coach, you touched our soul" "One Team" "Those people" (???) "Billieve" (referring to PSU head coach Bill O'Brien) "We are... because he was"
The one I saw the most often was a simple shirt that read "HAPPY VALLEY," a shirt they were selling in all the bookstores and at the Museum Shop at the stadium. I liked that slogan the most. If I was a drunken Penn Stater, that's the one I would have chosen. Everyone walking by flashed peace signs to one another, just to reinforce how happy they were to be in this valley.
I found my tailgate party and drank as much Coors Light as I possibly could, while playing Once Around with my companions (you pass the ball around in a circle and if you drop it, you be drinkin'). Overhead, a Cessna flew fly by dragging a banner that read "OUST ERICKSON / TRUSTEES," in reference to new school president Rodney Erickson and the board of trustees, who allowed the NCAA to bring down the hammer on Penn State football. Few people on the ground seemed to notice or care.
An hour before gametime, I staggered back to the stadium looking for the site where Paterno's statue once stood. On my quest, I passed by a barn on the edge of the stadium grounds that looked like someone built it there on purpose, to emphasize the bucolic surroundings. I asked eight different cops for directions to the statue site and they gave me eight different replies, one of which I'm certain was deliberately intended to throw me off. I felt creepy asking where it was again and again, because it was an admission to people that I wasn't from here. And if I'm not from here, well then why am I snooping around for JoePa? I was essentially labeling myself a tourist of death. Before I could find the right spot, the game was about to begin. JoePa would have to wait.
Beaver Stadium was at nearly full capacity on Saturday, with a handful of empty seats at the top in the corners of the stadium. I sat alone in WB section (one half of stadium's sections start with W, the other half start with E. W-E, get it?). There was a squat, older woman in the seat in front of me. Not in it, actually. On it. For the duration of pregame, the woman stood on her bench screaming "WE ARE." At Beaver Stadium, there's not a lot of space between rows, so when I was standing as well, this woman's ass was less than a millimeter from my sweaty, meaty hands. I had to lean back just to make sure I didn't graze her ass, or give it a full-fledged bump. This was not a day for inappropriate touching.
"Sorry ma'am," I said. "I'm super-close to you with you standing on the bench. You mind standing down?"
"I will after kickoff."
"Fair enough."
She stood down when the game began. Every so often, the Beaver Stadium jumbotron would light up with a canned segment of O'Brien talking about the new era of Penn State football, followed by an ad screaming out "ONE TEAM," the official rebranded slogan of the program. There were no traces of the past in the stadium's formal presentation of the game, unless the marching band's rendition of "Cold Hearted" by Paula Abdul was meant as some kind of subversive message. The PA announcer never mentioned Joe Paterno. There was no moment of silence for him (this was the first home game since his passing). His name was nowhere to be found inside. If you were completely ignorant of the past and you attended the game, you'd never know a man named Joe Paterno ever existed. You'd also never know that Jerry Sandusky's victims existed, and I bet they had strong feelings on Saturday about Penn State getting back to celebrating its football program so quickly, as if nothing had happened.
_[CORRECTION: Several readers have noted that Penn State did hold a moment of silence for child abuse victims prior to the game. Joe Paterno's name was not mentioned. Even though I got to my seat before kickoff, I still must have arrived too late to witness it.] _
At halftime, after Ohio scored their second touchdown to take a lead they would never relinquish, I slipped out of the stands to beat the heat and resume my hunt for the statue site. I was told to look for the new trees in front of Gate F, and sure enough, I eventually stumbled upon a grassy knoll festooned with a bare handful of decorations. It was a makeshift shrine to the Old Man, as if he were buried under that very spot. There was a small bunch of flowers ringed with a printout of JoePa's picture, a JoePa bobblehead wearing green beads (?), an Outback Bowl hat, one of those "Hey Media" shirts, and a Penn State jersey laid on the ground. A cheap jersey, as if the donor wanted to give JoePa a jersey but didn't want to sacrifice any of his GOOD jerseys. To my left, a woman stood with her face in her hands, weeping.
Beyond the shrine, at Gate B, there was an entryway engraved with the words "IN HONOR OF JOE PATERNO'S COACHING CAREER." Underneath the engraving was a series of bricks donated by alumni to honor the man, including a brick donated by disgraced university president Graham Spanier. Other bricks included quick messages like, "Honesty, passion, ethics=Success," "Go Joe!," "Joe will always be #1," and "Prefer nothing whatever to excellence." That last one confused me, but that's what happens when a brick gives you less space for your message than a Tweet. Those bricks are the only formal recognition of Paterno left at the stadium, at least that I could find. You will see far more statues and plaques honoring General James Beaver than you will the old football coach. I didn't even know Beaver Stadium was named after a person. I assumed the name was meant to commemorate the abundance of river-based wildlife in the area.
As the game slipped away from Penn State inside the stadium, I took a walk outside down Curtin Street to the Berkey Creamery, the on-campus ice cream shop operated by PSU's food science students. The line stretched out the door, not atypical for a gameday. For less than five bucks, you can get a cone with roughly thirty scoops on top. They still sell Peachy Paterno here, and I made a point of ordering it. I did this in the name of journalism, even though I think fruit ice creams are bullshit. If they really wanted to honor the man, they would have put Twix bars in there.
I made my way back to Beaver Stadium just as Ohio was sealing the victory with a late interception. Thousands of drunken, overheated students passed by me. They had all been so boisterous at the beginning of the day, cheering wildly during the pre-game intros and when the offense converted on an early 4th-and-1 near midfield. But the heat and the losing and the drinking eventually got to them.
Some of them were clearly angry about the loss. I wanted to pull them aside and tell them to buck up. Losing, after all, is exactly what this program needs right now. Being shitty for four years will allow Penn State the chance to continue its football tradition in relative peace and quiet. After this week, the novelty of journalists like me going to Penn State to gawk at all the Paterno apologists will wear off, and the program will soon become just another also-ran in the Big Ten (whose new logo, I must note, is godawful). Besides, no one really loses in college football. You either win, or you drink. Both are fine outcomes.
One student loudly cursed the NCAA, just like his shirt said he would, and I wanted to tell him that the NCAA did him a favor. I never bought the NCAA's bullshit threat that they were going to ban PSU football for four years. They said it just to sound tough. The "zombie penalty" that NCAA handed out instead—so named because it will turn the program into a period of walking dead—may result it a lot of losing, but it still allows the party to go on. It lets Penn State purge the ghost of Paterno with relative speed, instead of letting his specter linger around a dormant program, and the rest of college football, for years and years. Officials at Penn State are clearly eager to move on, and most of the fans seemed happy to follow suit. A group of Ohio students walked by and were left in peace, even when they shouted "O! U!" to each other. Penn State, shockingly, doesn't have a monopoly on school pride.
I came back to my tailgate party and while you might have expected everyone to follow that one student's lead and bitch about the NCAA, my companions were much more interested in blaming the disastrous loss on defensive coordinator Ted Roof and quarterback Matt McGloin. "McGloin turned back into McGloin in the second half," said one of them.
Overall, there was a palpable sense of relief on this day for most Penn State fans. They finally got back to the pleasures of tailgating and drinking and cornhole (snicker snicker) and bitching about not being good enough to win a championship. For many of them, this was all they wanted. And while Paterno may have been the progenitor of much of this merriment, it's clear that he's not essential to it. At least not now. This place doesn't belong to Joe Paterno anymore. I had planned on attending this game with an old friend of mine who was a Penn State alum, but she backed out, explaining that it would be too heartbreaking to come back after everything that had happened. I wished she had come with me. I think she would have found it far less painful than she expected.
In my particular line of work, it's not exactly good business to say nice things about Penn State these days. It's also terribly easy, from afar, to dismiss Happy Valley as some kind of X-Files inbred cultist compound, where people walk around in white robes and chain their kids to the radiator and rub their genitals with locks of JoePa's hair at night. I know it's easy to make such stereotypes because I've done it, and it's crazy fun.
But the fact is, there wasn't a single moment walking around Happy Valley on Saturday when I wished that the cold hand of NCAA bureaucracy would wipe all this away. It would make hundreds of thousands of people—none of whom had anything to do with Jerry Sandusky's crimes nor the villainy that ensued in their wake—miserable, and to what end? As some kind of magical cure-all for institutional coverups? As punishment for the community standing behind the old man? Something tells me a lot of people here don't want Joe Paterno defined by child molestation because they don't want to be defined by child molestation. This place has essentially been branded the Child Rape Capital of America. Would you be happy if it were your hometown? Isn't having Matt McGloin as your QB punishment enough?
Or maybe it's just that I'm brainwashed now, too. Maybe they got to me. I'm an easy mark, after all. Give me free beer and sausage, and I'll remain in your thrall forever. I walked around and saw so many happy people engaging in so many happy things (even the guy I saw getting arrested for DUI looked convivial as he was being pulled over) that it was pointless to resist. It takes a real dick to come here only to sneer at the festivities, and even I'm not up to that particular task. This place didn't exactly strike me as Jonestown.
In November, Grantland's Charlie Pierce wrote that, "It no longer matters if there continues to be a football program at Penn State. It no longer even matters if there continues to be a university there at all." On Saturday, I got a profound sense of how wrong that is, not to mention how impractical it would be to raze the entire school (seriously, it's huge). Penn State football still matters to a lot of people, hundreds of thousands of them. They still find it to be a positive thing in their lives, but—and this is the key—not the only thing in their lives. I think that alone is proof of its value. While many in State College still defend Paterno—and I think they're wrong to do so—it doesn't make them all pieces of shit. There's a lot worth salvaging here. But I suppose we can keep on going back and forth about that on message boards for a long time. I'll probably change my mind again after another damning indictment is handed down.
The next morning, on my way out of town, I swung by McKee Street to take a look at the house. His house. You know whose. This was just as dawn was breaking. There were no lights on inside, but it had wide windows, big enough to let in plenty of nascent sunlight. I could see inside the living room easily, enough to feel like a scumbag for peeping. But there was no one there. I stepped out of the car and found myself on an empty street, with no one else around. The Paternos were gone. The media was gone. The JoePa fanboys were gone. They were all gone. But the rest of Penn State—the stadium, the tailgaters, the drunken freshmen, the crappy football team, the "WE ARE" chants and the marching band—all of it is still here. Still alive and breathing, whether you like it or not. Maybe someone should put that on a t-shirt.
Drew Magary is a GQ correspondent and a staff writer for Deadspin. Follow him (@drewmagary) on Twitter here.


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Fertilizer recommendations for Louisiana rice largely come from agronomy research done at the Rice Research Station in Crowley, La.
"We changed the system a bit a couple of years ago," said Jason Bond at the Rice Research Station field day in Crowley. "A split application was employed so we apply 90, 120, 150 or 180 pounds of nitrogen immediately prior to the flood. Then, we began going back with a topdress of 0, 30, or 60 pounds of nitrogen at mid-season."
Last year, Bond — an agronomist who recently left the Crowley station for the Delta Research and Extension Station in Stoneville, Miss. — finished up studies on the "last wave of varieties released a few years ago. Since then, we've begun studying a few new ones.
"The four commercial varieties (in the test) this year: CL131, Trenasse, medium grain Jupiter, and a very early variety out of Arkansas called Spring. Also, three of (Crowley station director and rice breeder) Steve Lincombe's experimentals are entered this year."
The second part of the program is ratoon research. Last year, Hurricane Rita ruined most of the ratoon studies.
"We didn't get to cut a lot of the studies we began in 2005 and were excited about. No data was generated by our ratoon research last year."
But Bonds is trying again with tests looking at different stubble manipulations, flail mowing and rolling.
"We're putting some N out in the main crop after heading to try and boost the growth of the second crop. We're screening some different herbicides along with other things on both conventional varieties and hybrids."
An interesting thing Bonds reported seeing this year is a seeding rate test with Cheniere, CL 131 and Wells. The experiment is being done cooperatively with all the rice-producing states.
"On those three varieties, we're planting as low as 7.5 seed per square foot. In general, that's less than 20 pounds per acre. We go all the way up to 150 pounds per acre.
"Seeding rates have gone down recently. And the small plot research says we can stretch it even lower when the situation can be controlled closely…So if we're going with a lower seeding rate, can we also go with less N or do we need to go with more N to compensate for the lower populations?"
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In Mississippi, "growers are probably 99 percent-plus drill-seeded, delayed flush culture," said Tim Walker, a MSU rice agronomist at the Delta Research and Extension Station in Stoneville, Miss., at the field day. "Many (Louisiana producers) are probably doing work with a water-seeded system."
One of the newest projects Walker has begun involves research data on semi-dwarfs. Studies have shown "if higher rates of N pre-flood pretty much set the yield. The rice won't be as responsive to a mid-season application."
In Mississippi and other states doing a lot of drill-seeded rice, "we often put out N or other mixed fertilizers when rice reaches one-leaf or two-leaf stage. Usually, if it's not raining, we'll have to flush to incorporate herbicides.
"For many years, it's been common practice to put out some N at that time and flush it across or just in front of a rain.
"So what we're doing — especially with today's N economics, and I don't see them getting much cheaper — is evaluate those applications. To do that, we're checking how much N from those early season applications actually make it into the plant. If we can decrease N from mid-season and move it to the front end, it may be more economical."
Research shows a 2-inch to 3-inch height difference when the N is put out at the one-leaf to two-leaf timing.
"We have some promising results and this work is also being done in Arkansas and Missouri."
Mississippi rice producers have done a tremendous amount of land forming — something Walker has seen more of in south Louisiana.
"Anytime you've got shallow soils and are removing topsoil, you'll have soil issues. I've been involved with that over the last seven years to help restore precision-leveled fields back to optimum production.
"In our situation, most of the time there's a problem it has to do with fertility. We'll scrape away the topsoil and get into low-fertility subsoil. So, we're looking at the different mixed fertilizers — P, K, zinc and those sorts of things. On cut soil problems, primarily phosphorus and zinc have been the limiting factors."
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Moment of Truth #1: Hello World from the DSP with C6RunApp
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I've a couple of questions:
1. "but when you run it it magically extracts the compiled DSP binary from within itself"
how exactly is it done. Can you comment on that briefly. I mean, say I've a code part of which has to be executed on the GPP and it has to pass the data to the DSP where some more processing on the data takes place, are you saying that, C6RunApp will automate this process.
2. Is this written as a patch to the arm-c compiler.
1. The compiled DSP-binary is included in the GPP binary (specifically, it is turned into a variable in a C header file and included during the GPP-side app compilation). Then it copies this binary data to CMEM and uses the DSP/Link PROC component to startup the DSP binary. Regarding your example, C6RunApp not really meant to automate this in a general sense, but there exists another C6Run project called C6RunLib which allows you to do GPP->DSP remote calls, ie you can call DSP-side functions directly from the GPP.
2. Nope, it's a couple of libraries and a shell script that carries this out. See http://maltanar.blogspot.com/2010/06/c6runapp.html for more details.
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i am working on beagleboard-xm to write some codes for dsp . How did u set up the whole system kernel source code , u-boot code, compiler and all where did u get them from?ReplyDelete


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North Korea has responded with defiance to the United Nations Security Council resolution condemning its May 25 nuclear test, declaring as "absolutely impossible" any chance of giving up its nuclear program and accusing the United States of maintaining a nuclear arsenal "completely within range" of its own borders.
In the latest rhetoric from Pyongyang, the state-run newspaper Tongil Sinbo forecast a nuclear arms race in the region, saying "the Korean peninsula is becoming an area where the chances of nuclear war are the highest in the world."
That statement reflects North Korea's view that US nuclear weapons bases in Japan or in the Western Pacific pose a threat, even if the US withdrew all of its nuclear weapons from South Korea around 1990, as the US has claimed.
Against that background, North Korea says it's stepping up its own nuclear program and will respond militarily to any attempts to stop any of its ships suspected of carrying nuclear components or the missiles for firing them to distant targets.
On Sunday, one day after North Korea vowed to weaponize more spent plutonium rods and enrich uranium to produce nuclear weapons, the country's ailing leader, Kim Jong Il, expressed "great satisfaction" after inspecting a division of infantry troops, finding them ready for "combat ability in every way," the state-run North Korean Central News Agency reported.
The North's fresh defiance presents a growing challenge for President Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
"We cannot question the seriousness of the situation," says Paik Hak Soon, senior researcher on North Korea at South Korea's Sejong Institute. "The UNSC resolution was all-out confrontation, and North Korea is countering in its own way."
Mr. Paik says he has no doubt that North Korea is preparing for its third nuclear test while advancing its uranium enrichment program.
"There is no stopping North Korea's actions," he says.
What's the status on the North's uranium and plutonium?
The UN resolution theoretically calls for cooperation in halting proliferation of the components and technology for fabricating nuclear weapons, but North Korea is assumed to have all it needs to produce more warheads with plutonium at their core at its central nuclear complex at Yongbyon, 60 miles north of Pyongyang.
Although North Korea has yet to build warheads with highly enriched uranium, Kim Tae Woo, senior researcher at the Korean Institute for Defense Analyses, says Abdul Qadeer Khan, the "father" of Pakistan's atomic bomb, sold materiel and technology to North Korea for that purpose before Pakistan's role was revealed more than five years ago.
"We already know of deals between Pakistan and North Korea," says Mr. Kim. "We can presume North Korea got the technology from Pakistan. They also got the centrifuges for uranium enrichment."
On Saturday, North Korea for the first time publicly revealed the existence of the uranium program – something that it had always denied.
US officials have long said that North Korea's vice-foreign minister, Kang Sok Ju, acknowledged the program in a meeting in Pyongyang in October 2002 with a team led by James Kelly, then US assistant secretary of state for East Asia, but Mr. Kang repeatedly charged that his words had been distorted.
It was that meeting that led to the breakdown of the 1994 Geneva agreement under which North Korea shut down its nuclear facilities. North Korea in 2007 again agreed, in six-party talks hosted by China, on a program for disabling and dismantling its nuclear program, but those agreements broke down early this year when the North refused to agree on verifying what it was doing to comply.
Tipping point: Boarding North Korean ships
Now, the question is whether the rhetoric of recent days will explode into open conflict. The tipping point, analysts say, will be any attempt to board a North Korean vessel anywhere near the Korean peninsula.
Although the UN Security Council resolution empowers countries to do just that, neither China nor Russia are expected to cooperate to that extent. Nor is South Korea likely to be enthusiastic about any action that would lead to war.
North Korea would probably not be able to act forcefully in case a vessel were stopped far from the Korean peninsula while transporting missiles to client states in the Middle East, but the odds of conflict would go up significantly in nearby waters.
"If anything happens near the Korean peninsula and if they have reason to believe South Korea is involved," says Kim Tae Woo, "they will make provocations." For that reason, he believes, "South Korea will have to be very careful."
China's role
One reason for North Korea's boldness is believed to be the reluctance of China – the source of most of the fuel, fertilizer, and food the North desperately needs – to bring about the collapse of the North Korea regime by cutting off shipments. The Chinese fear a flood of refugees across the porous Yalu and Tumen river borders with the North.
"China will cooperate to some extent with the UN resolution," says Mr. Paik. As for stopping and boarding North Korean ships, he goes on, "They will not do that."
As for stifling ties with companies and financial firms doing business with North Korea, which is also called for in the UN resolution, Paik says the Chinese "will cooperate to some extent," but not entirely.
In the end, he says, "the only thing that can possibly ease tensions is to have a political approach" – another attempt at negotiations, perhaps led from the US side by a high-profile official.


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Slacker Radio is the best-kept secret in music, giving you freeaccess to highly curated music programming that you simply won'tfind anywhere else—and you can customize it to fit your distincttastes. Plus, the Slacker app provides more than the power todownload and listen to your favorite stations. Our patented offlinemode gives subscribers dynamic personalization while listeningdata-free. • Stream the music you love for free on your mobiledevice, tablet or computer • Hundreds music stations you canfine-tune and personalize • Exclusive hosted music shows every week• Play a mix of your favorites or let our curators and DJs help youdiscover new music • Create and share your own customized musicstations • Available on mobile, web, home and car platforms •Unique interactive hosts, news, and sports • No ads with membership• On-demand access to millions of songs, artists, and albums withmembership • Download music for offline playback on mobile withmembership If you're still wondering why you should download thisapp, here's the answer: Slacker gets you. The very fact that you'vefound us indicates that you're looking for something different. Youcould have just opted for a bigger brand, but you took the time todig deeper…and that's why we're perfect for each other. You'regoing to find what you're looking for because we're different. Likeyou. Want more out of Slacker Radio? Sign up for a membership!Slacker Plus Personalized radio with no interruptions for just$3.99/month • Ad-free • Maximum Audio Quality • Unlimited SkipsSlacker Premium The ultimate listening experience for just$9.99/month • Ad-free • Maximum Audio Quality • Unlimited Skips •Listen online • Play on demand Like us on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/Slacker Follow us on Twitter:http://twitter.com/SlackerRadio
SDR Touch - Live offline radio
Turn any mobile phone or tablet into an affordable and portablesoftware defined radio scanner with spectrum analyser. Listen andrecord live on air FM stereo radio stations with RDS, weatherreports, emergency stations, taxi traffic, airplane communications,audio of analogue TV broadcasts, HAM radio amateurs, digitalbroadcasts and many more! Depending on the hardware used, its radiofrequency coverage could span between 50 MHz and 2.2 GHz. Itcurrently demodulates broadcast FM, AM, narrowband FM, uppersideband (USB) and lower sideband (LSB) signals.The built-in RDSmonitor will allow exploring the hidden digital data feed that mostcommercial FM radio stations broadcast. This includes the station'sprogram type (PTY), country of broadcast (ECC), date and time (CT),unique program identifier (PI), list of alternative frequencies(AF) and advanced statistics about the digital RDS carriersignal.SDR Touch receives radio by using a USB dongle. It runsoffline and does not require a data plan or internet connection!Take SDR Touch anywhere and find out what the radio waves arehiding!In order to run SDR Touch, you will need: - USB digital TV(DVB-T) dongle with the RTL2832U chip. You may already have one ofthem laying around. They cost less than $10 - USB OTG (On-The-Go)cable - if you've ever connected a USB thumb drive to your Androiddevice, you already have it. They are extremely cheapPlug the USBdongle in the charging USB socket of your Android device via theOTG cable and run SDR Touch! It is that simple! Now you can listento live radio on Android devices that don't have a built-in FMsupport, without requiring a data plan!This application iscurrently experimental and may crash. Please, report any bugs tothe email provided in the Help.Using the RTL2832U driver you coulduse one of the following compatible USB DVB-T tuners: - GenericRTL2832U (e.g. hama nano) - DigitalNow Quad DVB-T PCI-E card -Leadtek WinFast DTV Dongle mini D - Genius TVGo DVB-T03 USB dongle(Ver. B) - Terratec Cinergy T Stick Black (rev 1) - Terratec NOXONDAB/DAB+ USB dongle (rev 1) - Terratec Deutschlandradio DAB Stick -Terratec NOXON DAB Stick - Radio Energy - Terratec Media BroadcastDAB Stick - Terratec BR DAB Stick - Terratec WDR DAB Stick -Terratec MuellerVerlag DAB Stick - Terratec Fraunhofer DAB Stick -Terratec Cinergy T Stick RC (Rev.3) - Terratec T Stick PLUS -Terratec NOXON DAB/DAB+ USB dongle (rev 2) - PixelViewPV-DT235U(RN) - Astrometa DVB-T/DVB-T2 - Compro Videomate U620F -Compro Videomate U650F - Compro Videomate U680F - GIGABYTE GT-U7300- DIKOM USB-DVBT HD - Peak 102569AGPK - KWorld KW-UB450-T USB DVB-TPico TV - Zaapa ZT-MINDVBZP - SVEON STV20 DVB-T USB & FM -Twintech UT-40 - ASUS U3100MINI_PLUS_V2 - SVEON STV27 DVB-T USB& FM - SVEON STV21 DVB-T USB & FM - Dexatek DK DVB-T Dongle(Logilink VG0002A) - Dexatek DK DVB-T Dongle (MSI DigiVox mini IIV3.0) - Dexatek Technology Ltd. DK 5217 DVB-T Dongle - MSI DigiVoxMicro HD - Sweex DVB-T USB - GTek T803 - Lifeview LV5TDeluxe -MyGica TD312 - PROlectrix DV107669It is your responsibility tocomply with your local law before downloading or using SDR Touch.The SDR Touch team cannot be held responsible for any liabilitiesdue to inappropriate usage of the app.
Radio USA
Radio USA is the radio application that everyone expects, light andfast. Radio USA features: Save your favorite radio stations whichwill be at the top of list Search for a specific radio And ofcourse, listen to radios Don't wait any longer, it is the perfectapplication for you Download without further delay Radio USAAttention: An internet connection is required List of radiostations: Hot 93.1 Kiss FM BBC World Service Hot 104.5 105.9KISS-FM myTalk 107.1 Hot 103.5 97 Country Comedy 103.1 News Radio95 97.5 HOT103.9 Classic Hits 93.1 ESPN New York The Beat ChicagoPublic Radio Hot 107.1 The MIX NPR (National Public Radio) 107.9Mix FM Power 98.3 Rock 108 Talk 1260 181.FM - The Beat(HipHop/R&B) Classic Hits 93.9 Hot 102.9 Jazz24 Country Legends100.9 89.3 K-LOVE Radio KLOV Wild 96.7 Hot 97.5 Big Oldies 107.3Soft Rock 106.5 K-LOVE Radio Pop FM News Radio 590 Hot 103.9 95.7FM News/Talk WHIO Easy Rock 105.1 Amor 93.1 Conservative Talk 94.5FM Hot 107.9 Mega 97.9 FM The Country Giant Chicago's 100.3 Hot96.7 La Raza Salsa 98.1 B96.5 Kissin 92.5 98 Rock Foxy 99 NewsTalk99.1 News Radio 950 Bluegrass Country Solamente Exitos Hot JamzRadio 88.9 & 94.5 FM Classical MPR Hot 105.5 95.7 The Rock TheWolf La Nueva 94 SmoothJazz.com Magic 101.3 Star 102.1 News Talk1380 K-Rock 101.5 RADIO IQ with BBC Jazz 91 La Jota Mexicana ElGato Classic Hits 107.9 99 Jams NewsTalk 1320 SKY.FM Radio -Classic Rap La Mega Planet 106.7 91.1 K-LOVE Radio KLDV FederalNews Radio NewsTalk 93.1 Hawk Country 107 Country Legends 96.7WNYC-FM ESPN Los Angeles Oldies 1400 News 96.5 WDBO The Rock FM100.3 WNYC-AM San Diego's Jazz 88.3 The Eagle channel 94.1 Rock 102Solid Gospel 105 La Bomba Mix 98.7 WHYY-FM J-Pop 97.1 Mix 95.1 ROCK106.1 Cat Country 98.7 La Poderosa True Oldies 104.9 The X-FactorSoul 106.3 94 Rock La Invasora MOViN 92.5 River Country Power 92Rock 107 Mix 103.1 Classic 98 Rock 181.FM - Christmas Classics WTOPSoft Sunday Sounds News Radio 1150 Mix 97.7 Hawaii Public Radio -KIPO Fox Radio 910 La LEY C-SPAN Radio The Drive 97.1FM GospelHighway Eleven Mix 101.5 La Tricolor Star 92.9 News Talk 1340 SuperEstrella 107.1 La Mejor Jazz Wyoming The Bull Voice of Russia -English (USA) FM NewsTalk 97.1 Jazz88 FM El Rey 1360 José 93.9 NEPRNews Network El Gato 103.1 Exa FM Las Vegas Cat Country 98.1Classical 90.7 Talk 540 The Monkey Classical Public Radio ClassicHits 107.9 WNCT My Praise FM Gospel 1300 Jazz 88.1 METRO FM 997 DJXZ92 Miami Click 98.9 FM Classical 90.5 La Mega Mundial AM 820 NewsNew England Public Radio Tha Beat La Z 94.3 FM CNN 650 Radio News -KIKK The 1920's Radio Network 100.3 The Sound NOAA Weather Radio104.7 Mix-FM José FM Fox Sports Radio 1340 Classical 101 B97Classic Hits Smile FM 98 Rocks KELO News Talk The Eagle 106.9 LaZeta 93 107.5 The Q Rock 92 88.9 K-LOVE Radio KYLV KSL NewsradioReal Rock 103.9 The Bear Hot 101.9 Moody Radio Florida Hot 103 ElZol 107.3 KROCK La Super Caliente Praise 106.5 Kix 102.5 The MaxMix 95.9 KPBS-FM Coal Country 96.5 Bob FM The Vibe Wired 96.5 RadioFree 102.3 Today's Easy 99.1 Now 97.9 The Truth La Zeta Country 96WKSU News Channel 101.9 Kiss FM My 105.9 ESPN 850 My 102.7 News95.7 WHIO K-Hits K104 All Classical Portland Money Matters BostonBig Dog Folk Alley The Fox Ritmo 96 FM Z 95.3 COOL 102 The Word AM1190 News WGBH The Rose 710 ESPN Seattle The Light 98KUPD Star 99.7Lite 96.9 St. Louis Public Radio The Bear 101.3 ESPN Chicago TheWave Sunny 99.1 - KODA Timeless Favorites 540AM KQED-FM Eagle 98.1Iowa Public Radio News ESPN Deportes New York The Big DM Magic 97.7Q-102.9 KNEWS WNPR Radio Ambiente 1030am The Edge Radio Maria (USA)WOKV WOWO News/Talk 1190 AM & 92.3 FM Warm 106.9 NewsRadio 90.7HD-3 WGN The Mormon Channel FM 96 Jammin 107.7 JPR News &Information Russian Radio7 Spirit 105.3 The Classic Capital PublicRadio His Radio Sports Radio 810 KBYU-FM Classical 89 MichiganRadio Grace FM Y107
Stingray Music - The best music for every occasion
💪 We've done all the work so you don't have to. Listen to musicchannels lovingly curated for all the moments that matter. Perfectfor when you just want to sit back and enjoy great tunes! 😎Absolutely FREE. Upgrade to the premium version for an ad-freeexperience. FREE access to the premium version with your StingrayMusic TV provider. Authenticate instantly with audio signalrecognition or use your TV provider's single login. Features: ⭐1000s of expertly curated music channels in over hundreds ofgenres*. ⭐Unlimited skips. ⭐ A customized listening experience:like your favorite songs to increase their rotation and block songsand artists to exclude them. ⭐ Filters to find channels accordingto activity, mood, theme, occasions, and local trends.*⭐Compatibility with the Sonos wireless hifi system, airplay, andChromecast. ⭐The possibility of taking your favorite music for aride with Apple Carplay and android auto. ⭐High quality audio. ⭐The option of sharing channels on your social networks. ⭐ A timerto fall asleep to your favorite music channel. ⭐Channeldescriptions and information about the expert curators. 📱 Stayconnected! Stingray Music blog: http://blog.stingray.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stingray.music/ Twitter:@stingraymusic Instagram: stingray_music Life's on you. Music's onus. *Only available in certain countries. Visithttp://music.stingray.com for more information. Privacy Policy:http://www.stingray.com/en/privacy-policy Terms of use:http://www.stingray.com/en/terms-and-conditions Never run out ofmusic! The Stingray music app brings you unlimited music streamingeverywhere life takes you.
4shared Music
4shared Music was created for those, who can'tlive without music and don't want their attention to be attractedwith anything else, but music while listening to it. When youinstall this app on your Android device, you may easily access yourfavorite tracks from 4shared.Using your 'Search' menu item you can look for music files youlike and add them to your playlist at 4shared Music. You don't haveto look for them each time you use the app, just create a playlist,add your favorite tracks and listen to them exactly from your4shared Music anytime you want. Moreover, you can upload tracksfrom your Android device to your 4shared Music.With 4shared Music you can enjoy 15GB of space for your musicand nothing out of place. Upload and add all music files you likeand make your life even more enjoyable with 4shared!
Volume Control
Volume Control is an amazing app that lets you take control of yourdevice's volume – instead of being controlled by it! HOW IT WORKSVolume Control is extremely easy to use. Simply tweak existing orcreate new pre-defined volume profiles, and toggle between themwith just a single touch. Individual profiles are comprised of:Alarm, Media, Ringer, Notification, Voice (in-call), Bluetooth andoverall system volume. AUTOMATED CONVENIENCE Volume Control alsodetects when you insert headphones or activate Bluetooth, andautomatically toggles to your preferred volume profile. You caneven create automatic scheduled presets based on time of day,physical location, or a calendar event. For example, if you planheading into a business meeting, simply tell the app to turn offyour ringer at precisely that time. Of if you're heading for aworkout, tell the app to pump up the volume when you arrive at thefitness club. The list of possibilities is virtually limitless!ADDITIONAL SPECIAL FEATURES Here are some of the other specialfeatures you can look forward to: - Custom volume settings andringtones for VIP contacts - The option of separating or linkingringer volume and notification volume - The ability to changeringtones for alarm, ringer and notifications - Notificationshortcuts for quick and easy access to controls and presets -Integration with Tasker and Locale via the built-in preset pluginINTERACTIVE WIDGETS You can also access a fantastic suite of fullyinteractive Home Screen widgets, including: - Preset (apply a setof audio settings); - Preset List (apply any preset) - VolumeLocker (change/lock volume levels) - Vibrate (toggle vibratesettings for ringer and notification) - Ringer (toggle the ringermode between silent, vibrate, and normal) - Dashboard (variousinteractive volume controls) Please note: to access the widgets,the app should not be installed to your SD card. Some Androidversions may require a reboot for widgets to appear on your widgetdrawer. AVOID ACCIDENTAL CHANGES You'll also love the cool "PocketLocker" feature, which automatically prevents accidental volumechanges by locking volume settings when your device screen turnsoff. MULTIPLE LANGUAGE SUPPORT Arabic, Czech, Danish, German,Spanish, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Hebrew,Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Norwegian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese,Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese,Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. PERMISSIONS Pleasenote that the following permissions are required to use the app(the function/reasons are provided in brackets): - Full networkaccess/view network connections (bug reporting, Google maps,usage). - Read calendar (schedule presets based on calendar events)- Modify system settings (change advanced volume settings) - Coarseand fine location (detect location changes for scheduled presets -Control vibration (notifications) - Read/Write external storage(access custom icons and ringtones) - Run at startup (restoresettings after startup) - Read phone state (required to separatethe ringer and notification volume on all Android versions)
Ram Chandra Kripalu Bhaj Man
Aarti text moves in Auto Scroll mode with the audio,Play/Pause/Continue/Stop options available for audio. Lord RamaAarti: Shri Ram Chandra Kripalu Bhaj Man Haran Bhavbhay Darunam NavKanj Lochan Kanj Mukh Kar Kanj Pad Kanjarunam. Kandarp Agnit AmitChhavi Navneel Neeraj Sundaram Patpeet Manhutdit Ruchisuchi NomiJanak Sutavaram. Bhaju Deenbandhu Dinesh Danav Datiya VanshNikandnam, Raghunand Anand Kand Koshal Chand Dashrath Nandnam. SirMukut Kundal Tilak Charu Udar Angvi Bhushanam, Aajanubhuj Sir ChapDhar Sangram Jit Khar Dushanam Iti Vadate Tulsi Das Shankar SheshMuniman Ranjnam, Mam Hriday Kanjnivas Kuru kamadi Khaldal Ganjnam.Man Jahi Ranchayo Milihi So Var Sahaj Sundar Sanvaro Karuna NidhanSujan Sheel Sneh Janat Ravro Ehibhanti Gauri Ashish Sunsiy SahitHiya Aarshit Ali, Tulsi Bhavani Pooji Puni Puni Mudit ManmandirChali
nada sms lucu
pilihan efek nada sms unik, keren, dengansuara yang bagus,membuat perangkat Anda berbeda dari yang lain. Mengejutkan danmenghibur teman-teman dan keluarga Anda dengan nada deringefektivitas. yang memberikan nuansa baru dari musik yang tidakmenarik. Program ini datang dirancam memanjakan Anda dengan nadadering cepat langsung pengaturan, nada SMS, nada alarm maupunpribadi. mudah hanya dengan memilih tap dan kliksms tone effect optionsunique, cool, with a good voice,make your device is different from the others. Shocking andentertaining friends and family with ringtones effectiveness. whichgives a new nuance of the music that is not attractive. Thisprogram comes dirancam spoil you with a ringing tone, quicklysetting, SMS tones, alarm tones and personally. easily just byselecting taps and clicks
Spinnr Music
SPINNR IS CHANGING THE WAY YOU EXPERIENCEMUSIC!Get the ultimate music experience only on Spinnr—listen to thelatest releases/top charts/curated playlists, create your ownplaylists, listen offline, join raffles to the biggest concerts inthe country, and even download your favorite songs directly to yourdevice!To start enjoying Spinnr, log-in using your mobile phone or yourFB account!Enjoy music anytime, anywhere on SPINNR: (FREE)- Listen to FREE music on Spinnr Radio- SKIP ALL YOU WANT on Spinnr Radio- NO DATA CHARGES on Spinnr Radio [for Smart/Sun/TNT users]- DOWNLOAD free music directly to your Android deviceExperience more with SPINNR ALL-ACCESS Subscriptions!All-Access gives you:- Access MILLIONS of SONGS and albums from the hottest artists likeTaylor Swift, One Direction, and many more!- CREATE your personal PLAYLISTS and listen to curated playlists bymusic experts- LISTEN OFFLINE – sync your music and listen even without internetconnection!- NO ADS- NO DATA CHARGES for Spinnr!- Only P2.50/day or P49/month charged to your prepaid load orpostpaid bill- Join promos to WIN CONCERT TICKETS, exclusive meet 'n greets,giveaways with the #SpinnrExperienceGet FREE All-Access TRIAL for Smart, Talk N' Text, and Sunmobile!Register in-app or text TRIAL to 4067 (FREE!)Get into the #SpinnrExperience now!Follow us at:Facebook: www.facebook.com/SpinnrPhilippinesTwitter: @spinnrphInstagram: @spinnrphWebsite: www.spinnr.ph
Real Metronome for Guitar, Drums & Piano for Free
Meet Real Metronome - a quartz-accurate digital mobile metronomeapp precisely crafted by professional musicians that lets youexperience a real metronome as close as it gets! Keep tempo withthe help of metronome beats! A word from developers: "We createdMetronome to give musicians all over the world the possibility touse a real metronome on their mobile device for free!" Guys, shouldyou enjoy Real Metronome app - please leave your rating or review -this really helps a lot in further development! The features toenjoy: ✔ Maximum precision ✔ Intuitive easy to use interface ✔Universal app for phone and tablet Visual metronome arrangement: ✔Digital metronome click tracker ✔ Classic analog metronome clicktracker Tempo Animations: ✔ Moving pendulum animation ✔ Visualflash - see the beats! ✔ Vibration - feel the beats! Tempo rates: ✔All popular tempos included ✔ Manually adjust to any desired tempo✔ Tempo ranges from 10 to 250 bpm (beats per minute) Timesignatures: ✔ All popular time signature presets ✔ Manually set anytime signature Sound Sets: ✔ Over 10 handpicked sounds for everyband and style ✔ Digital ✔ Analog ✔ Drum metronome ✔ Pianometronome ✔ Cymbals ✔ and many more Our Real Metronome is used bymusic schools' students and teachers all over the world. If you aneducational organization that are using or willing to use our apps,drop us a line at [email protected] === About Gismart === Gismart isa team of devoted musicians and developers with real passion formusic and everything about it! Find out more about us: Gismart.comFollow us on Twitter/Facebook: @Gismartmusic
Onkyo Remote for Android 2.3
Onkyo's Remote App supports wireless audio and remote controlfunctionality.Onkyo's Remote App allows owners to integratewireless audio stored on an Android device into their Onkyo homenetwork system. The app operates over a wireless LAN and enables arange of remote control functions, such as volume and tone controland input selection.Functions: • Wirelessly streams musicstored on an Android device• Operates general remote-controlfunctions (e.g. play, stop, power on/off) • Controlsmulti-zone audio• Selects input source, network source, and radiostation • Adjusts tone control, listening modes, and speakervolume• Displays content information • Compatible with SpotifyConnect• Compatible with Onkyo's existing RI (Remote Interactive)system *For details on RI-compatible systems, please refer to theOnkyo website. *This application program does not support tabletdevices. *This application program does not support smartphones inQVGA or HVGA resolution.Compatible Onkyo Models:• All network A/Vreceivers released in 2010/11/12/13, TX-8050 Network StereoReceiver, T-4070 Network Stereo Tuner, and CR-N755* *Allmodels may require a firmware update available for download at theOnkyo website.
Podcast & Radio iVoox
With Podcast & Radio iVoox you can listen, share and downloadpodcasts, radio shows and much more for free, when you want, whereyou want. Courses, conferences, classes, lectures, audio books,children's stories, audio guides, stand up comedy, stories, musicand concerts, poems, biographies and even meditation sessions. MAINFEATURES - Access a wide selection of podcasts, radio shows andtracks, all carefully categorised and ordered. - The only podcastapp which allows you to listen to them without subscribing. -Follow your favourite podcasts: Choose whether to subscribe, getnotifications or download them automatically. - The app learns yourtastes and recommends new tracks according to your interests. -Listen to live radio, find new stations by genre and save yourfavourite stations to go back to them easily. - Full control of theaudio: change playback speed, skip or rewind, turn on the sleeptimer or car mode... - Playback controls right on the lock screen.- Listen without gaps using the playback queue. - Download tracksand listen where you like, even when offline. - Jump back intounfinished tracks, right where you left off. - Playlists: Find thetracks you added to Listen Later, to your Favourites or createprivate, hidden or collaborative lists to listen to when you wantor share with your friends. - Multi select: choose more than oneaudio track by pressing on the artwork. You can add them to a list,to the playback queue, or play, download or delete them. - Surpriseme: suggest tracks according to how long you've got and the genre.- Use filters to find tracks according to length, genre, or orderthem. - Compatible with Chromecast. - And much, much more! LISTENTO THE BEST ENGLISH PODCASTS AND RADIO SHOWS Find popular podcastslike Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs,Stuff You Should Know, Revisionist History, TEDTalks, The InfiniteMonkey Cage, Comedy of the Week, Sincerely X, Serial, BLACK HANDS -A family mass murder, No Such Thing As A Fish, Kermode and Mayo'sFilm Review, STAGES, Happiness Podcast, Woman's Hour, MotivateYourself, NHS Couch to 5K, Dan Snow's HISTORY HIT, The Tim FerrissShow, Oddity. You can also listen live to thousands of stationslike: BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 1, Heart 106.2, 95.8Capital FM, BBC Radio 5 live, Smooth FM, Classic FM, KISS, Magic105.4, BBC London, BBC Asian Network, Choice FM, LBC, XFM, THE ONLYAPP THAT LETS YOU SEARCH TRACKS BY CATEGORY AND SUBCATEGORY Choosea category and we'll show you the best tracks from differentpodcasts. - Business and technology: marketing and strategy,corporate sectors, personal development, internet and technology. -Science and culture: travel and places, art and literature,languages, science and nature. - Leisure: humour and entertainment,video games, roleplay and anime, food and treats, magazine andvariety, cinema, TV and shows. - Music: alternative and indie,blues and jazz, electronic, pop/pop-rock, rock, metal, soundtracksand classical, hip hop and rap, soul, funk and R&B, worldmusic, experimental, new age and others. - History and beliefs:history, humanities, philosophy and spirituality and other factualthemes. - News and society: politics, economics, opinion, news,reporting, world and society. - Sport: football and others - Familyand wellbeing: relationships, children, education, mental healthand psychology, health, home and day-to-day life. ** If you haveany problems with the app, please send a message to us [email protected] or through the "Report an error" link in theSettings section of the app. **
Listen Audiobook Player
Feature rich and easy to use player for your audio books. 7 DayRefund Policy Google offers an automatic 2 hour refund window. Butif you would like more time you can try it risk free for a week. Ifyou would like to request a refund, send me the order number foundin the receipt Google emails you at the time of purchase. Pleaseemail me if you have any questions or experience any trouble. Forfast and friendly support: [email protected] This is aplayer only, you must provide your own audiobooks to play. You canget DRM free books from sites such as http://librivox.org/,Overdrive (through your library), http://tantor.com,http://www.loyalbooks.com/, http://www.downpour.com/ or any placethat provides DRM free audio. • No advertisements. No in-apppurchases to unlock features. • Folder based library automaticallystays in sync with your audiobook folder. Each book should beplaced in its own folder. Allows books to be organized withinsubfolders. Library will allow you to browse folders, or list allbooks at once. Search button allows you to quickly find any book inyour library. • Supports mp3, m4b, m4a, opus, ogg, aac, flac, andmore. (must be DRM free) - Embedded chapters are supported as well.• Variable playback speed (0.5 to 4x), trim silence, pitch control,and volume boost, equalizer and balance. Can set global defaultsand per book override. • Cover art is added from embedded art,images in the book folder, or can be downloaded easily from withinthe app. • Android Auto • Built in sync support. You cansynchronize current position and bookmarks to multiple devices. •Bookmarks. Including ability to view and search bookmarks for allbooks in a single view. Create an audio clip of your bookmark thatcan be saved or shared with others. • Position History. • Bluetoothplay/pause/skip support. • Can remember last played volume. •Widgets. • Lock-screen control. • Control with Tasker, Llama, etc.See: http://goo.gl/GPz8SA • Book Play queue. • Sleep timer withshake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few uniqueoptions. • Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewindtimes to your liking. • Set custom short and long skip times. • Setcustom colors for progress bars, action bar, and text. • Headsetbutton user defined actions (1x to 6x clicks). Languages: English,Deutsch (German), Pусский (Russian), Polski (Polish), Svenska(Swedish), Українська (Ukrainian), French (Français), Spanish(Español), Italian (Italiano)
FlipBeats - Best Music Player
Get on board with the Multiple Award Winning Revolutionary MusicApp - FlipBeats ◆ WINNER - United Nations World Summit Awards 2016◆ WINNER - mBillionth Awards 2015 ◆ WINNER - eSwabhimani 2014 ◆BRONZE - BCS NBQSA Awards 2014 ◆ FINALIST - APICTA Awards 2014FlipBeats brings the Best of Material Design as a Stylish Music Appfor your Android Phones & Tablets ◆ What critics say aboutFlipBeats? ★★★★★ www.TheGuardian.com - "Listed in the Top 20 BestApps and Games" ★★★★★ www.LifeHacker.com - "FlipBeats Is a GoodLooking, Gesture Powered Music Player for Android" ★★★★★www.AndroidGuys.com - "FlipBeats, getting the most out of yourmusic" ★★★★★ www.Engadget.com - "FlipBeats: Slick music player appfor Android" Key Features of FlipBeats ► Search & Listen toMusic FREE online via Cloud based Streaming Music Services ►Powerful Social Media integration to share your music experienceonline (Share Music on Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest andFacebook...) ► Unique, Intuitive & Flip-gesture enabled UI ►Multi-band Graphic Equalizer with 14 Equalizer presets & Custompresets ► Bass Boost, Surround Sound & Room Size Configurations► PRO EQ Engine for you to come up with your own Advanced EQpatterns ► PRO Reverbs Engine for you to fine-tune sound to yourexact needs ► Audio Visualizer (VFX) and Colour Themes to customizethe visual impact of your music ► Download Lyrics on-the-go forFREE ► Smart Energy Saving Mode "Black Edition" ► ID3 Tag Editor toedit the metadata of songs ► Create Custom Playlists ► Easy Sortfeature to let you quickly find the songs you want ► Sleep Timer ►Sound Health Profile to protect your ears from harmful volumelevels ► FlipBeats comes in English, Spanish, French, German,Portuguese and Russian FlipBeats is a music player which lets youto listen to your favourite music collection & Cloud basedStreaming Music Services in a very intuitive way. It takes themusic listening to a whole new level by employing a "StudioListening Experience" through a variety of PRO Equalizers, PROReverbs and Advanced Audio Configurations. You can usepredetermined Equalizer Presets based on what you are listening to,or fine-tune your sound stage by using the PRO EQ and PRO Reverbsengine to maximize the listening experience. For latest updates onour Apps, visit us on: http://www.AppSpace.hSenidOutsourcing.comFlipBeats Website:http://www.AppSpace.hSenidOutsourcing.com/FlipBeats FlipBeatsFacebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/FlipBeats.hSenid Have anyquestions? Just email [email protected] forhelp
Piano For You
If you have problems with sound, try switching to MIDIinstruments!---I tried to make a best piano app on Google Play, soany feedback is welcome!- Good sounding (sampled instruments)- Goodlooking- Option for two stacked rows- Low latency (compared to therest piano apps)- Custom instruments (record your own sample usingmicrophone or open existent file)- 128 MIDI instruments (really!)-Recording- MIDI over WiFi- Full piano keyboard (88 keys)- Nice keylabels- Fast loading (less than 0.3 second)- Multitouch support-Sustain pedal- No ads!Piano For You is suitable for professionalmusicians as well as for learning piano. Many vocalists use it totrack pitch. Composers use Piano For You to record their musicalideas on the go. You should try it too :)Latency is a real pain onAndroid devices, but I've done all I can. If you find a piano appwith lower latency, I'll give you the full version for free, withyour name in the credits :)Note: latency is much better on recentdevices.Additional HQ instruments (Rhodes Piano, Accordion andChurch Pipe Organ) are paid, but hey, there are no ads!You can alsosupport me buying a full version - it includes all the instrumentsand missed features.Permissions:- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is forexporting your piano recording in .wav format and instrumentsdownload- WRITE_SETTINGS is for setting recording as a ringtone-INTERNET is for instruments download (rhodes piano, accordion andorgan)- BILLING is for in-app purchases- CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE isfor MIDI over WiFi- CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE is for MIDI overWiFi- ACCESS_WIFI_STATE is for MIDI over WiFi- RECORD_AUDIO is forrecording samples
Песни под гитару Rus
Часто бывают ситуации, когда в компании друзей дело доходит догитары. И тогда начинаются долгие попытки вспомнить подходящуюпесню - чтобы и гитарист мог сыграть, и все, желающие подпевать,текст помнили. Спасти ситуацию поможет данная программа - удобныйпесенник с аккордами для гитары. Преимущества: - Возможность сменытональности (транспонирование аккордов) - Автопрокрутка текстапесни - Возможность импорта собственных песен - Не требуетсяподключение к интернету (интернет нужен только для загрузки новыхпесен) Используемые разрешения: - Доступ к внешнему накопителю -нужен для функции импорта/экспорта песен на SD-карту - Доступ кместоположению - используется рекламным модулем для показа спец.предложений и персональных скидок на какой-нибудь товар измагазина, находящегося в радиусе 500 метров от вас. Данный способотображения рекламы был введен в качестве эксперимента какальтернатива обычным рекламным баннерам. Often there are situationswhen a group of friends it comes to guitars. And then begins thelong attempts to remember the right song - and that could playguitar, and all who desire to sing, remember the text. Save thesituation will help the program - handy Songbook with the chordsfor the guitar. Advantages: - Ability to change the pitch(Transpose Chords) - Auto Scroll Lyrics - Ability to import yourown songs - You do not need an internet connection (internet onlyto download new songs) used resolution: - Access to an externaldrive - need to import / export songs to SD-card - Access to thelocation - advertising module used to display special. suggestionsand personal discounts on some goods from the store located within500 meters from you. This method of display advertising has beenintroduced on an experimental basis as an alternative totraditional banner ads.
Siren Sounds
Siren sounds is great soundboard with most popular siren ringtonesand sounds for Android™ devices. Siren sounds and ringtones bringsomething new and different for smartphones and tablets. Downloadfree app and get some high quality siren sounds and tunes. Sirensand Horns app offers you the biggest collection of most populartones, loud alarm sounds and the best ringtones for smartphones.Sirens can be interesting for children. They can play plenty ofpolice tones, car sirens, train siren or ship sounds and make a funand pranks all day. Perfect funny app for everybody. If you arebored with your usual ringtones and sms sounds, try new sirensounds. This popular siren sounds app is an entertainment andjoyful for everyone. You can prank everybody with devil siren. Itcan sound like scary sound.You can have best siren sms tone; youcan set your favourite siren melody as incredible general contactringtone. But also you have option to set a specific ringtones forevery person from your contact list. As you wish. Siren alarmsounds can be really interesting, too. You may love fire trucksound or maybe devil siren. Get latest siren effects sounds on yourkeyboard. Turn your phone into a ambulance siren or fire truck run.Have fun and scare your neighbors with police car siren if they arelisten to loud annoying music. Prank everybody you want. Become themain star with the best siren sounds. This top siren musicapplication features best siren sounds and some of the loudesthorns. There are incredible car siren or alarm, happy siren, chaseor boat siren... Have fun and enjoy this cool ringtones. Playawesome sirens!The application features:- set as ringtone orcontact ringtone- set as sms, notification- set as alarm- set asfavoriteDownload free ringtones app and enjoy cool ringtones, topsounds and latest melodies. This is best soundboard with the mostpopular ringtones. Latest melodies, great tunes and lot of fun, allof these in this amazing app for free.Everyone likes to listenmusic, and everyone has favorite songs. We are completely sure youwill absolutely love this new app.These popular ringtones are foreverybody. Pick your favorite free ringtones and enjoy.Theapplication is designed for android phones and android tablets, andit is tested on many android devices to ensure the best userexperience. All ringtones in this app are under public domain orcreative commons license. If you have a question or suggestion,just email us.
Bass Booster & Music Player EQ
Ten Band Music Equalizer and Bass Booster.Enhance your phone ortablet's sound quality with the universal music Equalizer and BassBooster.Equalizer lets you adjust sound effect levels so that youget the best out of yourMusic or Audio coming out of your phone.Usewith headphones for best results.Features:-* Inbuilt Music Playerwith background playing enable* Ten band Equalizer* Bass Boostereffect* Treble Booster effect* 10 Equalizer Presets* Play, Pause,Next, Previous and Song List button available.You can customizefollowing:-* Volume Booster * Bass Booster* Treble Booster* MonoBalance Left/RightPresets Details:-* Normal* Classic* Dance* Flat*Folk* Heavy Metal* Hip Hop* Jazz* Pop* Party* Rock* Custom Presets
Function Generator
Dual channel function / waveform / signal generator for the speaker/ headphone audio output.No Ads, No Permissions, No In AppPurchasing, No Limited Features. Full Version.Output is 16 bit foreach left and right channels and at 44.1kHz. Output will depend onyour device hardware. Some device hardware may may filter out theDC bias and low frequency signals. At high frequencies, thewaveforms will be distorted due to limited number of samples foreach waveform (for example at 4.41kHz, a sine waveform will beapproximated by only 10 points). Therefore this is forfun/educational use, for critical applications use a realcalibrated function generator.Left and Right audio channels can beassigned to either channel 1 or channel 2.Sine, Square &Triangular waveforms.Frequency range from 1 mHz up to 22kHz.Amplitude as percentage 0-100%.Set duty for square waveforms orskew triangular waveforms to get saw waveforms.Offset the phase ofwaveforms.Sweep frequency or amplitude (Single, Repeat & Bouncemodes).Amplitude Modulation (AM).Frequency Modulation (FM).Burstmode for a specific number of waveforms (1-10000).White noise &pink noise Generator. Pink (1/f) noise falls of at ~3dB per octavebetween 43 Hz and 44 kHz. Memory slots to save & recall channelconfiguration.Select values with spring slider or number pad.Moredetailed explanation available on website
Music Folder Player Free
Music Folder Player was made for people who don't like to see musicdisplayed based on artist, album, track or playlists. If you preferorganizing your audio tracks in folder this may be the right playerfor you. Besides that it comes with a lot of unique features. •Material Design • Resume where you left. Stores for each folderwhere you left • Show folders as a 'flat' list if you have a smallcollection • Show folder hierarchy like in a file manager forlarger collections • Virtual folder with your favorite songs •Playlists • Four configurable seek buttons. Very useful for seekingin podcasts or audio books • Equalizer: - 4 customizable settings -8 predefined settings like Bass Booster, Vocal Booster and Partysetting • Virtual room and reverb effect • Speed control with pitchcorrection (OS 4.2+) Increase or decrease the playback speed ofyour podcasts or audio books. Speed control is not suitable formusic. Please watch the video: http://youtu.be/d_0eWUXs6Yo •Pre-amplifyer: Increase the volume of audio which was recorded witha low level. (OS 4.2+) • 432 Hz playback mode. Please read thisarticle for details: http://goo.gl/Oeg5hh (OS 4.2+) • Car/Sportsmode with big buttons • Change volume and balance with two fingergesture. Video: http://goo.gl/9LXsIE • Undo function: Undo actionsif you accidentally touch a button or select another track •Shuffle and repeat options (long tap on play/pause button) • Deleteand rename files (long tap on file) • Sleep timer • Headset buttoncontrol (double and triple clicks) • Search for files and folder •Share files Note: Since there are recently some complaints in thereview section: This app is an audio PLAYER, not a DOWNLOADER. Ifyou search for an app to download new music, this app is NOTsuitable for you. This player just handles audio files which arealready on your device. Don't worry about 'adware' warnings of someantivirus scanners. Of course the player is not a virus. This isjust because the player shows advertisements. The full version isnot affected by that. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ZorillasoftPermissions: Please take a look at the F.A.Q section on myhomepage: http://www.zorillasoft.de/MusicFolderPlayer-jp.html#faq
Myanmar eRadio
Myanmar eRadio, Burmese eRadio is a free application that lets youlisten to online radios on your Android smart phone. You can alsolisten via our website www.myanmar.js-radio.com Currently, we servethe following channels: - Mandalay FM - Shwe FM - Just Music Radio- MUMC Online FM - Myanmar Online Broadcasting - MMYO Online Radio- Nay Nat Thar - Easy Music Radio - Voice of America (VOA) - RadioFree Asia (RFA) - ABC Australia (ABC) - BBC News (BBC) - NHK World(NHK) Please enjoy your listening :)
Free Mp3 Downloads
Free Mp3 Downloads allows you to search, download and listen songsthat are licenced as "free to use". Usage is simple - in "Download"tab enter your search query, hit "search" button, wait for resultsto load and then click on the song that you want to download. In"Listen" tab you can listen to the songs downloaded through the appand all other mp3 records that you have on your device, thereforethis app can be used as a music player. Songs are downloaded toyour devices SD cards folder "music-freeMp3Downloads" and can bereached directly from there, from application's embedded musicplayer or from your phone music players library. Application isavailable in English, German, Russian, Indonesian, Brazilianportuguese and Lithuanian languages. In order to change applicationlanguage - change the standart language of your device. Note: musicis provided by "www.ccmixter.org". All songs, available throughthis application, are intended only for your personalnon-commercial use. Since the music is from authors who give theirmusic for free, you won't find any commercial music here. Pleasedon't give negative ratings just because you don't find what youwant.
Arabic Nasheed Collection
This app allows users to listen to arabic nasheeds without the needof accessing the net. It includes a collection of 11 Nasheeds sangby different artists.If you run into a bug please have some patience and understandthat I'm just one individual with very limited resources; I can'texperiment the application on every possible hardware. Instead ofjust leaving a bad review, please contact me and I'll try to fixit.Please Visit Us @ www.haroon-ali.comE-mail: [email protected]
XenoAmp Music Player
Why try another music player when you've seen them all, and you usea better one anyway? Well - you haven't seen a music player likethis. And believe this one can do much more than others! - Streamdirectly from SMB (windows shares), UPnP (DNLA), SoundCloud,Spotify, Subsonic, FanBurst, 8Tracks, DropBox and Internet radio -Viper Audio equalizer supported (where available) - Unlimitednumber of equalizer presets, each preset can be calibrated viaautomatic room correction or audiogram-style calibration forheadphones - Different sound profiles for dock/car/headphones -Replaygain support - MP3, OGG, MPC, WMA, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, MP4.x.,Vorbis, APE, Opus, ALAC and other codecs supported. - Full id3v2,VORBISCOMMENT, APETAG and other tahs supported - Were you missingAlbumArtist tag? Well - not anymore. Group your media by artist,album, album artist, year or genre. - Browse your collection fasterthan ever - see it on a 2D matrix with customizable axii - Searchfor tracks, artists and albums in all suported music services - Oldstyle, but advanced file browser for local and remote files(including music services) - Browse your tracks by rating, date oflistening, date of adding to library, or playcount - Synchronizeyour music tags to MusicBrainz either automatically or by scanningbarcode from your original CD (in your face, MediaMonkey) -Automatic album art downloading - Browse and create playlists fromfiles on your SMB, CIFS or UPnP nodes or supported music services -Click a file in ES Explorer, Total Commander, Solid Browser orWhatever File Browser and voila: you've created a playlist fromcurrent directory contents! - XenoAmp Playlists are kept in m3u8with absolute paths - manage .nomedia files inside xenoamp browser- Managing playlists is no more a pain, you can EASILY (and I meanin a snap) create, delete and rename playlists, switch betweenthem, append them with tracks based on any tag. - Browse, bookmarkand search tracks in each of supported services - Scrobble tolast.fm and libre.fm (scrobbling via wonderful "A simple last.fmscrobbler" - get it on the Market) - Browse into M3U, M3U8 and PLS,CUE - Player reacts to audio jack, incoming calls, respects Androidaudio focus and media button interfaces. - Displays lyric viaLyrics Wiki. - Minimalistic home screen widgets, currently 1x1, 4x1and 4x2 - Respects .nomedia - Sleep timer - Voice commands - Remotecontrol via web interface - Probably a lot more bits and pieces Iforgot - all this in one bundle! Jelly Bean is a trademark ofGoogle Inc. Gingerbread is a trademark of Google Inc., althouh yourlocal pastry might have a different opinion. DLNA is a trademark ofthe Digital Living Network Alliance. 8Tracks is a trademark of8tracks. HTC Tocuh Pro2 is a trademark of HTC Corporation.
Guitar Songs
Are you an amateur guitarist and you want to play your favoritesong? Are you a professional who wants to keep all your chords andlyrics always in your pocket? How often do you have a situationwhen you are at a party and you want to play the guitar for yourfriends? And at this moment, we always forget how to play ourfavorite songs. If you want to have a perfect concert, it is veryimportant for the guitarist to be able to play and sing a song atthe same time. Furthermore, it would be awesome if everyone aroundyou could sing together! Especially for you we developed an uniqueapplication - handy songbook with chords for guitar. In ourapplication, you will find everything you need for a musician, aparty or a friendly company! We made a research and found out thatfor the real musician it is not enough just to have a list ofchords and lyrics - a true musician should also not be distractedfrom the music if he wants to create a real masterpiece. And thatis why we made our application convenient and maximum helpful! Keyfeatures of our application: * Large database of songs, lyrics andchords * Opportunity to rate your favorite songs * Ability to addsongs to favorites * Ability to change themes * Ability totranspose chords (change the key of songs) * Lyrics auto scrolling* Ability to import your own songs * No Internet connectionrequired (you need Internet connection to download new songs only)And hundreds of little things that make you concentrate not on yourphone but on playing the music!
Mp3 Music Downloader
Download mp3 Song in easy step.Mp3 Music Downloader is a useful musical application,its also canplay Music File and save into your android devices.Download millions of music and creative commons copyleft free mp3files legally.Download Mp3 Music Downloader can download all mp3 music frominternet search engines.Features of the App :* Latest Songs provides latest Bollywood songs list.* A to Z provides all the Bollywood Movies songs in theiralphabetical order.* Download mp3 music to your sdcard with folder Name MusicDownload.* Listen to MP3 music.* Download copyleft music and song.
DatPiff - Mixtapes & Music
DatPiff, The largest greatest mixtape library on Android! Streamand Download all the hottest Hip-Hop and R&B from our hugecollection of mixtapes. New music updated daily and exclusives fromall your favorite artists. We help you stay on top of what's 🔥🔥🔥 inMUSIC! Enjoy unlimited music downloads on our free platform anddiscover new artists. Listen and download the hottest music andmixtapes! Features: • Daily EXCLUSIVES from TOP artists • Mixtapesat your fingertips • Completely free platform • Underground Hip Hopand R&B Galore • Browse the top mixtapes of all time • Listento independent artists, free • Discover new artists daily DOWNLOADTHE APP NOW!!! ABOUT: DatPiff was created in 2005 and continues todominate as the largest repository of mixtapes on the internet. Forover a decade DatPiff has been involved in the promotion andrelease of thousands of successful mixtape releases. Artistsincluding Wiz Khalifa, Meek Mill, Chance The Rapper, Young Jeezy,The Weeknd, Puff Daddy, Mac Miller, Logic, Lil Uzi Vert & manymore. These artists have used DatPiff as a launchpad for success.FOLLOW: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DatPiff Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/DatPiff Instagram:http://www.instagram.com/DatPiff Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/DatPiff • All music provided in this appcomes from the website DatPiff.com. For any questions regarding thecontents, please visit the following URL:http://www.datpiff.com/terms#dmca • When you access DatPiff througha mobile device, we will automatically collect information aboutyour geo-location, including your geo-location relative to andwithin third party merchant locations. We may use this informationto provide you with information we deem relevant when you visitthird party merchant locations.


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Friday, December 12, 2008
Growing up in the flatland, far from the big city, the tallest building in town was the grain elevator. You could see it for miles. Every Christmas they would put a star at the very top. Decades later, the star still gleams on frosty winter nights, a sign that welcomes home weary travelers as another star did years ago. Too see other skies check out Skywatch, a weekly meme of skies from around the world.
Labels: December, grain elevator, photo, small town, sunrise, winter
6 comments:
- Rambling Round said...
The star really stands out! Happy Skywatch.
- December 12, 2008 at 7:43 AM
- Leora said...
Pretty. I like the star, the little lights that are lower, and the pretty, calm sky.
- December 12, 2008 at 10:05 AM
- Debbie said...
Nice photo. I like the soft colors against the dark buildings.
- December 12, 2008 at 3:52 PM
- R and J said...
Oh, how well I understand...growing up a place like that, the star every year...
PS.Interesting blog you have. The wild turkey was great.
- December 12, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Nice to have a clear sign of home. It shows very brightly, even when it's not completely dark.
- December 13, 2008 at 10:35 AM
- Kyle said...
Wow, that looks so much like the place I grew up, it's eerie! Beautiful shot, Bev!
By the way ... you have been tagged! See my post for the rules to Six Random Things HERE.
- December 13, 2008 at 9:06 PM
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USC Marshall Alumni Networking Lunch - Santa Monica
Event description
Please register your attendance for headcount purposes. (Walk-ins are welcome, too!) Registration is free, but attendees will pay for their lunch directly at the restaurant.
All lunches start at NOON, are priced at a discount ($20 or less), and are all inclusive (lunch entree, non-alcoholic drink, tax & tip).
We look forward to seeing you there! USC Marshall alumni status is not required. All Trojans and friends of Trojans are welcome.
And don't forget... bring business cards!
Please feel free to bring a colleague or friend, and share the Eventbrite link with other Trojans in your personal network!
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Little girls love to make jewelry and this little necklace is super easy and fun to make. Simple-to-make necklace from colorful straws.
Items needed:
- Colorful drinking straws - we found ours at the grocery store.
- Elastic string
- Scissors
- Cut straws into pieces that are 1 inch or smaller. Pieces can be varying sizes, but should be at least 1/2 inch.
- Cut a piece of elastic string that is at least 6 inches longer than the child's head circumference.
- Tie the first straw "bead" on securely, about 3 inches from one end. Don't tie so tightly that you can't undo easily once all beads are strung. This will keep beads from falling off as your child makes her necklace.
- When beads are strung to 3 inches from the other end, tie both ends of string together tightly and now the necklace can be worn immediately.
* A fun party project ... quick & easy.
If boys want to make this it can be their Pirate necklace and a cardboard Skull & Bones can be added!


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Primal ATC Matt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 40 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Primal ATC is a small training center designed with one thing in mind: taking ordinary athletes and turning them into strong, powerful, athletic beasts. We use barbells, dumbbells, atlas stones, big tractor tires, sledgehammers, kettlebells, and sleds to transform our athletes. We don't just train their bodies at Primal ATC. We teach character. Pushing through to complete the workouts and the comraderie our athletes develop teaches character that they carry with them for the rest of their lives. They become more resilient. Injuries decrease. The training they go through at Primal ATC will propel them to the next level of their athletic careers.
Our desired audience are high school and collegiate student athletes. The large majority of our athletes are young men ages 15-19. Many of our athletes participate in a team varsity sport that relies on individual achievements. Track and Field, Wrestling and Baseball players make up about 90% of our clients. We do have some football, girl's volleyball, and golfers thrown in the mix.
We are looking for a high resolution image that can be used on our new website and on advertising pieces. One or two colors maximum. Not too busy. In this busness simple is better. One image I have in my head is a powerful "primal" animal like a wooly mammoth or a large ape. The words PRIMAL ATC should be somewhere in the logo. I really like fonts that are faded/dirty/old looking. Primal ATC is not a chrome filled, brightly colored, 40,000 square foot gym. We are a small 1000 square foot facility that is a little dark, somewhat dirty warehouse filled with chalk dust and powerful people. The logo should be strong and bold, not flashy or extravagant. Please take a look at two pictures I took from inside the facility and the text we use on our business cards for some ideas.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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A funny thing happened in Malawi. And it happened more by happenstance than by any plan.
You see a woman was elected Vice President of Malawi (putting them ahead of America where only men have been VP). I am sure people figured that woman would never get beyond VP because across the world, throughout history VP is kind of a useless position. In fact on my apartment building's co-op board I SOUGHT being VP because it was the least onerous office. I wound up with treasurer! Go figure.
So Joyce Banda, a woman, was elected VP of Malawi. Then came the death of 78-year-old President Bingu wa Mutharika...and suddenly Malawi, by accident, became the second nation in Africa to have a woman lead the country...the first being Liberia, but THAT is another story...one that can be found here:
Again let me be clear that Liberia and Malawi are ahead of America here in terms of having a woman lead their nation. We have only had men.
Today Joyce Banda, the second woman to lead an African nation, took a HUGE step and I a afraid many people missed it. The second woman to lead an African nation has just come out in support of legalizing homosexuality, something that VERY few African leaders have been willing to do. Joyce Banda deserves our support...and NEEDS our support.
Most of Africa considers homosexuality a crime. Some nations even are trying to institute the death penalty for homosexuality. In Uganda, as covered by Current TV, the push for the death penalty for homosexuality probably originated in the United States: (sorry, it starts with an ad)
But death penalty aside, there are few nations in Africa where homosexuality is legal. In Egypt, Morocco, Ethiopia, Tanzania and several others, all homosexual acts are illegal. In some other nations like Kenya and Zimbabwe male homosexual acts are illegal but female homosexual acts are legal. Even where homosexuality is technically legal, equality is far from a reality. South Africa is about the only African nation where homosexuals are given pretty much equal rights, beating America on many levels.
Malawi is one of the nations where male homosexual acts are illegal while female homosexual acts are legal. And there is no real equality.
Today Malawi President Joyce Banda has announced that she supports legalizing homosexuality in Malawi. This is, of course, just one step forward when it comes to a barbaric policy, but for the second women leader in Africa to take this step is a HUGE deal. I actually hope Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia (where homosexuality remains illegal) takes notice and follows suit.
From BBC News:
President Joyce Banda has said she wants Malawi to overturn its ban on homosexual acts - the first African country to do so since 1994.
Two Malawian men were sentenced to 14 years in prison in 2010 after saying they were getting married...
Mrs Banda took power last month after her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, died of a heart attack.
She has since reversed several of his policies, including devaluing the currency, in a bid to get donor funding restored...
In her first state of the nation address to parliament, Mrs Banda said: "Some laws which were duly passed by the august house... will be repealed as a matter of urgency... these include the provisions regarding indecent practices and unnatural acts."
The BBC's Raphael Tenthani in the main city, Blantyre, says the president has the support of a majority of MPs and so should be able to get parliament to overturn the law.
However, he says it will be an unpopular move with many church leaders, as well as the wider population in this conservative country...
This is a brave move by an African leader whose hold on power may be tenuous. She deserves our support.
In honor of Joyce Banda and her move to legalize LGBT people in Malawi, I have donated to the Boost Malawi Fund (UK based) and the Raising Malawi Fund (US based). I ask you to give a small amount to one or both of these funds to help support a brave woman who is standing up for the LGBT community in Africa.
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Phyllis Golik was looking at electronics when she approached a young salesman for advice.
"Would you sell this to your grandma?" she asked.
He replied, "Would you be offended if I asked how old you are?" She said 72 and he said, "My grandmother is 50 and if the electric power goes off, she doesn't even know how to reset her clock."
Golik, who lives in Elizabeth, Pa., uses technology every day to keep in touch via email, chat and Facebook, to download photos from her digital camera, and to send her own videos to friends and relatives around the world.
"I wouldn't say that I am completely computer savvy," she said. "I think I know what I'm doing, and when I get there, woo-hoo! It works. If I run into any problems, I text my 20-year-old granddaughter Allison."
Golik worked with computers before she retired and is among the growing number of senior citizens keeping up with technology.
"I bought my own computer about 15 years ago, and I love it," she said. "I have a grandson who's in the service and stationed in Korea, and I talk to him just about every morning. I have family in Georgia, Florida and Indiana, and pretty much all over. I have a year-old great-granddaughter in Florida that I've never seen, but they send pictures and I put them in a digital picture frame, so we see her every day."
When her brother recently came from Georgia, they took their 91-year-old mother to visit her 97-year-old sister-in-law.
"I took a lot of pictures and put them on Facebook for all the family to see," Golik said. "Then I printed them out for both of the ladies."
She makes videos on a camcorder, too.
"My one grandson races stock cars, and I took my camcorder to the races, then sent the video to the grandson in Korea," she told Our Sunday Visitor. "Now he can see his brother racing."
Golik also enjoys a variety of Internet games.
"Last night I was playing cards with a lady from England, a gentleman from Germany and I can't remember where the other guy was from," she said.
She surfs the Internet for news and information and finds Catholic sites if she has a question about her faith. Her husband, Joe, doesn't use a computer, but she'll call him to look at something that she thinks might be of interest.
When Martha Coyne, 77, and her husband, Jim, 72, of Greenville, N.C., are on the road, he checks masstimes.org on their laptop computer to see where and when they can attend Mass. At home, she uses her desktop computer to read news feeds and to keep up with family and friends with email and on Facebook. She also subscribes to several Catholic online sites, including OSV, American Catholic,Food For the Poor and the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Coyne worked for engineers in the Department of the Navy and said that one day around 1985, "They stuck Macintosh computers on our desks."
Her husband used a computer when he taught at a community college, but both took classes at a senior center to learn about social media. Now he's on the computer to contact other members of the Knights of Columbus and for sports news from East Carolina University.
Coyne emails and forwards things to her children and grandchildren, but she won't "friend" the younger generation of her family on Facebook.
"They probably don't want their grandma as a friend," she joked.
Carlos Hernandez of San Francisco trains professionals to use or learn how to reuse computers for business. Many of his clients are senior citizens or at least older than 50, and some lost jobs before they could retire or are still working beyond retirement age.
"One woman was a real estate agent in her early 70s, and she was seeing her peers using technology," Hernandez told OSV. "She wanted to learn to run her business more effectively."
A women in her 60s lost her job at a university, but it "didn't keep her from transforming herself," he said. She now teaches senior citizens how to use the iPad. A news reporter who was phased out uses the Internet to find clients — mostly senior citizens— who want her to write their family histories.
"That was just a brilliant maneuver on her part," he said.
Hernandez, 54, wasn't always proficient with technology.
"I was taking a class from an older instructor and I thought, 'If someone older than me can be in this space, so can I.'"
Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller writes from Pennsylvania.
A Pew Internet and American Life Project study released last August found that the use of social media has grown among older computer users, with 26 percent of users 65 and older using social networking sites, up from 13 percent in 2009. Here is a look at how Internet users 65 and older use the computer in a typical day:
Twitter - 3%
Use online classifieds - 5%
Social networking sites - 13%
Online banking - 19%
Get news - 34%
Send/read email - 55%
Source: Pew Research Center
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