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Braun, Brewers slip by Phillies once again
Milwaukee, WI – Ryan Braun finished 3-for-4 and drove in the eventual deciding run in the seventh inning, as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-3, in the third tilt of a four-game series at Miller Park.
Jean Segura went 2-for-4 with a solo homer and scored twice, while Jonathan Lucroy and Carlos Gomez each had an RBI apiece for the Brewers, who have won two in a row in the set.
Tyler Thornburg (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings of relief to record his first career big league win. Francisco Rodriguez worked a 1-2-3 ninth inning to secure the victory and pick up his fourth save of the year.
"Gorzelanny had a nice outting the first couple innings," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke. "Kintzler had some trouble but everyone else in the bullpen was good."
Kyle Kendrick (6-4) surrendered three runs on eight hits while striking out six over six frames in defeat. Domonic Brown was the only run provider for the Phillies, hitting his league-leading 19th homer and adding a late two-run double.
The eventual deciding run came after the speedy Segura beat out an infield single. He went on to steal second, and advanced to third on a wild pitch by Phillies reliever Michael Stutes. Braun then delivered a one-out single to left to score Segura. Earlier in the frame, Norichika Aoki tripled but was thrown out at home trying to score on a wild pitch.
In the eighth, Michael Young and Kevin Frandsen both singled, and Brown struck with a two-out, two-run double off reliever Brandon Kintzler for a 4-3 game.
With a chance to tie or take the lead, Ryan Howard came in to pinch hit, but grounded out to end the threat.
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Segura answered in the third with a two-out shot of his own to tie the game.
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Braun and Aramis Ramirez each singled to start the frame. Lucroy then ripped a line drive to left to bring in a run and Gomez followed that up with an RBI single to increase the hosts' lead to 3-1. Kendrick was able to get the next three batters out to keep the damage to a minimum.
Game Notes
Milwaukee has won four of the six meetings against Philadelphia thus far ... The Phillies fell to 8-25 when scoring three-or-fewer runs ... Aoki has gone 64 consecutive plate appearances without striking out ... Gorzelanny was the first lefty to start a game for the Brewers this season ... The Phillies have homered in 13 straight games ... Segura ranks third in the MLB with 82 hits.


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WolfDawg wrote:Wow! Grand Max, Fort Max AND Brave Max!!!
Awesome collection man, I'm envious of a lot of your pieces. Makes me want to get more G1 figures! Just out of curiosity, where did you get those clear plastic cases that you store your deluxes in? I just won an Ebay auction for Hybrid Style Convoy and Black Convoy. The seller is including dust free cases that look almost exactly like that.
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If a book about nose-to-tail butchery seems a little hard core, even for the most committed foodie, then you have yet to be introduced to Marissa Guggiana's passionate and inclusive world of locally driven, compassionately produced, "righteous food." Look no further than her new book's introduction to be utterly charmed and intrigued. Marissa, a meat purveyor from northern California, writes the way people should flip pancakes - lightly, skillfully, joyfully - and you can't help but be inspired by her portraits of the new culinary superstars.
A uniquely visual cookbook, Primal Cuts offers great stories, inventive recipes and helpful cooking techniques. Before long, readers will find themselves dreaming of duck breast and pining for pork rillettes and luckily, the book provides guidance in sourcing, cooking, even saving and storing. To boot, Primal Cuts offers a look into the philosophies of the food artisans who are leading the modern food renaissance.
I don't think anyone was better positioned than you to capture the modern meat scene in all its passionate, complex glory. With your combined experiences as a meat purveyor, local food leader and long-time writer do you sometimes think that your marrying of nourishment and narrative was inevitable?
I had always sort of bristled against food writing, after years of playwriting. I sequestered writing into this box of art that felt different than my work in the nitty-gritty of food production. At some point I became so engrossed in food culture that it got harder and harder to step out of that and into theatre. And I just started writing what I know (yes, that old chestnut). To my surprise, I found I had a lot to say!
What are your hopes for the sustainable food community and, specifically, local and sustainable meat production and consumption?
Well, we need local food systems that are viable for all participants. Which means, everyone in production needs to make a living and consumers need to be able to access and afford the food. We've figured out some solutions but we are a long way from the finish line. As anyone who goes to farmer's markets can attest, small scale animal husbandry yields delicious, expensive meat.
Over the years you've done dozens of events that have brought people together to celebrate real food and the people who produce it. Do you envision an evolution for the holidays in terms of how people source and prepare their food?
Food is an expression of who we are, as much as any other part of the holidays. The most important elements, to me, are that we make time to get together and that this coming together has meaning. Buying from farmers you know or from your community brings an element of story and place to the table. So does cooking everything by hand, preparing family favorites and having fun. I notice if I really present the food and I am excited about having made it, that excitement is contagious.
It's not about fancy, it's about pleasure and love.
Who do you look to for inspiration?
Mostly Boy George. No, truly, I have so many inspirations. Outside of my own circle (and I think it is so important to find inspiration from your loved ones), the first few that come to mind are: Vandana Shiva, Milan Kundera, Elvis Costello and Werner Herzog. Foodwise: Dan Barber, MFK Fisher, Weston Price, Carlo Petrini...
What would be the perfect dinner gathering?
Of course, it depends on the crowd, the occasion, the season. BUT, nothing that requires last minute fussing. My frequent guests are no strangers to stew because it is always comforting, expandable, simple and nourishing. I make many iterations of braised meat: carnitas, tagine, lamb stew, pot pie. Or a good old roasted chicken for a small group. And some salad or greens and crusty bread and lots and lots of wine.


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Contemporary Worship Contemporary worship service will be held at St. Paul's United Church of Christ Sunday, January 6, at 11 a.m. with an informal service with live modern music and children's message. Nursery provided. St. Paul's is located at 228 North Second Street in McConnellsburg. Call 717-485-5554 or visit www.uccmccbg.weebly.com for more information.
Special Service Fort Littleton Bible Church Luminaries lit in memory of a loved one or in honor of someone on January 6, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Purchaswe on for $10.00. Proceeds go toward new flooring in our sanctuary. Call 717987-3320 or write P.O. Box 463, Hustontown, PA 17229
Mic Night Mic Night will be held at Warfordsburg Senior Center January 12, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m. Food and drink will be available. Donation is a $1. All of the proceeds will be donated to Bob Burton, a Silver Creek Band musician who has cancer. Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 717-294-6020.
Open Stage There will be an open stage at Hustontown Fire Co. Saturday, January 26, at 6 p.m. Kitchen opens at 5 p.m. everyone is invited to attend.
Parents And Family Members Of Addicts Support group to help family members of addicts cope and deal with the one they love who is struggling with addiction. Free. Refreshments provided. Meets every Monday at 6 p.m. at 292 Buchanan Trail. Call Susanne at 717-414-9695 for more information.
Nutrition Class Fulton County nutrition awareness classes are held at Warfordsburg Senior Center on the third Monday of every month. When the third Monday is a holiday, classes are held the fourth Monday from 10 a.m. to noon. To register or sign up for lunch, call 717-294-6020.
McConnellsburg AA Meetings The McConnellsburg Chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous will meet on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. every week at the Alumni Building Basement, McConnellsburg.
Free Blood Pressure Screenings Free blood pressure screenings will be given at the following locations: Mc- Connellsburg Senior Center the first Thursday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Hann's Apartments the second Monday of every month from 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.; Warfordsburg Senior Center the third Wednesday of every month from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and Hustontown Senior Center the third Thursday of every month from 11:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Yoga Classes Reaching Wellness yoga classes will be held for all ages every Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., at Community State Bank. Call for cost and to register at 717-485- 4492.
Fitness Classes Reaching Wellness Presents Work It Out fitness classes for women. All fitness levels welcome. Every Tuesday and Thursday in January (begins January 8) and February (begins February 5) at 5:30 p.m. For more information, email:email@example.com. or call Catherine Washabaugh at (717) 816-4331.
Community Wellness/Silver Sneakers/Prime Community Wellness/Silver Sneakers/Prime will be held Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday and Friday, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at Fulton County Medical Center cardiopulmonary rehab gym. The cost is based on insurance. Call Kim or Patti at 717-485- 6149 to see if insurance provider is accepted. Community Wellness is $40/month/person or $70/month/couple.
Zumba Classes Zumba classes will be offered at Mc- Connellsburg Firehall Wednesday evenings at 7:15 p.m. More information may be obtained by contacting Sarah at 814-259- 3667.
Zumba Fitness Reaching Wellness Zumba fitness class will be held for all ages every Friday at 6 p.m., at McConnellsburg Alumni & Friends building. More information may be obtained by calling 717-253-7599 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Addicts Helping Addicts Addicts Helping Addicts meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. This is a peer-led support group for addicts struggling with drug addiction and needing help in their recovery. Admission is free. Refreshments provided. Held at 292 Buchanan Trail. Call Susanne at 717-414-9695 for more information.
Tree Drop-off Live Christmas tree drop-off will be held at R&D Recycling, 27438 Great Cove Road, McConnellsburg, on Fridays, January 4 and 11, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays, January 5 and 12, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Trees will be used for wildlife habitat. Trees must be free of all decorations.
Quilt Show Cumberland Valley Relief Center will host a quilt show January 26-28. Thursday and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., at 4225 Molly Pitcher Highway, Chambersburg. The show is a great opportunity to view new hand-quilted pieces that have been made in the Cumberland Valley. These quilts will later be auctioned at the PA Relief Sale to be held in Harrisburg at the Farm Show Complex April 13 and 14, 2012. Over 100 hand-quilted pieces will be displayed. Free admission.
Attention Teens Need a graduation project or community service hours? McConnellsburg library is looking for a motivated, organized teen to run the teen art contest. See Jamie Brambley at the library.
McCbg. Bingo McConnellsburg Fire Co. will hold bingo every Monday and Friday of each week. Bingo starts at 7 p.m. and doors open at 5:30 p.m.
McCbg. Bingo McConnellsburg Fire Co. will hold bingo every Monday and Friday of each week. Bingo starts at 7 p.m. and doors open at 5:30 p.m.
Singles Meeting Knobsville Singles will meet Monday, January 14, at 9 a.m. at K's Place
Farm League Meeting Fulton County Society of Farm Women will meet at the home of Audrea Miller January 3, 2013, at 7 p.m. Each member should bring a small item for bingo.
Free Meal A free meal will be served the second Tuesday of each month at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 220 North Third Street. Please join in for good fellowship.
DeShong Reunion The family of Elvie and Regina DeShong will hold their reunion January 6, 2013, at Knobsville United Methodist Church at 12:30 p.m. More information may be obtained by calling 485-5413.


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Now into his 31st season as a collegiate head coach, and incredibly his 43rd year overall in college coaching, Watson Brown could easily spend time recounting his personal milestones. He doesn't. Instead, the veteran is, quite simply, out to lead Tennessee Tech to its second Ohio Valley Conference championship under his direction. He is in his ninth season at the Tech helm.
After guiding Tech to a share of the 2011 OVC title, the school's first in 36 years, Brown is determined that the wait for the next crown isn't nearly as lengthy.
Brown has also kept a keen eye focused on success in the classroom. His team has been honored each of the past two years by the Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Director's Association (FCS ADA) for having the highest APR in the OVC.
The team has also consistently improved its overall combined team GPA, posting the two highest semester totals during the three past years.
Born and raised in Cookeville, Watson Brown came back home to take the helm of the Golden Eagle program for the 2007 season. Five years later, he led Tech to its first OVC title in 36 years. The veteran coach uses an even-tempered approach to teach his young staff and players, and to earn their respect while enforcing a high level of discipline.
Brown was named in December 2006 as the 10th head football coach in Tennessee Tech University history. He previously coached at two schools that are members of the Ohio Valley Conference, serving as head coach at Austin Peay for two years and assistant coach at Jacksonville State, then a Division II program, for two years.
Those were two of the stops along a coaching trail that has visited campuses across the country. Following his role at Austin Peay, he has also served as head coach at the University of Cincinnati, Rice University, Vanderbilt and UAB. He was an offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and the University of Oklahoma, and served as an assistant coach at East Carolina and Texas Tech.
Brown returned to the town where he was a talented baseball, football and basketball player at Cookeville High School. He signed with Vanderbilt out of high school and was a standout quarterback for the Commodores from 1969-72. He is best remembered by many Commodore fans for leading Vandy to a 14-10 victory over Alabama in 1969. Brown was named the Sports Illustrated National Back of the Week for his efforts.
In his stint as TTU head coach, Brown has worked hard in his effort toward rebuilding the Golden Eagles into Ohio Valley Conference champions and has had the support of the community and the Upper Cumberland Region. A popular speaker, Brown has addressed numerous clubs and organizations throughout the region during his time at Tech.
Brown is known as one of the most inovative offensive minds in football.
He made his head coaching debut in 1979 in the Ohio Valley Conference directing the Austin Peay Governors, and at age 29, he was one of the youngest head coaches in the nation.
While serving as offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt for two seasons (1981-82), Brown's offense set 57 school records and the Commodores posted an 8-3 record and made a Hall of Fame Bowl appearance (1982).
In 1983, Brown was head coach at Cincinnati, where he led the Bearcats to a season-opening 14-3 victory at defending national champion Penn State. He ranks that road victory as one of the most memorable in his long coaching career.
Before coaching at Vanderbilt, Brown was athletic director and head football coach at Rice (1984-85). He led the Owls to two of their best offensive seasons.
From 1986-90, Brown was the head coach at Vanderbilt, his alma mater. In 1991 and 1992, Brown was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State under head coach Jackie Sherrill. During those two seasons, the Bulldogs posted a 14-10 record, made two bowl appearances and upset three nationally-ranked opponents.
Prior to going to UAB, Brown was the offensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma (1993-94).
Coaching is a big part of Brown's family. His brother Mack Brown was the head coach, most recently at Texas, and won a national championship with the Longhorns. His grandfather, Eddie "Jelly" Watson, was a legendary prep football coach, compiling a 106-51-13 record at Cookeville High School.
Brown's brother Mel resides in Cookeville. Watson Brown is married to the former Brenda Arnold, and they have two children; daughter Ginny, who was a four-year letterwinner at Georgia State University (1996-00), and a son Steven, who was a wide receiver/quarterback for the Golden Eagles in 2007 and is currently a member of his father's coaching staff. After filling a role as a graduate assistant coach in 2008, Steven is now an assistant coach and the team's offensive coordinator.
Watson Brown is Tech's 10th head football coach since 1922, joining the ranks of Loyall Duck, Putty Overall, Hooper Eblen, Star Wood, Wilburn Tucker, Don Wade, Gary Darnell, Jim Ragland and Mike Hennigan.
Brown's many achievements as a student-athlete and later as a coach in the state of Tennessee have not gone unnoticed. Seven years ago he was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2010, the National Football Foundation recognized Watson by selecting him as the recipient of the Roy Kramer Contribution to Football Award.


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Networking Breakfast - Aveiro, PortugalActivity by Maria Clara Magalhães | added on Jan 10, 2011 | Portugal
Sponsor(s): University of Aveiro, Portugal
Women chemist networking lunch, on the 18th January (13 h), at the Restaurant of the University of Aveiro. The importance of women in chemistry is celebrate with a talk on "The Structures of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin", on the same day at 15:30, at the Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. Aveiro, by Raquel Gonçalves-Maia.
The women of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Aveiro, in recognition of the "Women sharing a chemical moment in time" initiative, have decided to hold a lunch at the University restaurant on the 18th of January at 13:00. This lunch will allow women chemists to communicate, also, by web-based video-chats to other groups worldwide. This invitation is extended to all women chemists, students, technicians and teachers from all Departments at the University of Aveiro.
As we are celebrating 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry and the centenary of Marie Curies Nobel Prize, the importance of women in chemistry is also being celebrated by a talk, on the same day at 15:30, by Professor Raquel Gonçalves-Maia on "The Structures of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin". Dorothy Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1964 for her work on the determination of important biological structures, including cholesterol, insulin, penicillin and vitamin B12, by x-ray crystallography.
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My god, Tales didn't kill me after all.
This rainy weekend saw Jen and me attending a couple of wine and spirit events down in Newport. On Sunday, we attended the Newport Wine Festival–three full tents of wine and spirits to sample. We weren't too crazy about certain aspects of it, especially the way food was handled, but overall we enjoyed it. We went in part to see our old friend Jim Ryan, late of Dressler restaurant in Brooklyn, and now a brand ambassador for Hendrick's Gin. I've seen Jim a couple of times at Tales of the Cocktail since we left New York, but Jen hadn't seen him since the last time he sat a cocktail in front of her at the Dressler bar. (Disclaimer: Jim was able to procure tickets for us, so our entry was free. We paid for food and parking.)
(photo by Jennifer Hess)
Jim gave a condensed version of his talk at Tales, when he and Charlotte Voisey gave a presentation on the botanicals in Hendricks gin. Jim discussed the use of spicy elements in the Hendricks botanical base, and spicy ingredients in cocktails. One highlight was the La Luna cocktail, a blend of gin, lime juice, cucumber juice, jalapeno syrup, soda–a delicious drink that I tried in the Botanical session and was happy to see at Newport, because I knew Jen would love it. Jim also had an assistant pass around a tray of botanicals, tins of juniper berries and other spices, alongside vials of the same botanicals in distillate form.
Monday, I flew solo and attended the M.S. Walker Wine Experience, a wine-and-spirits tasting put on by M.S. Walker, a distributor in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. I focused mostly on tasting spirits since I knew there were a few new things I wanted to try. Chief among them was the new spiced offering from Chairman's Reserve Rum, made by St. Lucia Distillers and imported into the United States by Team Spirits Imports Company. That latter group was repped at the show by its founders David Jones and Clyde Davis, and I had a chance to speak to David at some length about how the spiced is made.
First, I have to say this: I normally hate spiced rum, and David put a finger on why–it's often overloaded with vanilla. And yes, I've found that to be true, but there's more. I just don't think the spices make any sense. I can rarely distinguish anything other than clove and maybe nutmeg. And the damn things are always so overly sweetened. Gross.
Chairman's is taking a different approach. First, the base spirit is the original Chairman's Reserve, not a "second" gussied up with caramel and vanilla flavoring. Second, they're using spices and fruits that make sense for St. Lucia–products that are traditionally grown or consumed there. Bitter orange peel. Clove. Ginger. Coconut. Nutmeg. (What you won't find is the Bois Bande that's used in bottlings sold in St. Lucia. Its supposed aphrodisiac properties would have made it too hard–fnar, fnar–to pitch to the TTB.)
Man, I really loved this stuff. I told David it was like sipping a well-made rum old-fashioned. Or, even truer, sipping a pseudo-OF. One thing I sometimes enjoy is using a small bit of liqueur or other sweetening agent in place of sugar (or simple syrup) in an OF. So I'll sometimes take 3 oz. of a good sipping rum, splash in about a teaspoon of Allspice (Pimento) Dram, and dash on some bitters. The Chairman's reminded me a lot of that.
Now, the Team Spirits guys had the Chairman's Spiced at Tales, from what I've heard, but the one time I saw it was in a Tasting Room, and their table was always so mobbed I couldn't get close to it. Everyone there seemed to love it, too.
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On a crisp fall evening Chloe Nolan and Mary Ting of Clear Flour Bakery demonstrated how to make a Pear Ginger Crisp
Pear Ginger Crisp
Serves 8-10
½ cup flour
½ cup dark brown sugar
½ tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. salt
½ cup (1 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into ½" cubes
1 cup rolled oats
½ cup walnut pieces
Fruit Filling:
½ cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
½ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. salt
6 large or 7 med. pears (Bartlett work great here)
1 TBS grated fresh ginger
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
For the topping, whisk together first four ingredients in a medium bowl. Work butter into dry mixture until it resembles moist, coarse meal. Stir in nuts and oats. Chill while preparing filling. Peel and core the pears. Cut into roughly 1/2" cubes and place in a large bowl with ginger. Add dry ingredients and combine until fruit is evenly coated. Pour into 9 x 13 baking dish.
Scatter topping evenly across fruit and bake until top is golden and filling is bubbling –about 50 minutes. Enjoy warm with vanilla ice cream
It was a perfect evening to spend as the nights start to get chillier! We highly recommend that you check out Clear Flour, a local, hidden gem. Be prepared for a very long line on weekends, but I assure you, it is well worth the wait. You will be dreaming about their baked currant donuts, and chocolate pudding cakes for weeks afterward! Thank you Mary and Chloe for taking the time to show us a simple, rustic recipe!


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QuickTime Virtual Reality is a subset of the functionality of Apple Quicktime player. It refers to the ability to display spherical panoramas in Cubic Projection, cylindrical, partial panoramas, multinode panoramas and objects in a viewer where the user can move around using the mouse and keyboard. The panoramas can be linked through hotspots in order to move from one panorama to the other.
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A Man Called Ironside
The original series was such a big hit it ran 8 seasons, from 1967 to 1975. A bit dated today, but on occasion still a great show. And some great guest casts. Not as good as 'Perry Mason', Raymond Burr's other hit tv show; but nonetheless miles better than NBC's 'Ironside' remake, in 2013, which was cancelled after only 9 episodes.
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9 Episodes " Really "
Why is Ironside listed as 9 episodes ?. It was rated so badly that NBC cancelled it after only 4 episodes, what is the point of showing a series of 4 episodes, after seeing all 4 of the episodes i can see why it was cancelled, cardboard acting, terrible story lines, etc, etc, etc.
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Late last year, Barnard began a new initiative to make its Reunion Giving program more robust, with the full support of President Debora Spar, who said, "establishing a strong Reunion Giving program is vital to raising the kind of philanthropy the College needs and deserves, which is why I am so excited about this endeavor."
"Barnard offers a world-class education and we want to complement that with a world-class reunion giving program," explains Bobbi Mark, vice president of development and alumnae affairs. Kelli Payne, director of reunion giving, who joined the development staff last summer, adds, "Many alumnae see reunions as milestones and a time to elevate their support to the College. At Barnard, we want to make sure that reunions foster even more of a 'come back and give back' tradition."
The Reunion Giving program's main goals are to increase participation, broaden leadership giving, and significantly expand the number of volunteers involved with reunion giving. Those volunteers can in turn reach out to their classmates in a personal way to support their alma mater. Says Payne, "We are asking alumnae with a demonstrated commitment to the College to recruit others so that Barnard can boast a volunteer corps proportional to the number of alumnae who truly value what the College has given them. The new Reunion Giving program will accelerate Barnard's ability to develop a significantly larger number of fund-raising volunteers, similar to what has been in place for decades at peer institutions."
The cornerstones of the new program are the Reunion Gift committees. Each committee will consist of a reunion gift chair or co-chairs and a specially selected group of volunteers, who will ask members of their class to consider leadership gifts above and beyond their typical giving in honor of their quinquennial reunion. Mark defines a leadership gift as "a stretch commitment that ranks Barnard as a top philanthropic priority for the alumna, in accordance with her capacity to provide financial support."
The importance of the Reunion Gift committees cannot be overstated. "They provide the backbone for all reunion giving efforts and, along with the network of Barnard Fund chairs and class agents, the foundation of alumnae giving in general," states Spar, who personally assisted in recruiting some of this year's Reunion Gift chairs.
Serving as Reunion Gift co-chair held great appeal for Marley Blue Lewis '05. "I strongly believe in the school and understand how important it is to give back and support the institution," she says. As a younger alumna, Lewis is also keenly aware of her role in "encouraging a tradition of giving to Barnard," since it has been repeatedly demonstrated that successful reunion gift programs and peer-to-peer solicitations positively impact overall future giving.
"It's a great concept," says Camille Kiely Kelleher '70, Reunion Gift chair for her class. "It's still early, but the people I have called and asked to be on our committee are very happy to become involved."
Along with this enhanced solicitation of gifts comes a new emphasis on the type of gift being requested. Instead of being encouraged to make a one-time gift during a reunion year, alumnae will be asked to maximize their commitment by considering gifts structured as five-year pledges. These multi-year pledges will be included in each class's cumulative- giving reunion total, so that the donor and the class receive recognition for all restricted and unrestricted commitments— including critically important gifts to The Barnard Fund— made in the five years leading up to each class Reunion. "A five-year pledge is a great help to set the foundation for a lifetime of consistent giving," says Payne.
"Any effort that can build up the amount of money donated to Barnard is great," says Kelleher, who cites Barnard's low endowment relative to other peer institutions and her own attendance on a scholarship as key reasons for her ongoing commitment to support the College. "I owe a lot to Barnard, so I'm happy to do what I can to give back."
Because the program is new, and she is new to Barnard, Payne views this year as a "soft start." She says, "We are still working on identifying committee members from each class; we want to create a vibrant reunion giving program that people look forward to being part of and supporting."
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Nineteen Pennsylvania airports will make safety enhancements and improve their operations with the aid of a $2.1 million state investment.
"Airports contribute to our communities' economies and create thousands of jobs for Pennsylvanians," Governor Tom Corbett said. "This state support will help the airports continue operating safely and ensure that they can continue to meet business demands."
The grants are distributed through PennDOT's aviation development program, which is funded from the state's jet fuel tax. The investments leverage $647,100 in local matching funds. Authorized by the General Assembly, the grants are administered by PennDOT's Bureau of Aviation.
The state has 133 public-use airports and heliports; 15 of those airports have scheduled commercial service.
Following is a by-county list of airport improvement grant recipients, the amount of funding, and a brief description of the projects:
- Allegheny County : Allegheny County Airport – $397,500 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment and to rehabilitate and upgrade the terminal building infrastructure and utilities.
- Armstrong County : McVille Airport – $93,750 to acquire snow removal equipment.
- Bedford County: Bedford County Airport – $15,000 to acquire ground communication outlet equipment.
- Berks County : Reading Regional/Carl A. Spaatz Field – $37,500 to remove runway obstructions.
- Butler County: Butler County Airport – $150,000 to construct a fuel-dispensing facility.
- Butler Farm Show Airport – $45,000 to remove obstructions within the runway approach area.
- Cambria County: John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport – $168,750 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment.
- Centre County: Bellefonte Airport – $225,000 to install runway lighting and a visual glide slope indicator to enhance visibility for approaching the airport.
- Chester County: New Garden Flying Field – $5,400 to assist in developing municipal hazard zoning ordinances.
- Clearfield County: Clearfield-Lawrence Airport – $37,500 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment.
- Dauphin County: Bendigo Airport – $37,500 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment.
- Indiana County: Indiana County/Jimmy Stewart Airport – $18,750 to conduct environmental wetland monitoring.
- Luzerne County: Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport – $300,000 to expand the airfield fuel facility.
- McKean County: Bradford Regional Airport – $37,500 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment.
- Mercer County: Greenville Municipal Airport – $7,500 to acquire airfield mowing equipment.
- Grove City Regional Airport – $123,750 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment and snow removal equipment.
- Washington County: Finleyville Airpark – $165,000 to prepare a site for new hangars and acquire land to remove obstructions to its runway approach area.
- Westmoreland County: Rostraver Airport – $30,000 to acquire airfield maintenance equipment.
- York County: York Airport – $238,500 to remove obstructions within the runway approach area.
For more information: DOT.state.pa.us and then click on the "2013 State Transportation Program" button.


text: KTM at EICMA 2012 KTM is on a roll with its naked bike line, the Duke, at the EICMA Motor Show in Milan. Obviously, our main point of interest being the 390 Duke, the bike that's going to come to India in a few months. But there is also a 690 Duke R and the 1290 Super Duke R prototype to drool over.KTM 390 DukeYes, we all have been waiting for this one since Bajaj (majority stake holder in KTM) announced that it would be getting a bigger version of the Duke by 2013.Though the looks are unchanged, the chassis has gone through extra reinforcing for the bike to handle the single-cylinder 375cc motor with an output of 43bhp. The dimensions stay identical to the smaller Duke. The only noticeable difference being the 139kg kerb weight; that is 9kg heavier the Duke 200.To pull more comparison it's a kilo heavier than the Honda CBR 150R. This should give the 390 a massive power-to-weight advantage compared to rivals. Apart from oodles of power, the Duke 390 will also be loaded with safety features like ABS.The 390 Duke will be locally manufactured at Bajaj's Chakan plant in Maharashtra along with the 200 Duke and the 125 Duke (sold in the international markets). Expect the bike to be launched in India by this year-end or early next year at a competitive price of Rs 2 lakh (on-road, Mumbai).KTM 690 Duke RThe 690 Duke R is pretty much like the 690 Duke but now comes with the goodness of R. With the R designation, the 690 Duke now makes 68bhp and 70Nm of torque.Apart from more power, the 690 Duke R also gets stiffer suspension with more damping. Like the regular 690 Duke, the R version also gets ABS that can be completely switched off in the supermoto setting. Disengaging the ABS will make the bike more tail-happy, and allow for a more involving riding experience.The 690 Duke R will also sport lower handlebars and higher footpegs for a more aggressive riding position, just so that you don't get carried away with all that R aggression. The thoughtful guys at KTM have given side-crash bars for those times when the bike becomes a bit too tail-happy in the supermoto mode.There is no word on when the 690 Duke or the 690 Duke R will hit our shores though. We expect to get some dope on it at the launch of the 390 Duke.KTM 1290 Super Duke R PrototypeYou know things are extra special when the prefix 'Super' is added to a car or bike or even man. So now you know what to expect from KTM's biggest, meanest Duke, the 1290 Super Duke R Prototype.While KTM has shown the bike at EICMA, details are still sketchy. The only thing that we know is that the bike is a thinly disguised ready-for-production prototype. It will use a new variation of the 1195cc V-Twin that powers the KTM RC8R superbike.Obviously, with such a potent engine, a piston-head can only wonder how much power the bike would make. To that KTM's only answer is Very, very much. So we'll have to wait for technical details till the road-going version is announced sometime in 2013.As with any R designated KTM, the 1290 Super Duke R, the ABS and traction control can be disengaged for that true near-death experience.So, which of the new Dukes is your favourite, TopGearers? Abhinav Mishra 16 November 2012 KTM at EICMA 2012


text: The video above is with Ryan Bidan, senior product manager for the PlayBook, who gave Engadget a hands-on demo of BlackBerry Messenger on the PlayBook. It's not a native app - which means you'll need the PlayBook to be paired with a BlackBerry smartphone via BlackBerry Bridge. The BBM update for PlayBook was announced yesterday and is being pushed out to users - along with a Bridge update on the handset side. We imagine a stand alone version of BBM for PlayBook will be available in the future, but for now, this should hold off all of us BBMers out there.


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Rated R for language throughout, violence and sexual contentCastDavid Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize TheronDirectorNash EdgertonWriterAnthony Tambakis
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Mon, 17 April 2006
The Hollywood film industry has ADHD. All the big money makers affirm traditional values, yet they produce garbage. Why? Dr. Ted Baehr with MovieGuide. Then Dr. Chad Rohlfsen says Iowans would have done better without the mumps innoculation. How did we get the income tax anyhow?
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Richard Davis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We are a business that is dedicated to answering the question - "what is a fair price to pay for your marketing services?".
We already have a consultancy business called RD Squared (http://www.rdsquared.com) so that will give you an idea of what we do and how we do it.
We have a new business that will own the beadyeye brand and will develop a system which basically distils our expertise into an easy to use "beadyeye" tool so that people can stop paying way too much for the marketing services they need.
The brand essence of RD Squared boils down to three words - empowering, supportive and challenging - the new tool will dial up the "empowerment" aspects of our current ethos as it will enable users to interrogate our database of costs and algorithms in order to understand what a fair price for a marketing service is.
The team that are developing this tool comprises industry experts in their given field (e.g. media, advertising, research etc) so a user will get advice from an "expert view" and so hopefully will not have the wool pulled over their eyes when it comes to price and cost.
We believe that target organisations would not only value advice at their fingertips through the tool but also value growing their knowledge and understanding of the subject so that they are more confident and capable in the management of their marketing costs. The new web site will cater for that too.
The new "beadyeye" tool will be targeted at procurement, marketing and finance people in organisations that spend a lot of money in marketing services.
The tool will help the target audience to have an independent opinion on what a fair price is for a particular requirement they have across a spectrum of marketing services including media, advertising, sales promotion, print, direct marketing, digital, point of sale, research etc.
As a business to business tool, we will be targeting ALL organisations that have a minimum level of expenditure in marketing services.
We like the name "beadeye" as it we are effectively casting a "beady eye" over the market for best prices and costs on behalf of the user.
The tool will be launched in the UK first but has an obvious application across many geographies - not all of them will understand the "beady eye" idiom but we need to start somewhere.
Users will be a combination of older people and younger - it depends on who is responsible in any given organisation
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- a base design / colours we can apply to the web pages of the tool, brochures, stationary etc
- a professional business to business "feel"
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The Cambridges get twerked in the face
This picture cracked me up. Will and Kate visited a crime prevention charity yesterday called Only Connect supporting young offenders who are trying to rebuild their lives. (Kind of like the work we do at Covenant House Vancouver. The Covenant House Sleepout is happening tomorrow in Vancouver and Toronto. Click here... if you can help!)
Anyway, at one point during the visit to Only Connect, the Cambridges enjoyed a dance performance. British reporters are calling it twerking, a word that needs to die soon. But not before we see it right up in some royal faces. You know who probably twerks in private?
Hot Harry.
You've seen his club moves, right?
Way better than Tom Cruise.
Here's Kate at another appearance this morning at the Place2Be forum, stepping up her work schedule as we approach the holidays.
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dscott needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 144 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
Need logo for new real estate company...winner will become preferred designer for all future design work! Logo will appear on business cards, letterhead, envelopes, brochures and most importantly yard signs.
I want a simple yet professional looking logo for a residential real estate company. The name will ultimately become the brand/image so I want the logo to revolve primarily around the name. Cade/Robert is two separate names and not one person's name. Our main competition will be Re/Max, Keller Williams and Coldwell Banker so it must look professional and not like a "cheesy"/"cartoonish" local, independent real estate company logo.
I previously owned a Keller Williams office and built it to 360 associates...I sold the office in January, 2006 and now that my non-compete is over I am starting a new, independent office. I expect to have several offices in the Houston, Texas area and there is the great possibility this "brand" will ultimately be franchised nationwide. The office will be made up of top-producing, professional Realtors who take a consultative approach to real estate.
The logo will appear on all associates' business cards, marketing materials and yard signs. It will also be used on office stationery, web-site, recruiting material, and storefront building sign.
- Item 1...Cade Robert Realty
- Item 2...Logo to focus primarily on the name
- Item 3...Style has to be professional and able to compete with nationally recognized real estate companies
- Item 4...Color scheme has to be conducive to outdoor yard sign usage...the colors may be as important as the logo.
- Item 1...No cheesy/cartoonish graphics
- Item 2...No homes, rooftops or skylines in the logo
- Item 3...No color schemes like those of main competitors (red/white/blue; gray/red; gray/blue)
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text: Tiffany & Co. has tapped Japanese architect Kengo Kuma to redesign its Tokyo flagship. The three-story store is slated to be finished in November and the design is mean to evoke jewelry. The facade will be composed of honeycomb glass panels in an ode to diamonds. Kuma said the design "echoes Tiffany's visual identity." Kuma is the first Japanese architect that Tiffany has commissioned.


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2002 Chevrolet Impala ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Great family room with grand old name.
Chevrolet Impala is a modern, capable mid-size sedan, with a look and especially a name designed to push the nostalgia button for a certain generation.
From 1958-65, Impala meant the flashiest full-size Chevrolet, a real working-man's Cadillac, tame in its base form but offering performance options to match its aggressive looks. After '65, the sporty Impala was subordinated to the more conservative-looking Caprice, and eventually the name disappeared from the Chevrolet lineup.
Like its older namesake, the new Impala is tame and practical with base-level equipment. When ordered with its optional 3.8-liter V6, however, this new Impala is not only quick, but also more responsive than the six-seat models from Toyota, Dodge, Ford and Buick. It shares its platform with the Pontiac Grand Prix, and offers competent suspension tuning, distinctive looks, and plenty of interior room.
Two models are available, both four-door sedans: Impala ($19,960) and Impala LS ($23,660).
The base Impala uses a 3.4-liter 180-horsepower V6.
The more upmarket LS comes with GM's proven and highly competent 3.8-liter V6, producing 200 horsepower. The real difference between the base and LS is the level of luxury amenities on the standard-equipment list.
That's because the 3.8-liter engine is optional on the base model ($995). Whether base or LS, 3.8-liter Impalas come with aluminum wheels, quicker steering, traction control, and anti-lock brakes.
New for 2002 is the Sport Appearance Package, which adds extra gauges to the instrument panel and its own unique look to the Impala's front and rear ends, interior, and wheels.
ABS is a $600 option on base models, an odd choice for Chevrolet, when most other GM cars come with anti-lock brakes even in their most basic guise. The anti-lock brake system includes a tire-pressure monitor.
Also standard on LS (optional on base Impalas) is GM's OnStar system. OnStar is a customer-service network linked to each car via satellite. It's one of those convenience features that you may never notice during daily use, but it's nice to have if something goes wrong. The system can notify network representatives of the car's location, to facilitate roadside assistance or to help track the car if it is stolen. It automatically notifies the OnStar network when the airbag has been deployed, and operators will dispatch emergency crews to the spot unless you respond to their calls.
The Impala looks bigger than it is, thanks to its upright windows and roof pillars and relatively long greenhouse. The Impala is a whopping nine inches shorter than a Dodge Intrepid, yet it's slightly larger in total interior volume.
The most significant styling cues are the headlight and taillight clusters, which use a unique combination of round lights clearly visible from behind trapezoidal covers. It's an aggressive look for a Chevy sedan, so you'll easily spot an Impala in traffic. If you don't like the boy-racer spoiler on the deck lid of the LS, you can delete it for a $175 credit.
The Impala is noticeably roomy inside, with 122 cubic feet of interior volume. Interior space was gained by designing a high roofline with more vertical sides, carefully rearranging the rear bulkhead, and moving the seats slightly outboard. From the driver's seat you get the impression that the car is huge inside, likely because you sense a notable distance to the right-side passenger.
Base models come with a three-passenger split bench seat in the front; LS models come with two individual front seats, although by checking off the right options you can put buckets in the base model or a bench in the LS. New for 2002 is a leather-accented bench seat. Because it comes with six-way power, lumbar support, and a side-impact air bag, it costs $1390 on base models and $625 on LS.
At first glance, the individual seats look flat, like semi-benches, but when you sit in them, they provide good support for your thighs and your back. They feel like bucket seats. But then the front-center passenger has to straddle the split between the seats. A slight hump down the center accommodates the exhaust; but it also hampers legroom for the front center passenger.
It's easy to orient yourself inside the Impala. Controls are logical, work smoothly, and are easy to see. They follow the function of those in the smaller Malibu, but they're bigger. New for 2002 are individual temperature controls for the driver and passenger.
Although Impala boasts more total interior volume than the Dodge Intrepid, the Chevy's rear seat area is shorter on useable legroom. Still, the Impala is better in this respect than the Ford Taurus or the even the full-size Ford Crown Victoria. The Impala's rear seating position is comfortable and relatively high, which makes it easy to get in and out. There are three shoulder belts in the rear, as well as LATCH child-seat tethers. In the LS, the rear seat is split 60/40 and folds down to allow bulky items to protrude from the trunk; that's handy if you're a Home Depot regular.
The headliner is nicely padded. Chevy says this design will pass the federal head injury requirements scheduled to come into effect for all cars in 2003. A seat-mounted side-impact airbag is standard on LS and available as part of several option packages on the base model.
Driving Impression
The new Impala feels like a big luxury car, even compared to a Ford Crown Victoria or Toyota Avalon. The Crown Victoria seems unrefined when you drive the two back-to-back. The Toyota feels bland by comparison.
The view out of the Impala is good, and particularly helpful are the small quarter windows that split the rear pillars. The creases on the hood give a good perspective for judging where the front of the car is, handy for parking a big car in compact spaces. The rear deck lid seems high, however, so care is required when backing up.
Handling is surprisingly quick and sharp. This is not the wallowing, live-axle barge from the 1960s. One reason is the use of a huge aluminum engine-cradle subframe, isolating vibrations while allowing for a more rigid structure. A monster dashboard bulkhead made of light and strong magnesium adds to rigidity, giving the car a robust feel. The engine cradle and dashboard structure lock the steering shaft down rigidly, so there are no excess wiggly movements. Chevy says a new link between the steering column and the steering gear contributes to better on-center feel at the wheel. Both base and LS models benefit from a strut brace in front, as well as anti-roll bars front and rear. This type of hardware is usually found only on sports sedans.
On the road, the steering feels good, better than the Toyota Avalon's. The LS we tested felt particularly good, with its quicker steering ratio.
Likewise, the brake pedal feels firm and responsive. Braking is smooth and steady, and we applaud Chevy's decision to use discs at all four wheels, even on the base model.
Acceleration is brisk, especially with the more powerful 3.8-liter engine. (There's also just enough torque steer, felt as a slight tug on the steering wheel whenever you stomp down on the gas pedal, to remind you that this is a front-wheel-drive car.) The Impala is the least-expensive GM car powered by this gutsy pushrod engine. Chevy claims it will accelerate to 60 mph in 7.7 seconds, which is quick for this class.
Police-package Impalas will get the higher-ratio gearing from the Grand Prix, and should be quicker still. The cops may even learn to like this car, even though front-drivers are still looked down upon by many of America's men in blue. The front steering knuckles for police versions are made of steel instead of weight-saving aluminum, though Chevy says the aluminum knuckles (and the rest of the car) exceeded durability tests.
The Impala delivers excellent value among mid-size sedans, with decent handling, immediately recognizable design cues, and a long list of amenities. It honors the heritage of the original Impala, without reviving the old car's excessive bulk. For a younger generation who never knew the older car, Impala will mean something entirely different.
Model Lineup
Impala ($19,960), Impala LS ($23,660).
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Oshawa, Ontario.
Options As Tested
Preferred Equipment Group 1SB ($785) includes AM/FM RDS cassette and CD stereo, leather-wrapped steering wheel with radio controls, trip computer, HomeLink transmitter, theft deterrent system, compass; Leather interior ($625); Power passenger seat ($325).
Model Tested
Impala LS ($23,660).
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I received, a few years after I had started my genealogical research, photocopies of the pages from a scrapbook in the possession of my mom's first cousin, Tom Wersel. Tom couldn't remember how the book came into his possession, told me via our phone conversation that it was in deplorable condition, but that he would make some copies and send them along. This is only one of the treasures I found among newspaper clippings (1896-1908) in the scrapbook:
In a Snow Wrapped Mountain Pass
Former Village Clerk of Hyde Park
Has Thrilling Experience
William Wersel, former Village Clerk of Oakley, who has been prospecting for gold in the Thunder Mountains of Idaho, has just been heard from, with one of the most thrilling stories of adventure that has come out of that region. In a letter to his brother, Henry Wersel, he narrates the experience of himself and a party of gold seekers who had left the mountains and were wending their way through the foothills to a section of country that had not been invaded by searchers for wealth. They had reached the New Percez Pass when, one night, there was a fall of snow two inches in depth that completely obliterated all traces of the trail they had been following. Unfamiliar with the country, knowing nothing about the landmarks that would have been a sufficient guide for the natives, they were panic-stricken when they realized their perilous situation. They went through that experience so common to travelers in the Arctic regions - attempting to advance, but soon deviating from a straight course and returning to the original starting point. For six days they wandered about in the foothills, hopelessly lost. On the sixth day their supply of provisions was exhausted. They had not run across any game in their wanderings, and unable to replenish their arder, starvation stared them in the face. Despair seized on several members of the party, and, wrapping themselves in their blankets, they lay down and resigned themselves to a terrible death. Mr. Wersel, undaunted by this misfortune, continued the search for an outlet to the plains beyond the pass. On a day when the situation of the party had become desperate in the extreme he discovered a log cabin on the mountain side that looked as if it had not been tenanted for months. Searching in all parts of the structure he soon found a supply of provisions which had evidently been "cached" by the mountaineer, to be drawn on at some future date. Leaving money on the table sufficient to pay for the articles he took and a note of explanation, he hurried back to the camp. The famished gold seekers were in the midst of a feast when the owner of the provisions put in an appearance. He refused to accept the money left at the cabin, but as soon as he had heard their story tendered his services in piloting them out of the desolate country to a place of safety, which, of course, were eagerly accepted.
After a ride of 1,000 miles on horseback Mr. Wersel has returned to Butte, Mont. He has secured options on three mines there that five great promise of handsome returns when fully developed.
Oh, as far as I know, or was able to research, there was no record of the mine options this article spoke of; no family fortune was passed down. Only thing that got passed down? Tenacity.


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Apple Produces the new A6 for the iPhone 5
Today is the day that world gets introduced to the iPhone 5. I of course was very curious about what Apple would be bringing to market the year after the death of Steve Jobs. The excitement leading up to the iPhone announcement was somewhat muted as compared to years past, and a lot of that could be attributed to what has been happening in the Android market. Companies like Samsung and HTC have released new high end phones that are not only faster and more expansive than previous versions, but they also worked really well and were feature packed. While the iPhone 5 will be another success for Apple, for those somewhat dispassionate about the cellphone market will likely just shrug and say to themselves, "It looks like Apple caught up for the year, but too bad they really didn't introduce anything really groundbreaking."
If there was one area that many were anxiously awaiting, it was that of the SOC (system on a chip) that Apple would use for the iPhone 5. Speculation went basically from using a fresh piece of silicon based on the A5X (faster clocks, smaller graphics portion) to having a quad core monster running at high speeds but still sipping power. It seems that we actually got something in between. This is not a bad thing, but as we go forward we will likely see that the silicon again only matches what other manufacturers have been using since earlier this year.


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Look Nokia
Just move to Android.
Resistance is futile :D
Is Nokia wobbling over its commitment to Windows? Or just stringing along the Symbian and Qt faithful? The cell-phone giant has published a lengthy open letter pleading with coders to keep building apps for phones running Symbian and Qt - at least in the short term. Purnima Kochikar, vice president of Nokia's community …
One part of Nokia want's developers to continue developing for a system Nokia has said it's abandoning and another wants them to develop for a system with minimum market share and a release date on Nokia's phones 2 years down the line.
Yeah right, time to find another platform then.
I recently upgraded to a Nokia N8. I wasn't expecting to be impressed, but I am. I prefer it to my old HTC Android phone. The N8 seems to be excellent in all respects. It looks like just as Nokia are getting it right with their smartphones they're throwing in the towel with the move to Windows Phone 7 (yuck).
Nokia are their own worst enemy. Just as they are getting something right they are going to can it.
It seems to me one of Nokia's worst mistakes was Meego. Instead of continuing with Maemo, which was really starting to mature into a great OS with N900, their Linux project was diverted into rewriting almost everything, pissing off developers both internally and externally, not to mention the N900 customers that suddenly had a dead-end product in their hands. Imagine what a Maemo-based successor of N900 could have been? Makes one weep :-(
I used to be a keen follower of all things Symbian many years ago, back when Nokia were pushing out handsets like the 9300, 6630, N90 and all the other numerical gibberish. While the phone's names were a great way to give yourself a headache trying to remember them all, what they *did* have was diversity. All manner of sizes, shapes, number pads, control nubs - you could be pretty certain that there was something that would suit you. Now Windows Phone comes along and demands that manufacturers adhere to very strict hardware specifications and Nokia winds up with a set of phones barely distinguishable from the other Windows Phones out there.
I can't comment on whether Windows Phone is a good platform or not - I haven't used it. I can't help but wonder though that if Nokia had gone with Android, would they still have that same diversity they used to have?
Maemo (then MeeGo) was to take over. Word was that Symbian couldn't cost-effectively scale up to the next generation of hardware (multi-CPU systems, perhaps) - major rewrites would have been required, and at the end of it, the new Symbian would be at best marginally more efficient than Linux; at worst, it would be completely unstable.
MeeGo was absolutely not ready for market. This Summer's handset launch would appear to be a repeat of the N900 - a phone for enthusiasts and hackers, but not mainstream-ready: more Android 1.6 than iPhone 1.0.
That only left a buy-in OS. Of the two options, one look at the profit margins "enjoyed" by the Android licencees should have been enough to swing the deal, but MS obliged with a cheque for a couple of billion too.
Personally, I really like Qt, and I think QtQuick/QML is the best way to put together a UI I've seen in years - you code up your model and engine (if you even need one), and you can almost hand the UI tweaking over to a web-designer type.
> We would argue that the safest place for Symbian and Qt devs is on Android.
And that's where lots of us are going, but it's an uphill struggle with many of us having invested years in what has just turned into a dead-end platform...
There ought to be some kind of benevolent fund for ex-Symbian hackers.
"I've been asked many times how long we will support Symbian and I'm sure for many of you it feels we have been avoiding the question. The truth is, it is very difficult to provide a single answer."
This is why Nokia fails as a company. "We can't give any straight answer because we either don't know (Woah, who's steering the ship? Nobody?!) or my division hasn't been told what the strategy is because it's the board's super-secret special strategy, whatever that is."
"We would argue that the safest place for Symbian and Qt devs is on Android."
Indeed. When Nokia and Microsoft's business in the mobile space has finally been reduced to patent trolling, there'll be a bunch of people using Qt stuff on Android and benefiting from Nokia's investment in that technology. And at that point the clueless Nokia execs, instead of thinking "Maybe we can benefit from that, too!" will instead be wondering whether there's money to be made in suing everyone instead. And when that game gets rained off, it'll be sad faces all round and whining about how Google has ruined it for everybody.
"offer a strong portfolio of Symbian products during the transition period to Windows Phone during 2011 and 2012."
The only reason to buy a dead end product is if you're not aware it's dead end. So some sales will continue to unaware buyers.
Why though would developers bother with a soon to be extinct product?
As stated by El Reg, better to move to developing Android apps (or iOS).
Of course Nokia wants people to keep developing for Symbian. It has to be able to punt Ovi for the coming two years too and it needs the number of apps rising.
And of course developers are not going to fall for this. Not because Nokia is a bunch of lying bastards (which is true, but irrelevant as this is strictly business), but because of opportunity costs.
And with Android apps not making any kind of money, developers are going to iOS.
Yes - it went up about 3% over the weekend!
Shame that's still down by 16%. I'm impressed - very few CEOs survive a single-statement plunge that knocks that much off the value of the company.
As to the devs - we've all left. Yep, all of us.
The desktop commercial licensors have been sold to Digia.
The phone devs are moving to Android, using the Qt port to Android. There's also some work on a port to Apple IOS.
Not many people would develop for a <5% market share, and it's not going to get much bigger now that MS knocked a hole in their platform.
- The IDC forecast is clearly rubbish, given that they've heaped Windows Mobile 6 in with Windows Phone 7, Symbian in with Symbian^3 and then assumed that everyone with a Symbian or Symbian^3 phone is going to go straight for a Windows Phone 7. Even if it means going from 7-10 day battery to 1-2 day battery...
I received that developer email... Came as a shock (not just the content), I had completely forgotten I had signed up as a developer years ago. I gave up very quickly when I discovered how disjointed their reference documents were, and how flakey the IDE was (even getting it installed was a mission).
Then suddenly out of the blue comes this letter, denying the ship is sinking. Maybe if they had paid a bit more attention to developers in the past it might have made us feel a bit more inclined to work with their platform.
As it is, the email came a bit late. I jumped from the ship the month before the leak was made official and am now working on my first two commercial Android applications.
Elop has a mountain to climb. He comes from a bureaucratic environment into an even more bureaucratic environment, and is trying to turn Nokia into Apple. There are probably 20 different committees who are all trying to stop him.
This in turn means that any phone with windows on will take Nokia longer to produce than he hoped.
Add that to Microsoft's inability to produce decent software in a timely way, and the restrictions they place on partners who want to make phones using their software, and it may be years before we see a nokia phone running windows 7.
Possible 2 years. This is a lifetime in this industry. Meantime what does Nokia sell?. They have no option but to continue to develop and support Symbian.
But who will buy it? and will the symbian developers (who have not been made redundant) be prepared to stay before the burning platform sinks? When you RIF staff, its never the superstars. There is always a role for them, but in this case the better Nokia developers are currently voting with their feet. Developers are delicate souls and these ones don't like the closed nature of Windows and microsoft.
All this spells trouble for Nokia.
It begins to look as if Elops decision was about as bad a decision as could be made.
Nokia will continue to lose market share dramatically to Apple and Android platforms at the high profit margin smartphone end, and will continue to see erosion of their position at the low end from cheap mobiles made in china and other places east.
It may be too late to go android, it probably was not the right decision anyway(although less bad than windows phone 7).
If I were he (god forbid), I would run an internal competition between windows and erm... well an OS they already own. And give several sackfuls of dosh to the winner, providing that the winner was of prime time quality , oh, and I would set a time limit. Dont know how long because I don't know their numbers, but it would be less than 2 years, thats for damn sure. Remember what is needed, a good phone with good app. capability running an OS with good development potentialcome to think of it, android fits that bill. Nokia have always made phones which work and work well, android satisfies the criteria, but is a bit rough around the edges. maybe it's not too late
Even better, make the competition between Windows and Android. Nothing like backing 2 horses, and Nokia is big enough
The main issue for Elop is getting the bureaucracy under control
The captain of the Titanic didn't think the passengers were stupid enough not to know the ship was sinking - Nokia is hoping their customers are.
All this posturing is simple - Nokia needs to retain their customer base so that when they start selling Windows phone 100% of their customers will buy one(according to ICD).
Here is what a loyal Nokia owner who needs a phone in the next year or two says to himself. Nokia really screwed me over but what the hell, I'll buy a smart phone that has no future, an every decreasing application portfolio and even Nokia thinks is a waste of time.
Hell - I'll buy two.
The future is clear, Nokia sinks just about as fast as the Titanic, Microsoft buys cheap what is left of the company - saying they are finishing their rescue (rape) of the company and Microsoft can be just like Apple..
"The only reason to buy a dead end product is if you're not aware it's dead end."
I bought my Sony PlayStation2 not knowing whether there would be a PS3, and it worked perfectly fine for me. Similarly I bought a CRT television years ago not knowing that it would be a dead end product, but it worked for over ten years with no problems.
I have a Nokia E71, a Nokia E72 and a Nokia C7 ... all great in their own way (though my C7 is annoying, brilliant at many things, but terrible at others ... not bad enough to give up on yet though!) ... and Nokia want to sell probably another 150 million Symbian devices on top of the several hundred million Symbian devices out there.
There are *more* Symbian devices in use than there are iPhones or Android devices ... so if you can write a good application, then there's a larger potential market *and* larger potential profit ... so that's why you'd want to at least consider continuing to develop apps for the next year or so, to sell to maybe 2-400 million Symbian device users. Last year Morgan Stanley predicted the number of iPhone users could reach 100 million by the end of 2011, a number lower that already exists for Symbian users.
Sure if your app is going to take two years to write, then you're probably better looking elsewhere ... otherwise it's not so obvious why you'd turn your back on 200 million potential customers and the largest installed base of smartphone users ...
... having said which, my next phone is very likely to be Android :-) (or an iPhone 5!)
the size of the installed base of symbian users that matters
but the rate at which those owners are upgrading...
if they all keep their handsets for the next 5 years, fine
but i get offered a new handset every 12 - 18 months.
The next nokia i get won't be symbian.
You also write as if symbian were symbian were symbian
but i've never found 2 nokias with exactly the same implementation
- finding apps for your handset's flavour of symbian can be frustrating
... and before direct-to-public app stores arrived, this didn't matter much.
On the bright side, since Symbian^3 there is finally a unified platform: C6, C7, E7 and N8 are all the same build target, and have broadly comparable feature sets. Granted, if you need to do something device specific, you're going to have to re-code, but the proliferation of platforms has been dealt with. Qt also supports Symbian^1, but that's a much less capable platform.
As a by-the-way: loose-lipped mobile industry people mention that operators have already been shown N8s with a major UI overhaul...... and a good thing too. My N8 is a great phone and Symbian^3 is a very good OS, but the initial user experience is just too plain for today's consumers.
They could have got MeeGo working like a dream by the time they have their first prototype Windows phone out. This would also have re-invigorated Ovi and given developers a better chance of margin than Android apps. They have something great in Qt and they are just blowing it.
I imagine we are going to see a sharp decline in Symbian device sales - why buy into a dead platform. Very sad.
So ive been developing on the side using Qt over the past few months and heres some thoughts.
Qt its self is a fantastic framework to use with C++..or python.. And its been a pure please to work with. Devloping apps for maemo is simple and works well....then you get to symbian
the whole symbian thing although ive heard is much improved is still so damn awkward. Symbian signing is just about one of the most frustrating processes ever and i spent almost as much time on that as app devloping :)
then there is the dreaded smart installer - this pushes the qt librarys required by your app to the symbian phone. I can see why nokia did this in one sense as it means you only download the ones you need. But the whole lot is only about 10mb so who cares? Maybe this is a big thing in the devloping markets but they dont really sell qt phones here. Qt should be an update for the phones before allowed use ovi. That way developers do not get crap ratings because of nokias ever failing smart installer which only seems to work 50pc of the to time.
It is true there are a lot more symbian phones around than other types. But symbian is on many low end phones that do not support Qt. The only peple going to buy your apps are those with maybe N8s or a handful of others. I own the N900 and use it as my main phone it beats the socks of my iphneand my wifes htc android. But im a nerd.
So i stuck with it just to finish a small project to enter into the $10M developer competition. But thats it. I certainly won be heding to windows.
My next move was android but the piracy has now put me off. So its off to join the isheep next. Besides by the time im finished there hopefully lighthouse/neccesitas will be complete and i can now develop android ndk apps easily in qt.
And who knows maybe nokia will have given up on the ms rubbish and returned to Meamo/meego. In my dreams maybe.....
You know, every time I hear of Nokia encouraging Symbian / Qt developers to Keep Calm & Carry On, touting all the brilliant updates it will ship presently, I get this mental picture of a pet, sick and wounded beyond all hope – yet its owner refuses to put it down, insisting on pointless interventions that only prolong its agony.
Damn Nokia, just get your act together and end the pain!
"What I can promise you is that we will not just abandon Symbian users or developers," Kochikar says.
Which I'd say is 100% true. Long before the time Nokia could come up with a coherent strategy for abandoning it's devs (or a strategy for not abandoning them) users and dev's will have long since abandoned Nokia.
However, having observed the race between Novell NDS and MS Dir Svcs (ie: in the beginning a really capable network directory product vs a myth followed by a pile of shite, eventually followed by a decent system, but still (I think, been out of it for about 3 yrs) lacking some of the best aspects of NDS), who's to really say what the future holds...
Nokia: asphixiated in a cloud of MS FUD.