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If there was ever a volume of Yuri Hime magazine worth buying, Volume 20 is that volume. It was the most stellar issue to date. I've mentioned that I have now taken to skipping any stories that simply don't interest me – out of 18 stories, I skipped only 2 and liked or loved all of the ones I read. This was a great volume from beginning to end.
It begins with cover art by Fujieda Miyabi of Sarasa and Seriho from Ame-iro Kouchkan Kandan, and moves right into a pin-up by Morinaga Milk on one side and Dite on the other.
The first story, "Tsuki to Drop" is a variation on the group date gone wrong plot, when Nobara gets jealous of the guys paying attention to Tsuki at the gokon.
In "Mukou no Budou", Itsuwa is regretting not taking the chance to reach her hand out towards Mitsue, when she had it back in high school. Seeing Mitsue with a lover now hurts more than she was prepared for.
Miwa-san is a typical OL, whose life changes when she quite accidentally meets actress Nagae-san. Suddenly, her life is filled with new people – and new feelings. These last two stories are both stories about adult women, so of course they made me happy.
And, although "Yomijinrazuno Tsukari Desu" is back in a school setting, there was something so refreshingly goofy and fun about it that I liked it anyway. When Tsukasa gets a love letter from "S", she thinks it's from Sumika, and goes the old-fashioned route by befriending her to get closer to her. However, she completely misses the fact that the writer of the love letter shares the same initial with her best friend, Sakurako.
Morishima Akiko's series about grown-ups, "Renai Joshika," brings two of the couples together in a business overnight in a cheap hotel in Hokkaido. This story has a number of things I've never seen in a Yuri Hime manga before, including some very clever fourth wall breaks and femme drag for the two butches, Mitsuki and Saki. And it looks like Mitsuki and Kaori are reigniting their old relationship. It's been 15 years since they were lovers – I'll be interested to see how their adult relationship works out.
"Yr Yr" covers that awkward space between a confession and a response.
And we're going to end with an utterly squee-worthy chapter of "Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan" about which I can say very little without spoiling it. Sarasa and Seriho go out on a second date. To say that Seriho brings a U-haul would not be that far off. lol Seriously – this chapter is worth the price of the magazine. (I'm a little shy of halfway, but pressed for time today.)
Speaking of the price of the magazine. I know that many of you would purchase it if it were cheaper to get but sadly, the reality is that unless you live in Japan, it has to be shipped, until they – and we – have a model that works for legit digital reproduction (something I am working on, because it's time to stop discussing the problem and start talking about the solution.) The magazine is about $9 USD and the shipping can be twice that easily. As you know, I always link to the Amazon JP entry for the magazine, because I have an affiliate account. I know it's pretty steep shipping from there, but that cost per item goes down when you buy many items at once. A 20-item order can have a cost per item of about $4 USD, depending on what you get. Here are some other options:
BK1 books has more shipping options, so you can go a slower/cheaper route. You do need to know some Japanese to use their site, where on Amazon JP you can check out in English.
Also, if you live in a major city, a large bookstore can potentially get a subscription for you. And, if there is a Japanese bookstore anywhere in or near your town, they probably won't have any difficulty getting it for you. Asahiya, Kinokuniya and Sanseido all have overseas stores and all are glad to provide subscription services. It helps to show up with a cover, or a printout of the title and/or the ISSN for them. We speak with an accent. :-)
There are also an online subscription services available from Sasuga Books and CD Japan, although neither have Yuri Hime listed, I'm sure they will be glad to assist you.
J-List does have Yuri Hime listed in their magazine section, and a subscription is available through them.
And Anonymous tells us that HMV JP also has an English-language interface, with a caveat that HMV's overseas shipping is EMS only, no SAL. Thanks Anon, much obliged.
So, there really are a lot of options for you to buy Yuri Hime, and make the point that there is a legitimate overseas market. The more we buy, the more our voice is heard. In the near future I'll expand about how this can change things for all our benefit – and talk about the solution I mentioned above. :-)
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1. Introduction
This contract is made between you and Vacanze Lago s.r.l.
2. Contract
The contract is regulated by the law N. 111 of March 17, 1977, by the European Community law 90/314, by international conventions and in particular by the Convention of Brussels of April 23, 1970 which was made active with the law of December 27, 1977 n. 1084, by the Convention of Warsaw of October 12, 1929 in regard to international air transportation made active with the law of May 19, 1932 n. 41, by the Convention of Bern fo February 25, 1961 in regard to train transportation, made active with the law n. 806 of March 2, 1963 concerning touristic packages and in regard to the civil code and other laws in regard to internal Law.
3. Reservation, Confirmation and Payment Conditions
You can make your reservation by telephone or by email. Within 48 hours you will have to pay a 30 % deposit of the total amount of your stay. The balance is required at least 6 weeks before your holiday. In case of booking a luxury villa or a villa with swimming pool we require a 50% deposit of the total amount of your stay to confirm the booking. The booking will be considered confirmed with the payment of the deposit. If there should be any differences between the data on our bank script and the information received through the internet, with this first payment we will automatically confirm the data in regard to our bank script. If you do not pay all payments due in full within 5 days, we reserve the right to cancel your booking. In the case of a short term booking that means made within 30 days before the date of your arrival, the full payment is required, this is the only way the booking will be considered confirmed. Once we receive the total amount, you will receive the documents for your stay that will have to be handed in when you collect the keys of your holiday home. A booking fee of Euro 60,00 will be charged per property. A booking fee of Euro 60,00 will be charged per property. The booking fee is higher for the luxury villas (Euro 100,00).
4. Services and Prices
All bookings are possible for a minimum weekly stay from Saturday to Saturday in high season while the minum stay in low and mid-season is 4 days. Daily and weekly prices are visible in the grid according to the different seasons. Any possible stays which contain 2 different seasons will be calculated by considering the exact number of days of every season. The rental rates do not always include consumption of electricity unless described. Heating costs are extra. It is clearly indicated in the price list whether linen and final cleaning are included and if they are not included these costs will be included in the contract along with the rental rate. If there should be any extra surcharges such as weekly cleaning, weekly change of linen etc.they are to be paid locally. If the accommodation is situated in a village subject to a tourist tax, this shall be payable locally. The information that you find on our website concerning the facilities in the area (such as means of transportation, shops, restaurants etc.) are referred to us by third parties, it is therefore possible that we are not informed of possible changes. It could be is also possible that there could be problems with the correct supply of gas, water and electricity. In these cases and in case of adverse weather conditions, Vacanze Lago s.r.l. is not responsable
5. Changes in Price and Services
We have taken great care to ensure the details of our homes and of our prices. Although there could be some changes that will be communicated at the booking and confirmation stage. If there should be any changes once you have confirmed the booking we will of course advise you immediately. If the changes concern essential points of the contract you are entitled to cancel the booking within 5 days, at no extra charge. You will then receive a refund of the whole amount paid but no further compensation will be paid.
6.Arrival and departure, shortening or extending your stay
Arrivals take place between 4pm and 7pm and you must leave the property by 10 am. If you are not able to arrive within the times indicated here, please contact the person responsible for the keys in order to arrange the arrival. No refunds are possible if you are unable to arrive on the fixed day and time (due to the journey, personal reasons etc.) . Similarly if you have to shorten your holiday no refund can be made for the days unused. If you wish to stay longer please contact our office in time.
7.Cancellation by you
If you cancel a confirmed booking, you may receive:a 50% refund of the total cost if they cancel at least four weeks before check-in and a a 25% refund of the total cost if they cancel at least two weeks before check-in. The administration fee is not refundable. PLEASE NOTE: No refunds will be given for early departure. Depending on the reason for cancellation, you may be entitled to claim from your cancellation policy. We strongly recommend that you take out a private cancellation insurance.
8. Changes or Cancellation by Vacanze Lago s.r.l.
Vacanze Lago reserves the right to change the holiday home with another holiday home of similar price in case of an unexpected accident. For any reason beyond its control or for force majeure (war, natural disaster, fire, sell of the property etc.) Vacanze Lago will immediately cancel the booking and refund all monies paid.
9. Your Liability
Upon arrival you will have to pay to the owner or the key holder a breakage deposit of 200 Euros for the apartments, 400 Euros for the villas and up to 1500 Euros for the luxury villas (the safety deposit may vary according to the villa) which can be paid in cash or sometimes even by credit card The owner or the key holder may refuse to hand over the key if the deposit is not paid. Only the number of people indicated in the booking contract are allowed to enter the reserved property. The key holder has the right not to allow extra people in the house or to ask a surcharge During your stay all local rules should be respected. Tents are not permitted in the case you rent a villa, as they could ruin the garden. When you leave the house you must leave all kitchen appliances clean because this is not included in the final cleaning. Upon departure the whole breakage deposit will be refunded under the condition that the apartment has not been damaged.
10.Complaints and enquiries for refunds
If upon arrival or during your stay you should find differences with what you have booked you should solve the problem with the local key holder. If this person is unable to help you immediately you must call our booking office. In any case the people who have the job of welcoming you do not have the responsibility of dealing with refunds. All complaints and refund enquiries must be sent to our office within 4 weeks following the date of your departure, after this time Vacanze Lago will not answer to any complaints and you won't have the right to ask for a refund.
11. Our Liability
If the characteristics of the home present substantial differences with what is written on the contract and for this reason are not able to give you an adequate stay, Vacanze Lago s.r.l. will offer you an alternative of the same value. If there is no availability or if you refuse the alternative property for valid reasons, Vacanze Lago s.r.l. will refund the whole rental price. Vacanze Lago s.r.l. is not responsable in the following cases:
a)Negligence or appliances that do not work because of third parties.
b) In case of force majeure or of an event which Vacanze Lago s.r.l. and neither the key holder) can foresee
c)Theft in homes
12.Competant Court
Any discussion about these booking conditions is under the jurisdiction of the court of Lecco . These conditions and the corresponding price list is valid from 01.10.2016 to 01.10.2017 and replaces the previous publications.
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Topic Outline
- 1 General Information Sources
- 2 Aging
- 4 Burden of Illness
- 5 Determinants of Health
- 6 Environment/Sustainable Development
- 7 Family and Reproductive Health
- 8 Global Warming
- 9 Health Expenditures
- 10 Health Promotion
- 11 Health Technology
- 12 Malnutrition
- 13 Poverty and Health
- 14 Public Health
- 15 Tobacco
- 16 Water and Sanitation
General Information Sources
- International Issues (Health Affairs topic page)
- World Health Report 2004: Health Systems Improving Performance (WHO)
- World Health Report: Links to previous years (1995-2003)
- Health in the Americas (PAHO)
- International Statistics
- HumanProgress.org. Maintains data on longitudinal global trends since 1950 in health and other measures of human progress
- Long-Term Global Demographic Trends: Reshaping the Geopolitical Landscape (CIA)
- Maintaining Prosperity in an Ageing Society (OECD)
- Policy Implications of Ageing (OECD)
- Reforms for an Ageing Society (OECD)
- Elderly Health Links (PAHO)
- HIV/AIDS (World Bank)
- HIV/AIDS in the Developing World (Bureau of the Census)
- Annotated Bibliography of WHO Publications on HIV/AIDS (WHO)
- HIV/AIDS (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in number of cases and deaths.
Burden of Illness
- Macroeconomics and Health (WHO)
- Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in Health for Economic Development (12/01)
- Communicable/infectious Disease Links (WHO)
- Diseases: Prevention and Control Links (PAHO)
- Non-communicable Disease Links (WHO)
- Tropical Disease Links (WHO)
- Vaccine-preventable Disease Links (WHO)
- Cancer (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in death rates for a wide variety of cancers, by men and women.
- Malaria (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in number of cases and deaths.
- Tuberculosis (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in number of cases and deaths.
- Vaccination (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in percentage of children covered by specified vaccines.
Determinants of Health
- World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Closing the Gap in a Generation: Healthy Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health, Final Report, 2008. [Full Text]
Environment/Sustainable Development
- Environmental Themes (European Environmental Agency)
- Environmental Health (PAHO)
- European Union's Policies–Environment (EU)
- Handbook of Global Environmental Policy and Administration (order info only)
Family and Reproductive Health
- Family and Reproductive Health Links (WHO)
- Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction (WHO)
- Maternal Health Links (PAHO)
- Reproductive Health Links (PAHO)
- Pregnancy and Birth (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in percentage of pregnant women receiving prenatal care and births attended by skilled attendant.
Global Warming
- The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (US)
- American Petroleum Institute (US)
- Citizens for a Sound Economy (US)
- Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN, US)
- Cooler Heads Coalition (US)
- Environmental Defense Fund (US)
- European Environment Agency
- Global Warming Links (Junkscience.com)
- Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (US)
- Pace University School of Law Global Warming Central (US)
- The Science and Environmental Policy Project (US)
- World Climate Report (Greening Earth Society)
- Curry, Judith.
- Lewis, Nicholas and Judith Curry. The implications for climate sensitivity of AR5 forcing and heat uptake estimates. Climate Dynamics, September 2014. A summary of findings is here.
Health Expenditures
- Health Expenditures (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in health spending per capita, 1995-2010, health spending as % of GDP and other measures.
- Hospitals (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends in hospital beds per 1,000 and hospital average length of stay since 1960.
- Physicians and nurses (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends on physicians/1,000, practicing physicians/1,000 and nurses & midwives/1,000
Health Promotion
Health Technology
- Malnutrition (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends related to malnutrition.
Poverty and Health
- Effects of Health Care on Mortality in OECD Countries (OECD)
- Health Inequalities and Health of the Poor (WHO)
- Poverty and Health (PAHO)
- Targeting Health Programs to Reach the Poor (WHO)
Public Health
Water and Sanitation
- Water and Sanitation (HumanProgress.org). Detailed trends related to water and sanitation.


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Fun for families
Bay Area Family Fest 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 31-Sept. 2, Waterfront Park, Martinez. Kid's activities, sports games, face painting, spin art, Radio Disney, more. $6, $5 with can food donation; under 2, seniors 65 older, free. www.bayareafamilyfest.com.
Bead show
Artist exhibit, reception
80/20 Gallery, ARTU4iA first group show with reception 7 p.m. Aug. 16, 725 Ward St., Martinez. Exhibit through Sept. 20. www.artU4iA.com, 925-323-6533.
Ghost Walk
Waste collection
Free tour of Pleasant Hill Transfer, Recovery Station 1 p.m. Aug. 14, 951 Waterbird Way, Martinez. Learn what happens to garbage after collection. Register: abaker@republicservces. com, 925-671-5806.
Rams fundraiser
Pleasant Hill High School class of 1970, hosts live music with The Tuneriders 7:30-10 p.m. Aug. 17, Teen Center, Pleasant Hill Park, 147 Gregory Lane. Benefits Rams Plaza memorial. $20, $25 at door. 925-360-0288.
Helping foster children
Sleep Train collecting backpacks, school supplies for local foster children through Aug. 11. Bring donation to Sleep Train or donate online and they will do shopping for you. www.sleeptrain.com.
Gently used clothing
Clothing Galore 8:30 a.m. Aug. 10, Morello Hills Christian Church, 1000 Morello Hills Drive, Martinez. Free gently used clothing for men, women, children in many sizes. 925-228-4346.
Music, classic cars
Fridays on the Main 6-8 p.m. through Aug. 30, Main Street, Martinez. Classic cars, street rods, custom trucks, motorcycles, arts, crafts, live music. Aug. 16: Zenkali, punk, pop, alternative. 925-228-3577, www.mainstreetmartinez.org.
Summer reading finale
Rockets! 6:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 12, Martinez Library, 740 Court St. Kids make, fly air-powered rockets. Drawing for free Lindsay museum pass. 925-646-9900.
Interfaith summer camp
Art in the Park
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EVENT DATE: 13-19 December 2013
A unique collaboration between Christie's and Fashion Illustration Gallery in partnership with Issa London.
From 13th – 19th December 2013, Christie's South Kensington will host the Fashion Illustration Gallery for an exhibition and series of events - including a panel discussion, talk with David Downton and guided tours by Tony Glenville - to celebrate this category of artistic endeavour and enterprise.
The exhibition will present drawings, paintings and prints by the world's leading artists working in this field today; David Downton, Tanya Ling, Gladys Perint Palmer, Hiroshi Tanabe, Richard Haines, Mats Gustafson, Francois Berthoud, Jean-Philippe Delhomme and Ricardo Fumanal, amongst others.
In recent years interest in fashion illustration has grown both culturally and commercially; a fact reflected in the publication of books about the genre, great commercial and editorial commissioning and significantly in the art market; museum exhibitions, selling exhibitions and auctions. Fashion Illustrators are gaining international repute and their works have become highly collectable.
As leaders in the fields of art and fashion, attracting attention internationally, Christie's, Fashion Illustration Gallery and Issa London are natural collaborators for this exhibition.
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Beckett, Varitek finding a groove
CLEARWATER, Fla. – More than 3,000 times this season, their eyes will lock. Josh Beckett, up 10 inches on the pitching mound, will peer down at Jason Varitek, and they will have an unspoken conversation.
The most important relationship in baseball isn't between a hitter and his bat or a fielder and his glove or a player's needle and his butt cheek. It's the pitcher-catcher dynamic, one that demands rapport, respect and, most of all, results.
"You don't want to hate the guy," Beckett said. "It would be like trying to do a kissing scene in a movie with a girl you used to date."
If Varitek is Brad Pitt in Boston, he can only hope Beckett isn't Jennifer Aniston. Beckett is the new ace in town, 25 years old, a Texan blessed with a powerful arm, a proven playoff winner and poised to take over as the Red Sox's No. 1 starter when Curt Schilling leaves, or possibly sooner. Varitek is the veteran catcher, 34 in April, a two-time All-Star, a Gold Glove winner, such a presence that the Red Sox gave him $40 million over four years to keep him from going elsewhere.
They are both hardheaded alpha males, and that's what makes them good. It also meant that, with Varitek stolen away for two weeks by the World Baseball Classic, their time to feel one another out was shortened to a cram session.
That session took place here last week against the Phillies. Beckett was throwing to Varitek for the first time against big-league hitters, and while it was only a spring-training game, it portended more: The Red Sox think Varitek can bring a Cy Young out of Beckett, who to this point has shown lots of potential but only so-so production.
"You observe a lot," Varitek said. "Communicate a lot. Hopefully get in a lot of situations. Runners on base. Runners in scoring position. As much as you need to know how the pitcher reacts to them, you've got to see how hitters react to the pitcher."
In turn, the catcher learns how to react to the pitcher. The best pairs are so in tune they could moonlight as soothsayers. Catcher Tony Peña developed such a bond with Roger Clemens, he never flashed hand signals. Charlie O'Brien, he of the lifetime .221 average, stayed employed for 15 years because pitchers loved him.
"Our guys throw their pitches with conviction because they know Jason has done his preparation," Boston manager Terry Francona said. "He's not going to put his finger down for no reason."
Remember, Varitek has built this reputation in only seven full seasons. He's good for about 20 home runs and 75 RBIs a season, and he strikes out twice as much as he walks. By numbers alone, he is not a $10 million-a-season player.
More than any position, though, catcher requires a disciplinarian and a nurturer, a therapist and an enforcer. He is the good cop and bad cop in one. All the while, he must decipher the umpire's strike zone, remember the count, keep an eye on baserunners and ensure the pitcher doesn't follow any patterns.
Oh, and then he actually needs to catch Beckett's 97-mph fastball.
"He makes you comfortable with what he's putting down," Beckett said. "There's an ease there.
"I've been through so many catchers, it's kind of getting old."
First Charles Johnson, then Mike Redmond, Ramon Castro and Pudge Rodriguez, before Redmond again and, finally, Paul LoDuca.
Four seasons and five catchers lead to one uncertain pitcher.
Which is why Varitek's first job is to put Beckett at ease. He might have the best stuff in the American League next to Johan Santana and Roy Halladay. His right shoulder, always a cause for concern, hasn't acted up. No blisters on his fingers, either – a constant cause of concern as they've sent him to the disabled list six times.
The situation is ripe for Beckett to succeed, to start 30 games and pitch 200 innings for the first time in his career. With a good season, the Red Sox will try to lock him up long-term, probably for more than the $11 million per season of his old friend, A.J. Burnett.
"It's all about trust," Varitek said.
In himself first.
And in his catcher foremost.


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Sacred Memories of the Future
(New Earth Records, 1997)
This pleasant but mostly unexceptional CD is solidly within the worldbeat tradition, mixing native Australian Aboriginal instruments with chanting and synthesizer sounds. The didgeridoo playing is excellent -- particularly in the solo piece -- and the CD as a whole makes a fine ambient background to whatever one is doing.
One of the point of ambient music, of course, is its ability to fade into the background, so it's probably not fair to criticize Cybertribe for doing this so well. This isn't quite ambient music, though -- it's more trancelike than ambient normally is, with a stronger beat that can be danced to in a meditative way. And it's best listened to loudly, since a lower volume makes much of the complexity inaudible.
The tracks range from 4 to almost 13 minutes in length, for a 43-minute total playing time.
The standout piece on this CD is the amazing "Call of the Didgeridoo," a five-minute didgeridoo solo that is marvelous and mind-blowing. Most didgeridoo playing I've heard has been amongst other instruments, where it's generally either an accompanying drone or a rhythm instrument. Here it solos, and I am stunned and delighted by this piece. "Visions of Light" also has some fine didgeridoo playing, this time with accompaniment.
"First Contact" combines the didgeridoo with some ambient chanting and a good dancing beat and instrumentation. It's my favorite of the tracks besides the didgeridoo solo, though "Reaching the Ocean" is a close runner-up. At over 12 minutes it's the longest track by far, and has less obvious modern instrumentation. The synthesizers nicely set off the didgeridoo and the recorded seashore noises of gulls and surf.
"Cry of the Earth" has electronic music with a heavy beat, and some wonderful vocals by B. Sampson that make the piece stand out.
I didn't care for either "Deep Down in the Jungle" or "(that's why we have to come) Back to This Land" as much as the other tracks. "Jungle" was a continuous building of musical tension with no resolution; it just stopped. While I did like much about "Back to This Land," the aboriginal child vocals were grating. This may have been intentional, since they sounded electronically processed and that added considerably to the grating quality.
I did not appreciate that a full third of the liner notes consisted of advertising for other CDs on the label. Apart from that, the notes are adequate although sketchy, and quite attractive.
This album is a must-buy, I think, for didgeridoo fans because of the fine "Call of the Didgeridoo," as well as excellent playing on several of the other pieces. I can't recommend it strongly to anyone else; it's perfectly nice, but not exceptional. If you're curious about didgeridoo playing in a modern context, starting out with Outback (one of whose songs was used in a commercial for the Olympics) or Yothu Yindi (a stunning mixture of Aboriginal chanting and instrumentation with rock) would be best -- but if you already have those, Cybertribe might make a welcome addition to your library.
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I have to show my work on a problem:
Ok, so first thing: divide by fastest growing term in the denominator, which in this case as x approaches is actually:
So: =
This is where I start to get a little confused. How exactly do I mathematically express that as x approaches approaches zero?
I can say: , but then what? I have seen direct substitution with but isn't this bad form? You can't do arithmetic on infinity.
So then does it just "jump" to: ?
Or is there some merit to doing this next (after splitting the func. to a quotient of limits): ? I thought this had no meaning; if it does what is the next step?
Thank you for any help, I know I got the answer, but it's the showing of the steps I am a little tripped up on. IF there is anything missing, can you also explain then how I can exactly express the other horizontal limit ?


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Is The Rose Capital Of The World All Hype?
Have you ever wondered why people call Tyler TX the Rose Capital of the World? Is this hype or is there some truth to the statement? It actually is the truth, Tyler was the first city to commercialize the sell of roses. Tyler invented the rose selling industry and now you hear about flowers.com all the time on radio shows like Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, and Glen Beck. Tyler TX is a pretty unique little city and is known for inventing a lot of neat little ideas and products. Did you know someone from Tyler TX was also responsible for inventing the adopt a highway program. This program is now a very popular highway clean up system throughout the United States. So let's learn a little more about Tyler Texas as the Rose Capital of the World.
Tyler Texas Rose Capital History
The sandy soil, year round rain fall and normal weather patterns allowed Tyler to be an ideal place for growing flowers. After the East Texas peach crop disaster most of the nurseries in Tyler began growing roses. Most of the commercial roses being grown in the nation in the 20's and 30's were coming from Tyler.
A Prosperous East Texas Town Even During The Depression
The continued prosperity from rose production and the oil boom in the 1930's allowed Tyler to offer an elaborate Rose festival and parade throughout the depression. While other cities in the nation were in financial catastrophe Tyler TX remained stable economically and people were able to enjoy extra curricular city events like the Rose festival. Tyler has continued to show off it's proud history in the Rose industry by having a Rose parade and festival year after year.
Commercial Rose Production
At this time it is estimated that about 20% of the roses produced in the United States come from Tyler Texas. One of the landmark areas most Tylerites are familiar with when it comes to Roses is the Brookshires at Broadway and Rice Road. At this corner you can get dollar Roses year round. There is usually a lady with a nursery van and a bucket full of roses. You can stop in at Brookshires, buy some roses for your wife, and maybe drive across the street to Marble Slab Creamery for a little snack.


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On 3-May-08, at 1:04 PM, Daniel Horecki wrote:
And what with rc.d/ files? E.g. I have xdm from pkgsrc, and every time I had to use postinstall, I have to to bring back that files.
As others have said, the correct way for a package to override a "standard" rc.d script would be to create an rc.conf.d script that will adjust the necessary pathnames appropriately so that the package variant is used instead of the original base-OS variant. In my opinion that's what pkgsrc should be doing for NetBSD whenever it provides a package that is already part of a base system install. I've modified pkgsrc to do that for some of the packages I install, such as bind9.
In general though properly conforming pkgsrc packages will always install their rc.d script into /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d and then IFF there is not a script of the same name in /etc the install procedure will then copy it into /etc/rc.
So: (a) you've always got the original package's rc.d script to compare or copy if the system upgrade messes something up; and (b) the package install should never automatically override an already installed rc.d script regardless of whether that script was supplied by the system or another package; and (c) for all system-supplied rc.d scripts it is possible to override the command and parameters used to invoke the daemon or whatever such that a variant installed by a package can be used instead of the base-OS variant.
-- Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. <woods%planix.ca@localhost>


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Originally posted by dbdublin:
The most depressing 49er game of my life was the NFC Championship game after the 1983 season. Two 4th quarter pass interference calls (terrible calls) allowed the Redskins to kick a late game winning field goal. The refs gave the game to Washington. I'm still not over that game.
That one killed my soul too, its one thig to lose on a good play but when refs decide a game on a ghost calls---I still feel somebody should check if the guy was on the t......can't say it don't want to get sued.
The second was the championship game where we lost the chance for a three peat which would be a first.
Those two would have made us possibly the first to win 7 Sups.


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Chelsea, Liverpool all square
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Chelsea defender Paulo Ferreira (right) atttempts a tackle on Liverpool's Spanish midfielder Luis Garcia during the 0-0 clash at Anfield.
Photo: AFP
Holder Liverpool and Chelsea shared the spoils in a goalless Champions League encounter on Wednesday night, billed as a grudge tie after the Merseysiders's controversial semi-final win last season.
Liverpool, confident in Europe though struggling at home, hustled the Londoners as much as any team has this season as the two teams remained joint top of Group G with four points from two matches.
For Chelsea, rampant in the Premier League and 14 points ahead of Liverpool, it was the first game of the season it had not won and they were often on the back foot.
The English rivals put on a better spectacle than in last season's semi-final, where a single disputed goal at a roaring Anfield settled the tie.
For Jose Mourinho, who like Liverpool coach Rafael Benitez has won the UEFA Cup and Champions League in successive seasons, that defeat marred an otherwise successful first season in England, though he stopped short of talking of revenge.
Premier League champion Chelsea had the better of the opening salvos.
In the eighth minute Xabi Alonso earned a yellow card for pulling Michael Essien's shirt and Frank Lampard's low free kick was tipped round the post by Jose Manuel Reina.
Liverpool's indefatigable captain Steven Gerrard, who scored seven times in Champions League qualifying, took a chance from 25 metres but the shot sailed over the bar in the 17th minute.
The home crowd claimed a penalty when Sami Hyypia tumbled under a Didier Drogba tackle but Italian referee Massimo de Santis was unmoved by the baying Kop supporters.
The fans returned to taunting the small Chelsea contingent at the other end with chants of "Where were you in Istanbul?", recalling a memorable night in May when Liverpool came from 3-0 down to beat AC Milan in the final.
Chelsea's best chance came in the 33rd minute when Lampard threaded ball to Arjen Robben who turned two defenders and forced Reina to tip the ball over for a corner.
Mostly though Steve Finnan and Djimi Traore kept Chelsea's fleet-footed wingers Robben and Damien Duff under control.
At the other end lofty Peter Crouch, more than two metres tall and dangerous in the air, was a constant thorn in the side of Portuguese defenders Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira.
He did not manage a shot on target, however, against a Chelsea defence that has conceded only one goal in nine games this season.
Liverpool, true to its European form, came out guns blazing in the second period and Chelsea was largely pinned in their own half.
The home side had two credible penalty appeals turned down. In the 52nd minute Ferreira appeared to pull at Luis Garcia with the Spaniard through on goal, Petr Cech saving at his feet.
Three minutes later the players and the Kop rose in unison claiming handball against William Gallas. De Santis was not convinced.
In the 74th minute Liverpool almost conceded against the run of play when a Hyypia back header missed Reina and the goalkeeper had to dive to flick it out of the path of the advancing Duff.
Alonso, Gerrard and Djibril Cisse all had chances from distance and Chelsea kept the champion at bay, though at a heavy cost in yellow cards for captain John Terry, Claude Makelele, Lampard and Robben.
The two sides meet again on Sunday in the Premier League.
- Reuters
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) It's hard to pack up for a trip, but if you bring your pet, it can get a little bit harder. Jim Helmes, the owner of Jim Helmes Dog Pals has tips to make it easier.
Tips for Traveling with Pets:
- Get a health check
- Keep your pet hydrated
- Consider a crate
- Remember Identification
- Check lodging ahead of time


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Bill Gives Adoptees from Other States Access to NYS Registry
New York State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle said the Senate passed a bill enabling people who were adopted in New York but born in other states to participate in the New York State Adoption Registry. The bill (S.5145), passed on June 13, gives adoptees born in other states the same ability to access information as eligible New York-born adoptees.
"The Adoption Registry can help a person learn more about their heritage, medical history and even potentially reunite with their birth family," LaValle said.
If a person is born and adopted in New York, the state Health Department's Adoption Registry can help them learn more about their birth families and, at times, facilitate reunions. Current law does not enable individuals who have been born in other states, but who's adoptions were finalized in New York to have the same access to the records and other potentially releasable information. With this bill, all eligible New York-adopted individuals can participate in the registry.
The bill has been sent to the Assembly.


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Let me tell you the story of Master Gan - a new child at Mercy Centre. A mighty five-year-old, he's the spirit of Songkran and Easter rolled into one. Right now, he's not at the top of his mental and physical peak because he's got chicken pox, but that won't hold him back for long.
He's Songkran – Our Thai New Year Water Festival:
Overhearing a conversation about our Songkran holiday plans at Mercy – the part about asking elders for a blessing, pouring lustral water over their hands, and seeking forgiveness…
Master Gan thought about it a moment, and said he wanted some extra lustral water to go back to the Klong Toey market to see Uncle Duck Vendor and ask a blessing from Uncle.
Also ask for a bit of forgiveness:
Because he, Master Gan, and that stray cat had sometimes teased the ducks Uncle was selling from his stall in the marketplace. Also he wished for forgiveness from Heaven Above to help Uncle. Master Gan knew that Uncle Duck Vendor always prayed before butchering the ducks, but that he prayed in Chinese, and was afraid the ducks might only understand Thai.
Uncle didn't speak Thai very clearly and only knew the Chinese prayers his mother had taught him long ago. Thus, he was afraid to go to the Temple to make merit – thought people would laugh at him. Plus Uncle has pride and dignity. He is a proper duck vendor. If the ducks, failing to understand his Chinese prayers, didn't quack in unison… well, that wasn't Uncle's fault.
Also and most important of all, Master Gan wanted to ask Uncle Duck Vendor for a blessing for his (Gan's) parents in prison, and of course, not to forget the cat who slept daytimes near Uncle's rented market stall.
True, neither the stray cat nor his parents can speak or understand Chinese, but maybe that's okay, Gan reasoned.
AND MASTER GAN IS EASTER, TOO. His life is an Easter/Songkran celebration, even in his present state with chicken pox.
And we, too, like Gan, ask for blessings.
That for our children – reminded by this Easter/Songkran moon - we must re-consecrate our Sacred Rituals to ask the Sacred Fire to warm us. We must ask the Air to bless our children so that people and plants and animals can breathe. To make the Water pure again, so our brothers and sisters the fish can live and flourish. And we ask a blessing to Mother Earth herself that she can grow trees and flowers and protect us.
And we resolve to stop being so mean spirited and hurting everything and thus everyone. It's spring time, the time to plant. It's the most sacred time in Thailand – Easter and Songkran.
Our Thai Easter and Songkran Moon is the same moon in the heavens – the brightest moon of the year.
How Gan Joined Our Mercy Family:
It began this way. There was a police shoot up, with guns pointed up at the sky, not at people, but about that in a minute….
Early each morning, our main cook finishes her food purchases in the Klong Toey fresh market no later than four a.m. except on rainy squally days. (I should mention that our cook has got a sharp eye for both stray kids and stray cats.)
Sunday, three weeks ago, before Songkran and a month before Easter, our cook was in the back section of the market where they sell chickens, ducks, and fresh fish. A young boy holding a stray cat, both a bit ragged, came up to her.
It was barefoot Master Nong Gan. He approached our cook and said just what he says to every kind-looking adult in the market: "I'm good at carrying stuff. Do you need any help?"
Our cook raised her eyebrows, slightly, Thai style. Gan continued, "My name is Nong Gan, and I help out Uncle Duck Vendor here in the market while my dad and mum are away with the police for a while, but they promised they would come back soon, and I hugged my mum 'cause she was sad and I promised I'd be okay and I would save my money to buy her some ribbons for her hair. I'd keep them for when she comes back. Because the policeman said, she couldn't wear ribbons, and my mum cried, and then the policeman said, 'well, maybe, sometimes.'"
Our cook was impressed with Gan's torrent of words and the way he expressed himself. She asked her market cronies, "Who takes care of this boy and his cat?"
One of them pointed to a grizzled duck vendor and said, "that old guy over there with the gimp leg, butchering ducks."
It turns out that Uncle Duck Vendor shared an adjoining shack with Gan and his parents. When the police came to arrest his parents – firing warning shots in the air – Gan crawled out through the window and hid under Uncle Duck Vendor's shack.
When Uncle came home a couple hours later, Master Gan, totally spooked from the noise of gunfire and the apparent disappearance of both his parents, would not talk or eat for two days. Uncle didn't know what to do, so he gathered up Master Gan and put him on the back of his motorcycle with the basket full of ducks and drove to his stall in the market.
That's when that stray market cat came up and made friends with Master Gan and after a while, he joined the cat, eating some left over rice together.
Uncle Duck Vendor said he keeps an eye on Gan as best he can and brings him along to the morning market, but between butchering ducks and haggling with his customers, he's too old to look after a little boy, plus a stray cat, too, even though the stray cat pretty much looks after himself.
Uncle Duck Vendor also mentioned that during quiet moments when he has no customers, Nong Gan was teaching himself how to read. Uncle Duck Vendor, who spoke only broken Thai, felt disappointed that he couldn't help much.
What to do? Our Mercy Centre offered to help look after Gan, and the community elders talked. No neighborhood bad guys had noticed Nong Gan or tried to use him. He would be the perfect mark – and a most profitable catch – for any human trafficker. Even easier and more convenient, any drug dealer could use Gan as a mule for local drug sales.
They all agreed with our cook that we would take care of Gan, if Gan would also agree. He nodded his okay. But he also insisted that he would come to the market often to help Uncle Duck Vendor, especially when counting change because Uncle couldn't count very fast. And that we help let Gan learn to read and write, and if he didn't understand, we would explain. And Gan insisted that he keeps the stray cat. We blinked on the cat. Told Nong Gan it was a "stray." If the cat stayed with us, fine. But you can't force a stray to live anywhere.
So it was settled. Next step: we – that is, Nong Gan, our cook, our legal aid team, and Uncle Duck Vendor (some ladies in the market promised to sell ducks for him that day) – immediately set off to visit Nong Gan's parents in prison and asked them to give our Mercy Centre temporary guardianship over their son.They did.
Gan has joined us as our newest Mercy child. We're honored, of course. True to his spirit, and really, his genius, he has convinced our cook to buy duck for Sunday's big meal. Our kids are on school break for now, but Master Gan talks about going to kindergarten with great anticipation.
Uncle Duck Vendor teaches him market Chinese; and here at Mercy, he speaks to everyone he meets who looks like they might also teach him a little English. As we suspected, the stray cat has returned to the market, and Nong Gan goes each morning to help Uncle Duck Vendor count change, in case he gets confused with the bigger bills…and also to feed the cat.
Wishing all our friends a Happy Songkran and Blessed Easter.


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Dear friends,
I am new in java. I am doing chatting program using java. I want to get input from users in client as well as server side. Without blocking the stdin I want get input from stdin. How do I achive this ? Please show the correct path ? Give some views .


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Hi guys,
I was wondering if someone could help me apply the concept to understand some chord progressions better in order to create some on my own, using the logic of LCC.
There is an earlier thread with this example:
"Wave" progression, D Maj 7- Bb dim 7 - A min 7 - D7b9 - Gmaj7 - Gm6
DMaj7 (D Lydian scale first degree)
Bb dim (Bb lydian first degree in the form of an auxiliary dimished scale)
Am7 (C lydian scale VI degree)
D7b9 (C lydian scale II degree in the form of a Lydian dimished scale)
Gmaj7 (G Lydian scale first degree)
Gm6 ( Bb lydian VI degree)
I saw somewhere in the forum, a good way to analyse the progression would be using the scales.
So the progression would be: D - Bb - C - C - G - Bb, how can I use this logic creating my own progressions/compositions?
On D7b9 could I use:
(+V) Ab auxiliary dimished ,
(I) D Lydian
(VII) Eb auxiliary dimished
(II) C auxiliary dimished
What would be the best choice if the next chord is Gmaj7 then Gm6.
Which of those options resolves better to Gmaj7 and G lydian scale?
How would you come up with a chord progression like this using LCC?
Where in the book can I learn more about this?


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By Chris Chaney
Sun staff
The Glen Este swim teams are in a reloading phase this year after losing 13 swimmers to graduation. And while it should have been difficult for the Trojans to bounce back after such a loss, the teams are excelling where they can.
"For our size, we've been doing fine," head coach Al Kirk said. "We only have 14 (athletes) on the team. There are only three boys, so we can't fill a relay team, which is a draw back to the guys, but they've done real well. We can't win very meets without a relay team.
"We've got some girls back (from last year). We graduated 10 girls, so it took out a lot of events."
With the pay-to-play, the Trojans have to deal with the obstacle of getting athletes who are willing and able to drop nearly $500 to compete. Kirk said that while it's not ideal, it's something all athletes in the West Clermont School District have to deal with.
On the boys' team, as Kirk mentioned, there are only three swimmers; a pair of freshmen, Joe Dulle and John Martino, and senior Joe Randazzo.
"Both (Dulle and Martino) are new swimmers," Kirk said. "John did excellent last week and he is progressing quite well and so is Joe (Dulle).
"Joe Randazzo is a very good kid and our senior. He has will certainly get to districts this year and has a very good chance to get to state in the 500 (freestyle) as well as the 200 (individual medley)."
Dulle swims the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and the 100 breaststroke, while Martino competes in the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyle, as well as the 200 IM and the 100-yard backstroke.
While both freshman are improving consistently, the boys' upstate hopes lie in the hands and feet of Randazzo.
Randazzo is in the top-10 in the 50- and 200-yard freestyles in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference, but his best event is the 500-yard freestyle, which he holds the top spot in the conference.
Kirk said that Randazzo is focused on making it upstate, making the sacrifices necessary to do so, which includes swimming 15,000 yards a day. Randazzo wakes up at 4:30 a.m. to swim before school and then does the same thing in the evening.
If Randazzo is able to achieve his goal of getting to the state meet, he would be the first Glen Este swimmer or diver to get there in 14 years, according to Kirk.
On the girls' side, their higher numbers give them the opportunity to fill more events and score better in their meets.
The team is led by Jenny Howell, a junior and returning district qualifier. Howell excels in the 100-yard breaststroke, in which she holds the fifth-best time in the ECC.
"I'm confident she will make it back to districts this year," Kirk said. "She's one of our breastrokers, but she swims pretty much every stroke we have. She has scored in every meet that we've had. As far as the girls go, she's our mainstay."
Aside from Howell, the Lady Trojans are fairly young with just three seniors and eight underclassmen taking notes under their tutelage.
Kirk mentioned Breanna Ruschman, Rachel Harrison, Taylor Cecil as the underclassmen who have performed well, while the returning seniors, Sydney Null, Ashley Belanger have been in the program for years.
"We have some senior leaders and then we have some young swimmers," Kirk said. "With such a small team, the blend of each gives us the ability to score points in the meets that we have."
The Trojans have had 14 meets this season and for the most part, they are outmanned by the larger teams, causing their record to not resemble the talent that they possess.
"It's sobering to know that our small group can go out and score points and compete somewhat with the big groups," Kirk said. "But we can't really contend simply because we cannot fill all of the events."
With the regular season behind them and the postseason on the horizon, the Trojans are trimming their daily yardages to prepare them for sectionals and districts. And despite Glen Este's numbers not being able to fill up an entire meet, their individuals can now put their talents on display as they represent the purple and black.


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Parametric EQ and streaming audio on iOS: What's the hold-up?
Some time back I wrote about custom equalizing headphones for one's ears. Similar to digital room correction (DRC) that corrects for speaker/room interactions, this involves compensating for the often very narrow but significant frequency peaks in one's particular headphone/ear system to achieve a flat perceived response.
Achieving this properly requires the use of either a notch filter circuit or a parametric equalizer. The latter seems like a particularly convenient solution, especially when implemented in software, and indeed there are various such plug-ins or other solutions available for audio playback on desktop and notebook computers. (I use the no-longer-supported Electri-Q plug-in with Foobar 2000 for music playback on my PC.)
On tablets and iPhones/iPods things get a bit more tricky. There are parametric equalizer music playback apps available (such as the excellent Equalizer for iOS), which are fine if you're only listening to music files that are stored on the device itself. But if you're among the increasing number of users using such devices to play streaming audio from files located on a music server elsewhere on the network, you're out of luck.
For example, I currently use the iPeng app for streaming music playback on my iPad. It works great, but the only equalizer I have access to with this app is the default iOS graphic equalizer, which is useless for my purposes.
I have also looked into other streaming solutions such as that offered by the JRiver Media Center software and associated JRemote app. Although the JRiver software offers some sophisticated DSP equalization capabilities, it does not seem they can be used on streamed files.
(There are also a couple of other server-side possibilities - BruteFIR and InguzEQ - but implementing them can apparently be a challenge. I may still look into them more closely if/when I have the time.)
But there is hope. Shortly before my original post on this topic, a new iOS app appeared that - for the first time - enabled the possibility of "live, app-to-app audio." The app, Audiobus, was aimed at musicians who were using iDevices to produce music. Using Audiobus-enabled apps, mobile musicians could now, for example, play and record a synthesizer app in real-time into a separate DAW (digital audio workstation) app, and even add a separate effects app into that audio signal chain.
Needless to say this opened up huge possibilities for mobile music making. And there's no reason this couldn't be used to expand playback processing options for basic music playback apps. For example, the same developer who produced the Equalizer music player app mentioned above also makes a separate Audiobus-enabled parametric equalizer/compressor app - Remaster - aimed at musicians. If my streaming music player app were Audiobus enabled (it currently isn't), I would simply be able to add it to the Input slot in Audiobus with Remaster in the Effect slot to have parametric equalization capability with streaming audio on my iDevice.
Of course processing resources are limited on tablets, and it's possible this could be an issue. But come on, it's about time this was tried.
More recently, with iOS 7, Apple introduced its own audio routing feature - Inter-App Audio - which accomplishes much the same thing as Audiobus. This offers yet another opportunity for iOS audio apps to work together. So I'm now not-so-patiently waiting to see which iOS or Android app(s) is first to produce a solution for enabling parametric equalization of streaming audio!
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Care Bears Funshine Bear With DVD £7.99 @ Amazon
Back in the eighties when I was a little munchkin I was Care Bears daft and I am willing to bet that many of you reading this were too. They were HUGE back then and are still available to buy. They were aimed at girls back then but to be fair there's nothing spectacularly girly about them for them not to be given to boys. These sell for around £18 each with a bear and DVD in places like Very but you can grab the Funshine Bear with DVD for just £7.99 from Amazon.
This Funshine Care Bear is bright yellow and super snuggly. This is a very affordable gift for that birthday party present box that I am always banging on about.
You get a DVD included that features a cartoon all about Funshine Care Bear. This smiley faced, heart nosed bear has a cute sun on the front of it's belly and is suitable for children aged two years old and above.
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Microsoft is preparing to release the next version of its Office software during the first half of next year, and the company is gearing up to launch a public beta test version of Exchange Server 2010 on Wednesday.
The upcoming version of Microsoft Office software was expected by some to be released this year, but Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told analysts in February that would not be the case.Instead, Microsoft has announced that Office 2010 will be completed and ready to send to manufacturers during the first half of next year. After that, the time required for consumers to actually get their hands on the software could last from six weeks to four months or more, Chris Capossela, a senior vice president in the Microsoft group that makes Office, told the Associated Press.
That timetable suggests that the new version of Office will not be available in time for the public debut of Windows 7 in January 2010.
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That's one way to drain to the battery of the iPad.
Flaw in Google Now keeps GPS active
Written by Jim Dalrymple
I'm not sure how this is any different than the geofencing. It just needs to know where you are all the time for certain features to work. Just like background downloading in something like Instapaper. Yes, I suppose they could be more upfront about what and why, but seems far from a flaw or bug.
- gjgustav
Some of us don't want it on all the time.
But again, that's not a "flaw" (or bug) per se. You have the option to turn it off. A real flaw/bug doesn't typically have a user accessible option.
- TobyS95
It isn't a bug, it is bringing the Android experience to iOS. I also own a Nexus S with ICS and have experience with power issues and the overrated Google Now.
- Carlos
overrated Exactly my thoughts. Why the tech press talk about Google Now like it's a big thing? In it's current form it's just a convenience, nothing revolutionary about it. Maybe it will evolve to something more useful, but at this moment it's just a weather widget with map directions.
And people keep comparing it to Siri. They are very different.
- Mother Hydra
I disagree. Now is what Siri was meant to be, especially in an alternate universe where Google and Apple are still positively aligned (a la 2007). OR in a universe where Apple got services. Have you worked with the cards or really had a deep dive with the Now service on an android handset? LIGHT YEARS above Siri in terms of daily usefulness. Aside from some random wolfram stuff Siri excels at one thing: pissing me off. I try to use her each day but can't stand the rigid semantic structure you must adhere to to to extract useful info. Google Now culls sources and provides useful data such as accurate commute info and a weather forecast side-by-side with your daily tasks. "Looks like it will rain right after my meeting, better bring an umbrella." Later after the meeting "Oh and a nasty wreck just happened on the freeway, good thing I just had an alternate route shown to me automagically so I can get to that Pink Floyd concert on time." Google Now currently offers this, and Siri does not. For all the moves Apple has been making with Siri development how are they not headed in the same direction Your position is hard to understand.
- Carlos
I use Siri almost daily. I use it to annotate things, search past notes, create reminders, look at Real Madrid standings in La Liga, read reviews of movies, or call somebody without searching him in Contacts. Never had a problem, and "she" knows my voice well enough already that mistakes in voice recognition are rare nowadays. I don't know where all this criticism of Siri comes from.
I use Siri several times a day. The things I use "her" for Google Now just can't do. It's not Google's fault, mind you, but still.
Her recognition is pretty good.
Google Now, on the other hand? The only use I find for it is seeing what works. And so far, the answer is nothing.
- Carlos
I think it's not a bug. You can't keep the GPS active on iOS, the system doesn't allow an app to do that. But the app can use a feature of the OS to activate the app when big location changes occur, i.e. every 500 meters or more, with a minimum time interval of 5 minutes between updates. The location indicator could be indicating that. iOS is smart enough to forbid apps from getting constant location updates that could drain the battery.
- Adam
I'm not so sure it's a bug, but rather a (very intrusive) new feature. I noticed it as well, and promptly figured out how to turn off location tracking within the app.
- janakj
In addition to what everyone else has said, I left it running, and it hasn't had a noticeable impact on battery on my iPhone 5. I think it's the geofencing-style GPS periodic ping.
- Kirk
It isn't geofencing. An app using geofencing will show an outlined location icon. This is showing the full purple icon which means that it is using the actual location service (same as an active GPS app). Deleting he Google app fixed it for me on both the ipad and iPhone.
- janakj
Right, which is why I said "geofencing-style," though that's probably the wrong term. I was just trying to say it doesn't constantly have your GPS radio on, draining battery. I had it active the entire day yesterday, and my iPhone 5's battery was pretty much its usual self, with the device staying cool.
- Kirk
Odd. On both my devices it was showing as constantly active. Is the location services icon showing active on your iPhone 5?
- janakj
Yep, it's always on. But that doesn't automatically translate to a battery life impact.
- Kirk
Really strange. I definitely noticed a battery life improvement on both my iPad 3 & iPhone 5 after deleting it. Hope they get something figured out soon as I really like some of the Google Now features.
- Mother Hydra
Have they not learned from the wayward weather apps released unto hundreds (thousands?) of unsuspecting souls by way of the app store? Busch-league el Goog.
This is not to say I hate Google Now, quite the opposite. I just wish these show stoppers could be caught before being deployed via an update. Google Now, on its merits, is incredible in every way Siri disappoints.
- Luděk Roleček
After installing Google Now and enabling location services my iPhone drains battery at about 25% / hour rate. After disabling Location Services in Google Now settings it's immediately back to its normal ~3% / hour rate.
If you don't need super fresh traffic information I suggest turning it off. Traffic info still works, it's just that there are no alerts for high traffic and traffic card might have slightly older data.
- The White Tiger
I think you have a greater issue than Now. My iPhone 5 was draining at about 5% per hour. Perhaps you're in an area where the phone has difficulty syncing up with GPS?
- Luděk Roleček
Location Services don't use GPS exclusively. Google itself claims that their app uses cell towers and wifi networks as a low-power alternative to pinpoint your location.
- DanPierce
This is not a new flaw. I noticed it happening with the Google search app for a while; way before they added Google Now. I had to shut off location services just for the Google app.


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In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Now, nearly fifty years after King delivered it, 63 students Boston-area schools are celebrating the iconic speech through works of art.
Through the Dream@50 art contest 63 students from kindergarten through grade 12 at 15 area schools commemorated King's speech with artwork inspired by a word or phrase from the speech.
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|Synth Site: Korg: POLY800 Synthesizer: User reviews Add review
|Average rating: 3.8 out of 5
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|Adam a hobbyist user from USA writes:
Just picked up one of these fuckers on eBay for around $60 or so, shipping included. I spent an hour trying to load the factory patches via .wav file on computer plugged directly into the Poly 800 and it won't work. After the file plays through, you either get the 'Err' display or only a few crazy assed sounds in the 2,5,and 7 banks. I tried it at all kinds of volume levels no go. So it was time to program. If you can program a JX3P or a DW8000 this should be no problem. Yeah it takes awhile and the fact that it doesn't have a data slider makes it a bitch. But the parameters are easy enough to understand. Ok another thing..the footage settings are great! Kinda like having drawbars for each DCO. Ok you can only on or off but you can have up to 4 octaves of harmonic per DCO, too bad it doesn't have 5 1/3 or 2 2/3 or 1/3/5 settings than you could get some nice effects. But you can simulate that using keyboard 'chord' mode. You can have up to 8 notes in your chord, and the keyboard becomes monophoic. The VFC control on the joystick is really cool, and yes you can program that too. I made a couple of brassy patches last night after I unpacked it, and got totally different textures just by playing with the harmonics and filter. And speaking of filters I fully intend to do the filter mods. The moog slayer one sounds cool but I'm not so sure I want to start chopping off resistors and diodes. So I'll keep it simple and just do cutoff and reso. This thing is doing double duty as both a synth and a portable MIDI controller for my Yamaha QY70. It really is a great little machine and I think the construction is OK, but mine came in totally mint condition. No I will not smash mine, and I will use it live, already have a strap for it. I wouldn't have paid more than $100 for it but I got it cheap cheap cheap and it is cool cool cool!!!
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Thursday-Oct-10-2002 at 11:43
|Keith Middlemass from Hawick, Scotland writes:
My first real synth and have still got one. Cheap n nasty to some but I think its a classic. Better spec than most sizers of that time. Infact, if it had more than one filter it would have been awesome. Sadly, restrictive styles of play due to the filter as the sounds don't trigger correctly. I had the EPROM updated by Korg to sort the midi problems. Still, its got great potential in the right hands. Its got some excellent sounds and great for psychedelic music. If Chris Franke (Tangerine Dream) can use one then it can't be bad.
|Rating: 4 out of 5 posted Monday-Aug-12-2002 at 16:23
|a part-time user from Madison, Wisconsin writes:
ok, first and foremost, it has charm. i like that. its cheap and plastic and enbelievably lightweight but it can compete with the big boys. its like the little synth that could. i've gotten a surprising variety of fantastic sounds out of it, including warm pads, funky basses, and a really convincing bell/chime sound worthy of fm synthesis (email me if u want to hear). also, its quirky. since the day i've gotten it the lithium battery hasn't worked. that just forces me to sit down with it and program a patch from scratch. also, that joystick is just peculiar. the vcf is just fucking evil. a hint: turn the resonance up to 10 or so and the vcf up to 15 and you can make any patch just fucking GROWL man. yes the envelope is just impossible and i can't figure it out even with the manual, but oh well. and about that sequencer. you could say hey it sucks, or you could just punch in notes at random and come up with some blippy sounding sequences (i.e. the beginning of Prime Audio Soup by MBM). i paid more than i should have (185 including shipping) but im happy with my purchase. i think it is a good beginner synth and i dont think its sounds are quite as recognizable and overused as the junos are, which admittedly do the same sort of thing much much better. at any rate if you dont expect a power synth, and dont pay more than 150 for it, its a good piece of gear to pick up and will endear itself to you in time if you give it a chance.
|Rating: 3 out of 5 posted Sunday-Jul-07-2002 at 00:58
|Saso Podobnik a part-time user from Slovenia writes:
Especially when taking into account the second-hand price, you'd think that the Poly 800 would make a great beginner's synth...but I can tell you first-hand that it doesn't. Its user interface is tedious (parameter-value), the advanced envelopes confusing at first and the flimsy buttons don't help very much. The only feature that would benefit from digital control, the step-sequencer, has a slider to set its tempo. Go figure.
Furthermore, the results of the programming were, at least for me, rarely gratifying. Korg Poly 800 doesn't sound very good, full stop. I believe that the culprit for this are the oscillators which have a strange disposition towards producing square wave overtones, regardless of their setting. Hadn't this sounded so plasticky, it could've been something that people would go for, but it's merely annoying as it is.
It's attractive price makes the Poly 800 a favourite among the modders and some modifications are great, notably the installation of filter cut-off and resonance knobs and the "Moog slayer" filter mod. (Refer to a search engine for more info, my Poly was left unmodified.)
If you decide to buy it still, make sure you check it out thoroughly. I had noting but bad experience with mid-80's Korg build quality so I might be somewhat paranoid, but the keyboard scanning mechanism is in itself an example of poor engineering; and do check if the internal battery is still doing its job.
I spent almost a year with the synth. I made a few good sounds, but not a single unforgettable one (e-mail me at "[email protected]" to hear it in action - synthpop warning!). I'm not a terrific programmer and it's perfectly possible that I didn't make the best of the Poly 800. I sold it yesterday, for exactly the same price I bought it for. I can't be bitter about it at all therefore - the Poly will always be my first synth and the one that got me hooked on making synth music in the first place. I might miss it for sentimental value, but my later acquisitions (both analogue and digital) will not leave me craving for its sound and/or functionality.
|Rating: 2 out of 5 posted Tuesday-Jun-04-2002 at 03:13
|Charlie a part-time user from Sweden writes:
Cheap plastic synth. this is a good machine. nothing particular. I use it for some filter pads, basslines, warm strings. it can´t do much but what it does it does good. very east to program new sounds. no noisy outputs. The sound is a little thin and digital in comparison to my Juno-2. But pick one up, they´re really cheap and got some cool sounds.
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HANOI, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam will take great efforts to further strengthen cooperation with Russia, including in energy, said Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Dung expressed his pleasure at the effective cooperation between Gazprom Neft and the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group ( PetroVietnam) in recent years during the meeting with Alexander Dyukov, CEO of Russian oil and gas group Gazprom Neft, in Vietnam' s capital Hanoi on Monday.
Dung affirmed the Vietnamese government's support for energy cooperation between Russian oil and gas enterprises, including Gazprom Neft, with PetroVietnam for mutual interests and boosting multifaceted ties.
The prime minister spoke highly of the upcoming visit to Vietnam by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, describing it a milestone that will deepen the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.
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Today is offically blue monday! ...apparantly the most depressing day of the year...ages since you been paid...ages untitoday is offically blue monday! ...apparantly the most depressing day of the year...ages since you been paid...ages until your paid...nothing to look forward to at the end of it...forachange 36-40, F 3 Answers 1 Jan 21, 2013 in Friendship
belgianchocolate 26-30, F 15 Answers 2 Jun 1, 2015 in Community
I think my son(18) isn't worth it. I've never done anything for him on his birthday for 18 yrs, 1-18. Is that ok?georgeee1963 56-60, M 7 Answers 0 Nov 19, 2015 in Parenting & Family
Ever since son(18) was born I have never celebrated his birthday for 18 yrs 1-18. I just don't care, that normal?georgeoh1963 56-60, M 8 Answers 1 Nov 19, 2015 in Community
georgeee1963 56-60, M 5 Answers 0 Nov 18, 2015 in Community
For my sons(18) 16th and 17th birthdays I got him an empty box with nothing, never cared about his for 18 yrs. that ok?ohgeorge1963 51-55, M 10 Answers 1 Nov 29, 2015 in Community