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Here at BlueMountain.com, we hear a lot of feedback on how much everyone loves our talking ecards. And what's not to love – these fun cards say what you type, and are pretty much guaranteed to put a smile on anyone's face. Because there are so many talking cards to choose from, we thought it would be fun to create a top 10 list. Did your favorite make the cut? Have you sent all of the cards on the list? Let us know in the comments section and tell us what make these cards your favorite.
10. This Just In – This card allows you to send breaking news to your closest friends, whether you just want to say "Have a nice day," or celebrate something exciting.
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Weather application and widgets, with the current conditions and up to 6 days forecast in a single screen. Details are provided for each day by clicking on the weather icon. These details include day and night information, UV index, a radar image (for today), and (US only) air quality and pollen information for today.Weather updates can be manual, or set from 1 to 12 hours. Updating manually can be done via the app's preferences or a widget.About any location is the world is supported. If the current position is know (via GPS or network), it will be suggested when adding a location. A special 'My location' (requires network positioning) is provided, which will automatically change to where you are.Following widgets are provided:- simple weather widget (2×1): current conditions and next day forecast. Optionally, the last update time is displayed and a background can be choosen from a number of available backgrounds (including fully transparent);- weather & clock widget (4×1): shows the weather information as described above for the simple weather widget, and additionally a clock supporting multiple digit styles, optional next alarm info, and optional date. For the clock, optionally the weather location's time can be used, making it a world weather and clock widget.Multiple backgrounds are available to choose from (including fully transparent). Clicking the digits can launch an application of your choice;- advanced weather & clock widget (4×2): all features of the weather & clock widget with additional 3 weather positions for forecasts and/or other weather locations (and time);- in style widget (4×2): a nice weather & clock widget with up to 4-day forecast;- minimalistic weather & clock widget (1×1): displays the location name, current weather icon, current temp, hi/lo forecast temp and the time (optional backgrounds, clock digits, weather icons, custom action when clicking the clock minutes digits, enter widget prefs by clicking the clock hour digits, launch WMD-Weather app by clicking elsewhere);- Seb's weather widget (4×1): weather widget with up to 4 days of info;- Seb's weather/clock widget (4×2): large clock with weather info.NOTE: for the widgets to continu functioning after booting your device, the app has to be installed on internal memory!The widget's preferences can be modified at all times (see the online FAQ for widget details). Clicking the current conditions icon will launch the app itself.Clock widgets support an additional custom action. Configurable via the widget preferences (by tapping the hour digits), the action can be launched by tapping the minutes digits.Some of the clock widgets can display multiple locations (with time and current weather info) in a single widget, making them 'world clock/weather' widgets.Notes:- the widgets may not render fully on small screen (320×200) devices with a low dpi (e.g. original HTC Wildfire with HTC Sense; with a different launcher (e.g. ADWLauncher) rendering seems to be ok though)- should you encounter problems or errors, please consult the online FAQ (http://tinyurl.com/wmdweatherfaq) or contact us for help (rather than posting a comment or question in the Google Market to which cannot be responded)- for more information, please visit– http://tinyurl.com/wmdsoft– http://tinyurl.com/wmdweather2– http://tinyurl.com/wmdweatherfaq.Call for translators: if your language is not yet supported and you would like to have the app in your language and are willing to help translate texts, please let me know (by mail). Thanks!Thanks to Mattias Lindström for the Swedish translations, Rósza Ferenc and Zoltán Cservári for the Hungarian translation, Samuel Alves Rosa for the French and Spanish translations, Sebastian Lorenz for the German translation and André Pinto for the Brazilian version!


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Last Saturday, we attended a pancake Breakfast with Santa at our local high school. While we had already visited with Santa the week prior and gor some great photos, this was another chance for both boys to have some more time with the guy in the big red suit. And, it was another success!
We have been teaching George about Santa and the Christmas story for the past month. The preparation all paid off! After two years of crying and fear, this year he was so excited to meet Santa. And Jack's first time? Complete awe!


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Had a really nice day out today.. visited the farm park with the family and of course.. the railway!
Very friendly bunch.. had a nice chat with a chap who I guessed was the 'main man' - knew Colin anyway.
He kindly cleared out some 'junk' in the shed so I could get a look at the Bagnall. They were running 'Pet' today.
He did mention that there's an event in October when Effie will be visiting, along with a Heywood wagon and he'll have both engines in steam. Sounds like too good an opportunity to miss I reckon!
I told him about the Gnotters and he hinted strongly that he was thinking of having a model layout / diorama of the SFR built to take and display at events.. now there's a challenge folks! Don't know how my bodging would cope with trying to model the steam engines but there's certainly food for thought isn't there?
I noticed that they were looking for volunteers too.. It's a tempting thought. There's scope for extending the line and there are certainly dreams of what might be!


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Loyola Greyhounds vs. Albany Great Danes
Saturday, May 10, 2014 | 12:00 p.m.
Baltimore, Md. | Ridley Athletic Complex | ESPNU
Quick Hits About The 'Hounds
Loyola University Maryland will host its sixth-straight home game on Saturday, May 10, when the University at Albany visits Ridley Athletic Complex for a 12 p.m. game in the NCAA First Round.
The Greyhounds are making their first appearance in as many years in the NCAA Championships.
Saturday's game will mark Loyola's 22nd appearance in the NCAA Championships, 20th at the NCAA Division I level (since 1982).
The game will be the second NCAA men's lacrosse contest to be played at RIdley Athletic Complex in the facility's five-year history.
Joe Fletcher leads all close defenders nationally in ground balls (76) and ground balls per game (4.75).
Pat Laconi is tops among NCAA Division I non-pole players in caused turnovers (32) and caused turnovers per game (2.0).
Justin Ward and Nikko Pontrello entered the week ranked second and fourth in assists and goals per game, respectively, in the NCAA at 3.31 and 3.13.
Jack Runkel is second in goals against avg. (6.91), third in saves percentage (.620).
Last Time Out
Johns Hopkins scored three times in the first four minutes, two seconds of last Saturday's game, but Loyola outscored the Blue Jays, 13-5, over the course of the next 45-plus minutes.
Back-to-back Brian Schultz goals early in the fourth quarter put Loyola in front by five, and the Greyhounds ended up with a 13-10 victory in the regular-season finale for both teams.
Rob Guida bookended a Brandon Benn transition goal with two in the first five minuted, but Brian Sherlock put the Greyhounds on the board at 10:34, and Matt Sawyer scored on extra-man 21 ticks of the clock later.
Jeff Chase scored the first of his two second-quarter goals to put Loyola in front for the first time at 8:49, and after two ties thereafter, Brian Sherlock scored his second of the day to put the Greyhounds on top for good.
Graham Savio won 17-of-26 faceoffs, picked up a career-best 12 ground balls and scored his first career goal, four seconds after Sherlock's second.
Nikko Pontrello and Sherlock each scored three, and Justin Ward had four assists.
Pat Laconi caused four turnovers.
Turn On The Television
The Greyhounds will make their seventh appearance of the season on national television when they take the field on Saturday. It will be the first on the ESPN family of networks.
Joe Beninati will call the play-by-play, while Paul Carcaterra handles analysis duties.
In The Polls
After its win over Johns Hopkins, Loyola remained in the No. 1 spot of both the USILA coaches and Warrior/Inside Lacrosse media polls for the seventh week in a row.
The Greyhounds have been ranked No. 1 at some point in each of the last three seasons. This stretch is the longest Loyola has been ranked first since spending nine-straight at the top from March 15-May 10, 1999.
NCAA Championships History
Loyola is making its 22nd all-time appearance in the NCAA Championships, 20th in Division I history (since 1982). The Greyhounds are 12-20 all-time in the tournament, 12-18 at the Division I level.
Last year, the Greyhounds played in the NCAA First Round at No. 8 seed Duke University in a game that was touted by many to be the best in collegiate lacrosse of 2013. The Blue Devils rallied to send the game to overtime, and Case Mathias scored the game-winner in the second extra frame for a 12-11 Duke win that helped send the Blue Devils on to the national title.
The Greyhounds won the first NCAA Division I Championship, in any sport, in 2012, when they defeated Maryland, 9-3, on Memorial Day. The win completed an 18-1 season for the Greyhounds in which they tied the NCAA Division I record for wins in a season, matching the 18-2 Duke team from 2008. Loyola entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed and defeated Canisius, Denver and Notre Dame en route to the title game.
Series History
The Greyhounds and Great Danes will meet for the second time when they step onto the field Saturday, both coming in NCAA First Round action. Albany hosted Loyola on May 13, 2007, and advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals with a 19-10 win.
Dan Kallaugher won 27-of-33 faceoffs for Loyola and picked up 19 ground balls. His 27 wins are tied for seventh-most in NCAA single-game history and second-most in an NCAA Tournament game.
Andrew Spack, Paul Richards and Shane Koppens all scored twice in the game for Loyola, but Merrick Thomson tallied five for the Great Danes.
Streaking On Campus
Loyola's 15-game winning streak – the Greyhounds have not lost since falling in overtime on February 6 in the season-opener at the University of Virginia – is the longest in school history.
Previously, Greyhounds teams in 2012 and 1998 held the longest winning streak in program history with 12-straight wins. Loyola's 15-1 start is also tied for the best in school history through 16 games, matching that of the 2012 squad.
Alum Coaches
Led by Loyola's staff with Head Coach Charley Toomey '91, Assistant Coach Matt Dwan '95 and Director of Operations P.T. Ricci '09, there are eight Loyola alums on coaching staffs of teams in the NCAA Division I Championships.
The list includes: Richmond assistants Steve Layne '10 and Paul Richards '07, Air Force's Bill Wilson '94, Notre Dame volunteer assistant Kevin Anderson '93 and Virginia volunteer assistant Tim McDermott MBA '07.
All-League Awards
Three Loyola players earned individual awards when the Patriot League honors were announced last month. Joe Fletcher was named Defensive Player of the Year, Jack Runkel Goalkeeper of the Year and Justin Ward Offensive Player of the Year.
The trio was also named to the All-Patriot League First Team along with teammates Pat Laconi, Nikko Pontrello and Brian Sherlock. Kevin Ryan was named to the Second Team. Loyola's seven All-League players were the most by any team this season.
Tournament Honors
Jack Runkel was then named the Patriot League Championships Most Valuable Player, and he was joined on the All-Tournament Team by Joe Fletcher, Justin Ward and Brian Schultz.
Runkel made 15 saves in the title game against Lehigh after posting 12 in the semifinal versus Colgate. Fletcher finished with 11 ground balls and eight caused turnovers, five of the latter tying her career-high in the Colgate game. Ward distributed seven assists and scored three goals, and Schultz tallied six goals and assisted on three.
Get To Ten
Since Charley Toomey became head coach at Loyola in 2006, the Greyhounds have scored 10 or more goals on 69 occasions. After defeating Johns Hopkins, 13-10, on Saturday, Loyola has won 82.6 percent of those games (57-12).
Since 2012
Loyola has the best winning percentage in NCAA Division I men's lacrosse since the start of the 2012 season. The Greyhounds are 44-7 during that stretch (18-1 in 2012, 11-5 in 2013 and 15-1 this season) for a .863 mark. Loyola's winning percentage of .933 this season is the best nationally.
Duke and Loyola have both won 44 games during the run, but the Blue Devils are second to the Greyhounds in winning percentage by nearly nine percent (44-13, .772).
Chart Toppers
A pair of Greyhounds attackers are near the top of two offensive categories through the end of the regular-season in both total goals and assists. Nikko Pontrello is third in Division I with 50 goals, while Justin Ward is second with 53 assists.
The duo is the No. 2 point-scoring tandem in the country with 131 combined points (Ward, 69; Pontrello, 62). Albany's Lyle (114) and Miles (108) have a combined 222.
Goalkeeper Jack Runkel is also near the top of statistical rankings for his position. He is second in goals against average (6.91) and saves percentage (.620).
Tops Among Close Defenders
Joe Fletcher not only leads Loyola in ground balls, total (76) and per game (4.75), this season, but more impressive than that, he paces all close defenders nationally in the categories. Fletcher is 46th overall in ground balls per game, while the 45 players who are ahead of him are either face-off specialists or long-stick midfielders who play on the wings during restarts.
And Short-Sticks, Too
Meanwhile, Pat Laconi tops all non-pole defenders nationally in caused turnovers and caused turnovers per game. With four against Johns Hopkins, he has caused 32 this season while averaging 2.0 per game. He enters the Albany game eighth in the nation, and the seven players ahead of him in the rankings are all long-stick midfielders or close defenders.
Record-Setting Quarterback
Justin Ward has continued to be the quarterback of the Greyhounds' offense this year, passing out 53 assists in 16 games. In the Patriot League Championship Game against Lehigh, Ward became the conference's single-season assist leader, passing Bucknell University's David Dickson who had 48 in 2013.
With his third and final assist on April 12 against Boston University, Ward passed Sean Heffernan for first-place in school single-season history at the Division I level.
He is second in the nation in total assists (53), and he is also second in the country, and tops in the Patriot League, with 3.31 assists per game this year. The 45 assists are tied for second in Patriot League history, three shy of matching Bucknell's David Dickson's record of 48 from a year ago.
With four assists against Duke on March 9, Ward set Loyola's career Division I record (since 1982) in total assists, eclipsing the mark of 83 set from 1989-92 by Jim Blanding. His three at Colgate gave him 100 for his career, making him the second player in program history ever to reach the century mark.
Ward now has 120 career assists. Gary Hanley holds the all-time Loyola record with 160 assists. Ward is also sixth in school Division I history in total points with 170, five away from tying Gewas Schindler (1996-99) for fifth place. His 69 points this season are tied for third in school single-season history, two away from matching Eric Lusby's 2012 school-record total.
Of his 53 assists this year, 31 have gone to his fellow attack players. More than half of Brian Schultz's 36 goals (19-of-36) have come off Ward assists, continuing a trend from when the pair were club teammates with the Maryland Roughriders. Nikko Pontrello has tallied 12 of his team-high 50 from Ward helpers, and Ward has also assisted on 11 of the Greyhounds' 23 extra-man goals this year.
Ward is in his third year as a starter on attack for the Greyhound after earning USILA All-America Honorable Mention last year after finishing tops on the team in points (62) and assists (35) and second in goals (27). His 62 points ranked tied for fifth in school single-season Division I history, and his 35 assists check in at third on that list.
Pontrello Putting Up Points
Nikko Pontrello was held without a goal for the first time this season on April 5 against Navy, snapping a streak of 10-straight games to start the season that Pontrello had two or more goals. He rebounded, however, with three goals and two assists versus Boston University and three goals and an assist versus Bucknell.
As of the end of the regular-season, Pontrello is third nationally with 50 goals after recording three each in the Patriot League Championship Game against Lehigh and against Johns Hopkins.
Pontrello is the fourth player in school single-season history to score 50 or more goals in a year, joining Eric Lusby (54, 2012), Mike Sawyer (52, 2012) and Tim Goettelmann (50, 2000).
He scored two in the season-opener at Virginia and then had three each against Penn State and Towson before scoring a career-high six goals at Holy Cross. He then tallied four at Lehigh, five against Duke, three at Georgetown, five versus Lafayette and three against Colgate, Boston University, Bucknell and Lehigh in the Patriot League title game. He has now scored two or more in 14 of 16 games this year.
Two of his goals have been game-winners in one-goal contests. Pontrello scored 19 seconds into overtime to give Loyola a 12-11 win at Penn State, and he then tallied one with 51.4 seconds left in regulation to push the Greyhounds past Georgetown, 10-9.
Stopping Shots
After opening the season with a .214 save percentage in the opener at Virginia, Jack Runkel has played to a .642 mark, saving 167 out of 260 shots on goal he's faced. In a six-game stretch against Towson, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Duke and Army, Runkel made 61 saves and allowed just 26 goals (.701).
The senior goalkeeper earned a record five Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week honors this year and was named the conference's Goalkeeper of the Year. He has a goals against average of 6.91 this season and a cumulative saves percentage of .620 through 16 games. He is second in the nation in goals against average and third in saves percentage.
In three years as a starter for the Greyhounds, Runkel has a 7.63 goals against average and .573 saves percentage. Runkel's record between the pipes is 42-6. He is second in wins among active goalkeepers, trailing only Maryland's Niko Amato who has 46 victories. Amato, however, is a four-year starter, while Runkel did not start until early in his sophomore season.
Fletch, White And Blue
Senior defender Joe Fletcher was the lone current collegiate player selected as part of one of 52 players who made up the United States Men's National Team training roster this fall, and the day before Loyola's season-opener, he found out he is one of 30 players who made the cut for the team that will compete at the 2014 World Cup in Denver.
He later had seven ground balls and causing a turnover against Duke. He also was primarily responsible for holding the Blue Devils' All-American attacker Jordan Wolf to one goal.
Versus Colgate, Fletcher was matched up against Ryan Walsh, and he held the Raiders' leading scorer without a goal or assist for the first time in his career, a total of 42 prior games. He then marked Navy's T.J. Hanzsche, holding him without a point for the first time in 15 games. He then snapped the 41-game point-scoring streak of Bucknell's David Dickson on April 17, holding him without a shot.
In all, the players Fletcher has had primary marking responsibilities for have tallied 16 goals in 16 games this year (including three each by the University of Virginia's Mark Cockerton and Penn State University's Shane Sturgis in the season's first two games). Six of those goals have come when Fletcher was already out of the game late in the fourth quarter.
Fletcher has been named Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week five times this year, the most any player in conference history has earned the award. He is second on the team in ground balls (76) and caused turnovers (28). His 73 career caused turnovers are tied for third all-time with fellow captain Pat Laconi at Loyola behind the 90 of P.T. Ricci and 88 of Scott Ratliff.
Not Just Defensive Midfield
Pat Laconi has continued to show his versatility as one of the top short-stick defensive midfielders in the nation while being a player with offensive acumen. The Preseason All-American had a goal in settled offense against Johns Hopkins to bring his season total to nine goals and three assists and his career numbers to 14 and 12.
Laconi caused a career-high five turnovers against Bucknell and four versus Johns Hopkins. His team-leading 32 caused turnovers are tops on the team this season have brought his career total to 69, tied for third-most in school history.
Schultz Stepping Up
In his first year as a starter on attack for the Greyhounds, senior Brian Schultz has scored 36 goals, second-most on the team through 16 games, and his 14 assists are also second. He had the game-winning goal 12 seconds into the second overtime at Navy and less than two weeks later posted a career-best six goals in a win over Bucknell.
With a career-high six goals against Bucknell on April 17, four versus Colgate in the Patriot League Semifinal, a pair in the title game versus Lehigh and three versus Johns Hopkins, Schultz scored 15 goals, to go with four assists, in Loyola's last four games.
Entering this season, Schultz had seen most of his playing time on extra-man opportunities for the Greyhounds, posting a combined three goals and five assists.
Near The Top At Both Sides
The Greyhounds entered the final of the regular-season as the only team to be in the top five of scoring offense and defense at the Division I level. Loyola's goals per game (13.31) rank fifth, and its goals allowed (7.13) are second. As a result, Loyola leads the nation in scoring margin (+6.19).
Games Of Runs
Loyola has used significant runs in all 16 of its games this season, and it has had six stretches of seven or more unanswered goals. In all the Greyhounds have 31 runs of 3-0 or better. Here is a look at their four best scoring stretches:
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On the flip side, Loyola's opponents have made runs of 3-0 or better just seven times this year. Virginia and Penn State did it twice each in the first two games of the year, Army and Georgetown did it in back-to-back games in March and Johns Hopkins did it to open last Saturday's game.
Quarter Or More Scoreless
Loyola has held opponents scoreless for 15 or more minutes on 18 occasions this season (chart on left). Six times, the Greyhounds have posted shutout streaks of better than 30 minutes of clock time.
The longest Loyola has held a team without a goal this season is 47 minutes, 13 seconds, in the February 22 game at Holy Cross.
The Greyhounds have played just two games this year – at Penn State and at Colgate – in which they have not held opponents scoreless for 15 or more minutes at a time.
Opponents have held Loyola without a goal for stretches of 15 or more minutes three (at Virginia, at Georgetown, at Navy). Only Virginia did so for more than 17 minutes. The Cavaliers went on an 8-0 run over 31:23, holding the Greyhounds scoreless in the second and third quarters before Loyola reeled off nine-straight in the fourth.
Tewaaraton Watch Trio, Senior CLASS Award Pair
Loyola is one of three schools (along with Duke) to have three players named Tewaaraton Award nominees. Joe Fletcher, Nikko Pontrello and Justin Ward are semifinalists for the honor of college lacrosse's top player.
Fletcher and Ward are also two of 10 players nationally to be named finalists for the Senior CLASS Award that honors seniors who have performed at a high level athletically and in the classroom.


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WASHINGTON -- Rules that spell out what Medicare plans must spend on care rather than marketing and overhead will mirror those of commercial plans, the Obama administration said late Friday.
Starting in 2014, Medicare Advantage plans and Part D prescription drug plans will have to spend 85% of revenue on clinical services, prescription drugs, quality improvements, and other direct patient benefits, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said in a proposed rule that details medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
"Aligning the commercial and Medicare regulations will make commercial and Medicare MLRs as comparable as possible for comparison and evaluation purposes, including by Medicare beneficiaries," the rule reads.
The ACA has enforced a minimum MLR in private insurance since 2011. Under that rule, insurance companies must spend 80% of revenue from individual and small-group plans on healthcare and 85% of revenue from large-group plans. Failure to meet those standards results in rebates to customers.
Insurers paid more than $1.1 billion in MLR rebates under the ACA in August 2012, according to the Congressional Research Service.
Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plans -- which are handled through private plan managers and intermediaries and not CMS -- that don't meet MLR requirements will face similar penalties.
"The Affordable Care Act requires several levels of sanctions for failure to meet the 85% minimum MLR requirement, including remittance of funds to CMS, a prohibition on enrolling new members, and, ultimately, contract termination," the rule states.
Enrollment sanctions would kick in after 3 consecutive years of not meeting MLR requirements; contracts would be terminated after missing MLR requirements for 5 years in a row.
"MA organizations and Part D sponsors will be required to submit data to CMS that will allow enrollees of health plans, consumers, regulators, and others to take into consideration MLRs as a measure of health insurers' efficiency," the rules state.
Medicare Advantage and Part D MLRs will be reported on a contract basis, rather than by state and market as with commercial plans.
"In short, we believe our proposal of contract-level aggregation for MLR calculation is both reasonable and in alignment with important goals of program stability and administrative simplification," the rule stated.
Comments on CMS' proposed rule are due by mid-April. Comments must be received before a rule is finalized.


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Happy New Year! January Sake TastingsMonday, December 31st, 2007
Kick off the New Year with some new sake explorations at SAKAYA. Our lineup of tastings for January features visits and expertise from the creators of Shichiken, Nanbu Bijin, and Dassai as well as a diverse array of premium sake from Vine Connections and World Sake Imports, two premier American importers…All except Nanbu Bijin (4PM) begin at 6PM and continue until 8PM.
Shichiken: 6pm~8pm, Friday, January 4
Tsushima Kitahara, the 13th generation of the Shichiken brewing family returns to
make his farewell appearance before heading back to his role at their Yamanashi-ken kura. If you missed his last visit, you'll want to be here for this eye-opening introduction to the pleasures of drinking his Junmai Ginjo sake at several different temperatures.
Nanbu Bijin: 4pm~6pm, Saturday, January 12
Kosuke Kuji, the 5th generation of the family which owns and operates this Iwate-ken brewery, will offer samples of his "Southern Beauty" Junmai Ginjo and Tokubetsu Junmai sake accompanied by a healthy helping of his cheerfully delivered insights into how their unique attributes are achieved.
Vine Connections: 6pm~8pm, Friday, January 18
Sake Sommelier Paul Tanguay of Vine Connections will familiarize visitors with selections from their carefully chosen portfolio of ginjo sake.
World Sake Imports: 6pm~8pm, Thursday, January 24
Enjoy an assortment of high quality sake from the portfolio of the pioneering importer responsible for creating the Joy of Sake events in Honolulu, San Francisco, and New York.
Dassai: 6pm~8pm, Thursday, January 31 & 6pm~8pm, Friday, February 1
Kazuhiro Sakurai, 4th generation of the family that owns the Dassai brewery in Yamaguchi-ken will offer samples and discuss the fine points of their Dassai 50 Junmai Ginjo and Dassai 23 Junmai Daiginjo.
We look forward to seeing you soon at SAKAYA.
Kanpai to a Happy (Sake) New Year!
Rick & Hiroko
324 E.9th Street (just east of 2nd Avenue)
New York NY 10003


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Can anyone recommend a good library/API for adding PDF output to a graphically-intensive MFC C++ (GDI+ VC++ 6 etc) application?
For example a simple EMF-to-PDF conversion would seem to be sufficient.
It seems to be a common capability of many apps. Is there a standard or common solution I have missed?


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I recently spent a few days in California, noted location of beautiful weather, breathtaking scenery, and thousands of smelly, bearded men who sleep in their Volkswagen Vanagons.
I'm just kidding, of course. I LOVE California. Love, love, love, love, love. I say this because I recently wrote a column with a few critical words about Ohio, and I'm still getting e-mails from angry Ohioans who feel that they must avenge to the fullest any hostility towards their home state, even if it's a couple of sentences on a Jalopnik column. "The thing about you," these e-mails say, "is that you're no better than a child molester." So I want to go on the record saying that California is great, and I would love to live there, even though buying a home in a desirable area costs approximately the same amount of money as World War II.
But there is one small issue I've noticed when it comes cars in California. The issue is: if you have a temporary license plate, you can commit any crime you want — red light running, toll lane violations, murder, bestiality — with absolutely no fear of getting caught. And here's the other thing: you can do this for as long as you want. For days, months, years, you can commit these crimes, completely undetected.
Allow me to explain.
In your home state, which is not California, one of two things happens when you buy a car. The first possibility is that they issue you a license plate right there at the dealership, which is what happens in a few northeastern states. This is an excellent idea, and I think there's absolutely no possible way that any type of fraud could come out of giving a stack of unissued, fully legal license plates to Big Bob's Used Cars and Bail Bonds, where repeat customers get a free Glock 17.
It's more likely, however, that they issue you a temporary license plate. What happens here is you get a little paper plate, often affixed to the back window, with a set of numbers and a boldly-printed expiration date. Usually these things are good for 30 days, or maybe 60 days, which allows the dealer ample time to process your paperwork and the DMV ample time to lose it.
These things are foolproof: you drive around with the paper plate for a few weeks, and when it expires, you go to the DMV and pick up your actual metal license plate. If you're feeling especially chipper that day, you may even spring for one of those special plates, the ones that say "Support Wildlife" and feature a beautiful scene with birds, and trees, and deer, and a sunset, until you put it on your car, at which point you cover it up with a huge dealer license plate frame. ("BIG BOB'S CARS – YOU'LL BE IN SHOCK WHEN YOU SEE OUR GLOCKS")
Well, that's not what happens in California. What happens in California is, you buy a car, and then you're given 90 days to register it. Sounds the same, right? But there's a big difference: the 90 days is based purely on the honor system.
To explain, let's start with the actual temporary plates themselves. There are none. Instead, people who recently bought a car simply drive around for a while — nobody knows how long — with those brightly-colored license plate inserts that dealerships put on all the cars that sit on their lots. Seriously: an enormous portion of cars in California drive around every single day with a "Toyota of San Whatever" license plate insert as their sole form of valid registration. And this is legal.
So what happens is, you'll be cruising down the highway — excuse me, the freeway — in California, and you get up next to some guy who's also cruising down the freeway, except that he is currently selling nuclear weaponry to terrorists. You can see the whole deal go down: he's sitting there, nuclear weapon in one hand, while the terrorist is sitting in the passenger seat, giving him a huge briefcase with a dollar sign on it. Oh, and they aren't even signaling their lane changes. They're just horrible people all around.
So you spring into action. You call the police to report what you've seen, and the police ask for a license plate number. But there is no license plate. There's just Toyota of San Whatever. So the police don't find the guy. Months later, the terrorist detonates the nuclear bomb, killing hundreds of baby seals, puppies, and cute elderly couples just days away from some milestone wedding anniversary that would've made the local papers.
Now, I admit that California does issue a temporary registration to people who just bought a car. But rather than a paper license plate on the back window, this temporary registration is in the form of a notecard-sized piece of paper on the front windshield with print so tiny that it looks like it came from the extended warranty on a laptop computer.
As a result, no one has any idea when California temporary registrations expire. In other words: if your car looks new enough, and you have a dealer plate insert on the back, you probably won't be stopped. We all know Steve Jobs took advantage of this for years with his vehicles — and it opens up some interesting possibilities.
Consider, for a moment, the Mercedes G-Wagen, which looks approximately the same now as it did when it was released in 2002. You could've bought one of these things new twelve years ago and driven around California for more than a decade with reckless abandon, skipping out on taxes and fees, along with red light cameras and photo radar tickets. You could've commuted over the Golden Gate Bridge three thousand times without paying a toll, while your fellow motorists — the ones who went and got license plates, those suckers — have to pay seven bucks every day.
So clearly, we have a problem on our hands, and something should be done immediately. In fact, I'm surprised to learn that nothing has already been done to stop this behavior in regulation-heavy California. But I have a theory on why it's taken so long: the lawmakers all got their vehicles at Toyota of San Whatever. And they love those free drives over the Golden Gate Bridge.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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The Strange Story of Joe MeekNovember 14, 2008
JOE MEEK (April 5, 1929 – February 3, 1967). Pop composer and Britain's premier independent record producer of the late fifties and early sixties.
Meek was renowned for his pioneering recording techniques and for the futuristic sound of the records he produced, but notorious for his highly eccentric personality as well.
Joe Meek has two biographical films hitting our screens shortly starring an unrecogisable Kevin Spacey and Ralf Little!
As a boy he began experimenting with old radios and record players by taking them apart and seeing how they worked.
Sometimes this resulted in Joe creating his own recording equipment, a fascination that would continue throughout his life. He would often put speakers in the trees so local cherry pickers could listen to the radio as they worked.
In 1953 London was calling, Joe moved to the capital and found a job at IBC Studios where he would learn the basics of being a recording engineer.Ever the experimenter he would add his own sonic touch, the results of his experiments in his Newent home, on various songs – more often than not without the permission of the artists who he was recording!
These experiments resulted in techniques that modern musicians take for granted – such as removing the front skins of bass drums and moving microphones close to the instruments.
Joe Meek has two biographical films hitting our screens shortly.
Telstar: The Movie is the Nick Moran-directed film adaptation of the James Hicks play of the same name. It stars Con O'Neill as Meek,
Kevin Spacey as his financier, Carl Barat (ex-Libertines) as Gene Vincent, and Justin Hawkins (ex-Darkness) as Lord Sutch. Meanwhile A Life In The Death of Joe Meek is an independant American documentary by Howard Berger and Susan Stahmann. The production
includes over 60 interviews with Meek's family, friends, associates, friends, and musicians. Expect to see Edwyn Collins, Alex
Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand), Liam Watson (Toe Rag), and Simon Napier-Bell give their thoughts in front of camera.
His most famous work was The Tornados' hit "Telstar" (1962) which became the first record by a British group to hit #1 in the US Hot 100. It also spent five weeks atop the UK singles chart, with Meek receiving an Ivor Novello Award for this production as the "Best-Selling A-Side" of 1962.
Meek's other notable hit productions include "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O" and "Cumberland Gap" by Lonnie Donegan (as engineer), "Johnny Remember Me" by John Leyton, "Just Like Eddie" by , "Angela Jones" by Michael Cox and "Have I the Right?" by The Honeycombs, "Tribute to Buddy Holly" by Mike Berry. Meek's concept album I Hear a New World is regarded as a watershed in modern music for its innovative use of electronic sounds
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Little Red Riding Hood has good reason to be afraid in Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm. The Grimms – Will (Matt Damon) and Jake (Heath Ledger), whom Gilliam presents as itinerant hucksters doing a brisk trade in fake exorcisms – don't much care whether a certain little girl makes it to Grandmother's house intact. But when ordered by the authorities to find out why kids have been disappearing, the brothers come face-to-face with a 500-year-old witch whose beauty regimen requires the sacrifice of virgins. Not for Gilliam the saccharine fairy tales beloved by children: In his version, Will and Jake learn firsthand the horrors of enchantment.
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With dazzling visual effects by Kent Houston, Gilliam's collaborator since Life of Brian, The Brothers Grimm combines the malevolent whimsy of early Disney with the dark hyperrealism of 21st-century fantasy-adventure. Central to the story is Queen Mirror (Monica Bellucci), a composite of Grimm villains – like the queen in "Snow White" and the sorceress in "Rapunzel." To film the climactic scene in which the brothers climb her tower, Gilliam shot the action on a full-scale set against bluescreen, then digitally conjoined that footage with 3-D matte paintings and additional film of the tower in miniature. It might have been simple had he not also insisted on keeping the camera in constant, swirling motion, but the sudden shifts in perspective are spellbinding. "I want the ground to be below us," he said at a screening of his work in progress, slated to open August 26, "because when it disappears, it's a longer fall."
Ever since his Monty Python days, Gilliam has used film to subvert reality; fairy tales are simply his latest vehicle. For a time, cost overruns and f/x problems dragged out the production. This spring, however, he turned up at Cannes with the picture nearly complete. "These stories informed who I am," he said. "So it's about time I got my revenge."
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This homemade costume for kids entered our 2011 Halloween Costume Contest, and won a special prize in the Most Creative Costume nomination!
A word from Cassie, the 'Haunted House' costume creator:
A Haunted House That's Really Haunted
Our 8 year old haunted this house equipped with strobe; black and other battery operated lights. It glowed with a lit moon hat above made from a carved out Styrofoam ball that we texture painted. A Wicked tree, various clay-made creatures, and "stained" glass windows haunted in a dry ice mist. We started the costume with a lightweight plywood base and then added 1 inch mattress foam for walls and display board for the roof. We then added dollhouse shingles that we stained along with wood trim pieces to deck out the porch. Creatures where made from clay to haunt the house. Spiders and glow in the dark skeletons were hung to peer out windows. We used sippy cups filled with dry ice and water to create a spooky mist at the house entrance. We had to bring along a wagon stocked with a cooler filled with the dry ice and a jug of water to continue the spooky mist for his and his brother's costumes. He even carried the sounds of a haunted house with him through his IPod and speakers. He haunted the streets with his brother, The Haunted Graveyard, sister The Haunted Tree and his baby brother as a Haunted Mummy.
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Screencasts about Django
This page lists screencasts created to demonstrate Django.
Coming Soon...
- Django in Seven Minutes - The first Django screencast! Created by Tom Dyson of throwingbeans.org. Demonstrates creating a trivial content management system from scratch using generic views. Note: this is old and out-dated - will not work with 0.95 or higher
- How to install Django at Webfaction - Screen cast created by Ian Holsman. Demonstrates how to run django in a shared hosting environment. The noise quality is a bit bad.
- django: a simple blog in a few minutes - Made by Ian Millington from LAMPTraining.com
- How to setup Nginx with Django - There is a screencast about setup of Nginx with Django
- Creating a simple todo list - Meh, I made the cast on a whim, it's not like I'm going to delete it, so I list it.
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The Opentok API solves a straightforward but complex problem: how do you get people videoconferncing over different devices and browsers on the web? Now it has arrived on Mozilla's Firefox browser. Real Time Communication on the Web (WebRTC) is increasingly the standard for doing that, and, according to TokBox CEO Ian Small in a press release,
"TokBox will continue to make it easy to take advantage of that standard across as many browsers as possible. The OpenTok Platform will extend the capabilities of basic WebRTC to help enterprises leverage face-to-face video for real-world applications as well as helping developers avoid the API fragmentation that has stymied other markets."
You can see a graphic representation of the browsers Opentok works with below.
Programmableweb's own Eric Carter and Garrett Wilkin previously covered the development of Opentok as an alternative to Skype and other services here and here. As Carter notes, "Bridgestone Golf was the first company to deploy OpenTok on Web-RTC. Bridgestone uses the cross-platform solution to connect golf experts to over 1,000 retail kiosks through an iPad."
A powerful feature of Tokbox is the ability to customize the screen layout of the people you are talking to. The Tokbox website graphic below shows arrangements on a phone and iPad.
Given how valuable the standard is, it's easy to understand why it's spreading like wildfire, now used on websites by 70,000 organizations, " including American Idol, Major League Baseball, Diet Coke, Ford, Doritos, and Double Robotics," in addition to Bridgestone.


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Secretary of State leaves Cambodia for urgent talks with Israel, Gaza and Egypt
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Middle East for urgent talks with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian leaders in his most decisive move yet to try to halt the Gaza crisis.
Clinton left an Asian summit in Cambodia's capital, which she was attending with Obama, and headed for Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first round of a new US diplomatic initiative.
"We want to... send a clear message that it's in nobody's interest to see an escalation of the military conflict," US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters in Phnom Penh.
Clinton's mission appeared to signal growing US alarm over the prospects of a threatened Israeli ground invasion of Gaza as Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes continued for a seventh day.
Washington has seemed powerless to affect unfolding events and has faced criticism of a hesitant response, and the Gaza crisis has dogged Obama on an Asia trip meant to show a "pivot" East as the United States winds down wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rhodes said the onus remained on Hamas to halt its rocket barrages into Israel and stuck to the administration's stance that Israel had a right to defend itself.
But he said, "We all agree that the best way to resolve this is through diplomacy, so that you have a peaceful settlement that ends that rocket fire and allows for a broader calm in the region."
Clinton was due to meet Netanyahu on Wednesday and then go to Ramallah in the West Bank to meet with Palestinian Authority leaders, presumably President Mahmoud Abbas.
She was then to travel to Cairo, where Rhodes would say only that she would meet "Egyptian leaders."
That would likely mean an encounter with Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who has spoken by phone several times with Obama since the Gaza crisis erupted and is seen as a possible linchpin in getting Hamas to back down.
"Secretary Clinton will emphasize the United States' interest in a peaceful outcome that protects and enhances Israel's security and regional stability, an outcome that can lead to improved conditions for the civilian residents of Gaza, and that could re-open the path to fulfill the aspirations of Palestinians and Israelis for two states living side by side in peace and security," Rhodes said.
Asked whether Obama was specifically asking Netanyahu to hold off on any ground assault to give more time for diplomacy, Rhodes said: "No. The president has been very clear that Israel is going to make decisions on its security."
Obama, weighing in with his first comments on the crisis on Sunday, said it would be "preferable" to avoid an Israeli ground invasion but urged Egypt and Turkey to do more to rein in Hamas, which Washington considers a terrorist group.
Obama promised to make Israeli-Palestinian peace diplomacy a high priority when he took office in 2009, but his administration's on-again-off-again efforts have done little if anything to bring the two sides any closer to the negotiating table.


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Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
If you haven't yet read John McCain's account of his five-plus years as a POW, I recommend it. I ran across the 18-some page account today published on U.S. News and World Report here and it's a fascinating read. McCain describes his landing and rough rescue from Truc Bac Lake near Hanoi which was captured in a photo viewable here. I've not uploaded it because it's copywrite appears in question.
No political agenda on my part, just a fascinating story.
Photo above of Nixon greeting McCain is in the public domain [Wikipedia Commons].


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After 16 NBA seasons, Jalen Rose wanted to use his celebrity, considerable income from the NBA and his commitment to helping youth to uplift his hometown of Detroit. To that end, the former baller, now an NBA analyst for ESPN and TNT, co-founded a charter school, the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy in Detroit.
It opened in 2011, with an initial enrollment of 120 ninth graders, it is tuition-free and partnered with the University of Detroit Mercy. The Jalen Rose Leadership Academy features an extended school day and a longer school year.
"We're committed to give a quality public education to young men and young women whose families can't afford for them to go to private school or even move to communities where the schools get more funding," Rose told The Tom Joyner Morning Show. "For example, if you live in West Bloomfield, a student in public education gets over 10,000 per.
In Detroit, it's $7200 per. Do the math. That's why we don't have the state of the art facilities I'm trying to establish and that's why we have an inequity with those that are trying to compete with their counterparts in the suburbs. "
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Marketing concentration students study the process by which organizations satisfy consumer wants and needs in a contemporary society. Primary marketing activities such as product planning, distribution, pricing, and promotion are analyzed based on market research and consumer behavior.
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Mission Control Center
Troubleshooting efforts designed to restore full capability to the International Space Station's three redundant command and control computers continue in Mission Control, even as the 10 astronauts and cosmonauts on board the outpost worked together today to install new experiments in the Destiny laboratory.
Shortly after the ISS crew went to bed last night, the ISS flight controllers reported a loss of Command and Control Computer number one (C&C 1), one of three systems management computers on board. Overnight, flight controllers inititiated a procedure to re-string those functions through one of the two remaining backup computers that route data for systems management. This morning when Expedition Two Flight Engineer Susan Helms sent commands to transfer data files from the mass storage device, which houses the files for station systems management for the operation of the robotic work stations, the command was rejected.
After initial troubleshooting efforts failed to resolve the problem, flight controllers once again worked a procedure to re-string data management functions to the third computer, but the computer problem continued and flight control teams continued to evaluate the situation throughout the day.
Following a power cycle of command and control computer 1, the first of a series of diagnostic commands – this to turn on and off a light on board the Destiny laboratory – was successfully transmitted from the ground to the space station shortly before 7:30 p.m. Overnight the space station flight control team will attempt to reset the computers by commanding them from the "primary" to "standby" mode in an effort to clear any software interaction that might be causing the problems. If successful, this would allow the Expedition Crew and ground controllers to again interface with the command and control computers. The diagnostic troubleshooting will continue through the night.
The primary result of today's computer problem was a loss of communication and data transfer between the Space Station Flight Control Room and the station. Communication capability was routed through Endeavour enabling the crew and flight controllers to talk to one another.
Despite the difficulties encountered with the computer system today, all systems on board the spacecraft continued to function properly.
Several of the activities planned for today, including the handoff of a 3,000 pound pallete from the station's new robotic arm, back to the shuttle's arm, were postponed until Thursday, pending resolution of the computer issue. A reboost of the complex, using Endeavour's small thrusters, also was delayed. The crew members instead turned their attention to offloading experiment racks and equipment from the Raffaello logistics module, and transferring the experiments and hardware to the station.
Once the computer difficulties are resolved, Helms and crew mate Jim Voss will command the station's new Canadarm2 to maneuver the pallet within reach of Endeavour's robotic arm under control of mission specialists Chris Hadfield and Scott Parazynski.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Central, Mission Control said goodnight to both crews following a busy day on orbit. Expedition Two Commander Yury Usachev, Voss and Helms are slated to wake up about 2:30 a.m. Thursday; the seven astronauts on board Endeavour will receive a wake-up call from Mission Control about 10 minutes later.
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T-Mobile is at it again. A few years ago, the carrier released a line of MyTouch devices with HTC: the MyTouch 3G, the MyTouch 3G Slide, the MyTouch 4G, and the MyTouch 4G Slide. Then early this year, more MyTouch handsets were announced, this time with LG; they were unimaginatively named the MyTouch and MyTouch Q. Now Huawei is packing itself on the T-Mobile cruise liner and sailing straight to MyTouch island as well.
Consistent with all its predecessors, Huawei's MyTouch (like its sliding-keyboard counterpart, the MyTouch Q) is an entry-level smartphone aimed at first-time users. After you send in a $50 rebate and sign a two-year contract, it'll set you back a reasonable $49.99.
Though its specs are respectable and it sports a more attractive design than all the other MyTouches without keyboards, its biggest misstep is the outdated operating system. Still running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Huawei's MyTouch and MyTouch Q will already feel old even before you get them out of their boxes.
The T-Mobile MyTouch measures 4.5 inches tall, 2.46 inches wide, and 0.41 inch thick. It feels comfortable when inside front or back jean pockets, and it fits easily inside a small purse. I especially like the small chin detail at the bottom of the device.
Despite the good build size, however, at 4.94 ounces, it is heavy to hold. When I first picked it up, I was struck by its heftiness, but it wasn't too uncomfortable to talk with it pinned between my shoulder and cheek.
On the left side is a volume rocker and up top are a 3.5mm headphone jack and a sleep/power button. To the right is a shortcut key that opens the camera. At the very bottom is a Micro-USB port.
The 4-inch WVGA touch screen has a 480x800-pixel resolution. The display is pretty impressive; wallpaper images are bright and smooth, colors are vibrant (though darker hues are harder to distinguish from one another), and menu icons and text look crisp and clear. The screen is also responsive. Actions such as swiping through the five home screen pages, typing on the keyboard with Swype, and scrolling through the app drawer were all executed swiftly with no hiccups in movement.
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Above the display is an in-ear speaker and in the top right corner is a VGA front-facing camera. Below are four navigational keys that light up when in use: menu, home, back, and lastly, the green Genius Button (more on that later).
On the back is a 5-megapixel camera with accompanying LED flash below it. To the right of the lens is a small cluster of holes for the output speaker. The backplate is made of a matte rubberized plastic. I haven't seen this material in very many handsets, and I really like it. Though it's not luxurious, it keeps fingerprints off and is distinctive.
Using a small indentation at the bottom of the backing, you can pry the plate off with your fingernail. There you'll get access to the 1,500mAh battery, and both SIM card and microSD card slots.
The MyTouch by Huawei is powered by a 1.4GHz processor. Though some actions took place quickly, like returning to the home screen, pinch-zooming, and switching between apps, I noticed a lag with the camera app. Launching it was fine, but after taking a picture the time before it was ready to take another was a few seconds more than I'd like.
One of the biggest disappointments with this phone is that it ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Though I understand that the latest OS, Android 4.1 Jellybean, is scarcely featured in upcoming devices, a new product running on Gingerbread is a letdown given that two more versions of Android (Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich) arrived in between.
That being said, the handset comes with your usual trove of Google apps: Gmail, Plus, Latitude, Maps with Navigation, Messenger, Places, Play Books, Movies, Music, and Store, Search, Talk, and YouTube.
T-Mobile also included a handful of its own apps, including the hotline (and for some reason, horoscope-giving) app, 411 & More; Access T-Mobile, which gives you info about your data plan; a gaming portal called Game Base; and More for Me, which scouts local deals based on your interests. In addition, there's a MobileLife Family Organizer app that helps you plan your family's calendar and to-do lists; T-Mobile Mall, which lets you download ringtones, MP3s, and apps; a native T-Mobile music player; a trial subscription to the caller ID service, Name ID; visual voice mail; and a 30-day trial to T-Mobile TV. This is a service that streams live TV from channels like Fox News and PBS Kids.
Aside from the usual basic apps (a calculator, a calendar, a clock with an alarm function, an FM radio, a news and weather app, a notepad, a sound recorder), there is a slew of other preloaded features thrown in, such as the mobile office suite Documents To Go; Amazon; Facebook; Lookout Security, which backs up and secures your data; Netflix; Slacker Radio; Twitter; two games (Monopoly and Words Free); and a magazine app, Zinio.
Though I love a few choice goodies just as much as the next guy, this phone has way too much bloatware. There are already three e-mail clients (a native one, Gmail, and Yahoo mail), an additional browser on top of the included Web browser called Web2go, two gaming portals, and two navigators.
Furthermore, the app drawer is kind of a mess. At the top, underneath the All Apps tab, your eight most recent applications are laid out. That, by itself, is fine (even though it looks like you have eight more apps than you really do). But, at the bottom are the four icons you set in your home screen's dashboard and an accompanying home icon, even though there's already a home key in your device's bezel. Then there are a bunch of redundant apps, like one just for the dialer (seriously, who would access the dialer in the app drawer?) even though you probably included the dialer in your dashboard, which, again, already shows up at the bottom. There's also an app just for the call log, even though you can easily access that in the already-unnecessary dialer app!
The handset also comes with a Genius button. While it's no Siri or S Voice, it uses software from Nuance to make calls, send texts, search the Web, and grab directions through user voice activation. It's a little slow to think, but when I asked it to search the Web for "CNET" and "banana," it was spot-on. Recognizing names, however, isn't its forte. It kept mixing up a few of my friends' names when I asked it to call or text certain contacts. Overall, Genius is easy to use but feels unpolished. Whether it deserves its own hot key below the display is questionable.


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CHAPEL HILL – Democratic State Senator Ellie Kinnaird of Chapel Hill and Carrboro was one of just 12 North Carolina Senators who cast a 'no' vote Wednesday on House Bill 695, which would severely restrict abortion in the state of North Carolina.
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The bill has sparked intense controversy across the state–not only because of its content, but also for the way it was passed: HB 695 began as a ban on the enforcement of Sharia law, but state senators amended it at the last minute (and largely out of the public eye) to include significant restrictions on abortion.
"They rammed this bill through the judiciary committee," Sen. Kinnaird said after HB 695 passed the Senate on Wednesday. "They had not told the general public and they had not told any (abortion rights) advocates, so this was really a breach in public trust." (Sen. Kinnaird says even she was not informed about the changes to the bill until 7:00 on Tuesday evening; the final vote was cast on Wednesday morning.)
Despite the short time frame, hundreds of North Carolinians turned out at the General Assembly Wednesday morning to demonstrate, both against the bill itself and against the way it was passed.
"I stirred them up a little bit," says Kinnaird (who'd spoken passionately against the bill on Tuesday night). "When I first walked in and saw them, I clapped to them–and of course they just burst out in clapping." Lt. Governor Dan Forest repeatedly silenced the crowd–one protestor was even removed from the building–but Kinnaird says "even their silent presence was very powerful."
As amended, HB 695 includes a variety of provisions. Perhaps most notably, it would require abortion providers to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgery centers, a move abortion-rights advocates say is designed to shut down providers. Only one clinic in the entire state currently meets those standards; all others would effectively have to close–and Kinnaird says the standards governing ambulatory centers are irrelevant when it comes to clinics that provide abortions.
"(The standards govern) the linoleum on the floor and the paint on the walls," she says, "as well as equipment–(requiring) things that would be there in an ambulatory (center) that just aren't necessary in an abortion clinic."
Moreover, Kinnaird says, those 'abortion clinics' don't only provide abortions. "Women, low-income women, use this as their primary health care," she says. "They get family planning materials there, they also get cancer screening–if we close these down, these folks without insurance, low-income people, are going to really suffer (in terms of) general health care."
Another provision of the bill would prevent city and county health plans from covering abortions as well, unless it is to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest.
As always with abortion debates, Kinnaird says the discussion of HB 695 got very heated: "At the end," she says, "one of the backers of the bill told one of our Democrats that she was going to hell and he was praying for her." But in this case, passions flared not only because of the content of the bill, but because of the process by which it was pushed through–an issue with a long history of its own.
"At one point (in the debate), the Rules chair stood up and said, 'Well, you Democrats did it (like this) a long time,'" Kinnaird says. Republican Governor Pat McCrory made a similar comment in a statement denouncing the procedure: "It was not right then," he said Wednesday, "and it is not right now." (Kinnaird too doesn't deny that Democrats could have been more transparent when they were the majority party–but adds, "Just because somebody (else) did it doesn't make it right.")
House Bill 695 passed the Senate by a vote of 29-12. The amended bill still needs to be approved by the State House, but its passage seems all but certain: Governor McCrory pledged during last year's campaign not to sign any bill that imposes further restrictions on abortion, but Republicans have a veto-proof majority in both houses even if McCrory follows through on that pledge. Indeed, notwithstanding the procedural controversy, Kinnaird concedes that the bill would likely have passed the Senate in its current form even if GOP leaders had allowed ample time for public debate.
Even if it passes the legislature, though, Kinnaird says the story will be far from over. "The Attorney General said this bill is likely to generate a lot of Constitutional issues in the courts," she says, "so even if it passes, it'll be in the courts for a long time."
And while Democrats have little power to shape the discourse in Raleigh now, Kinnaird says she's confident that this debate will contribute to an anti-GOP backlash in 2014.
"People are finally beginning to realize (that) this is an extreme group, and we know that the people of North Carolina do not want extremism," she says. "They don't want to be on the Jon Stewart show (or) Rachel Maddow as laughingstocks of the country…
"We used to be a beacon of light (and) a beacon of enlightenment in the South, and we are no longer that–and I know that the people of North Carolina believe that we should be that beacon of light, that beacon of enlightenment. And they're going to, I think, really react at the polls."


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We've known the day was coming since last year.
Should have been plenty of time to accept and prepare.
But still, it's a shock.
Our friend Rich Davis from the Evansville Courier & Press is putting down his pen.
And his laptop.
And videocam.
Surely there was a typo in Rich's column in the Sunday paper. It said he was 62.
Rich, indeed, was "old school"; but never old.
"Old school" in that he believed in face-to-face, take-your-time interviews. He'd sit down for a chat, smiling that almost-shy, sweet smile. He'd really listen. And then he'd craft a story. Not an article, but a story.
I first met Rich in 1992, when he came to Holiday World to cover our bungee jumping show. We did "the bungee thing" for just one season and Rich was fascinated.
At least once a season, sometimes more, for the next two decades we looked forward to seeing Rich in person at the park. And he always rode what the new ride was — from The Raven in 1995 to Wildebeest just last May.
There were phone calls, too. He got to teasing me late each season: "Hey, Paula — I'm reading online you're getting a new coaster. What can you tell me?" Oh, Rich … you know I can't tell you anything yet…
Over the last five years or so, Rich has had to push beyond old-school duties. Suddenly he was also photographer and videographer.
"Paula … do you know how to work this thing? They showed me right before I left to come up here, but I'm not sure which button…"
Here's Rich back in 2008, interviewing Will the morning we announced Pilgrims Plunge. Rich took notes, recorded audio, plus shot photos and video.
That next spring, we planned a tweet-up for the first rides on Pilgrims Plunge. Rich wanted to follow the contest to choose the first riders, but called me in a near-frantic state, hoping I remembered his Twitter handle.
Old-school came in handy with his pal Frieda. Rich interviewed our perennial "flower lady" several times over the decades. Whenever Rich and I spoke, he'd always ask, "How's Frieda?"
When Frieda retired two years ago, we didn't want to turn her party into a media event, but still we invited two journalist friends, including Rich. Last year, he was even invited to her 100th birthday celebration.
Hmmm. Rich is retiring at 62 and Frieda retired at 99.
Rich — if you're looking to start a second career, we're still hiring in Rides…


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|The bimah and top of the ark in the synagogue Mikulov, CZ, part of the 10 Stars project
The newspaper USAToday has run an interview with me by Larry Bleiberg, in which I note 10 of my favorite Jewish heritage sites -- not just in Europe, but also a couple in the United States.
I gave him a much, much longer list, but he had to pare it down to just 10, to keep variety and also geographic spread -- alas, as he had to leave out some of my very favorite places. The article runs in the travel section as 10 Great Places to Experience Jewish History.
The 10 include: the art nouveau synagogue in Subotica, Serbia; the ghetto in Venice; the Amsterdam Jewish Cultural Quarter; the Hamburg Altona Jewish cemetery; the synagogue in Iasi, Romania; the pioneer Jewish cemeteries in the American west; KKBE synagogue in Charleston, SC; the Belzec Nazi death camp memorial in Poland; the 10 Stars project sites in Czech Republic; and Sataniv and other fortress synagogues in Ukraine.
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|In the Venice ghetto
When my book National Geographic Jewish Heritage Travel, a Guide to Eastern Europe came out in 2007, JTA also ran a story asking me to list my favorites -- the geographic scope was more limited, so the list is a bit different, though it does include some of the same sites, such as the synagogue in Subotica, the Belzec memorial, fortress synagogues including Sataniv, synagogues (like Iasi) in northern Romania, and the synagogues and Jewish quarters in the Czech Republic -- see it HERE.
It includes: the historic Jewish cemeteries and painted synagogues in northern Romania; the Jewish cemeteries and fortress synagogues in Ukraine, including Sataniv; the baroque synagogue and Jewish cemetery in Mad, in northeastern Hungary; the synagogues in Lancut, in southeastern Poland, and in Tykocin, in northeastern Poland; the old Jewish quarters, synagogues and cemeteries in small towns the Czech Republic; anything to do with the Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn (1860-1932), modern Europe's most prolific designer of synagogues, such as the grand synagogue in Szeged, Hungary, and Baumhorn's tomb in the Kozma utca Jewish cemetery in Budapest; the remaining few wooden synagogues, about a dozen of which survive in out-of-the way villages in Lithuania; the elaborate synagogue in Subotica, Serbia; the Holocaust monument complex in Belzec in southeastern Poland; The Holocaust memorial in Plunge, Lithuania, which features a profoundly moving installation of massive wooden sculptures by the late Jewish wood-carver Jakob Bunkas and his artist friends.


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Grace Hill Mennonite Church (Whitewater, Kansas, USA)
Grace Hill (former German name: Gnadenberg Mennonite Church) (Mennonite Church USA) is located 8.5 miles (14 km) east and one mile (two km) south of Newton, Kansas, was founded as a congregation in 1811, near the city of Berditchev, in the province of Kiev, Polish Russia, and was known as the Michalin church and settlement, organized under the leadership of David Siebrandt. In the great movement to America the Michalin congregation also chose to emigrate, and arrived in three groups—two late in 1874, and the third in 1878. In 1875 the group was incorporated under the name Gnadenberg. Their church, dedicated in 1882, was still in use in 1953, with the distinction of being the oldest Mennonite church building in continuous use west of the Mississippi River. It was replaced by a new church dedicated in August 1954.
Gnadenberg was a charter member of the Kansas Conference when it was organized in 1877 and took part in the conference sessions of the General Conference at Halstead in 1881. From 1811 to 1941 Gnadenberg was served by three elders: David Siebrandt (minister 1811 and elder 1816), Johann Schroeder (minister 1848 and elder 1852), and Gerhard N. Harms (minister 1888, elder 1901). J. J. Voth served the group in 1937-1949, and on 1 May 1949, Herbert E. Miller was installed as pastor of the congregation. The membership of the church in 1955 was 197. In 2007 the membership was 218; James J. Voth was the pastor.
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Address: 10218 SE 12th, Whitewater, Kansas
Phone: 316-799-2238
Website: Grace Hill Mennonite Church
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Schmidt, John F. "Grace Hill Mennonite Church (Whitewater, Kansas, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 21 Sep 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Grace_Hill_Mennonite_Church_(Whitewater,_Kansas,_USA)&oldid=140093.
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Schmidt, John F. (1956). Grace Hill Mennonite Church (Whitewater, Kansas, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 September 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Grace_Hill_Mennonite_Church_(Whitewater,_Kansas,_USA)&oldid=140093.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 530. All rights reserved.
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Scott M. Fischer created over 40 beautiful ink drawings for the US edition of the only authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean. Why silhouettes? Scott said, "They were the perfect solution. They have a timeless look that will not be out of place with the first books and, more importantly, they leave a lot up to the imagination of the reader -- with an icon like Peter Pan, that's a great thing. Silhouettes are also a nod to Arthur Rackham, the coolest Pan illustrator of all! His Cinderella book was a true inspiration to me."
The book is due out October 5th from Simon and Schuster. I'm looking forward to posting more images once the book is released.
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