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Tami Roman is taking responsibility for some of her more volatile actions on VH1's "Basketball Wives."
The 43-year-old ex-wife of former NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson knows she can come off as a temperamental bully on the controversial reality show known for its shouting matches and occasional physical altercations. And rather than just put all the blame on the show's producers and editing — as reality TV stars often do when portrayed in an unflattering light — Roman has owned up to her behavior and set her sights on self-improvement for the sake of her two daughters.
"When I watch myself on TV, that serves as a mirror for me," said Roman, who was also part of the second of MTV's "The Real World" in 1993, over the phone this week. "I started seeing things I was doing and ways I was acting that I never realized. My first defense mechanism was to pop off. But I've realized I don't have to be that person all the time. Seeing myself acting like that at my age, I was like, 'Wow, Tami, you could have sat down and had a discussion about how you felt rather than pop her in the face.'
"I've learned to be more of a mentor rather than showing young girls it's OK to walk through life cursing everybody out. That's not the imagery I want give my daughters. That Tami still exists. I'm not saying she evaporated. I just need to present a better balance."
Roman has turned her "Basketball Wives" fame into a nail polish and lip gloss line called TR Love Cosmetics. And while she doesn't have her own fashion line, she has been booked to host the Basketball Mom Apparel and Hooplyfe Apparel joint fashion show Saturday at Society Art Gallery in West Town. Roman said the fashion lines founded by Chicagoan Nikki Burnett predominantly target women who love basketball or want something to wear to a basketball game.
Because the cast members of "Basketball Wives" are all working on separate projects and ratings not quite what they used to be, Roman has also begun planning for life after the show, should it not return for a sixth season.
"If the show were to make a return, then I'm contractually bound to be a part of it," Roman said. "I think the key players in our installment — everyone is doing their own thing. Evelyn Lozada is a mommy now. That part of her life may not necessarily work with the 'Basketball Wives' format. Potentially, she might have a spinoff in the works.
"My focus is on my own spinoff called 'Roman Empire.' We are taping this week for an hour pilot and then going forward from there. My focus is getting this storyline about my life in development and making it something VH1 is proud of and brings in viewers. … I have a TV show coming this summer that CBS has asked us not to talk about. It's with a very well-known and respected Academy Award-winning star. People get to see me back in the lane I was in before returning to reality TV."
Roman has appeared in short-lived shows such as CBS' "Moonlight" and TV One's "Belle's" and made one-time appearances on shows including Fox's "Married with Children" and ABC's "The Drew Carey Show." These roles all came after her big break on "The Real World," back then a groundbreaking series.
How did appearing on "The Real World" compare with "Basketball Wives"?
"When we did 'Real World,' it was really real," Roman said. "Every room had a camera and every time we left the house we were followed by cameras. It caught moments in real time as they played out for six months. With 'Basketball Wives,' you have a shooting schedule and know who will be in scenes with you and what you'll talk about: 'Tami and Evelyn, how do you feel about Jenn (Williams)?' (The shows) are completely different. Worlds apart."
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I'm a complete noob to PostgreSQL, so I'm probably missing something completely obvious.
Connected to my local db via psql on terminal. Any command I run to make db changes, or even a simple select does nothing. No error, just no results.
I can use the shell commands createdb, dropdb just fine.
Got a site running in Ruby on Rails, RefineryCMS, using the local PostgreSQL db, so I know the db has data and is working - I just can't seem to query or modify it via psql.
What am I missing?
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Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians on Thursday after a stabbing attack that left an Israeli woman wounded at the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank district of Salfit.
IDF spokesperson Peter Lerner later confirmed that the woman is an IDF soldier, who was evacuated to a medical center in Petah Tikva in moderate-to-serious conditions.
The two Palestinians alleged of the attack were shot dead at the scene by Israeli troops.
Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics were prevented from reaching the scene and forced to return, Ma'an News reported.
The two Palestinians were later identified as Ali Jamal Muhammad Taqatqa, 19 and Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Kar Thawabta, 20, both from the village of Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem.
Few hours after the attack, the village of Beit Fajjar was reportedly closed off by Israeli military forces.
Just a few days earlier, on Monday, three Palestinians were killed in two consecutive attacks near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron.
The two attacks targeted and injured four Israeli soldiers.
Since the beginning of the wave of violence in October, nearly 200 Palestinians and 30 Israelis were killed in a series of attempted attacks that were mainly carried out by Palestinians against Israeli military forces and civilians.
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TOKYO (AP) - The U.S. Embassy in Japan says Americans aboard a quarantined ship will be flown back home on a chartered flight Sunday.
About 380 Americans are aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has docked at Yokohama, a port city southwest of Tokyo.
So far, 218 people from the ship have tested positive for a new virus.
The embassy says the aircraft will arrive in Japan late Sunday, and people will be flown to Travis Air Force Base in California, with some passengers continuing to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
After arriving in the U.S., all will need to go through another two weeks of quarantine.
The French health minister has announced the first coronavirus death in Europe.
French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn says Saturday that "I was informed last night of the death of an 80-year-old patient who had been hospitalized ... since Jan. 25."
The patient, a Chinese tourist from the province of Hubei, had a lung infection caused by the coronavirus. He arrived in France on Jan. 16, then was hospitalized on Jan. 25 under strict isolation measures.
His condition deteriorated rapidly.
His daughter was also hospitalized but authorities say she is expected to recover
China has reported a drop in new virus cases for the third straight day.
The National Health Commission says there are 2,009 new cases in mainland China, bringing its total number of confirmed cases to 68,500.
The fatality rate remained stable with 142 new deaths. The death toll in mainland China now stands at 1,665.
After Chinese President Xi Jinping played a muted public role in the early days of the epidemic, state media have published a speech Xi delivered Feb. 3 in which he said he gave instructions on fighting the virus as early as Jan. 7.
It indicates leaders were aware of the outbreak's potential severity well before such dangers were made known to the public.
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One of the shortlist finalists for the 2014 Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction, 'Burial Rites' is the story of Agnes. It's 1829 in Iceland. In a cold, remote, and harsh landscape people eke out a living in damp farmhouses. Agnes arrives, unwanted, at one of these homes, the family forced to take in the criminal as she awaits her execution. A young priest is given the task of absolving her before the final day arrives and at first he is the only one she will talk to. She encounters hostility and is prejudged to be a violent witch capable of a heinous crime. But Agnes knows the truth. This is Agnes' story. Her story moved me.
Based on true events, Kent teases out the details of how this mysterious woman might have come to death row. She brings the reader on a remarkable journey of small reveals while building the suspense. She recreates 19th century Iceland so well, it almost functions as another character in the novel. Atmospheric and beautiful, I wanted to slow down and enjoy the writing, but I also wanted to keep the pages turning, gripped by what might be coming next.
Stories of Agnes in Iceland have achieved myth status and yet not much is actually known. Kent researched her topic thoroughly and has given us a respectful and plausible fiction that is unforgettable. The author prefers to classify 'Burial Rites' not as historical fiction, but as speculative biography. A haunting, unique and powerful novel. Highly recommended for book clubs.
Don't listen to the following interview with the author until after you've read the book, because it does contain spoilers. But it's a worthwhile 10 minute footnote to the reading when you are done.


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By JEFF PICKELL
You'll never know how many words you don't know until you begin to study for the GRE. The GRE is the Graduate Record Exam and it must be completed before one applies to most graduate schools. It is basically the stupidest test ever and it has been proven not to accurately predict that which it seeks to measure, i.e. the probability of success for a given student in grad school.
Nevertheless, I have paid the $130 registration fee, $40 for the study manual, $5 for the flash cards, and plan to pay a high school student, who has agreed to tutor me for the math portion, a generous sum of pizza and a bowling ball. I also plan to pay many hundreds of dollars for the privilege to apply to several top level creative writing schools.
College is stupid like that. Colleges are supposed to have the smartest people in the world under their employ, but to get into them, you have to pay for and do reasonably well on the stupidest tests ever devised. I'm currently in the process of writing out about 500 vocabulary flash cards to use to study for the verbal portion of the exam, which is comprised of 30 questions and administered over the course of 30 minutes.
Part of the verbal portion consists of analogy questions, which take this form: "Blank is to Blank as Blank is to Blank." So, for example, you'll get a question like "Cascade is to Cataclysm as: a) Defeat is to Debacle, b) Chagrin is to Desultory, c) Saccharine is to Turgid, or d) Unctuous is to Ersatz."
Now, a sensible grad school candidate would know that a cascade is a small stream of water and that a cataclysm is classically defined as a huge %#&@ flood, so it would logically follow that the best analogy in this situation would be to compare a defeat, or a sensible loss, to a debacle, or a huge %#$& blowout.
Sadly, a sensible grad school candidate is a thing of myth, like a unicorn or a Superbowl victory for the Lions. Here was what I thought were the definitions of "Cascade" and "Cataclysm" before I began studying for the GRE:
Cascade: A word pretentious writers use to describe what sun rays do.
Cataclysm: The Bush Administration.
And here is what I thought "Defeat" and "Debacle" meant:
Defeat: Canadian parlance for "the feet."
Debacle: The Bush Administration.
Given that, how could I have possibly known exactly what the best analogy was unless I had consulted a dictionary beforehand? I've never heard anybody use "cataclysm" to describe a flood. I mean, I had a pretty good idea of what the words meant, but was damned by a lack of specific dictionaryological knowledge. Same thing with words like "sordid," "torpor," "perfunctory," "garrulous," and "cat." I know pretty much what they mean, but I couldn't sit down and write out a word-by-word definition for you.
How the designers of this test think that happening to know the definitions to obscure words indicates how well I'll do in grad school is beyond me.
Anyway, after taking a few practice quizzes and panicking, I called Melissa Stewart—a professor up at Adrian College—for advice. Melissa is a very smart, caring, and friendly person, or in GRE talk "Melissa is to friends as flypaper is to flies." When she was studying for the GRE, she threw a giant pizza party and all of her friends got together and helped her write out a thousand flash cards. After a month or so of studying, her verbal scores improved dramatically.
Well, Jeff is to friends as Jeff's friends are to being slackers who are already eating pizza, so I'm pretty much left to myself as far as the flash card writing is concerned. Which is a good thing for me, because the study strategy I find most effective is to write things down over and over again.
But to memorize all 500 of those cards—man, is that ever daunting. And don't even get me started on the math section, which to the layman could almost be mistaken for an extended verbal section, what with all the Xs and Ys to the power of Ns they throw around over there. I hate what math has become. It is worse than French.
Luckily, my professors say that to get into a good creative writing grad school, I can pretty much bag math. The challenge is to score high enough on the GRE to demonstrate to admissions officers that I'm not a complete pinhead.
Which, distressingly, is not something I've done with this column. Back to the library.– May 16, 2007


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2012 Spring Director's Report Now Online!
The 2012 Spring Director's Report presented during the AAVSO Meeting held in Big Bear, CA, was recorded and is now online to download and view.
Please click here to download the video. When unzipped it is an .wmv file which, with appropriate software, will be viewable on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux systems.
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sudo /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh
mkinitramfs -d /etc/initramfs-tools-interactor/ -o /tftpboot/default/initrd
Did you set your BIOS on the MD to network boot? (The BIOS has to support PXE network booting.)
Do you have Broadcom Netlink BCM57780 on both machines?
The black screen after boot please see http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=3931.0
I had problems with a MD to get it to work I had to edit tftboot-default to acpi on or just delete the comment acpi off until it builds.Afterwards I re-edited the defaults back to original.
Then with is set to w for VGA-2 and while still just seeing vertical lines on the laptop and enabling the external monitor (using the keyboard switch), I decided to continue past the first screen. The setup wizard was set to VGA-2. I picked 1080p and 60Hz and all of the sudden I had a screen on the laptop! The only problem is that I have a double image across the bottom of the screen.
The one machine that I really want/need to get working as a MD is a Dell Zino. This one gets the "Can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf" error on the first boot attempt and doesn't even start to create a diskless boot image. Is it a safe assumption that the reason for this is that the interface card is not recognized and I should use a different driver? According to lspci the Zino has a Broadcom Netlink BCM57780. Googling "kernel module BCM57780" seemed to indicate that I should use tg3.ko. How do I tell LinuxMCE that it should use a different kernel module to boot the Zino? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525966 seems to indicate that an old kernel had a problem with this chipset. Is that why it's not working for me? The machine works fine using Ubuntu 10.04. The comments on the bug are almost all over my head. Any guidance would be appreciated. Are the instructions at http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Unrecognized_NIC still current for 8.10 or will I do more harm than good?
Older equipment needs to be able to support network PXE booting.
If your BIOS doesn't support PXE booting then you can use the lspci command running from Kubuntu LiveCD or whatever to determine your hardware id info.
You can build a boot disk using ROM-O-Matic ( http://rom-o-matic.net/etherboot/etherboot-5.4.4/contrib/rom-o-matic ) to get started.


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It's been an ok couple of weeks since I last wrote. I've been trying to get back on track and I suppose its going well enough, maybe not as well as i would have liked. I've been having a few relationship problems, which i wont go into, but the stress definitely takes its toll. I have continued to go out everyday to the gym, or to the shops. I've been out for lunches with friends. I have continued with the pub quiz on a Monday. In fact I have been very social but aware that this all takes place locally and its time to start pushing outwards again.
Couple of new things I have done. I went to the opticians for an eye test since its been about 9 years since my last one. But no glasses needed (secretly hoped I maybe needed a pair because I think they are quite trendy). And at the weekend I went to see a play. It has been a long time since I have been to anything remotely like a play and i loved every minute. The play is called 'Singing, I'm no a Billy, He's a Tim'. I think you have to have some knowledge of religion and bigotry in Scotland to appreciate it but it was hilarious and i totally recommend it. The story is about our biggest 2 football teams. Here in Scotland, most people either support the team Rangers, and the others support Celtic. Typically a Rangers fan is protestant and Celtic supporters are catholics. This has caused huge rivalry for generations. Anyway, the story is about a Rangers fan named Billy, and a Celtic fan named Tim who are stuck in a prison cell together much to there outrage. At the end of the play I got my picture taken on set. So there you see me, Billy, Tim and the Turnkey Harry. A fantastic anxiety free night.
The following night i was sitting in bed relaxing when suddenly I felt Very wet down below. Hmmm I really thought I had wet myself although I have never had this problem before. Unfortunately when I looked down I realised I was sitting in a huge pool of blood. I stood up slowly as the blood continued to pour from me and made my way to the bathroom. As i sat on the toilet the blood rushed from me like a tap (faucet). I knew this was far from normal and quickly called on my mum. My poor mother. She wasn't prepared for the carnage in the bathroom. It was literally everywhere. So of course my mind went into overdrive. What was happening to me? This has to be connected to the miscarriage but what on earth is it? But what worried me most was the amount of blood I was losing. I cannot describe it and I'm sorry if you are squeamish but it really seemed like pints. So i began to go into shock.
I dragged myself back onto bed and began to shake. Suddenly a cold swear covered me and the panic began. Oh it was awful. Then I thought I was going to vomit. but no doubt about it, i needed to get help and FAST! Mentally I was preparing myself for passing out. Losing that amount of blood would surely mean that i was going to lose consciousness at any minute. We rang the hospital and I explained the situation, but focusing MORE on the agoraphobia. I guess i wanted them to fix me at home but I knew myself that I had to go to hospital immediately. I thought about how when I'm going somewhere i NEED to be the person driving, but i knew it probably wasn't the best thing at this time so I asked them to send me an ambulance. I felt that in the back of an ambulance, where i wouldn't see the outside, i would handle the journey better. Even though the whole way there i knew exactly where i was as I know the roads so well. But then another thought came which you might understand. Bizarrely i thought i would maybe find it hard to deal with. The fact that one minute i was in my street and the next when the doors opened I would be somewhere completely different outside of my comfort zone. Does that make sense?
The paramedics arrived to what looked like a crime scene and they couldn't have been better with me. I was put into the ambulance and hooked up to the machines. My blood pressure it seemed was fine. Also at this stage the panic attacks had died and I felt surprisingly ok, although i was still thinking that if the bleeding was continuing I would still pass out. Mum came with me in the ambulance and Gerry, who i called, followed us in his car.
I was fine during the journey. I wonder if I had too much on my mind to think about the agoraphobia. But i felt that i really had no choice this time. I had to go to hospital regardless of the panic. I was admitted into hospital and put in a room. While there I felt ok. I did worry a few times about the journey home. I wouldn't be in an ambulance where I couldn't see my surroundings. I would be in a car and more likely to panic since the journey home would take a while PLUS i wouldn't be the one driving. I imagined the journey taking forever with me curled up in a ball in the back seat freaking out. I tried really hard to ignore that feeling resigning myself to the fact I would probably be kept in hospital for at least a day and would most likely be having some sort of operation or blood transfusion. Another worry was, what am I going to do if they send my mum and Gerry home. Yes i could beg and plead for someone to be able to stay with me but I doubted very much it would be allowed. I ignored it though and figured I would deal with that should the situation arrive.
And so i was put into a room with my mum and Gerry to wait on the gyno doctor. I was terrified to stand up as I didn't know what the heck would fall out of me, but lying down seemed to have calmed the bleeding. We waited from 3am till 9 am for me to finally be seen by the right person. in between that time I had to tell my story over and over to several different people. Very frustrating. Also to be honest i didnt think much of the service lol. I was in a room where i was hooked up to some machines, but after a trip to the toilet I wasn't attached to anything. I was alone (with my mum and Gerry) but with no medical people. I could have been bleeding to death! Dramatic? Maybe, but that's how I felt. I actually added the pic of me in hospital because the whole time i was so calm and actually cracking jokes. I was only kidding when i took the picture and said it would be going on facebook but its come on handy for this post all the same. The only feeling i really had was guilt. My poor mother. I woke her from her sleep and obviously she wouldn't have stayed at home while i was going through that but I felt guilty as she looked awful and a few times i thought she was actually going to be sick. I even told her to go home and id be ok with Gerry but she refused.
So i was finally seen i was checked inside and out. The Doctor checked my heart and lungs and then said this. 'We think this is your period. Since you haven't bled since the miscarriage, we think its just very severe as its your first time'. I couldn't believe it. 'You can go' She said. Surely that wasn't correct. I have heard horror stories about things going wrong in that hospital before so I needed to be certain she was right. but apparently it does happen and they have seen it before. I protested that even the paramedic admitted he had never seen so much blood. But she seemed to think i was OK to leave. And so i did. I bared myself for the panic that was about to come. I had sent Gerry home for a shower thinking i was going to be there for hours but suddenly i was standing outside of the hospital ready to leave. There i was with no car, no money, and no one to take me home. Thank goodness my mum was there or I don't know what i would have done. I rang Gerry and he made his way to come get us. We travelled home and i waited for the panic, but it didn't come. I even told him to stop at McDonald's and get us some breakfast, so i was in no rush to get home. Still cracking jokes I told Gerry that he isn't allowed to complain at me for a week. He cant moan and tell me that I haven't gone anywhere with him because we had just spent a night out in another town together, and even had a meal after it ha.
The situation was scary, but in a way it has shown me again that I can cope. I have it within me to calm myself. I had been worrying a lot about distance again, and although I'm not ready to travel for miles and miles, it has made me confident enough to get back out and start pushing. Also Gerry was fantastic at the hospital, I don't know what I would have done without him. It put or relationship problems into perspective and I feel very grateful and very happy now. Every cloud...


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The following very interesting article is being reposted here from Return to the Source in the hopes that it will help readers better understand issues facing contemporary China:
After the fall of the Soviet Union, most of the socialist countries tragically fell to the onslaught of Western imperialism. Among the horrific blows dealt to the international communist movement, five socialist states resisted the tide of counterrevolution and, against all odds, maintain actually existing socialism in the 21st century.
Though each face very specific obstacles in building socialism, these five countries–the Republic of Cuba, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the People's Republic of China–stand as a challenge to the goliath of Western imperialist hegemony. Among them, however, China stands unique as a socialist country whose economic growth continues to supersede even the most powerful imperialist countries.


text: Review : LG Optimus 7 and Windows Phone 7 updated 01:00 am EST, Sun November 21, 2010 by MacNN Staff LG kicks off Windows Phone 7 with a strong design. MacNN Rating: Product Manufacturer: LG Price: $100 (3 yrs, Telus), free (Vodafone Ł29 plan) The Good Fresh, fun Windows Phone 7 UI. Good build quality. High quality LCD. Better than usual voice quality. Play To app works in surprising ways. Capable camera. Reasonable battery life. 16GB of storage built-in. Mac syncing. The Bad Windows Phone 7 still rough. Gamble on whether Microsoft will catch up. Camera settings won't save. Camera has room to improve. Most bundled apps not really added value. Design and the display What's most surprising about the Optimus 7 is its build quality. Like other Optimus phones, such as the Optimus S and Optimus One, LG has made a concerted effort to give its smartphones a level of polish no matter how much they cost. With the exception of some rubberized plastic trim, much of the body is metal and glass. There are very tight panel gaps, and the phone has a reassuring level of heft without being too heavy. About our only gripe is the center, raised Windows key, which is made of plastic and has enough give that it could theoretically pop off if treated roughly. In the hand, it's very comfortable to use and doesn't feel like it will slip away mid-phone call. The three main Windows Phone navigation buttons and the volume rocker are easy to reach, and we liked that the battery cover and micro USB port were well-protected but still very accessible. A hardware camera button is appreciated, although it's simultaneously one of the few quirks; we found ourselves inadvertently touching the button, although never so far as to accidentally launch the camera app. Combined with the overall thinness, the effect of the Optimus 7 is to come across as the anti-Eve. Where just a year ago LG was releasing a bulky and somewhat cheap-feeling slider, today it has one of the better all-touch designs on the market. We'd also say that this form is a definite step up from the Quantum (Optimus 7Q), which is both thicker and not especially sleek. The screen is one of the better examples we've seen from the initial Windows Phone 7 roster. At 3.8 inches, the 480x800 resolution stays sharp, but it's not so big as to potentially become unwieldy; we're not fans of gigantic displays like the 4.3-inch model on the HTC HD7, since they can be harder to hold in a call and may not even fit in some pockets. LG has used a very smooth glass finish, and mutii-touch gestures are very graceful here. It's reasonable to assume that LG used an oil-resistant coating that keeps smudging from getting too out of hand, although we'd still recommend bringing a lint-free cloth to wipe it clean. As an LCD, it doesn't have as high a contrast as the AMOLED screen in the Dell Venue Pro or the Samsung Focus/Omnia 7. In low light, the black is more likely to be a very dark gray. What it does have over AMOLED, however, is accuracy. Samsung's display has very vivid colors, but it's borderline gaudy and slightly "fuzzy" due to the PenTile display. The Optimus 7 still has vibrant colors, but it's clear they're more neutral. Outdoor visibility is about the same, which is to say good. You may have trouble looking at the glossy surface in very bright sunlight, but we didn't have problems even on a fairly sunny day. The image was actually more legible in person than our photos can show. One odd issue popped up in our experience that we have yet to replicate. For a few minutes outside, we could see a few of the individual backlighting LEDs through the display and could tilt the phone to see the rest. Thankfully, this wasn't a real problem even with extended time outside, but it's something we'll look out for in the future. Windows Phone 7: the main interface The changeover from Windows Mobile 6 to Windows Phone 7 is a near complete rethink of Microsoft's entire strategy, if not the entire concept of a smartphone. Gone is the attempt to shoehorn desktop Windows into a phone or to focus solely on business users. WP7 blows all this away and replaces it with a UI which, while tentatively connected at best to the idea of windows, is fundamentally much more intuitive and enjoyable. Much of the interface is a heavily expanded version of the same Metro concept that we saw a year ago in the Zune HD. Rather than a grid of icons like Android or iOS, most navigation comes through lists with categories created by a horizontal bar of text that "spills" off-screen to indicate that there's more to see. If there's a top level to revisit, it appears in oversized text that you can tap to go back. It at times feels like you're navigating a magazine spread, but that's not necessarily a bad thing; it's sometimes less cluttered and faster simply because you aren't presented with every choice at once -- and the finger-driven navigation an infinite improvement over Windows Mobile, where most of the OS was often unwieldy without a stylus. The home screen and notification systems represent the most radical breaks for Microsoft, even if they recall trace elements of Windows 7 on the desktop. The entire concept of the home screen centers around providing as much information as possible through tiles, not icons. While they launch into apps and hubs (more on hubs later), they can simultaneously serve as widgets and notification badges. Depending on the context, it shows different information as well. Most tiles just show numbers, but you'll see images for contacts, websites and of course pictures. Much of the time, this works very well. It's much more elegant than iOS or even Android to know which e-mail account has new mail, whether there were any missed calls or messages, and to see the temperature from a weather app's icon without having to load a separate widget. We especially liked the calendar tile: it shows your next upcoming event, so you know where you have to be and when. A regular app list, settings and other content is available with a swipe to the right; think of it as the equivalent of clicking the Start button. There are some definite drawbacks to this approach, however. You can customize and add to the tiles if you like, but the home screen can quickly grow a bit cumbersome the more you add to the home screen. We're also slightly annoyed at how many of the built-in notifications are almost too minimal. Why show me the number of unread messages if I can't tell whether one of them is worth reading? And oddly enough, the status bar area is minimal for little reason. It always shows the time, but you have to tap the area to get basics such as signal strength and battery life. These almost always get checked, so it's clear Microsoft went a bit too far to keep the clean look. Before we delve into deeper aspects of the OS, we also have to complement Microsoft on its approach to contextual actions and navigating backwards. When needed, an app has a tray that shows both common tasks (such as composing or sending) and, when dragged up, reveals more options. It's a clever way of having all secondary features tucked into a common area that doesn't take up much space. The approach to the back button is intelligently handled at the same time. While Android can occasionally make surprise leaps as to what will happen when you hit the back button, WP7 seems more straightforward. Windows Phone 7: browsing, e-mail, the keyboard, the People hub and calendars Anyone who's used a Windows Mobile device will recall that web browsing was symbolic of everything wrong with the OS at the time, if not Microsoft's philosophy. It was so inaccurate that even the pre-overhaul BlackBerry and Symbian browsers were faithful by comparison. When many websites rolled out WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) version of their pages to strip down and simplify the content for basic mobile browsers, Windows Mobile was often just as much a reason as a free-on-contract flip phone. Thankfully, Microsoft has also revamped its browser as much as everything else. The engine is now based on Internet Explorer 7 from the desktop. While we wish it were based on the faster and more accurate IE9 code, it's the first real mobile browser from the company to render pages properly. We didn't notice drawing problems other than a relatively poor handling of fonts from a distance. The browser is noticeably slower than on an iOS 4 or Android 2.2 device, but it's still quick enough to be very acceptable, at least on the Snapdragon processor guiding the Optimus 7 and virtually every other WP7 launch device. As you'd now expect, the browser is multi-touch aware and lets you pinch to zoom, flick to scroll and double-tap to center on a particular page element. Microsoft's approach here is much smoother than in Android; Google's OS often has very rough zooming and a certain amount of lag, but WP7 has a near one-for-one responsiveness like on an iPhone. Multiple tabs and other modern features are present, although the sharing feature curiously only allows SMS and e-mail sharing. Given Microsoft's emphasis on Facebook tie-ins, we'd think sharing on the social network would be important. E-mail is, understandably, one of the more refined experiences in WP7, and there are a handful of things the new OS does better that peers could learn from. The experience is reminiscent of the iPhone's and provides a very straightforward (if highly stylized) list of messages with content previews. We most liked how the OS handles mass deletion or moving; while you can swipe to erase messages, selecting multiple pieces of mail skips a step and just needs a single tap on the left edge of a message to start selecting batches of mail. It's quick without cutting into the available screen area and definitely something Apple and Google would be wise to follow. Picture attachments are always optional, so those on slow 3G (or less) can move on quickly. As you'd expect for the creator of Outlook, Exchange e-mail integration is tighter than it often is elsewhere. Besides having the option of filtering by unread messages, you can limit messages to flagged or high priority messages. Many of these won't carry over to non-Exchange accounts, but they're a quick way of sorting messages if you spend most of your time in the inbox. E-mail in WP7 is mostly hindered by the absence of a unified inbox or special accommodations for non-Exchange accounts. Each account has to be checked one at a time -- though this is mitigated somewhat by home screen notification tiles -- and there's no such thing as labelling for Gmail or other services. If you live in Google's universe, Android is still probably better. It's in e-mail that you get a good sense for the on-screen keyboard. The input here is a leap beyond what we saw for the Zune HD and is comparable to the best. At least on the Optimus 7's 3.8-inch display, the keys were nicely spaced and very responsive. It's possible to be a quick typist if you're experienced, especially since the keyboard is multi-touch aware and doesn't need you to let go of one key to move on to the next. Auto-correction is accurate, and there's a well-executed list of word suggestions as you type that can save time. We had to adjust slightly coming from an iPhone, but the learning curve is gentle. Contacts are managed through the first of multiple hubs in the OS, the People hub. At its heart, it's much like a typical contact manager, but it also carries a layer of Facebook integration. If signed in, you can see others' status updates in a "what's new" section, make your own or check contacts you've recently accessed. Drilling down into an individual contact will show you both the requisite contact info and give you the option of checking their status updates or writing on their Facebook wall. The People hub isn't the most extensive hub in the OS, and we'd like to see alternate services such as Twitter or LinkedIn make their way into the area. But it's more than what most offer, and it can even optionally filter to only add Facebook data to people who were already in offline contacts. Other smartphone platforms with Facebook tie-ins can often dump hundreds of unwanted contacts into the list, so it's appreciated to know that you can only see Facebook updates from real-world friends and associates if you like. Calendaring is straightforward and taps into Exchange if you have it. The view of the next appointment on the home screen is its biggest selling point, though. It doesn't support multiple calendar types such as "home" or "work" and thus doesn't really prioritize events or handle overlaps very well. Windows Phone 7: the Zune hub, syncing and the Games hub Having had little success toppling Apple from its throne in dedicated media players, Microsoft has since turned Zune more into a platform than a whole device. Not surprisingly, the experience will be very familiar to Zune HD users, and the Metro interface is very well suited to filtering down by type, such as only TV shows or only certain music genres. There's a bonus if you have a Zune Pass for music, too: in those countries where it's supported, you can stream songs without having to download them. Microsoft is one of the few outside of Apple to have explicit podcast support, and on at least the Optimus 7 there's an FM radio. We're glad there's 16GB of built-in storage here; most WP7 hardware has just 8GB, so the lack of official microSD support early on won't be a barrier for most. Controls have changed, but despite the more complex OS, largely for the better. There's no need to press a button to bring up on-screen audio controls. If music is playing, just going to the lock screen gives a quick set of controls and track details. Like the Zune HD, you're limited to a proprietary app from Microsoft to sync your content, barring special apps that get around WP7's limitations. There's no drag-and-drop as there is on Android. The best experience, as you might imagine, comes from using the Zune software on a Windows PC. Apart from the usual media sync, including over Wi-Fi if you like, it gives you direct access to a storefront to buy apps, music and movies from the computer. None of the Zune Social components carry over, though, which definitely hurts adoption of what was once Microsoft's trademark music player feature. Mac users will be surprised to note that Microsoft's mobile devices are no longer living in a Windows-only universe; there's now a dedicated syncing tool for them called Windows Phone 7 Connector. The app at its heart is a conduit that will pluck media from the iTunes library and relevant sources to send to the phone. It's very detailed considering the often simple nature of these apps and lets you filter syncs to particular playlists, artists or other criteria. Photos, podcasts and video also work, although Microsoft not surprisingly doesn't remember the last position in podcasts or videos to resume them later. There's no calendar or contact sync owing presumably to different formats, but WP7 Connector is perhaps the only official sync app we've seen that gracefully shuttles photos and videos to iPhoto. Take new shots and, on sync, WP7 Connector will jump to iPhoto, import the images, and give the resulting event a helpful title. We didn't expect so much consideration; even iPhones have a longer (if more flexible) import process. Although it could technically fall under apps, Microsoft has broken gaming out into its own dedicated hub that deserves some attention of its own. The decision helps keep the OS clean and puts games in a convenient section, but it's also key to some very tight integration with Xbox Live. Since you can sign in with the same account you'd use on your Xbox 360, you can play games (where supported) with your same friends list and earn achievements in-game that will contribute to your overall gamerscore. Even your avatar carries over, and a small number of games have full Xbox Live Arcade equivalents where experience in one counts towards the other. Apple may have seen this coming and closed the gap considerably with iOS 4's Game Center, which has its own achievement system, friends list and multiplayer matching. Still, there's no denying that a frequent console gamer will get much more of a sense of continuity, even if Apple still has the advantage of a larger game library. A quick note on gaming performance: we tried a few games to gauge the experience and performance, including 3D titles like Need for Speed: Undercover. Gameplay is as good as you'd hope for on a current smartphone, although we could tell that the frame rates in the most intensive 3D games wasn't as good as it would be on an iPhone 4 or a newer Android phone like a Samsung Galaxy S. Every initial Windows Phone 7 device is using a Snapdragon chip with relatively slow Adreno 200 video, which is certainly good enough to drive contemporary games but won't do as well as the PowerVR SGX535 or SGX540 in some other phones. Windows Phone 7: Maps, the Office hub and Windows Marketplace Bing plays a heavy role in search on the phone, and the Maps tool is a direct tie-in to the search engine's own code. It's here that some of the rush to get WP7 out for the holidays is fairly evident. Microsoft has a solid mapping system with satellite views (here "aerial view"), traffic and step-by-step directions, but Maps just isn't as thorough as on Android or iOS. There's no street-level view, no mass transit directions, and certainly no spoken directions as with Google Maps Navigation. The GPS did get a position lock quickly but needed to be outside to be accurate. If there was one app or hub that truly disappointed us, though, it would be the Office hub. The portal provides basic editing and viewing for Excel, Powerpoint and Word documents, but the emphasis is certainly on "basic." Only a handful of font, cell value and other layout options exist in any one app, and the Powerpoint tool doesn't even allow creating a new presentation; you can only edit the text and other minor details. Aside from the ability to tap into a Sharepoint server, there's little that can be done in the Office hub that can't be done better in Documents To Go on multiple platforms or (eventually) iWork apps on the iPhone, even if these do or will cost money. Windows Marketplace fares better. Like the iPhone's App Store, this is a much more controlled experience than the frequently chaotic experiences of Windows Mobile; apps have to be approved, and those that make it are given highlights or other special attention. Organization here sits in between Apple and Google. Apps get much more specific categorization than in Android Market and can have sub-categories, but discovery definitely isn't as easy as it is in the App Store's environment. We had a hard time finding apps that weren't either top sellers or recent. This may prove a problem for the long term future of the store. Windows Marketplace has gotten off to a good start with over 2,000 apps as of this writing, but if users can't buy apps and make overnight successes like ngmoco (Rolando) or Rovio (Angry Birds), it may be difficult for the store to reach the 300,000-plus apps of the App Store or the 100,000 of Android Market. A definite advantage does exist in the business model, though: trial apps. Android has no clear model, and Apple requires that developers build separate "lite" and full versions or else make a "freemium" app that requires an after-the-fact second download. WP7 can make a trial a subset of a full version; you can download the same content for free to test it out and pay to unlock the content already in the app on your phone. This may eventually have a standardized implementation in Android and iOS, but for now it's a Microsoft edge. Windows Phone 7: what's missing As mentioned earlier, Microsoft pressed hard to get its OS out the door for holiday 2010 and had to shed some features to get there. The stripped down Maps and Office components are some of these, but certain underlying OS features are gone that are either in competitors' offering or were in Windows Mobile. For most, the conspicuous omission will be copy-and-paste. If you see a great quote, a convenient link or a funny photo, there's no way to simply grab that information and move it to the app of your choice. Microsoft does have some data detectors that will let you tap or press-and-hold to save the trouble of copying and pasting information. Even so, while we didn't have to worry about it often, it came up enough to realize that Android and especially iOS were setting expectations that occasionally let WP7 down. In a much appreciated gesture, however, Microsoft won't make users wait a whole year to get it back and is promising an update in early 2011 to add it back. Less than comforting is the near-term hope for multitasking. Today, WP7 is in much the same state as iOS was from 3.x and before. Microsoft's own apps have multitasking privileges and can fetch e-mail or play music in the background, but you can't stream Slacker radio like an iPhone now can or download a new e-book in the background like Android can. The omission isn't a showstopper, much as it wasn't early on in the iPhone's history, but with multitasking now implemented in simple fashion across most smartphone platforms, it's a definite disadvantage. And for a company that emphasizes choice on the desktop, there isn't a lot of choice for services in mobile. You can't choose anything beyond Bing for built-in search (though Google has an optional app). Microsoft's financial stake in Facebook is conspicuous. We already mentioned that other social networking won't integrate into the People hub, but there's also no integration with Flickr or other photo services in the Pictures hub. The triage needed to get WP7 out on time may have played into this, but we'd like to see the broader choices from Google and, ironically, Apple. LG's bundled apps and a Play To surprise Microsoft has a tight rein on what companies can do to the OS and prevents them from customizing the interface itself. They can still preload apps, however, and LG has a number of tools out of the box. Play To might be the most interesting, not least for a discovery we made out of curiosity. The Optimus 7 can stream content to another DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) device, such as a PlayStation 3 or many networked media hubs, including photos and video if it's technically capable. That level of sharing is only occasionally useful, but we were surprised to discover that it worked with a Sonos ZonePlayer S5 as well; the devices showed up as destinations and, as you would hope, would play music from the LG phone's collection. It's not as advanced as the iPad or iPhone apps, but having some functionality without an app at all was a minor treat. Other apps are interesting, but not necessarily as effective or exciting. ScanSearch from olaworks is an augmented reality, GPS-based finder much in the vein of Layar or Yelp (the latter of which doesn't do augmented reality on WP7, at least not yet). Panorama Shot is slightly more clever, but also slightly flawed. It creates its namesake photos by taking a reference photo and then using the phone's relative facing to tell you where to move the camera next and automatically take the next shot until it finishes a 180-degree view. The app in our case made a panorama, but a broken one with images that didn't quite line up. Finally, LG has decided to build in its own store-within-a-store section of Windows Marketplace. To be blunt, we're not certain why it exists other than to serve as a location for LG's free app giveaways. Only about 10 apps exist in the store as of November 2010, some of which were already preloaded while others were relatively simple (if useful) tools like Workout Tracker or a London Underground navigator. We like getting extra non-carrier apps with our phones, but with the exception of Play To, there's not much that immediately calls out to us on the Optimus 7. Camera control and quality Much of the camera interface for the Optimus 7 is Microsoft's own and gives a fair amount of power over the shot, including color filters and white balance. LG adds a few extras of its own, such as the Panorama Shot app we mentioned earlier and a beauty shot mode that tunes settings to favor portraits. That's largely good, and we like both the very simple swipe between capture and playback and the ability to start the camera app just by holding the camera button for a few seconds; concert goers or impulse photographers may like this phone and WP7 for that reason alone. A few other perks manifest themselves as well. Every WP7 user gets a free Microsoft SkyDrive account with 25GB of storage. If you want, you can have photos or videos automatically upload to the SkyDrive or to Facebook and make them as private or as public as you'd like. It's a double-edged sword, so we'd advise against making media public if you're prone to taking embarrassing shots, but there's no question that it's a step above the manual steps needed for Android or iOS photos. Again, we do wish more destinations were available. One major flaw dampens the experience, though, and that's the inability to save camera settings. Every time we took a photo, we had to turn image stabilization on; every time we recorded a video, we had to change the resolution to 720p. At first we though this might be an LG-specific bug, but it's also an issue for Dell Venue Pro phones as well. Hopefully this bug will be fixed in short order, but until then, be prepared to lose image quality when you don't have time to readjust the settings. Actual image quality out of the five-megapixel camera is good, if still symptomatic of classic camera phone problems. Images only produced mild evidence of the "smear" effect from a low-cost lens, little noise and relatively little color fringing in high-contrast scenes, but we noticed that the Optimus 7 sometimes didn't expose the shot as well as you'd expect. Macro photography also seemed to be off-limits. We tried to get close and refocus, but the camera preferred medium to long distances for its subjects. There's no lens measurements, so we can't tell what its minimum focusing distance is other than more than one foot. Video quality encounters similar issues, although it passed muster often enough. The image quality itself is good compared to most phones and keeps up with a minimum of blur, compression artifacts or juddering, but LG's choice of sensor tends to overcompensate for changes in the necessary exposure as you move from light to dark. Audio is also strictly adequate and, in our checks, occasionally overwhelmed the microphone with moderately loud sounds. We'd recommend against taking the Optimus 7 to a concert if your goal is to preserve the audio as much as the view of the stage. Call quality and battery life As an actual phone, the Optimus 7 manages above-average quality. It wasn't exceptional during our testing, but calls were clear on both ends with some moderate noise in the background. The speakerphone isn't very powerful, so we wouldn't depend on it for holding a meeting or a conversation in a busy office. Battery life is solid in spite of WP7's early nature. It's still the case that you'll want to recharge the phone every day if you want to guarantee a typical full day, but moderate use during an average stint at the office wouldn't empty the battery. We also noticed that the default e-mail sync interval of 30 minutes didn't have a major impact on battery life, and the phone if left overnight would lose about 15-20 percent of its charge. LG may not have had a choice but to use LCD, but given the battery-hungry nature of Samsung's Super AMOLED technology in the Focus, we suspect things have worked out for the best. Wrapping up As this review is as much about the OS as the phone, our thoughts can't help but turn to Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft's future first. In its current state, the OS is rough around the edges and isn't quite where it needs to be to spark much fear in Apple and Google. Without multitasking and a number of apps that were clearly rushed along for the sake of making a deadline, this OS is more of a 1.0 than a 7; Microsoft admitted as much before launch. Updates will change that in time, and thankfully WP7 is designed to avoid the delayed updates and fragmentation that have plagued Android and Windows Mobile. Nonetheless, buying a phone on a promise of improvements is always a big gamble. Just ask HTC Hero and Samsung Behold II owners who found themselves stuck on old Android versions less than a year after a purchase. There's no guarantee that Microsoft will be fully caught up to Apple and Google in the completeness of the interface, underlying features or app support in the near future, if ever. The iPhone already has built-in video chat with Google close behind, for example, while support for a front camera isn't even known to be on the horizon for Microsoft. With all this cynicism, we had to admit that we genuinely enjoyed using WP7 most of the time, which is something we could never have said for Windows Mobile. It's highly visual, it's intuitive, and it might even be called fun. More importantly, it's astounding to realize that historically over-conservative Microsoft has just put out a mobile OS that clicks and yet which doesn't fit into any traditional expectations for what a phone interface should look like. If the developers can keep up the pace, WP7 can be a leading OS in the next few years. As for the Optimus 7, we're inclined to believe that it's one of the better launch phones and one of the best smartphones LG has ever made. Camera quality could still improve, and that Windows key could be made of sturdier material, but the phone design comes across as a labor of love that would have been unthinkable of LG a year ago. Tossing aside the dubious value of the extra software, the hardware quality is a step above that of competitors like the HTC Surround and Samsung Focus. Should you spend $100 on contract in Canada or choose the phone as your free-with-plan example in Europe? At those prices it might not be enough to get you to give up an Android phone or an iPhone if you already know your preferences, but if you're not committed and don't have exacting requirements for navigation and Office documents, it could well be worth a try. 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This week has been a very demanding one for me. Once again I am reminded that stress is an enemy. I have attempted to take minutes out to breathe and pray. I think of all things stress is the scariest in my mind. Sometimes we have little control over the demanding and stressful times, but I am learning that I always have control over me and my state of mind. I like the power that comes with that thought.
We also have the power to stay informed. Everywhere you look, in any magazine, there is more and more information coming out about breast cancer. It is probably more prevalent in October and November; October being an awareness month, but still I feel it is getting out there. After doing a few blogs for younger survivors, I am reminded that each one of us that knows a young woman has a responsibility to encourage her to take control of her breast health and do self exams.
Mammograms are generally encouraged after 40 years old, so it is up to each younger woman and her doctor to be vigilant. That means that we all bear the responsibility to watch over our younger wards.
Taking control and having power doesn't need to extend outside of our own lives for us to be effective. We can influence young people just by how we have the confidence to be ourselves and seek our own way. You can make an impact, as a survivor, you can continue to battle cancer by helping others prevent what many of us had to go through. We do have power in this.
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Greetings again, it is I, Darkelfguy. I wanted to make a post over here because, as I'm sure you all know, the Morrowind 15th Anniversary is next week, and in order to celebrate the occasion, I wanted to do a series of podcasts with modders from around the community to talk about Morrowind's past and future.
The basic idea is that each podcast will host five modders and cover one central topic for about 40 to 60 minutes in an open-discussion style format. Now we have several potential podcast topics already (and at least one is almost entirely full), but I was hoping that someone here might be interested in participating in the province mod topic in particular, though if anyone's interested in the others, that's certainly good too!
Here's the current podcast topic list:
The Province Mods - Then, Now, and the Future
15 Years of Morrowind Modding - A Look Back at Modding History
The Future of Morrowind - What the Next 15 Years Brings
Morrowind's 15th Anniversay - 15 Years of Memories
The House Mods of Morrowind - How House Mods Shaped a Community
2002 - The Year of Endless Possibilities
If anyone is interested in participating, please let me know! The podcasts are going to be scheduled throughout the month of May, so there's a pretty open timeframe. Most likely these podcasts will be using Skype, though that hasn't been finalized yet.
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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) Will Cherry scored 28 points and Montana hit 30 of 33 free throws to defeat Weber State 76-74 Saturday night in a battle between the top two teams in the Big Sky Conference.
The Grizzlies (14-4, 10-0 Big Sky) scored eight straight points to take a 74-66 lead with 41 seconds remaining, but Davion Berry scored four quick points and Gelaun Wheelwright made two layups around a pair of Montana free throws to pull Weber State within two points with 3 seconds left. After a Montana turnover, Berry's 3-pointer from mid-court fell short.
The Wildcats (13-5, 8-2) got 17 points apiece from Berry and Frank Otis, while Kyle Tresnak and Scott Bamforth each had 14.
Kareem Jamar and Mathias Ward added 11 points each for the Grizzlies and Spencer Coleman had 10.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- An Alabama man said Wednesday that he is keeping his drone aircraft closer to the ground after a high-altitude flight prompted a warning to pilots at Birmingham's airport.
Michael Mayhew posted a video on YouTube in late May showing a drone flight that soared thousands of feet off the ground north of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. The aircraft flew so high homes appear as specks on the ground.
The video doesn't show any airplanes nearby during the flight, but pilots later received an automated warning from the Federal Aviation Administration about unauthorized drones near a homing beacon.
The problem is that the drone was in airport airspace, and FAA rules limit the altitude of such flights.
Mayhew, in an interview conducted by email, said a user on an Internet forum reported him after seeing flight statistics online. One video by Mayhew says a drone reached an altitude of more than 3,600 feet.
"The local FAA office contacted me via certified letter. I responded by phone and had a good conversation with the front-line manager," he said.
In a statement, the FAA said it had investigated a report that an unidentified drone operator flew an unmanned aircraft up to an altitude of 4,200 feet northwest of the airport.
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Apple has announced at WWDC 2011 that it will be bringing a new instant message service to iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Called iMessage, the service allows you to start a cross-device conversation where you can post text messages, photos, videos, contacts and even do group messaging.
This is a massive hit to RIM, who prides itself on BBM for BlackBerry, and it is also puts the iPhone 4 in firm contention as a business phone.
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According to Apple, iMessage works both over Wi-Fi and 3G and if you want to send a message all you have to do is tap the camera icon, pic a pic and you are away.
Apple has managed to squeeze around 200 new features into iOS 5.
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Across from the Kingsborough housing development, the three houses are all that remain of what Green describes as an "intentional community" of free African-Americans called Weeksville. Established in the second decade after New York's Emancipation, its settlers sought more than refuge from bondage at what was then the edge of Brooklyn.
Together they pursued more substantive freedoms through financial independence, community, homeownership and, tied to that, voting rights.
Lost in the jumble of bricks that Brooklyn became, a historian and amateur pilot spotted the dilapidated cottages in 1968, askew from the street grid and in the footprint of urban renewal plans.
That year began the decades-long struggle to preserve the site, and also, Ms. Green's impressive, kaleidoscopic professional life. After receiving her B.A. in mathematics, she embarked on a career trail that took her from IBM to the University of Chicago to New York City government, all the way to South Africa where she oversaw outreach for Big Bird and company.
Laid off by Sesame Street in 2001, she looked close to home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where she's laid her head for 30 years now, and found her calling.
"I thought that this was an institution that needed to be preserved. And it needed care, it needed visibility," Green said. "And it had, and it still has, tremendous potential to not only teach people about a little-known aspect of African American history, but also, use that history, making it relevant to the 21st century."
Despite the "very difficult" funding climate, the project has come alive under Green's versatile management. Since the completion of the houses' restoration in 2005, focus has turned to the land where kitchen gardens replicate those of historic Weeksville, and produce food for weekly farmers' markets hosted there (June-October).
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- British journalist and TV host Piers Morgan says his three-year run as host of a CNN weeknight talk show is ending, probably within four weeks.
"It's been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings," the former "Britain's Got Talent" and "America's Got Talent" competition judge told the New York Times.
His "Piers Morgan Live" replaced "Larry King Live" in January 2011 after King's retirement.
Morgan told the Times CNN President Jeff Zucker made the decision to cancel the show.
"Look, I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it," Morgan said.
"That's run its course and Jeff and I have been talking for some time about different ways of using me," he said.
"I think I can credibly do news and the ratings reflect that, but it is not really the show that I set out to do," Morgan told the Times.
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SOMERSWORTH — Snow is piling up in Maine and New Hampshire, and with another storm on the way this week, some cities and towns are already beginning to reach the limits of their winter storm budgets.
Somersworth is among them. The city has already plowed, sanded and salted its way through more than 80 percent of its funding for winter storm operations, according to Tom Willis, director of Public Works and Utilities.
The city budgeted a combined $245,000 this year, which was supposed to support some public works operations through the end of June. Instead, the city likely surpassed its fuel budget for the public works fleet over the weekend, Willis said.
"We're already over on overtime," he said. "Sand and salt, we'll see. We just had to buy more on Friday for this weekend's (storm), so I'd say when that's all tallied up, we'll probably ... be pretty close to, if not over, our total budget."
The state receives an average of about 46 inches of snow by this time each year, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Margaret Curtis. But the measurement has already hit 65 inches in Concord this year, Curtis said.
This month has been one of the top five snowiest months of February in New Hampshire on record, Curtis said. The 13.1 inches of snow that fell in Concord on Sunday, Feb. 24, also set a one-day record, she said.
Totals have been even more impressive in Portland, Maine. The National Weather Service has recorded 81.6 inches of snow in the city thus far this season. The average is 44.7 by this time of year. Portland received a whopping 31 inches during the blizzard that hit the region between Feb. 8-10.
New Hampshire emergency management officials are planning to ask for federal assistance to help pay for the snow removal operations that followed the record-setting blizzard. Cities and towns would be eligible for a reimbursement of up to 75 percent of their costs if the funding is approved, according James C. Van Dongen, a spokesman for the New Hampshire Department of Safety's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
"We are definitely going to apply," Van Dongen said Monday, explaining the federal government provides some assistance for severe winter weather for qualifying states and counties.
In order to qualify, the state will need to demonstrate three things: that it experienced record, or near record, snowfall; that it sustained a threshold level of "damage" throughout the state — in this case, spending on winter storm operations; and that on a county-by-county basis, the damage meets the federal threshold, in terms of the amount of money spent, on a per-capita basis.
Public works directors and town administrators throughout the state have been asked to compile data about the amount of work their crews undertook during the storm. Each request for federal assistance is ultimately forwarded onto the president's administration for review, Van Dongen said.
A similar task is under way in York County, Maine, according to Mary Ann Conroy, Commissioner of Public Works in Kittery. Conroy said the county is also examining costs for the February blizzard for submission to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The town of Kittery spent about $40,000 to clean up after the storm, which dumped about 30 inches on the community, Conroy said.
Kittery had already expended 61 percent of its funds for winter storm work as of Monday, not including the operations that took place over the weekend. The town's snow removal budget is generally $150,000 per year, not including labor, fuel and equipment costs.
With more snow in the forecast, Conroy predicted the storms will eat into the public works budget, particularly in the area of overtime spending.
The deficit could limit the ability to finish some projects quickly, Conroy said. For example, the town needs to rebuild the Philbrick Street intersection as part of a stormwater project. They would normally schedule the project to finish within one week, utilizing overtime shifts to speed the process. The project will now probably take three times as long to complete, since it must be finished without overtime work.
The snow is also creating another conundrum for Kittery.
"We're going to definitely look at identifying, and permitting, if we need to, additional snow dump spots," Conroy said, "which we haven't needed before."
In Somersworth, spending in excess of the snow budget can absorbed using the city's $80,000 contingency fund, if necessary, according to Finance Director Scott Smith. The City Council could also approve moving money from elsewhere in the budget, he said.
Some other local communities are anticipating less of a budget crunch as a result of the snow removal operations this winter. Longtime Barrington Public Works Director Peter Cook said the community is not yet approaching the limit of its $310,000 annual winter storm budget.
"We're doing fine right now," he said. "We don't want four or five more of these (storms), but we're hanging right in there."
Peter Nourse, Rochester's acting director of public works, said the city budgets about $500,000 annually for snow plowing and other storm operations. As of Monday, Rochester had spent $336,000, including expenditures for fuel, salt, sand and overtime. Plow crews maneuvered through 33,000 miles of driving in the city during the winter, Nourse said.
"I think we're going to be OK," he said, referring to the city's snow budget.
State highway crews are also staying on pace with projections for winter storm spending this year, according to Department of Transportation Spokesman Bill Boynton.
"Heading into this last weekend, we were pretty much on track with our estimates," he said.
NHDOT's budget for winter storm plowing comes from a yearly maintenance budget, which was set at $39 million for this year, Boynton said. It has already spent $28,929,000 to date. Boynton said it's too early to tell how much more money will be necessary to round out the season.
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Huebner, G.M., Cooper, J. and Jones, K. (2011) Cultures within a culture: the role of nationality and religion for environmentally significant behaviour in students living in university accommodation. In: Proceedings of Environment 2.0: The 9th Biennial Conference on Environmental Psychology. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.


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The Fairfax High football team will be going up against an old friend this Friday night when the Rebels meet host team Centreville in a Div. 6 first round Northern Region playoff game. Game time for the quarterfinals round contest is 7:30 p.m.
Fairfax (6-4) will be playing a Wildcats' team coached by Chris Haddock, who just one year ago was leading the Rebels into the postseason as the Fairfax head coach.
But Haddock, who helped re-build the Fairfax program during his three seasons at the helm, accepted the head coaching position at Centreville this past offseason. His new team has benefited greatly under his direction as the Wildcats, members of the powerful Concorde District, were 8-0 at one point before losing the past two weeks to finish the regular season at 8-2.
Kevin Simonds, a former Fairfax assistant coach under Haddock and the Rebels' current head coach, understands the coaching storyline leading up to Friday's postseason game. But he said the playoff affair is not about the coaches.
"One of the biggest things I've been telling the kids this week is that this is not coach Simonds versus coach Haddock, but Fairfax versus Centreville," said Simonds. "We are very excited about being in the playoffs."
Fairfax, in the eight-team Div. 6 playoff format, is the No. 7 seed while Centreville is the No. 2 seed. The winner of Friday's game will advance to the semifinals next week.
A year ago, under Haddock, Fairfax lost its first round Div. 6 playoff game, 19-14, to eventual region champion and state runner-up Lake Braddock. This year's Fairfax squad, under Simonds, will be looking to take that next step with a playoff victory — which would come at the expense of the Rebels' former coach.
Simonds and Haddock both understand the others' coaching style.
"I have all the respect for Chris Haddock," said Simonds. "This will be a matchup I'm looking forward to because we're familiar with [his style]. I coached three years under Chris."
Simonds said he believes his underdog Rebels can match up well on offense, defense and on special teams with the much heralded Centreville team. The coach said his players are anxious to play the Wildcats.
"We had a great practice yesterday," said Simonds, on Tuesday. "There was lots of enthusiasm. You realize how nice it is to practice now [for the playoffs]. You get to turn on the lights [for a night workout], breathe in the crisp air and experience the emotions of the playoffs."
Fairfax, the coach realizes, will have to play a great game in order to defeat Centreville and advance.
"Definitely, they are stout and a good team," said Simonds. "But we have confidence. It's going to come down to turnovers, special teams play and who can run the clock and move the football and keep the other teams' offense off the field."
<b>FAIRFAX</b>, which went 3-3 in the Liberty District this season, has proven it can play well against some of the region's top teams. The Rebels defeated Concorde District champion Robinson, 20-12, way back in week two of the season. They nearly defeated district opponent McLean in a week eight game, but lost 24-20. The Highlanders, celebrating homecoming that night, improved to 8-0 with that victory over the Rebels.
Since that setback, Fairfax has come back strong with district wins over Marshall, 34-16, and Jefferson, 21-0, to clinch a playoff berth.
Centreville, meanwhile, heads into the playoffs on a two-game losing streak following its 8-0 start. The Wildcats lost a week nine affair at Westfield, 35-14, than fell at Robinson, 27-0, last week.
Centreville has true game-breakers in star running back Manny Smith, who is averaging 138 yards per game, and quarterback Chance Roman, who has tossed 16 touchdowns.
Fairfax has an outstanding playmaker in running back Marcus Bailey.
"Stopping Marcus Bailey will be tough," said Haddock. "Marcus is a great kid with an elusive and powerful style of running. He will certainly be on our radar."
Haddock has tons of respect for his former team and coach Simonds.
"Kevin Simonds is a good man and an opponent that does things the right way," said Haddock. "It is always great to play people and programs like that.
"We are very excited to be back in the playoffs," said Haddock. "Playing Fairfax will be a challenge but one our team is up for. We have played two of the toughest teams in the Northern Region the last two weeks as well as many other tough teams and hopefully that will have us battle tested for the playoffs."