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Shortly after Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone made its way into early buyers' hands, complaints about its storage capacity began to fill the Web. The 16-GB model comes with just under 9 GB of free space – nearly half of it taken up with the operating system and pre-installed applications from Samsung and carriers.
CNet asked Samsung about this, and the company responded by conceding the S4 comes with significantly more software than last year's S3:
In a statement sent to CNET, Samsung says, "For the Galaxy S4 16GB model, approximately 6.85GB occupies [the] system part of internal memory, which is 1GB bigger than that of the Galaxy S3, in order to provide [a] high resolution display and more powerful features to our consumers."
I'm not sure how the S4's 1080p display would impact storage that much — although the images and assets used in each app would have to be higher-res — but the statement continues, "To offer the ultimate mobile experience to our users, Samsung provides [a] microSD slot on Galaxy S4 for extension of memory."
Of course, there's a catch. Yep, the S4's storage can be expanded by as much as 64 GB with a memory card, but that space can't be used for applications. If you install a lot of apps – particularly games, which can sometimes take up a gigabyte or more of space – you can quickly gobble up the onboard storage. After that, you'll have to delete something to add more apps.
Samsung tells CNet it may "secure more memory space through further software optimisation," which implies a belt-tightening update may be coming.
The other option, of course, is to opt for the 32-GB version of the S4, which only costs $50 more from AT&T. But that's cold comfort if you've already sprung for the 16-GB model.
The flap over the S4's space echoes the one that followed the release of Microsoft's Surface tablets. The 32-GB Surface RT only has 16 GB of available storage. The 64-GB Pro model comes with just 23 GB of available storage.
Google says it will soon start selling an unlocked version of the Galaxy S4 with a stock Android installation. It's not clear how much space it will have available without Samsung's TouchWiz and carrier crapware, but on the Nexus 4 smartphone – which runs stock Android 4.2 – the operating system and pre-installed Google apps take up less than 3 GB, according to ProductReviews.Net.
I'll have a review of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on Monday.


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When I went to take this picture, I didn't realize how difficult it would be to shoot a house that's way up on a hill like that! This was the best I could do. I just love my place and I've been enjoying living here so much.
Now, my favorite spot in the house is unfinished at the moment. Actually, I don't even know what to call it.
I've been calling it the 'loft' because it's at the top of the stairs and is a bright, open and airy space. It gets so much natural light, but I don't know what I'm going to turn the room into yet. There are so many options! I could make it into an office, turn it into another living area, make it into a game room. I just don't know!
There are so many options, but what I do know is that this room is pretty low on my priority list right now, so maybe I'll have made up my mind by the time I get to it. =]
Love love love having these 4 windows pouring light into the room! Do you have a favorite spot in your house? Why is it your favorite? Do you have a room that's empty waiting to be turned into a masterpiece?

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Grave of Jacob and Katherine Frank in Hillcrest Cemetary, Fulton, Mo.
The Frank family story starts with Jacob Frank, an immigrant from Hammelburg, Bavaria. Hammelburg is a small town in northern Bavaria on the Saale river, well known in Germany for its wineries and the nearby Rhön nature preserve. In America, Hammelburg is best known as the location of several POW camps during WWII. It is also the setting for the fictional POW camp in the sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
I do not have information about Jacob's parents or his life in Hammelburg. I know that in 1852 he emigrated to the United States, settling in Fulton, Callaway County, Missouri, where a small German community was formed the First Presbyterian Church in the early 1850's. Two years later, the Backers, a large Prussian family of merchants and bakers (Backer means Baker) moved to the area and began attending the same church. It was then that he met Katherine Backer, his future wife. The two were married on July 29, 1857 in Fulton. I will post more about the Backer family in later posts.
Jacob and Katherine started a family during tumultuous times. In the late 1850's tensions between the northern and southern states were rising. These tensions were felt especially in Callaway county. Missouri was a split state, with northern abolitionists settling parts of the state and slave owners from the south settling others. While Missouri was a slave state, it actually had few slave owners. Almost all the slave owners were concentrated in an area called "Little Dixie" along the Missouri River in central Missouri where a large number of families from Virginia and North Carolina had settled between 1820 and 1850. Callaway county lies at the heart of this area.
When war broke out in 1861 and the Missouri government voted to remain in the Union, Callaway county famously tried to secede from the state and proclaim itself the Kingdom of Callaway county. In response to the strong anti-Union sentiment in the area, the state set up several volunteer militia regiments to guard against attacks by Confederate sympathizers. On April 19, 1862, Jacob Frank enlisted with the 9th Calvary Regiment State Militia Volunteers. The Regiment remained for the most part in the central Missouri area, and saw action in a number of small skirmishes against guerrilla Confederate troops and sympathizers seeking to sabotage railroads and roads.
Jacob was one of the rare few soldiers in the Civil War who made it through the war without injury or illness. He was discharged on April 21, 1865 and returned home. However, a few months later he was again summoned to service. Although the war was over, gangs of Confederate sympathizers known as "Bushwackers" still plagued central Missouri. One of the gangs operating in the area eventually became known as the James-Younger gang (Jesse James' gang). Jacob re-enrolled under command of Lt. William H. Thomas in the Callaway County Volunteer Militia on July 5, 1865 and served off and on as needed to protect the countryside from Bushwackers.
After the war Jacob remained in Fulton. He worked for the next few decades in a local coal mine. Eventually as his health began to fail him, he took a less demanding job. On the 1900 census his job title was listed as "Market Gardener." He and Katherine lived on Market St., so it is possible that he worked as a caretaker at a nearby municipal park or garden.
Jacob and Katherine had nine children, 5 girls and 4 boys, all of whom lived to adulthood and married. For the most part their children married the children of other German immigrants, and stayed in Fulton. Their son Charles Henry "Charley" Frank is my g-g-grandfather.
Beulah, Charley, Forrest, Emma, Melvin and Effie Frank.
Charley Frank was born in 1865 in Fulton. He married Emma Weimeyer of Franklin county on 24 Sep 1890. Charley worked for the Backer family's grocery and bakery. He and Emma had four children, Effie, Melvin, Forrest, and Beulah. Effie married Poole Harrison from Mexico, Mo., and moved to the Chicago area, where the couple owned a chain of gas stations. The couple became quite rich but never had children. Melvin followed his father into the family business, eventually becoming co-owner of the Frank & Backer bakery. Melvin married Louise Humbrook, and they had one daughter, Marcella, who married Harry Johnson, and currently lives just north of Kingdom City. Beulah married a distant cousin, Frank Backer, who worked as a car salesman. They had two sons, Homer and Howard Backer. Howard lives in Los Angeles and Homer lives in Florida.
My great-grandfather, Forrest Sr. was born on October 27, 1896. He married Lela Harrison around 1918. They had one child, my grandfather, Forrest Jr. For the next few years, Forrest Sr. worked as a laundry truck driver in Fulton. He and Lela divorced around 1930, and Forrest Sr. moved to northern Indiana, where he managed a gas station owned by his brother-in-law Poole Harrison. Around 1945 he moved back to Fulton where he worked as a salesman at a department store. He died in 1953 at his son's house in St. Ann, Missouri. His death certificate lists the cause of death as stomach cancer.
The Frank family is a small family, with few living descendants today. Unlike the farmer families common on other branches of my family, who often had 10+ children, the Franks were city dwellers and often had two working spouses and little time for children. My research indicates that the only living descendants with the Frank last name are my grandfather and his family, of which only myself and my cousin James might still carry on the family name.
Below are documents related to the Frank family, including the military service record of Jacob Frank, census data sheets, and death certificates for my direct ancestors. I have also created a descendants chart that traces all the generations descended from Jacob Frank. It contains much more detailed information on the family.
Descendants of Jacob Frank -- A 'register report' style list of all the Frank relatives I have found so far.
Jacob & Katherine:
- Jacob Frank Civil War Service Card
- Jacob Frank Civil War Service Card 2
- Katharine Backer Frank Death Certificate
- Jacob Frank & Family 1860 Census
- Jacob Frank & Family 1870 Census Pg. 1 and Pg. 2
- Jacob Frank & Family 1880 Census
- Jacob Frank 1890 Veterans Schedule
- Jacob Frank & Family 1900 Census
- Charles Henry Frank Death Certificate
- Emma Weimeyer Frank Death Certificate
- Charles Frank 1900 Census
- Charles Frank 1910 Census
- Charles Frank 1920 Census
- Charles Frank 1930 Census


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Reaping the Benefits of Unified CommunicationsBy Samuel Greengard
Reaping the Benefits of Unified Communications
By Samuel Greengard
The complexity of today's business environment is nothing short of remarkable. Global workforces, deeply intertwined supply chains, e-commerce, pervasive mobility and social media have radically transformed the workplace and served up enormous and growing communication challenges. Today, many organizations—and their CIOs—are struggling to enable comprehensive and seamless collaboration across platforms, systems and devices. Although voice communication isn't going away, it's increasingly critical to build networks that also accommodate data and merge the two worlds in a transparent way.
Enter unified communications (UC). Although the technology has existed for years and a large number of enterprises have already put it into play, many CIOs are now exploring ways to ratchet up the capabilities to match today's digital workplace. Among other things, they're hoping to enhance collaboration tools, social media, messaging capabilities and mobile interaction across a wide range of applications and situations. "There is a need to create an overall communications experience," states Matthias Machowinski, directing analyst for enterprise networks and video at Infonetics Research.
Sliding the dial from tactical to strategic is more easily said than done, however. Although UC was originally viewed as a way to trim costs and simplify IT administration by converging data and voice networks, it has evolved into a mission-critical resource. "Rather than serving as a way to merely converge a network, it's a way to extend the network and facilitate greater connectedness," Machowinski explains. In fact, network integrator Nexus says that more than a 60 percent of firms using UC report savings of three hours per week for per mobile worker.
Increasingly, says Karen Kervin, an independent analyst who specializes in unified communications, the technology involves telephony, video and audio conferencing systems, collaboration tools, presence, messaging and social media. "Organizations are finding that it's necessary to incorporate and integrate a variety of tools and features in order to communicate and collaborate effectively," says Kervin.
Productivity Calling
Today's business environment is putting pressure on organizations like never before. The ability to access data, information and knowledge at digital speed can be the difference between an enterprise soaring or stumbling. UC aims to address many of these challenges by connecting people in more efficient and intuitive ways. It can reduce overlapping work and errors, spur innovation, speed development cycles and improve service levels. But a UC strategy is more than a system or collections of tools from a vendor or group of vendors. It's about building a strategy that spans locations, systems, devices and operating system platforms.
How to approach UC isn't getting any easier. In most cases, UC users—many of which also fall into the BYOD category—want to take UC applications with them and use them on laptops, tablets and smartphones. They desire presence capabilities and unified messaging across devices, including tie-ins to social media platforms. However, UC isn't so much a checklist of features as a way to approach communication and collaboration in a more holistic and dynamic way. It's about providing "the level of flexibility and functionality needed in today's business environment," Kervin explains.
But tapping UC effectively requires both a strategy and an ability to bridge existing systems, tools and devices. Session initiation protocol (SIP) and clouds have made it simpler to connect applications and controls at a reasonable cost, but there's also the task of tearing down organizational silos and thinking about how to navigate the shortest distance between connection points. This, in turn, requires more innovative thinking and, in some cases, internal mash-ups and more advanced development skills in order to build tools and features that transform processes and workflows.
Reaping the Benefits of Unified Communications
One company banking on UC to boost connectedness is HarborOne Credit Union, a Brockton, Mass., financial institution with 14 full-service branches, 13 freestanding ATMs, 400 employees and approximately $1.8 billion in assets. The company, which was established in 1917, has always strived to stay current with technology, notes Wayne Dunn, senior vice president and chief technology officer. "About five years ago we recognized a need to transition to a unified communications and collaboration platform. It was part of an overall business process optimization strategy," Dunn says.
Previously, HarborOne relied on a frame relay network and a series of disconnected services, tools and applications to manage IP telephony and communications. "We recognized that we had to have a more holistic solution in place," Dunn says. But, at the same time, "we were faced with the challenge of building out endpoints at a reasonable cost," says Dunn. "We needed to have robust capabilities, but have everything fit into a defined budget." The company had already settled on Microsoft Lync to provide unified communications software for voice, IM, Web conferencing and video. But it needed to build an environment that could connect effectively to its contact center.
After conducting an extensive review of existing infrastructure and analyzing the organization's future needs, the credit union adopted a unified IP solution from Aspect Software. The integrated approach to collaboration and customer contact allows HarborOne to provide customer service by telephone and direct IM. In addition, because of the integration with Lync, bankers, representatives and others can more easily pinpoint available experts in the organization and route questions or issues to them for quick resolution.
"With the call center client on the desktop, we can easily hand off a customer question, a problem or an interaction to Microsoft Lync and find the right person to address the issue," Dunn explains. For example, when a customer walks into a HarborOne branch and asks about a mortgage or refinance, a manager can immediately connect the customer to a mortgage origination expert—even if the person is located in a different office. It's also possible to initiate a videoconferencing session or instant messaging stream to obtain immediate answers and fill out an application. In addition, customers can use the videoconferencing and IM features from home.
UC has profoundly changed the way the institution interacts with its customers. "We can take care of the customer's needs immediately," Dunn says. "The process can take place immediately rather than it involving call-backs and a series of back-and-forth exchanges that can span days." As a result, the firm's customer satisfaction level now ranks consistently above 95 percent in the "very good" to "excellent" categories. Moreover, HarborOne has increased its market share across many of the communities it serves and witnessed a 20 percent spike in contact center sales. The credit union is now making a growing array of UC features available on mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, as well.
Making New Connections
In the past, unified communications has centered on technology that's used and managed on premises. These systems deliver a high degree of control and configurability, particularly for enterprises with workers clustered at central locations. However, cloud-based solutions are now also drifting into the enterprise landscape. In many instances, they offer a more flexible and scalable approach for organizations with numerous offices and large numbers of mobile workers. They're also attractive because they can lower capital expenditure costs.
Approximately 25 percent of organizations have adopted a cloud-based approach to UC videoconferencing and 38 percent are using, evaluating or planning for a cloud-based contact center, Nemertes Research shows. Kervin says the growing acceptance of cloud-based UC demonstrates that executives are comfortable using the technologies to manage key capabilities and infrastructure. Some organizations are also using hybrid UC systems that tap into both on-premise capabilities for large offices and domestic locations but also cloud-based systems for international offices.
Reaping the Benefits of Unified Communications
A cloud-based approach to UC appealed to Corporate Cost Control, a Londonderry, New Hampshire, firm that provides employment verification and unemployment cost management services for employers ranging from small firms to Fortune 500 companies. It has about 75 employees spread across 20 work locations. "We require a platform that allows us to communicate and collaborate across the country," says chief technology officer Dan Tienes. Among other things, the firm required integrated voice, messaging and fax capabilities. "We have to document conversations and actions because of the type of work we do," Tienes says. "We must be able to access these conversations."
Corporate Cost Control turned to a cloud-based UC solution, Whaleback's CrystalBlue cloud-based managed unified communications services. It allows staff to access messaging, collaboration and mobility features anywhere and at any time via the Internet, mobile networks or the public telecommunications network. In addition, employees can plug in IP phones and instantly access high-definition voice and network services. "We were able to add a variety of advanced features and build a far better communications platform for the organization," Tienes notes. This has resulted in lower IT costs and better service levels.
Kervin says that UC is increasingly the foundation for today's enterprise. It's unleashing greater productivity by effectively weaving together mobility, field offices, teleworkers and customers. It's making it easier to seamlessly manage tasks and connect data and voice in more natural and useful ways. What's more, cloud-based tools and solutions are allowing organizations to deploy features and capabilities at the speed of today's business environment—and allow information and knowledge to flow across the enterprise. As Kervin says, "It's helping companies better realize the potential of today's communication devices and tools."


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Some cravings will not be ignored. Deny yourself for too long, and the craving may become an obsession. The foods we crave are often regional specialties that are seemingly out of reach — a Philly cheese steak, barbecue pulled pork, red velvet cake or a big bowl of New England clam chowder.
Luckily, you don't have to set the GPS and gas up the car to get what you want. We've found local chefs who are preparing these classics with authenticity — and willing to share their recipes, so you can have what makes you happy on your Baltimore food staycation.
For New England clam chowder, we turned to Phil Walsh, a self-taught chef (and native New Englander) who has used the same clam chowder recipe in each of the kitchens that dot his career, from fine dining and pub grub establishments in Providence, R.I., to his current gig as sous chef at the Talbot Country Club in Easton.
Walsh says authentic chowder must have salted pork and potatoes. Bacon is most commonly used, but salt-cured pork and fatback are acceptable. The chowder is typically thickened with a roux. Some purists use hardtack crackers instead.
"Cooking chowder always reminds me of Block Island and my family," he says.
An emerald isle of bluffs and meadows, Block Island was named one of the "Last Great Places in the Western Hemisphere" by the Nature Conservancy. It is to Rhode Islanders what the Eastern Shore is to Maryland families. Instead of serving steamed crabs with sweet corn and cold beer, Rhode Islanders bake clams and lobsters with hot rocks and seaweed while passing time with clam chowder. Once you try his recipe, you'll know why.
If a Philly cheese steak is what you're hoping for, start at MaGerks, with locations in Federal Hill and Bel Air (and Pennsylvania). MaGerks sends an emissary a few times each week to buy sub rolls from a Philadelphia bakery — they won't say which one. The idea is that great bread makes a great sandwich — especially when the sandwich has so few ingredients. An authentic Philly cheese steak consists only of bread, shaved ribeye and — wait for it — Cheez Whiz.
Some customers are surprised by the Cheez Whiz, says Sarah Clark, the longtime general manager of the Federal Hill location. "I remember being pretty put off by the idea of it when I started working here," she acknowledges. "Once you try it, though, there's no turning back."
Clark says even visitors from Philly are impressed.
"I think it's really nice for Eagles fans to have somewhere to go where they can be in their jersey on game day, watch the game and have a sub," she says. "It's just like being at home — if home also had a lot of Ravens fans."
But maybe you're looking for something sweeter, like red velvet cake, long believed to be of Southern origin (a theory bolstered by the film "Steel Magnolias").
At the Oooh So Sweet Cakery and Cupcakery in Mount Vernon, owner and pastry chef Shaun Price says she's put "a lot of time and attention into developing the perfect red velvet cake. I believe we've done it.
"When I think of red velvet cake I think of down South," says the self-taught chef. "But I associate red velvet cake and just good old baking with country cooks. Like my Grams. She was an old-fashioned baker. You know, a little of this a little of that. … And it works just about every time."
Keeping it authentic and simple is also the plan at Mission BBQ, with three locations in Maryland. For them, barbecue is about perfectly smoked meat.
"We believe there is a real distinctive flavor when you smoke low and slow, the way they have done it for centuries, particularly perfected in Texas and the Deep South," says Steve Newton, the restaurants' co-owner. "It produces a great, flavorful meat and an incredibly enjoyable eating experience."
Newton suggests adding "soaked wood chips such as oak, hickory and even fruitwood, such as apple to your charcoal," noting that "when the grill is covered, it will produce delicious smoked flavors in your meat."
None of these recipes require exacting techniques or much kitchen experience. What is required is an appreciation for the love that made these dishes into regional favorites. So get that staycation started, and start cooking.
The recipes:
New England clam chowder
Makes about 12 bowls
1/2 gallon heavy cream
1/2 gallon milk
1/2 gallon clam juice
1/2 pound smoked bacon, chopped
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 yellow onion, diced
1 head celery, diced
Kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper, to taste
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup flour
6 red potatoes, diced then boiled until tender
4 cans (8 ounces each) chopped clams
1 tablespoon dried dill
1 tablespoon red pepper flakes (optional)
Mix cream, milk and clam juice in a large soup pan (3 gallons) and bring to a low simmer over medium heat.
In a separate pan, render bacon over medium heat until crisp. Add the oil, onion, celery and salt and pepper, to taste. Cook until vegetables are tender, stirring to prevent sticking (about 5 minutes). Set aside.
Mix butter and flour in a separate saucepan and whisk until smooth, being careful not to burn. This is your roux.
Add roux to cream mixture and stir thoroughly. Finish by adding the vegetables and bacon, potatoes, clams, dill and red pepper flakes (if using).
Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with oyster crackers and hot sauce on the side.
The 9th & Passyunk cheese steak
Makes 1 sandwich
1 fresh, foot-long sub roll (the best you can find)
Cheez Whiz (as much as you like)
Oil for frying
8 ounces high quality shaved ribeye
Slice sub roll and gently spread open. Slather with Cheez Whiz and lightly toast under the broiler or in the oven.
Heat oil in a hot griddle pan (or skillet), then cook steak until browned, chopping it with a metal spatula as it cooks.
Mix a dollop of Cheez Whiz into the pan with the meat. Scoop contents of the pan into the roll.
Red velvet cake
Serves 15
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1 tablespoon cornstarch
8 ounces unsalted butter
3/4 cups buttermilk
3 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons red food coloring
3 eggs
Blend all dry ingredients together. Then blend all wet ingredients together in a separate bowl (this includes the butter).
Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients a little at a time until fully incorporated.
Beat mixture until well blended (no more than 3 minutes; do not over-mix).
Pour batter into two well-greased and floured cake pans (two 9-inch or 10-inch pans will work fine).
Bake in a preheated oven, 350 degrees for 35 minutes or until firm to touch.
Let cool for 15 minutes or longer before serving, or 30 minutes or longer before icing.
For the frosting:
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
8 tablespoons cream cheese
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar ( have a little extra on hand for thicker icing)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer at medium speed until well blended. Adjust speed to low and slowly incorporate powdered sugar a half-cup at a time until you have reached your desired consistency. Then add vanilla extract, continuing to mix until icing is light and fluffy.
To assemble cake:
Place one cake on a cake board or cake plate. Grab a heaping dollop (about 4 tablespoons) of icing to top that cake. Spread evenly. Place your second cake on top of iced cake. Use the remaining icing to cover the entire cake.
Pulled pork in the oven
Serves 10-12
Bone-in pork shoulder roast, about 5-6 pounds (Look for one that has the most even layer of fat around the shoulder.)
For the rub:
1 cup paprika
1 cup kosher salt
6 tablespoons black pepper
6 tablespoons garlic powder
4 tablespoons chili powder
4 tablespoons onion powder
2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 cup brown sugar
Red Rub
Spicy Carolina Vinegar Sauce
Remove shoulder from packaging, rinse with cold water and pat with paper towels, leaving it moist for the Red Rub to adhere to the pork shoulder.
Mix all rub ingredients together. (This makes more than one batch; store extra in a sealed Mason jar.) Rub the shoulder aggressively with the rub.
Cover with plastic wrap and store fat side up. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
5. Preheat oven to 225 degrees. Place shoulder into a roasting pan, fat side up. Cook the shoulder low and slow until it reaches an internal temperature of 180 degrees (approximately 6-7 hours).
Cover with foil, remove from oven and let rest for 20 minutes. Use a towel to remove the bone — it's hot — and use two forks to pull the pork into small, medium and large pieces.
Serve the pulled pork with hamburger buns, pickles, sliced onions and your barbecue sauce of choice (spicy Carolina vinegar sauce recipe below).
Spicy Carolina vinegar sauce:
2 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 teaspoon hot sauce (your favorite)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
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(Pocket-lint) - Like so many concept cars, you're not going to see this Lacoste tie-in rolling down your local high street any time soon. Really, this car is designed to inspire the people who are responsible for the Citroëns you will buy, to keep them fresh and to give them new ideas. This concept then, is a bit of out-of-the-box thinking, a practical brainstorm, if you will.
Pocket-lint got a good chance to look at this exciting new concept car, and we spoke to its designer Celine Venet, who explained her vision. Mainly she said, it's supposed to be fun, and make you smile.
The car is designed to take inspiration from both Lacoste fashion, and the sports which that company is heavily involved with. For example, the wheels echo golf balls and the fabrics used on the seats are also similar to those used in tennis outfits. You'll also notice that the car has a sun visor, that can be lowered, when not needed, and it too echos a pair of Lacoste sunglasses.
The first thing you notice about this car is that it doesn't have a roof. In our photos you won't see any protection from the elements at all, but the car does have a some rain shielding, in the form of an inflatable roof, which wasn't in place when we saw the car. This car then, might not strike you as appropriate for the UK. But, with that said, the surfaces are all designed to repel water, and there are drainage points in the car too. So, if you do find yourself caught in a storm, the car will be just fine after, even if its occupants are a little moist.
The car also features a design that makes it easy to get in and out of the vehicle. Handles allow you to pull yourself up and hop in, almost like a golf buggy. Of course, with no plan to sell the car, the engine is semi-irrelevant, but Citroën says it would have a 3-cylinder petrol engine, that would produce enough power for this small, light car, and make it fun to drive, but inexpensive too.
We like the idea of the dashboard too. It's a display that reminds us of a tennis scoreboard, and Venet tells us that the decision to make each individual pixel large, and visible, was designed to echo the style of a tennis net. But all the information you need is here too, it's just a radically different style to most euro-box production vehicles. We rather liked it.
And, as our time with the car came to a close, we realised that, as promised, it was making us smile.
- Samsung Galaxy Note 20, What3Words CEO, and Withings Sleep Analyzer reviewed - Pocket-lint podcast ep. 65
Watch our video interview with Celine Venet and see the car in more detail with our video hands-on:
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May 2008 release dates
May 9: Bhoothnath, Jimmy
May 16: Jannat
May 23: Aamir, Dhoom Dadakka, Don Muthuswami, Ghatothkach, Hastey-Hastey, Woodstock Villa, Zindagi Tere Naam
May 30, 2008: Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors, Mukhbiir
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I want to see Jannat, as well, especially as now I read that it will involve match-fixing and the allure of money, which should be nice and dramatic.
I'll probably skip Bhootnath, as I don't like kids movies, but I'm really curious about Woodstock Vila to see if Sikander is as good an actor as his mother. Kirron Kher is a formidable actress. (Plus, I love thrillers.)
- Tuesday, May 06, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Woodstock Villa should be interesting, yes.
I think Jannat will do well, given it deals with a subject that has haunted cricket fans for a while. The harsh reality is that there is strong evidence to suggest match-fixing scandals over the years. For that, there was a period, particularly in the 1990s, during which people lost trust in their teams. So this issue is near and dear to people's hearts, and it will be interesting to see how that is portrayed in the film, and how it is received.
I think Emraan Hashemi does quite well in thrillers. Thought he did well in Aksar, Chocolate, The Killer, and Awarapan (his best, in my opinion).
- Tuesday, May 06, 2008
- Shweta Mehrotra Gahlawat said...
"Hari Puttar"??? will never watch it, but the name kills me. Its interesting that Bollywood is suddenly so geared towards children's cinema. Woodstock Villa I am waiting for.
- Tuesday, May 06, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
'Hari Puttar' is such an unoriginal title, I can't believe someone made a film with that name. It's funny, but it could have been about as effective in a scene in or a song.
And yes, the trend with children's cinema is interesting.
- Tuesday, May 06, 2008


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Man held for trial for shooting deer from Walmart parking lot
Arcangelo Bianco Jr. charged by Pennsylvania Game Commission in Burrell Township
They say you can get almost anything at Walmart -- but the Pennsylvania Game Commission says a deer hunter took it too far.
Arcangelo Bianco Jr. was held for court on reckless endangerment and hunting law violations for allegedly shooting across Old William Penn Highway to kill a 10-point buck he spotted in Walmart's parking lot in Burrell Township in November.
Blairsville District Judge Jennifer Rega ordered Bianco to stand trial after a preliminary hearing on Wednesday morning. Bianco declined to comment as he left the courtroom.
"He got out of his vehicle with a handgun and chased this deer through the parking lot, letting off several rounds, and then he ran across Route 22 to further get the deer, then loaded it up into his car and took it to a processing plant," District Attorney Patrick Dougherty said in March, when the charges were announced.
By phone, Wildlife Conservation Officer Jack Lucas said the buck was the nicest one he's seen taken in Indiana County in recent years.
Lucas testified in court Wednesday that Bianco fired within the 150-yard safety zone, which means hunters aren't allowed to fire within 150 yards of an occupied structure or roadway.
"It's obvious. When you're in a Walmart parking lot, it speaks for itself," Lucas said.
Bianco does have a firearms permit but not a hunting license, his attorney Jason Huska said. Huska added Bianco only shot the deer because it was injured and he wanted to protect store customers.
In March, Huska said state police initially did not file charges, but the Game Commission went back later and charged the 40-year-old man.
"I have a lot of respect for the job they (Pennsylvania state police) do. That being said, it would be irresponsible for me to comment on the job they do other than my client and I are in agreement with the decision they reached," Huska said.
"The initial call went into our emergency management 911 system. The state police was dispatched," Dougherty said. "However, once they determined that it involved a deer, the Game Commission was then dispatched to take over as the lead investigation agency."


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The property is accessed by Herring Brook Road, a gravel road that creates 2.7 miles of property frontage. The land's frontage is on an unmaintained portion of the road, 0.4 miles from the town-maintained section of the road, where electric power is available. The northernmost property area offers a 0.7-mile seasonal internal road (culverts pulled) into the center of this operating unit. Topography is varied, however the majority of slopes are gentle to moderate. Areas of steep slopes can be found on terrain leading up to hill tops and along streams. Many of the areas adjacent to Herring Brook and Lynch Hill Roads are level, former cropland that was planted to softwood species in the 1950s. Elevations peak at 2000' atop Chase Mountain, and are at their lowest point at 1,000' where Herring Brook flows off the forest. Well-drained, upland soils predominate. This timberland investment has been carefully managed for 30 years, with third-party FSC certification covering the last 10 years, yielding one of the finest timber resource tracts in the region. The asset appreciation management regime has focused growth on chosen species, favoring the highest stem quality, and producing a crop that is at or nearing maturity. The standing timber has a current value of $2,560,000.
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Investiture: Class of 2013
Thayer's graduating class was honored at Investiture, held June 8 at the Hopkins Center. Dean Joseph J. Helble presided over the presentation of hoods, caps, and awards to a record 178 recipients of B.E. and graduate degrees.
The annual Robert Fletcher Award, named for Thayer's first dean and recognizing distinguished achievement and service in the highest tradition of the School, was presented to Subra Suresh, president-elect of Carnegie Mellon University and former director of the National Science Foundation.
"A great many of the challenges of the 21st century are issues that arise out of the engineering achievements of the 20th century," Suresh told the graduates. "The success of the petroleum-based economy we built over the last century has given us the problem of how to control carbon emissions and slow climate change; the invention of nuclear technologies now leads to the challenge of preventing nuclear terrorism; the spread of instant global connectivity made possible by the Internet now presents the challenge of securing cyberspace, preserving citizens' privacy, and protecting confidentiality of personal information; and the aeronautical engineering that transformed the global transportation system also means that infectious diseases can travel fast from anywhere on the planet to anywhere else, almost at the speed of sound, and threaten the planet with a deadly pandemic."
Suresh asked graduates, "What do we engineers need to do differently in the 21st century in order to respond to the challenges of our time while also doing a much better job at anticipating future consequences?"
And he gave his insights on addressing these challenges. "First, by creatively engaging engineering with the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, we can better understand human interaction with technologies. Second, our new era of engineering and science is offering new tools and big data for observation and interpretation about our world, and these tools need to be carefully employed and managed. And third, our most difficult problems, and their solutions, are global ones, and working within that global context is essential."
In his farewell to graduates, Dean Helble recounted some of the many accomplishments of the Class of 2013, including creating businesses, mentoring local youth, and showcasing inventions at the Dell Social Innovation Challenge, Unite for Sight's Global Health and Innovation Conference, and the National Sustainable Design Expo. "You took to heart the words inscribed on the side of our building," he said. "You are without a doubt ready to take on the most responsible positions and the most challenging service."
See videos, photos, and more from 2013 Investiture.
Class of 2013 Engineering Graduates
- Doctor of Philosophy — 21
- Master of Science — 6
- Master of Engineering Management — 51
- Bachelor of Engineering — 100
- Bachelor of Arts, Engineering Sciences — 96
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Do you feel like jumping in a pool of ice water just to cool off from this scorching heat? But then again, what chance does the ice stand before it quickly becomes lukewarm water? It's not just sweat that we have to be concerned about or how uncomfortable the heat makes us feel, but the health risks that result from the intensity of how hot it is outdoors.
As we watch record-breaking temperatures rise across the country and around the world, we are also witnessing our electricity bills skyrocket from simply trying to stay cool indoors. Outside temperatures are sweltering even before you factor in the heat index. High ozone level warnings and heat strokes are contributing to serious illnesses, breathing difficulty and in some cases proven fatal. Two common denominators that seem to be an ongoing problem with air conditioning systems include routine HVAC maintenance checks and regularly changing your air filters.
Here are four benefits for maintaining clean air filters during this heatwave:
1. Saves you money
2. Improves indoor air quality
3. Allows for better airflow to cool your indoors more effectively
4. Helps your system to perform with optimal results
Airborne pollutants and allergens such as dust, smoke, pet dander, mold spores and dirt clogs your air filter, reduces your airflow and puts a strain on your air conditioning system. For optimum performance, based on usage, your indoor air quality and the type of furnace air filter you use, be sure to change your air filter regularly, especially during this summer heat.
Choosing the air filter that best suits your personal needs can include one of the following:
Fiberglass/Polyester Air Filters are the most economical and probably the least effective. Their media captures large particles, but are not effective for capturing smaller airborne particles.
Polypleated Air Filters are generally made from polyester or cotton media. This filter is denser and captures more airborne pollutants than fiberglass air filters or washable and reusable filters.
Permanent Electrostatically Charged Air Filters like the Filtrete Ultra Allergen Air Filter are made of electrostatically charged fibers that help to capture airborne particles magnetically drawn to the air filter.
Electronic Air Filters are permanent fixtures in your HVAC systems and require an electrical connection. They may capture smaller instead of larger particles. Electronic cleaners however, can produce ozone, which is a lung irritant.
HEPA Air Filters like the IQAir HealthPro Hyper HEPA Air Filter Replacement is thicker than standard sized HEPA Filters. It captures many airborne particles and allergens such as pollen, dirt, dust, pet dander, hair, mold spores, bacteria and other indoor air pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.
According to the EPA, indoor air pollution is among the top five environmental health risks. Be sure to check your evaporator coils if you have access to them and your ductwork to make sure they are clean every time you change your air filter. Although this intense heatwave will zap you of your energy and dehydrate your body, don't allow your air conditioning system to suffer performance fatigue by neglecting to change your air filter frequently.


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Victories are beginning to add up for American women. President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He's signed a law expanding health care benefits for women and children under SCHIP.
And now, there's a chance that Kim Gandy, longtime women's activist, feminist leader and President of the National Organization for Women is a contender for the slot as the head of the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor. To say that Gandy would be the perfect person for the slot is an understatement (and I'm not just saying that because I hear she's read my blog every now and then!) 😉
The mission statement of the Women's Bureau is:
To improve the status of wage-earning women, improve their working conditions, increase their efficiency, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Gandy has devoted her life to fighting for the rights of women. It started for Kim when, according to her Wikipedia entry, she had to get her husband's permission for employee benefits when she worked for AT&T after getting out of college. Yeah. His permission. That would have inspired me to do something, too.
Seriously, Gandy has worked tirelessly for women ever since, but apparently the people behind The New Agenda blog believe that NOW's support of Barack Obama for president disqualifies her for a potential position in the Obama administration. Really? 'Cause this is part of her resume:
Since 2001, Gandy has led NOW's campaigns on issues ranging from Supreme Court nominations to the rights of mothers and caregivers, from Social Security reform to ending the war in Iraq. Through grassroots political action, Gandy helped increase the women's vote and change the face of Congress in 2006 and is leading the organization's efforts around the pivotal 2008 elections.
That's exactly the kind of person I want in charge of women's issues at the Labor Department, especially now as the administration contemplates how more women will be able to employed in the jobs creation aspect of the stimulus package. Gandy has been a champion for women's rights her whole life, and that's who I want working hard to make sure women get an equal slice of the job creation pie.
I'm sure Gandy isn't the only person who could be good in that job. But I have to wonder what's behind such a public dissing of Gandy by a group that claims to be all for advancing women's rights? If you're looking for a qualified, dedicated woman to lead efforts to promote and benefit women over the next four years, no one is more qualified. And, if you look carefully at the stated goals of The New Agenda, it seems that Gandy would be perfect for those, too.
I'm not sure what this preemptive strike is all about, but I've come to learn the hard way that if something smells a little fishy, odds are it's worth taking a look around to see where the odor is coming from.
Kim, for what it's worth, after everything you've done for women (and girls) in your lifetime, you've got as much support as I can give you. You deserve it.
UPDATE: More women in the blogosphere are speaking up about their support for Kim Gandy AND the reasons behind this campaign. Don't let the smoke and mirrors of the anti-Gandy campaign fool you.


text: Terry Dorkins is a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969. Dorkins works for Albert and Archie Crisp. Dorkins gives the protagonist instructions to steal a tank from Lenny Smith's crew. Dorkins later tells the protagonist to take out Smith's crew, so Smith won't have any back up later. Dorkins then tells the protagonist to steal Gerald's car and rig it with a bomb, in order to kill Gerald. Dorkins then tells the protagonist to find Reg Smith to get the location of his brother Lenny, and then he kills Lenny. He is said to be very talkative and appears to know the protagonist well.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — John Gamble Jr., distinguished professor of political science and international law at Penn State Behrend, and Martin Trethewey, Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Engineering Education in the College of Engineering, are recipients of the 2014 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The award recognizes excellence in teaching and student support among tenured faculty who have been employed full time for at least five years with undergraduate teaching as a major portion of their duties. Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, served as president of Penn State from 1950 to 1956.
Gamble traces his belief in the importance of knowing students as individuals back to 1963, when a college chemistry professor asked him a question. "I knew the answer but, due to my stuttering, could not answer and dropped the course," he said. "To this day, in my interactions with students, I try to understand the person beyond the occupant of a classroom seat for 150 minutes a week."
Although Gamble has taught political science at Behrend since 1976, one nominator said, "Dr. Gamble's classes evolve each semester. His limitless curiosity and dedication to improvement make this possible." A student described the professor's approach as "outside the traditional 'teaching' box," an approach that "is inspiring, stimulates debate, and always produces a further learning opportunity."
As director of honors programs at Behrend, Gamble is in charge of recruiting students and arranging honors sections and supplementary programming; last fall, the campus had 36 Schreyer Scholars and 400 in the Behrend Honors Program. Talking to prospective honors students at open houses, "John promises them an individualized experience at Behrend, one that, he says, they won't receive anywhere else," one nominator said. "John can make this promise because it is true, and it is true due to John's efforts."
Having taught at Penn State for 32 years, Trethewey focuses on developing and delivering "real-life activities inside and outside of the classroom in order to facilitate the transition from student to practicing professional engineer." He has his mechanical engineering students work in teams to simulate a small professional consulting company. "This 'company approach' allows the students to simultaneously practice professional skills, such as teamwork and communication, as well as immediately apply newly studied technical topics," he said.
Trethewey spearheaded development of the Global Capstone Project Team activity to give engineering students international experience without having to travel internationally. Penn State students partner with students at an overseas university to work on a project for an industry sponsor, along the way dealing with time-zone differences and communication challenges. One nominator said Trethewey "developed a pathway that led to incredible opportunities for our undergraduate students to achieve global engineering experiences." In 2012, the National Academy of Engineering awarded the project a Real World Engineering Education Citation.
According to one student nominator, "No other professor that I have encountered combines passion, integrity and professional expertise with a student-centric approach like Dr. Trethewey." The professor received the Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012.


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Late last night (early morning, local time) thousands of fascinated Ustream viewers looked on as Nina, a pregnant chimpanzee, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The first-ever live streaming of a chimpanzee birth went off without a hitch and mother and baby are now resting comfortably under the watchful eyes of the entire world.
Nina and her infant will continue to live and stream from a private suite within the Jane Goodall Institute's South African "Chimp Eden" for the next 30 days — at which point they will be slowly re-introduced to the center's existing chimpanzee troop. At that point, the new baby will all also be named, although many Ustreamers have unofficially christened him "Squeak."
The upcoming month is sure to hold many surprises as Nina and her son begin to bond. She's already proving herself to be quite maternal, despite her being orphaned as a young chimp. (For more on Nina's story, click here)
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RESTAURANT MONTH... starts it all, it really does. Well, it's at the start of the year, when we're in the mood to begin new habits and trends and ways of doing business (and by business we mean "life"). But Restaurant Month, which happens around California as well as several cities and counties during January, has a way of filling the head with fanciful longings and ideas. One such idea is this: There are eleven more months in the year, it's true -- we didn't shock you there, right? -- and there are so many businesses people love to patronize beyond restaurants. Why couldn't there be an Olive Mill Month? Or a Gelato Month? Or, to grow a bit more general and encompassing, a month devoted to deals among hotels and bed & breakfasts and inns? There is indeed that time period, in Paso Robles, at least, and it falls in February. The name? You'll remember it, we bet: Hotel Month.
FEB. 1 THROUGH 28: The Paso Robles Hotel Month does indeed run for all of the second month of the year, and numerous stayover spots around the Central Coast burg'll line up the deals. Like? Well, The Adelaide Inn'll give five-buck coupons to Margie's Diner (they call it a "locals' favorite," so yay that). Wine-tasting tickets to area vineyards'll be handed out, too. And over at the historic Paso Robles Inn? A stay in a Deluxe Spa Room nets you "complimentary tastings and corkage on your first bottle of local wine at the Robles Inn Steakhouse. Meanwhile over at The Oaks Hotel -- the city's newest hotel entry -- there's a 10% off dinner deal in play during February. As with any sweeping discount/offer month, asterisks shall be and are present, so study up. Then sip up, in Paso, during one of the most uncrowded times of year. Hey, seriously though; shouldn't February be Hotel Month in every city? Every city everywhere, please address this at once. You have our gratitude.


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I've been looking forward to having my twins, my youngest children, ski for years. Re-discovering the mountains and skiing with my older kids was amazing 5 years ago and so when the opportunity to get my twins up Mount Seymour for a first ever ski lesson, I was stoked! My girls are nine years old and pretty athletic but I didn't want to tackle teaching them myself. All kids learn differently for other people, so getting Chad as our instructor was great. He was friendly, fun, patient and perfect to teach my girls. I thought recording their progress through videos would be the easiest way to showcase what kids can learn in a first lesson. Here are three videos that show 1) 10 minutes into the lesson learning the snowplow (stopping or making a pizza with skis) 2) magic carpet on the bunny hill of Seymour that makes getting back up the mountain fun and easy 3) 30 minutes into the lesson my girls are skiing.
Mount Seymour private lesson. 10 minutes into the lesson. Learning the snow plow or making a pizza with your skis.
Getting onto the Mount Seymour magic carpet at the bottom of the bunny hill. This eliminates the fear of a chair lift for beginners.
30 minutes later into a private lesson with instructor Chad up Seymour Mountain. His patience with my girls was amazing! This is my favourite video because near the end of the video my girls encounter a bump in the snow and the huge smile on their face after they go over it was adorable.
Thank you to Seymour Mountain and our instructor Chad! Your patience and knowledge was awesome and the snow conditions up Mount Seymour mountain are perfect for beginner or advanced skiers.


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Last week I explored the problems that we saw in hard mode raiding with the resto druid toolkit. The identified issue was our significant lack of ability to deal well with burst AE healing situations. The next step is looking for ways to address this issue in MoP. To do this, I think we must first start with the solution Blizzard is proposing, and then discuss what issues we may have and why we may need changes to that proposal to make sure that it solves the issue, rather than exacerbate the problem. Since I'm a pretty firm believer of "don't bring me a problem unless you have a suggestion for a solution", I also think it's important to offer some alternative thoughts on how the issue can be addressed.
Blizzard's Fix – Healing Mushrooms
In recognizing that something was missing in the resto druid toolkit, Blizzard made an effort to fill in the gap for MoP by implementing a change to the current level 85 ability that druids received in Cataclysm – Mushrooms. Rather than detonate them so that they explode, if you are a resto druid your mushrooms now "bloom" and heal.
Wild Mushroom – Grow a magical mushroom with 5 health at the target location. After 6 sec, the Mushroom will become invisible. Other Wild mushroom abilities can target these mushrooms for additional effects. Only 3 Mushrooms can be placed at one time. Cost: 10% of base mana.
Wild Mushroom: Bloom – Causes all of your Wild Mushrooms to bloom, healing all allies within 6 yards for 934. Cooldown: 10 seconds.
While I am happy that there is some recognition that our toolkit is lacking in one very key area, I am seriously concerned about the way that Blizzard has gone about implementing a solution to the problem. Let's talk a little bit about what is wrong with this iteration of mushrooms, and what can be done to make this ability (should Blizzard opt to keep it) more conducive to healing and more streamlined for the player.
- The placement mechanic of the mushrooms is clunky and cumbersome. Even though dropping mushrooms has been updated on beta to remove the need to click the "mushroom" spell before placing each mushroom (which is an improvement), it has only removed two key clicks from the process. It still requires 5 key clicks to set up this spell, 3 of which are on the terrain in the game. This continues to make this ability clunky and very cumbersome to set up.
- Solution: Don't require three mushrooms to be dropped for maximum healing. Alternatively have one click drop all three mushrooms simultaneously. If the concern is the time required to set up the spell, put a cast time on the ability to keep it in line with abilities like Holy Radiance, Healing Rain, Sanctuary, etc. I've heard a few people state they'd like to see a HoT component to mushrooms to offset the set up time, but this is something I do not want to see. The problem we are trying to find a solution for is druid's ability to offer burst healing. Adding a HoT to mushrooms would undoubtedly require Blizzard to adjust the direct heal down so that they aren't "OP". We do not want this. Adding a HoT to the mushroom does not work towards solving the holes in our toolkit, and will only complicate trying to balance out the healing Mushrooms provide (see Regrowth as an example). We do not need another mediocre heal that doesn't solve our problems.
- The range on the "bloom" (6 yards) is far too small to be effective in most raid situations. I am going to go ahead and (perhaps foolishly) make the assumption that Blizzard intends to continue to may dynamic encounters that challenge and intrigue the playerbase. This often times means that the raid will be spread out in a given amount of space, and outside of the melee will not often be grouped up within 6 yards of each other. This has been a noted and significant issue that shaman have had to deal with for all of Cataclysm, to the point that Blizzard gave them a "bandaid fix" by designing an entire zone that played to their strengths. However, that also made for some fairly mundane encounters, due to the lack of dynamic mechanics you can employ while simultaneously having the raid "group up". Additionally, we've already established that Rejuv/WG is not sufficient burst healing (hence the need for something new to deal with it), so that is not going to be a particularly viable solution for the periods of an encounter when the raid is spread out.
- Solution: Increase the range on the "bloom". At a minimum, it needs to match what paladins and shaman are able to do with Healing Rain and Holy Radiance if it's going to have any hope of being competitive and effective.
- The set-up required for the spell, combined with the exceptionally small radius, means that it will be devastating if your raid moves after you have planted your mushrooms. Sure, you can plant more after you've moved…for another 5 keystrokes. While increasing the range on the bloom has the potential to alleviate this somewhat, I feel that we will end up running into the same problem that plagued shaman with their pretty blue circle if people run out of it, there is nothing you can do to fix it. I am really hopeful that we aren't going to have an entire expansion where a good number of the encounters involve people piling on top of each other because Blizzard designed all of these heals with limited healing range that require people to be within 6/10/12 yards of each other.
- Solution: Rather than have the mushrooms planted on the ground, allow them to be planted on people, so there is more flexibility in positioning while utilizing them. You can still "bloom" them, but this allows the raid to be dynamic without having to worry about "standing in the mushrooms". It also removes the clunky ground targeting mechanic inherent to mushrooms. Hell, have Healing Rain work in a similar way – have it form a storm cloud above one person, that moves with that person, and have it hit everyone within x number of yards around them. The best part about this? You will actually be able to see the bad shit on the ground that you need to avoid!
- You want me to do what while maintaining Lifebloom and Harmony?! Out of all of the healers druids are probably the most GCD capped and probably have the largest number of things to maintain. I'm not complaining about it, it's one of the intricacies of druiding that make it challenging to play well, and that I love learning to maximize. However, to play my class well, I need to keep LB and harmony active. And I'm required to do this once every 10 seconds. Adding in an additional heal that requires 5 steps to be successful really cuts into the other healing that I am able to do between keeping up LB and Harmony and setting up mushrooms. I suppse I should at least be grateful that I don't need to maintain a solar eclipse for maximum effectiveness.
- Solutions: There are a few things that could help to improve this dynamic. One would be to increase the duration of harmony (maybe up to 30 seconds?) or make harmony passive, I don't think that would be unfounded as other healing classes have a passive mastery ability. Come to think of it, it would be nice to have a passive mastery regardless. Perhaps that is a topic for another day. Alternatively, since mushrooms are technically a "direct" heal, have them trigger harmony.
Alternative Ideas
Personally, I would like to see Blizzard throw the whole idea of healing mushrooms out of the window and start back at square one. We are early enough in the testing process that I do not feel that this would be a devastating change. I have a few ideas that I'd like to see, and I've heard a few ideas that I think would also work at breaching the gap in our toolkit. Not only that, but it would also give Blizzard the opportunity to weave in a nifty new ability/spell for resto druids. Two birds, one stone, win win for everyone!
I'm going to call all of the abilities below "Flourish". It was actually the original name for Wild Growth back during the WotLK beta, but I think it would be a great name for a new ability the ties in some of the concepts of healing mushrooms (blooming) but let's us explore a completely new, more healer friendly, mechanic. My goal is also to keep in tune with resto druid's strengths and playstyles. The idea is to keep the ability unique in concept, while giving the mechanic the tools to allow druids to perform well under all circumstances.
- Flourish Suggestion One. One of the things that I have always like the best about being a druid is knowing when and were to place your HoTs, and monitoring them to smartly maximize your healing. I think an ability that causes your hots to "flourish" or "burst" when flourish is cast would be a very unique, intriguing and druid centric way to solve the burst healing issue. It would be limited to 5 targets, or it could be limited to "x amount" of healing done on an unlimited number of targets. I think limiting it to targets would be a cleaner solution. If limited to 5 active HoTs, it could be a bit of a smart heal selecting the 5 lowest targets with a HoT on them – and I thinkI might even be OK with it consuming the HoT, as usually the a good part of the HoT is wasted (I'd have to really think on that more before deciding how I feel about it "consuming" the HoT). It wouldn't be as mindless as WG is because you'd have to actively select rejuv targets in advance to prepare for the incoming burst of damage – and pre-hotting is already pretty standard druid play, only now when a large chunk of your rejuv is "wasted", at least you are getting something for it. I would not want it to have a CD as it would be naturally limited by the need to set up HoTs on the raid for it to be effective.
- Downsides: We've all experienced the pain of Nourish. Tying another heal to pre-hotting could be somewhat painful, and may end up being counter-productive. The shorter time on Rejuv may also make it challenging to keep enough rejuvs active to make this a meaningful heal.
- Flourish Suggestion Two. Similar to suggestion one, this one would be based off of your active HoTs, only this time instead of only healing a certain number of people, your HoTs would "Flourish" and heal everyone within x yards around them instantly for Y. I think that this one might be ok to have a short cooldown, because of the potential for the entire raid to be simultaneously effected by this heal.
- Downsides: You again run into the "range" problem. If people are spread out all over, it will really limit the effectiveness of this heal.
- Flourish Suggestion Three. And ability on a short (10ish second) cooldown that empowers the druid to attune with the forces of nature, causing all of their rejuvs (current or new) to tick every .5 seconds (or maybe 1 if .5 is too much healing in too short a time) for the next x amount of time (5 or 6 seconds?) on everyone within 40 yards of the druid. This is something that would help to answer the "burst" issues, while keeping with the philosophy of druid healing being HoT centered. It's a little more thoughtless because you don't have to be as cognizant with where you are placing your rejuvs, but it does eliminate the range issues. Maybe if you wanted to be a little more creative with it, and require a little more thought, you could have it tick faster the closer you are to the druid and slow down slightly (we still want it to suffice for "burst" healing) the further away you are from the druid.
- Downsides: I…can't find any! Which probably means it would be way OP 🙂 Well, I guess it is another spell that would be reliant on how many HoTs you have currently active.
I don't know how these would play out in practice, and I'm sure that they would require some tweaking, but I do feel that they would be a better fit for our toolkit than the mushrooms while maintaining a distinctly "druid" flavor to them.
What do you think? Do you want to fix mushrooms, or do you think Blizzard should look at something entirely different? How would you solve our Burst AE healing problems, while simultaneously keeping us on par with the other healers?


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John Archambeault had four daughters and one son.
John married Florence Boucher.
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Flora Archambault Bull (1873-1912)
Flora and Alice
Lillie (Lillian) Archambault Hall (1877-?)
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Alice Archambault Brunt (4 July 1878-15 September 1953)
Nellie (Helen) Archambault McCann (1884-?)
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I still believe John Archambeault is on these two pictures.
John would be with his daughter Flora born in 1873.
Flora was first married to Patrick J. Whelan, but then she was granted a divorce on cause of his intemperance and the way he treated her.
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The Johnson County Sailing Society was started in 1969 by some avid, but low key racers to promote the sport of sailing. The club teaches
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room and on the water sailing lessons.In addition to Saturday lessons through most of the Spring and Summer months, The club features mixed fleet racing on Sundays from all dinghy classes with a concentration in Sunfish and Sweet 16s. But there are also Viking, Coronado, Dolphin, Albacore, Snipe, even a sailboard or two.(Portsmouth handicaps are used to keep the boats reasonably equal) If you are looking for an
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On the drive up through the Imlil Valley into the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, you have a sense that you're going somewhere special. The road passes rose-coloured adobe villages and fields terraced with ancient irrigation channels that nourish apple, cherry and walnut orchards. Mules trot along the road carrying children, women return from the fields with sacks of wheat, and men congregate in small groups by the roadside. As you swing around steep-sided bends, you get glimpses of the looming massif at the head of the valley, and by the time you reach the mountain village of Imlil – just 65km from Marrakesh – you know you're in another world. The light is brighter, the air thinner, the streets empty and the jagged peaks resplendent against the sky.
No wonder Martin Scorsese chose this setting for Kundun, his film about the life of the Dalai Lama. The grandeur and remoteness of the Atlas Mountains is every bit as magnificent as the Himalayas. Here, the Kasbah du Toubkal, the former summer home of local ruler Caid Souktani, is perched at 1800m in the shadow of Morocco's highest peak, Mount Toubkal.
Run and staffed by Berbers, the Kasbah calls itself a "hospitality centre", so expect pots of mint tea on your arrival, and jellabahs (long-sleeved robes) and leather babouches (traditional leather slippers) to slip into. The rooms have been furnished by Berber craftsmen using local materials and range from basic communal salons (often used by school groups) to comfortable private double rooms and one lavish, three-bedroom apartment.
Guests come on day-trips from the capital to dine on tagines on the large rooftop terrace, from where there are sweeping views of the valley. But you'll need to stay here for a few days to make the most of the spectacular setting. You can hire a guide and climb Mount Toubkal in a day, then return to the hammam (steam bath) and dine in the Kasbah's restaurant. Or try a four-hour trek to Toubkal Lodge in the Berber village of Idissa. Its three double rooms are similar in style to the plush apartment at the Kasbah, and are designed for just a handful of guests to use as a base for day-hikes in the mountains or as part of an overnight circular walking route from the Kasbah du Toubkal. And if you don't fancy the four-hour trek over the mountain pass from the Kasbah to the village, you can ride in on horseback or go by mountain bike.
Take a shared taxi or local bus from Marrakesh to Asni then a local taxi from Asni to Imli (about 2hr in total). Alternatively, book a 90min transfer with the Kasbah (€85 per car). From Imlil it's a steep 15min walk (a mule will carry your bags). The Kasbah does not stock alcohol, though you can bring your own. For prices, room reservations and booking transfers at both the Kasbah and Toubkal Lodge see www.kasbahdutoubkal.com; +33 (0) 545 715 204. A five percent tax on hotel invoices goes to the Imlilillage Association, which funds local community projects.


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Adele detailed the mundane challenges of her transformation into pop's least diva-like diva on the "Today" show Thursday in anticipation of her first-ever network special, set to air on NBC next month.
The 24-year-old Brit described some of the dissonance of her sudden fame — like getting a phone call from Elton John and not recognizing his voice as he chatted with her.
Since her pipes first catapulted her to record-breaking record sales, Adele has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London and earlier this year, just after recovering from vocal cord surgery, at the Grammys.
That latter performance didn't quite go as planned, she said, thanks to the three or four pairs of Spanx she had on that night.
"I actually had another dress made for the Grammys, and I ended up — well, I passed out in it. It had a corset, and I thought, 'Well, I can't wear that," she admitted.
"Can you sing with four pairs of Spanx on?" Lauer asked.
"Oh, I took a couple of pairs off when I sang," she laughed.
Despite the rumors about her, including one that she was adopting an Ethiopian child, Adele said she doesn't relish being as discussed as she is.
"I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, and I feel a little bit like I am in people's faces," she admitted.
"I don't want anyone chatting about me, really. I mean, I still hope I have a little bit of clout in 10 years. But all I've ever wanted to do is sing," she insisted.
One way she said she's avoided the daily pitfalls of fame: Defying public expectations of her, as she did when she recently walked across a tourist-clogged Trafalgar Square in her pajamas without being recognized.
"I was in color. I'm always in black," she explained.
"Nobody recognized me. A couple people looked 'round, but they were like, 'Nah, she's in color. And what would she be doing walking through a packed Trafalgar Square? In pajamas?'"
Adele's special on NBC — her first ever network special — premieres Tuesday, June 5, at 8/7c.
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I had a great day Sunday printing pyro negatives on Azo #2. I wasn't able to do any burning, and only a little dodging, because of my light setup, but I didn't need much anyway! This truly is a wonderful paper. No test strips were needed af ter I became accustomed to the bright lighting. I used Edwal ultra black and I r eally liked the cold bluish tint, but when I toned in 5:1 selenium that was repl aced in 2 minutes by a purplish tint. How can I tone with selenium and keep the cold tones on Azo? If I went to 20:1 dilution would that keep most of the origin al appearance?


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Underbelly full,
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I have time on my hands;
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