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The Samaritans Men's Ministry and Women's Christian Fellowship of People's Independent Church of Christ will unite for a special celebration on Sunday, September 29, in the sanctuary at 5856 ...
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Pastor Cedric V. Alexander and the congregation of Price Chapel A.M.E. Church will salute the many contributions of Priscilla Matlock Women's Missionary Society on Sunday, September 29, at 10 a.m. "We ...
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19 September 2013
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Apostle Ronald C. Hill will convene a Healing and Deliverance Service on Sunday, September 29, at 6:30 p.m., at Love and Unity Christian Fellowship, 1840 South Wilmington Avenue in Compton. Apostle ...
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19 September 2013
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19 September 2013
The Rev. Dr. Sylvester Washington added another honor to his long list of achievements when Los Angeles placed his name to the list of streets among the city. Councilman Bernard Parks and former Councilwoman ...
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19 September 2013
Second Baptist Church presents its 'Jazzy Fryday' music series on September 20 at 7 p.m., at 2412 South Griffith Avenue in Los Angeles, said Pastor William S. Epps. Musicians from the Dolo Coker ...
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AME Church Officially Severs Ties with Rev. John J. Hunter
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12 September 2013
Bishop T. Larry Kirkland, Sr., accepted the official withdrawal of Rev. John J. Hunter from the A.M.E. Church late last month and has begun the Legal Separation Process compliant with Church Policy. One ...
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Crenshaw Christian Center Celebrates 40 Years Of Faith
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12 September 2013
Crenshaw Christian Center (CCC) evolved from a vision of faith and a desire to serve people. Founded four decades ago by Apostle Frederick K.C. Price, CCC is now a vibrant institution in Los Angeles ...
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12 September 2013
A new slate of officers will lead the California Association of Ministers' Wives and Ministers' Widows (MWMWS). Mrs. Mary Cotton, president of the Inglewood and Vicinity MWMWS, will host the Installation ...
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Appreciation Set for Pastor & Lady Drake
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12 September 2013
Greater Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church will honor Pastor Solomon and First Lady Isabelle Drake at the 31st Appreciation Services. The celebrations are set for Sunday, September 15 and Sunday, September ...
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New Antioch COGIC Honors Pastor & First Lady Lewis
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12 September 2013
The members of the New Antioch Church of God In Christ, located at 7826 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, will say 'thank you' to Superintendent Jeffrey M. Lewis and First Lady Floetta Lewis for ...
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Conference Focuses on Spiritual Restoration
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12 September 2013
Blessed Ministries Interdenominational Ministry focuses on spiritual and physical restoration at the Healing Conference on Saturday, September 14, at 9 a.m. "We invite all who are bound by mental ...
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City of Refuge Hosts 'Back to School' & Mindless Behavior
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12 September 2013
Mindless Behavior, the popular teen boy band, will touch down at the 16th Annual Back to School, Think Education, Put God First, Youth Empowerment for Destiny Conference and Concert on Saturday, September ...
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Call 2 Worship - September 12
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12 September 2013
American Bible Challenge seeks potential contestants to participate in the game by sharing their Bible expertise and winning money for their favorite charity. To apply, visit gsntv.com/casting or ...
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Leonard Promotes Prayer through Shut-in Ministry
Written by Cora Jackson-Fossett (Religion Editor)
07 September 2013
The power of God is vividly illustrated by the Mamie Leonard Shut-in Ministries as Evangelist Mamie Sconiers Leonard exposes thousands to freedom through prayer and fasting. "The mission of the Shut-in ...
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Scott Leads Healing in Watts
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07 September 2013
"Access is Granted," preached Macedonia Baptist Church Pastor Shane B. Scott to his packed congregation in the historic Watts edifice. During his message on Communion Sunday, September 1, Pastor ...
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Wade Marks 50 years of Ministry
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07 September 2013
The faith community and civic leaders will unite on Sunday, September 8, to commemorate a half-century of spreading the Gospel by the Rev. Dr. Melvin V. Wade, Sr., the pastor of Mount Moriah Baptist ...
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Call 2 Worship - September 7
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07 September 2013
Miracle Temple Church of God Pentecostal holds 'Back to Sunday School & Worship' on September 8 at 10:15 a.m., at 733 South Grevillea Avenue in Inglewood, said Bishop Johnny Young, senior pastor. ...
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Porter Makes Positive Marks for Christ and Community
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30 August 2013
Jayden Porter defies the negative stereotypes about today's young Black male. As a 14-year-old Christian athlete, he leaves positive impressions whether at church school or home. "Jayden is truly ...
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Blessed Ministries Plans Healing Conference
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30 August 2013
Spiritual and physical restoration is the focus of the one-day symposium hosted by Blessed Ministries Interdenominational Ministry. The Healing Conference takes place on Saturday, September 14, at ...
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The ROCK Offers Free Laundromat Washes
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30 August 2013
The ROCK Christian Fellowship will provide free laundry washes and dryers for the surrounding community, announced Pastor Gregory Sanders. The activity takes place on Saturday, August 31, starting ...
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PEACHTREE CITY -- The Heritage girls tennis team went 2-1 at last weekend's Peachtree City Tournament. The Patriots lost to Starr's Mill, a three-time state semifinalist, in Saturday's semifinal round, 4-0. Heritage got a 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 win by Logan Bouchillon to knock off Norcross, 3-2 in the quarterfinals.
"This team, we've got 10 strong players, they've done the work and they are improving each match out," said Heritage coach Brian Smith. "They've got good chemistry. Starr's Mill is traditionally one of the top four or five teams in the state."
The semifinal appearance was the second in the program's history, with the last being the 2009 team that reached the Class AAAA final four.
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Hi guys,
I have a PC with 2 monitors attached to it.
The desktop is extended over the 2 screens.
In stead of 1 wide desktop, I want to have a seperate desktop on my 2nd screen that contains content of another folder than my standard C:\users\user\desktop folder. I need the possibility to drag and drop between the 2.
Alternatively I could do with a sort of a container on the desktop with the content of a seperate folder.
Actually havind an explorer screen open would do this, but the screen would have to be "unminimizable".
Anyone know if this is possible?
If I remember correctly I came across a program once that had this kind of container on the desktop but I cannot seem to find it anymore.
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Definitely not possible with Windows alone, but there are many multi-desktop applications that might help. The two that come to mind are UltraMon (Realtime Soft UltraMon) and DisplayFusion (DisplayFusion: Multi-Monitor Taskbar, Multi-Monitor Screen Savers, HotKeys, Multi-Monitor Wallpaper, Windows Logon Changer and more...), though I'm not sure they'll do exactly what you're after.
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nearly there
Thanks jesus, not quite what I was looking for, but your reply gave me some search words that made me come up with 2 programs that still dont do what I want but a combination of the 2 would be perfect.
Stardock's Fences makes it possible to create ... well... fences on your desktop so one can order and group icons. If the fences could be configured to store their content in a custom folder it would be perfect.
I also found this windows manager that has an option to pin a program to a desktop, but keeps it underneath other programs (unlike deskpins that always keeps it on top).
if I could get an explorer window with this option (I dont want to pay for the whole program since I am only interested in an option that doesnt exactly do what i want) and custimize the explorer window to my needs it would already do the trick.
Does anyone know of a program that allows this?
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in case anyone else would need something similar: it took me a couple of days of intensive browsing the web, but I came up with a nice little program called nimi places that can show the content of one or more user defined fodlers on the desktop
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Definitely IS possible with Windows alone. Go to MS paint, paste from, pick your first pic, then expand your white space to the right after zooming out 50 percent. Paste from, pick your second pic. Both pictures should be the same resolution as your desktop. Save the file, and make it your desktop. Choose 'Tile' (yes this is the only time you ever in your life choose tile for your wallpaper) cheers.
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Definitely IS possible with Windows alone. Go to MS paint, paste from, pick your first pic, then expand your white space to the right after zooming out 50 percent. Paste from, pick your second pic. Both pictures should be the same resolution as your desktop. Save the file, and make it your desktop. Choose 'Tile' (yes this is the only time you ever in your life choose tile for your wallpaper) cheers.
But ya, that is the workaround if you don't use an aftermarket program.
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Stefanie Roberts sat in her eighth-grade math class at Sherman Middle School in Holly on September 11, 2001, two weeks into a new school year, when a moment in time changed the course of her life and the history books for her students.
After terroists attacked the United States, Roberts picked up the telephone. She didn't call friends. She didn't call family. She called all branches of the United States military to find out how she could help.
The United States Army returned Roberts's call and the Army Reserves swore her in just a month later and shipped her out for training in November.
"I came from a military family but I never wanted to do it. When 9/11 happened, I knew I was going to defend our country and that I would have the full support of my family," she said.
As people are remembering those who served around the country, there is one special soldier in Fenton who has touched many hearts. Roberts has served four tours of duty for her country and has also taught many students what Memorial Day really means.
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Roberts serves as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) Commander for the 785th Military Police Battalion, located in Fraser. She has served in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq. She served her first tour of duty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"My recruiter came to my house at 5 a.m. the day I had to leave for training. I hugged my mom and bawled my eyes out," she said. "The most difficult part of my duty was leaving my family, but the easiest part was knowing the purpose."
Peggy Roberts said her daughter has always been a very independent young lady.
"Proud cannot even begin to describe how I feel about her," she said. "She is thoughtful beyond belief, loving, kind and has a wonderful sense of humor."
Roberts said the Army side of her daughter shows how strong she is.
"She has the ability to look at a problem from all directions and decide the correct course to take," she said. "She is fair and knows how to motivate and get the job done."
Roberts initially learned individualized specialized training and military intelligence. She had a leadership role from day one.
"I was 31 years old and the kids with me were mostly 18-20 year olds, therefore, I was put in charge," she said.
She became company commander during her fourth deployment and was in charge of 140 people.
"Managing people who are 9 and 10 years old or adults is pretty much the same," she said.
Roberts returned from her fourth tour of duty in March of 2012.
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Her school assignments changed throghout years of military service. Roberts previously taught eigth-grade math and coached girls basketball at Sherman Middle School in Holly. Later she worked at Middle School in Fenton. She eventually moved to Fenton's to teach fourth grade.
After returning from duty, she had three days to get ready for school.
State Road Elementary principal Barry Tiemann said Roberts was on military leave when he started his first year. He officially met her when she returned from active duty.
"Ms. Roberts is so well respected by everyone at State Road," Tiemann said. "She has a great sense of humor and a great deal of common sense when dealing with all situations. She's an outstanding person and a true leader."
Tiemann said that Roberts's inspiration to her students comes from her passion and work ethic.
"She is a strong teacher with high expectations for her students, yet her students also know that she cares deeply for each of them and that sense of caring is why they work so hard for her."
Fourth-grader Amber Lynn Kelly describes Roberts as "very kind and great." She said she loves to play the states game race in Roberts' class. Students have to name the 50 states on a map as fast as they can.
"We race Ms. Roberts for the fastest time and she might give us extra recess time if we win," Amber said.
However, there is a twist to this game -if Roberts can solve a Rubik's Cube faster than the students name the states, then she wins the game.
Amber said she knows that Roberts has served in the military. "This makes me feel good; she's a hero."
Classmate Jacob Voelker also enjoys the states race game and says that Ms. Roberts is real good at solving a rubik's cube.
"Ms. Roberts is a great teacher and she is funny," he said. "I know she was in the Army and I think it's cool."
The Girl Scouts from State Road Elementary ran a cookie drive for Roberts's unit during her most recent tour. They sent almost hundred boxes that were bought by the people in the community.
Tiemann stated, "All of us are inspired by Ms. Roberts because of her commitment to her country while serving in the Army Reserves as well as her commitment to her students, families, and staff at State Road."
Caryn Kelly is a substitute teacher for Fenton Schools who has known Roberts for five years.
"My daughter Amber currently has Ms. Roberts as her fourth grade teacher," she said. "I have been so impressed with her selflessness and dedication to serving others. Her love of life and learning is such an inspiration to all of us at State Road Elementary.
"She is the kind of teacher I strive to be -she is patient, upbeat and has an excellent rapport with her students, parents and staff members," she said. "She is fully committed to making sure her students succeed."
Kelly adds that Roberts's answered the call to serve in the Army during wars and her bravery and contributions to our country are admirable.
Most people will always remember where they were and what they were doing September 11, 2001. On this day, Roberts chose to leave the life she knew in order to preserve freedom and libertry for others. She chose to leave the life she knew to help her students have a brighter future.
The best thing people can do to show their support and appreciation is just a simple thank you.
"I was shopping in the Fenton Walmart after a Battle Assembly, so I had my
uniform on," she said. "A kid, no more than 12 years old, walked right up to me and said 'Thank you for what you're doing.' It brings tears to my eyes."


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For many years, preteen clothing for girls that is cute, fashionable and age appropriate has been difficult to find. The preteen age group has been interested in current fashions for a while, but until recently, designers and manufacturers have attempted to supply these girls with clothing that is identical to the extremely revealing pop star outfits that college students are wearing. For a while, this resulted in girls as young as elementary school age looking like they were getting ready to go on stage and deliver a sexy concert. Parents did not approve of this trend, but still wanted to find fashionable and cute outfits for their preteens to wear.
The backlash against overly revealing clothing for young girls has resulted in a number of designers who specialize in creating trendy outfits for this age group that resemble fashion magazine clothes, while still allowing the girls who wear them to look their ages. Preteen girls are buying this type of clothing in large quantities, as it allows them to look good while feeling comfortable with themselves.
Preteen Clothing That Is Fashionable
Preteens want to wear designer labels and use labels as status symbols at school. There are many designers that are creating clothes that are intended to be on the high end of fashion while still remaining affordable for most families. Un Deux Trois is a specialty designer of outfits for girls aged four to 14. The company will also do custom designs, either for special occasions or for entire wardrobes.
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The Razorbacks played without senior guard Eric Ferguson (broken nose) and sophomore forward Darian Townes (sprained toe), but still rolled to an 86-49 victory. Despite the lopsided score, the Bearcats played aggressively and were tough inside with 7-2, 295-pound center Frans Steyn. Southwest Baptist, which was 16-13 a year ago, was whistled for 30 fouls with
Junior Ronnie Brewer paced the Hogs with 22 points in 22 minutes, going eight-of-15 from the floor. He also had three rebounds, two assists and five steals.
Brewer scored nine points in less than a two-minute stretch in the first half to break the game open. Vincent Hunter scored five consecutive Razorback points to give
Modica finished with 15 points, a game-high nine rebounds and three assists. Charles Thomas scored 15 points on five-of-eight shooting, and added five rebounds, two assists and two steals. Hunter was two-of-four from the floor and six-of-nine at the line, finishing with 10 points and four rebounds.
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LOL! Da funniest shiat ever! Never thought it would be possible.
"I manage one such NOC and I wanted my home network to function like most companies who do serious business online."
Dont these "serious business" companies use fiber gigabit networks, iSCSI, NAS scsi fiber optic setups?
Hell, I even use 2 15k drives on my media server at home.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Irish
It's not every playwright who can claim he got into a fist fight with James Bond, but Martin McDonagh sure can. The now infamous scene took place in 1996 at the Evening Standard Awards. It was a great year for the up and coming playwright. His first play The Beauty Queen of Leenane was a phenomenal West End hit and he was about to receive an award for Most Promising New Playwright. Yet, in true McDonagh form, he showed up to the ceremony with his brother three sheets to the wind. The two stormed in so loud, obnoxious and vulgar that Sean Connery himself—always at his Majesty's service—stepped forward and told the young men to behave themselves. Needless to say, McDonagh did not take this rebuke gracefully. "It's not something that I'm proud of," he has since confessed," but it happened. Yes, that's right. I squared off with a 66 year old man." Yet, the incident did teach him a valuable lesson. "I can tell you one thing, if you meet him; don't say anything about the Royal Family. He may be 66, but he seemed pretty big and vigorous when he had his hands on my shoulders."
This is the type of story that makes literary legends. Yet, it is only one of many. McDonagh's biography is probably even more outlandish than anything he could dream of writing. The son of a construction worker and cleaning lady, he dropped out of school at 16, shunned college because it was "bogus" and spent the following 10 years on the doll watching TV and eating potato chips. During this decade of leisure, McDonagh watched his brother, John, try to become a writer, and decided that it might be a good idea to become one too. "Here was a job where all you had was your head, a pencil and a piece of paper. That's the coolest kind of job there is." So, he marched into his brother's room and borrowed a "How To" manual on writing. This new literary pursuit also helped justify his jobless situation. "It was unemployment with honor." Then, calamity struck. His unemployment benefits dried up and he soon found himself working 9-5 as a clerk in a civil servant's office. This turn of events only fueled McDonagh's drive to become a writer all the more.
The result may not have been overnight success, but
it was close. After failing at short
stories, radio plays and a TV script, he turned to the chapter on
"Playwrighting" in his "How To" manual. Eight days later, according McDonagh,
he had cranked out his first play, The
Beauty Queen of Leenane. The rest is history. Not long after, this native
"My first love was always film, "he has said. "So I try and introduce some cinematic aspects to my plays. A kind of speed. I like short, sharp, set-ups and scenes. And I like telling stories which is something that theatre has lost over the last 20 or 30 years and which film always had. "His idols are not Shakespeare or Chekhov, but rather Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, David Mamet, and Harold Pinter, with whom he shares a love of stylized language and the relentless threat of violence.
Theatre for McDonagh is just a stepping stone. His real goal is to become a filmmaker. But what kind of films would this Englishman who writes Irish plays make? How about an Irish spaghetti western? According to McDonagh, "any country that has a history of crazy guys with guns has a leg up when it comes to doing films." Who knows? Maybe Martin McDonagh will go from being the next John Synge to the next Sergio Leone.
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Design: more than just lipstick on a pig
By Esther Goh,
Design is about much more than just a pretty package or a snappy slogan. It's a central function that shapes a brand identity and story. And increasingly, it's about a way of doing business – a human-centred approach that (gasp) puts users and their needs first. But do Kiwis understand that? And do they care?
Aside from scantily clad ladies, one of the easiest things to find online these days is cheap labour. Just browse Elance or oDesk and you'll soon find dozens of writers, designers, developers and more vying for assignments and undercutting one another's bids. You can get banners or business cards made up for you for US$5 on Fiverr.com (Kiwi company Lucky Rentals has used the site extensively for sourcing marketing material).
Specifically in the design space, sites like 99designs and Designcrowd employ crowdsourcing contests where you, the client, can put out a brief and designers will compete against each other for your business, submitting concepts for your perusal – anything from graphic design to packaging to web design. And in May, Auckland brand agency Rare Design launched Logo Orchard, a local digital marketplace for businesses to browse for and buy ready-to- use logos, to the chagrin of many Idealog online readers.
Much like the craft of writing ($1 blog posts! $2 SEO-stuffed articles!), the art of design is suffering from the curse of commodification. While these sites provide an avenue for customers strapped for money, time or both, the professional design community fears they devalue the profession as a whole.
Quips Designers Institute president and Massey University professor Tony Parker: "I wonder if they'd crowd-source lawyers or accountants." He says design is about a relationship between designer, client and end user, a sentiment echoed by Fraser Gardyne. The director of design agency gardyneHOLT and winner of last year's Designers Institute Black Pin for his contributions to the industry says too many business people see design as being more about styling than best business practice, and something "nice to have".
"I've heard some alarming client stories and seen some crazy crowd-sourcing online," he says, "but I'm not sure that they would be any use to you. Successful visual communication originates from a good brief and a close working relationship between the client and designer. Crowd-sourcing doesn't allow this."
Gardyne says often New Zealand businesses are out to purchase design as cheaply as possible.
"They are scared that a designer might charge them for something they don't like or have an attitude that designers don't understand business and charge far too much."
Yet design is about far more than a logo. It's about branding, identity, and increasingly, a way of doing business.
Just ask John Hatrick-Smith of Better by Design.
"The logo is the simple part. While you can do that quite cheaply, there's much more to a brand," he says. "[Those sites] don't understand what design is and their customers don't understand."
A design specialist at Better by Design for the past five years, he's on the frontline of the movement that's bringing design into boardrooms around the country, which he sees as his life's work. The programme launched in 2005 as a division of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, following on from a government taskforce report, Success by Design, in 2003. The Design Taskforce concluded that better use of design by exporters could result in considerable economic growth; other countries such as the UK, Finland, Ireland and Hong Kong have succeeded at similar approaches.
Its design integration programme starts with a Design 360 assessment, an 8-12 week analysis of company culture, strategy, processes, products and brands, after which changes are implemented and new projects launched. Three accredited teams work alongside the companies – DThree, led by Deloitte; design consultancy Equip; and BRR & Associates.
"You get right inside the business – you do a deconstruction, really, of their business model," says Ray Labone, who chaired the original taskforce and now, through Equip, works with companies in Better by Design. "You question all aspects of the business. You expose them to a different way of thinking about the business."
Design thinking
While it might seem overly simplistic, a question Hatrick- Smith asks company executives early on is: what is design?
"It almost always starts with the idea 'oh, it's what something looks or feels or smells like'. It gets down to the product or service almost immediately, in other words, what we offer. Of course, we talk about it as being something quite different. Sure the product design thing's really important – but design is much more fundamental than that."
Design, he says, is not just about graphic design or software design, but the methodology a business uses to create value – in other words, design thinking.
"If you see it like that then you appreciate that to be truly effective it has to engage everybody in the business from the CEO right through to whoever is at the other end."
By clarifying its purpose and its proposition, a company can home in on its core business; results come from a principal focus on what the business is about.
"Part of what we do is about helping businesses create unique positioning for themselves in a global market. There's no point in just producing more stuff because our friends in China can do that better than anyone."
The design approach is human-centred and collaborative. While the UK Design Council design process is laid out in four steps – discover, define, develop and deliver – Better by Design's has six stages: select, assess, plan, resource, execute, extend.
Previously a designer at Fisher & Paykel, Hatrick-Smith says industrial design is only successful when it has a voice at the table along with the other departments, which requires a total culture shift for many businesses; it can't just be "lipstick on a pig".
He distinguishes design as a practice from the broader concept of design thinking. Essentially design is what you do, while design thinking is how you go about it – the guiding rules. That means collaboration across functions or silos toward the end of creating a better product or service for the end user.
"It's a culture, not a department," he says. "It's applying the way designers think to business challenges, firstly empathising with the users or people involved, observing, defining what the opportunity is as an outcome, then developing a whole raft of possible ideas, prototyping and testing them." For example, while working on the Gentle Annie washing machine for F&P, his team took some prototypes to a building in the city, and invited people in off the street to get real feedback on it.
But surely that's just common sense – putting customer needs front and centre?
"Why is it that something so logical is so hard to put across? Fortunately I'm an eternal optimist. You have to be."
Hatrick-Smith and Better by Design director Judith Thompson are reluctant to put a value on design as a department, preferring to discuss the wider concept of design thinking. That's in line with the evolution of the Better by Design programme, which is about to enter its third iteration.
The original taskforce, says Thompson, took heed from the UK Design Council, particularly its Designing Demand programme, a mentoring service for SMEs. However, the Kiwi model is strongly focused on creating a point of uniqueness in the international market.
"The first programme was very much focused on doing what was called a design capability audit, looking at what sort of capability companies had to use design strategically, particularly around innovative products and services and the ability to build a brand around those," she explains. "We evolved that programme and introduced the Design 360 which takes a much more holistic view of design and how companies can integrate design."
Building on that, the design integration scheme is about to be overhauled, though it will retain the name. Better by Design brought in design consultancy IDEO to help shape the new programme, and Thompson knows of no other schemes globally that are quite like it. IDEO is synonymous these days with the concept of design thinking – where design emphasises output, design thinking is also focused on the process of design.
According to Labone, business people who have been exposed to the Stanford d.school approach to design thinking (Better by Design took a group of leaders on a tour of Silicon Valley late last year) are enthusiastic, and see it as an enabler of innovation.
"It strikes a chord with business people, [with] business managers. In my view it has made a strong connection with left-brained people. Design in itself struggles to do that – it is a right-brain discipline and struggles to get the same uptake from left-brain trained and leaning business managers."
The other fundamental shift is in moving from the consultancy model to a more collaborative one that more closely involves the client company all along, where experts will help executives perform their own analysis and assess their own capability.
"What a model like that does is it's engaging far more people in the company and getting a lot more input, a lot more buy-in, into what the company's direction is – and building skills at the same time," Thompson says.
"The unique thing Better by Design does, that programmes elsewhere in the world don't do, is our focus is absolutely on integration – how you get people from different parts of the company, from product development to finance to marketing to sales, to actually work together in an integrated fashion to focus on customer needs.
"Other programmes might help a company on a project to help them develop a really new and interesting product or a really new and interesting brand, but if you really want to be a design-led company it's about design integration across all departments of a company."
Hatrick-Smith says the goal is teaching companies to fish for themselves.
"We'd like to get companies to a point where they don't need the trainer wheels anymore. One of the directions we're pushing for now is getting companies to that point sooner than we have been. We don't want to create a dependency on what we're offering or we'll never get anywhere."
By focusing more specifically on methodology, setting expectations up front and more intensive engagement, he thinks the process can be sped up.
"One of the challenges we had is in our capacity to deliver," he says. "In one sense, we've created a service where small companies were coming in and never leaving. We weren't really handing the fishing rod over. That was a problem of our own making.
"We sought to regulate the intake by making it harder and harder to get in. We really only had capacity when other companies left the programme. I think we started off by saying companies needed to be $5 million in scale but it grew to be $20 million.
"Now we're much more interested in the potential for growth, for businesses to add value to the New Zealand economy – how fast can we do that and how effective will design be if we are to apply it to that business?"
Around 150 businesses have been through Better By Design since its inception and around 80 are currently engaged with the programme, including companies such as Les Mills and Comvita.
Having dealt with around half of the companies that have gone through the programme, Labone's take is two-thirds have probably seen "some value".
"Certainly I think it's had a big impact and I think we're seeing some companies in particular that are spectacularly successful."
Measuring success isn't always a clear-cut matter. There are tangibles, such as increase in revenue, margin, or export intensity, and intangibles.
"The intangible part is the value that design has actually brought to that. What would have happened anyway? All we can do is measure companies that come into the programme and that use design thinking and compare them to other companies from the same sector and show that they will grow faster and have bigger margins. That's the type of measurement we look at," says Thompson.
The taskforce set an ambitious target of 50 companies generating an additional $500 million in export revenue within five years, growing at five times the annual GDP. Thompson says Better by Design didn't start out with 50 businesses at launch, but 2010 figures showed its top 50 saw a combined increase in export revenue of about $722 million (at which stage the programme had been going five years but the majority of those companies had been involved for only three).
And she says research shows that companies in the programme have an average annual revenue growth of 15 percent and average export growth of 24 percent, although most companies would have grown exports to some degree anyway.
Hatrick-Smith agrees success is often measured anecdotally.
"If you talk about the bottom line, design might have made an enormous contribution to the top line but could have been eroded through the business via inefficiency or some poor market connection," he says.
That said, "some of the anecdotal stories are pretty damn compelling".
"The CEO of a very large company said to me 'John, when I first joined this company I came on as a junior accountant'. He said 'there was a line on the P&L called R&D and my job was to wind that number back as hard as possible because every dollar I took out of that was a dollar that went back on the bottom line'. He's now the CEO and he now says 'I see design as being central to everything that we do'. Design, he said, is the glue that binds us together."
Design advantage
Design is a strategic priority for many of the world's biggest brands – Apple, Nike, Google. While the return on investment of design has not been heavily studied, UK Design Council research concluded that growing businesses are nearly six times as likely as static ones to see design as integral, and companies that consider design a priority are more likely to develop new products or services. And in tracking its own index of 61 design-led businesses, it found shares in that group of companies outperformed the FTSE 100 by more than 200 percent over the past decade.
Further, a 2003 study by the Danish Design Centre of 1,000 companies found a "very clear correlation between the employment of design and the economic success businesses achieve". While it did not identify design as the sole contributor to higher revenue, it said increase in gross revenue "corresponds to the degree at which a comprehensive approach to design is adopted", with gross revenue almost 22 percent higher for companies that employed design compared to companies in general, which rose to 40 percent when companies increased their design activity.
Hatrick-Smith says design tools and practices enable businesses to create greater value as measured by an increase in gross margin or market share.
"You become more highly differentiated, creating unique IP that you're able to patent. You get a greater margin."
Thompson sums up the design advantage this way: "A design-led company, by really understanding their customer, will get an insight into a future need even the customer doesn't understand so the customer can be really delighted in a way they never imagined.
"If you're just meeting the market needs that's fine, but someone who uses design thinking can do something extraordinary that you're not expecting."
She offers New Plymouth hospital bed manufacturer Howard Wright as an example. Driven out of the ward bed market by price pressure, the company spent a lot of time in hospitals actually observing procedures, leading to the development of an innovative intensive care bed that incorporates X-ray technology so patients can be examined without being moved.
Parker believes design deserves a place alongside the revered STEM subjects. Design is "utterly integral" to the success of a company – without it nothing gets to market or if it does, nobody wants to buy the products. Great design can even turn around an ailing company.
"If you look at Apple for an example, before Steve Jobs came back, that company was in deep trouble. What was one of the things that really helped to make Apple into the world-leading company it is today? The answer is simple: design. How to implement and achieve that is a bloody sight more complicated but the answer is there for all to see."
Sea change
So do New Zealand businesses finally 'get' design, or are they starting to?
"Is there more receptivity? Absolutely," says Thompson. "Better by Design was first put on the business agenda back in 2005 but it was very hard to get CEOs to engage with the idea at the time. They thought literally product design, branding, packaging. There's been a massive shift in those seven years and there's a real critical mass of business leaders who understand that this way of thinking is being able to offer your customer not just a different product but a different experience. Everything to do with that customer's interaction with you, whether it's your website, your product in a retail space, whatever, every interaction will actually be an experience that all feels totally aligned."
Of course, these empathetic practices are based in normal, natural human behaviours, as Hatrick-Smith points out, and he looks forward to this being the default business approach.
"I like to think of success in our terms as being when we're no longer needed, when this cultural attribute that is design is just the way that New Zealand is. Maybe we need to put a deadline on it. What's the tipping point is the interesting question. I think 20 or 30 percent might be, then you'll start to see a cascading effect. I don't see that happening yet. We might be 5 percent maybe 10 percent of the way. The hard work still continues. We've still got to be telling the stories about why this is important."
Gardyne says there are increasing numbers of clients who understand the difference that good design can make.
"It is up to the design profession to demonstrate how great design enables successful companies. The old saying 'you pay peanuts, you get monkeys' still holds true."
Parker, for one, was stoked that super-minister Steven Joyce acknowledged the importance of design in his recent announcement outlining details of the new Advanced Technology Institute: "Part of the government's business growth agenda is ensuring there are better linkages between business, science, engineering and design to make sure great ideas are commercialised and generate income and jobs for New Zealanders."
Slowly but surely, he's seen a big change in attitudes toward design, though there's a long way to go yet. Parker credits the education system and wider society for acknowledging that intelligence and talent can lie in creative endeavours. As consumers, we increasingly demand higher levels of design and usability, creating opportunities for designers to supply the products and services we expect.
"The one thing that concerns me sometimes is when I see people in the general public talking about design and art subjects as somehow still kind of general, not integrally linked with industrial production or the economy or our ability to make our way in a competitive world," Parker says.
"I think I would die a happy man if by the time I'm in my dotage that New Zealanders have a real belief in the value of design in the community and reward those people who are exceptional at it."
A brilliant read, thanks.
The biggest issue with crowdsourced design is not the quality, but the high chance that the designer whose work you accept,. (and about whom you know nothing) has ripped off the design from somewhere else.
This is endemic to the crowsourced design community.
Imagine - after a year of using your beautiful, sharp looking logo, a US company comes at you quite rightly with a cease and desist letter from their copyright lawyers.
It's best to stick with a reputable outfit and pay a little more.
Even though 'lipstick on a pig' is a crowd-sourced cliche from the sixties, this is a well argued article.
I especially liked Judith using the Howard Wright example - given that Steven Joyce was once a a director and the Chairman of that company.
Tony's comment about the focus on STEM subjects reflects our concern that the Advanced Technology Institute is too limited. In a recent email to the ATI Establishment Board I wrote:
My concern is that the focus is too limited and determined only by the HOW of technology without including the WHAT, WHY and for WHOM of design. The integrative discipline of design-driven, user-centred development (as advocated, for example, by the NZTE Better by Design programme) is essential to success. Design Thinking is now recognised as the generator of competitive innovation – not merely the nice way to house and brand clever technology. Design Thinking integrates the rational and emotional elements of the end-user experience with the technology required to deliver it. Inventing and making the best use of new technologies is just one element of that cross-disciplinary process.
What this essentially boils down to is that many businesses view design as an output (logos, colours, branding, etc), but in fact it's an input.
Products and services are made by combining various inputs together. You combine flour and milk to make pancakes. Or you combine labour, telephones and computers to provide a travel agency. Design is about how the various inputs work together. It involves making decisions such as:
What is possible with our product?
How do we respond to case X or customer's action Y?
How should the customer perceive our product?
And also: What colour is our logo?
Of these types of questions, the last is the most obvious but perhaps the least important. The other questions are slippery but crucial for determining what customers are willing to pay for your product. In economic terms, design affects the productivity of the other inputs like flour and milk.
Design is not a tangible input and does not produce a single "thing" but rather glues all the other bits together. All businesses are using this design glue, regardless of whether they realised it or not. Even a simple product or service involves countless decisions that affect the customer's experience.
Therefore, investment in design should be properly considered as part of a business's competitive strategy. It's another competitive variable just like price. How much are your competitors investing in design? This just doesn't mean how nice is their logo or how slick are their ads. It's a more ephemeral analysis of the overall coherence and quality of their product and processes.
It's also difficult to sell design to customers directly, unlike, for example, "yummy". But design affects willingness to pay because it affects how customers experience your product and how happy or frustrated it makes them.
So what's the most profitable level of investment in design? It is costly — good design takes time and involves making mistakes and throwing away prototypes. When should you stop? Like all other inputs, when the benefit of a little more investment in design equals the additional cost. But unlike other inputs, these things (especially the benefits) are difficult to quantify. I reckon many businesses underinvest — perhaps costs are clear but benefits are not. There are probably dollars being left on the table, and the smart operators will pick them up.
As Judith and John point out, the shift in business receptivity to Design Thinking has been remarkable in the last seven years. Even so, John is still right to ask companies "What is design?" because the answers will still vary.
One of the things that's shifted in the last seven years is the number of wonderful success stories New Zealand can point to. The Better by Design programme is well regarded here in London and the Kiwi design/innovation success stories are making it on the world stage.
I still meet people that are confused on the difference between design thinking and marketing: http://www.peterjthomson.com/2009/08/difference-between-marketing-and-design.html But at least design and empathy are now common topics in the boardroom.


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Couples Who Fight Over Baby Names Should Really Lighten Up a Little
When I heard about a new survey out of the U.K. that found that the most common fight between expectant parents is over baby names, I couldn't help but chuckle a little bit. Because even though it seems like the dumbest thing to fight over, it really can create a lot of conflict between parents-to-be.
And what's interesting is that while 75 percent of the parents surveyed admitted arguing over choosing a baby name, only 28 percent fought about whether the mom should go back to work, and 27 percent got into an argument over whether they should have more kids.
Wow. Wouldn't you think the latter two subjects would generate a lot more heat than the first?
But then again, it really does seem to make sense. I know my husband and I got into it on a few occasions, especially when we found out we were having a boy. We had plenty of girl names on our list that we agreed on, but the boy names were an entirely different story.
And I really don't mean to throw him under the bus, here (yes I do), but he pretty much vetoed every single name I decided I liked (other than the one we ultimately chose for our son, of course).
I loved the name Mason. He said it was too common. I thought Nolan had a really nice ring to it. He didn't want anyone to think we'd named him after a baseball player. And he shot down another one of my favorites too -- James, because he said it was just way too "blah." (It's still one of my faves.)
There were honestly a few times I was convinced our son would remain nameless for weeks after his birth, until one fateful day when we finally found one we both agreed on and really adored.
And looking back on it now, I have to say, we were both pretty stupid to get into heated discussions about something we should've been excited to do, even if we didn't quite see eye to eye on every name thrown out as a possibility. Maybe if we'd sat down together and talked like civilized adults about why we liked or disliked certain names, we would've come to a consensus a whole lot sooner.
But I guess it's still a good thing we don't plan on having any more babies. If we wound up pregnant with another boy, I'm pretty sure we'd be screwed.
Chill out, moms and dads-to-be. There are a lot better things to argue over.
Have you and your husband argued over baby names?
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NolanzoDecember 14, 2012 at 4:36 PMYes... my ex wanted our son to be a Michael Jr. No freaking way since I didn't like the guy a whole lot to begin with.
His name is Nolan Michael instead :)
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It's kinda important what you name your child. Think of all the mean nicknames that kids can come up with...
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RhondaVeggieDecember 14, 2012 at 4:59 PMIt makes sense. Most couples discuss things like family size and whether kids will be raised by mom or daycare before marriage but very few discuss names. It's a matter of scale too. Mom versus daycare is pretty black and white, number of kids is usually between one and five or so, but there are thousands of names. They're loaded too; nobody says they don't want three kids because they knew a stinky kid who was one of three but if that stinky kid is called Tom you can be sure that the parent won't want to use it.
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an AmandaDecember 14, 2012 at 5:00 PMThat's funny about the name Amanda. I am an Amanda and I never got that. And I was not a cute kid! My husband and I argue about theoretical baby names all of the time and I'm not pregnant! But I think it's important to have serious discussions about names from bullying, how they sound with the last name, and your style. You'll have to say that name for the rest of your life and your kid will have to live with it!
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MaidenDDecember 14, 2012 at 10:29 PMI wanted the name Stella, hubby did not. My mil died 10 years ago so we were always going to use her name, Anne, as a middle name. We eventually decided on Annabella for our daughter. It's about compromise, when we built our home, he wanted a black roof and I wanted a white one - we have a grey roof.
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FarmGirl84December 16, 2012 at 3:34 PMWe agreed on and settled on a girl and boy name fairly fast with no arguments! Then a day before I was jnduces he suggested his grandfathers name for a boy, who had recently passed and I told him that we would have to wait and see if we had a boy and if the baby looked like an Otto or Roland. It was a boy and he is named after his great grandpa Roland. My SIL has two boys and neither was named for over 24 hours because they never could agree on boys names. Hubby and I were lucky I guess!!
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Crystal Rose GrayDecember 17, 2012 at 11:27 AMWe didn't fight at all when I became pregnant with my son we decided if it was a boy my husband would choose if it was a girl I would. We were allowed to veto but had to have a good reason. When my daughter was conceived I was able to pick name regardless of gender. And we have Xavier James and Aurora Sky.
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butterflyfreakDecember 17, 2012 at 12:13 PM
My husband and I didn't really fight over names but it did take us awhile to settle on one that we both liked. We were trying to think of a good girl's name that started with J as that was a tradition in his family. We really wanted to name her after my husban'd deceased sister, but my MIL pointed out that one of her kids' may want that name for their children and we didn't want to have multiple people in the family with the same name. We eventually agreed on Marika (pronounced Mareeka) with a middle J name (Jane.) She's named after her Ukrainian great-grandmother (she goes by the name Marge but her brothers and sisters used to call her Marika when she was little.) We were talking to her about how we were having a hard time picking out a name and she told us about her siblings calling her Marika and my husband instantly fell in love with the name. I was a little more hesitant as it's such an unusual name but I have to say, it absolutely suits her!
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Blueshark77December 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Before we found out the gender we were arguing over boys' names. We had a girl's name we both liked and agreed on, but just could not find a boy's name we both liked. We agreed to put off that discussion until we found out the gender. Since we are having a girl it ended up not being an issue so I'm glad we didn't waste too much time disagreeing over the boy's name. Then again we can't agree on a middle name. Since I had agreed to give the boy a middle name I absolutely hated but was meaningful to him I thought it would be fair if I could take care of the girl's middle name, but he doesn't seem to agree. We'll figure it out. :)


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Building a good library of apps for your iPhone and iPad is essential to getting the most enjoyment from these great devices, but sometimes all that's required to cover a particular need is a pair of apps that compliment each other perfectly. In this case, we've got two that will help iPad owners keep up to date with the latest news and the newest online videos. Best of all, they're both free to download.
First up we've got Vodio, a newly released app designed to keep you up-to-date with video content from around the Web, but more importantly, to customise the selection to your preference. Upon opening up the app, you're presented with a carousel of video channels, covering subjects such as music, entertainment, sports and movies.
In addition to these more standard sections, there's the chance to add more unusual channels too, including one from Unicef, TED and even the insane team at Will It Blend? Each category is also broken down into more specific sections, with 'Comedy' containing Vodio's own curated sections or individual feeds from sites like Failblog, The Onion or I Can Haz Cheezburger.
You can choose up to ten channels to feature in the carousel, which does limit the selection slightly, but you can subsequently remove ones you've watched or become tired of in order to add others.
Swiping through the carousel brings back memories of The Daily's navigation system, and it's equally as smooth and responsive here. Scrolling up and down within a channel shows all the available videos, and a tap accesses each one for viewing.
The videos appear in fullscreen, with options to share them on Twitter or Facebook, plus some basic information about the video itself. Vodio has a YouTube-like thumbs-up-or-down system for liking a video, which then assists in bringing more relevant content forward in your main list.
Although it's the pretty carousel that will gain the most attention, it's other features that make Vodio so much fun to use, like swiping a video aside to advance to the next without returning to the main page, or using the tab on the right-hand side of a video to reveal an inch-wide version of the carousel again.
It's a shame then, that this intuitive and enjoyable navigation couldn't have been repeated when trying to alter your video channel subscriptions. The natural move is to tap subscribed channels to unsubscribe, but this doesn't work and you actually need to go to an edit page under My Vodio, then individually deselect them. It even chucks you out after each one, making the whole process very laborious.
With luck, this will be fixed in a future update, as it detracts from an otherwise great app. We'd also like to see the chance to add our own feeds, as at the moment the content is very US-centric, and it would be great to swap say, CNET for CNET UK for example.
By simply bringing many of the great video content creators together in one place, Vodio made itself a worthy download, but by adding a superb interface for browsing through them, it should be considered essential.
Pulse News for iPad
So you've got your video channels all sorted out, but you want an equally good-looking and intuitive app for taking care of articles, blog posts, news and your social networking feeds. Well look no further than Pulse News, another free application that makes browsing your favourite websites easier and quicker than before.
Pulse has been around for a while and has continued to evolve during this time, adding sensible and helpful new features with every upgrade. Here's how it works: You've got five sections to fill with RSS feeds from your favourite sites, selected either from a Pulse-certified list or chosen from an extensive search feature. Each list can contain twelve feeds.
The main screen then shows left-to-right sliding lists of recent content from those sites, where a tap opens a window on the right in landscape mode, or from the top down in portrait, with the article ready to read. You can choose to read it in plain text or in original form, share it via Twitter, Facebook or email, or add it to a feature called Pulse.me.
Pulse.me is something like Read it Later or Instapaper, where 'favourited' articles are stored in a central location and then made available though Pulse's web interface or on the iPhone version of the app. This adds another dimension to an already fantastic RSS reader.
Pulse is an incredibly versatile app because you can search and add pretty much any site with an RSS feed, and when you consider that not only includes text articles that Pulse collects, but everything from Reddit's front page to images from sites such as Flickr and Instagram, the maximum of 60 pages can be reached very quickly.
By signing in with your Facebook and Twitter IDs, your streams can be added too. Pulse is clever enough to only grab those posts containing links to external pages, avoiding any noise and making sure you don't miss any important articles.
While apps such as Flipboard get a lot of attention, in reality it's Pulse that truly explores the iPad's potential as a reading companion. It's free for both the iPad and the iPhone.
Just like sitting down with the newspaper after a day's work has been a habit for millions of people, firing up Vodio and Pulse to catch up with the online world will become the same for iPad owners. The both streamline what was a fairly time-consuming process, and make the experience enjoyable, fun and easily shared with friends. Add them both to your collection now.


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CrossFit athlete. Mother of three. High school football player. Father working three jobs. Marathon runner. Entrepreneur out on their own for the first (or fifth!) time. No matter your background, we all have a life worth competing for. Our job is to fuel your soul's fire.
Every individual should compete. Every second. Every day. For beliefs, work, families, relationships, health, and ultimately, life. An idea that started as scribbled "Compete Every Day" on a yellow note pad has evolved into an international brand embraced by professional athletes, celebrities, and every day competitors.
A small team initially sold "Compete Every Day" on t-shirts and tanktops, starting by selling them out of the back of the founder's car. To help spread the word, they looked only to free avenues, ultimately relying on friends and social media to become their marketing arms.
May 2012 marked a new competition. The Compete team committed to featuring a different person every single day that is making a difference in the world, overcoming adversity, and living a life worth living. (You can view their stories here on the Compete blog.)
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Olive Bread
The guy who said that man cannot live on bread alone hasn't tried this pane all'olive. It's pretty impossible to resist. And with an overnight rise and a post bake rest period of an hour or two, the boys in this house are well primed and more than ready to tear into each densely chewy, slightly salty loaf.
All credit goes to Jim Lahey and the good folks at Sullivan Street Bakery for the magic that happens with this one.
3 c. bread flour
1.5 c. chopped, pitted olives
3/4 tsp. active dry yeast
1.5 c. cool water
corn meal
Stir together flour, yeast, olives. Add water and quickly mix with a wooden spoon until you have a nice, sticky dough. (You might need to add a tablespoon or two of cool water to get a wet dough ball.) Cover with a tea towel and lest it rise at room temperature for 12-18 hours.
Generously flour your work surface and turn the dough out in one piece. Lift the edges of the dough in toward the center and tuck in the edges to make it round.
Lay flat a clean tea towel and dust it with cornmeal. Place the dough on the towel, seam side down. Loosely fold the ends of the tea towel over the dough and let it rise another 1-2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 475 degrees F. Heat a 5 qt. covered pot in the lower third of the oven for 30 minutes or so.
Remove the pot from the oven and uncover it. Unfold the towel and carefully invert the dough into the pot, seam side up. Cover the pot and bake for 30 minutes.
Remove the lid and bake another 15-30 minutes, until the loaf is a nice chestnut-y color. Using pot holders, lift the bread out of the pot and let it cool on a rack for an hour or two.
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In a Summer season that has seen much tolerance awareness in the world of street fashion, Shepard Fairey's OBEY Clothing has teamed up with the Keith Haring Foundation to create a line of clothing that celebrates the artist's work. While by no means about the artist's lifestyle, Haring's foundation exists for the purpose of spreading AIDS awareness, a disease that plagued the artist until his untimely death, wrongfully affecting the way his career was viewed by many of his contemporaries.
Shepard Fairey has long been one to recognize the contributing factors of his forefathers in art, and to hear him speak of Haring in the above video is to hear a gracious fan speak on the work that inspires him. The full length version of this video for the Fall 2012 line will be released soon on the OBEY website.
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Manchester Central students ready for makeovers, a night at opera
It will be the first time any of the high school seniors have been to an opera, even if it is a live broadcast on a movie screen. The showing will culminate a day of makeovers courtesy of cosmetology students from the Manchester School of Technology, including manicures and nail painting for the girls, and dinner at the Great Buffet.
The daylong event is the brainstorm of Roy Shoults, Ward 4 school board member, who is determined that the cultural trip will be expense-free for both students and the school district. He said Superintendent Thomas J. Brennan is personally covering the cost of bus transportation. Ted Herbert's Music and Art Center contributed toward the cost of the tickets.
Tracey Crain and Aidan Connell, both from Hooksett and seniors in the advanced placement English class taught by Selma Naccach-Hoff, said they are grateful and excited for the opportunity. Crain plays the French horn and hopes to one day be an elementary school teacher, after earning a master's degree in music education, but also perform in symphony orchestras.
"It's a great opportunity," she said of attending the opera broadcast in high-definition at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord.
Connell said he gets to see a lot of plays and musical productions because he is an actor involved in community musical theater, but he relishes the opportunity to see every aspect of musical performance, especially an opera.
The Francesca da Rimini opera was selected for the field trip because the students studied Dante's Inferno, which is about people who committed sins serving out their punishment in hell.
Shoults said the cost of taking students to a live opera performance is prohibitive. A front-and-center seat at the 3,900-seat Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan can cost $450, although $20 will buy a nose-bleed seat. Then, of course, there would be the added cost of getting there.
The students will be sitting in a 1,304-seat theater about 250 miles away where they will watch and listen as the opera stars take center stage in Manhattan.
"The Met is the best by far," said Naccach-Hoff.
Crain is looking forward to the entire day, especially the pre-opera primping, and has a dress already picked out. "I love to dress up," she said.
Connell is not as enthused about the makeover, which for the guys entails being clean-shaven and properly groomed.
Still, he's pulling out his suit jacket and tie.
"I think all the girls are going to look awesome so I have to try to match that," he laughed.
Donations for the outing may be sent directly to the Manchester Finance Department (Tax ID #02-04-94977), Manchester School Department, 195 McGregor St., Manchester, 03102.
Shoults said he doubts there will be any surplus, but if there is, it will go to future projects. He's looking into a plan to hold a battle of the jazz bands for the city's three high schools.
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