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tag:dcurt.is,2014:/feed Dustin Curtis 2014-10-07T13:58:45-07:00 Dustin Curtis http://dcurt.is firstname.lastname@example.com Svbtle.com dcurtishttps://feedburner.google.com tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/privacy-vs-user-experience 2014-10-07T13:58:45-07:00 2014-10-07T13:58:45-07:00 Privacy vs. User Experience
Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone's secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make significantly better products, and the more information you collect, the better products you can build. Apple can barely sync iMessage across devices because it uses an encryption system that prevents it from being able to read the actual messages. Google knows where I am right now, where I need to be for my meeting in an hour, what the traffic is like, and whether I usually take public transportation, a taxi, or drive myself. Using that information, it can tell me exactly when to leave. This isn't science fiction; it's actually happening. And Apple's hardline stance on privacy is going to leave it in Google's dust.

In a recent public letter about privacy, Tim Cook incorrectly characterized Google's intentions when collecting user information:

Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don't build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don't "monetize" the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don't read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple.

Cook is being disingenuous, because he knows that the same information Google uses to target advertising is also used to make its products, like Google Maps, so great. I find it very odd that Cook implies the only use for such data is to "monetize" through advertising. iPhone and iCloud could be made much better if the computer systems could analyze the data people are storing in them. This is obvious.

The real issue that Apple is trying to address is not really privacy, but rather security. Though Google has all of my data, it is still private. Google does not sell access to my data; it sells access to my attention. Advertisers do not get my information from Google. So as long as I trust Google's employees, the only two potential breaches of my privacy are from the government or from a hacker. If we accept this as a fact, the fundamental privacy question changes from, "Do you respect my privacy?" to "Is the user experience improvement worth the security risk to my private information?"

As long as people understand the potential risks, the answer to the second question is almost always, "Yes." And with the emergence of artificial intelligence, the answer to that question will become increasingly more clear. The vast improvements in user experience far, far outweigh the potential security risks to private information.

Unfortunately, Apple has answered, "No."
  http://dcurt.is/privacy-vs-user-experience tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/voice-interfaces 2014-09-15T13:35:02-07:00 2014-09-15T13:35:02-07:00 Voice interfaces
Current voice interfaces are horrible. They try to imitate intelligence and fail so badly that they make computers even more frustrating to use. Most people have no idea how to use things like Siri. They ask it perfectly reasonable questions like, "Who invented the lightbulb?" and it responds with junk from Google. The answer to that particular question is not straightforward–at least three people, independently, invented different types of light bulbs–and computers are really bad at deciphering and communicating absolute answers from complex information like that. Because they are still so frustratingly limited, Siri and Google Now are simply not yet ready to exist. They are not artificially intelligent by any stretch of the imagination.

That being said, current voice recognition technology is incredibly good at certain things. It's great at detecting and transcribing words, listening for specific commands, and making matches against expected inputs. So why does literally no software take advantage of voice technology in the way it works best? For example it boggles my mind that I cannot do the following things:

When I'm inputting my home address in a web browser (on mobile or desktop), I should be able to tap the "State" dropdown and just say "California" and it have it select that option for me.

When I highlight the browser address bar, I should be able to just say "The Economist" and have it automatically find the address in my favorites and go there.

When I open to the home screen on my phone, I should be able to just say "Instagram" and have that app open.

On iOS, when I get a notification that covers the top of the screen, I should be able to just say "ignore" and have the notification instantly disappear.

When I click the "To" field in a mail app or in Gmail, I should be able to just say a person's name and have it fill in automatically (and maybe show me a dropdown to select which email address to send to).

All of these possible cases have one important thing in common–something specific has to happen before the voice control works. I have to tap a dropdown and then say "California". I have to have just received a text message to say "ignore" and it have it disappear. The reason current voice interfaces suck is because they force the speaker to consciously enter a "voice" mode and then create context around the action they want the computer to perform. This makes no sense; the computer should just always be listening for potential commands within the context of whatever the user is doing. Siri has no context, which makes it very difficult for the computer to accurately predict what the user whats to do. It also makes it very difficult for a user to know when using Siri would be helpful. But within specific context, there are only a few possibilities, which makes it far easier to use and much easier for a developer to build.

In general, voice interfaces would work great for things that are easy to vocally describe but hard to do on input devices like touch screens, keyboards, and mice. Like selecting "California" from a dropdown list. Or paging through icons to find an app to open. I only listed five possible use cases above, but I think they would dramatically improve the computing experience. Imagine what other things could be done.
  http://dcurt.is/voice-interfaces tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/just-move-fast 2014-04-30T19:35:59-07:00 2014-04-30T19:35:59-07:00 Just move fast
In an interview today with Wired that briefly discussed Facebook's increasing focus on platform stability, Mark Zuckerberg announced a dramatic change to Facebook's internal motto:

We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."

 http://dcurt.is/just-move-fast tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/the-death-of-the-tablet 2014-04-25T01:14:58-07:00 2014-04-25T01:14:58-07:00 Replacing the PC
When I first saw the iPad, I knew it was going to replace the personal computer for the vast majority of people. I was wrong. Yes, the iPad is easier, faster, and cheaper at doing pretty much everything a normal person wants to do on a computer. Yes, PCs are definitely going to die. And yes, by looking at most sales numbers, it appears that the transition has already started. But if you pick apart the data, a very different picture begins to emerge: The iPad is a false start; it's a temporary sidestep on the way to a future in which everyone's computer is simply their mobile phone.

The first piece of statistical evidence that caught my attention was this weird fact from a Pew Research study of tablet user demographics: the people who use tablets tend to be older.

16% 1 Very young people with tablets (15-20)
 18% 1 Young people with tablets (20-29)
 25% 2 Older people with tablets (30-55)

This is very odd. Why would teens and young adults, who are almost without exception the earliest adopters of new technological trends, use tablets less often than older adults, who are least likely to be early adopters? Compared to most new technologies, the tablet is being adopted backwards!

New habits

I think the reason for this reversal is that older adults, who grew up with traditional computers, have developed habits that a tablet naturally extends, like browsing the internet or sending emails on the couch while watching television. These adults buy tablets as secondary computers to replace laptops for the same kinds of tasks in similar contexts. For older people, the tablet is an evolution of the laptop, just like the laptop was an evolution of the desktop.

Younger people, on the contrary, simply do their computing entirely on their mobile phones. That's what they've grown up using. Older adults use laptops and tablets to access the internet. Teens and young adults use their phones.

55% 1 Teens who are "cell-mostly" internet users (14-22)
 15% 2 Adults who are "cell-mostly" internet users (23-55)

More than 55% of teens and early young adults report being "cell-mostly" internet users–meaning they primarily use the internet on their phone instead of a computer or tablet–compared to only 15% of older adults. Young people are growing up on the mobile phone as their primary computing device, which has fundamentally changed the way they use and think about the internet. Tablets are simply unnecessary for them, because the mobile phone doesn't offer a degraded internet experience, like it does for adults: it is the internet experience.

I suspect this behavior will continue as these young people grow up, and that the trend will become even more striking.

Technology

In a tantalizing paradox, smartphone screens are growing larger and larger over time while tablet screens are getting smaller and smaller. The average tablet screen size in the past year was 7.1-inches, compared to 7.8-inches in the year prior, and the average smartphone screen size was 4.9-inches in the past year, compared to 4.5-inches in the year before.34 Clearly, tablets have been too large and phones have been too small. So, what's the optimal size and form factor for a mobile device, and what does the convergence of screen sizes mean for the future of both device types?

If you take a technological point of view and look into the future, I think the answers are obvious. Mobile phones and tablets are already becoming less differentiated over time, and within a few years I think they will converge into one multipurpose, pocketable device. Screen and battery technology are improving fast enough that even needing two devices will soon be pointless; why carry both a small-screened and a large-screened device–both of which are otherwise essentially identical–when you can pull out your mobile phone and have a screen that, for example, expands to tablet-size when you stretch it?

The tablet is really just a temporary evolutionary sidestep that overcomes screen and battery technology issues in mobile phones. There is no such thing as a tablet in the future.

Market

The tablet market has been growing at an unquestionably insane rate for several years, suggesting that there is a huge and growing market for the devices. But now that screens on mobile phones are getting larger and tablet screens are getting smaller, the market and practicality of tablets is going to significantly shrink. It has already started.

The first evidence of the iPad's shrinking market was released just a few days ago, in Apple's second quarter 2014 earnings filing.5 After years of double-digit percentage quarterly unit sales growth, and billions of dollars in revenue, the iPad has stopped growing. In fact, it has started to shrink significantly: Apple sold 16% fewer iPads last quarter compared to the quarter one year ago. iPhone sales, on the other hand, grew by 17%. Mac sales grew by 5%. Even for Apple, the PC market is outgrowing the tablet market.5 This could easily reverse, but I think it's the first data supporting a long term trend.

Read Benedict Evan's awesome analysis of iPad and tablet growth for more trend data.

If you want to predict the future, just look at what middle-class American teens are doing. And right now, they're using their mobile phones for everything. In fact, many of them don't even have private computers.1 These facts, combined with the factors above, paint a picture of the tablet as a fad, like the Netbook, and as a temporary sidestep on a radical change in the way people use the internet. In the future, we'll all simply use our mobile phones for everything.

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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy by Pew Research Internet Project ↩

25th Anniversary of the Web by Pew Research Internet Project ↩

Screen Size Trends by Kantar World Panel ↩

Tablets and E-Readers, 2013 by Pew Research Internet Project ↩

Apple Q2 2014 10-Q earnings filing ↩

  http://dcurt.is/the-death-of-the-tablet tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/the-things-we-admire 2014-03-29T01:39:31-07:00 2014-03-29T01:39:31-07:00 The things we admire

It has always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honestly, understanding, and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

JOHN STEINBECK
Cannery Row
  http://dcurt.is/the-things-we-admire tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/facebooks-predicament 2014-03-27T13:49:50-07:00 2014-03-27T13:49:50-07:00 Whatever goes up, that's what we do
A year ago, Facebook announced a new News Feed that was completely redesigned to focus on content–it had large photos, big user icons, better integration with Facebook messenger, and it brought Facebook's website into closer alignment with its mobile apps. It was beautiful. During the few months I was able to use the new design, my Facebook experience was significantly better. Here's what it looked like:

But there was a serious problem: the numbers. According to several people I've spoken to, Facebook found during testing that users who were switched to the new News Feed tended to spend less time on the site. Specifically, they spent less time browsing areas outside of the News Feed, like their friends' profiles and event pages, which are currently some of the most visited parts of Facebook.

After an investigation into the problem by Facebook's data team, they discovered that the new News Feed was performing too well. It was performing so well from a design standpoint that users no longer felt the need to browse areas outside of the News Feed as often, so they were spending less time on the site. Unfortunately, this change in user behavior led to fewer advertisement impressions, which led, ultimately, to less revenue.

This is truly a nightmare scenario for any CEO: do you take the risk and proceed with the better user experience/product at the expense of short term numbers–with no promise that the better design will actually lead to long-term benefits–or do you scrap the new design and start over? The answer to this question is where company culture and identity dramatically peek through the curtain and express themselves in very raw form. Because it is impossible to answer this question rationally–both sides can be argued very successfully–it has to be answered from a cultural point of view.

Based on the News Feed design Facebook eventually shipped, which is being rolled out right now, it's obvious which answer Facebook chose:

When I first saw the reverted News Feed, I remembered a quote I wrote down several months ago after overhearing a supposed Facebook employee complaining in a San Francisco coffee shop:

We're blind. It doesn't matter what any individual person thinks about something new. Everything must be tested. It's feature echolocation: we throw out an idea, and when the data comes back we look at the numbers. Whatever goes up, that's what we do. We are slaves to the numbers. We don't operate around innovation. We only optimize. We do what goes up.

 http://dcurt.is/facebooks-predicament tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/there-is-no-solution-to-this-problem 2014-02-04T21:32:02-08:00 2014-02-04T21:32:02-08:00 Startup advice and the clarity of experience
Recently, I watched a few experienced people get up in front of an audience and talk about lessons they've learned building companies, investing in companies, buying companies, selling companies, and making products. About five years ago, I watched a similar group of people give the same kinds of talks, on a similar looking stage, with a similar audience. The difference is that, years later, my interpretation of the content has completely changed.

The first few times I went to startup conferences, I thought everything seemed so obvious. Listen to your users, they said. Never settle on hiring, they said. Focus on unrelenting growth, they said. Startup advice seemed so vague. But those things I remember were the wrong things to focus on. The bit of experience I now have has given me the ability to see between the lines of stereotypical advice, and to better interpret lessons that on the surface seemed completely irrelevant.

When I watch experienced people talk today, I catch the little subtle notes in between the obvious pieces of advice, and I find myself constantly thinking–oh shit, yeah, I experienced that, and this person knows what they're talking about; I wish I had known that two years ago! How is it possible that I missed all of these things in the past?

Being there–in the arena–gives you the clarity of experience; it's a sixth sense that is the ability to know which pieces of advice are important. Unfortunately, the most important lessons you can learn from people with experience tend to be things you don't think are important until you have experience. Choose investors based on how well you get along with them, they probably said. Don't be indecisive with product feature choices, they probably said.

But I ignored those things, because I didn't have the experience to know that they were important.
  http://dcurt.is/there-is-no-solution-to-this-problem tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/the-future 2013-12-15T19:04:14-08:00 2013-12-15T19:04:14-08:00 I want
The best way to predict the future is to think about desire. The problem with desire is that it tends to be bounded by what's actually possible; as we grow older, our imaginations seem to develop artificial caps that limit our ideas to things that are reasonably achievable in the short term. But who cares about what is reasonable? Here's what I want.

I want a system that continuously scans my body and tells me if I have actionable disease, like cancer or a contagious flu. I want this device to tell me if I have a higher than normal risk of a heart attack, and, if so, which steps I should take to prevent one.

I want to take a pill every morning that restricts my body's ability to process more calories than it needs during the day. I want this pill to enable my body to dispose of any junk chemicals or excess calories that exceed the ideal, healthy amount.

I want to think of the trip between New York City and San Francisco the same way I think about a subway ride. I want a maximum fixed cost for long distance travel of $100 per trip, and for the physical transport to utilize new or vastly improved transportation technology that is good for the environment.

I want fresh food to last ten times longer than it does now, with no reduction in taste or nutrition; I want the process of decomposition for fruit, meat, and other perishable food to be significantly slowed using some process that has benefits on the same magnitude as the invention of the refrigerator.

I want mass-produced products to be locally manufactured just-in-time in dark, human-less warehouses by robots, and not made in far-away lands, because human innovation is vastly slowed by the obstacles and time waste in outsourcing. I want the design and production of high quality, inexpensive physical goods to be dramatically easier, faster, and more environmentally and technologically efficient.

I want doctors to be way less involved with practical medicine, and for computers to diagnose and treat disease; we know so little about the human body, and innovation in medicine moves so slowly, that tens of thousands of people die every day from things that could be completely and easily prevented with technology. I want the human body to be treated medically as a machine, by machines.

I want to order a tube of toothpaste, a tomato, or a sandwich, and have it delivered to me within 10 minutes via a safe flying machine (or other delivery system; see also: pneumatic tubes, 3-D printing).

I want a seemingly high-end, luxury hotel chain that utilizes technology so effectively that the nightly room rate is less than $100 in even the most expensive cities, like London.

I want to instantly find the best of something in a product category without wasting time on my own research. I want a place like Amazon.com, but, when you search for "toaster", you are presented with only one model of toaster: the one that 80% of people would consider to be the best toaster in the world.

I want technology to make an affordable concierge lifestyle accessible to more people, because I think having the ability to consult experts makes people universally smarter, faster, and more efficient as humans. I want a personal trainer, a fashion stylist, a nutritionist, an executive assistant, and a nurse I can call on at any time for advice.

I want to have one unlimited-use internet plan that allows me to use/add as many devices as I want, and to use them anywhere in the world at no additional cost.

I want everything in my life to be connected to and enhanced by the internet. I want my watch, glasses, toaster, light switches, thermostat, and door locks to use connectedness to make the world a better place–by reducing energy usage, decreasing waste, and improving my happiness and convenience.

I want nuclear reactors or some other clean technology to power the entire world's electrical grid, safely.

I want a display implanted into my retina that enhances my life by visually providing me with information that my brain is not designed to think about. I want scientific facts and social knowledge to guide my decisions, and for simple errors that most humans make (like distance miscalculations and logical fallacies) to be immediately identified. (See also: The Glass Bicycle)

It's hard to think about things far beyond what is currently achievable. If there were no limitations on technology, time, and social pressures, what would you want?
  http://dcurt.is/the-future tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/what-i-would-have-written 2013-09-25T19:44:29-07:00 2013-09-25T19:44:29-07:00 What I would have written
I've been thinking about this damn essay for about a year, but I haven't written it because Twitter is so much easier than writing, and I have been enormously tempted to just tweet it, so instead of not writing anything, I'm just going to write about what I would have written if Twitter didn't destroy my desire to write by making things so easy to share. I'll give you a minute to let that sentence soak in. Also, I'm not going to re-read any of this, or copyedit it. It's raw.

Twitter takes complex ideas and destroys them by forcing my brain to compact them into little 140-character aphorisms, truisms, or jokes. For every great tweet, there could have been four insightful paragraphs, but there aren't, and never will be, because Twitter removes my desire to write by killing my ideas. Once I tweet something, I stop thinking about it; it's like an emotional release of idea liability. If I wrote this essay, I would have written about how Twitter does that.

But most tweets aren't great. Most great ideas that are compressed into little 140-character snippets end up not being so great. They are stunted, shitty versions of the real thing–that is, a complete, well-written essay–and yet, for some reason I consider them acceptable. Because, obviously, a great idea can't be communicated perfectly because I only have 140-characters to work with. It's like, imagine Picasso with an iPad. Sure, he'd draw lots of crap, but seriously, who wants a digital Picasso that was "painted" onto a tiny little screen? Imagine all of the paintings he would not have painted because he was busy touching a tiny little piece of glass that interpreted his touches and approximated what he intended to put on a much larger, more beautiful canvas.

I would have written about that, probably, if I had written this essay.

But here's the worst thing about Twitter, and the thing that may have permanently destroyed my mind: I find myself walking down the street, and every fucking thing I think about, I also think, "How could I fit that into a tweet that lots of people would favorite or retweet?" It's disgusting, and I feel like a meth addict, with constant, obsessive urges to fit every goddamned idea into a tweet. To share. With you. Without any real filter, which is what the writing process is.

The writing process takes unfiltered liquid ideas that are cloudy and filled with grime and it converts them into beautiful clean thoughts that other people can easily understand. If you spend enough time writing something, perfecting it, filtering it, cleaning it, you not only produce a great piece of writing and a great communication, but you improve your mind by giving yourself the ability to think things through more completely. Twitter makes me dumber, because I don't think about things more deeply than 140-characters. If I wrote this essay, I maybe would have written about that.

And yet I see no solution to this problem. I will forever be a slave to 140-characters, to this thing that instantly takes complex ideas out of my brain, over-simplifies them, and ships them off to random people whom I have never met.

I can't wait to buy Twitter stock.

That's what I would have written.

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  http://dcurt.is/what-i-would-have-written tag:dcurt.is,2014:Post/5s 2013-09-20T18:54:01-07:00 2013-09-20T18:54:01-07:00 5s
The iPhone 5s is a minor update to the iPhone, but it feels surprisingly significant after just a couple of days of use. The speed increase of the A7 is far more important than I had expected; the camera, interface effects, and overall experience are dramatically improved because of the increased speed.

Below are some of my initial thoughts and observations about minor details of the 5s update that I haven't seen explicitly mentioned elsewhere. Some of the points below relate only to the Space Gray iPhone 5s, and all of my experience is in comparison to a black iPhone 5.

For the first two points to make sense, you should know that the new home button has two parts: the inner area, which is where the touch ID sensor is, and then an outer area which is a small chamfered metal border that connects the inner area of the button with the external case. You can see the structure here.

The outer part of the new home button is exactly the same size as the Phone app and passcode keypad number circles in iOS 7, which are in turn also identical in size to the holes in the back of the new iPhone 5c rubber case.

The inner part of the new home button is exactly the same size as the circle template for icons (e.g, the circle around the "A" in the App Store icon), minus the exact size of the button chamfer. That is, you need two widths of the chamfered border, plus the icon circle, to be precisely the same size as the outer part of the home button.

The microphone hole on the back of the phone is now a perfect circle instead of an oval.

The "iPhone" text on the back of the phone is now Myriad Light. [Update: This used to say the typeface was Helvetica Neue Light, but that was wrong.]

The glass on the front and back of the Space Gray 5s is far blacker than the black iPhone 5. It's almost pitch black, making the iPhone 5's glass look more of a dark gray in comparison.

The metal edge casing pieces and chamfers around of the screen are much lighter, and more of a gray color than on the black iPhone 5.

The 5s camera is significantly better than the 5, but it's not entirely due to the camera itself; because the A7 is about 200% as fast as the A6, taking a photo feels even more instant than it did on the iPhone 5 (and it felt instant before!). HDR photos take about 500-800ms to process on the 5s compared to about 2-4 seconds on the 5.

Starting the camera from the lock screen takes less than 1 second on the 5s, and sometimes up to 2-4 seconds on the iPhone 5. I anticipate this will have a dramatic effect on how many photos people take. If you can pull the phone out of your pocket fast enough, you won't ever miss a moment due to the hardware.

When in Camera, the live view that displays on the screen updates much more quickly than it did before; there is no lag as you move the phone around while trying to find the perfect composition.

Though Apple's technical specs claim both the iPhone 5 and 5s weigh exactly the same, the 5s feels lighter. It's very, very subtle, but I can tell in a multiple blind tests (I don't have a scale).

The metal border around the camera on the back is significantly smaller than it was on the iPhone 5. The lens elements themselves, however, appear to be identical in size (but this may be an optical illusion).

While the iPhone 5 flash looks aesthetically like a perfect piece of curved glass exposing an LED below, the 5s flash LEDs are are behind Fresnel lenses that remind me of old disposable cameras: a bunch of concentric lines around the light source that help with focus and diffusion.

The exclamation point regulatory icon on the back of the phone appears to be about 2-5% larger on the 5s. I assume this change is to make the circle a mathematically perfect fraction of the other circles used throughout Apple's new design language.

Touch ID works well, but there's a 1-2 second delay. When the phone is locked, using Touch ID to unlock is kind of unwieldy; you have to place your finger on the home button sensor, press the button, and then release the button–while still resting your finger on top of it–before Siri activates. It works, but feels strange.

"Slide to unlock" on the lock screen no longer makes sense when you're using a fingerprint to unlock, and the glistening left-to-right motion is distracting.

The home button icon is no longer on the home button of the 5s, even though every other iOS device, oddly, retains it.

The edge chamfer leading to the top of the screen is no longer as easy to scratch as it was on the iPhone 5 (some black iPhone 5 phones look very worn), and the plastic border around the screen is now recessed about 1mm further than on the 5.

Surprisingly, Touch ID is only 5x more secure than a 4-digit pin. [Update: this is actually misleading. Touch ID requires 5x more attempts to reach a "false positive," meaning it would require 50,000 different and distinct fingers. With a 4-digit pin, you can use the same finger over and over again for each attempt. Thus, it would appear that Touch ID is monumentally more secure than a 4-digit pin or even a simple/common complex passcode.]

As far as I can tell, the screen is absolutely identical, but the 5s screen appears to attract fingerprints more easily; this could be due to a change in the oleophobic coating application, formulation, or design.

The Touch ID sensor does not work when your hands are wet/sweaty.

The headphone and lightning port chamfers are shiny on the 5s, whereas they were matte on the black iPhone 5.

The vibrator motor appears to be identical.

If I missed something interesting that you think should be included, send me a quick note and I'll add it.

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  http://dcurt.is/5s


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No. At least that is what Cubs GM Theo Epstein says when questioned about whether Kris Bryant will be in Chicago anytime this year.
Epstien knows, as all Cub fans do, that this season is a lost cause. He has repeatedly said that he doesn't want to rush Bryant.
Bryant may be rushing him.
Bryant, drafted second overall by the Cubs last year out of San Diego State, really has nothing left to prove at the minor league level.
The 22 year old slugger has destroyed minor league pitching both with the Tennesee Smokies and Iowa Cubs. In 68 games at Tennessee, Bryant hit .355 with 22 homers and 58 RBI. He hasn't slowed down since his promotion to AAA either. He is hitting .329 with 8 homers and 22 RBI in 22 games.
I think it's safe to say that he's ready. He has hit .348 with 30 homers and 80 RBI in just 90 games in his two stops so far.
Luis Valbuena is the incumbent Cub at the hot corner. Valbuena has had a nice season, hitting .255 with five homers and 22 RBI. That said, Valbuena is better suited as a utility player off the bench. His dip in average and lack of power in the last month support that theory.
Despite Epstein's best efforts and intentions, I think Bryant will finally force the issue. That is unless Epstein wants him to take a shot at Joe Bauman's minor league single season home run record of 72 set back in 1954
Add to that the fact that Valbuena and Darwin Barney could both help out a contender, the Cubs could end up with two open infield positions in the next few weeks.
Arismendy Alcantara is likely to fill the void at second base. That leaves third base open, and Bryant is the prime candidate to fill it with top ten prospect Javier Baez struggling at AAA (.242 average, 14 HR, 106 strikeouts).
That said, I think the Cubs ultimately hang on to Valbuena, which will keep Bryant in the minors a bit longer. How much longer? I don't think the Cubs can avoid a September call-up.
ETA: September 1st

subset: commoncrawl


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Analysis of spending in America's largest school districts
Quick facts
School district spending
The top 1,000 American school districts, as measured by enrollment, spent approximately $321.285 billion during the 2010-2011 school year according to the United States Census Bureau. This is 52.76 percent of the approximately $608.9 billion that was spent by all 14,491 school districts.[1]
Quick facts
Total spending
- Average total spending:
- $321,285,366
- Most total spending:
- $23,884,430,000 (New York City Department of Education, New York)
- Least total spending:
- $61,213,000 (Idaho Falls School District 91, Idaho)
Per-pupil spending
- Average spent per student:
- $9,596
- Most spent per student:
- Least spent per student:
- $5,361 (Alpine School District, Utah)
Classroom spending
- Average percentage of classroom spending:
- 85.52%
- Highest percentage of classroom spending:
- Lowest percentage of classroom spending:
- Expenditures per student refers to the total amount of school district spending divided by student enrollment in the district.
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Essential Fundamentals of EXCEL 2010 What is Excel? Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program which allows one to enter numerical values or data into the rows or columns of a spreadsheet, and to use these numerical entries for such things as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis. Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. . A panel that contains the command buttons and icons, organized into a set of tabs. For example: Home tab, Insert tab, Page Layout tab etc. The entire block that stretches from the upper-left side to the upper-right side of the application is called the Ribbon. The Ribbon is a unique interface component that comprises several task-specific commands grouped under various commands. The Ribbon provides the ability to identify desired functions and to perform both simple and advanced operations without having to navigate extensively.
The Fundamentals • The File tab menu and Backstage view contain commands for working with a program's files, such as Open, Save, Close, New, and Print. • To Create a New Workbook: Click the File tab and select New, and click Create, or press + . • To Open a Workbook: Click the File tab and select Open, or press + . • To Save a Workbook: Click the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press + . • To Preview and Print a Workbook: Click the File tab and select Print, or press + . • To Undo: Click the Undo button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press + . • To Redo or Repeat: Click the Redo button on the Quick Access Toolbar, or press + . • To Close a Workbook: Click the Close button, or press + . • To Get Help: Press to open the Help window. Type your question and press . • Cell addresses: Cells are referenced by addresses made from their column letter and row number, such as cell A1, A2, B1, B2, etc. You can find the address of a cell by looking at the Name Box. • To Select a Cell: Click a cell or use the keyboard arrow keys to select it. • To Select a Cell Range: Click and drag to select a range of cells. Or, press and hold down the key while using the to move the mouse pointer to the last cell of the range.
Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. In this lesson, you will learn your way around the Excel 2010 environment, including the new Backstage view, which replaces the Microsoft Button menu from Excel 2007. We will show you how to use and modify the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar, and how to create new workbooks and open existing ones. After this lesson, you will be ready to get started on your first workbook. Getting to Know Excel 2010 The Excel 2010 interface is very similar to Excel 2007. There have been some changes that we will review later in this lesson, but if you are new to Excel, first take some time to learn how to navigate an Excel workbook. Video: Navigating Excel 2010 Watch the video (3:04). Need help? The Excel Interface Click the buttons in the interactive below for an overview of how to navigate through an Excel workbook. ©1998-2013 Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Microsoft® Excel® 2010 delivers rich, new and enhanced features to the world's most popular productivity suite. Excel 2010 makes it possible to analyze, manage, and share information in more ways than ever before, helping you make better, smarter decisions. With new data analysis and visualization tools, along with managed self-service business intelligence technologies, you can create effective business or information insights that track and highlight important data trends and communicate your results through high-quality charts and graphs. You can also easily share your insights with others through Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 or your Windows Live™ account. Work better together by working simultaneously with others online and accomplish your most important tasks faster. Your information is never far away as you can access your files from almost anywhere—from your PC, a Web browser, or smartphone.1 With Excel 2010 you can work when and where you want. Whether you're producing financial reports, managing personal expenses, collaborating with a team on school or work projects—even if your workbooks exceed a million rows—Excel 2010 makes it easier to get what you need done more quickly, with more flexibility, and with better results. Welcome to Excel 2010—our most powerful and intuitive version yet.
Excel provides many ways to repeat information in many cells throughout a worksheet. The most convenient way to repeat information in contiguous cells is by using the Fill command. If the first cell contains a formula, the formula will be repeated in the additional cells. If the first cell contains text, the text will be repeated in the additional cells. You can allow Excel to automatically fill in the information for you, or you may choose to create custom patterns of information. NOTE: If Excel recognizes a pattern in the information you entered, the additional cells will contain the next item in the pattern. For example, if the first cell contains the day Sunday, Excel will fill the following cells with Monday, Tuesday, etc. Other examples include filling months of the year and hours of the day. Filling Cells: Ribbon Option (This option copies (repeats) the information from one cell to another.) 1. Type the information (cell contents or formula) in the first cell of the group 2. Starting with the cell containing the contents to be copied, select the group of cells to be filled 3. From the Ribbon, select the Home command tab 4. In the Editing group, click Fill ...
How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 This short tutorial uses Excel 2010 and sample file to show you a working example of the VLOOKUP function. Article reference: http://www.timeatlas.com/5_minute_tips/general/learning_vlookup_in_excel Excel sample file: http://static.timeatlas.com/tutorials/VLOOKUP_Example.xls Video reference: http://www.timeatlas.com/news/projects/vlookup_demo Last Revised: May 20, 2012 1. Download the Excel VLOOKUP sample file shown in the More VLOOKUP References section Note: For this tutorial, we will be deleting information on this sheet and recreating the VLOOKUP formula. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 1 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 2. Open the sample file you downloaded from above in Excel. The workbook will have 2 sheets at the bottom: Voters and Party Codes. The first sheet is a listing of registered voters and the second contains names of political parties. 3. Delete the cell entries for D2:D7 because we will be rebuilding the formula. Note: You can keep the column header "Politcal Party". How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 2 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 4. Place your cursor in cell D2. Click the Formulas tab and select Insert Function. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 3 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 5. In the Search for a function: text box type "vlookup" and click the Go button. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 4 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials. 6. Highlight VLOOKUP and click OK. How To Use VLOOKUP in Excel 2010 - 5 Please v isit www.timeatlas.com f or more tips and tutorials.
Note: Some third party utilities, macros and add-ins can overwrite native shortcut keys, in which case they will not work. Formatting shortcuts Bold Italic Underline Format Box Clear cell Outline border Remove border Insert a comment CTRL + B CTRL + I CTRL + U CTRL + 1 ALT + H + E + A SHIFT + CTRL + & SHIFT + CTRL + _ SHIFT + F2 Copy Paste Paste Special Cut Repeat Undo Delete selected cells CTRL + C CTRL + V ALT H + V + S (ALT + E + S still works) CTRL + X CTRL + Y CTRL + Z CTRL + Minus sign Workbook navigation shortcuts Toggle Excel workbooks CTRL + TAB Split Screen ALT + W + S (F6 to jump from pane to pane) Freeze pane ALT + W + F New workbook CTRL + N Print CTRL + P Open workbook CTRL + O (CTRL + F12) Save workbook CTRL + S Activate menu bar ALT or F10 Min / Restore Ribbon CTRL + F1 Print preview ALT + F + W + V (CTRL F2) Close window CTRL + W (CTRL + F4) Close program ALT + F4 Other useful shortcuts Excel Options Recalculate all workbooks Display a drop-down list Display "Insert Function" box Display "Name" box Enter array formula Auditing shortcuts Trace immediate precedents Trace immediate dependents Remove tracing arrows Evaluate formula Track changes Zoom to selection Go to precedent cells Go to dependent cells Go back to original cell "Go to" ALT + F + T F9 ALT + up/down arrow keys ALT + I + F (SHIFT F3) CTRL F3 SHIFT + CTRL + Enter ALT + M + P ALT + M + D ALT + M + A + A ALT + M + V ALT + R + G ALT + W + G CTRL + [ CTRL + ] F5 + Enter F5 Tab navigation Move/ Copy a tab Change tab name Moving to left/right tabs New tab ALT + H + O + M ALT + H + O + R CTRL + Pg Up/Down SHIFT + F11 Row / column shortcuts Select column Select row Delete row(s) / column(s) Add row(s) / column(s) Group / ungroup rows and columns Fit column width CTRL + Space Shift + Space CTRL + 'minus sign' CTRL + SHIFT + 'plus sign' SHIFT + ALT + left / right arrow key ALT + H + O + I Data editing shortcuts Select All Fill Down Fill right Find Replace CTRL + A CTRL + D CTRL + R CTRL + F CTRL + H Edit cells Start a formula Insert AutoSum formula...
Microsoft Excel 2010 looks very different from Excel 2003, so we created this guide to help you minimize the learning curve. Read on to learn key parts of the new interface, discover free Excel 2010 training, find features such as Print Preview or the Options dialog box, understand how to exchange workbook files with people who don't yet have Excel 2010, and find out how to enable add-ins or get access to macros and other advanced features. Ribbon Groups Quick Access Toolbar Ribbon Tabs Commands shown here are always visible. You can add your favorite commands to this toolbar. Click any tab on the ribbon to display its buttons and commands. Each ribbon tab contains groups, and each group contains a set of related commands. Here, the Number group on the Home tab contains commands for displaying numbers as currency, percentages, and so on. Backstage View Hide the Ribbon Click the File tab to enter Backstage view, where you can open, save, print, and manage your Excel files. Need more space on your screen? Click this icon or press CTRL+F1 to hide or show the ribbon. Dialog Box Launchers Contextual Ribbon Tabs Some tabs appear on the ribbon only when you need them. For example, if you insert or select a chart, you'll see Chart Tools, which includes three extra tabs — Design, Layout, and Format. If you see a dialog box launcher icon ( ) next to any ribbon group label, click it to open a dialog box with more options for that group. Zoom In or Out Click these buttons to display the current worksheet in Normal, Page Layout, or Page Break Preview view. To exit Backstage view, click any ribbon tab. Switch Between Views Click the 100% zoom button to select a zoom level, or drag the zoom slider to the right or left side. © 2010 by Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.


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FRIDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Although it can be prevented
with a vaccine, roughly 90 million children worlwide who are
younger than 5 get the flu each year, resulting in about 1 million
hospital admissions, a new study indicates.
Published in the Nov. 11 online edition of
The Lancet, the research also revealed that flu-related pneumonia claimed the lives of up to 111,500 children in 2008. According to the report, 99 percent of these deaths occurred in developing countries.
The study authors based their research on 43 previous studies,
which included information on roughly 8 million children. They also
found that 20 million young children are also diagnosed with
flu-related pneumonia. Of these cases, the researchers added, 7
percent are considered severe.
Harish Nair, of the Center for Population Health Sciences,
Medical School at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and
colleagues suggested that their study should aid in the development
of vaccines and other flu prevention strategies.
"Influenza is the second most common pathogen identified in children with acute lower respiratory infection [pneumonia] and contributes substantially to the burden of hospitalization and mortality in young children," Nair and colleagues wrote in the report. "Our estimates should inform public health policy and vaccine strategy, especially in developing countries."
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|Activate the Yeast Pack according to the direction on the back of the package. Put grains into a grain bag or a muslin bag. Heat 2 gallons of filtered water along with Brew Saltz to 162*F.. Turn off heat, add grain bag. (Do Not add grains to water above 165*F.). Let temperature rest down to 122*F..About 25 minutes. Leave pot uncovered during this time, stirring grain bag gently from time to time. Then remove grain bag and let drain into brew pot. Do Not Squeeze Grain Bag! Rinse grains over brew pot by slowly pouring 2 cups of HOT tap water over top of grain bag. Discard grains. With the heat off, add malt extract and stir. Turn on heat and while stirring bring to a boil. Make note of the time the boil starts and add the 2 oz. of the Centennial hops. Make sure your boil is a calm boil, Do Not boil to hard. Boil for 30 minutes and add the 1 oz of the Phoenix hops. Boil for another 20 minutes. Add the 1 oz of the Magnum hops along with the Irish Moss. Boil another 5 minutes, Turn off heat. Gently stir for a few minutes. Cool the wort and add to fermenter on top of 2 gallons of very cold water. HINT: 8 Lbs of good filtered ice = 1 gallon of water. Top off to 5 gallons. After the temperature cools to 80 degrees or cooler, open the yeast package and pour the contents on top of the wort. Ferment 7-10 days at 68* -72*F. You can also go from primary to secondary aroundday 5 and leave in secondary 7 days. The final specific gravity should be 1.010 - 1.012. To bottle, rack into bottling bucket. Heat 12 oz of water and 3/4 cup dextrose in microwave for 2 minutes, then add to bottling bucket. Stir gently but thoroughly. Bottle and cap. Store at room temperature 7 - 10 days, then chill as needed and enjoy.
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Wine of the Week: Stobi Winery, Vranec 2011, Macedonia
And now for something completely different? Here's a rich red wine that comes from the former Yugolsavian state's best vineyard area, Tikves. It's made from the indigenous Vranec grape, and the nose has lovely lift and elegance even, with Morello cherry red fruit, a touch of spice and a little chocolatey smoothness and polish.


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Foraging Tuition and Private Bookings
To really learn and gain the confidence to identify edible species it is extremely useful to go out in the field with an expert. No guide book, no matter how good, can give you that 100% certainty of identification that will allow you to eat and enjoy wild foods. The very best way of gaining confidence is to book Mark for foraging instruction tailored to your own needs. Its a great fun way to spend time in the outdoors with family and friends too! And as Mark is Scotland's only full-time foraging tutor, you know you will get the very best learning experience.
Sessions or whole days can be tailored to your interests and location. Perhaps you are fascinated by fungi, or want to learn how to unearth spoot clams. Maybe you'd like a celebratory day with friends followed by a wild food feast. Often there will be a host of delicious 'weeds' up your lane that you have been ignoring for years!
If you book Mark for an afternoon or a day and let him know where you are and what interests you, he can recce your area before hand and ensure that you get most out of your session. If you want to learn about things that don't grow in your area, he can advise on a good place for the foray. Or just say what sort of day you want and let Mark suggest some options.
Tuition is not restricted to Dumfries and Galloway – Mark has foraged in many areas of Scotland and N England and can help you get the most out of any area.
The highlight of any foray is normally eating the days haul so GWF can provide portable outdoor cooking facilities and home made bread at any event as part of the standard price. A gazebo is also available.
"…thanks for giving us the confidence to find and pick such delicious mushrooms! We are now getting enough to put chanterelles, hedgehog mushrooms and giant puffballs on our menu – but we keep the ceps for ourselves! The best thing is that after a 3 hour session with you we can now harvest our own little patches year after year!" – Helen, Owner and Head Chef, House O'Hill Hotel, Bargrennan.
Prices are £50 per hour based on a minimum 3 hour session for up to 10 people. + £15 for every further person up to 20 (maximum).
Have Mark cook a gourmet wild feast for your friends and family afterwards for the same hourly rate + £10pp + extra ingredients at cost. Travel/accommodation costs may apply to areas out with Dumfries and Galloway. See example 5 below.
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Mark regularly does walks for other businesses. Selling places for your own event is a good way to make bringing Mark to your area more affordable and often profitable. See here.
If you would like to arrange some tuition tailored to your interests/location/group, host a foray at your business, get some help identifying something you have found or just say hi, please contact Mark.
Example 1: An extended and far-flung family had got together for a short holiday in Ayrshire. They asked Mark to come up with an interesting venue for an afternoon's foraging. Read about it here.
Example 2: A stag weekend wanted to do some bonding out in the wilds. Mark joined them on the Isle of Arran and they spent an afternoon gathering wild food before returning to a bothy to cook a huge wild feast washed down by sloe gin!
Example 3: A retired couple who were keen cooks hired Mark to come to their rural home and help them get to know the free ingredients that lurked in their local woods. They invited a few friends round, had a fun afternoon, and learned how to use their wild larder in their everyday diet.
Example 4: A michelin starred chef hired Mark to take him and his brigade out near his restaurant. He now harvests some of his very finest (and most expensive) products for free. See more here and here
Example 5: A group of friends had rented a cottage for a birthday celebration. After some elderflower champagne to sharpen the foraging senses, Mark took them foraging around the nearby woods and coast for 4 hours. The group then spent an hour laying out and labelling our finds over wild cake and herbal teas, while Mark introduced them to some wild ingredients from further afield. Mark demonstrated how to prepare a whole pheasant and those wishing helped to prepare a dinner of wild salad with smoked fish, pheasant casserole with wild mushrooms and wild seed cake with foraged berries and woodruff cream for dessert. A great day was rounded off with sloe and meadowsweet gin and the birthday boy said it was the best birthday present he'd ever had!
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Hi is there anyway to contact you via telephone to ask you whether you can obtain some gorseflower for me to purchase from you?
Please email me back, or telephone me on 07985d83484.
I was wondering if you could give me some advice on the best place in the d&g region to find elderflower & sloes?
Dear Mark – I am trying to identify a plant I found growing wild on Arran. I emailed email@example.com and Vicky suggested I contact you. Couldn't find an email so hope you find this message!
I doubt it's an edible plant, and was growing by the coast, north of Brodick, last week (we were on hols there). What stood out were the green berries on a bright purple stalk – tried an online ID site but to no avail! Beautiful small purple flowers too. I've never seen anything like it & wondered if you could shed any light. If not, do you know who might?


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Rob Fest brings music to 2 stages at park
The third annual Rob Fest, which benefits ASAP (adolescent suicide awareness and prevention), will be from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Clear Creek Amphitheatre.
A music festival with two stages, featuring Nashville recording artists Aly'an, the day also includes bouncies for kids, food, and a live and silent auction (featuring a Pitino-signed basketball).
The cost will be $10 per carload. For more information, call 502-220-0751.
Tickets on sale for 'South Pacific'
Tickets go on sale today for Shelby County Community Theatre's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific.
The musical, directed by Cyndi Powell Skellie, with musical direction by Lynne McReynolds Chenault, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. on July 19-20 and July 26-27 and 2:30 p.m. on July 21 and 28.
Tickets are $15 adults, $12 seniors and $10 students. For more information, call 502-633-0222. SCCT is located at 801 Main St. in Shelbyville.
Tickets for 'South Pacific' go on sale today at theater
Lewis in Queen show coming to Nashville
Shelbyville native Ruby Lewis continues to land significant roles.
Lewis, a graduate of Western Kentucky University's theater program, recently was cast as Scaramouche, one of the stars of the National Tour of the Queen musical We Will Rock You. The show has played in London for 11 years and is a worldwide smash.
ACT III is next up in downtown concert
The annual downtown Shelbyville concert series will continue at 7 p.m. June 29 at 5th and Main streets in downtown Shelbyville with ACT III performing.
Then, in July, the series will be part of the Shelbyville Horse Show Jubilee and return to two consecutive nights, with Will Husband performing at 6 p.m. on July 26 and Nobydz Bizzness at 7 on July 27.
Other shows are: Aug. 24, New Breed; Sept. 7, Hard Rock City (including car cruise).
Art Fest added to Jubilee lineup
An inaugural Art Fest this year will join the lineup for the annual Shelbyville Horse Show Jubilee, which will be July 25-27.
The Art Fest we be on the afternoon/evening of July 27 in downtown Shelbyville, along with the downtown car show, the Street Party concert and Chalk Fest for children. Shelby County Community Theatre will offer its summer musical, South Pacific, and The Gallery is open on Main Street.
Library's summer reading program begins Saturday
The Shelby County Public Library will launch its annual summer reading program with a party on Saturday morning.
The event, which is from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will include an ice cream sundaes social, digging for treasure activities for children and the Kentucky Blue bluegrass band.
Summer reading story hours will start at 10 a.m. Wednesday for ages toddler through 4-year-olds and will continue each Tuesday through July 23.
'Culture' comedy opens at community theater
An Evening of Culture (Faith County II), written by Mark Landon Smith and directed by Donnie Hagy, opens tonight at the Shelby County Community Theatre.
The comedy, starring (among others) Jon Peed, Erika Wardlow, Louise Epperson, Pat Wetherton, Bill Dunning and Corey Hall, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. today, Saturday, next Friday and June 8 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday and June 9.
'Downton Abbey Era' show coming to public library
Downton Abbey Era: Titanic to the Twenties will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Shelby County Public Library. "Regency High Tea" will begin at 6 p.m. sharp, and the Lexington Vintage Dancers will be at 6:30 p.m. Downstairs the servants practice the Grizzly Bear and the Foxtrot.
Upstairs Lady Violet accepts an invitation to waltz. Learn about how the era was reflected in the social dances of the time. (No one will be admitted after dancers begin to perform.)
Bagdad Baptist youth go down memory lane
The Bagdad Baptist Youth will host a dinner theater variety show, Memory Lane, on Friday. Take a walk back in time as this show will feature popular music and musical characters from the past.
Musical selections include "I Heard It thru the Grapevine," "Leader of the Pack," "Gitarzan," "Mississippi Squirrel," "9 to 5," and will include many more surprises.
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text: You do make a good point, it just comes down to the implementation for one, price of service versus the level of service provided for two. I'm going to reserve judgement until I see how it plays out. Just in general I don't like having anything I can control otherwise over the air. I put in a good chunk of money retrofitting my home for wired ethernet and turned off my wireless.As for ping times of LTE versus coax, in theory you are right. In practice I haven't seen any LTE phones (this may change for for fixed wireless service, just have to wait and see) in my area get under 100ms while the coax in the area varies anywhere from 30 to 140ms.Off topic, isn't your Avatar one of those monsters from that older game Number Crunchers?--Change the scheme, alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls if you'd be so kind.


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Following Jesus Into Good Works
Sermon shared by Mike Wilkins
May 2009
Summary: Jesus invites us to follow Him - this means doing what He did.
Scripture: John 13:1-13:17 (add scripture)
Tags: Service, Follow, Servanthood (add tag)
Denomination: *Other
Audience: General adults
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Runnymede Community Church
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Following Jesus into Service
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Nooma: Rich
1 Timothy 6:17-19
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
We are the rich � we need to be rich in good deeds
�Let�s be honest. It�s easy to go to a church service, it�s easy to discuss who believes what and who�s right and who�s wrong. It�s easy.
But when Jesus talks about his followers, he talks about people who are generous, people who clothe the naked, take food to the hungry, take water to the thirsty, people who visit the prisoner, people who invite the stranger in, people who give their time, people who give their energy, people who give their money. � Rob Bell
Ephesians 2:8-10 (Today�s New International Version)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith�and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God� not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God�s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
We are saved, not by doing good, but because of God�s grace � but we are saved for a purpose � to do good works.
Rob Bell uses the word �followers� for �Christians.� It is actually Jesus� word. I like it better, because the idea of following Jesus is different that what we have often begun to mean when we have said �Christian,� or �saved,� or �Believer.� Following Jesus gives the sense that we are talking about much more than a set of beliefs that we agree with. It gives the sense that we are trying to be like Jesus � to do what he did, to be, as the word �Christian� means, �little Christs.�
If we are told to follow someone & just watch them walk away, are we following them?
One of the places that Jesus invites us to do what he does is at the last supper in John�s Gospel
John 13:1-17
Follow Jesus� example in serving others
Washing the feet � lowest job for a servant � very little to compare in with today. What chore did you argue with your siblings over who had to do it when you were young?
What do your children argue over?
I think it is good for us to do the liturgical act of washing feet.
But we also need it to be practical as well � to serve in tasks that we believe are below us.
Motivation � not serving in the lowest capacity because he feels like he is the lowest person, but because he knows that he is the highest!
�Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.� � verse 3
Jesus knows his position in the group as well � he doesn�t say, �oh know I�m just a lowly servant � he says, I�m the teacher and the Lord�.�
We serve in the lowest capacity because of our high position!
Ephesians 2:6,7 (Just before passage we looked at last week)
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
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Pronunciation: /ˈCHilē /
Variant spelling of chili.
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chile2Syllabification: chile
Pronunciation: /CHīl /
Chile3Syllabification: Chil·e
Pronunciation: /ˈCHilā , ˈCHilē /
A country in South America that occupies a long coastal strip that runs down the western coast of Bolivia and Argentina, on the Pacific Ocean; population 16,601,700 (est. 2009); capital, Santiago; official language, Spanish.
Most of Chile was part of the Inca empire and became part of Spanish Peru after Pizarro's conquest. Independence was achieved in 1818 with help from Argentina. After the overthrow of the Marxist democrat Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile was ruled by the right-wing military dictatorship of General Pinochet until a democratically elected president took office in 1990
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- If Lagos had put out a simple call for Chileans to peacefully assemble to honor the missing and to show support for the rule of law, hundreds of thousands would surely have come out.
- Almost 300 years of Spanish rule left the Chileans not only the European language of their conquerors but also their religion - Catholicism.
- Foreign suppliers, such as the Chileans and Norwegians, are ready to take a bigger share of the market after the Science magazine study said their produce was cleaner than Scottish salmon.
Pronunciation: /CHəˈlāən, ˈCHilēən /adjective& noun


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